Under other headings, he also promised to defeat the militant group Islamic State "and other radical Islamic terror groups," rebuild the military," lower tax rates "for Americans in every tax bracket," reduce corporate taxes, issue a "moratorium" on new federal regulations, create 25 million new jobs, reduce crime and either withdraw from or renegotiate trade deals "that put the interests of insiders and the Washington elite over the hard-working men and women of this country." Trump said he was "committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies," including former President Obama's Climate Action Plan, which included reducing emissions from coal-fired power plants, and a broad rule protecting what are known as "waters of the United States" that has been heavily criticized by the mining and oil and gas industries. It promises to "use the revenues from energy production to rebuild our roads, schools, bridges and public infrastructure. Less expensive energy will be a big boost to American agriculture, as well."
The site also says the new administration "will embrace the shale oil and gas revolution" and "take advantage of "the estimated $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil and natural gas reserves, especially those on federal lands that the American people own." http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-trump-vows-broad-rollback-of-obama-1484939535-htmlstory.html
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President Trump told leaders of the country's largest automakers Tuesday that he will curtail "unnecessary" environmental regulations and make it easier to build plants in the United States, changes that he expects will shore up the manufacturing jobs he repeatedly promised to voters on the campaign trail. After weeks of taunting the automotive industry over Twitter, Trump made a point to meet with the chief executives of General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler just days into his term. "We have a very big push on to have auto plants and other plants, many other plants, you're not being singled out to have a lot of plants from a lot of different items built in the United States," Trump told executives Tuesday. Chief executives Mary Barra of General Motors, Mark Fields of Ford and Sergio Marchionne of Fiat Chrysler attended the meeting, along with other top executives from their companies. President Trump told the chief executives that environmental regulations are "out of control" and his administration will focus on "real regulations that mean something" while eliminating those that he finds inhospitable to business. Analysts have speculated that Trump could ease those regulations or others that impact the industry as a reward for companies creating more jobs in the United States. "There is a huge opportunity working together as an industry with government that we can improve the environment, improve safety, and improve jobs creation and the competitiveness of manufacturing," Barra told reports after the meeting. Conversely, Trump has also praised automakers who pledged to invest in the United States and add jobs here often taking credit for those decisions even when companies said they had been in the works for months or years. Trump met Monday with business leaders from a smattering of industries, including Fields and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk. The president reportedly told executives that he intends to eliminate a majority of regulations and "massively" cut corporate taxes, but that in return those companies must keep production domestic and preserve American jobs.
Now with President Trump in office he has made several changes and executive orders. One of them changing the EPA and this could continue to hurt the environment. However, we must wait and see to what may next come from the President Elect. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/09/trump-victory-reverses-u-s-energy-and-environmental-priorities/?utm_term=.93b2b087a531 Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising temperatures. To better assess how climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions will likely impact wheat, maize and soybean, an international team of scientists now ran an unprecedentedly comprehensive set of computer simulations of US crop yields. Importantly, the scientists find that increased irrigation can help to reduce the negative effects of global warming on crops, but this is possible only in regions where sufficient water is available. Harvest losses from elevated temperatures of 20 percent for wheat, 40 percent for soybean and almost 50 percent for maize, relative to non-elevated temperatures, can be expected at the end of our century without efficient emission reductions. "The losses got substantially reduced when we increased irrigation of fields in the simulation, so water stress resulting from temperature increase seems to be a bigger factor than the heat itself," says co-author Joshua Elliott from the University of Chicago. This usually increases the water use efficiency of plants since they lose less water for each unit of CO2 taken up from the air. The additional CO2 fertilization in the simulations does not alleviate the drop in yields associated with high temperatures above about 30 C. The comparison of different computer simulations of climate change impacts is at the heart of the ISIMIP project (Inter-Sectoral Impacts Modelling Intercomparison Project) comprising about 100 modelling groups worldwide.
