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Was seeking this part far and wide, as the manufacturer does not list this item. In fact, it is listed as not available, so I was really glad to find it here. However, I've been trying to see how it will fit....and as there are no instructions....it's taking a bit of time and challenge.
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I need to move a huge amount of data from a couple tables in an old database to a couple different tables in a new database. The databases are SQL Server 2005 and are on the same box and sql server instance. I was told that if I try to do it all in one shot that the transaction log would fill up. Is there a way to disable the transaction log per table? If not, what is a good method for doing this? Would a cursor do it? This is just a one-time conversion.
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Do not use a cursor, that would take forever!
Another alternative would be to perform the inserts in a loop that limits the number of rows included in a single transaction (thereby preventing the transaction log from growing too much).
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I know this probably sounds silly, but depending on your environment risk (and what the likelihood of it really filling up the transaction log), I might just go for it. All you risk is the transaction log filling up, your transaction rolling back and the other database users being slightly inconvenienced until that space is freed up again. If it's development or a new database, people might not notice.
You can split it up into batches of "reasonable" size (again, this depends). If that is simply too difficult (no good partitioning strategy), use SSIS and do the transfer and set a batch commit limit.
In either case, if the operation is interrupted, you will only have ACID on the committed transactions, obviously. Sometimes it is easier to TRUNCATE the destination table and reattempt the entire transfer, depending on how long (depending on indexes and unique key availability) it can actually take to determine which rows were transferred and which were not.


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The documentary Sushi: The Global Catch tries to be two things at once: an international survey of the way sushi is marketed, prepared, and consumed, and an argument for sustainability, particularly with regard to the bluefin tuna population. These threads are related, but one nonetheless takes away from the other.
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Oct 5, 2014First 30 Minutes are great. A fascinating background of the global fish trade is provided with plenty of insight, complete with industryFirst 30 Minutes are great. A fascinating background of the global fish trade is provided with plenty of insight, complete with industry experts at all levels. Then, the movie sharply and suddenly turns into an hour-long environmentalist propaganda campaign. The organization Greenpeace is painted in a glowy light, with disregard for their illegal activities. A lot of unqualified statements are made about the fishing industry and the movie concludes with an advertisement for a "sustainable" sushi restaurant in Southern California.
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I have an array of data created by a form that and I would like find out if it contains a specific value and let the user know that it is there. This is my array:
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March 15 The Illinois Senate voted to put the state's electric grid modernization efforts back on track to improve reliability and create jobs, the local unit of U.S. power company Ameren Corp said.
In 2011, the Illinois legislature passed a law that provided incentives for utilities like Ameren Illinois to upgrade the state's electric infrastructure.
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I noticed with my board from DIY drones a strange behavior when I use my custom firmware. Here is an example function which is called in my firmware running on an Arduino board:
void send_attitude(float roll, float pitch, float yaw) {
roll, pitch, yaw);
As you can see, the code just writing a message in the serial port set in setup (hal.uartA). I call this function every 0.5s:
inline void medium_loop() {
static int timer = 0;
int time = hal.scheduler->millis() - timer;
// send every 0.5 s
if(time > 500) {
send_attitude(OUT_PIT, OUT_ROL, OUT_YAW);
timer = hal.scheduler->millis();
Now to the strange thing. If I use the serial monitor or read the board with another program or script everything is fine. Every 0.5s the proper LED is blinking and message is shown. But if I don't read it out, after appr. 10s the LED is flushing up continuously and no connection/communication is possible anymore. I have to unplug the board then. The same behavior is observed the other way round. If I send to my board over serial port (in my case USB) and don't flush the input buffer, the LED is flushing up continuously and I get a timeout. The following code works:
def send_data(line):
# calc checksum
chk = chksum(line)
# concatenate msg and chksum
output = "%s*%x\r\n" % (line, chk)
bytes = ser.write(output)
except serial.SerialTimeoutException as e:
logging.error("Write timeout on serial port '{}': {}".format(com_port, e))
# Flush input buffer, if there is still some unprocessed data left
# Otherwise the APM 2.5 control boards stucks after some command
ser.flush() # Try to send old message
ser.flushInput() # Delete what is still inside the buffer
If I comment out this line:
ser.flushInput() # Delete what is still inside the buffer
I don't use more settings then this. I get (depending on the message interval) a timeout sooner or later. In my case I send every 20ms a signal which results in a timeout after ~10s. Also dependent on the length of message. Bigger messages cause it faster than smaller ones.
