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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Climate Change Explained

Climate Change 101
Bill Nye
National Geographic

Published on Dec 2, 2015
Climate Change is a real and serious issue. In this video Bill Nye, the Science Guy, explains what causes climate change, how it affects our planet, why we need to act promptly to mitigate its effects, and how each of us can contribute to a solution.

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Climate Change Explained
Published on Dec 2, 2015
A straightforward explanation of Climate Change: the heat from human emissions is roughly equal to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs every day. Historically, every time carbon dioxide levels increase in Earth's atmosphere, the average surface temperature increases, ice melts, and the seas rise.


Monday, March 27, 2017

Undoing Obama’s Legacy On Climate Change

About To Undo
Obama’s Legacy
On Climate Change

The White House plans to scrap a rule on power plant emissions, kneecapping U.S. participation in the Paris climate accord.
By Alexander C. Kaufman - 03/27/2017
Business & Environment Reporter, The Huffington Post

Trump plans to sign an executive order on Tuesday rolling back Obama-era policies to curb planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Sunday.
In an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Pruitt said the order will be called the “Energy Independence Executive Order.” It is expected to undo former President Barack Obama’s signature program to deal with climate change, the Clean Power Plan, which limited greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. 
“We have made tremendous progress on our environment. We can be both pro-jobs and pro-environment,” Pruitt said. “The executive order will address the past administration’s effort to kill jobs throughout the country through the Clean Power Plan.”
The executive order will likely take other measures to protect the coal industry, such as instructing the Department of the Interior to lift a temporary ban on coal leasing on federal lands that the Obama administration put in place last year. The order is also expected to scrap federal guidances instructing agencies to factor climate change into policymaking, and to disband a team tasked with calculating the “social cost of carbon.”

Undoing The Clean Power Plan
Trump’s executive order will likely kneecap the federal government’s most important policy for reducing carbon emissions. Doing so would also hamper U.S. efforts to meet the commitments made more than a year ago in the 195-country Paris Agreement ― the first global climate deal to include the U.S. and China, the world’s biggest polluters. 
The long-expected order would give teeth to Trump’s America First Energy Plan, a vague policy outline he issued after his inauguration to eliminate Obama’s Climate Action Plan.
Obama’s plan, launched in 2013, set a strategy for combating climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The utility sector accounts for the greatest portion of the U.S. carbon footprint, producing 30 percent of all emissions, according to 2014 data from the EPA. That’s largely because coal, by far the dirtiest-burning fossil fuel, has long served as the country’s primary source of electricity.
The core of Obama’s initiative was the Clean Power Plan, a sweeping EPA rule that aimed to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent below 2005 levels. The policy set new standards for new natural gas-burning power plants, and put stricter limits on coal-fired, steam-based plants. By implementing the plan, the U.S. hoped meet its emissions reduction goals as part of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. (The failure of previous global deals, such as the 1992 Kyoto Protocol, hinged partly on the United States’ refusal to implement emission cuts.) 
The president’s elder daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, convinced the president to remove language from his new order that was critical of the Paris accord, according to The Wall Street Journal. It’s unclear how the U.S. can meet its commitments without the Clean Power Plan in place. 
Last year, a coalition of Republican-controlled states ― led by Pruitt, who was then Oklahoma’s attorney general ― filed a lawsuit to stop the emissions rules, prompting the Supreme Court to grant a stay suspending implementation. Pruitt launched at least 13 lawsuits against the EPA before he became the agency’s administrator last month.
Repealing those rules could prove expensive and deadly, costing the U.S. economy up to $600 billion by removing critical incentives to increase energy efficiency, according to the research firm Energy Innovation. The CCP’s repeal could lead to billions of tons of carbon being released into the atmosphere, which in turn could contribute to more than 120,000 premature deaths, according to a writeup of the study in Forbes.
Still, another Supreme Court decision may hinder the Trump administration’s efforts to completely scrap the plan. In 2007’s Massachusetts v. EPA, the court ruled that greenhouse gas emissions constituted pollution, requiring the EPA to take action. Plus, courts work both ways: Environmental groups are widely expected to sue over attempts to stop cutting emissions. 
“In order to make policy change, it’s going to need to be supported by the science, and that’s where I think ultimately the effort is going to founder,” Pete Fontaine, a veteran environmental lawyer who worked at the EPA, told The Huffington Post. “Yes, you can cut programs and you can go about it with your fiscal authority to try to change policy, but in order to modify regulations, you have to be able to withstand an arbitrary-and-capricious standard.” 
Such standards, which can be used to overturn previous court rulings, would need to stand the test of climate science, Fontaine said. 
“Facts will not be changed by people expressing beliefs in an alternative set of facts,” he said. “The science is well settled on climate change, and that science is based on literally more than a century of scientific inquiry and the laws of physics, which are going to govern here no matter what people say is contrary to their beliefs.” 
Yet a battle appears to be brewing in the Trump administration over the future of the endangerment clause, policy that spawned from the Supreme Court’s ruling categorizing carbon dioxide and methane emissions as a public health threat. David Schnare, an appointee from the EPA transition team, quit suddenly earlier this month in part because Pruitt refused to take on the clause, Politico reported. 
“The backstory to my resignation is extremely complex,” Schnare told E&E News, an energy and environment news wire. “I will be writing about it myself. It is a story not about me, but about a much more interesting set of events involving misuse of federal funds, failure to honor oaths of office, and a lack of loyalty to the president.”


