Articles: Nuclear Weapons and Climate Science
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https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-jerry-brown-doomsday-20190124-story.html
Retired CA Governor Jerry Brown is now: the executive chairman of the Bulletin
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article published Jan. 24, 2019 - The Doomsday Clock
Evan Halper writes about a broad range of policy issues out of Washington D.C., with particular emphasis on how Washington regulates, agitates and very often miscalculates in its dealings with California. Before heading east, he was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Sacramento, where he spent a decade untangling California’s epic budget mess and political dysfunction.
Nuclear weapons' surprising contribution to climate science
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120713091631.htm
Nuclear weapons testing may at first glance appear to have little connection with climate change research. But key Cold War research laboratories and the science used to track radioactivity and model nuclear bomb blasts have today been repurposed by climate scientists.
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Nuclear Disarmament’s Lessons for Climate Change. -
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/12/nuclear-disarmaments-lessons-for-climate-change//
says this and more:
A 2012 report of experts published by the aid organization DARA International calculated that 400,000 people die every year as a direct result of carbon-induced climate change. According to the journalist David Wallace-Wells, writing in New York magazine, scientists project that catastrophic heat waves, food shortages, and warming-induced plagues will hit the earth in only a few decades. The latest—and inherently conservative—report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of extreme weather and the displacement of millions of people.
a humanitarian crisis
After decades working unsuccessfully through the Non-Proliferation Treaty conference forum, ban advocates finally changed strategies in 2006. They began to talk about nuclear weapons not as a threat to state security but as a global humanitarian issue. They began calling on states to abandon the Non-Proliferation Treaty and ban the weapons altogether. They started organizing their own, separate conferences, inviting states to sign the “Humanitarian Pledge.” Ultimately, 122 nations did so, and the document has already started to influence how nuclear nations justify their arsenals. As political scientists know, this is the first step in global normative and political change.
authors:
Charli Carpenter is a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Ronald Mitchell is a professor of political science at the University of Oregon.
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This is what our current administration is doing to combat the science! ! !
so interesting…hiring nuclears weapons expert to lead climate review ! !
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/white-house-eyes-nuclear-weapons-expert-lead-climate-review
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