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Tuesday 15 November 2016

Climate Change Round Up Nov 12, 2016



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Climate Change Round Up Nov 12, 2016
10 How much do teachers shape kids' climate change beliefs? 
Only 12 percent of students had a teacher who thought climate change was real and believed humans were largely to blame. "North Carolina State University biologists states: ""Our findings suggest convincing teachers that climate change is real, but not necessarily human caused, may have profound impacts on students

9 Massive 'lake' discovered under volcano could unlock why and how volcanoes erupt 
A huge magmatic lake has been discovered, 15 kilometers below a dormant volcano in Bolivia, South America. The body of water, which is dissolved into partially molten rock at a temperature of almost 1,000 degrees Celsius, is the equivalent to what is found in some of the world's giant freshwater lakes, such as Lake Superior.  

8 Climate finance to top India’s agenda 
India will also focus on sustainable lifestyle issues, which found a place in the Paris agreement after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushed for its inclusion  

7 Climate champions launch Global Action Agenda in Morocco 
Morocco and France’s global climate champions, Hakima El Haite and Laurence Tubiana, launched the Global Climate Action Agenda here on Tuesday. As a successor to the Lima-Paris Action Agenda in 2013, the Global Action Agenda allows non-governmental players, such as civil society organizations, private companies, cities, regions and investors, and their initiatives to play a bigger role.

6 NASA DOUBLE SHOT 
Media Briefed on New NASA Hurricane Mission 
Earth Expeditions: A Natural Cloud/Climate Laboratory

5 Physics Doesn’t Really Care Who Was Elected 
Climate change does not care about the law of the land in the U.S. It cares about the laws of physics. Trump can change laws in the U.S. He can’t change them in the atmosphere.
4 A new study concludes warm climate is more sensitive to changes in CO2 “The only way out is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible,” Tobias Friedrich from the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa http://bit.ly/2eWdIAt 

3 COP22: The implications of the US presidential result 
focus shifts to China to take on the role as global leader in taking action. 

2 Trump win opens way for China to take climate leadership role 
Zou Ji, deputy director of the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy said that if Trump abandons efforts to implement the Paris agreement, "China's influence and voice are likely to increase in global climate governance, which will then spill over into other areas of global governance and increase China's global standing, power and leadership." 

1 All Is Not Lost on Climate Change 
Trump will be terrible, but it’s not just about Trump. It’s about you, too. there’s a lot each of us can do in our own lives. Yes, we’ll need systemic change to preserve a habitable planet for future generations, but that change begins with small steps in our own daily lives—and Trump can’t keep you from starting that today.

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Lord Nicholas Stern

Today’s young people can and should hold their parents’ generation to account for their present actions. They can elicit an emotional response that can motivate action. If thinking about the lives of unborn future generations seems too abstract to motivate you to act, try instead looking a young child or grandchild in the eye and asking yourself what sort of future you are leaving for them. There is something that, on reflection, many adults would surely find repugnant in the idea that they will leave their children a damaged planet that will radically affect their life possibilities. Lord Nicholas Stern

Kiribati President Anote Tong

"…I remember I had been trying to convince him to visit Kiribati and he did in 2011. He came to Kiribati and I remember he went to visit one of these communities that was flooded every time there is very high tides and there was this young boy who stepped up to the Secretary General and said Mr. Secretary General, you are a very important man you know, is there something that you can do to ensure I will have a future, that I will have a home. And the Secretary General came back and he said Mr. President I have been listening to you at the General Assembly but I never truly understood what it was you trying to communicate but now I do and I feel and I understand I would do everything that I can”