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Another major U.S. climate report dropped. But you probably missed it.

sudshr47 November 30, 2018

You probably at least heard about the latest big U.S. climate report — even though the Trump Administration attempted to furtively release it on Black Friday. In the end the plan backfired, as many of the nation’s top newspapers highlighted the grim conclusions of the Fourth National Climate Assessment.

Yet, that same day at the same time, another major climate report dropped: the latest edition of the State of the Carbon Cycle Report, which marked its first-ever update, over a decade after the inaugural release.

The three-year effort, involving the input of 200 scientists and 13 federal agencies, underscores that the carbon emitted from U.S. fossil fuel burning is fast outpacing the planet’s natural ability store away this heat-trapping gas, leaving it to accumulate in the atmosphere. Read more…

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The EPA has lost its mind

sudshr47 November 29, 2018

There’s something truly out of place amid a slew of uneventful news releases on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) website: Six bizarre sentences, accusing the Obama Administration of distorting climate science.
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Trump dismisses climate change study by his own government: ‘I don’t believe it’

sudshr47 November 27, 2018

Donald Trump has dismissed a damning climate change study produced by his own government, simply telling reporters, “I don’t believe it.”
The U.S. president rejected the findings of the report, which was produced by over 300 prominent climate scienti…

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New U.S. report says that climate change could cost nearly $500 billion per year by 2090

sudshr47 November 23, 2018

A new report from the U.S. government on the impacts of climate change on society indicates that unless action is taken, climatological events could cost the country nearly half a trillion dollars annually by 2090. The National Climate Assessment is a congressionally mandated report on the impacts of climate change and was culled from the work […]

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How a quiet California town protects itself against today’s megafires

sudshr47 November 23, 2018

In the early hours of December 16, 2017, hot embers began raining down on the Southern California town of Montecito.

Ominous, orange flames soon appeared on hills above the wooded community as the infamous Thomas Fire, burning for nearly two weeks at that point, lunged over the ridge and pushed into the enclave below.

The odds weighed in the fire’s favor: The winds picked up overnight, blowing 65 mph gusts in the direction of hundreds and hundreds of homes.

But when the smoke and ash finally settled, the fire had lost — for the most part, anyhow.

“They thought for sure that they were going to lose 400 or 500 homes — instead they only lost seven,” Crystal Kolden, a fire scientist at the University of Idaho and former wildland firefighter, said in an interview. Read more…

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California cities now have the worst air pollution on Earth as smoke blows into town

sudshr47 November 17, 2018

Oakland, a Northern California city with a population of over 425,000, had the worst air quality in the world Saturday morning.

Wildfire smoke wafting over from the still-growing Camp Fire — by far the deadliest wildfire in state history — had inundated many heavily-populated California cities and towns with small bits of pollution thinner than the width of a human hair, called Particulate Matter 2.5, or PM 2.5.

Berkeley Earth, a scientific climate organization, keeps tabs on air pollution around the globe. As of Nov. 17 at 9:30 a.m. ET, Oakland topped the global list with particle concentrations of 167 μg/m3 (meaning micrograms per cubic meter) — which are levels deemed “Very Unhealthy” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Coming in a distant second is Kanpur, India with particulate levels of 132. Read more…

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When will this terrible wildfire season in California end?

sudshr47 November 13, 2018

Rain will be the antidote to the worst of this California fire season.

Most years, some meaningful rains would have already arrived. But California’s grasses, woodlands, and forests remain profoundly parched — with some areas even matching or exceeding records for dryness after record-breaking summer heat and persistently dry autumn winds.

While rains won’t completely stomp out California’s fires, it will significantly reduce the likelihood of vast areas of land continuing to catch fire. This year’s sustained dryness, however, is a foreshadowing of future parched, rainless falls.

“It’s been pretty bleak this year,” Paul Ullrich, a climate scientist at the University of California, Davis, said in an interview. Read more…

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California’s Camp Fire becomes deadliest in state history, and numbers may grow

sudshr47 November 13, 2018

After transforming the once tranquil town of Paradise, California into charred automobiles and tales of horror, the Camp Fire takes its infamous spot as the deadliest wildfire in California history.
At a multi-agency press conference Monday nig…

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Firefighters slam Trump’s illogical tweet about out-of-control California fires

sudshr47 November 11, 2018

As thousands of firefighters battled uncontrolled flames in both Northern and Southern California on Saturday, President Trump tweeted out an ill-informed, distorted message about the cause of these deadly autumn infernos.

But the firefighting community quickly rebutted the president’s rash claims, wherein he blamed “gross mismanagement of the forests,” while also threatening to cut federal support to fire management efforts.

There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 10, 2018 Read more…

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The EPA completely axed its climate change websites. But why are NASA’s still live?

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

Sometime during the night of October 16, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) eliminated over 80 climate change websites — many of the last vestiges to the agency’s online recognition of climate change.

The deletions — caught by the watchdog group Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) — show a growing disparity between how the regulation-focused EPA increasingly masks globally-agreed upon climate science from the public, while agencies like NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) continue to promote reliable climate research.

Of note, both the EPA and NASA are sprawling federal agencies directly answerable to the office of the president. Yet, while NASA maintains a slew of informative, diligently updated, and visually-rich climate change websites, the EPA’s sites have been gradually obscured, and now eliminated. Read more…

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The oceans, the true keepers of climate change, may meet our grimmest estimates

sudshr47 November 2, 2018

Earth, our ocean-dominated world, stores away a vast majority of the planet’s accumulating heat in the seas.

In fact, over 90 percent of the planet’s rising warmth — specifically trapped by human-created greenhouse gas emissions — is absorbed by the deep, salty waters.

For the last half-century, scientists have worked to put a more precise number on just how much heat the oceans take up each year, and for good reason: More heat absorption might provide evidence that our pale blue dot is increasingly sensitive to the heat-trapping carbon amassing in our atmosphere — which is likely at its highest levels in 15 million years. Read more…

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Why the Trump administration is terrified of these children

sudshr47 October 31, 2018

Twenty-one children, adolescents, and young adults — all between the ages of 11 and 22 — were set to face off against the United States in an Oregon courthouse on Oct. 29.

But instead, the highest court in the land has temporarily halted the unprecedented climate trial after the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court — in a 38-page request — to put things on hold.

The young plaintiffs, some still in grammar school, are suing the U.S. government for supporting a national energy system that emits prodigious amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, thus stoking human-caused climate change and endangering their futures. Read more…

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