Very detailed draft report from US Government experts on climate change leaked to the NY Times - it's about 600 pages long, but has a really good executive summary.
In summary: brown trousers time
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Human activity, the report goes on to say, is a primary culprit.
The study does not make policy recommendations, but it notes that stabilizing the global mean temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius — what scientists have referred to as the guardrail beyond which changes become catastrophic — will require significant reductions in global levels of carbon dioxide.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html
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Donegal very badly affected by floods.
Scroll down to see a tractor size hole in the road.
Barra also had floods but further west was a lot wetter it seems. Tragic.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0825/899833-donegal-floods/Posted 6 years ago # -
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GeorgeMonbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot)
28/08/2017, 7:06 am
Houston, our problem is #globalwarming. Why is it not on the lips of everyone reporting the impacts of Hurricane Harvey?"
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This is part of a series on Houston's flood risk. Read about why Texas isn't ready for the next big hurricane.
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December 7, 2016
https://projects.propublica.org/houston-cypress/
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Still, scientists say, Houston’s perfect storm is coming — and it’s not a matter of if but when. The city has dodged it for decades, but the likelihood it will happen in any given year is nothing to scoff at; it’s much higher than your chance of dying in a car crash or in a firearm assault, and 2,400 times as high as your chance of being struck by lightning.
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Talking about climate change during a disaster always runs the risk of insensitivity. The story that most matters about Harvey right now is the effect it’s having on lives and land in Texas and the efforts underway to prevent more suffering.
More broadly, climate is never going to be central to a story like this. There have always been hurricanes and floods in Texas. The things making the state’s coastal developments vulnerable to severe weather — heedless development, sandy subsoil, insufficient drainage — would be problems even in the absence of climate change.
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https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/8/28/16213268/harvey-climate-change
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GeorgeMonbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot)
29/08/2017, 10:44 am
Those who say it's impolite to discuss climate breakdown in context of #HurricaneHarvey aren't protecting the victims, but the oil companies"
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Weather disasters happen, with or without the help of humans.
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http://www.drroyspencer.com/2017/08/why-houston-flooding-isnt-a-sign-of-climate-change/
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Ironic that the industry which is most at risk if Houston has a big storm is the petrochemical one.
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A raft of measures aimed at re-positioning Scotland’s economy for a post-oil and gas world will also be set out by the SNP leader.
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http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-pledges-most-ambitious-plan-ever-1-4550936
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Michelle Brown (@MHBrown2017)
17/10/2017, 08:36
Nearly 75 percent of companies do not acknowledge climate change as a financial risk....KPMG survey of CR reporting https://home.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/campaigns/csr/pdf/CSR_Reporting_2017.pdf“
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Record surge in atmospheric CO2 seen in 2016
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But also some better news:
Cross-fingers (for ever)
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Even The Sun thinks it's happening -
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In last night's "Apprentice" the candidates branded one of their cars "Miami" as part of the task.
There was no sense of irony at all that Miami will be one of first cities to disappear under rising sea levels!
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Cheerful (oldish) Black Friday relevant link (Climate change on topic, general over-exploitation less so but connected...)
"trashing the living world through pointless consumption"
"Our lives have been corralled and shaped in order to encourage it. World trade rules force countries to participate in the festival of junk. Governments cut taxes, deregulate business, manipulate interest rates to stimulate spending. But seldom do the engineers of these policies stop and ask “spending on what?”. When every conceivable want and need has been met (among those who have disposable money), growth depends on selling the utterly useless."
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The carbon footprint of Scottish households has fallen by an average of 25% since 2009, according to environmentalists.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-42555450
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I can't remember the exact figures but I suspect that as been pointed out before this is largely due to Longannet and Cockenzie closing. Sadly this isn't a repeatable exercise and unless the government gets serious about actual energy usage then it's unlikly to continue falling at the same rate.
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Since then carbon emissions per person have fallen from 2.46 to 1.84 tonnes
“These figures show that individuals across Scotland and governments at every level have played a part in cutting the climate damage of our home energy usage.”
“We welcome this analysis which shows the progress that we have made on climate change”
To be devil’s advocate It does not necessarily they may or may not have
It may be that manufacturing has been off shored, it could even be the same consumption is consumed producing a higher rate of carbon but these stats have been off-shored.
It may be due to global changes in regional comparative advantages in manufacturing ( or anything else)
It may be because of increased efficiently of cars trucks and heating manufactured or built to achieve non Scottish consumer or government specification to meet global demand for other countries with more regulation.
It may be none of the above, but may be another reason that does not relate to individuals or government at every level in Scotland may be one level or no level.
It may not relate to progress we have made, it may hypothetically be unrelated would need more detail.I would guess some change may result from measure but draw a lot of assumptions without details. Would need a figure that measured global carbon by consumption in an area. From heavy industry to tech if import things made inefficiently to consume in Scotland as one global environment it’s an arbitrary figure unless think in terms of carbon by consumption as that would be the true foot print per person.
The changes may well relate to Longannet and Cockenzie closing which would have little to do with individuals or not directly, may relate to policy. With china opening 2 coal power stations a week, if heavy users of power displaced off shoring the exhaust pipe. Hard to isolate a cause and effect of individual or policy with out every item having a carbon certificate or some such thing.
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Forecasting coastal erosion: Research to map the effects of climate change.
Will build on Dynamic Coast: Scotland's Coastal Change Assessment
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Still getting steeper.
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Spokes CycleCampaign
@SpokesLothian
Feb 8 #ClimateChange public debate at @Edinburgh_CC City Chambers
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https://mobile.twitter.com/spokeslothian/status/955415824877150209
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Every time I read about Arctic temperatures at the moment I think I understand why so many people are happy to live in blissful denial. It's probably a lot less distressing?
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