tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252675322024-03-07T02:45:20.391-05:00Thoughts on Climate Changea Canadian perspectiveLNeumannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07360967260991183192noreply@blogger.comBlogger222125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25267532.post-16861902550680073552013-01-22T00:21:00.001-05:002013-01-22T00:27:09.631-05:00Dramatic temperature increases could threaten Canadian health, infrastructure - G&M<p>Story: http://po.st/7W9J0X </p>
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<p>The Climate Change Endgame - Thomas E. Lovejoy, New York Times <br>
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<span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Well, be</span><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">tter late than never.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Bloomberg's original op-ed: http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-01/a-vote-for-a-president-to-lead-on-climate-change.html</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">He says that storms have forced NYC to evacuate neighborhoods twice in the last 14 months, which is unprecedented. And the risk that climate change is making things worse requires action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Background from New York Times: </span><span style="font-family: Myriad Pro;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/nyregion/bloomberg-endorses-obama-saying-hurricane-sandy-affected-decision.html?hp&_r=1&&pagewanted=all</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Now if Obama finally gets a backbone and stands up for real emissions cuts, rather than talking in generalities and promoting oil and gas along with renewables... One can only hope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">[Edited to correct typo in Mayor's name. That was a bad one. Sorry.]</span></div>
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<p>Alas, so much for the birthplace of modern democracy. How long before we see this tactic in Canada too? </p>
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According to the <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/bruce-anderson/why-john-bairds-climate-call-makes-sense/article1824252/">Globe</a>, the</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >"...Environment Minister says Canada will be pressing for an approach that leaves no one out, that demands all 'oars in the water'...."</span></span></blockquote></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >But </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" >Canada is in no position to lecture anybody about "oars in water". Having promised to reduce carbon emissions in Kyoto and done <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/second-reading/spector-vision/on-climate-change-canada-finally-comes-clean/article1825385/">nothing</a> about it since then (actually increasing emissions significantly), Canada would have very little credibility when trying to convince other countries to "do as we say but not as we do".</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Moreover, since the Industrial Revolution, the rich, industrialized countries like Canada have emitted most of the carbon. Much of it is still in the atmosphere, harming the climate. The fact that countries like China and India have become major emitters on an <i>annual </i>basis recently is not nearly as significant as Baird and Co. would have you think. Even setting aside their much lower emissions <i>per capita</i>, it would be many years before China's and India's share of the <i>accumulating </i>carbon in the air equals that of countries that had been at it for centuries. Confusing flows (annual emissions) with stocks (accumulated pollutants) is such a basic, blatant error that it is clearly nothing more than an excuse for further inaction.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Insisting on this unreasonable position is a sure way to sabotage progress at Cancun -- developing nations are already <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rejecting-kyoto-extension-threatens-climate-talks-developing-nations/article1825499/">warning</a> that the talks are in danger. Nothing would please the fossil fuel special interest groups than the collapse of negotiations for at least one more year. For the planet, on the other hand it is total <i>accumulated</i> carbon that matters.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >Dr. James Hansen <a href="http://www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com/climate_catastrophe_solutions.html">states</a> that</span></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(17, 17, 18); font-size: 15px; font-weight: lighter; text-align: justify; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; "></strong></p><blockquote><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >"...we must reduce the [accumulated] CO2 in the </span></strong><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >atmosphere to 350 ppm</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" > in order to avoid disaster for coming generations.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" >"Humans have caused carbon dioxide to increase from 280 ppm in 1750 to 387 ppm in 2009. 387 ppm is already in the dangerous range. Such a reduction is still practical, but just barely [bolding in original]"</span></blockquote><p></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(17, 17, 18); font-size: 15px; font-weight: lighter; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >He also <a href="http://www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com/climate_catastrophe_solutions.html">warns</a> that </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: justify; "></p><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(17, 17, 18); font-size: 15px; font-weight: lighter; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" >"Continued unfettered burning of all fossil fuels and other human-caused climate changes will cause the climate system to pass tipping points, such that we hand our children and grandchildren a dynamic situation that is out of their control.