Business getting on the train - The FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

The FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) will develop voluntary, consistent climate-related financial risk disclosures for use by companies in providing information to investors, lenders, insurers, and other stakeholders. The Task Force will consider the physical, liability and transition risks associated with climate change and what constitutes effective financial disclosures across industries. The work and recommendations of the Task Force will help companies understand what financial markets want from disclosure in order to measure and respond to climate change risks, and encourage firms to align their disclosures with investors’ needs.

Introduction to the FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures from Secretariat TCFD on Vimeo.

One Great Idea: Planting Seeds of Social Innovation- Stephen Ritz

Hold on to something if you watch this or you'll get blown away

When climate change hits home

Climate Change RoundUp for the week ending Dec 03, 2016

News and Views from around the web mostly but not only, to do with Climate CHange

Amory Lovins Double Shot

... so can you guess who just called central power plants dinosaurs too big, too inflexible, not even relevant for backup power in the long
run who do you think said that GreenPeace? Some radical environmental extremists?

Actually, it was Union Bank of Switzerland and most of the big financial houses concur with that that's a revolution. Amory Lovins

David Biello of TED: The Anthropocene Isn't Destined to be Obscene

A little bit of Hope a Little bit of Optimism for ya

Save Our Snowmen | Official Trailer | A Film About Climate Change

Move over Al Gore I have an Incontrovertible truth

You need to get this to all deniers within ears  (twitter, FB, LinkedIn, G+) shot

It is official Climate Change is Real here's the indisputable proof

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Katharine Hayhoe Triple Shot What is Global Weirding

atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe studies climate change, one of the most pressing issues we face today The data tells us the planet is warming; the science is clear that humans are responsible; the impacts we’re seeing today are already serious; and our future is in our hands. As John Holdren once said, “We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation, and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required, and the less suffering there will be.”

Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New episodes every other Wednesday at 10 am central. Brought to you in part by: Bob and Linda Herscher, Freese and Nichols, Inc, and the Texas Tech Climate Science Center.

COP22: The conclusion, with Saleemul Huq (22 November)

Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population
Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry

#RebelAgainstEbell: At the EPA to stop climate denial

Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry

Happy Thanksgiving from NASA

Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry

Climate Change:How Skewed Are We... Really? RoundUp for the week ending Nov 19, 2016..

Climate Change content curation, commentary and a soupcon of comedy. #10: A climate scientist and a climate change denier walk into a bar.  The denier says, bartender, show me your strongest whiskey.  The bartender says, this one here. It's 95 percent alcohol. The denier slams down his fist and leaves the bar in a hurry.  The scientist says, you know, that's the problem with these guys.  You show them the proof, and they still don't buy it.  #09: Corals survived Caribbean climate change   Half of all coral species in the Caribbean went extinct between 1 and 2 million years ago, probably due to drastic environmental changes.  Which ones survived? Can you say Orbicella?   #08 The Alliance for a Sustainable Future Together,  cities and businesses can accelerate the momentum toward a more sustainable, low-carbon future.   The Alliance for a Sustainable Future creates a framework for mayors and business leaders to develop concrete approaches to reduce carbon emissions, speed deployment of new technology, and respond to the growing impacts of climate change.  A partnership of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions C2ES and The U.S. Conference of Mayors  #07: You need to get inside the mind of a climate change denier - if you want to change it. According to a study by sociologists Aaron M. McCright and Riley Dunlap, based on an analysis of Gallup surveys of public opinion between 2000 and 2010, 32% of adults in America deny that there is a scientific consensus on climate change. In order to appeal to those who deny climate change, discussions should focus on convincing people to take on behaviors that would help protect the environment—without trying to convince them to become environmentalists.  The renewable energy economy is a great example. Arguing that innovation in alternate energy sources would lead to the creation of jobs does not necessarily require convincing someone of the harmful impact of climate change.  #06: Energy Storage Goes Underground   Pumped hydro is not new. It’s the oldest and most widely available form of energy storage today. Quidnet Energy proposes storing energy in old wells by filling them with water at very high pressure. As the pressure increases, rock below the surface compresses like a spring. When the water is discharged, the pressure is released, pushes the water through turbines, and creates electricity.  #05: Japan ranks among worst performers in tackling climate change  Japan placed 60th, down two notches from the previous year. Saudi Arabia was the only country deemed worse according to this year’s Climate Change Performance Index report showed by Germanwatch  #04: White House Unveils Bold Climate Change Plan Before Trump Takes Over  Under the newly released strategy, which aims to rapidly “decarbonize” America, emissions would be slashed about 80 percent by 2050, compared with levels set in 2005.  “No one has a right to make decisions that affect billions of people based solely on ideology or without proper input,” Secretary of State John Kerry says.  #03: Troubling News For The Planet: Oil Demand To Increase, Despite Paris Climate Change Accord. Good News/BadNews Automobile oil consumption, a major greenhouse gas contributor, will indeed fall, but the drop will be offset by gains in other sectors. The difficulty of finding alternatives to oil in road freight, aviation and petrochemicals means that, up to 2040, the growth in these three sectors alone is greater than the growth in global oil demand,” from the International International Energy Agency (IEA)  #02: Coal in control as Wyo. senators ascend to top slots.  Analysts have questioned lawmakers’ ability to reverse coal’s decline. Low natural gas prices, they note, will dictate coal’s future. #01 Two Scientists Walk into Marrakech and are Upbeat on COP22  Train keeps arollin - Trump put on Ignore and is perhaps irrelevant

Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry

CCS Cost Trends and Outlook

Extinction is forever:Atlantic Salmon Lake Ontario population Canada's Species at Risk Public Registry

Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Project at SaskPower s Boundary Dam

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Two Scientists Upbeat on COP22

Train keeps arollin Trump put on Ignore and is perhaps irrelevant

Tobias Erb on Designing a More Efficient System for Harnessing Carbon Dioxide

"Well this could be promising... Engineering a more efficient system for harnessing carbon dioxide" Scientists have reverse engineered a biosynthetic pathway for more effective carbon fixation that is based on a new CO2-fixing enzyme that is nearly 20 times faster than the most prevalent enzyme in nature responsible for capturing CO2 in plants by using sunlight as energy.

Platform on Disaster Displacement - PDD Advisory Committee Workshop 2016

Stuff What Trump Thinks! Stuff is happening elsewhere in the world! Train is a rollin'

Climate Change Round Up Nov 12, 2016

Climate Change:How Skewed Are We... Really? Climate Change content curation, commentary and a soupcon of comedy

Climate Change Round Up Nov 12, 2016

10 How much do teachers shape kids' climate change beliefs? 

Only 12 percent of students had a teacher who thought climate change was real and believed humans were largely to blame. "North Carolina State University biologists states: ""Our findings suggest convincing teachers that climate change is real, but not necessarily human caused, may have profound impacts on students

9 Massive 'lake' discovered under volcano could unlock why and how volcanoes erupt 

A huge magmatic lake has been discovered, 15 kilometers below a dormant volcano in Bolivia, South America. The body of water, which is dissolved into partially molten rock at a temperature of almost 1,000 degrees Celsius, is the equivalent to what is found in some of the world's giant freshwater lakes, such as Lake Superior.  

8 Climate finance to top India’s agenda 

India will also focus on sustainable lifestyle issues, which found a place in the Paris agreement after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for its inclusion  

7 Climate champions launch Global Action Agenda in Morocco 

Morocco and France’s global climate champions, Hakima El Haite and Laurence Tubiana, launched the Global Climate Action Agenda here on Tuesday. As a successor to the Lima-Paris Action Agenda in 2013, the Global Action Agenda allows non-governmental players, such as civil society organizations, private companies, cities, regions and investors, and their initiatives to play a bigger role.

6 NASA DOUBLE SHOT 

Media Briefed on New NASA Hurricane Mission 

Earth Expeditions: A Natural Cloud/Climate Laboratory

5 Physics Doesn’t Really Care Who Was Elected 

Climate change does not care about the law of the land in the U.S. It cares about the laws of physics. Trump can change laws in the U.S. He can’t change them in the atmosphere.

4 A new study concludes warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2 “The only way out is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible,” Tobias Friedrich from the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa http://bit.ly/2eWdIAt 

3 COP22: The implications of the US presidential result 

focus shifts to China to take on the role as global leader in taking action. 