King Coal’s Decree
By lifting the temporary moratorium on coal leasing, the Trump administration is ending a policy aimed at lessening the environmental impact of mining and increasing the government’s yield on investment.
The current rules grant coal companies the right to apply to schedule leases at times favorable to them, as well as to design the tracts and control the terms on which they’re offered. Critics say the standards are lopsided, giving coal producers above-market-value cuts of revenue generated from mining.
The government levies an 8 percent cut of revenue from underground mining and takes 12.5 percent from surface mining, which includes environmentally destructive techniques such as mountaintop removal and open pit mining. That money is split between the federal government and the state where the coal is mined. 
But Dan Bucks, former director of revenue for the state of Montana, a major coal producer, said the leasing program is “essentially broken,” with more than 90 percent of leases awarded without real competition. 
“Lease payments, for those of us who have examined from outside can determine, have failed the market value standard test,” he said. “The American people have been shortchanged on the leasing side as well as the royalty side.”
“The Obama administration wanted to fix that,” added Bucks, who is not aligned with either Democrats or Republicans. “They wanted to update the leasing program so public issues, namely environmental issues and climate change, could be taken into account before leases were offered.” 
Trump vowed to resuscitate the coal business by axing environmental rules that he and the industry blame for years of decline and thousands of layoffs. Those promises won him big victories in coal country. But shrinking market demand has actually played a bigger role in coal’s decline.
Cheaper, cleaner-burning natural gas has devoured coal’s share of the electricity market over the past decade. In response, coal companies have bet big on continued demand from China. But Chinese demand peaked in 2012, and has since plummeted due to the country’s slowing economy and a move to suspend the construction of coal-fired power plants in favor of renewable energy.

A War On Environmental Protections
Trump has put numerous other environmental regulations on the chopping block since his inauguration. He and many Republican lawmakers argue that these rules created unnecessary and at times pricey hurdles for corporations and small businesses.
Last week, the White House proposed slashing the EPA’s budget by nearly one-third, a move that would eliminate popular programs like Energy Star and environmental justice initiatives, and would cripple the agency’s enforcement division. The EPA scrapped a rule earlier this month requiring oil and gas drillers to report leaks of methane, a greenhouse gas 40 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Last month, after House Republicans voted to overturn a rule protecting waterways from coal mining pollution, Trump signed an order instructing the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to overhaul the 2015 Waters of the United States rule, which expanded federal control over wetlands and other waterways by 3 percent. The rule essentially provided guidelines on whether anti-pollution laws would apply if, for example, a farmer dams a stream to make a pond for livestock or a developer fills in a marsh to build a new house.
But in the view of the country’s top environmental policymaker, the pendulum swung too far in the direction of environmentalists under the previous administration, and course correction is needed.
“We need a pro-growth and pro-environment approach for how we do regulations in this country,” Pruitt said on Sunday. “For too long, we have accepted a narrative that if you’re pro-growth, pro-jobs, you’re anti-environment.”


