Climate Letter #591

Sharp global increase in 2015 droughts.  From a UN report, the number of major droughts last year more than doubled the average of the previous decade.

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The environmental impact of mountaintop coal mining destruction.  The damage in Appalachia has been quantified in a number of ways, and the results are shocking.  Aside from landscape alterations there is a negative effect on water quality which will undoubtedly get much more attention, as is now the case in other parts of the country.  The practice has slowed down, but that is mainly because of the competition from cheap natural gas as an energy source, which could always revert.
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Water quality is a much bigger problem for populations that live around the Himalayas.  A new study discusses a range of negative factors that do not ordinarily get much attention, most of them connected in some way to climate change.  The work is far from complete, but serves well as an urgent call for more related studies.
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How and why the current strong-type El Nino is differing from those of the past.  Results and expectations have changed in many parts of the world, being especially noticeable in California, which is missing out on expected rainfall totals and also setting new temperature records.
California’s heatwave also raises the prospect of an early melting of what has been an enlarged snowpack, along with a lessening of further buildup:
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How the price of residential solar is progressing in the US.  Based on current rate structure policies it is already cheaper than grid prices in 20 states, and should move up to 42 within five years.  Utilities are fighting back by making punitive changes in rate policies which largely undermine solar’s cost benefits, which will probably slow progress considerably, but then the option for customers to go off grid completely with battery storage would remain a longer term prospect.
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A report on how Greenland’s climate has already changed.  This 5-minute video contains a sharp talk by a working glaciologist, with stunning visual imagery.
Carl

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