Climate Letter #1040

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Carl Campbell
Can dangerous pathogens be released from the thawing of permafrost?  It’s a good question without a definitive answer.  This well-written article from the Atlantic tells why it is a matter of concern, separate from the concern over the amount of greenhouse gas that will be released.

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A clear picture of the “emissions gap” that needs to be closed.  (The emissions gap represents the projection of the annual building blocks that are summed up by the carbon budget.)  The post contains five charts that are all worth studying.  It is interesting to note that the total impact of greenhouse gases other than CO2, namely methane and the like, while adding about 45% to the radiation from CO2, has been rising at almost exactly the same rate as that of CO2 and cannot be ignored.  Also note that the report concludes with a sort of by the way, we mustn’t forget to extract a huge tonnage of carbon from the air by means of procedures that have not yet been proven.  All of the numbers mentioned here increase with each year that we wait to get started.
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The US is scheduled to make presentations favoring “clean” coal and other fossil fuels next week at the climate conference in Bonn.  Will anyone argue?  Elsewhere, reports indicate that Syria has now joined the pact, leaving exactly one country, technically a quitter, on the outside.
–A professor of law at UCLA, writing for the Guardian, shows how the Trump government’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement is just part of a much larger program of revolutionary changes that are related in many ways, without regard for the substantial lack of public approval.
–The highly transparent activities of Scott Pruitt at the EPA provide abundant evidence of what motivates all of these listed unusual efforts of the Trump government (LA Times).
–One more of these provocative stories, from Vox, the emerging revelation that almost the entire body of persons identified with the Republican Party either supports these activities or refrains from open criticism.
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One other major nation on a potentially dangerous pathway has yet to find a way to resolve all of its diverse ambitions.  “Of all the most polluting nations – US, China, Russia, Japan and the EU bloc – only India’s carbon emissions are rising: they rose almost 5% in 2016.” (The Guardian)  India’s smog problem, now worsening, may be a deciding factor by forcing a reversal.
Carl

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