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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Climate tweets for 1 August 2014

How climate change, declining food sources can lead to piracy, poverty, strife:
[national security]

Massive hole at end of earth likely caused by methane gas release:
[Siberia, Russia, permafrost]

Bush-Era EPA Administrator Baffles Fox Business: "We Need to Regulate" Carbon: @mmfa:
[Christie Todd Whitman, Stuart Varney, denial]

RT Kate Sheppard @kate_sheppard:
The coal industry has raised the same fears about environmental regulations for 40 years:
[energy, EPA, carbon]

RT TckTckTck @tcktcktck:
Wind power is key to fighting climate change. Learn more about wind with this cool infographic:
[wind energy, energy]

RT @tcktcktck: 
British Columbia's price on carbon has been huge success:
http://econ.st/1pvubeX  via @TheEconomist 

Wildfires, 'Biomass Burning' Bigger Climate Change Threats Than Thought, Study Says: 
[fire, forests]

.@Politifact: GOP candidate's claim of "global warming hoax" is PantsOnFire:
[Lenar Whitney, denial]

Huge Waves in Arctic Demonstrate Ice Loss—& Aggravate It: @FutureTenseNow:
[sea ice]

Europe Set for Hottest Summer Since 2006 as Warm August Seen: @BloombergNews:
[heat waves]

.@NBCNews Shows How to Report on Economic Costs of Climate Change: @mmfa:
[journalism]

Construction industry preparing for climate change: @StarTribune:

.@Energy Sec. Moniz Predicts Congress Will Tackle Climate Change:
[Ernest Moniz]

Exceptional Drought Blankets 58% of California; Reservoirs Missing Year’s Worth of Water:


Thursday, July 24, 2014

Climate tweets for 23 July 2014

RT Sierra Club @sierraclub:
Taking climate action will save lives. #ActOnClimate 
[air pollution, EPA, carbon]

RT Bill McKibben @billmckibben:
Think it doesn't matter if univs divest? Harvard's endowment is larger than Jordan's GDP; Stanford beats Honduras:
[investing, divestment]

RT Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus:
Now, there are *two* weird holes in Siberia. Thanks, climate change! VIDEO:
[permafrost, methane, Russia]

'Unprecedented' spate of wildfires incinerates homes, forces evacuations in Wash., Ore.:
[fire]

Tobacco, fossil fuels lose out as investors opt for more ethical industries:
[investing, divestment]

RT Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann:
Excellent! RT @bberwyn Thx again @MichaelEMann - we're at ~75% of crowdfunding goal for climate reporting w/ week to go:
http://bit.ly/VaV5y7

Fighting Virginia flooding linked to rising seas: complicated, costly: @RTDNews:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/fighting-va-flooding-linked-to-rising-seas-will-be-complicated/article_5d0587f9-82a5-5d7c-b397-1ef50b5b9f0d.html#.U9BDaewzQX8.twitter
[sea level]

Miami Beach leaders propose hike in storm water fees to deal w/ sea level rise:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/22/4249716/miami-beach-leaders-proposing.html
[Florida, flooding]

RT Sierra Club @sierraclub:
.@SenJohnBarrasso is one of the biggest recipients of oil & coal money in the Senate: 
http://sc.org/1pcE40O  #ActOnClimate

#climatedeaths: MT @ClimateNow: Heatstroke kills 3 in Japan, 1000s hospitalised:
http://bit.ly/1tzGyYp
[heat waves]

RT ClimateNow @ClimateNow:
The Expansion of Antarctic Sea Ice and Self Correcting Science @gregladen:
http://bit.ly/1mB1tVl

Why the California drought affects everyone: @CIRonline:
https://beta.cironline.org/reports/why-the-california-drought-affects-everyone/
[water, food, agriculture, farming]

Attack of the Chicago climate change maggots: @WashingtonPost:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/07/23/attack-of-the-chicago-climate-change-maggots/
[Illinois, flooding]