My settings are shown in the following snippets. Client side python code:
com_port = '/dev/ttyACM0'
baud_rate = '115200'
ser = serial.Serial(com_port, baud_rate, timeout=0.1, writeTimeout=0.1, rtscts=1)
The if these timeouts happen, then I also get one if I set the timeout to something like 2s. In my case I need a very low latency, which is indeed possible if I keep reading and flushing. Firmware code from my Arduino:
void setup() {
// Set baud rate when connected to RPi
hal.console->printf("Setup device ..\n");
// Followed by motor, compass, barometer initialization
My questions are:
What exactly happens with my board?
Why it is not reacting anymore if I just write in my serial port without reading or flushing the buffer?
Is it really a buffer or driver problem associated with this strange behavior and is this problem related to all Arduino boards or maybe just mine APM 2.5 from DIY drones?
Last but not least: I was finding no functions in the library which are targeting such problems. Are there maybe any I don't know?
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A study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters finds that five of the uninhabitated Solomon Islands have submerged underwater and six more have experienced dramatic shoreline reductions due to man-made climate change. The study by a team of Australian researchers offers scientific evidence confirming anecdotal accounts of climate change impacts on Pacific islands. That evidence consists in part of radiocarbon tree dating and of aerial and satellite images of 33 islands dating back to 1947.
According to the study authors, the Western Pacific, where residents in many remote communities must constantly climb to higher elevations, is a hotspot for tracking sea-level rise.
The Solomon Islands have experienced nearly three times the global average of sea-level rise, 7–10 millimeters per year since 1993—rates consistent with those that can be expected across much of the Pacific in the second half of this century, reported Scientific American.
Previous research had attributed Pacific island shoreline changes to a mix of extreme events, seawalls, and inappropriate coastal development as well as sea-level rise. But the new study directly links island loss to climate-related phenomena.
Human disturbances, plate tectonics, hurricanes, and waves can mask the effects of climate change. So to hone in on those effects, the researchers studied islands with no human habitation—Nuatambu Island being the one notable exception.
"Rates of shoreline recession are substantially higher in areas exposed to high wave energy, indicating a synergistic interaction between sea-level rise and waves," the study authors said. "Understanding these local factors that increase the susceptibility of islands to coastal erosion is critical to guide adaptation responses for these remote Pacific communities."
U.S. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall But Global CO2 Concentrations Rise
Last year, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the United States fell 12 percent below 2005 levels as a result of electric power sector changes.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA), which released the data, attributed the decline largely to "decreased use of coal and the increased use of natural gas for electricity generation." Such fuel use changes, the EIA reports, accounted for 68 percent of total energy-related carbon dioxide reductions from 2005 to 2015.
Meanwhile, carbon dioxide concentrations at a remote Australia monitoring station—Cape Grim—are poised to hit a new high of 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide for the first time in a few weeks. Though that mark is largely symbolic, the United Nations suggests that concentrations of all greenhouse gases should not be allowed to peak higher than 450 ppm this century to maximize chances of limiting global temperature rise.
"We wouldn't have expected to reach the 400 ppm mark so early," said David Etheridge, an atmospheric scientist with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), which runs the station. "With El Nino, the ocean essentially caps off its ability to take up heat so the concentrations are growing fast as warmer land areas release carbon. So we would have otherwise expected it to happen later in the year."
The first 400 ppm milestone was hit in 2013 by a monitoring station in Mauna Loa. Cape Grim and Mauna Loa are among the stations that measure baseline carbon dioxide across the world. Their readings are unaffected by regional pollutions sources that would contaminate air quality.
Companies Relinquish Arctic Drilling Leases
Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips, and other major oil and gas companies have relinquished oil and gas leases worth approximately $2.5 billion and spanning 2.2 million acres of the Arctic Ocean.
The region is estimated to hold 27 billion barrels of oil and 132 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, but tapping these resources has come at great risk for companies.
"Given the current environment, our prospects in the Chukchi Sea are not competitive within our portfolio," said ConocoPhillips spokeswoman Natalie Lowman. "This will effectively eliminate any near-term plans for Chukchi exploration for the company."
Marketplace reports that data secured through a Freedom of Information Act request revealed that Shell, ConocoPhillips, Eni and Iona Energy have renounced all but one of their leases in the Chukchi Sea—meaning 80 percent of all area in the American Arctic leased in a 2008 sale has or will be abandoned.
