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Thirty Years of Warnings: Union of Concerned Scientists 1988

By Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, Legacy Policy, Messaging, Solutions, Strategy, summary

Thirty Years of Warnings: Union of Concerned Scientists 1988 Thirty years of warnings and very little has changed. Except for a few numbers, this letter from the Union of Concerned Scientists could be dated 2018 instead of 1988. “Hottest Ever” or “________ of the last _______ years have occurred in the last decade” or “glaciers…

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February 28, 2018
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What’s the Big Deal With Climate Change?

By Abrupt changes, Climate Culture, Climate Reform, communications, Deniers and Delayers, Drought, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, forest health, Forest Mortality, Impacts, Messaging, Myths, pine beetle, Psycho, Shifting Ecology, Strategy, The Unexpected, What we can do

What’s the Big Deal With Climate Change? We all understand climate change is trouble. Even a really significant percentage of oil and gas professionals understand. Of a recent poll (2014) of 474 oil and gas industry insiders, 85 percent believed global warming was happening, 58 percent were either very sure or extremely sure, and 57 percent…

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February 24, 2018
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Abrupt Sea Level Rise Warning From NOAA: Paris Inadequate

By Abrupt changes, Beaches coastal, Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, economics, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Healthy Climate, ice sheets, Impacts, Negative emissions, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Solutions, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

NOAA’s new sea level rise report in January 2017 is a dope slap that describes 17 inches of sea level rise in Florida by 2030. You can see the report here, or check out our review that summarizes the important parts here.  The continuing publishing of sea level rise research on emissions reductions and resultant…

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February 21, 2018
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Healthy Climate Alliance and 300 ppm CO2 by 2050 (300×2050)

By Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate restoration, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, feedback, global warming psychology, Healthy Climate, Legacy Policy, Negative emissions, politics, Solutions, Strategy

Healthy Climate Alliance and 300 ppm CO2 by 2050 (300×2050) The Healthy Climate Alliance asks, why aren’t we seeking to restore our climate to its original healthy state? The answer for 30 years has been that limiting emissions was enough. We could decarbonize our infrastructure, limit warming to 2 degrees C and let nature take…

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February 4, 2018
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01-12-2018: Environmental Activist Bruce Melton on Climate Change 2017: Not So Good!

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Rag Radio 2018-01-12 – Environmental Activist Bruce Melton on Climate Change 2017: Not So Good! by Rag Radio with Thorne Dreyer Podcast – https://ia800106.us.archive.org/3/items/RagRadio2018-01-12-BruceMelton/BruceMeltonEtAlRagRadio1-12-18.jpeg?cnt=0 Engineer, environmental researcher, and activist Bruce Melton is Thorne Dreyer’s guest on Rag Radio and he provides a fascinating if sobering overview of global warming today. In an article published at Truthout and The Rag Blog titled “Climate Change 2017: What…

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January 12, 2018
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Climate Change 2017: What Happened and What It Means

By Abrupt changes, Climate Catastrophes, Extreme Weather, Fire, Flooding, Impacts, polar vortex, rainfall, Sea Level Rise, The Unexpected, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Climate Change 2017: What Happened and What It Means By Bruce Melton First posted on Truthout.org, December 30, 2017 How many more billions of dollars in damages will it take? How many more lives? It’s obvious; all the climate extremes we have been experiencing lately are indeed caused by climate change. Our climate is already…

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January 10, 2018
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Trump on Global Warming: What’s so Bad About A Little Warming

By Deniers and Delayers, Extreme Weather, Forest Mortality, Impacts, Myths, polar vortex, Shifting Ecology, Temperature, The Unexpected

We have all heard it before: “What’s so bad about a little warming?”  Several things are at play here. First, it’s winter. It’s far colder in winter than the warming we have experienced. So when it’s winter it’s cold, relative to when it’s not winter. But a little warming can’t be that bad, right?Our global…

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December 29, 2017
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Advancing Beyond the Moral Imperative Challenge

