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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: December 6, 2013, 1:34 pm
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: December 16, 2013, 5:25 pm
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: December 26, 2013, 2:39 pm
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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 cocaine 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
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: January 1, 2014, 10:34 pm
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: January 8, 2014, 8:54 pm
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[font=arial black]New Report Affirms Dark Money Lines Utility
Pockets[/font]
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.
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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
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: January 21, 2014, 8:04 pm
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NOAA: 2013 Was Tied For The Fourth-Hottest Year On Record
By Ryan Koronowski
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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height=880]
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NASA2013temperaturemap
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:
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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,
[i]not one region of the globe experienced record colds. [/I]
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.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: January 22, 2014, 7:43 pm
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The California drought is bad. REALLY bad. [img width=30
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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 :(
[move]California Drought Could Trigger Food Inflation[/move]
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.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: January 28, 2014, 8:13 pm
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UB said when questioning climate change skeptic Snowleopard
(fossil fuel defender),[quote]Why doesn't the weather you
mention suggest warming due to jetstream breakout due to polar
vortex weakening?[/quote]
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.
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: January 28, 2014, 11:51 pm
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Re: 🚩 Global Climate Chaos ☠️
By: AGelbert Date: January 30, 2014, 1:24 pm
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[font=times new roman]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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