Difference Between Global Warming & Climate Change

The Difference Between
Global Warming & Climate Change



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This Is Why Some People
Don't Believe in Scientific Facts
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Science skeptics are not ill-informed, but they tend to cherry-pick information that supports their beliefs.
BY MOLLY FOSCO


US science agencies reported in early January that 2016 surpassed both 2014 and 2015 as the hottest year on record. Sixteen of the warmest 17 years ever measured have occurred since 2000. Yet, only 45 percent of Americans agree with the scientific consensus that the planet is warming and it's a very serious problem.

Acceptance of scientific fact divides along partisan lines in the US. Many Republicans doubt the existence of climate change, or that it's a problem caused by humans, despite the plethora of scientific evidence to support it. 

Democrats are far more likely to consider climate change a serious problem.
Questioning the validity of science is nothing new in the United States. While researchers have long identified ideology and beliefs as driving forces behind scientific doubt, whether it's climate change, vaccinations or even the link between tobacco and cancer, the recent, high-profile skepticism of proven scientific theories is renewing the importance of science literacy. 

Matthew Hornsey, a psychology professor from the University of Queensland, has looked extensively at why some people embrace — and others resist — scientific messages about climate change, vaccines and evolution, among other topics.

In his most recent study, Hornsey led a team that conducted a series of observational studies, surveys and experiments, aimed at revealing the ideologies, cultural norms and cognitive processes that lead some people to question the validity of science. Their goal is to make future science messaging more effective on skeptics.
It's tempting to think that skepticism is an affliction of the ill-informed, but Hornsey found this to be untrue.
"In fact, among Republicans, climate skepticism is higher among those who are more educated," Hornsey said. "Education in some ways gives you the skills and resources to cherry-pick data and to curate your own sense of reality, one that's in-line with your underlying worldviews," he added.
It's also easy to think, Hornsey said, that all skeptics must have similar geographic, economic or cultural backgrounds. But researchers failed to find a single commonality that was true for all skeptics across the different areas of science that receive the most criticism.
"If you've got a group of climate skeptics in the same room as a group of anti-vaxxers, for example, they'd probably have very little in common," Hornsey commented.
People who are skeptical of science treat facts as more or less relevant depending on whether it supports their opinion or ideology. Saying something is a "fact" or "data" does not change their mind.
Hornsey said skeptics often manipulate data to support their ideas. "1998 was an unusually hot year, so if you look at a graph of global temperatures that starts in 1998, it gives the impression that warming is slower than it would if you started the graph in any other year," he said.

While it might be difficult to alter a person's view of the role of government in society or whether scientists are trustworthy, Hornsey said it is possible for science communicators to present their findings in a way that might be more digestible to skeptics.

Researchers found that identifying a person's underlying motive or belief, then aligning messages with those ideas, was the most effective strategy. 

"There's evidence that Republicans are more skeptical about climate change because they have a strong moral suspicion of big government," Hornsey said. "They reject the science because they don't like the solution: government regulations that curb industry."
If you point out that new industries designed to combat climate change could create more jobs and achieve greater energy security, however, a skeptic might be more supportive.

Hornsey noted, "It's amazing how open-minded and curious people can be to science if the science doesn't challenge their underlying ideologies and vested interests." 

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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Nina 🐕 & Alex 😃

🐕 Nina & Alex 😃
Nina had not seen Alex in a while. (Alex is the son of the super and Nina was his and Larry's Dog for the first 5 months of her life... before she moved in with me.) 
Going out for a walk she sees Alex in the lobby and reacts...
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She then goes to the door as she needs to pee badly
Alex signs to her to give him the leash -  which she picks up and hands it to him. (March 2017)

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 Alex Last Day working on Sundays
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Snow Storm of March 14, 2017

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Pi Day - π π

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Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi)

Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14 in the month/day date format) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant digits of π

In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day.

