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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on Thursday

Good one, Grinning Cat!

Comment by Grinning Cat on Wednesday

Does this belong here, or in Politics, Economics, and Religion, or in LGBTQI Atheists? (Yes.)From Occupy Democrats, who have been criticized for publishing sensationalistic crap that plays fast and loose with the facts; but with the Republican Party in bed with the Christian Right, this idea rings true!

Comment by Grinning Cat on June 2, 2017 at 12:24pm

Now that tRump has rejected the Paris climate accord:

As the NYT wrote (quoted widely around the web):

"But he will stick to the withdrawal process laid out in the Paris agreement, which President Barack Obama joined and most of the world has already ratified. That could take nearly four years to complete, meaning a final decision would be up to the American voters in the next presidential election."

Comment by Grinning Cat on May 19, 2017 at 9:05am

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If only 45* himself were a hoax!

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on May 5, 2017 at 6:10pm

The oceans are losing oxygen much faster than expected.

“The trend of oxygen falling is about two to three times faster than what we predicted from the decrease of solubility associated with the ocean warming,” Ito said. “This is most likely due to the changes in ocean circulation and mixing associated with the heating of the near-surface waters and melting of polar ice.” [emphasis mine]

Decades of data on world's oceans reveal a troubling oxygen decline

Comment by John Elder on May 4, 2017 at 4:07am

An important study just released in Nature- must read for anyone interested in climate change:

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Medhaug, Iselin
AU  - Stolpe, Martin B.
AU  - Fischer, Erich M.
AU  - Knutti, Reto
TI  - Reconciling controversies about the ‘global warming hiatus’
JA  - Nature
PY  - 2017/05/04/print
VL  - 545
IS  - 7652
SP  - 41
EP  - 47
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.
SN  - 0028-0836
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature22315
L3  - 10.1038/nature22315
M3  - Analysis
AB  - Between about 1998 and 2012, a time that coincided with political negotiations for preventing climate change, the surface of Earth seemed hardly to warm. This phenomenon, often termed the ‘global warming hiatus’, caused doubt in the public mind about how well anthropogenic climate change and natural variability are understood. Here we show that apparently contradictory conclusions stem from different definitions of ‘hiatus’ and from different datasets. A combination of changes in forcing, uptake of heat by the oceans, natural variability and incomplete observational coverage reconciles models and data. Combined with stronger recent warming trends in newer datasets, we are now more confident than ever that human influence is dominant in long-term warming.
ER  - 

Comment by Grinning Cat on March 21, 2017 at 10:45am

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Related: PETM Extinction Foreshadow for Century's End

"...parts of the tropical zone could be rendered basically uninhabitable to human beings by mid Century as the Earth heats up due to fossil fuel burning...  a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented scope could emerge as... entire regions become too hot to live in. And as major swaths of global farmland become non-productive..."

"Most people imagine we could just farm in Siberia and Alaska, but boreal soils are quite different from presently cultivated soils. Human habitability and crop production across vast areas of the planet are under threat this Century."

Comment by Joan Denoo on March 15, 2017 at 7:57pm

Climate Denial Crock of the Week March 14, 2017

* Gallop reported Two-Thirds of Americans now worry “a great deal”, or “a fair amount” about climate change, 

* Forty-five percent of Americans now say they worry “a great deal” about global warming,

* 21% currently say they worry “a fair amount” about global warming, 

* 18% worry “only a little” and

* 16% worry “not at all.”

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on March 14, 2017 at 1:58pm

... over the past three weeks, the White House and its new political appointees have begun to roll out a comprehensive environmental and energy policy. It is broad, creative, and industry-backed. To those who accept the mainstream consensus on climate change, there can only be one conclusion: The Trump administration has begun a sustained assault on Earth’s climate. [emphasis mine]

Trump’s Climate Agenda: Do Less, With Less

Comment by John Elder on March 12, 2017 at 6:47am

No alarm intended Donald. At least not climatic. Regardless of how one feels about global warming I don't think any of us are well served by political appointees who refuse to do their jobs or reject their responsibilities and obligations because of personal opinions or rejection of the public's wishes. It is very scary when current politicians "reject science" in favor of personal opinion.  Human caused or not the science behind CO2 being a green house gas and the main contributor to warming is irrefutable. That's the science. The human politics, level of human contribution debate, or scope of the warming problem is a whole different thing. This guy should be run out of office because of his bias and incompetent behavior and opinions irrespective of global warming. His comments demonstrate a breach of the public trust  in his capacity within the EPA, a position that doesn't expect or allow him (at least it didn't until the Trump came along) to "not accept the science". Cheers, John

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