Shell Spokesman Curtis Smith said "After extensive consideration and evaluation, Shell will relinquish all but one of its federal offshore leases in Alaska's Chukchi Sea. Separate evaluations are underway for our federal offshore leases in the Beaufort Sea. This action is consistent with our earlier decision not to explore offshore Alaska for the foreseeable future."
The Climate Post offers a rundown of the week in climate and energy news. It is produced each Thursday by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
Limiting global average temperature increase to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit that increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius—as agreed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris last year—will do little to stop portions of the world from becoming uninhabitable.
That's according to a new study published in the journal Climatic Change, which compares data from 1986 to 2005 with predictions from 26 climate models over the same period to project climate conditions for two future periods—2046 to 2065 and 2081 to 2100. In both cases, the highest temperature rise is predicted in summer in the Middle East and North Africa. By 2050, both study projections find the global temperature will be close to or have exceeded the 2 degree Celsius target.
"We have been investigating environmental issues, especially airborne dust, air quality and climate change, in the Middle East for many years," said Jos Lelieveld of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and study co-author. "Recently, we 'expanded' our interest to include North Africa, and discovered the important role of desert warming amplification in summer. It is evident that this can affect human habitability in the entire region. Since the Middle East and North Africa are troubled by many unfortunate developments, exceedingly hot summers can be expected to exacerbate problems."
A separate study by the World Bank suggests that the Middle East, North Africa, and central and South Asia could suffer large economic hits due to water scarcity associated with climate change. These regions could see their growth rates decline by as much as 6 percent of GDP by 2050 due to water-related impacts on agriculture, health and incomes.
"When we look at any of the major impacts of climate change, they one way or another come through water," said Richard Damania, lead author of the report. "So it will be no exaggeration to claim that climate change is really in fact about hydrological change."
To mitigate the impact of climate change on water supplies, the report suggests better planning for water resource allocation, adoption of incentives to increase water efficiency and investments in infrastructure for more secure water supplies and availability.
As Ocean Temps Rise, Ocean Oxygen Decreases
According to a new study in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, ocean oxygen levels are decreasing due to climate change—with grave consequences for oxygen-reliant sea life such as crabs, squids, and many kinds of fish. The authors say the deoxygenation effect is already detectable in the southern Indian Ocean and parts of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Atlantic.
"Loss of oxygen in the ocean is one of the serious side effects of a warming atmosphere, and a major threat to marine life," said lead author Matthew Long, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
The study uses a climate change model to attempt to determine precisely when ocean "deoxygenation" can be attributed to human-induced climate change, suggesting that differentiating between climate change-related losses and natural fluctuations will become increasingly less difficult. It predicts that by the 2030s, climate-change-related oxygen losses will be pervasive and obvious if greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked. By the year 2100, it says, a significant fraction of the world's oceans will experience some deoxygenation due to human activity.
"Since oxygen concentrations in the ocean naturally vary depending on variations in winds and temperature at the surface, it's been challenging to attribute any deoxygenation to climate change," Long said. "This new study tells us when we can expect the effect from climate change to overwhelm the natural variability."
As seas warm, their capacity to absorb oxygen at the surface decreases, along with water turnover, which in turn decreases the chances that oxygen at the surface will move under the surface. That's because as water heats, it expands and becomes lighter than the water beneath it and therefore less likely to sink. The low oxygen levels can create dead zones.
Florida Keys Coral Reefs Reach Climate-Related 'Tipping Point'
Two weeks after the world learned that 93 percent of Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been bleached comes word of damage to reefs around South Florida and the Keys as a result of ocean acidification linked to warming waters. According to research in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, reefs in the upper Florida Keys may be losing more limestone than they create each year—a "tipping point" that was projected for 2050 (subscription).
"These bleaching events are an acute problem caused by hot weather spells," said study co-author Chris Langdon, a professor at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. "Acidification is chronic; it lasts 365 days out of the year. This is one reason we have to reduce carbon dioxide emissions sooner than later."
Typically, conditions in the ocean, such as water temperature and light, are favorable for the growth of coral limestone in spring and summer and are less favorable in fall and winter. As oceans absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide and ocean pH decreases, the natural summer growth cycle of coral decreases such that the effects of coral dissolution from ocean acidification cannot be offset.
The study findings are based on water samples taken along the 124-mile stretch of the Florida Reef Tract north of Biscayne National Park to the Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary. Because the data were collected in 2009 and 2010, the researchers suggest that another analysis should be conducted.
"The worst bleaching years on record in the Florida Keys were 2014–2015, so there's a chance the reefs could be worse now," said Langdon.