Not only is the environment taking affect on the increase of heat, but so are the crops and agriculture land. The greenhouse gas emissions humans that humans are having a huge part in, is beginning to cause bigger scale problems and needs to be solved. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170119084622.htm Their routes take them beyond areas that come under the jurisdiction of individual coastal states, and into the high seas. Under international law the high seas, which span 64% of the surface of the ocean, are defined as "the common heritage of mankind". This definition might have provided enough protection if the high seas were still beyond mankind's reach. And high-seas fishing greatly disturbs the sea bed: the nets of bottom trawlers can shift boulders weighing as much as 25 tonnes. A clutch of regional organisations have been set up to try to manage fish stocks in the high seas. By reducing fuel costs, subsidies bring the high seas within reach for a few lucky trawlers, largely from the developed world. As of 2014 less than 1% of the high seas enjoyed a degree of legal protection. So in parallel with efforts to protect wild stocks, another push is needed: to encourage the development of aquaculture, the controlled farming of fish. Whether you’re raising fish in an offshore cage or in a filtered tank on land, you still have to feed them. They have one big advantage over land animals: You have to feed them a lot less. Fish need fewer calories, because they’re cold-blooded and because, living in a buoyant environment, they don’t fight gravity as much.
Overall the research towards environmentally friendly aquaculture farms is growing tremendously. We should not only invest in alternative farms but also aquatic farming to improve land and water species productions. http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21702196-how-stop-overfishing-high-seas-net-positive?zid=293&ah=e50f636873b42369614615ba3c16df4a Drought struck the Sahel most recently in 2012, triggering food shortages for millions of people due to crop failure and soaring food prices. By replacing vegetative cover's moist soil, which contributes water vapor to the atmosphere to help generate rainfall, with bare, shiny desert soil that merely reflects sunlight directly back into space, the capacity for rainfall is diminished. Another human-caused culprit is biomass burning, as herders burn land to stimulate grass growth, and farmers burn the landscape to convert terrain into farming land and to get rid of unwanted biomass after the harvest season. This can happen because water vapor in the atmosphere condenses on certain types and sizes of aerosols called cloud condensation nuclei to form clouds; when enough water vapor accumulates, rain droplets are formed. To do so, Ichoku and his colleagues used satellite records from 2001 to 2014 -- including data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission -- to analyze the impact of fires on various water cycle indicators, namely soil moisture, precipitation, evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness. The results so far show only a correlation between fires and water cycle indicators, but the data gathered from the study is allowing scientists to improve climate models to be able to establish a more direct relationship between biomass burning and its impacts on drought.
The Global Climate 2011-2015 also examines whether humaninduced climatechange was directly linked to individual extreme events.Of 79 studies published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Societybetween 2011 and 2014, more than half found that human-induced climatechange contributed to the extreme event in question. "The effects of climate change have been consistently visible on the global scalesince the 1980s: rising global temperature, both over land and in the ocean; sea-level rise; and the widespread melting of ice. It has increased the risks ofextreme events such as heatwaves, drought, record rainfall and damagingfloods," said Mr Taalas. WMO will release its provisional assessment of the state of the climate in 2016on 14 November to inform the climate change negotiations in Marrakech, Morrocco. Climate change and extreme weather Many individual extreme weather andclimate events recorded during 2011-2015 were made more likely as a result ofhuman-induced climate change. In numerous cases, including the 2011 flooding in South-East Asia, the 2013 2015 drought in southern Brazil, and the very wet winter of 2013 2014 in theUnited Kingdom, no clear evidence was found of an influence from anthropogenic climate change. In the case of the extreme rainfall in the United Kingdom in December 2015, itwas found that climate change had made such an event about 40% more likely.
