Climate Letter #921

The troublesome role of factory farms as a contributor to climate change.  This story is mainly about the excesses of meat production, which have a number of harmful effects in addition to high output of greenhouse gas emissions.

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The system of direct democracy in Switzerland allows the public to dictate energy policy by the referendum process.  In this instance the people have demonstrated a willingness to pay more out of their pockets in order to accomplish certain changes, favoring wind and solar energy while opposing nuclear and fossil fuels.  Why can’t all countries do this?
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A new study shows that the rate of acceleration for sea level rise is greater than the rate shown by previous faulty measurements.  This is an underlying trend that is still subject to natural variability for numbers of individual years.  The evidence of trend acceleration supports those who theorize about the prospect of dangerously higher levels appearing during the current century.
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A new twist is found in the science of the link between airborne CO2 and weathering of rocks.  The geological carbon cycle is not nearly as easy to measure as the biological cycle, and is generally much slower to operate.  There is new information about how it works and how that may have changed over time.  This information also questions our understanding of the way previous large global temperature changes were influenced by the amount of corresponding change in CO2 levels, which turns out to be unfavorable when applied to current projections.  More work will be done to narrow down these ideas.
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An interesting commentary about Trump’s upcoming Paris decisiion from a top science journal:
A rogue US can cause more damage inside the Paris Agreement rather than outside it, argues Dr Luke Kemp, a lecturer at the Australian National University, in a commentary piece for Nature Climate Change. “The conventional wisdom is that a US withdrawal would be a worst-case scenario for international climate policy,” he says. “However, a sober analysis of the political, legal, and financial impacts suggests otherwise.” Were the US to stay in and willfully miss its emissions targets, it “could provide political cover for other laggards and weaken the soft power of process,” Kemp writes. “Paris may forfeit legitimacy due to the loss of a major emitter, but it is equally likely that its legitimacy will be grievously injured by the US blatantly violating the spirit and purpose of the agreement.” Luke Kemp, Nature Climate Change
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Motion pictures taken of the world’s largest wind turbines.  These are the monsters that just began operating off the coast of England.  “A single revolution of the blades on one turbine can power a home for 29 hours.”
Carl

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