2 Trump win opens way for China to take climate leadership role 

Zou Ji, deputy director of the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy said that if Trump abandons efforts to implement the Paris agreement, "China's influence and voice are likely to increase in global climate governance, which will then spill over into other areas of global governance and increase China's global standing, power and leadership." 

1 All Is Not Lost on Climate Change 

Trump will be terrible, but it’s not just about Trump. It’s about you, too. there’s a lot each of us can do in our own lives. Yes, we’ll need systemic change to preserve a habitable planet for future generations, but that change begins with small steps in our own daily lives—and Trump can’t keep you from starting that today.

Spencer's Climate Change Round up for the week ending Nov 12 2016 #02 NASA Double Shot

Media Briefed on New NASA Hurricane Mission
Earth Expeditions: A Natural Cloud/Climate Laboratory

How to respond to climate science denial

John Cook Hard at work again giving you the skills to convert your Uncle Denier

Delegates at COP22 react to Trump win

TRUMPENATOR Vs the World

Climate Litigation | Inside The Issues 6.11

David Estrin of CIGI, a senior research fellow with the International Law Research Program. At CIGI, he is involved with developing and leading examinations of the effectiveness of international environmental law regimes, including the following areas: governance and regulation of the extractive and energy sector, including rapidly evolving international law expectations for effective environmental standards and related corporate conduct, particularly considering how non-responsiveness to these expectations may impact on human rights; assessing international, transnational, and local law-based and market-based approaches to reversing climate change and its impacts (case studies);  and international environmental law related trade and investment and intellectual property issues. CIGI PAPER Worth a read Limiting Dangerous Climate Change: The Critical Role of Citizen Suits and Domestic Courts—Despite the Paris Agreement This paper focuses on the emerging new role of citizen suits, domestic courts and human rights commissions in limiting dangerous climate change. Given the failure of states to stop the almost constant increase in global carbon emissions (and now the worrying practical and legal gaps in the 2015 Paris Agreement), frustrated citizens are increasingly looking to domestic courts to require governments to mitigate emissions and limit climate harm. This emerging role is demonstrated in three important 2015 decisions: Urgenda from the Netherlands; Leghari from Pakistan; and Foster v Washington Department of Ecology from the United States. These suits before domestic courts have achieved significant results in the battle against climate change. Each court found there was a legal duty on the respondent government to rein in carbon emissions or take other measures to prevent significant climate-related human and civil rights impacts. Also in 2015, the Philippines Human Rights Commission agreed to investigate and hold hearings as to the responsibility of large international fossil fuel companies for substantial impairment of human rights in the Philippines caused by extreme weather events.

Project Peru:The Case of Huaraz: Saúl versus RWE

A Peruvian farmer is demanding that the German energy company, RWE, pay compensation for its role in causing historical climate change. RWE is one of the “Carbon Majors” identified by research commissioned by the Climate Justice Programme and published in the journal Climatic Change. The plaintiff, Saul Luciano Lliuya, has demanded that RWE pay part of the costs for urgent protective measures as his home lies in the floodpath of the Palcacocha lake which is damming glacial melt-water upstream of his home in the town of Huaraz, in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, or white mountain range. The lawsuit is the first of its kind in Europe. “This is a precedent. If the case goes through, it could lead to further lawsuits being brought against climate change contributors worldwide,” according to lawyer Roda Verheyen. “To meet legal standards, we must prove to the court that RWE does carry partial responsibility for the risk my client’s property is exposed to – and we will achieve this.”   Read More...

The Climate Group Business & Climate Summit 2016 Quad Shot

The °Climate Group is an independent international non-profit organization. Our goal is to help government and business set the world economy on the path to a low-carbon, prosperous future. To reach this goal, we've created a coalition of governments and the world's most influential businesses, all committed to tackling climate change. Through this coalition, we're helping to set the targets, create the policies, build the confidence, and generate the political willpower needed to make the changes the world requires by 2050.

