The UN, the UNA and Climate: Looking Ahead to Paris COP 21 in December 2015 | EV & N 176 | CCTV

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If the voice of youth is not heard and taken seriously in the COP 21 in Paris, there is little hope for humanity’s survival.  Young global citizens from around the world need to become engaged in and embark upon transition studies wherever they are located.

To download slides for Professor Weiskel‘s presentation click here:

• The UN, the UNA and Climate: Looking Ahead to Paris COP 21 in December 2015

For individual references within Professor Weiskel‘s presentation see:

• Earth-Heating-1884-2012
• Graph: Time history of atmospheric CO2
• The Context for Transition Studies
• Climate change deniers have grasped that markets can’t fix the climate
• Atomic Scientists: Doomsday Getting Even Closer
• Severn Cullis-Suzuki speaking at Rio in 1992
• Copenhagen closes with weak deal that poor threaten to reject
  
• “Get It Done”: Urging Climate Justice, Youth Delegate Anjali Appadurai Mic-Checks UN Summit
• Study: Sea-level rise threatens 1,400 U.S. cities
• Angry Kid
• Exxon Hates Your Children
• Ad Council Global Warming Ad
• Divest Harvard Plans Weeklong Sit-In

For further elaboration of “Transition Studies” see:

• Moving Toward the Transition: Climate Change, Capitalism and What Comes Next…
• What Now? What’s Next? Envisioning the Transition to a Sustainable World
• Universities and the Paradigm Shift: “Transition Studies” in Higher Education
• Three Prophetic Voices on the Coming Climate Transitions

Links to Cambridge Community Television include:

• The UN, the UNA and Climate: Looking Ahead to Paris COP 21 in December 2015
• Cambridge Community Television – CCRA series

For full sequence of UNA presentations see:

•  The UN at 70: A Year for Bold Action – UNA-USA Members Day at the UN

The Great Leap Backwards: The Breathtaking Failure of U.S. Political Leadership on Global Climate Change | EV & N 175 | CCTV

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The U.S. Congress has demonstrated a truly shocking failure of leadership over the last 27 years on climate change.  This requires an explanation.

See related discussions on climate leadership:

• “A New Paradigm for Environmental Protection for the 21st Century” – [Excerpt from discussion session on climate change from Rhodes Scholar 110 Anniversary panel, Rhodes House, Oxford]

and further discussion at:

• Rhodes Scholars Warn of Dramatic Transformations Required by Global Climate Crisis

Related discussions of “leadership” on climate and environment issues can be found through a series of programs from the Cambridge Climate Research Associates (CCRA)  and Cambridge Community Television (USA).

See related:

• “America First” makes America Last: Political Leaders, Citizens and Scientists Dismayed by U.S. Withdrawal from Global Climate Accord
• The Cascading Collapse of American Leadership in World Affairs: The Aftermath of Trump’s Withdrawal from the Paris Global Climate Accord

 

Climate Change – We Now Know The Point of No Return

The Big Picture RT
Published on Oct 11, 2013

Scientists have now found a way to predict when we’ve reached the global warming point-of-no-return. So – isn’t time we started talking about the “E” word – extinction?

Richard Manning on catastrophic agriculture, population overshoot, industrial civilization

FFF
Published on Mar 27, 2018

Complete and slightly edited interview footage with Richard Manning in 2005, in preparation for the feature-length documentary What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire, from Timothy S. Bennett and Sally Erickson.

Food-matters,

Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions: Prof V Ramanathan (May 2018)

Understanding Climate Change
Published on May 26, 2018

Lecture starts at 7:12. Slightly annoying mic issue fixed at 14:50

BBC News Weather bank holiday forecast: Severe thunderstorms to HIT UK during 30C HEATWAVE

Climate Change News
Published on May 27, 2018
BBC News Weather bank holiday forecast: Severe thunderstorms to HIT UK during 30C HEATWAVE.
SEVERE thunderstorms will clash with an expected heatwave bank holiday weekend, with parts of the UK set to reach a sizzling 30C, according to the latest weather forecasts from the Met Office and BBC News.
The UK is set to experience an unusual combination of weather events this bank holiday with a heatwave forecast of 30C across the UK as well as heavy rain and severe thunderstorms.

