[GWSG] Troubled oceans: pH, N, O; health threats; German record; Macron's invitation; Alaskan CO2; Smartflower

[Tilley, Al]

1.  The warming oceans are becoming more acidic and supporting growing populations of toxic micro-organisms. Cyanobacteria in the oceans are becoming less able to fix the nitrogen necessary to the aquatic food chains of large sealife.  http://climatenewsnetwork.net/stark-warning-health-oceans/



2.  Dissolved oxygen has been dropping in the oceans for about twenty years, with strong regional variations. The decline is greater than would be expected from heating alone.  http://www.rh.gatech.edu/news/591290/decades-data-worlds-oceans-reveal-troubling-oxygen-decline



3.  The heating climate is releasing health threats from anthrax to malnutrition to rat lung disease. Don't touch any slugs.  https://climatecrocks.com/2017/05/06/threat-multiplier-climate-change-brings-deadly-health-surprises/



4.  On April 30 and over the ensuing weekend, Germany produced a record 85% of its energy renewably. Over the month of March 40% of the country's energy was renewable. In Germany as elsewhere, the unsubsidized cost of utility-scale renewable energy is dropping below the unsubsidized cost of fossil fuels.  https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/08/germany-breaks-solar-record-gets-85-electricity-renewables/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29



5.  New French President Emmanuel Macron has invited US climate scientists to come work in France. (Several reporters have remarked that Macron's English in the video is better than Trump's.)  http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/climate-scientists-wary-trump-please-come-france-says-presidental-hopeful



6.  Alaska emitted as much CO2 from biological sources in 2012-14 as the US commercial sector does annually. The emissions come in part from thawing permafrost. Models have not accounted for emissions in winter months, and so have been too modest in their estimates.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/08/alaskas-tundra-is-filling-the-atmosphere-with-carbon-dioxide-worsening-climate-change/?utm_term=.6f25ed67fd20  Alaskan biological emissions increased 70% between 1975 and 2015.  Warming in the Arctic has been twice the global average, and the increasing emissions threaten to speed global warming. The amount of emissions coming from permafrost is not yet known.  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/08/alaska-climate-change-tundra-soil-carbon-dioxide



7.  Solar power fans with sunny yards may be interested in the German Smartflower.  Thanks to Mary Ann Kidd for the product notice.  https://www.smartflower.com/en  ?

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