{"id":11577,"date":"2016-02-18T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11577"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:38:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:38:27","slug":"green-news-report-february-18-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11577","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green News Report&#8217; &#8211; February 18, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center; background-color:#f3fdf4; padding:10px 5px 4px 5px; line-height:20px; background-image:url('\/Images\/GradientDarkGreen_headline.jpg'); background-repeat:repeat-y;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/GNR_ObamaSmile_USASEANSummit021616.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:10px auto;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i>Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!&#8230;<\/i><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNewsReport.bsky.social\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Bluesky-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreenNewsReport\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Twitter-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Facebook-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/journa.host\/@GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Mastodon-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman\/id788236916\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Apple Podcasts' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/itunes-listen-on-apple-podcast-logo-png.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman-desi-doyen\/PC:1000011151\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Pandora' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-Pandora-badge.png'><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-green-news-report-w-brad-f-30973644\/\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on iHeart' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-IHeartRadio.png'><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Green-News-Report-Friedman-Doyen\/dp\/B08JJRX3TP\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Amazon Music' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/AmazonMusic-badge_690.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Green-News-Report-p477566\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on TuneIn' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/ListenOnTuneIn.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/GNR\/feed.xml\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='RSS\/XML Feed' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/RSS-XML-Feed.png\"><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px; display:block; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0;\"><i>(Or use &#8220;Click here to listen&#8230;&#8221; link below.)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #007F00;\"><em><strong>SPECIAL NOTE:<\/strong> Though we didn&#8217;t have time to mention as much in today&#8217;s report, this is our 7TH ANNIVERSARY episode of the <\/em>Green News Report<em> and our 670th(!) episode overall! 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All GNRs are always archived at <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\">GreenNews.BradBlog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN &#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;<\/strong> (<em>see links below<\/em>): Washington Asks If Railroads Could Afford $700M Oil Train Spill; Ohio EPA Fires Two Over Sebring Lead Contamination; Wyoming Says Its Coal Mine Cleanup Policy Is Flawed; Study Ties U.S. to Spike in Global Methane Emissions; Pipeline Corrosion Caused Santa Barbara Oil Spill; Oklahoma Cracks Down On Injection Wells After Earthquake Spike; Contaminated Flint Water Among Most Expensive In The U.S.; Study Flags Concerns CO2 Underground Stores Could Leak&#8230; <i>PLUS:<\/i> Latest moose count provides little good news&#8230; and much, <i>MUCH<\/i> more! &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><i><b>STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY&#8217;S &#8216;GREEN NEWS REPORT&#8217;&#8230;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>January 2016 Was the Hottest January Ever Recorded:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2016\/02\/17\/january_2016_was_the_hottest_january_on_record.html\"><b>January 2016: Shattering the Global Warming Monthly Record<\/b><\/a> (Slate) [<i>emphasis added<\/i>]:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">But there&#8217;s more: 1.13C is the largest anomaly for any month since records began in 1880. <b>There have only been monthly anomalies greater than 1C three times before in recorded history, and those three were all from last year.<\/b>&#8230;<b>El Ni\u00e0\u00b1o only accounts for a fraction of a degree of this heating<\/b>. Even accounting for El Ni\u00e0\u00b1o years, things are getting hotter. The root cause is not El Ni\u00e0\u00b1o. It&#8217;s us.