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Summary . This post discusses three newspaper articles concerning global warming-induced sea level rise, which all appeared in a one-week period about the third week of April, 2017. Sea level rise is inexorable, already irreversibly “baked in” to the planet’s climate, because melting of ice in the summer season is not restored by new snow and ice in the winter, and because the melted water flows away into the ocean. Sea level rise is already causing human societal and economic damage around the world.   It will continue unabated, and likely worsen, in future centuries.   To minimize these harms, the world has to minimize greenhouse gas emissions to near zero as soon as possible.   This process would be significantly advanced by adhering to the Paris climate agreement.                                    ...

Early in 2016, shortly after the United Nations-sponsored meeting that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015, this writer posted   a fable characterizing a fictional centennial commemoration of the 2015 Agreement in a scenario in which use of fossil fuels had continued unabated during that 100-year interval.   The fable is reproduced below: The Centennial Commemoration of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement A Fable It was December 2115, the hundredth anniversary of the agreement to a climate treaty reached among all the members of the United Nations, in Paris .   The members of the Petrex extended family gathered to mark the occasion.   By that time, three to four generations after the event, the clan had grown considerably, and had established for itself a fully self-sufficient environment inside its terradome.   For the occasion the space was opulently fitted out with an artificial lake in which were moored several model oil rigs.   The pipe l...

Summary: The Administrator of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, stated in a television interview that he does not agree that human activity is a prime contributor to global warming. This statement is in direct contradiction to the well-established objective scientific reality that humanity’s burning of fossil fuels adds excess, long-lasting, burdens of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.   Since this gas exhibits the greenhouse effect, this excess gas contributes to raising the global average temperature, and brings on harmful extremes of weather and climate. Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the U. S. National Climate Assessment, provide detailed support for such conclusions.   Climate scientists subscribe essentially unanimously to the reality of man-made global warming according to a search of the scientific literature. Administrator Pruitt ignores these findings at great peril to the wellbeing of Americans, and ...

Background .   U. S. President Donald J. Trump has called global warming a hoax, and opposes policies that would combat its causes and effects.   He has assembled a cabinet whose members, as heads of departments that are relevant to this issue, hold opinions that are consistent with his.   They seek to reverse the policies of the Obama administration that mitigate global warming and its harms. Carbon Fee and Dividend .   On February 8, 2017, three conservative economists who held high level positions in earlier Republican administrations published the op-ed “A Conservative Case for Climate Action” in the New York Times .   The authors are Martin S. Feldstein, formerly the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan; Ted Halstead, the founder and chief executive of the Climate Leadership Council; and N. Gregory Mankiw, formerly the chairman under President George W. Bush.   The op-ed is based on a more extensive paper made ...

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