The Climate Post offers a rundown of the week in climate and energy news. It is produced each Thursday by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.
Last week more than 150 nations signed the Paris Agreement, pledging to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Now, the first comprehensive analysis of the impacts of that half centigrade difference has been published in the journal Earth System Dynamics. The scientists found the additional 0.5 degrees Celsius would lead to longer heatwaves—"the difference between events at the upper limit of present-day natural variability and a new climate regime"—as well as more severe droughts and, in the tropics, decreased crop yield and the potential demise of all coral reefs. The extra 0.5 degrees Celsius could also mean that global sea levels rise 10 centimeters more by 2100.
"We found significant differences for all the impacts we considered," says the study's lead author Carl Schleussner, a scientific advisor at Climate Analytics in Germany.
The researchers analyzed climate models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, which focused on the projected regional impacts of 1.5 degrees Celsius and 2 degrees Celsius of warming, and considered 11 indicators, including extreme weather events, water availability, crop yields, coral reef degradation and sea-level rise.
They found that projected climate impacts at a 2 degrees Celsius increase are significantly more severe than at a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase in some regions. In the Mediterranean, for example, fresh-water availability by 2100 would be some 10 percent lower in a 1.5 degrees Celsius world and 17 percent lower in a 2 degrees Celsius world. In Central America and West Africa, the half-degree difference could reduce maize and wheat yields by twice as much. Tropical regions would bear the brunt of the impacts of an additional half degree of warming, experiencing heat waves at about twice the global rate. Those events could last up to three months at 2 degrees Celsius, compared with two months at 1.5 degrees Celsius, the researchers say.
Tropical coral reefs are particularly sensitive to the half degree increase. By 2100, some reefs might adapt to 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, but the larger increase would put nearly all of them at risk of severe degradation from coral bleaching.
EPA Moves Forward with Clean Energy Incentives Program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has sent a proposal on the Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP), an optional program included in the Clean Power Plan that rewards states for early investment in certain renewable energy or energy efficiency projects in 2020 and 2021, to the Office of Management and Budget for review. The move is the final step before the CEIP can be formally proposed to the public (subscription).
The EPA released details on the draft CEIP as part of the final Clean Power Plan—the Obama administration's rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the existing fleet of fossil fuel-fired power plants—in August. But, earlier this year, the Supreme Court issued a stay of the Clean Power Plan.
"Many states and tribes have indicated that they plan to move forward voluntarily to work to cut carbon pollution from power plants and have asked the agency to continue providing support and developing tools that may support those efforts, including the CEIP," the EPA said. "Sending this proposal to OMB for review is a routine step and it is consistent with the Supreme Court stay of the Clean Power Plan."
Pleasant Weather Affecting Americans' View of Climate Change
A new study in the journal Nature finds that 80 percent of Americans live in counties where the weather is more pleasant than four decades ago. This mild temperature trend, the study says, is increasingly preferred, lessening many Americans' concern about climate change.
"Rising temperatures are ominous symptoms of global climate change, but Americans are experiencing them at times of the year when warmer days are welcomed," said study co-author Patrick J. Egan, an associate professor at New York University's Wilf Family Department of Politics. He adds that "whereas weather patterns in recent decades have served as a poor source of motivation for Americans to demand a policy response to climate change, public concern may rise once people's everyday experiences of climate change effects start to become less pleasant."
Conducted by New York and Duke universities, the study examined each county in every U.S. state from 1974 to 2013—assessing the mildness of winters, rainfall averages, and humidity and heat intensity during summer months. It found that 99 percent of Americans live in places where the average January temperature increased.
"Here in the U.S., when we're experiencing ice storms, the idea of a 1.5 or 2 degree rise might sound like good news," said Megan Mullin, associate professor of environmental politics at Duke University. As a result, she said, scientists need to reconsider their messages.
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Four months after it was finalized by delegates to the Paris Climate Change Conference, the Paris Agreement will be signed by more than 100 nations on Friday. While the agreement is facially insufficient to meet its overall emissions objectives, the signing of the Paris agreement nevertheless is significant. It brings into effect the approach and policy infrastructure needed to tackle the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's ambitious goal to minimize human-caused climate change. The agreement does not solve the problem on its own, but it is a structured revisitation of the science and national commitments that provide the adaptive approach necessary to reach a solution. It is now on researchers and entrepreneurs to invent solutions; for governments, development banks and the private sector to deploy them; and for nations to hold each other accountable as this agreement goes into effect.