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2016\/02\/16\/3749815\/carbon-pollution-hottest-12-months-january\/\"><b>Carbon Pollution Fuels Superwarm January, Hottest 12 Months On Record<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">True, every year is not going to be warmer than the last &#8220;\u201d but we do appear to be in the long-awaited <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2015\/03\/10\/3631632\/climate-change-rate\/\">global warming speed up<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/january-global-temperature-record-20035\"><b>January Smashed Another Global Temperature Record<\/b><\/a> (Climate Central)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2016-02-17\/global-warming-crushes-records-again\"><b>Global Warming Crushes Records. Again. What we&#8217;re seeing has no precedent.<\/b><\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/earth-experiences-global-warming-spurt-19877\"><b>Earth is Experiencing a Global Warming Spurt<\/b><\/a> (Climate Central, 1\/5\/2016):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The effects of the PDO on global warming can be likened to a staircase, with warming leveling off for periods, typically of more than a decade, and then bursting upward.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Obama: International Community &#8216;Disturbed&#8217; by Republican Candidates&#8217; Positions:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2016\/02\/obama-climate-change-trump-nuclear-codes\"><b>VIDEO: Obama &#8211; Americans Won&#8217;t Trust Trump With the Nuclear Codes<\/b><\/a> (Mother Jones):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">World leaders find the positions of GOP candidates &#8220;troubling,&#8221;\u009d the president says&#8230;.&#8221;They&#8217;re all denying climate change. I think that&#8217;s troubling to the international community, since the science is unequivocal\u2026The other countries around the world, they kind of count on the United States being on the side of science and reason and common sense, because they know that if the United States does not act on big problems in smart ways, nobody will&#8230;There&#8217;s not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change, that thinks it&#8217;s serious.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.com\/story\/news\/2016\/02\/16\/sunnylands-obama-asean-statement\/80457706\/\"><b>Obama&#8217;s ASEAN summit ends with business, security pact<\/b><\/a> (Desert Sun)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Study: Air Pollution Kills Nearly 6 Million A Year Globally:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2016\/02\/14\/3749535\/air-pollution-mortality\/\"><b>Air Pollution Kills More People Than Malnutrition And Unsafe Sex, Scientists Say<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">&#8220;There are about 55 million deaths each year,&#8221;\u009d he said. &#8220;That means that air pollution in general here is about 10 percent of the total.&#8221;\u009d<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Environment\/2016\/0213\/Air-pollution-blamed-for-5.5-million-deaths-annually.-What-are-India-China-doing\"><b>Air Pollution Blamed For 5.5 Million Deaths Annually<\/b><\/a> (CS Monitor):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">More than 5.5 million people die from air pollution each year, with more than 3 million of these deaths occurring in China and India.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-35568249\"><b>Polluted air causes 5.5 million deaths a year new research says<\/b><\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Coal Mining Has Flattened Appalachia:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/tech\/science\/watchdog-earth\/2016\/02\/16\/flattening-appalachia\/80442484\/#\"><b>Flattening of Appalachia: What happens after mountaintop removal<\/b><\/a> (Courier-Journal):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The team comparing digitized topographic maps from West Virginia before mountaintop mining became extensive with elevation data collected by aircraft in 2010. They found mines and valley fills from 10 to 200 meters deep. Across the region, the average slope of the land dropped by more than 10 degrees post-mining.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/mountaintop-removal-mining-is-flattening-appalachia\/\"><b>Mountaintop removal mining is flattening Appalachia<\/b><\/a> (Grist)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2016\/02\/01\/3743082\/renewables-revolution\/\"><b>How the Coal Industry Flattened the Mountains of Appalachia<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>Renewable Energy Revolution Happening Faster Than Predicted:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2016\/02\/01\/3743082\/renewables-revolution\/\"><b>Why the Renewables Revolution Is Now Unstoppable<\/b><\/a> (Climate Progress):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Once upon a time, people imagined that replacing fossil fuels with renewables like solar and wind would jeopardize the electric grid&#8217;s reliability. Then along came some major countries who showed that it didn&#8217;t, and that there really are no limits to renewable integration.