By alternatives, Climate Reform, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Legacy Policy, Messaging, Negative emissions, Psycho, Solutions, Strategy, Uncategorized

The “moral imperative challenge” is that thing where we feel it is our duty to create a fossil fuel extinction in order address climate change. This is something our climate culture has been striving for since about 1990. It is ingrained in our emissions reductions psyche and emblazoned across our foreheads. For a generation, emissions…

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November 17, 2017
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Climate Opinions From Yale — Down to the County Level, Nationwide

By Climate Culture, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate solutions, politics, Psycho, Solutions, Strategy

  The Yale Climate Opinion Maps are nothing but astonishing in their depth of coverage. The folks at Yale have accumulated climate opinions nationwide down to the county level in an easy to use interactive format. Their work is truly a fundamentally important way to understand what Americans really think about climate change. Pick your…

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November 15, 2017
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2017 Climate Science Special Report for the National Climate Assessment *** Uncensored ***

By Climate Policy, Climate Reform, For Beginners, Impacts, Reports, summary, The Unexpected

The Special Climate Science Report of the National Climate Assessment has been released uncensored. The message from fourteen national agencies, programs, departments and institutes, and the National Science Foundation and Smithsonian Institution: It is warmer than it has been in thousands of years. Carbon dioxide is higher than it has been in million of years….

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November 6, 2017
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Very Large Negative Emissions: Beyond Paris Emissions Reductions to a Safe and Healthy Climate

By Abrupt changes, Climate Catastrophes, Climate Policy, Climate Reform, climate solutions, CO2 Removal and Sequestration, Emissions Scenarios, Extreme Weather, Impacts, modeling, Negative emissions, Scenarios, Sea Level Rise, Strategy, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

James Hansen, 32 year director of the U.S. national climate modeling agency, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (1981-2013, now retired), has had a new fundamental piece of climate work published. His team looks at the negative emissions required–in addition to various scenarios for emissions reductions–that are needed to achieve “non-dangerous” warming. Under Hansen’s…

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November 4, 2017
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Forestkill: Coniferous, Deciduous, Palm and Cactus — Climate Change is Everywhere

By Abrupt changes, Drought, forest health, Forest Mortality, pine beetle, Shifting Ecology, Vegetation Response

Slowly and insidiously, or abruptly and finitely. Forests of all kinds are succumbing to climate change. Mountain forests, city forests, forests in the southeast and the far north. Pine, spruce, fir, oak, maple. Nontraditional forests too; the palms of LA, succulents in the desert. Yes, deserts are at risk too. Deserts as ecosystems are fragile…

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October 8, 2017
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Fake News Reduces Climate Science Outreach

By Climate Policy, Deniers and Delayers, Messaging, Myths, politics, Psycho, Strategy

Fake News Reduces Climate Science Outreach Reported this month in EOS, the journal of the American Geophysical Union, Climate scientists are slowing their publicity of new discoveries.  Inaccurate reporting, and reporting taken out of context are a scientists worst nightmare. In this day of fake news and radically divisive partisan reporting on climate science, the…

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October 6, 2017
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Another Big Antarctic Calving From New Underice Melt

By Abrupt changes, Glaciers, ice sheet, submarine channel, West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Another Big Antarctic Calving From New Underice Melt Ice scientists have been warning us since 2006 that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has begun its collapse. Giant icebergs are a symptom that collapse initiation is underway. The continuing laissez-faire attitude of the press to these events is counter intuitive and even dangerous, and represents…

