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Tuesday 29 November 2016

Save Our Snowmen | Official Trailer | A Film About Climate Change

Move over Al Gore I have an Incontrovertible truth

You need to get this to all deniers within ears  (twitter, FB, LinkedIn, G+) shot

It is official Climate Change is Real here's the indisputable proof

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Friday 25 November 2016

Katharine Hayhoe Triple Shot What is Global Weirding

atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe studies climate change, one of the most pressing issues we face today The data tells us the planet is warming; the science is clear that humans are responsible; the impacts we’re seeing today are already serious; and our future is in our hands. As John Holdren once said, “We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation, and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required, and the less suffering there will be.”


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.




Wednesday 23 November 2016

COP22: The conclusion, with Saleemul Huq (22 November)





Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population
Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry

#RebelAgainstEbell: At the EPA to stop climate denial




Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population
Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry

Happy Thanksgiving from NASA



Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population
Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry

Tuesday 22 November 2016

Climate Change:How Skewed Are We... Really? RoundUp for the week ending Nov 19, 2016..




Climate Change content curation, commentary and a soupcon of comedy.

#10: A climate scientist and a climate change denier walk into a bar. 
The denier says, bartender, show me your strongest whiskey. 
The bartender says, this one here. It's 95 percent alcohol.
The denier slams down his fist and leaves the bar in a hurry.
 The scientist says, you know, that's the problem with these guys.
 You show them the proof, and they still don't buy it. 

 Half of all coral species in the Caribbean went extinct between 1 and 2 million years ago, probably due to drastic environmental changes. 
Which ones survived? Can you say Orbicella?  

cities and businesses can accelerate the momentum toward a more sustainable, low-carbon future. 
 The Alliance for a Sustainable Future creates a framework for mayors and business leaders to develop concrete approaches to reduce carbon emissions, speed deployment of new technology, and respond to the growing impacts of climate change. 
A partnership of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions C2ES and The U.S. Conference of Mayors 

#07: You need to get inside the mind of a climate change denier - if you want to change it. According to a study by sociologists Aaron M. McCright and Riley Dunlap, based on an analysis of Gallup surveys of public opinion between 2000 and 2010, 32% of adults in America deny that there is a scientific consensus on climate change. In order to appeal to those who deny climate change, discussions should focus on convincing people to take on behaviors that would help protect the environment—without trying to convince them to become environmentalists. 
The renewable energy economy is a great example. Arguing that innovation in alternate energy sources would lead to the creation of jobs does not necessarily require convincing someone of the harmful impact of climate change. 

 Pumped hydro is not new. It’s the oldest and most widely available form of energy storage today. Quidnet Energy proposes storing energy in old wells by filling them with water at very high pressure. As the pressure increases, rock below the surface compresses like a spring. When the water is discharged, the pressure is released, pushes the water through turbines, and creates electricity. 

Japan placed 60th, down two notches from the previous year. Saudi Arabia was the only country deemed worse according to this year’s Climate Change Performance Index report showed by Germanwatch 

Under the newly released strategy, which aims to rapidly “decarbonize” America, emissions would be slashed about 80 percent by 2050, compared with levels set in 2005. 
“No one has a right to make decisions that affect billions of people based solely on ideology or without proper input,” Secretary of State John Kerry says. 

#03: Troubling News For The Planet: Oil Demand To Increase, Despite Paris Climate Change Accord. Good News/BadNews Automobile oil consumption, a major greenhouse gas contributor, will indeed fall, but the drop will be offset by gains in other sectors. The difficulty of finding alternatives to oil in road freight, aviation and petrochemicals means that, up to 2040, the growth in these three sectors alone is greater than the growth in global oil demand,” from the International International Energy Agency (IEA) 

Analysts have questioned lawmakers’ ability to reverse coal’s decline. Low natural gas prices, they note, will dictate coal’s future.

Train keeps arollin - Trump put on Ignore and is perhaps irrelevant

Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population
Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry


Monday 21 November 2016

CCS Cost Trends and Outlook



Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population
Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry

Sunday 20 November 2016

Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Project at SaskPower s Boundary Dam




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Thursday 17 November 2016

Two Scientists Upbeat on COP22



Train keeps arollin

Trump put on Ignore and is perhaps irrelevant

Tobias Erb on Designing a More Efficient System for Harnessing Carbon Dioxide




"Well this could be promising... Engineering a more efficient system for harnessing carbon dioxide" Scientists have reverse engineered a biosynthetic pathway for more effective carbon fixation that is based on a new CO2-fixing enzyme that is nearly 20 times faster than the most prevalent enzyme in nature responsible for capturing CO2 in plants by using sunlight as energy. 