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; 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<br /></div>LNeumannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07360967260991183192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25267532.post-75282850251402022312010-05-10T23:37:00.003-04:002010-05-10T23:50:39.340-04:00Scientists' Open Letter Decries Unfounded Attacks and Threats Against ClimatologistsWell worth reading: "Climate Change and the Integrity of Science" - a letter in the prestigious journal <span style="font-style: italic;">Science</span>: <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/689">http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/689</a><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr></tr><tr><td align="left"> <p id="article-info"><em>Science</em> 7 May 2010: Vol. 328. no. 5979, pp. 689 - 690<br />DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.328.5979.689"> 10.1126/science.328.5979.689</a></p><p id="article-info"><br /></p> </td></tr></tbody></table><br />(h/t <a href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/07/2242254/Climate-Change-and-the-Integrity-of-Science">Slashdot</a>)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">[<a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/12235298150467123070">Important Notice</a>]<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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(<a href="http://www.orilliapacket.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2204204">Sun Media, via Orilia Packet & Times</a>)<br /></p></blockquote><p>The BBC provides a timeline of the controvercy in a sidebar to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8396035.stm">this story</a>.</p>Here's why Prentice is right:<br /><p></p><blockquote><p>"'The emails do nothing to undermine the very strong scientific consensus ... that tells us the earth is warming, that warming is largely a result of human activity,' said ... government scientist, Jane Lubchenco. A marine biologist and climate researcher, she heads the [US] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. </p><p>"The emails do not negate or even deal with data from both NOAA and NASA, which keep independent climate records and show dramatic warming, Lubchenco told members of the House global warming committee."</p><p>[...] </p><p>"The chairman of the [US] Academy of Science panel, Texas A&M University atmospheric scientist Gerald North, confirmed... [that]<br /><br />"'...even if Jones, Mann and others [whose emails had been stolen] had done no research at all, the world would still be warming and scientists would still be able to show it." (<a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091202/science/science_sci_climate_hearing?printer=1">CP via Yahoo! Canada News</a>)</p></blockquote><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/climate/author.htm" target="_blank">Spencer Weart,</a> former director of the American Institute of Physics' <a href="http://www.aip.org/history/" target="_blank">Center for the History of Physics</a> who wrote <em><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Discovery-Global-Warming-Revised-Expanded/dp/067403189X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259860098&sr=1-1" target="_blank">The Discovery of Global Warming</a></em>, said that surface temperature data (the subject of the emails) is notoriously hard to deal with. Weather stations are run by people who make mistakes -- or sometimes even move the stations, using instruments that may be off by a few degrees, in an environment that can change around the station over the years. But Weart agrees that surface climate data is not required to prove recent global warming. Studies of stalagmites in caves and temperature changes in near-surface rock layers have confirmed the trends independetly. (CBC Radio's <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2009/200912/20091203.html">The Current on December 3, 2009</a>. You can listen using the player on the CBC site -- go to the player for Part 3 near the end of that page. The discussion noted above starts around 07:30).<br /><br />I'll let <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091202/science/science_science_matters_climate?printer=1">David Suzuki</a> have the last word for now:<br /><br /><p></p><blockquote><p>"Sadly for the deniers and for all of us, the emails don't show that global warming is a grand hoax or conspiracy. They do nothing to diminish the decades of overwhelming scientific evidence that the Earth is not only warming largely because of emissions from burning fossil fuels but that it's worse than we thought. Recently, 26 scientists from Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Canada, the U.S., and Australia released a report showing that the impacts of global warming are occurring faster and are more widespread than other reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had projected. </p><p>"The report, titled The Copenhagen Diagnosis, summarized the most recent research from around the world, which shows that Arctic sea ice is melting faster than we thought, that both Greenland and Antarctica are losing more ice than predicted, and that sea levels are rising more quickly than anticipated. The scientists conclude that the Earth could reach several 'tipping points' if we keep pumping emissions into the atmosphere at the same rate. </p><p>"The report also quashes the myth of 'global cooling' that has been 'promoted by lobby groups and picked up in some media.' The report's authors conclude that 'even the highly "cherry-picked" 11-year period starting with the warm 1998 and ending with the cold 2008 still shows a warming trend of 0.11 C per decade.'</p>"It's astounding that those who deny that climate change exists or that it is human-caused, either out of self-interest or ignorance, are willing to see some grand conspiracy in a handful of stolen emails but are unwilling to see the undeniably clear evidence of the impacts of climate change already occurring around the world.<br /><p></p><p>"Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence, world leaders are dragging their heels in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate summit this month. As University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver notes, in abandoning the idea of reaching a binding agreement in Copenhagen, world leaders are essentially saying that they don't believe they owe anything to our children and grandchildren.</p><p>"Unfortunately, Canada has a poor record on climate change and international negotiations to address the problem. Our government argues that the economy takes precedence over the environment. It's incredibly short-sighted to think that a healthy economy can be maintained when the health of the planet is failing. And it's absurd to pin our economic hopes on extracting limited supplies of dirty fossil fuels in a world that is increasingly switching to cleaner forms of energy."