The Pen: Australian school students are going on strike to speak out against climate threat

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"Hundreds of school students around the country are expected to take part in a strike on 28,29 and 30 November.
A prominent environment organisation, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, is encouraging participation.
  
This is now becoming a nationwide movement,  as more young people around Australia get involved."

"They are deeply concerned about global warming, and what they see as the failure of politicians to date, to do enough about it. They want urgent action about what they say is a climate emergency."

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Devdiscourse: Climate change effecting blue economy of India say scientists

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"There would be a drop in productivity of marine species as there was a gradual damage being caused to the ecosystem and biodiversity, the Vice-Chancellor said.

Warming of the Indian Ocean at a fast pace owing to climate change poses a threat to the multi-million dollar blue economy of India, scientists said here Thursday. Climate change is affecting fisheries through change in stock productivity and its distribution, they said during the opening session of a 'Winter School on Climate Change in Marine Fisheries' being organised by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute here.

Video from CNN: Stark Warning from UN Climate PanelCC

Methane, traps 28x more heat than carbon dioxide.

University of Alaska Fairbanks Professor Katey Walter Anthony takes us onto a frozen lake in Fairbanks, AK to demonstrate why methane gas has "exploded" onto the climate change scene." YouTube



1:38: “We estimate that more than ten times the amount of methane that’s right now in the atmosphere will come out of these lakes.” - Katey Walter Anthony, climate scientist, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Methane, you’ll recall, is the worst greenhouse gas, trapping 28x more heat than carbon dioxide.

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Wildfires will be more severe and more frequent. Climate change is here.

"Wildfires - California, USA

More than 30,000 people fled for their lives Thursday as a late-season wildfire swept across this town in the Sierra foothills, incinerating numerous homes and businesses and prompting desperate rescues of residents trapped inside buildings and on clogged evacuation routes.

The blaze exploded to more than 20,000 acres, adding to a catastrophic two years of wildfires in California that have raised new questions about how the state will cope with a warmer and drier climate."

Nov 9 2018

From:

Earth Report 

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ABC NEWS: Evacuations ordered as Northern California wildfire grows

 

Camp Fire Updates: Chico and Paradise wildfire evacuations, news

"Basically, we haven't had rain since last May or before that," said Read, the fire chief. Everything is a very receptive fuel bed. It's a rapid rate of spread."

The odd ways that weather can unfold in a warming world

"Hurricane Harvey slammed into Houston, Texas, on August 25, 2017. Normally, hurricanes keep moving. Their high winds and torrential rains tend to last for only a brief time. But Harvey just sat over the city. For days. And it dumped a lot of rain. Really, a lot. By the time the storm had moved on, on August 29, it had drowned Houston with a whopping 164 centimeters (64.6 inches) of water, according to one rain gauge. That’s a record rainfall from one storm in one place in the continental United States. In fact, Harvey dumped so much rain that the National Weather Service had to add new colors to their rainfall maps of the event."

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"And heavier rains and stronger storms are not the only ways in which a warming world is making our weather weirder. Higher temperatures can trigger droughts. Heat waves become more likely, and droughts can make them even worse. There can be changes to both global and local weather patterns. And the effects won’t always be what’s expected. In one truly odd twist, the continuing loss of summertime sea ice in the Arctic Ocean — one big result of a warming world — could make Siberian winters colder. What could be wackier than that?"

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The (USA) House Science Committee May Soon Become... Pro-Science

"For the past eight years, climate science has been under a sort of spell in the House of Representatives. Instead of trying to understand it better or even acknowledging some of the field’s current uncertainties, House Science Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) used his position to harass federal climate scientists with subpoenas while holding hearings on “Making the EPA Great Again” or whether “global warming theories are alarmist” and researchers are pursuing a “personal agenda.”

But Smith retired this year and Democrats won control of the House on Tuesday. Now some on Capitol Hill say that the anti-climate science spell may be broken."

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• Our Climate Is Headed for Disaster, But Voters Still Shrug