Climate Letter #842

Air pollution and climate warming are combining to transform the East China Sea.  Disruption of the entire ecosystem is proving ruinous to fisheries that many people depend on.  Recognition of this trend can only serve to strengthen the nation’s resolve to eliminate the one basic cause.

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Drought and desertification are causing severe hardship in Kenya.  “Mukui told IPS it is no wonder that at least 10 million people are food insecure, with two million of them facing starvation.”  There is fear that the worst is yet to come as expected rains keep failing to appear.
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California may see more frequent and much worse catastrophic flooding.  The unbelievable flood of 1861, which was not simply a freak event, is described here and treated as an example of what the future might hold, if not even worse.  According to these geologists, “Our climate in California is one of the most variable in the country. In the paleoclimate records, you see this alternation between dry, multi-year droughts and then floods and wetter periods.”  Both trends are worsened by the effects of higher air temperatures.
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Growing evidence of a link between fine-particle air pollution and advanced dementia.  The study was authored by specialists at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, based on several layers of evidence.  Women who carry a genetic variant called APOE-e4 are said to have dramatically higher risk exposure.  “If people in the current administration are trying to reduce the cost of treating diseases, including dementia, then they should know that relaxing the Clean Air Act regulations will do the opposite,” Chen said.
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What is happening to battery prices?  Joe Romm comments on the latest report from BNEF, which shows a drop of over 50% in just three years, with more to come.  Market penetration by electric cars can no longer be stopped.
For more on the “Great Energy Disruption,” including Tony Seba’s popular lecture video that was shown here before in CL #810:
A new small-scale wind turbine for rooftop generation has unique design features that offer significant advantages, including lower costs.  Field tests are now in progress.
Carl

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