</p></blockquote><p align="right">[<a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/12235298150467123070">Important Notice</a>]<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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<br /></div>ydzabelishenskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12235298150467123070noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25267532.post-24058585013532110072009-10-17T00:56:00.004-04:002009-10-17T01:11:51.007-04:00Doing Just Two Things Is Enough to Prevent Climate ChangeFor <a href="http://www.blogactionday.org/">Blog Action Day</a> 2009, Treehugger.com wrote that <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/if-we-all-just-do-two-things-we-can-prevent-climate-change.php">"If We All Just Do Two Things We Can Prevent Climate Change"</a> -- and what are those two amazing things?<br /><strong></strong><blockquote><strong>"1) Sign Up For Green Power With Your Utility"</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><strong>2) Stop Eating Meat"</strong></blockquote><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Sounds familiar to me.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- We're on </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://climatechangecdn.blogspot.com/2007/01/were-finally-on-bullfrogpower.html">green power from BullfrogPower since January 2007</a><br /></strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">- We've been </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://climatechangecdn.blogspot.com/search/label/vegetarianism">vegetarian</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> for the last 20 years.<br /><br /></span></strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;">Both changes have been easier than many people think. Among many other benefits, vegetarianism saves you money (beans and whole grains are cheap - meat is expensive). Green power may cost more per kWh -- but if you <a href="http://climatechangecdn.blogspot.com/2006/06/slowing-electricity-leak-or-how-to.html">conserve electricity throughout your house</a>, you could <a href="http://climatechangecdn.blogspot.com/2007/02/halving-our-electricity-use-from-2005.html">cut your consumption in half</a>, and pay the same in the end as you did for conventional power, with no major impact on your lifestyle.<br /><br />But why stop there? We've done lots of other things too:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Transportation - driving as little and as efficiently as possible by:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></strong><blockquote><strong style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Walking</span><span> - </span>healthy, community-friendly and cheap!<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Biking </span><span>- folding bikes, child bike seats and bike trailers work great, too!</span><br /></strong><strong style="font-weight: bold;">- Taking a train </strong><strong style="font-weight: normal;">- GO Transit or VIA Rail - train schedule permitting</strong><strong style="font-weight: bold;"><br />- W</strong><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">orking from home (telecommuting)</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> - one of us does it each working day</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Driving very fuel-efficient conventional and hybrid cars</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> - we buy the most fuel-efficient used cars that we can find - they also tend to be the most reliable and therefore cheapest to maintain</span></strong></blockquote><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;">Home Energy</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Insulating our basement and crawl space</span><br />- Upgrading to very energy-efficient basement windows<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Using a programmable thermostat to save natural gas</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Installing super-efficient, dual-flush toilet </span>- less water used = less energy wasted on pumping and treating it!<br />- (We're also looking into installing a solar water heater - stay tuned!)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;">Reuse & Recycling</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></strong><blockquote><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Bringing our own mugs/plates/utensils or asking for reusable ones<br />- Packing litter-free lunches for school</span><br />- </strong><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Avoiding bottled water by filling up water bottles</span></strong> <span style="font-weight: bold;">tap or fountain</span><br /><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Using recycled paper in the office, kitchen, living room and bathroom<br />- Composting or using the municipal Green Bin program for kitchen scraps<br />- Recycling everything we can using the municipal Blue Bins<br />- Scrapping and recycling old cars (over 10-12 years old and not worth repairing) via <a href="http://www.carheaven.ca/">Car Heaven</a><br />- Bringing old, unfixable electronic and computer equipment to a municipal recycling depot<br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></strong></blockquote><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Passing it On</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Educating our children on why we do all of this</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- Writing this blog</span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: normal;">And yes, we live a comfortable, happy life in a typical Canadian city. <span style="font-weight: bold;">S</span></span>elf-preservation means moderation, not self-deprivation.<br /><br /></strong><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[<a href="http://www2.blogger.com/profile/12235298150467123070">Important Notice</a>]</span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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<br /></div>ydzabelishenskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12235298150467123070noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25267532.post-40176487748537593452009-07-09T22:32:00.000-04:002009-07-09T22:33:19.976-04:00Shorter Jim Prentice..."Yeah, you <del>suckers</del> other G8 nations keep working on that 'target'!"<br /><br />The <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090709/national/g8_cda">Canadian Press story</a> speaks for itself.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br />
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