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/04\/renewable-energy-revolution\/#_Ayr.xMWfSqw\"><b>The renewable energy revolution is already upon us, report shows<\/b><\/a> (Mashable):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">On the campaign trail, many candidates tend to portray the clean energy revolution as a pie-in-the-sky idea, with new investments needed in oil and gas drilling while we wait for a technological fix to solve our energy and global warming challenges&#8230;.In fact,<b> we are now in the midst of a far more rapid shift away from fossil fuels, such as coal, to renewables, including solar and wind power, than anyone has realized<\/b>, including the candidates for president.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/about.bnef.com\/video\/sustainable-energy-america-factbook-short-interview\/\"><b>VIDEO: Sustainable Energy in America &#8220;\u201c &#8216;A Factbook short interview&#8217;<\/b><\/a> (Bloomberg New Energy Finance)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i>&#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;<\/i> (Stuff we didn&#8217;t have time for in today&#8217;s audio report)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/latest-moose-count-provides-little-good-news\/368999741\/\"><b>Latest Moose Count Provides Little Good News<\/b><\/a> (Minneapolis Star-Tribune):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Minnesota&#8217;s moose continued their long decline in 2015.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellinghamherald.com\/news\/local\/article60156446.html\"><b>Washington Asks If Railroads Could Afford $700M Oil Train Spill<\/b><\/a> (Bellingham Herald):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Railroads that haul oil trains through Washington state will need to report whether they could afford around $700 million to pay for a derailment and spill, under a recently finalized state rule.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2016\/02\/17\/ohio-epa-fires-two-over-sebring-contamination.html\"><b>Ohio EPA Fires Two Over Sebring Contamination<\/b><\/a> (Columbus Dispatch):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency fired two employees in its Columbus office on Wednesday, and demoted a third employee in the EPA&#8217;s northeastern district over lead contamination in the Mahoning County village of Sebring.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-coal-cleanup-idUSKCN0VQ2OC\"><b>Wyoming Says Its Coal Mine Cleanup Policy Is Flawed<\/b><\/a> (Reuters):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">A program that has allowed U.S. coal companies to forego cleanup insurance on massive western mines is flawed and needs to be fixed, Wyoming officials have told federal regulators.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/us-60-percent-of-global-methane-growth-20037\"><b>Study Ties U.S. to Spike in Global Methane Emissions<\/b><\/a> (Climate Central):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">There was a huge global spike in one of the most potent greenhouse gases driving climate change over the last decade, and the U.S. may be the biggest culprit, according a new Harvard University study.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-pipeline-corrosion-caused-santa-barbara-oil-spill-federal-officials-say-20160217-story.html\"><b>Pipeline Corrosion Caused Santa Barbara Oil Spill: Federal Officials<\/b><\/a> (LA Times):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Federal regulators say corrosion on the outside of an oil pipeline was the cause of a major crude spill on the Santa Barbara coast last year.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Environment\/2016\/0216\/Oklahoma-cracks-down-on-injection-wells-after-earthquake-spike\"><b>Oklahoma Cracks Down On Injection Wells After Earthquake Spike<\/b><\/a> (CS Monitor):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The Sooner State has switched strategies, limiting not just the depth, but amount of wastewater than oil and gas producers can pump back underground.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/civileats.com\/2016\/02\/17\/fda-to-start-testing-for-glyphosate-in-food\/\"><b>FDA to Start Testing for Glyphosate in Food<\/b><\/a> (Civil Eats):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the nation&#8217;s chief food safety regulator, plans to start testing certain foods for residues of the world&#8217;s most widely used weed killer after the World Health Organization&#8217;s cancer experts last year declared the chemical a probable human carcinogen.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-michigan-water-idUSKCN0VP2SD\"><b>Contaminated Flint Water Among Most Expensive In The U.S.: Report<\/b><\/a> (Reuters):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Residents of Flint, Michigan, one of the poorest cities in the United States, paid some of the nation&#8217;s highest water bills even as the city failed to treat drinking water properly, leading to lead contamination, according to a report released on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2016\/02\/15\/study-flags-concerns-co2-underground-stores-could-leak\/\"><b>Study Flags Concerns CO2 Underground Stores Could Leak<\/b><\/a> (Climate Change News):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Carbon dioxide pumped into old oil wells could react with salt water and erode &#8216;host rocks&#8217; and cement, researchers find\/<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/13\/science\/two-thirds-of-the-world-faces-severe-water-shortages.html?