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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 26, 2018 at 2:44pm

Super Typhoon Yutu appears to be the fifth-strongest storm ever to make landfall globally, and the second-strongest ever to hit U.S. soil. Yutu lashed Tinian and Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory. “Tinian has been devastated.” said Mayor Joey P. San Nicolas in a video posted to Facebook.  Around 52,000 people live on the islands, with the majority based in Saipan and some 6 percent in Tinian. [order changed, light editing]

Worst storm in nearly 100 years leaves U.S. islands devastated

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 25, 2018 at 3:40am

Thanks, Joan. Yes it's excellent.

The Stockholm report argues that: “Collective human action is required to steer the Earth System away from a potential threshold and stabilize it in a habitable interglacial-like state. Such action entails stewardship of the entire Earth System — biosphere, climate and societies — and could include decarbonization of the global economy, enhancement of biosphere carbon sinks, behavioral changes, technological innovations, new governance arrangements and transformed social values.” [emphasis mine]

We don't normally think of stewardship of societies, one of our greatest survival challenges.

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 25, 2018 at 3:31am

Yutu is 10^th category 5 cyclone of 2018!

Comment by Joan Denoo on October 12, 2018 at 2:10am

Ruth, excellent article, If We Can’t Stop Hothouse Earth, We’d Better Learn to Live on It

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 11, 2018 at 6:00pm

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Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on September 28, 2018 at 10:57pm

Crawford Kilian reviews the climate science that we face a desperate global struggle. Then says...

… mass migration … has been the default human response to climate change and food shortages for at least 200,000 years. But where would the billions of South and East Asia go? West, to Central Asia and the Middle East? Likely to be hot, hostile and even less fertile than now. North, to Siberia? Even after Siberia’s forests burn, they will leave little but scorched muskeg and melting permafrost, useless for farming.

We in North America and Europe think we’re hard done by because the first few climate refugees are tentatively knocking on our doors. Three billion climate refugees with nuclear weapons in their luggage wouldn’t bother to knock.

If We Can’t Stop Hothouse Earth, We’d Better Learn to Live on It

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on September 3, 2018 at 3:03pm

Here's one attempt to make climate predictions easie to understand.

Comment by Grinning Cat on August 21, 2018 at 5:50pm

More on tRump's decision:

Trump issues rollback of Obama's biggest climate rule (Alex Guillén, Politico)

"The proposal from the EPA goes to the core of the criticisms that the coal industry and conservatives lodged against Obama's 2015 regulation, which used a novel reading of the Clean Air Act to require states to cut greenhouse gas pollution from the power sector. The replacement from President Donald Trump’s EPA would give states far more leeway to meet more modest climate goals — or even to opt of the program entirely.

...the new rule’s biggest impact could come from the inevitable lawsuits... If they lose, the result could be a court decision enshrining the Trump administration’s hobbled approach to climate regulation...

At the very least, experts say, the proposal... would mean years of delay in curbing one of the world’s most dire problems — the greenhouse gas pollution that causes climate change."

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on August 21, 2018 at 4:53pm

President Trump’s decision to roll back even measured efforts to curtail carbon-dioxide emissions and news about Arctic sea ice combine to paint a picture of a country that’s living through climate change and deciding not to do anything about it.

... a new report Tuesday ...: For the first time on record, the thickest Arctic sea ice began to break apart this year.

Philip Bump

This is the day that the climate change fight was obviously lost

Comment by Grinning Cat on August 16, 2018 at 11:02am

One solution to flooding and wildfires made worse by anthropogenic climate change... :)

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