Climate Letter #814

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Carl Campbell
North Pole forecast for this week—an extraordinary anomaly of plus 50 degrees F.  Things are totally upside down in the far north this year.  The story provides helpful explanations.

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More information about the melting of the Totten glacial ice shelf.  Robert Fanney has put together a neat illustration of the dynamic flow of waters that is eating away at the undersides of the shelf.  I had no idea such a magnitude of activity was possible in this context—like that of more than 30 Amazon Rivers!  There is also a link that will take you to the basic journal study which can be read in full with no charge, and has extra illustrations, but uses more technical language.  Meanwhile, as the oceans keep soaking up more heat what will cause this fearsome process to stop?
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A new study of American public opinion is at odds with Trump’s Republican party policies.  This annual survey focuses entirely on issues related to global warming.  Surprisingly large majorities favor continued US participation in the international agreement process and favor regulating or taxing fossil fuel emissions in order to limit global warming.  Large numbers of Republican voters have that same attitude.  The full report is extensive, with a link provided.  (People who vote nevertheless seem to mostly have had other issues in mind.)
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An interview (by Bloomberg) with the innovation chief of Engie SA, the world’s largest non-state utility power company, based in France.  He is convinced that disruptive renewable energy technologies are not only real but poised to go well beyond what most of us can imagine, and his company is investing with that in mind.  He thinks the price of oil should be knocked down to $10 a barrel in less than a decade.  Enjoy.
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Should fossil fuel producers be required to disclose likely carbon emissions from the burning of their reserves?  The World Resources Institute provides three arguments for why this is a good idea.
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Alberta’s tar sands are not the world’s worst.  That honor goes to the “heavy oil” fields in Monterrey County, California, which produce more oil than Alberta and do so in a way that is even dirtier.  Opposition is growing.
Carl

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