_r=0\"><b>Two-Thirds of the World Faces Severe Water Shortages<\/b><\/a> (NY Tiems):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">About four billion people, or two-thirds of the world&#8217;s population, face severe water shortages during at least one month every year, far more than was previously thought, according to Arjen Y. Hoekstra, a professor of water management at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/15\/oxfords-halley-professor-on-how-the-climate-challenge-could-derail-humanitys-destiny\/\"><b>Oxford&#8217;s Halley Professor on How the Climate Challenge Could Derail a Brilliant Human Destiny<\/b><\/a> (Dot Earth):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">This long-term view shows that the next few decades offer a brief window of opportunity to minimize large-scale and potentially catastrophic climate change that will extend longer than the entire history of human civilization thus far. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2016\/feb\/08\/sea-level-rise-could-last-twice-as-long-as-human-history\"><b>Sea-Level Rise &#8216;Could Last Twice As Long As Human History&#8217;<\/b><\/a> (Guardian UK):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Huge sea-level rises caused by climate change will last far longer than the entire history of human civilisation to date, according to new research, unless the brief window of opportunity of the next few decades is used to cut carbon emissions drastically.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-01-25\/record-warmth-almost-certainly-due-to-humans-scientists-say\"><b>Record Warmth `Almost Certainly&#8217; Due to Humans, Scientists Say<\/b><\/a> (Bloomberg):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The odds are &#8220;vanishingly small&#8221; that recent years of record warmth aren&#8217;t due to human emissions of greenhouse gases, researchers in the U.S. and Germany said, adding to pressure on world governments to cut back on fossil fuel use.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<hr width=\"50%\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE on Climate Science and Climate Change, go to our<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?page_id=10012\"><strong><i>Green News Report: Essential Background Page<\/i><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skepticalscience.com\"><b>Skeptical Science: Database with FULL DEBUNKING of ALL Climate Science Denier Myths<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcoexist.com\/3034316\/4-scenarios-show-what-climate-change-will-do-to-the-earth-from-pretty-bad-to-disaster#1\"><b>4 Scenarios Show What Climate Change Will Do To The Earth,\n<li>From Pretty Bad To Disaster<\/b><\/a> (Fast CoExist):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">But exactly how bad is still an open question, and a lot depends not only on how we react, but how quickly. The rate at which humans cut down on greenhouse gas emissions&#8211;if we do choose to cut them&#8211;will have a large bearing on how the world turns out by 2100, the forecasts reveal.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-to-solve-global-warming-its-the-energy-supply\/\"><b>How to Solve Global Warming: It&#8217;s the Energy Supply<\/b><\/a> (Scientific American):\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Restraining global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius will require <b>changing how the world produces and uses energy to power its cities and factories, heats and cools buildings, as well as moves people and goods in airplanes, trains, cars, ships and trucks<\/b>, according to the IPCC. Changes are required not just in technology, but also in people&#8217;s behavior.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/apocalypse-now-climate-change-is-going-to-kick-our-asses\/\"><b>Warning: Even in the best-case scenario, climate change will kick our asses<\/b><\/a> (Grist)<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><b>NASA Video: Warming over the last 130 years, and into the next 100 years:<\/b><\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10167\"><b>Video Proof That Global Warming is a &#8216;Hoax&#8217;!: NASA Temperature Data 1888-2011<\/b><\/a> (The BRAD BLOG):<\/li>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EoOrtvYTKeE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=39cBqY1sszY&#038;feature=c4-overview&#038;list=UUAY-SMFNfynqz1bdoaV8BeQ\"><b>NASA climate change video: This is the U.S. in 2100<\/b><\/a> (NASA).<\/li>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39cBqY1sszY?list=UUAY-SMFNfynqz1bdoaV8BeQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!&#8230;(Or use &#8220;Click here to listen&#8230;&#8221; link below.) 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