Bold New Climate Policy In Canada’s Oil Sands	Climate Policy in a post Paris World
Andy Ridley, CEO, Circle Economy	Felipe Calderón: Remove fossil fuel subsidies right now

James Balog Double Shot Ted Talk from 2009 Nat Geoc Special Extreme Ice Full Documentary

James Balog combines art and science to explore a changing planet and inspire transformative social action today.
Marrying still photographs, video, and film with the written word and other media, we hope that our work is an antidote to natural amnesia. We preserve a visual record of fast-changing landscapes and critically endangered animals and plants and then disseminate this record to the global public using all available forums, including the Internet, electronic and print media, public presentations, and educational resources created for classrooms

Why I Care Quad Shot from Years of Living Dangerously Season 1. Season 2 coming soon

Mark October 30 2016 on your calendar Years of Living Dangerously Season 2 is coming

Why I Care — Michael C. Hall Why I Care — Matt Damon	Why I Care — Sigourney Weaver Why I Care — Don Cheadle

YaleClimateConnections Double Shot:TV Meteorologists Warming to Climate Science / Warmer Oceans, Stronger Hurricanes

Yale Climate Connections aims to help citizens and institutions understand how the changing climate is already affecting our lives. It seeks to help individuals, corporations, media, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, academics, artists, and more learn from each other about constructive “solutions” so many are undertaking to reduce climate-related risks and wasteful energy practices. Hey Gaston, Hermine, there's a Huricane with your name on it! NHC issuing advisories for the Atlantic on Hurricane GASTON, TD EIGHT and TS HERMINE
Through articles, radio stories, videos, and webinars we “connect the dots” between climate change and energy, extreme weather, public health, food and water, jobs and the economy, national security, the creative arts, and religious and moral values, among other themes The Guardian reported in March 2016 on a new survey which found a growing climate consensus among meteorologists 96% of AMS members realize climate change is happening, and most understand humans are responsible. Nearly all AMS members (96%) think climate change – as defined by AMS – is happening, with almost 9 out of 10 (89%) stating that they are either ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ sure it is happening. Only 1% think climate change is not happening, and 3% say they don’t know. It is not surprising that more meteorologists are now more convinced that human-caused climate change is happening. That is how science works. As the scientific evidence becomes more irrefutable, which is the case with harmful, human-caused climate change, more scientists of all types will become convinced. Edward Maibach

Not your Dad's or Grandad's TV. TYT Double Shot New Ways Climate Change Will Affect Public Health

Getting the word out to the to the younguns!!!
The Young Turks demographic Seventy-eight percent of The Young Turks’ viewers are under the age of 35. It’s very similar to the shows I used to do on cable news for MSNBC or Current TV. On MSNBC, the regular age is 63 years old. The difference between 63 and our average age of 28 is monumental. Through good work and luck, we find ourselves on the right side of history. I don’t know how much time they have left, but cable and broadcast news is on the clock. We have not yet reached any plateau. We still have a lot of audience to take from television and other platforms out there.

NASA Double Shot:Alaska’s Bubbling Lakes - Measuring Sea Ice at the Peak of Melt

“In the last 30 years we’ve really moved into exceptional territory,” Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said. “It’s unprecedented in 1,000 years. There’s no period that has the trend seen in the 20th century in terms of the inclination (of temperatures).” “Maintaining temperatures below the 1.5C guardrail requires significant and very rapid cuts in carbon dioxide emissions or co-ordinated geo-engineering. That is very unlikely. We are not even yet making emissions cuts commensurate with keeping warming below 2C.”
“It’s the long-term trend we have to worry about though and there’s no evidence it’s going away and lots of reasons to think it’s here to stay,” Schmidt said. “There’s no pause or hiatus in temperature increase. People who think this is over are viewing the world through rose-tinted spectacles. This is a chronic problem for society for the next 100 years.” Schmidt is the highest-profile scientist to effectively write-off the 1.5C target, which was adopted at December’s UN summit after heavy lobbying from island nations that risk being inundated by rising seas if temperatures exceed this level. Recent research found that just five more years of carbon dioxide emissions at current levels will virtually wipe out any chance of restraining temperatures to a 1.5C increase and avoid runaway climate change.

