[GWSG] FL tries repairing reef; Google Earth city data; not on track for 1.5C; we need more talk; NHTSA assumes 7F; nuke subsidies okayed; US cities for 100%

Sat Sep 29 08:57:37 EDT 2018

1. In Florida, where the world’s third largest barrier reef is dying, a restoration project is growing coral and attempting to reseed the reef. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/26/back-from-the-brink-the-global-effort-to-save-coral-from-climate-change
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Back from the brink: the global effort to save coral from ...<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/26/back-from-the-brink-the-global-effort-to-save-coral-from-climate-change>
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A s an ocean early warning system, coral reefs have been sounding the alarm for years. They have been bleached white by marine heatwaves and killed off en masse by a combination of factors ...

2. Google Earth is initiating a program which will inform cities on their carbon emissions and such other planning areas as bike usage and transit ridership. The data appears to be on the level of a rough sketch. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/google-climate-change-greenhouse-gas-emissions/571144/
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Google’s Tool to Help Cities Fight Climate Change - The ...<https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/09/google-climate-change-greenhouse-gas-emissions/571144/>
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The city-level leaders overseeing this task won’t have the same tools available to their national peers. Most of them won’t have an Environmental Protection Agency (or its equivalent), a ...

3.  An author of an IPCC report due out in South Korea next month says that the world is nowhere near an emissions track which would limit warming to 1.5C, though it is still technically possible. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/26/global-warming-climate-change-targets-un-report
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World 'nowhere near on track' to avoid warming beyond 1.5C ...<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/26/global-warming-climate-change-targets-un-report>
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A difference of 0.5C in temperature may appear small but the IPCC report, which is a summary of leading climate science, is expected to warn there will be major impacts if warming reaches 2C.

4. George Monbiot observes that we are collectively busy about putting more planes in the air and pumping more oil out of the ground even while our risks mount. Perhaps if we talked more about our climate situation we would deal with it more forthrightly. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/26/economic-growth-fossil-fuels-habit-oil-industry
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While economic growth continues we’ll never kick our ...<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/26/economic-growth-fossil-fuels-habit-oil-industry>
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The worst denial is not the claim that this existential crisis isn’t happening. It is the failure to talk about it at all. Not talking about our greatest predicament, even as it starts to bite ...

5. The Trump administration assumes that we are going to get 7F of heating by 2100, about double the upper target of 2C. The projection is contained in a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rationale for doing away with transportation fuel standards set to begin in 2020. The idea seems to be that we are screwed anyway so why not just drive gas guzzlers.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-sees-a-7-degree-rise-in-global-temperatures-by-2100/2018/09/27/b9c6fada-bb45-11e8-bdc0-90f81cc58c5d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5985622a7498
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Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global ...<https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-sees-a-7-degree-rise-in-global-temperatures-by-2100/2018/09/27/b9c6fada-bb45-11e8-bdc0-90f81cc58c5d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5985622a7498>
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Firefighters from Brea, Calif., inspect and cut fireline on Aug. 1, 2018, as the Ranch Fire burns near Upper Lake, Calif. A day earlier, it and the River Fire totaled more than 74,000 acres.

6. Two federal court decisions to support state subsidies for nuclear power in New York and Illinois against objections by power plant owners will have the effect of protecting state programs to support renewable energy. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14092018/nuclear-subsidies-illinois-new-york-federal-court-ruling-clean-renewable-energy-programs-ferc
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2 Courts Upheld State Nuclear Subsidies. Here's Why It's a ...<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14092018/nuclear-subsidies-illinois-new-york-federal-court-ruling-clean-renewable-energy-programs-ferc>
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A defeat in federal court likely would have been used to challenge state policies around the country that promote renewable energy, environmental law experts say.

7. Over eighty US cities have committed to the transition to renewable energy. The Sierra club’s Ready for 100%: 2018 Case Study Report describes how ten cities are going about it. https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/28/the-us-is-ready-for-100-clean-energy-10-cities-model-how/
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The US Is Ready For 100% Clean Energy — 10 Cities Model ...<https://cleantechnica.com/2018/09/28/the-us-is-ready-for-100-clean-energy-10-cities-model-how/>
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The Sierra Club’s “2018 Ready for 100 Case Study Report” outlines how 10 US cities have made ambitious commitments to be powered with 100% clean energy. These cities are embracing renewable ...

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