Climate Change

[Michael Scally MD]

To avoid such an event, researchers have now suggested drilling holes into the permafrost. “If one knew where the build-up was, it might be possible to release the pressure, and maybe even use the gas,” says Hinzman.

Mysterious Siberian crater attributed to methane
Build-up and release of gas from thawing permafrost most probable explanation, says Russian team.
http://www.nature.com/news/mysterious-siberian-crater-attributed-to-methane-1.15649

 

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[Michael Scally MD]

Be Horrified At All The Ways Climate Change Will Destroy Us, Kindly Collected In One Map
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3033566/...-change-will-destroy-us-kindly-collected-in-o

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Climate Change: Implications for BusinessCISL, together with the Cambridge Judge Business School and the support of the European Climate Foundation is summarising the latest climate science for the business community. These short, sector-specific briefings in different languages are based on the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the most comprehensive climate assessment. http://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/Resources/Climate-and-Energy/Understanding-the-UN-Climate-Science-Reports.aspx

 

[Michael Scally MD]

A modern-day Dust Bowl
As a drought unfolds slowly and devastatingly, California farmers feel desperate and abandoned
http://news.yahoo.com/california-drought-dust-bowl-040440797.html

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Reducing Carbon by Curbing Population
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/b...ans-to-cut-carbon-emissions.html?ref=business

[NOTE: Current trajectory for 2050 is 9.6 Billion.]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

6 hideous realities we must face because of climate change
Global warming is happening now, and there's nothing we can do to change the fact that we're already screwed
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/05/6_hideous_realities_we_must_face_because_of_climate_change_partner/

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Expectations for a New Climate Agreement
http://globalchange.mit.edu/research/publications/reports/summary_264

We believe it will prove to be a step in the right direction. However, our expectation is that the pledges will not put the world on the path to meet the existing goals for limiting temperature change. We see emissions increasing through 2030 and, without additional international agreement, continuing to increase in the following decades. That raises the question, if it’s obvious in the early stages of the negotiation that we’re not getting on a path to temperature goals, what will be the nature of the follow-up process? We should be starting to have that discussion as well.

To read the full report, click http://globalchange.mit.edu/files/document/MITJPSPGC_Rpt264.pdf

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Edelman formally declares it will not accept climate denial campaigns
Statement by America’s biggest public relations firm may be the industry’s first official position on climate denial
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/07/edelman-pr-climate-change-denial-campaigns

Edelman, America’s biggest public relations firm, has for the first time formally declared it will not take on campaigns that deny global warming, in response to an investigation by the Guardian. However it is unclear on its commitment to existing clients that have been involved in spreading doubt about climate change and fighting regulations to cut carbon pollution.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Can we stop climate change? Infographic claims to reveal the four scenarios awaiting humanity - and NONE of them are great
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...t-scenarios-awaiting-humanity-NONE-great.html

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Guy S, Kashima Y, Walker I, O'Neill S. Investigating the effects of knowledge and ideology on climate change beliefs. European Journal of Social Psychology 2014;44(5):421-9. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.2039/abstract

The divergence of public opinion and climate science in the English-speaking world, particularly the United States and Australia, has attracted a variety of explanations. One of the more interesting accounts, from a psychological perspective, is the influence of ideology on climate change beliefs. Previous work suggests that ideology trumps knowledge in shaping climate change beliefs. However, these studies have typically examined the influence of proxy measures of knowledge rather than specific climate change knowledge.

The goal of the present research was to provide some clarification on the different influences of knowledge and ideology on beliefs about climate change. Specifically, we investigated the relationship between specific climate change knowledge, hierarchical and individualistic ideology, and climate change belief in a national sample (N = 335) of the Australian public.

Contrary to research involving proxy knowledge measures, we found that people who had greater knowledge of climate change causes were more willing to accept that climate change is occurring. Furthermore, knowledge of causes attenuated the negative relationship between individualistic ideology and belief that climate change exists.

Our findings suggest that climate change knowledge has the potential to positively influence public discourse on the issue.


Does "climate science literacy trump ideology" in Australia? Not as far as I can tell! Guy et al., Effects of knowlege & ideology part 1
http://www.culturalcognition.net/bl...-literacy-trump-ideology-in-australia-no.html


What would a *valid* measure of climate-science literacy reveal? Guy et al., Effects of knowlege & ideology part 2
http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2014/8/8/what-would-a-valid-measure-of-climate-science-literacy-revea.html

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Climate change measures like 'primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods', says Maurice Newman
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/climate-change-measures-like-primitive-civilisations-offering-up-sacrifices-to-appease-the-gods-says-maurice-newman-20140814-3do0v.html

The Abbott government's chief business adviser says too much time has been spent focusing on global warming and as a result Australians are "ill prepared" to deal with the prospect of global cooling.

Maurice Newman, who has been vocal in his climate change scepticism, has attacked governments, including the former Labor government, for pursuing "green gesture politics" by introducing carbon price signals in an opinion piece for the Murdoch-owned News Corp publication The Australian.

He likened the measures to "primitive civilisations offering up sacrifices to appease the gods".

 

[Michael Scally MD]

How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...-climate-change-so-people-will-listen/375067/

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Giant Sequoias Under Pressure from Climate Change
http://www.natureworldnews.com/arti...quoias-under-pressure-from-climate-change.htm

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Tibet's glaciers at their warmest in 2,000 years: Report
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...in-2000-years-Report/articleshow/40247219.cms

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Marzeion B, Cogley JG, Richter K, Parkes D. Attribution of global glacier mass loss to anthropogenic and natural causes. Science. https://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2014/08/13/science.1254702.abstract

The ongoing global glacier retreat is affecting human societies by causing sea-level rise, changing seasonal water availability, and increasing geohazards.

Melting glaciers are an icon of anthropogenic climate change. However, glacier response times are typically decades or longer, which implies that the present-day glacier retreat is a mixed response to past and current natural climate variability and current anthropogenic forcing.

Here, we show that only 25 ± 35% of the global glacier mass loss during the period from 1851 to 2010 is attributable to anthropogenic causes.

Nevertheless, the anthropogenic signal is detectable with high confidence in glacier mass balance observations during 1991 to 2010, and the anthropogenic fraction of global glacier mass loss during that period has increased to 69 ± 24%.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Big Climate Problems in Big Sky Country
http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/15/climate-problems-big-sky-country/

Fire and Ice: What I Did On My Summer Vacation
http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/06/glacier-national-park-climate-change-wildfires/

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Global cooling: climate scientists keen to meet Tony Abbott's business adviser
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...ts-keen-to-meet-tony-abbotts-business-adviser

Newman used an opinion piece in the Australian newspaper on Thursday to say the world was “ill prepared” for a period of global cooling, accusing governments of being hostage to “warming propaganda” from climate scientists.

 

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...-nothing-you-ve-ever-seen-yet.html?cmpid=yhoo

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...ght-spreads-north-as-water-supplies-drop.html