Climate Change Show Me the Funny Triple shot from Funny or Die

Carbfix Double Shot plus bonus made in Canada CCS Solution

CarbFix is a collaborative research project between Reykjavik Energy, the University of Iceland, Columbia University and CNRS that aims at developing safe, simple and economical methods and technology for permanent CO2 mineral storage in basalts. The CarbFix team had demonstrated that over 95% of CO2 captured and injected at Hellisheidi geothermal Power Plant in Iceland was mineralized within two years. This contrasts the previous common view that mineralization in CCS projects takes hundreds to thousands of years. Industrial scale capture and injection have been ongoing at the power plant since 2012.
From the beginnings: Reykjavik Energy's Head of Innovation and Development discusses the CarbFix program, an international project to store carbon emissions in rock, and the role a major geothermal plant is playing in the effort.
SaskPower Carbon Capture Test Facility (CCTF) Tour: a virtual tour of the recently opened Carbon Capture Test Facility (CCTF) at Shand Power Station in Estevan, SK. The CCTF was built to provide technology developers with an opportunity to test new and emerging carbon capture systems for controlling carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants.

Microsoft Research Double Shot on Climate Change

Microsoft Research collaborates with the world's foremost researchers in academia, industry and government to move research in new directions across nearly every field of computer science, engineering and general science.

Networks in Climate Science The El Nino is a powerful but irregular climate cycle that has huge consequences for agriculture and perhaps global warming. Predicting its arrival more than 6 months ahead of time has been difficult. A recent paper by Ludescher et al caused a stir by using ideas from network theory to predict the start of an El Nino toward the end of 2014 with a 3-in-4 likelihood. We critically analyze their technique, related applications of network theory, and also attempts to use neural networks to help model the Earth's climate. John Baez is a professor of mathematics at U.C. Riverside. Until recently he worked on higher category theory and quantum gravity. His internet column 'This Week's Finds' dates back to to 1993 and is sometimes called the world's first blog. In 2010, concerned about climate change and the future of the planet, he switched to working on more practical topics and started the Azimuth Project, a collaboration to create a focal point for scientists and engineers interested in environmental issues. One part of this project is developing the mathematics of networks of all kinds: chemical reaction networks, belief networks, signal-flow diagrams, and so on.
David MacKay Dept of Engineering Uni of Cambridge Stuff machine learning, let’s talk about climate change David MacKay, born 22 April 1967, died 14 April 2016. We are saddened by the loss of Professor Sir David MacKay, Regius Professor of Engineering, who lost his battle against stomach cancer on Thursday 14th April 2016. He was 48 years old.

ClimateTruth.org Double Shot Actually more to the point: Exxon double

ClimateTruth.org is an online community of more than 170,000 people combatting the denial, distortion and disinformation that blocks bold action on climate change. Since 2012, we’ve been pushing public officials, institutions, and corporations to cut ties with the polluter front groups and other vested interests that spread disinformation and block action on climate change.
Exxon Knew Exxon Profits from disasters. Consider this: carcasses of more than 35,000 birds and 1,000 sea otters, which was considered to be a fraction of the animal death toll because carcasses typically sink to the seabed. It’s estimated 250,000 seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, up to 22 killer whales died along with billions of salmon and herring eggs. Exxon Valdez ring a bell?

Inter-American Development Bank Double shot

Inter-American Development Bank: supporting efforts by Latin America and the Caribbean countries to reduce poverty and inequality and improve the quality of life. We aim to bring about development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way.
Inter-American Development Bank: working to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education, and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of increased integrity, transparency, and accountability.

For the hardcore Graphanatic A Tableau Public Double Shot - Emissions / Oil Spills

What is Tableau Public? Tableau Public is a free service that lets anyone publish interactive data visualizations to the web. Visualizations that have been published to Tableau Public (“vizzes”) can be embeded into webpages and blogs, they can be shared via social media or email, and they can be made available for download to other users. Visualizations are created in the accompanying app Tableau Desktop Public Edition (or another Edition of Tableau Desktop) - no programming skills are required. Be sure to look at the gallery to see some of the visualizationspeople in the community have been creating.