Seal of approval - How marine mammals provide important climate data:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=2596
[science]

Faux Pause 3: More Evidence Global Surface Temps Poised to Rise Rapidly:
http://thkpr.gs/1rHVvqZ
[science]

RT Mary Anne Hitt @maryannehitt:
200 Indianapolis residents pack last night's council meeting & call for phase out of coal burning in Marion County:
http://pic.twitter.com/HTCeZbSc6Y
[Indiana, Beyond Coal]

RT Guy Martin @gyxk56:
@climatehawk1 Peoples Climate March - 21st September 2014 - London #ClimateMarchLdn:
https://www.facebook.com/peoplesclimatemarchlondon?fref=photo  http://pic.twitter.com/fhZVcECIif
[United Kingdom]

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Climate tweets for 8 July 2014

RT Climate Reality @ClimateReality
Are you excited to work for Big Coal and Big Oil? This lady is.
[energy subsidies]

RT Climate Reality @ClimateReality:
#ClimateFact: 10 indicators of a warming world: 
WaPo calls for voting climate deniers out of Congress, i.e. same paper that hosts deniers @georgewillf, @krauthammer:
http://wapo.st/1jecqBo
[denial, journalism, Washington Post, George Will, Charles Krauthammer]

Canada Struggles w/ Melting Permafrost as Climate Warms: @sciam:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/canada-struggles-with-melting-permafrost-as-climate-warms/

China, U.S. sign agreements on climate change: @bsindia:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/china-us-sign-agreements-to-cope-with-climate-change-114070801188_1.html#.U7wU6EvZY0s.twitter

Cooperation, Ingenuity Needed to Halt Climate Catastrophe: @ClimateCentral:
http://shar.es/N3IHU  #globalwarming #agw
[science]

RT CitizensClimateLobby @citizensclimate
Climate hero Katharine Hayhoe is on our July 12 national call. Register here if you don't want to miss it:
http://ow.ly/yuRt7
[Citizens' Climate Lobby]

New Jersey science education stds may be blocked by climate deniers:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/NJ-science-standards-may-be-blocked.html
[denial]

Colorado shows new path in climate solutions: @TheHill:
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/211241-colorado-shows-new-path-in-climate-solutions#.U7wMbr1nJPs.twitter
[wind energy]

RT ClimateNow @ClimateNow:
BBC: Al Gore: climate change is the 'biggest crisis our civilisation faces':
http://bbc.in/1pVuYsP

RT Kelly Rigg @kellyrigg:
Solar has won. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn’t compete | Giles Parkinson:
http://gu.com/p/3qm2m/tw via @guardian

RT Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann:
Koch-funded climate change denier group ATI ordered by court to pay UVa & me damages for filing frivolous lawsuit:
http://pic.twitter.com/sjjYuovXS9
[American Tradition Institute, Energy & Environment Legal Institute, denial]

RT Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann:
"Climate science denier group must pay damages for frivolous lawsuit against UVA/scientist" @Sue_Sturgis @FacingSouth http://www.southernstudies.org/2014/07/climate-science-denier-group-must-pay-damages-for-.html 
[American Tradition Institute, Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, denial, Institute for Southern Studies]

Changing climate at root of ‘utterly unprecedented’ summer flooding:
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/environment/Changing+climate+root+utterly+unprecedented/10008801/story.html
[Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Canada]

Give it up, 'skeptics' - U.S. no longer debating climate change: @vicenews:
https://news.vice.com/article/give-it-up-skeptics-america-is-no-longer-debating-climate-change

KU scientist seeks cold, hard climate data w/ Greenland expedition: @kansasdotcom:
http://www.kansas.com/2014/07/06/3542073/ku-scientists-greenland-field.html
[science]

Friday, May 2, 2014

Climate tweets for 1 May 2014

RT Heidi Cullen ‏@HeidiCullen  11h
Melting Arctic permafrost creating wetlands known as fens, unexpectedly emitting large amounts of methane: 
http://bit.ly/1fUfkUt 

