Climate Letter #908

The decline of oxygen dissolved in ocean water significantly exceeds predictions.  This study mainly looks at changes in solubility that have ocurred due to warmer temperatures and to reduced circulation caused by increases in fresh meltwater, both of which are ongoing effects of climate change.

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Restoration of healthy soils would have multiple benefits.  A veteran researcher tells about all the things we are doing wrong, that quickly need to be changed.  Along with other benefits, “We could pull a phenomenal amount of carbon back into the soil, which is where it is supposed to be.”
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Global restoration of coastal ecosystems would produce benefits similar in many ways to those identified in the above story.  Optimizing existing blue carbon ecosystems offers “the potential to profoundly alter carbon accumulation and retention,” write the researchers, “providing new and previously undervalued strategies for mitigating climate change.”  Three key processes are described.
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The Trump administration will be spending a lot of time in court.  Many solid laws and court decisions are in place that are designed to protect the environment, including climate, and these are generally popular.  When broken the opportunity for challenge is ripe.  Growing numbers of challengers are emerging right now, and they will win often enough to embarrass not just Trump but the whole Republican party, which has foolishly allowed fossil fuel interests and the far right wing to take control of its destiny.
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Dietary change has significant potential to mitigate climate change.  “Replacing half of the meat eaten worldwide with crickets and mealworms would cut farmland use by a third, substantially reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, researchers say.”  There are other ways to replace meat, perhaps easier to contemplate, but future diets are almost sure to change in unusual ways as food shortages intensify.
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A whole set of climate change documentaries, presented videographically.  Thanks to Peter Sinclair for these interesting clips that go all the way back to the 1950s.
Carl

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