Climate Letter #936

The story of climate change placed within an 800.000 year perspective.  This 3-minute video is fast-paced and covers the major point about how dramatic the change has been over the last couple of centuries.

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–For those who have extra time, this article provides a condensed history of the climate science that has been able to figure everything out, clearly written and illustrated.  We should all learn to more fully appreciate the good work that science has done and continues to build upon, well beyond the reaches of us everyday folk that must depend on it to guide the unusual actions that may be required of everyone in the days ahead.
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An update on the condition of tropical peat forests.  A new study found that nearly all of the swampland forests in Southeast Asia have been deforested in favor of palm oil plantations, allowing the lands to dry out and the organic matter they contain to burn or become oxidized.  In some years this has been a major contributor to global CO2 emissions and there remains a high potential for further such releases.
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China’s makeover as global climate leader is far from complete.  This article from Politico provides a good list of details about where that process stands.  It clearly needs some adjustments, as many are hoping.  One of the important things to remember about China is that its leadership in the past has often demonstrated a capability for extreme and very rapid revolutionary change.  They are about at the point where the current process could either accelerate dramatically or just stay slow and compromised.  There are plenty of reasons for the former to win out, but predicting exactly how the Chinese mind will work within the power circles is not something to feel sure about.
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A counterpoint view of the Trump administration policies.  The point being made here is that Donald Trump is motivated by something more than just the greed of the corporate interests that is so obvious.  His resistance toward the idea of cooperating with other countries as an equal is also quite visible and has a limited domestic following but doesn’t work in a situation that calls for global leadership.  By comparison China is in a much better position to gain a broad following.
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Final communique issued following a meeting of the G7 environmental ministers.  There will be no renegotiation aimed at the goals of the Paris accord, which in fact has to be tightened.  Six nations agreed while the US indicated it will be following an independent course, as described in the post.
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Advanced aircraft technology will provide planes that are far more fuel efficient and should have considerably cheaper fares.  This development has not been well-publicized.  The no-frills planes are ready and will soon be flying, mostly on unusual routes to begin with.
Carl

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