PBS News Hour Double Shot the flooding is unprecedented / Blue Cut Fire: Over 82,000 forced to evacuate

Governor John Bel Edwards "The flooding unprecedented" Governor John Bel Edwards said residents had been pulled from swamped cars, flooded homes and threatened hospitals across the southern part of the state. The already soaked region is expected to get more rain from a storm system stretching from the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley. "Even with the sunshine out today intermittently, the waters are going to continue to rise in many areas, so this is no time to let the guard down," Edwards said, calling the flooding unprecedented. U.S. President Barack Obama issued a disaster declaration on Sunday for flood-ravaged Louisiana, where at least five people have died and emergency crews have rescued more than 20,000 people stranded by unprecedented flooding. Louisiana State Police Colonel Michael Edmonson said helicopters were transporting food and water to those still trapped by floods. Helicopters were also transporting some seriously ill people to areas outside the high waters. More than 20,000 people had been rescued from flood waters in southern Louisiana.
This wouldn't be about Climate Change now would it? William Brangham discusses with Columbia University’s Adam Sobel and Louisiana State climatologist Barry Keim.

Experts and Empirical Evidence From Down Under: Professor Brian Cox Vs Malcom Roberts plus others

OZ ABC Q&A Epsiode: Experts and Empirical Evidence Professor Brian Cox is a British particle physicist at the University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He has carried out research at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland and the H1 experiment at DESY in Hamburg. Malcolm Roberts has been confirmed as the fourth member of Pauline Hanson’s Senate team to be elected, and will represent Queensland for One Nation. Malcolm has a background in engineering, mining and business leadership, and also a keen interest in economics. Malcolm disputes many of the claims made about climate change. After an investigation of these claims, involving analysis of the measured data, Malcolm believes he has exposed corruption. His investigations led him to conclude that foreign control is wrecking Australia and the tax system is choking Australians, destroying initiative and responsibility, while sabotaging the future. see complete Episode and Transcript at ABC Q&A Experts and Empirical Evidence

POTUS 2014 Hot 2015 Hotter 2016 Hotest Building on Paris Agreement

Climate Change White House Weekly Address In his weekly address President Obama talked about his efforts in creating clean energy and combating climate change. Clean Energy MORE FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS ARE COMING TO A TRUCK STOP NEAR YOU!

More Plastic Than Fish - project clean up ocean plastic

"What does plastic pollution have to do with climate change? They both have their root in fossil fuels."  — Anna Cummins, 5 Gyres Institute The EPA estimates as many as five ounces of carbon dioxide are emitted for each ounce of polyethylene (PET) produced—the type of plastic most commonly used for beverage bottles. Matt Prindiville, executive director of Upstream, a sustainability venture that seeks to end plastic pollution and reduce climate disruption. He states:  "It’s a fundamental Lorax-type tale. We are wrecking the oceans—and now our food, due to microplastics attracting and bio-concentrating toxic chemicals in the marine food chain—because of our addiction to cheap, plastic products and packaging, and a comprehensive global failure to steward these materials properly. A recent study revealed that 8 million tons of plastic waste flows into our oceans each year, enough to cover every foot of coastline in the world."

Another Org to help you convince your Uncle Denny the Denier IMPACT2C

The Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) was initiated by the German Federal Government in 2009 as a fundamental part of the German hightech-strategy for climate protection. Since June 2014, GERICS is a scientific organizational entity of Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht – Zentrum für Material- und Küstenforschung GmbH. GERICS offers in a scientifically sound manner products, advisory services and decision-relevant information in order to support government, administration and business in their efforts to adapt to climate change. Director is meteorologist and climate scientist Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob. The IMPACT2C project provided easily accessible climate-related information to policymakers, the media and other interested parties. The project results were put together in a series of the Policy Brief Notes. The IMPACT2C web atlas (www.atlas.impact2c.eu) was produced to provide input for the development of recommendations on possible adaptations strategies. The key messages of the IMPACT2C project can be summarized as follows: A global warming by 2°C substantially affects a wide range of sectors and regions throughout Europe. Some regions or sectors will benefit from a future warming, but some will experience disadvantages.  To assess the impacts of climate change on specific sectors, cross-sectoral relationships have to be included into the analysis.  In most regions of Europe, the projected regional warming is more pronounced than the global mean warming. Projections for annual mean precipitation show wetter conditions in northern Europe and drier conditions in southern Europe.  Under a 2°C global warming, a European-wide increase in the frequency of extreme events is expected. Heatwaves are projected to double while extreme precipitation events tend to become more intense.  A limitation to 2°C global warming will not stop sea-level rise due to the delayed reaction of the oceans. Therefore costs due to coastal flooding will incur even with adaptation measures.  Bangladesh and the low-lying islands like Maldives are expected to feel the consequences of climate change, due to the continuous rise of sea-levels enhancing the risk for storm surges and flooding.  For West and East Africa, the warming is above the global temperature increase. West Africa could experience a modest increase in rainfall, whereas for East Africa no clear trend is projected. .