RT Bill McKibben ‏@billmckibben:
First arrest of divestment movement in Harvard Yard this a.m. Bravery @DivestHarvard

New financial index aims to ease fossil fuel #divestment: @pacificswell
http://www.scpr.org/blogs/environment/2014/04/29/16496/new-financial-index-aims-to-ease-fossil-fuel-dives/ 
[investing]

RT A Siegel ‏@A_Siegel:
.@FoxAndFriends freaks out when its anti-climate science bias is exposed 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/fox-friends-michael-moyer-climate-change_n_5246369.html
[Michael Moyer, denial]

More detail on Fox & Friends vs. that #science-y stuff: @Salon
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/30/guest_accuses_fox_news_of_refusing_to_let_him_talk_about_climate_change/
[denial]

.@MichaelEMann: Costs Of #Climate Change (VIDEO): @sandydec @cleantechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/30/michael-mann-costs-climate-change-video/ 
[science]

Why economists don't get #climate change: @TheWeek
http://theweek.com/article/index/260779/why-dont-economists-get-climate-change 
[investing, divestment]

How military spending is helping us lose the biggest war of all: 
http://shar.es/SbIip 

RT Climate Reality ‏@ClimateReality:
MT @carbonbrief: Climate change increased risk of extremely wet UK winter by 25%
http://bit.ly/1miN9H8  http;//pic.twitter.com/o0XnT9i5tO
[science]

Sweltering in the city: Surviving #climate change in our great urban metropolises: @CarbonBrief 
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/04/the-rise-of-the-megacity-at-egu-conference/
[heat waves, Canada]

The Tol of climate inaction: tracking errors of a contrarian economist:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/apr/30/economics-clear-need-climate-action
[science, denial, Global Warming Policy Foundation]

RT Eric Holthaus ‏@EricHolthaus:
As heavy rain moves throughout East, extreme drought intensifies in the West. #TwoAmericas
http://pic.twitter.com/aUz4fQjVCx


Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Climate tweets for 7 April 2014

Can Hollywood & handful of journalists save planet from climate change? Let's hope so: @globalpost 
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/140407/years-living-dangerously-can-hollywood-and-journalism-save-the-planet-c

Watch Episode 1 of James Cameron's "Years of Living Dangerously": http://www.skepticalscience.com/episode1-years-of-living-dangerously.html

RT Clara Vondrich ‏@Clara_Vondrich
.@algore @SHO_Network @JimCameron Thanks Al! We love you for your DECADES of work on #climate, most pressing issue of our time #YEARSProject

New Report Finds CNN, Fox News Weaken Public Understanding of Climate Science: @mmfa 
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/07/new-report-finds-cnn-and-fox-news-weaken-public/198775 
[journalism, denial]

RT Climate Progress ‏@climateprogress:
PHOTOS: Flash floods devastate Solomon Islands 
http://thkpr.gs/1iqh6hK

Permafrost thawing could accelerate global warming, research says: @physorg_com http://phys.org/news/2014-04-permafrost-global.html 
[science, Arctic, methane]

Climate activist Tim Flannery looks at world’s next 7 years: @torontostar http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/04/05/climate_activist_tim_flannery_looks_at_worlds_next_seven_years.html 

Mothers vs. climate change: @Mothersoutfront @BostonGlobe http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/04/05/mothers-climate-change/axLsS0VbrJy13aMkoFG6NJ/story.html 

Weather extremes take twin crop & disease toll: Simple Climate http://simpleclimate.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/weather-extremes-take-twin-crop-and-disease-toll/ 
[science, food, farming, agriculture]


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

In other news, the Arctic continues to melt

A friend posted a link to the executive summary of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme's (AMAP) 2011 report on Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA).  The executive summary is a mere 28 MB (the full document is 553 pages), which took approximately forever to download on my pathetic Internet connection, so let me save you a little time and trouble by quoting its key findings:

"1. The past six years (2005–2010) have been the warmest period ever recorded in the Arctic. Higher surface air temperatures are driving changes in the cryosphere.