Energy innovation is just one of the benefits of the signing, according to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.
"This will open up a market for energy innovation that U.S. companies have pioneered," Earnest said. "This is going to open up a global market for the kind of renewable energy technology that U.S. companies are at the cutting edge of."
Other shifts have occurred since the Paris Agreement was finalized, GreenBiz reports. Big companies have backed the Clean Power Plan, there's a rise in "sub-national" climate action at the state and city level and President Obama has proposed $10-a-barrel-tax on oil, they say.
EPA Finds Benefits Outweigh Cost of Mercury Rule
Benefits of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS) rule outweigh cost, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in findings released in defense of its issuance of the first-ever federal regulations requiring power plants to cut mercury emissions and other toxics.
The Supreme Court found, last year, that the EPA should have considered compliance costs when determining whether it was "appropriate and necessary" to regulate mercury emissions from the power sector. In a June ruling, it did not strike down the regulation; rather, it required the EPA to take costs into consideration.
In its final 167-page report on the matter, now awaiting publication in the Federal Register, the EPA details how it considered cost in evaluating whether to regulate coal-and oil-fired power plants under the Clean Air Act (subscription).
"Based on this analysis, EPA has determined that the cost of complying with MATS, whether assessed as a percentage of total capital expenditures, percentage of power sector sales, or predicted impact on the retail price of electricity, is reasonable and that the electric power industry can comply with MATS and maintain its ability to provide reliable electric power to consumers at a reasonable cost," the EPA wrote.
The annual cost of complying with MATS, the EPA found, amounts to between 2.7 and 3.5 percent of electricity sales, and the capital costs between 3 and 5.9 percent of annual power sector capital expenditures over 10 years.
Methane Emissions Greater Than Thought
In its newly released annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory, the EPA raised its estimate of total U.S. methane emissions in 2013 by 13 percent—an increase of more than 3.4 million metric tons and a long-term global warming impact of a year's worth of emissions from some 20 million cars, Science News reported. The agency's first estimate of methane emissions for 2014 is even higher, although only slightly so—29.233 million metric tons compared with 28.859 million metric tons.
Although there was a roughly 1 percent increase in total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions between 2013 and 2014, the inventory shows 2014 levels were 8.6 percent lower than 2005 levels, taking into account carbon sinks (subscription).
According to the EPA, the biggest methane emitter is the oil and natural gas industry—not animals like cattle and other livestock, as had been suggested by last year's inventory. The data in this latest inventory are based on new techniques for estimating methane leaking from valves, compressors, vents, and other oil and gas equipment.
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Scientists have warned that severe drought and precipitation are among the risks of greenhouse-gas-induced climate change, but a study published in the journal Nature finds that extremely warm temperatures do not always translate into record wet and dry extremes. Highlighting the complexities in predicting the effects of planetary warming on precipitation, lead author Fredrik Ljungqvist of Stockholm University said that more dramatic wet-dry weather extremes had occurred in centuries cooler than the 20th century.
"Several other centuries show stronger and more widespread extremes," he said. "We can't say it's more extreme now."
In this first hemispheric-scale, centuries-long water availability assessment, the researchers statistically analyzed evidence for changes in precipitation and drought, compiling hundreds of precipitation records across the Northern Hemisphere from historical accounts as well as archives on such things as tree-rings and lake sediments.
They detected a pattern of alternating moisture regimes throughout the last 12 centuries, suggesting that "the instrumental period is too short to capture the full range of natural hydroclimate variability."
Their finding that the last century's temperature rise may not have affected the hydroclimate as much as previously thought challenges the conclusions of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In a News and Views article published in Nature, Matthew Kirby of California State University at Fullerton suggested that current climate models should not be discarded because their results, which indicate that "dry gets dryer and wet gets wetter," do not match the Ljungqvist team's proxy results, which indicate no difference in the water dynamics of the 20th century and those of the pre-industrial era.
"Do their results invalidate current predictive models?" Kirby asked. "Certainly not. But they do highlight a big challenge for climate modellers, and present major research opportunities both for modellers and for climate scientists who work with proxy data."
Study: Climate Change Causing Earth to Shift
A study published in the journal Science Advances reveals that climate change affects how Earth tilts on its axis. Although scientists have known that Earth's spin axis has been drifting due to ice cap melt in Greenland and Antarctica, the new research suggests that changes in terrestrial water storage also play a role in the planet's decadal axis swings. The finding is based on data collected from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite, which can detect changes in the mass of Earth's ice sheets and oceans.
