Wednesday November 28th… Dear Diary. The main purpose of this ongoing post will be to track United States extreme or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials)😊.
Consternations… More Fallout From NCA4
Well this is a big change. I can’t remember a time since the release of An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore in the mid 2000s in which climate change related news has been in the forefront of U.S. national attention for more than two news cycles. It’s now Wednesday, so the 4th National Climate Assessment has made waves going into day six since its release last Friday. Of course, there has been a lot of pushback from Trump even though the report was released under his Administration. It appears that trying to hide NCA4 with a release on Friday during the middle of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend has really backfired, which is a very good thing. Now more than any time in the past ten or so years the issue of climate change is on everyone’s minds. Finally the subject of climate change is coming up on nearly every major news broadcast. I suppose that we won’t see this effect in the national news media too much longer, but the consternation and “debate” created by NCA4 at least for one week has been well with the huge effort to prepare the over 1000 page report. Today I will just cobble together on this post some media items from the fallout produced by NCA4 with a little of my commentary.
Weather Underground gets my “grand prize” for the best summary of NCA4. Check it out by as usual clicking on the blue link below the image in the tweet:
The Fourth National Climate Assessment is too powerful to stay buried for long. Here's a summary from WU/Category 6 https://t.co/h9BskfIUbB pic.twitter.com/b9yg2HFDk8
— Weather Underground (@wunderground) November 26, 2018
First I just have to laugh out loud over comments coming from Trump when interviewed and questioned about NCA4. Like many I’m beginning to wonder if the leader of the free world has lost the ability of rational thought:
My goodness, here is what Trump said about climate change to the Washington Post. I recommend reading it in Tommy Wiseau's voice. https://t.co/jRkPjwxmdn pic.twitter.com/2WNRIuWFCs
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 27, 2018
With I scream.https://t.co/Do0rRxj6RM pic.twitter.com/FnBpl0X0U7
— Tom Toles (@TomTolesToons) November 28, 2018
Second, those who have been trying to communicate to the public the dangers of climate change for decades have been really taxed this week in particular to do interviews and correct inaccurate responses to NCA4. Again, this is a very good development in the battle to save humanity from itself:
The Fourth US National Climate Assessment was released on Friday. Since then, a number of politicians + pundits have made statements about it that are not accurate. As an author, I'm here to set the record straight. Here we go! (thread) https://t.co/4qV9ss3Tr3
— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 27, 2018
Let me share a sad reality. @AC360 asked if I could join them tonight or talk #NationalClimateAssessment. I just arrived at @TED, and I really need to practice my talk, I replied. Please! they said, we will send a car! Ok, I said. It’s important. I will do it. (story continues..)
— Katharine Hayhoe (@KHayhoe) November 28, 2018
On @danprimack's ProRata podcast today, @AmyAHarder talks White House reaction to the National Climate Assessment. Worth a listen: https://t.co/hQmDNlIjZR
— Andrew Freedman (@afreedma) November 28, 2018
The interviewers themselves are getting a little stressed:
Of all the news anchors getting shit right now for misrepresenting climate change, we should give credit to those like @KatyTurNBC who consistently interview scientists like @MichaelEMann to provide a clear interpretation of 1000 page reports we write.https://t.co/CxRfFcw78H
— Adrian Stier (@AdrianStier) November 28, 2018
Third, I’ve never seen so many articles written on climate change come out in just one week. I can’t keep up even using speed reading skills. Here are just a few examples:
"The urgency of this message is getting louder and louder for the everyday public, and the climate impacts are definitely outpacing our response,"
"This gap in action is contributing to many of the impacts we're seeing around the world."#ClimateChange https://t.co/y1RUAQXksm
— Paul Dawson on Climate Change (@PaulEDawson) November 28, 2018
“Trump is Leading America Down a CO2 Highway To Disaster” | My new commentary in @Newsweek with the awesome Susan Joy Hassol (aka @ClimateComms): https://t.co/qsiuVrO9i4
— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) November 28, 2018
If there's just *one thing* I could get everyone to understand, it's this:
People matter more than money.https://t.co/IJdEwd4ByI
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) November 28, 2018
World must triple efforts or face catastrophic #ClimateChange
“For all the ambitious action we’ve seen, we need to move faster & with greater urgency. We’re feeding this fire, the means to extinguish it are within reach.”
https://t.co/auvYBVlqPm#EnergyTransition #COP24— Prof Peter Strachan (@ProfStrachan) November 29, 2018
@LancetCountdown Study—on the heels of National Climate Assessment—makes clear that human health & wealth face a dismal future unless we take action now. via @NYTimes @docsforclimate @Mason4C @PublicHealth @GCHAlliance https://t.co/ufAgiRSCnB
— Ed Maibach (@MaibachEd) November 29, 2018
I’ll be adding more to this post later today.
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Here is some other climate and weather related news from Wednesday:
(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity.)
The Trump administration plans to lease millions of acres of offshore waters in the Arctic next year for oil drilling. Environmental groups have already started to fight back.https://t.co/ORhTYFaZ62
— InsideClimate News (@insideclimate) November 28, 2018
The 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially ends on Friday. Here is a look at the entire hurricane season as viewed from the GOES-East satellite.https://t.co/UvjeiN3yWV pic.twitter.com/WScnRn5VwV
— NWS Eastern Region (@NWSEastern) November 28, 2018
From Hawaii to Mexico, this year's hurricane season packed more energy than anything on record https://t.co/aK7xQisAGI pic.twitter.com/KCFjhQ5Vgu
— Weather Underground (@wunderground) November 28, 2018
It has been a rather fast start to the 2018-2019 snowfall season across much of the Eastern US. Here are the totals as of the evening of November 28th. pic.twitter.com/YLZl7F0WRw
— NWS Eastern Region (@NWSEastern) November 29, 2018
What's the fastest season in your state? https://t.co/w90fPdhtRJ
— Climate Central (@ClimateCentral) November 29, 2018
Australia is under siege this week, with all-time record heat and widespread fires in Queensland. And the outlook for summer 2018-19 is ominous https://t.co/gXGrzK4O32 pic.twitter.com/WR9zFlVEMV
— Weather Underground (@wunderground) November 29, 2018
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