News — climate change

"Clearing Forests May Transform Local and Global Climate" "The 'biotic pump' theory argues that natural forests act as a “pump” that draws moisture inland. condensation, rather than temperature differential, is a primary driver of weather...." "Here's a snapshot of the concept: The concentration of trees in wooded areas means a high rate of transpiration. This moist air cools as it ascends and the water vapor condenses, producing a partial vacuum. This creates an air pressure gradient, whereby the forest canopy sucks in moist air from the ocean. According to Gorshkov and Makarieva, forests don't merely grow in wet areas, they create and perpetuate the conditions in which they grow. Without forest cover—specifically mature, natural forest to ensure sufficient biomass and resilience—moisture is no longer pulled in, the physicists say. Rain becomes erratic and ultimately stalls."

Boulder voters pushed forward to continue to progress towards a local, renewable electric utility! All the volunteers's hard work is paying off. Despite a snowstorm that made get-out -the vote efforts more difficult, dark money violating the spirit of the campaign finance law, the self-interest of cable companies that want to avoid competition by public utilities that can offer superfast and cheap public broadband, heavy-anti slant to the new in the Daily Camera reporting and editorials, It looks like the forces for a local, transparent, resilient municipal electric utility are winning. Last night we were behind by 2,000 votes at first. Late we were only behind by 1,000 votes. This noon we are ahead by 450 votes. Some volunteers have been tabling, canvasing, phoning, writing letters to the editors an writing guest editorials for for months. Kudos to the students at New Era; the activists at Empower Our Future, 3560 Colorado, and Clean Energy Action; the Sierra Club; the Boulder Weekly reporters; and the pro-muni campaigns for Mary Young, Sam Weaver, Mirabai Nagle, Cindy Carlisle, JillGrano, and John Gerstle, All five of the winning city council candidates supported the municipal local utility!

New book mentions how sea level may rise much faster than forecast. Also, water, sewage, health, work, and electrical systems fail during flooding. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3452-sinking-feelings-of-glaciers-zombies-and-catastrophic-affect

This movie shows how 29 % or the 1200 mile long Great Barrier Reef has died in one year. People set out to photograph the changes in the reefs. First they created and anchored cameras that took pictures. Then they manually took pictures every day. They then start educating people about how to reduce climate change. Some decorate a bus to tour to schools, showing the photos. The fish, coral, shrimp, and most life dies when the temperature increases. Chasing Cora Come witness a journey that reveals how the greatest impact of Earth's changing climate may be hidden beneath our oceans. The screening will be followed by short presentations on how to take action on climate change by Citizens' Climate Lobby, 350 Colorado, and Sierra Club. Time: November 14, 2017 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. Includes time for refreshments and connecting Location: Unitarian Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder 80301 FREE, but please RSVP here to help us with planning. Hosted by: Climate Action Ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder

An article in the Guardian ponted out by the Earth Guaradians asserts we can still keep the temperature rise below 1.5 Centigrade, but that we need a new way to speak about and motivate change. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/21/climate-optimism-disaster-extreme-weather-catastrophe?utm_content=buffer59877&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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