The sweltering temperature is set to bake the south-east of England and parts of Wales despite ongoing thunderstorms, creating “very humid” conditions for the weekend.

Heavy rainfall and thunderstorms will start later today before intensifying over Saturday and Sunday, according to the latest Met Office forecast.
The UK is set to experience an unusual combination of weather events this bank holiday with a heatwave forecast of 30C across the UK as well as heavy rain and severe thunderstorms.

The sweltering temperature is set to bake the south-east of England and parts of Wales despite ongoing thunderstorms, creating “very humid” conditions for the weekend.

Heavy rainfall and thunderstorms will start later today before intensifying over Saturday and Sunday, according to the latest Met Office forecast.
He explained: “The storms across Spain and up into France could impact us over bank holiday weekend.

“For the remainder of today, it will remain quite cloudy, with some outbreaks of rain which could be heavy and thunderstorms across England and Wales.

“The temperatures will get higher throughout the weekend, and by Sunday there are possibilities of 28C in the south-east of England and 24C in Scotland.

“There is that possibility of thunder and rain as the storms track up from Spain, so be prepared over the bank holiday weekend.”
The Met Office were more optimistic in their predictions, as Martin Young, deputy chief meteorologist, predicted temperatures pushing 30C in southern and central parts of England and Wales.

He said: “There is a 50/50 chance we may see the warmest day of the year so far at some point towards the end of the weekend.”

St. James Park in London currently holds the record for the warmest day of the year in 2018, with 29.1 °C recorded on 19th April.

Another Met Office meteorologist Aidan McGivern added: “As temperatures warm, we could spark off a few thunderstorms for East Anglia and the south-east.
“This could be severe weather, it could be very hit or miss but where they do occur lightning and some hale could make an appearance.

“It’s actually northern England and north Wales that will see some heavy rain and thunderstorms first thing on Saturday, but they will fade away and for much of the country as we begin the weekend there will be plenty of sunshine and very warm sunshine as well.

“The highest humidities in the south will bring the greatest risk of thunderstorms on Sunday.

“There are signs Northern Ireland, parts of Wales, southern and southwestern England on Sunday could be at the risk of some intense thunderstorms.”

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US cities under 25 feet of water

Tech Insider

Published on Sep 5, 2015

Coastal cities could see a rise in sea levels by as much as 4 ft by the end of the century. To help put a visual to the number, artist Nickolay Lamm created this series of simulations of US city landmarks as affected by sea levels rising 5, 12 and 25 feet. Using Climate Central’s sea level rise maps, Lamm imagines recognizable locales such as Venice Beach CA, Miami Beach FL, and Boston Harbor with catastrophic flooding. Produced by Rob Ludacer Read more: http://www.techinsider.io/

UK weather forecast: Thunderstorms and hail to RAVAGE Britain amid SWELTERING 27C HEAT

Climate Change News
Published on May 27, 2018

UK weather forecast: Thunderstorms and hail to RAVAGE Britain amid SWELTERING 27C HEAT.
THUNDERSTORMS and hail will ravage Britain as areas of humidity and “unstable air” cause horrifying outbreaks of rain, but sweltering 27C heat will cover the nation over the bank holiday weekend despite the unstable conditions.
The Met Office forecast “heavy rainfall and thunderstorms” to begin on Friday and will be a trend of the long weekend.

Meteorologist Aidan McGivern said: “Sunshine will develop in Scotland and Northern Ireland as we begin Friday as well as the far north of England.