Pi Approximation Day is observed on July 22 (22/7 in the day/month date format), since the fraction 227 is a common approximation of π, which is accurate to two decimal places and dates from Archimedes.

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How the Number 3.14 Got the Name ‘Pi’

This Is How the Number 3.14
Got the Name ‘Pi’
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Olivia B. Waxman
It’s not hard to figure out why March 14 is celebrated annually as “Pi Day” by math fans: The date resembles the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter — the number that begins 3.14, perhaps better known Pi ( π ), which the holiday’s official website describes as an “irrational and transcendental number” whose decimals “continue infinitely without repetition or pattern.“
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What was hard to figure out was the number itself.
Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse, who lived in the third century B.C. and is considered the greatest mathematician of the ancient world, is credited with doing the first calculation of pi.

However, not too many generations after his lifetime, the world experienced a "real decline in math,” according to John Conway, mathematics professor emeritus at Princeton University who once won the school’s Pi Day pie-eating contest. “Math and science in general went into a great decline from roughly the year zero to the year 1,000, and then the Arabs developed lots of math after that, like trigonometry.”

As the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) explains, modern arithmetic techniques, which were probably discovered in India before the fifth century, took centuries to spread throughout Europe: “Even though the Indo-Arabic system, as it is now known, was introduced to Europeans first by Gerbert of Aurillac (c. 946–1003, who became Pope Sylvester II in 999) in the 10th century, and again, in greater detail and more successfully, by Fibonacci in the early 13th century, Europe was slow to adopt it, hampering progress in both science and commerce.”

Ancient research on real numbers likely “didn’t get improved upon until the age of Newton,” says Conway. Sir Isaac Newton recorded 16 digits of pi in 1665, later admitting that he was “ashamed” of how long he had worked on the computations, as it meant that he had “no other business at the time,” per the MAA.

It was not until the 18th century — about two millennia after the significance of the number 3.14 was first calculated by Archimedes — that the name “pi” was first used to denote the number. In other words, the Greek letter used to represent the idea was not actually picked by the Ancient Greeks who discovered it.

British mathematician William Jones came up with the Greek letter and symbol for the figure in 1706, and it was popularized by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, Catherine the Great’s mathematician, a few decades later.
“Euler was a much better mathematician than the people who used [pi] before, and he wrote very good textbooks,” says Conway. “He used it because the Greek letter Pi corresponds with the letter 'P’… and pi is about the perimeter of the circle.”

Pi Day as holiday for math whizzes to eat pie and dress up in pi-themed hats and costumes originated much later, about 30 years ago, at the Exploratorium, a science museum in San Francisco, where physicist Larry Shaw organized such a celebration. (The day also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday.) In 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution designating March 14 as “National Pi Day” to encourage “schools and educators to observe the day with appropriate activities that teach students about Pi and engage them about the study of mathematics.”

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Happy Birthday to Albert Einstein b March 14, 1879

Happy Birthday to Albert Einstein

Born     14 March 1879
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire

Died     18 April 1955 (aged 76)
Princeton, New Jersey,  U.S.
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Albert Einstein  14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
Was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). 
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Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"). 
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He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory.
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He was visiting the United States when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and, being Jewish, did not go back to Germany, where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences

He settled in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1940.
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On the eve of World War II, he endorsed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt alerting him to the potential development of "extremely powerful bombs of a new type" and recommending that the U.S. begin similar research. 

This eventually led to what would become the Manhattan Project. Einstein supported defending the Allied forces, but generally denounced the idea of using the newly discovered nuclear fission as a weapon. Later, with the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, Einstein signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, which highlighted the danger of nuclear weapons. Einstein was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955.


Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers along with over 150 non-scientific works. On 5 December 2014, universities and archives announced the release of Einstein's papers, comprising more than 30,000 unique documents. Einstein's intellectual achievements and originality have made the word "Einstein" synonymous with "genius".

