Climate Letter #818

How Arctic sea ice progressed through 2016.  This excellent presentation from a private statistician provides a clear picture of how the ice year developed, with a number of related side stories.  The air temperature anomaly chart for the high Arctic since 1920 is a frightening feature because of the way it accelerates.

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60% of the world’s cropland, which also happens to be the most productive, lies on the outskirts of cities.  This is a problem because the rapid growth of cities takes over a good bit of that land, leading to crop losses that can be relatively high in some regions.  Meanwhile, climate change is making other lands less suitable for farming.  The likelihood of worsened food shortages keeps compounding.
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Governor Kasich (a Republican) will allow Ohio to keep getting cleaner.  He has vetoed a bill from the legislature that was more in line with Trump’s energy policies, stating reasons that are largely technical.  This could become quite interesting because most of the response should be favorable to the governor.
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How to make good use of large quantities of CO2 captured from smokestacks.  Just burying it in the ground is not an attractive option for reasons both practical and economical.  Scientists have been finding easier ways to convert the gas to carbon monoxide, which has a good market with many proven uses that are benign.  Here is a new discovery that appears to have promise:
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From Scientific American, an update on the various efforts being made to effectively capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere.  The need is very real, but progress is painfully slow and nothing meaningful can be counted on at this time.  The effort is still worth pushing, in hope of a breakthrough.  “All the negative emissions technologies, except for growing forests, are in the very early stages of development……If these technologies are going to make a difference, they’re going to have to go from essentially nothing now to a massive scale in decades.”

Carl

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