Climate Letter #974

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Carl Campbell
An environmental crisis is developing in Tibet.  A fine article in the Guardian explains the situation and the importance of a healthy Tibet to over a billion people who live in Asia.  Global climate conditions are also affected.  China’s industrial activities in Tibet are sharply criticized by the author, who is president of the Tibetan government in exile.

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Extreme weather events:  Flooding from thunderstorms that lasted several days in northeastern China force 188,000 persons to be evacuated.  Over 1000 homes collapsed and 260 square miles of cropland suffered damage.
–Also, flooding on a similar scale has had crippling effects in northern Vietnam.
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An update on the Gulf of Mexico dead zone.  This year has set a new record in size, at 8,776 square miles.  This post explains the full nature of the problem and its causes.  “America’s vast appetite for meat is driving much of this harmful pollution, according to Mighty, which blamed a small number of businesses for practices that are ‘contaminating our water and destroying our landscape’ in the heart of the country.”  Meat consumption is also a major driver of carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
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The link between climate change and nitrogen pollution is getting much more attention.  They are both overdone on their own, but now it has been found that climate change causes a further 19% increase in nitrogen runoff.  Toxic algae blooms are showing up all around the world as a result.  Drastic reforms are obviously necessary.  An award-winning journalist produced this detailed account for Yale e360.
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Unprecedented wildfires spotted in Greenland, of all places.  “These fires appear to be peatland fires, as there are low grass, some shrub, and lots of rocks on the western edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet.”  Plus a current spate of drought.

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