The World Meteorological Organization has published a detailed analysis of the global climate 2011-2015 ,the hottest five-year period on record, and the increasingly visible human footprint on extreme weather and climate events with dangerous and costly impacts. This is important to realize that the climate is becoming warmer and will effect our environment. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161108122748.htm Federal surveyors found an additional 36 million dead trees across California since its last aerial survey in May, bringing the total number of dead trees found in the last six years to over 102 million in the states drought-stricken forests, the government on Friday. Sixty-two million trees have died in 2016 alone, a 100 percent increase in dead trees across the state from 2015, according to a joint statement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service. This is sad for the state, US Forest Service Tree Mortality specialist Stephanie Gomes said on Friday from her base in Vallejo, California. Her team discovered that 36 million dead trees in the last five months, and 102 million dead trees have been tracked since 2010. Bark Beetle Outbreak Kills Millions of Trees Statewide Bark Beetle Outbreak Kills Millions of Trees Statewide. The dead and dying trees continue to elevate the risk of wildfire, complicate our efforts to respond safely and effectively to fires when they do occur, and pose threats to life and property across California.
California is continuing into the drought. Not only are the people and animals suffering but the environment as well. With the continuation of the dying trees increases the dangers of fires and decreases the amount of CO2 bing taken in by the trees. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/New-Aerial-Survey-Identifies-More-Than-100-Million-Dead-Trees-in-California-401927265.html A global ban on genetically modified crops would raise food prices and add the equivalent of nearly a billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, a study shows. Using a model to assess the economic and environmental value of GMO crops, agricultural economists found that replacing GMO corn, soybeans and cotton with conventionally bred varieties worldwide would cause a 0.27 to 2.2 percent increase in food costs, depending on the region, with poorer countries hit hardest. Conversely, if countries that already plant GMOs expanded their use of genetically modified crops to match the rate of GMO planting in the United States, global greenhouse gas emissions would fall by the equivalent of 0.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide and would allow 0.8 million hectares of cropland (about 2 million acres) to return to forests and pastures. The Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency have deemed GMO foods safe to eat, and the United States is the global leader in planting GMO crops and developing agricultural biotechnology. Banning GMO crops would also lead to an increase in global cropland of 3.1 million hectares (about 7.7 million acres), as land would be cleared to compensate for the lower yields of conventional crops.
This article is addressing on of the most important issues of our time, how are we going to feed our growing population. The answer is Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), to produce more for our constantly growing population, which may not have enough food in the near future. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161108115714.htm Researchers have identified a mechanism that causes low clouds and their influence on Earth’s energy balance to respond differently to global warming depending on their spatial pattern and location. Despite having a positive cloud feedback in response to long-term projected global warming, the model exhibits a strong negative cloud feedback over the last 30 years. "With a combination of climate model simulations and satellite observations, we found that the trend of low-level cloud cover over the last three decades differs substantially from that under long-term global warming" said Chen Zhou, lead author of the paper.In response to increased carbon dioxide, climate models predict a nearly uniform warming of the planet that favors reductions in highly reflective low clouds and a positive feedback. The team emphasized that clouds are particularly sensitive to subtle differences in surface warming patterns, and researchers must carefully account for such pattern effects when making inferences about cloud feedback and climate sensitivity from observations over short time periods.
Recently, the public has been hearing humans are the soul reason for global warming. However, now we know it is from several reasons including clouds. In addition, there is still more data to me counted and tested for global warming causes. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161101093858.htm Extreme weather conditions associated with climate change may extend the ozone season in the Southeastern United States as drought-stressed trees emit more of the precursor compound that helps form the health-threatening pollutant. July and August have traditionally been peak ozone months, but a new study suggests those peaks could extend well into the fall as weather becomes warmer and drier. Ironically, the projected extension of ozone season comes at a time when summertime ground-level ozone levels continue to decline as a result of emission reductions mandated by the Clean Air Act. The paper is believed to be the first to connect variations in ground-level ozone concentrations to the drought stress on trees. Climate modeling suggests that over the next several decades, the Southeast will experience more periods of weather variability, with hot and dry conditions favorable to isoprene emission from trees becoming more likely. In two separate years, both since 2000, they identified unexpected ozone peaks during the month of October and found that those peaks corresponded to spikes in the level of isoprene, a compound emitted by trees. We are likely to have record ozone days in the fall, and we need to prepare for that."
The new findings of extended Ozone season suggests that our recent findings of stopping global warming are happening in small locations and not on a global scale. We need to continue our research for global solutions for global warming and how we can all begin to stop the Ozone extension season. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160822155924.htm |
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