Before 2000, Earth's spin axis was moving westward toward Canada, but since then, climate-change-driven ice loss has pulled the direction of drift eastward approximately seven inches a year—a shift that lead researcher Surendra Adhikari of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory described as "very dramatic" and that scientists say is meaningful.
"This is the first time we have solid evidence that changes in land water distribution on a global scale also shift which direction the axis moves to," said Adhikari.
Although the study data doesn't indicate whether the most recent shift in the pole is the result of human activities, the study authors think they will be able to use them to tease out man-made climate change later this year. Because polar motion and climate variability appear to be linked, scientists can examine historical records of the pole's motion in relation to changes in Earth's climate. If those changes are less dramatic than the ones evidenced today, scientists could assert that global warming has a controlling influence on Earth's poles.
U.N. Climate Agreement Terms Studied, Launch Pegged Early
Next week on Earth Day (April 22), 130 countries are expected to sign the Paris Climate Agreement, which has a goal of limiting average surface temperatures to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius. But already the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is looking into the feasibility of what U.N. Climate Chief Christiana Figueres describes as "a moonshot": limiting global emissions to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Figueres believes the Paris agreement will take effect in 2018—two years sooner than currently slated.
The agreement will come into force once 55 parties representing 55 percent of the world's total emissions have both signed and ratified it.
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A study published in Nature finds that Antarctic ice-sheet collapse driven by greenhouse gas emissions could double the sea-level rise predicted for this century—from 3.2 feet according to a three-year-old United Nations estimate to upward of 6.5 feet by 2100. The research builds on the work of other recent studies pointing to an irreversible melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet as a result of human-caused climate change, but it suggests that sea-level rise could shift into high gear, becoming an existential problem for low-lying coastal cities within the lifespan of current generations of people absent rapid emissions cuts to contain warming to within 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The study findings are based on new computer simulations showing that warming of the atmosphere and the oceans makes the ice sheet vulnerable from above and below. By the 2050s, according to the simulations, the ice sheet would begin disintegrating, and parts of the higher, colder ice sheet of the East Antarctica would also eventually fall apart.
The climate model developed by the study authors accounts for ice loss through complex processes, including "hydro fracturing," a process whereby meltwater on ice shelves causes huge chunks of ice to fall into the water. By reflecting these processes, the researchers were able to simulate past geological periods in which sea levels were higher than today but carbon dioxide levels were about the same or even much lower. They projected sea-level rise using versions of their model that best simulated these periods—the first model to do so.
Why is reconstruction of past rises in sea level important? High sea levels during warm intervals, such as the Pliocene and Eemian eras, imply that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is highly sensitive to climate warming.
"In the past, when global average temperatures were only slightly warmer than today, sea levels were much higher," said study co-author Rob DeConto, a geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. "At the high end, the worst-case scenarios, with sort of business as usual greenhouse gas emissions … we will literally be remapping coastlines. North America is kind of a bull's eye for impacts of sea level rise if it's the west Antarctic part of Antarctica that loses the ice first. That's the place that we're worried about losing ice first."
Study: Health Impacts of Climate Change Significant
The public health impacts of climate change on people in the United States will be significant and wide ranging, according to a study by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The study reflects data and analysis from eight agencies, led by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which said that "Nearly all of the health threats, from increases in our exposure to excessive heat to more frequent, severe or longer-lasting extreme weather events to degraded air quality to diseases transmitted through food, water, and vectors (such as ticks and mosquitoes)—even stresses to our mental health—are expected to worsen."
Without rapid efforts to combat climate change, extreme heat alone will cause more than 11,000 additional deaths in the summer of 2030, the study suggests. Other risks include worsening allergy and asthma conditions and increased exposure of food to certain pathogens and toxins. But climate change will not just exacerbate existing risks—it will give rise to unprecedented health problems such as the spread of Lyme disease in new locations.
"Every American is vulnerable to the health impacts associated with climate change," said White House Science Adviser John Holdren, adding that "Some are more vulnerable than others."
These groups include pregnant women, children, the elderly, low-income people, communities of color and those with disabilities or pre-existing medical conditions.
Release of the findings coincided with the Obama administration's announcement of several new initiatives to address those impacts, such as expanding the scope of a presidential task force on childhood risks to include climate change (subscription). Other actions include creating climate change and health curricula for schools and establishing a Climate-Ready Tribes and Territories Initiative, which will provide funding for prevention of climate-change-related health problems.