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Saturday, March 11, 2017

No One Sits / Eats Lunch Alone...


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At one High School, No One Eats Lunch Alone


A group of high school students in Florida have dedicated part of their day to making sure their fellow classmates have some company at lunchtime.

A club called We Dine Together at Boca Raton Community High School in Boca Raton, Florida, consists of students who roam their school’s courtyard during lunch looking for students who are eating alone. They then introduce themselves and get to know the students.

Denis Estimon, a Boca High senior who emigrated from Haiti in the first grade, is the founder of We Dine Together, a club that reaches out to fellow students during lunch to ensure that no one sits alone. He says having been the new kid before, he knows all too well how it feels to be excluded. And he doesn’t want any other kid to have to feel that way.
Denis tells Babble that upon moving the the U.S., he was very lonely. “There was a language barrier and then after school my mom was working and my dad was still in Haiti,” he explains. “It was a hard time.”
Yet the high schooler, who by all accounts seems very mature for his age, adds that his home situation “wasn’t that bad” — unlike that of many of his peers. “Imagine kids who come from a lot worse,” he notes. “Imagine what they are going through.”

In an interview with Steve Hartman for CBS Evening News, Estimon explained his motivation for the club.

“To me it’s like … if we don’t try and go make that change, who’s going to do it?” he said.

Allie Sealy, who also helped organize the club, got emotional while remembering what it was like to sit alone at lunch.

“Meeting someone who actually cares and listens to what you have to say really makes a difference,” she told Hartman. “And that could happen at lunch, that could happen at our club.”

Viewers who watched Hartman’s piece, which aired on CBS for his “On The Road” segment, praised the club m
embers for extending a helping hand.
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High school students create club so no one eats alone at lunch time
The ‘We Dine Together’ lunch club aims to stop children feeling isolated

Denis Estimon, who started the club, told CBS News that when he first arrived at school in the first grade after leaving Haiti, he felt isolated, which was especially difficult during his lunch break.
Now a senior, Denis has made numerous friends throughout his school years, but he wanted to make sure other students do not experience the same isolation he did. 
“It’s not a good feeling, like you’re by yourself. And that’s something that I don’t want anybody to go through,” he said.
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Teen’s Lunch Club Ensures No One Eats Alone at This Florida High School.
Most impressively, Denis realizes the need to recruit kids from schools who need We Dine Together the most. He tells Babble that the leadership summit will target schools with high suicide rates, for example. And it will build upon the founding concept of the club, says Denis — “from acceptance to breaking social barriers of isolation to building long lasting relationships over the table.”
Maybe with more students like Denis in schools across the country, kids really will believe that they matter, and that they too can be leaders and agents for change.


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Teens start club to make sure no student feels alone at lunch
Their mission is to go into the courtyard at lunchtime to make sure no one is starving for company. For new kids especially, the club is a godsend.
Since it started last fall, hundreds of friendships have formed, some very unlikely.
Jean Max Meradieu actually quit the football team, gave up all perks that come with it, just so he could spend more time with this club.  “I don’t mind not getting a football scholarship. This is what I really want to do,” Jean said.
Just imagine how different your teenage years would have been if the coolest kids in school all of a sudden decided you mattered.
“We’ll get to know each other better,” Jean said to another student.
It obviously takes a lot of empathy to devote your lunch period to this. Either that, or firsthand experience.
“I went from a school where I always had friends -- to coming to where I had nobody,” said club member Allie Sealy.
Allie transferred to Boca High two years ago. She says with no one to sit next to, lunch can be the most excruciating part of the day.
http://www.ktvq.com/story/34735181/teens-start-club-to-make-sure-no-student-feels-alone-at-lunch


The club has a Facebook page where members share daily updates about their meetings and explain how other students can get involved.
Most recently, the group shared a poem delivered by Nathaniel Hopwood, one of the club’s members.
“This is an insight to our weekly club meetings held at Boca Raton Community High School,” the page explained.
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