Avast me hearties! Making Science Cool.

Avast me hearties! Making Science Cool. In 2017-2019, the Marine National Facility (MNF) generously provided the CAPSTAN programme with Investigator ship time and access to on-board equipment for 3 pilot voyages for up to 30 post-graduate students and trainers. The CAPSTAN programme will change the landscape of marine science education in Australia. With your support, the sky, or more accurately, the Pacific’s Marian Trench is the limit!

Rising seas Triple Shot NASA, MSNBC, Potsdam Uni

NASA Says:For over 20 years, satellite altimeters have measured the sea surface height of our ever-changing oceans. Chris Hayes asks the question about that shall not be named according to DEP officials who have been ordered not to use the term “climate change” or “global warming” in any official communications, emails, or reports. Potsdam Uni's Stefan Rahmstorf obtained his PhD in oceanography at Victoria University of Wellington in 1990. He has worked as a scientist at the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, at the Institute of Marine Science in Kiel and since 1996 at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. His work focuses on the role of the oceans in climate change.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly of reliance on one Industry

"The Good the Bad and the Ugly" of reliance on one Industry. Oil is hurting still, which means Oil country continues to shed jobs. In my own backyard, Alberta 'the have' continues down the 'have not' road. It would be an opportune time to gear up, retrain and put these folks to work in the Green Revolution as per the Greenpeace report last spring which suggests: Alberta has the potential to create over one hundred and forty-five thousand new jobs — 46,780 jobs in renewable energy, 68,400 jobs in energy efficiency, and 30,000-40,000 jobs in mass transit. Investing in the low-carbon economy would put Albertans to work right away, while diversifying the economy, reducing pollution and health care costs, and building stronger and more resilient communities in the process'  all it'll take is for Trudeaumania to roll into town and help us out a little Misery continues across the country Newfoundland and Labrador 12.8 per cent (12.0)  Prince Edward Island 9.6 (11.0)  New Brunswick 9.7 (10.3)  Alberta 8.6 (7.9)  Nova Scotia 8.4 (8.2)  Quebec 7.0 (7.0)  Ontario 6.4 (6.4)  Saskatchewan 6.3 (6.1)  Manitoba 6.2 (6.1)  British Columbia 5.6 (5.9)    And from the linked article Things have changed drastically in the last two years. the massive supply glut continues to weigh in on the prices. During Asian trading hours on Friday, as of 2:31 (EDT), the US benchmark for crude oil, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was down 1.12% at $41.46, while on the other hand its counterpart, the global benchmark for crude oil during the same time was down 1.15% at $43.78 per barrel. Companies with smaller market capitalizations began to feel the brunt of the oil prices. In the past two years, over 85 companies have filed for bankruptcy. if the crude environment does not improve in the future, the companies might see a further increase in debt and decrease in profitability. The current fundamentals of the crude market show that a supply glut is still there and would take some time to clear out from the market." more on Oil prices

Prof Kevin Anderson - Double Shot:Climate change Delivering on 2 degrees' Keynote and and Interview from March 2016 on the Emerald Isle

"...so let's think where we are today 2016, in the first IPCC climate change report on came out over 25 years ago which i'm looking around here that's that's longer than some of you have been alive so for a quarter-century gray-haired or no head people have completely failed you and your future so when you see people like me to the front I should really start with a very sincere apology that we are handing you this legacy, so a quarter of a century we've known about climate change everything we need to know to act and we have actively chosen to do nothing, worse than nothing actually the carbon dioxide emissions this year will be sixty percent higher than they were in 1990 So during our 25 years of concern for your futures we've let our emissions go up so they are 60% higher now. The atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide is currently higher than is has been for about 800,000 years and probably as much as five million years but certainly 800,000 years which is about two to three times longer than any of us not any one individual but as a species on the planet"
The 1.5 Ship has arrived at it's destination. COP21: 1.5 Disingenuous Sop to the poorer Nations of the world