Paris Deal: Largest Polluters Agree to Sign
Last week, the White House announced that the United States and China will sign the Paris Agreement to combat global climate change at a United Nations ceremony April 22.
"Our cooperation and our joint statements were critical in arriving at the Paris agreement, and our two countries have agreed that we will not only sign the agreement on the first day possible, but we're committing to formally join it as soon as possible this year," said President Obama. "And we urge other countries to do the same."
Brian Deese, senior adviser to President Obama, said swift approval of the agreement would keep emissions reductions efforts on track. Noting congressional action last year to extend tax credits for wind and solar energy and asserting firm legal ground for the Clean Power Plan, Deese said that the United States has both "the capacity and the tools" to meet its international commitments.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that he expects at least 120 countries will sign the agreement at the April 22 ceremony at the U.N.'s New York headquarters. To enter into force, that agreement needs at least 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions to formally accede to it. So far, three Pacific island nations have ratified the deal.
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Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said on Monday that Arctic sea ice cover of 5.607 million square miles on March 24 represented the lowest winter maximum since records began in 1979. That's 5,000 square miles less than last year's record low. Contributing to the ice extent loss were record high air temperatures and relatively warm seawater.
"It is likely that we're going to keep seeing smaller wintertime maximums in the future because in addition to a warmer atmosphere, the ocean has also warmed up," said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "That warmer ocean will not let the ice edge expand as far south as it used to. Although the maximum reach of the sea ice can vary a lot each year depending on winter weather conditions, we're seeing a significant downward trend, and that's ultimately related to the warming atmosphere and oceans."
After this winter's record ice lows, scientists expect the Arctic could be ice-free in the summer months in the next few decades.
"Sometime in the 2030s or 2040s time frame, at least for a few days, you won't have ice out there in the dead of summer," said John Walsh, chief scientist of the International Arctic Research Centre. "The balance is shifting to the point where we are not going back to the old regime of the 1980s and 1990s. Every year has had less ice cover than any summer since 2007. That is nine years in a row that you would call unprecedented. When that happens you have to start thinking that something is going on that is not letting the system go back to where it used to be."
The effects of diminishing sea ice may not be limited to just the Arctic.
"The Arctic is in crisis," said Ted Scambos, NSIDC lead scientist. "Year by year, it's slipping into a new state, and it's hard to see how that won't have an effect on weather throughout the Northern Hemisphere."
A new paper in the Journal of Climate linked the vanishing Arctic sea ice, along with other sea ice melting and global sea-level rise, to climate change. The authors, who used computer models and field measurements to explore whether Arctic sea ice loss has contributed to melting of the Greenland ice sheet, say that melting Arctic sea ice can block cold, dry Canadian air, increasing the flow of warm, moist air over Greenland and contributing to extreme heat events and surface ice melting. If the Greenland ice sheet completely melted, the paper says, the global sea level would rise about 20 to 23 feet.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Files Brief Defending Clean Power Plan
The D.C. Circuit is set to begin hearing oral arguments challenging the Clean Power Plan—the Obama administration's rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the existing fleet of fossil fuel-fired power plants—in June. On Monday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed its defense of the Clean Power Plan, telling the court that the rule is well within the bounds of its authority (subscription). Dozens of states and industry groups last month called the rule a "breathtaking expansion" of the power Congress gave the EPA—with the Clean Air Act—to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
"The rule reflects the eminently reasonable exercise of EPA's recognized statutory authority," the EPA brief says. "It will achieve cost-effective [carbon dioxide] reductions from an industry that has already demonstrated its ability to comply with robust pollution-control standards through the same measures and flexible approaches. The rule fulfills both the letter and spirit of Congress's direction."
It is expected that whichever side loses in June will appeal to the Supreme Court, which in February issued a stay—sending the rule back to the D.C. Circuit Court.
Renewable Energy Investment Outpaced Other Technologies: Study
Investment in renewable energy generation last year was higher than in new coal- and gas-fired power plants, according to a new report from the Frankfurt School-United Nations Environment Programme collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). In fact, renewables added more to global energy generation capacity than all other technologies combined—though they still only account for 10 percent of global electricity production.
"Global investment in renewables capacity hit a new record in 2015, far outpacing that in fossil fuel generating capacity despite falling oil, gas, and coal prices," said Michael Liebreich, chair of the BNEF advisory board. "It has broadened out to a wider and wider array of developing countries, helped by sharply reduced costs and by the benefits of local power production over reliance on imported commodities."
