#climate report

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

More than 85 American and international scientists have condemned a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda.

The scientists submitted their critique as part of a public comment period on the report, which was to close Tuesday night.

“No one should doubt that human-caused climate change is real, is already producing potentially dangerous impacts, and that humanity is on track for a geologically enormous amount of warming,” the scientists wrote. They compared the administration’s report to efforts by the tobacco industry to create doubt around the health links between smoking and cancer.

The five researchers who prepared the administration’s July report were handpicked by Chris Wright, the energy secretary, and they all reject the established scientific consensus that the burning of oil, gas and coal is dangerously heating the planet. They acknowledged that the Earth is warming but said that climate change is “less damaging economically than commonly believed.”

The administration used the report to justify its recent announcement that it would repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions that stem from burning fossil fuels.

The Trump administration is pursuing an aggressive agenda to ramp up the production and use of coal, oil and gas, the burning of which is the main driver of climate change.

At the same time, average global temperatures have risen by between 1.25 and 1.41 degrees Celsius (or 2.25 to 2.53 degrees Fahrenheit), compared with preindustrial times. That may sound small, but the warming has impacted every region of the planet with more frequent and intense heat waves, floods, wildfires, droughts and other disasters.

The Energy Department report could have a significant impact on federal policy. Climate denialists have for years acknowledged that they wanted to put the imprimatur of the federal government on research that runs counter to accepted climate science. That could give them more influence with Congress and strengthen their ability to legally challenge climate regulations.

Anthony Albanese says a landmark report on the climate risks confronting Australia is a “wake-up call” that reinforces the need for “serious” action to combat global heating. The prime minister said the findings of the national climate risk assessment would inform the government’s soon-to-be released 2035 emissions target, while stressing the need to plan for an “orderly” energy transition to avoid losing public support for climate action. The government on Monday released the long-awaited climate risk assessment, offering the most detailed picture of the severe and far-reaching social and economic consequences of the climate crisis for Australia. Led by the Australian Climate Service, the inaugural assessment modelled the impact of climate-related hazards such as heatwaves, drought and floods on different parts of the community, economy and environment under three global heating scenarios: above 1.5C, above 2C and above 3C. Warming across the Australian continent has already reached 1.5C, the report notes. -Among scores of findings, the modelling shows that under a 3C scenario, the number of heat-related deaths in Sydney increases by 444% and by 423% in Darwin.

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A bit of October 8th history...

1480 - Great Standing on the Ugra River: standoff between forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and Ivan III Grand Prince of all Rus; Tatar-Mongols retreat, leads to disintegration of the Horde 

1871 - Great Fire of Chicago kills 200 people and destroys over 4 square miles of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation (pictured)

1917 - Leon Trotsky named chairman of Petrograd Soviets as Bolsheviks gain control

1945 - Microwave oven patented

1971 - John Lennon releases the single “Imagine”

1998 - US House of Reps votes to begin impeachment hearings against President Clinton on charges of lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky

2001 - US President GW Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security

2018 - Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit by 2040 with dire results

How do we make sure politicians actually sit down and make climate plans and also set them in action before the planet's fucked beyond repair?

How do we make sure corperations lower their insanely high CO2 output without them telling us we should take shorter showers and eat less meat?

Does anyone give a fuck?

Hello?

I might want to have kids you know, and they might want to have kids too.