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newsclips -- ARB Newsclips for September 12, 2016.
Posted: 12 Sep 2016 16:08:40
ARB Newsclips for September 12, 2016. This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. AIR POLUTION EU may keep own aviation emissions rules to meet targets. The European Union wants its own measures to reduce airline pollution from 2018 to 2020 ahead of when a proposed global deal is due to come into force and may extend its own system if it sees fit, European officials said on Monday. Some EU lawmakers argue the global accord falls short of EU ambitions to cut back greenhouse gases and does not justify… http://www.reuters.com/article/climatechange-aviation-idUSL8N1BO2N1 Ex-EPA boss Whitman offers first-ever apology for bad info on post-9/11 air quality: ‘People have died because I made a mistake’ The former head of the Environmental Protection Agency apologized for the first time for her declaration a week after 9/11 that the air in lower Manhattan was safe to breathe. Christine Todd Whitman conceded Friday that it was a mistake to give the all-clear at Ground Zero and said she was sorry for the ongoing health crisis that still grips first responders. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-epa-boss-whitman-apologizes-bad-info-9-11-air-quality-article-1.2786706 Air-pollution-derived magnetic nanoparticles found in human brains. Magnetite, a magnetic iron oxide mineral, is showing up in a place it doesn’t belong: the brain. Researchers at the University of Lancaster found unexpectedly high levels of magnetite nanoparticles in human brain tissue they were examining with electron microscopy. http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i36/Air-pollution-derived-magnetic-nanoparticles.html http://www.ukprogressive.co.uk/toxic-air-pollution-particles-found-in-human-brains-society-the-guardian/article55634.html https://health.spectator.co.uk/air-pollution-particles-that-can-enter-the-brain-may-be-a-factor-in-alzheimers/ Warning! Air Pollution Could Lead to Diabetes. A new study from Germany reveals that exposure to air pollution could lead to diabetes, especially for those individuals in the so-called pre-diabetic state or who already have an impaired glucose metabolism. The study, published in the journal Diabetes, showed a significant link between increase in air pollutant concentrations in a certain area and the increase blood level markers of the people living in it. http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/28506/20160912/warning-air-pollution-could-lead-to-diabetes.htm CLIMATE CHANGE Wheat, one of the world’s most important crops, is being threatened by climate change. One of the biggest concerns about climate change is the effect it will have on agriculture. Many studies have suggested that rising temperatures could be harmful to farms around the world, although there’s plenty of uncertainty about how bad things will get and which food supplies we should worry about most. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/12/climate-change-is-really-bad-for-wheat-which-is-really-bad-for-us/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.968ae4bbed5f Welcome to Carlisle, the British City With a Climate Change Bull’s-Eye. After this ancient fortress city was hit by a crippling flood in 2005, its residents could take some comfort in the fact that it was the kind of deluge that was supposed to happen about once every 200 years. But it happened again four years later. And again last winter, when Storm Desmond brought record-breaking downpours that turned roads into rivers, fields into lakes… http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/carlisle-england-climate-change-flooding.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=874f7b0e5b-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-874f7b0e5b-327747457&_r=0 Above the Arctic Circle, climate change closes in on the remote town of Barrow. Here in the northernmost municipality of the United States, 320 miles above the Arctic Circle, people are facing the idea that they may soon be among the world’s first climate-change refugees. Warming air, melting permafrost and rising sea levels are threatening their coastline, and researchers predict that by midcentury, the homes, schools and land… https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/above-the-arctic-circle-climate-change-closes-in-on-the-remote-town-of-barrow/2016/09/12/512c859a-43aa-11e6-8856-f26de2537a9d_story.html Was August deluge in Louisiana worsened by climate change? Southern Louisiana was hit hard by relentless rains a few weeks ago. Some locations received a ridiculous soaking: two feet of rain within three days. More than a dozen lives were lost in the resulting flooding, and tens of thousands of homes were inundated. The culprit was a low pressure system that was strong enough to have become a tropical depression if it had moved out into the Gulf of Mexico. http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/was-august-deluge-in-louisiana-worsened-by-climate-change/ Little-noticed rule could press firms to acknowledge warming. The U.S. government is the world's biggest buyer of supplies and services, with a $450 billion annual budget. Soon, federal contractors might have to talk about climate change to get a piece of that pie. The Department of Defense, the General Services Administration and NASA proposed a rule in May that would compel suppliers of all federal agencies to say… http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060042645 VW RECALL Veteran VW Engineer Is First Charged in U.S. Emissions Probe (5). A veteran Volkswagen AG engineer pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud U.S. regulators and customers, the first criminal charge in the Justice Department’s year-long investigation into the company’s rigging of federal air-pollution tests. The engineer, James Liang, who entered his plea in Detroit federal court on Friday… http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-OD8QUB6K50YE01-5506ASFDQ3CB30BTC7TF2RM5KT GREEN ENERGY U.S. utility solar enjoys building boom in second quarter but residential slows. U.S. solar installations rose 43 percent in the second quarter, according to a new report, as sharp gains in large projects for utilities offset slowing growth in residential systems in top solar market California. The United States installed 2,051 megawatts of photovoltaic solar in the second quarter, according to a report… http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-solar-idUSKCN11I091 Wind power is going to get a lot cheaper as wind turbines get even more enormous. In a nugget of very good news for the renewable energy sector, a survey of 163 wind energy experts has found that in the coming decades, the cost of electricity generated by wind should plunge, by between 24 and 30 percent by the year 2030, and even further by the middle of the century. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/12/wind-power-is-going-to-get-a-lot-cheaper-as-wind-turbines-get-enormous/?utm_term=.a0c51c2bd729 Can our need for a carbon-free future override our fears of nuclear energy? Unlike coal and natural gas plants that emit carbon emissions while producing electricity, nuclear generates none. So why aren’t more states getting onboard? Nestled between Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee, the Watts Bar 2 nuclear power plant sits on 1,700 acres in an area friendly to nuclear power. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/sep/12/carbon-free-plants-nuclear-energy-future-power-state-sources Far cheaper wind power forecast as turbines get enormous. The study gives a boost to those concerned that a renewable energy transition needs to happen as soon as possible. In a nugget of very good news for the renewable energy sector, a survey of 163 wind energy experts… http://www.pressherald.com/2016/09/12/experts-say-wind-power-is-going-to-get-a-lot-cheaper-as-turbines-get-enormous/ US plan for offshore wind energy: Jumpstarting an American industry? In the previous decade, the United States floundered in the race for offshore wind farms. As Europe continued to build its industry, the US was slowed by limited government financial support, lower energy prices, and expensive technology. Today, the US is committed to shifting course. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0910/US-plan-for-offshore-wind-energy-Jumpstarting-an-American-industry MISCELLANEOUS Leonardo DiCaprio's Climate Change Documentary a 'Rousing Call to Action'. The Oscar-winning actor and longtime environmental advocate celebrated the world premiere of his climate change documentary on Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). "Looking forward to sharing this documentary with everyone as we continue to act on#climatechange together," DiCaprio tweeted. http://www.ecowatch.com/leonardo-dicaprio-before-the-flood-2001158748.html OPINIONS You think global warming is a sham because ‘climate has changed before?’ Read this comic. Randall Munroe posted an XKCD comic on Monday that so perfectly sums up the illogical nature of the most pervasive argument against the existence of man-made global warming: “The climate has changed before.” Let me complete that fallacy with its obvious conclusion: The climate has changed before… https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/09/12/you-think-global-warming-is-a-sham-because-climate-has-changed-before-read-this-comic/ A natural addition to social-science curriculum. California just did something big. It didn’t get a lot of headlines, clicks or television news coverage, but it will fundamentally transform the way we teach our 6.2 million students. The California Board of Education voted to include five key environmental principles and concepts as part of the state’s new framework for how to teach history-social science standards. http://www.davisenterprise.com/forum/opinion-columns/a-natural-addition-to-social-science-curriculum/ Global warming is beyond our control. The real meat of climate change — Sept. 3. The fact of global warming keeps being clouded by a lot of fiction, and the panic is becoming palpable. Yes, and of course, we all must be stewardly and conserving with the Earth and its resources. We must curb or eliminate pollution when and wherever we reasonably can. But are we the cause of global warming, and more importantly, can we stop it, or else? http://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/6852536-global-warming-is-beyond-our-control/ BLOGS Jerry Brown and California Press Forward Again on Climate Change. There is no more fundamental and profound issue for the future of humanity than the habitability of our planet, still the only one we have. And as climate change becomes ever more evident, despite the weirdly persistent efforts of many absurd deniers in this country, humanity’s future grows more in doubt. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/jerry-brown-and-californi_b_11977780.html Climate Change Creates Cruising Weather in the NW Passage - If You Can Afford the Insurance. This Planet A series of videos portraying this moment of reckoning between human nature and the force of nature. Right here, right now, on this planet. The fabled Northwest passage isn’t what it used to be - an impenetrable ice-choked wilderness. For the first (but surely not the last) time, a high-end luxury cruise ship has traversed the Arctic Sea… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/this-planet/climate-change-creates-cr_b_11967958.html No Need To Wait for the Future: Global Warming Impacts Are Happening Right Here, Right Now. One thought hit me today, and it was not a very optimistic one. I thought that one may get so used to the fact that that month after month temperature records are being broken, that the issue of global warming would somehow become an afterthought, or a “cry wolf” phenomenon. http://blog.ucsusa.org/astrid-caldas/no-need-to-wait-for-the-future-global-warming-impacts-are-happening-right-here-right-now Why Global Warming Is Like a Scorching Dinner. Once the plate or the planet gets too hot it takes forever to cool down, explains ClimateAdam—and in both cases, that's a problem. How is our warming planet like a scorching dinner? ClimateAdam explains to an impatient friend why it’s no easy task to cool down our planet—or our meals—if they get too hot. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-global-warming-is-like-a-scorching-dinner/ Sierra Club To U.S., India: Stop The Solar-Killing Trade Cases. just days before the World Trade Organization (WTO) was expected to release its final ruling in a case the U.S. launched against India’s common-sense solar energy initiative – India filed a complaint to the WTO against eight of the U.S.’ very own renewable energy programs, the Sierra Club has announced. http://solarindustrymag.com/sierra-club-to-u-s-india-stop-the-solar-killing-trade-cases California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.