2. There is evidence that two components of the Arctic cryosphere--snow and sea ice--are interacting with the climate system to accelerate warming.  

3. The extent and duration of snow cover and sea ice have decreased across the Arctic. Temperatures in the permafrost have risen by up to 2°C. The southern limit of permafrost has moved northward in Russia and Canada.

4. The largest and most permanent bodies of ice in the Arctic – multiyear sea ice, mountain glaciers, ice caps and the Greenland Ice Sheet – have all been declining 
faster since 2000 than they did in the previous decade.

5. Model projections reported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 underestimated the rates of change now observed in sea ice.  [Deniers rejoice! The IPCC was wrong.  But alas, wrong in the wrong direction.]

6. Maximum snow depth is expected to increase over many areas by 2050, with greatest increases over Siberia. Despite this, average snow cover duration is projected to decline by up to 20% by 2050.

7. The Arctic Ocean is projected to become nearly ice-free in summer within this century, likely within the next thirty to forty years. [It's not hard to find people on the Web, who know what they are talking about, who believe this will happen before 2020.  While 2012 is, at this writing, on a record pace for Arctic sea ice melt, it remains to be seen whether a new ultimate summer low will result.  What we can say, however, is that there has been no recovery from the 2007 summer low, which was sharply lower than the summer lows in previous years going back to 1979 (when measurements began). You can check out sea ice area through this wonderful interactive graphic, which provides data by day and year.  You can "erase" years by clicking on them at the right, and if you erase back to 2007, you will see that the summer low was roughly 3 million square kilometers, almost exactly a whopping 25% below the low of 4 million reached in 2006.]

8. Changes in the cryosphere cause fundamental changes to the characteristics of Arctic ecosystems and in some cases loss of entire habitats. This has consequences for people who receive benefits from Arctic ecosystems. [OK, now I know we are getting into stuff many people who don't live in the Arctic don't care about.  Before you lose interest, though, be sure to check out Key Findings 12 and 13 below.]

9. The observed and expected future changes to the Arctic cryosphere impact Arctic society on many levels. There are challenges, particularly for local communities and traditional ways of life. There are also new opportunities.

10. Transport options and access to resources are radically changed by differences in the distribution and seasonal occurrence of snow, water, ice and permafrost in the Arctic. This affects both daily living and commercial activities.

11. Arctic infrastructure faces increased risks of damage due to changes in the cryosphere, particularly the loss of permafrost and land-fast sea ice.

12. Loss of ice and snow in the Arctic enhances climate warming by increasing absorption of the sun’s energy at the surface of the planet. It could also dramatically increase emissions of carbon dioxide and methane and change large-scale ocean currents. The combined outcome of these effects is not yet known. [Emphasis added. For one of the apparent first unexpected impacts, see Linking Weird Weather to Rapid Warming of the Arctic, by Jennifer Francis, who is studying how the melting Arctic appears to be changing the behavior of the jet stream and causing weather patterns--drought, rainfall, heat--to stay in one place for longer periods. Oops.]

13. Arctic glaciers, ice caps and the Greenland Ice Sheet contributed over 40% of the global sea level rise of around 3 mm per year observed between 2003 and 2008. In the future, global sea level is projected to rise by 0.9–1.6 m by 2100 and Arctic ice loss will make a substantial contribution to this.

14. Everyone who lives, works or does business in the Arctic will need to adapt to changes in the cryosphere. Adaptation also requires leadership from governments and international bodies, and increased investment in infrastructure.

15. There remains a great deal of uncertainty about how fast the Arctic cryosphere will change in the future and what the ultimate impacts of the changes will be. Interactions (‘feedbacks’) between elements of the cryosphere and climate system are particularly uncertain. Concerted monitoring and research is needed to reduce this uncertainty."