Climate Letter #616

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Carl Campbell
On dealing with climate change—what is the reality?  David Spratt is an Australian who is a well-grounded student of climate science and the human response to that science.  He has put together an impressive document that seeks to bring the whole story up to date with new research, new numbers and new viewpoints, all subject to listed references.  It serves as a quick update of the last IPCC report, but less conservative in tone.  The emphasis is upon what leading scientists are saying and doing, in no way watered down to ease public consumption.  It is worth a careful reading.

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What the world’s leaders have actually been doing since the Paris conference, a summary.  Some of the activity has been positive, some reactionary.  The coming US election provides a huge question mark that could go either way.
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How things have been changing on the Earth’s surface.  This post has a series of charts that cover a wide variety of critical subjects.  Most are pretty familiar, but what got my attention were the charts showing the increase in annual flood days represented by three coastal cities in the US.  The way sea level rise is accelerating, as measured by global tide gauges, is also impressive and out of the ordinary.
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Drought is now causing food shortages for 36 million Africans.  El Nino gets much of the blame at this time, but there is more to the story.  “In the past it was one big drought every 10 years, then it came to one drought every five years, and now the trends are showing that it will be one every three to five years. So we are in a crisis alright, that is true.”  That can only be blamed on rising temperatures.  Where is the solution?
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The nuclear waste problem may have been solved.  If I am reading this correctly, the same procedure may constitute an effective means of reprocessing uranium for future use as an energy source.  We’ll need to hear more about it, and what it means.
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What life is like when climate really changes.  People who live way up in the far North have experienced just that within their own lifetime.  Here is a story from Fort Yukon, Alaska:
Carl

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