[GWSG] Oyster burps; Canadian CH4; sodium battery; big rivers in the sky; bursts of slr; US at Bonn; 75% less flying insects

[Tilley, Al]

1. Shellfish and termites produce significant greenhouse gas emissions.  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2017/oct/16/are-flatulent-shellfish-really-contributing-to-climate-change

(But fossil fuels, and perhaps livestock, are where the levers are.)



2. Canada's oil and gas production emits far more methane than feared.  (Tar sand emissions were excluded.) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/study-methane-emissions-from-alberta-oil-and-gas-wells-are-worse-than-thought



3. A sodium battery under development at Stanford promises to be 80% cheaper than a lithium ion battery. http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/10/a-cheap-sodium-salt-battery-for-the-grid/



4. A heating atmosphere holds increasing amounts of water vapor. An atmospheric river stretching across the Pacific Ocean is heading for Washington state, and another to Oregon. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-5000-mile-long-%e2%80%98river-in-the-sky%e2%80%99-targets-the-pacific-northwest-with-heavy-rain-and-snow/ar-AAtECb7?ocid=spartandhp



5.  Evidence from fossil reefs in the Gulf of Mexico shows that 19,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age oceans rose in punctuated bursts of a few decades to a century. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/ru-fcr101617.php



6. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change convenes in Bonn Nov. 9, and the US will be an awkward presence. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/climate/trump-paris-accord.html?_r=0



7. Flying insects have declined by 75% in the last 27 years in Germany and presumably elsewhere. Pesticides, land use changes, and climate may be factors. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/climate/trump-paris-accord.html?_r=0 ?

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