“But for many parts of northern England, the Midlands and Wales that is where we have the risk of heavy rainfall and even thunderstorms during the course of Friday.
Further south cloud will break up, there will be sunshine, but as temperatures warm we could spark off a few thunderstorms for East Anglia and the south-east.
“This could be severe weather, it could be very hit or miss but where they do occur lightning and some hale could make an appearance.”

Mr McGivern was eager to emphasise the outbreaks of rain will be sporadic as he warned the precise location of thunderstorms, hail and rainfall is not known.

He went on: “Some intense rainfall about first thing as we head into the weekend but not everywhere will be affected, high pressure close to the north will of course keep things largely dry and settled across northern Britain.

“But further south we are closer to areas of humidity and unstable air around the continent and that will often throw up thunderstorms as we go through the long bank holiday weekend.
“It’s actually northern England and north Wales that will see some heavy rain and thunderstorms first thing on Saturday, but they will fade away and for much of the country as we begin the weekend there will be plenty of sunshine and very warm sunshine as well.”

But the Met Office forecaster insisted the greatest risk of thunderstorms and hail will come on Sunday.

Southern parts of Britain will see the greatest chance of horrifying conditions.
However temperatures will still soar to sizzling highs of 27C in some areas.

Mr McGivern went on: “The highest humidities in the south will bring the greatest risk of thunderstorms on Sunday. There are signs Northern Ireland, parts of wales, southern and southwestern England on Sunday could be at the risk of some intense thunderstorms.

“Elsewhere on Sunday plenty of sunshine continues and it will be cooler and often mistier near the coast.
The thunderstorm risk is most likely to affect south and southwestern parts of the country.

US weather forecasters predict at least four MAJOR HURRICANES during 2018 season.

on May 27, 2018
US weather forecasters predict at least four MAJOR HURRICANES during 2018 season.
US FORECASTERS predict between one and four major hurricanes packing winds of 111 miles per hour (178.6 kph) could develop during the 2018 season, which begins June 1.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Centre said on Thursday it expects the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season will be near-normal to above-normal in number and intensity of storms.

The NOAA forecast also said about half of the 10 to 16 named storms will be hurricane strength with winds of at least 74 mph (119 kph).

An average Atlantic hurricane season produces 12 named storms of which six become hurricanes, three of them major.

Private forecaster Weatherbell Analytics earlier this month revised downward its forecast for named storms in 2018 from between 11 and 15 to nine to 13.
A system was brewing in the southern Gulf on Thursday that has a 70 per cent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone, the US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said.

It is expected to bring heavy rain to the southeast United States early next week and could become the first named storm of the year as Alberto.

The news comes after the NHC said a storm depression off the coast of Mexico has a 70 per cent chance of forming by the weekend.

The Miami branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s NHC issued a special tropical weather outlook for the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.

The special notice warns a front of low pressure has formed over the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and threatens to push north towards Florida.
Forecasters fear the front has an 80 per cent chance of deteriorating into a subtropical or tropical depression this weekend.

There is an additional 40 per cent chance this could happen over the next 48 hours.

Tropical depressions form when areas of low pressure start churning away at speeds of up to 39mph.

If the depression picks up speed and organised winds over 39mph, forecasters will upgrade it to a full-blown tropical cyclone.

The NHC warned: “A broad, stationary surface low-pressure system centred over the southeastern Yucatan Peninsula is gradually becoming better defined.
“Although showers and thunderstorms, along with strong gusty winds, are confined primarily to the adjacent waters of the northwestern Caribbean Sea, gradual development of this system is expected during the next couple of days as it drifts northward near the Yucatan Peninsula.

“Environmental conditions are forecast to become more conducive for development through early next week, and a subtropical or tropical depression is likely to form by late Saturday over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.

“Regardless of development, locally heavy rainfall is forecast across western Cuba and over much of Florida and the northern Gulf Coast into early next week.

“In addition, the threat of rip currents will steadily increase along the Gulf coast from Florida westward to Louisiana over Memorial Day weekend.”
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