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October 1, 2017
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Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, Steamboat Lake, Colorado Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, Silverthorne, Colorado Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetle, North of Steamboat Springs, Colorado Pitch tubes: A tree's only defense against bark beetles. Pheromones, or natural beetle hormones, both attract and repel beetles and can be used as defense. Pesticides work too, but application timing is critical and spraying the world is likely improbable. Gray kill: During the first three years needles are bright red, brown and then fall off entirely. Only cold of -20 to -40 straight, in early and in mid winter respectively, can kill the beetle. Those temperatures disappeared about the turn of the 21st century. In areas of human occupation, dead trees become falling hazards quickly and must be removed. Blue slashes and flagging mark trees to be cut. These are white bark pine in Yellowstone National Park. Logged beetle kill, Prospector Campground, Dillon Reservoir, central Colorado. for up to about five years the dead wood can be used for lumber early and pelletized fuel late. After that the tops of the trees are too brittle and fall on logging machinery and loggers. Red kill: Rocky mountain pine bark beetles once attacked mostly lodgepole pines like these in Rocky Mountain National Park. Now there are so many beetles they are attacking even spruce trees. The scale of the kill is immense at more than 20 times greater than anything before. The attack is at 92 million acres.For comparison, Yellowstone is two million acres. Permafrost melt, Denali Highway, Alaska. Tree kill from soil saturation due to melted permafrost. East of Fairbanks, Alaska. Permafrost meltwater pool and drowned trees near Chena, Alaska. Permafrost meltwater ponds, Denali Highway, Alaska. Permafrost meltwater pond, Fairbanks, Alaska (within city limits). A meltwater river flows from beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. The dark ice is dust from eons of accumulation and surface melt. Ice loss in Greenland has increased over 500 percent in ten years. Surface melting creates a very rough, surface where accumulated dust does not wash away. These drifts are solid ice. Around the perimeter of the ice sheet at low elevations the ice is melting tens of feet per year or more. The scale of melt is immense. This moraine is 100 feet high and the ice once towered over it. The ice flows in rivers and tongues and colder, drier times with more dust can be seen in the layers of older ice, closer to the edge. Also note how much lower the surface is than the moraines deposited along the margins of the ice. Most of this melt is recent as the ice has been in equilibrium since the Little Ice Age that ended 150 to 200 years ago. Less than a mile from its edge the ice sheet can be 1,000 feet tall. At it's center it is 11,000. The calving face of the ice sheet can be over 200 feet tall. The light is fantastically ever changing. Ilulissat Icefjord: Millions of icebergs , five times more than at the turn of the century, pour through Greenland's icefjords. Meltwater drains to the bottom of the ice sheet through holes, or moulins. There it lubricates the flow of the ice sheet, further increasing discharge of bergs. Bubbles of ancient air trapped in the ice have confirmed many hypothesis about how and when our climate has radically changed before. Bergs calve like thunder from massive ice cliffs at all hours of the day. Beach erosion is rapidly accelerating on Padre Island. Mile 30 beyond the 4x4 only sign. This beach was once 200 to 300 feet wide. Padre Island National Seashore, mile 7. Most of the erosion has been recently. Mile 50, Padre Island National Seashore. Padre Island is sinking naturally with little man made subsidence, but before the turn of the 21st century, it wasn't enough to cause massive beach erosion. Sand starvation from inland reservoirs plays a role too, but historically these beaches have been stable. South Padre Island has a little more trouble with more sand starvation from the Rio Grande and less rainfall to grow stabilizing dune grasses. Here, in places erosion is extreme. this is high tide, non-storm conditions. Several places along South Padre have been eroding more or less since the dams went up on the Rio Grande, but since the turn of the century the rate has likely increased significantly. October 2014, King tide, biggest tide of the autumn. Again in 2014, no storms of any consequence on the Texas Coast. Erosion down by the Mansfield jetties is much greater than in 2013. The worst on North Padre in 2013 was a few miles from the Mansfield Pass jetties in the sand starvation zone. The beach has never been wide here and during storms is often the first to erode. But normally, the beach builds back. This erosion is happening in non-storm conditions. At times the four-wheel drive trail is challenging. South Padre, Mile 13 beyond end of pavement. This is the first stage of barrier island disintegration. The beach goes first. The beach protects the dunes, which in turn protect the rest of the island.