Wednesday 16 November 2016

Platform on Disaster Displacement - PDD Advisory Committee Workshop 2016




Stuff What Trump Thinks! Stuff is happening elsewhere in the world!
Train is a rollin'


Monday 14 November 2016

Climate Change Round Up Nov 12, 2016



Climate Change:How Skewed Are We... Really? Climate Change content curation, commentary and a soupcon of comedy

Climate Change Round Up Nov 12, 2016
Only 12 percent of students had a teacher who thought climate change was real and believed humans were largely to blame. "North Carolina State University biologists states: ""Our findings suggest convincing teachers that climate change is real, but not necessarily human caused, may have profound impacts on students

A huge magmatic lake has been discovered, 15 kilometers below a dormant volcano in Bolivia, South America. The body of water, which is dissolved into partially molten rock at a temperature of almost 1,000 degrees Celsius, is the equivalent to what is found in some of the world's giant freshwater lakes, such as Lake Superior.  

India will also focus on sustainable lifestyle issues, which found a place in the Paris agreement after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for its inclusion  

Morocco and France’s global climate champions, Hakima El Haite and Laurence Tubiana, launched the Global Climate Action Agenda here on Tuesday. As a successor to the Lima-Paris Action Agenda in 2013, the Global Action Agenda allows non-governmental players, such as civil society organizations, private companies, cities, regions and investors, and their initiatives to play a bigger role.

6 NASA DOUBLE SHOT 

Climate change does not care about the law of the land in the U.S. It cares about the laws of physics. Trump can change laws in the U.S. He can’t change them in the atmosphere.
4 A new study concludes warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2 “The only way out is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible,” Tobias Friedrich from the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa http://bit.ly/2eWdIAt 

focus shifts to China to take on the role as global leader in taking action. 

Zou Ji, deputy director of the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy said that if Trump abandons efforts to implement the Paris agreement, "China's influence and voice are likely to increase in global climate governance, which will then spill over into other areas of global governance and increase China's global standing, power and leadership." 

Trump will be terrible, but it’s not just about Trump. It’s about you, too. there’s a lot each of us can do in our own lives. Yes, we’ll need systemic change to preserve a habitable planet for future generations, but that change begins with small steps in our own daily lives—and Trump can’t keep you from starting that today.

Friday 11 November 2016

Spencer's Climate Change Round up for the week ending Nov 12 2016 #02 NASA Double Shot



Media Briefed on New NASA Hurricane Mission
Earth Expeditions: A Natural Cloud/Climate Laboratory


Thursday 10 November 2016

How to respond to climate science denial




John Cook Hard at work again giving you the skills to convert your Uncle Denier

Wednesday 9 November 2016

Delegates at COP22 react to Trump win


TRUMPENATOR Vs the World


Tuesday 8 November 2016

Climate Litigation | Inside The Issues 6.11




David Estrin of CIGI, a senior research fellow with the International Law Research Program. At CIGI, he is involved with developing and leading examinations of the effectiveness of international environmental law regimes, including the following areas:
  • governance and regulation of the extractive and energy sector, including rapidly evolving international law expectations for effective environmental standards and related corporate conduct, particularly considering how non-responsiveness to these expectations may impact on human rights;
  • assessing international, transnational, and local law-based and market-based approaches to reversing climate change and its impacts (case studies); 
  • and international environmental law related trade and investment and intellectual property issues.

CIGI PAPER Worth a read
Limiting Dangerous Climate Change: The Critical Role of Citizen Suits and Domestic Courts—Despite the Paris Agreement

This paper focuses on the emerging new role of citizen suits, domestic courts and human rights commissions in limiting dangerous climate change. Given the failure of states to stop the almost constant increase in global carbon emissions (and now the worrying practical and legal gaps in the 2015 Paris Agreement), frustrated citizens are increasingly looking to domestic courts to require governments to mitigate emissions and limit climate harm. This emerging role is demonstrated in three important 2015 decisions: Urgenda from the Netherlands; Leghari from Pakistan; and Foster v Washington Department of Ecology from the United States. These suits before domestic courts have achieved significant results in the battle against climate change. Each court found there was a legal duty on the respondent government to rein in carbon emissions or take other measures to prevent significant climate-related human and civil rights impacts. Also in 2015, the Philippines Human Rights Commission agreed to investigate and hold hearings as to the responsibility of large international fossil fuel companies for substantial impairment of human rights in the Philippines caused by extreme weather events.

Sunday 6 November 2016

Project Peru:The Case of Huaraz: Saúl versus RWE



A Peruvian farmer is demanding that the German energy company, RWE, pay compensation for its role in causing historical climate change. RWE is one of the “Carbon Majors” identified by research commissioned by the Climate Justice Programme and published in the journal Climatic Change. The plaintiff, Saul Luciano Lliuya, has demanded that RWE pay part of the costs for urgent protective measures as his home lies in the floodpath of the Palcacocha lake which is damming glacial melt-water upstream of his home in the town of Huaraz, in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, or white mountain range.

The lawsuit is the first of its kind in Europe. “This is a precedent. If the case goes through, it could lead to further lawsuits being brought against climate change contributors worldwide,” according to lawyer Roda Verheyen. “To meet legal standards, we must prove to the court that RWE does carry partial responsibility for the risk my client’s property is exposed to – and we will achieve this.”

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