All investment in renewables—which includes new renewable energy capacity as well as early-stage technology, research and development—totaled $286 billion in 2015. That's roughly 3 percent higher than the previous record set back in 2011.
Countries contributing some of the most to these numbers included China, which in 2015 invested $102.9 billion (a 17 percent increase from 2014), representing 36 percent of the global investment total; Chile ($3.4 billion, a 151 percent increase), India ($10.2 billion, a 22 percent increase), Mexico ($4 billion, a 105 percent increase) and South Africa ($4.5 billion, a 329 percent increase).
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Data released last week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that the string of monthly global heat records extended through February, when the average worldwide temperature was 2.18 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average. The tenth straight record breaking month, February was the most above-normal month since meteorologists began tracking temperatures in 1880.
The nearly six-tenths of a degree margin by which it beat the old February record, set last year, had federal scientists describing temperatures as "staggering." That margin was confirmed by the National Aeronautical and Space Administration, which uses statistical techniques different than NOAA's, as well as a University of Alabama Huntsville team and the private Remote Sensing System team, which relies on measurements from satellites.
"Yes, of course El Niño has a hand in the February and other monthly temperatures records we've been observing, but not the only hand, not even the winning hand," Jessica Blunden of NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information told Mashable. "During the last big El Niño event of 97/98, temperatures departures from average were much lower compared with what we're seeing now with this comparable event, which shows us that general warming is occurring over time."
Many scientists say climate change is contributing to the recent high temperatures.
"We know that atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) and other greenhouse gases are continuing to increase, so that's contributing to climate change and rising temperatures overall," said Heather Graven, a climate scientists at the Imperial College of London.
Another clue that rising greenhouse gases are contributing to the recent high temperatures is the location of the warmest-compared-to-average temperatures—the far northern latitudes, which are relatively unaffected by El Niño and where Arctic sea ice set a new lowest-extent record for a February. In those latitudes, including Alaska, recorded temperatures were at least 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher than average—"above the upper bounds" of NOAA's February Global Land and Ocean Temperature Anomalies map.
Study: Carbon Dioxide Release Occurring Faster Than At Any Other Time
A new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, which comes on the heels of NOAA's record temperature announcement, finds that humans are releasing climate-change-causing carbon dioxide 10 times faster than at any other time in the last 66 million years.
"I think to me it's completely clear we have entered a completely new era in terms of what humans can do on this planet," said Richard Zeebe, study co-author with the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "… If you look at the past and if you study the geologic record, every time when there was massive carbon release there were major changes on the planet and there were significant, large changes in the climate."
To determine how carbon dioxide levels have influenced temperatures, researchers examined warming millions of years ago in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) by comparing carbon and oxygen tracers, called isotopes, deep in the New Jersey sea floor. PETM is thought to be a possible stand in for the potential impacts of carbon pollutions, as it refers to a period in history when the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide spiked. They found that 40.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide was released into the atmosphere in 2014 but that no more than 4.4 billion tons was released in the peak year during PETM.
"Because our carbon release rate is unprecedented over such a long time period in Earth's history, it also means that we have effectively entered a 'no-analogue' state," said Zeebe. "This represents a big challenge for projecting future climate changes because we have no good comparison from the past. Our results suggest that future ocean acidification and possible effects on marine calcifying organisms will be more severe than during PETM."
Climate Change Could Be Abrupt, Trigger Dire Consequences
Burning fossil fuels at the current pace will trigger an abrupt climate shift, according to a study published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Authored by retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen and 18 others, the study uses global climate modeling, paleoclimate data and modern observation of interactions between the ocean and ice sheets (specifically the Greenland and Antarctic ice shelves) to determine impacts associated with melt.
"We conclude that light freshwater added to upper layers of the ocean is already beginning to shut down North Atlantic Deep Water formation and Antarctic Bottom Water formation," said Hansen. "This will have enormous consequences in future decades, if full shutdown is allowed to occur."
The study, which stirred debate when it came out in draft form this summer, suggests that the impacts of global warming will not only happen more quickly than thought, but be more dire than envisioned. Holding temperatures to the 2 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels would not be enough to save the planet from experiencing collapsing ice sheets and megastorms.
The paper concludes that "if the ocean continues to accumulate heat and increase melting of marine-terminating ice shelves of Antarctica and Greenland, a point will be reached at which it is impossible to avoid large-scale ice sheet disintegration with sea level rise of at least several meters. The economic and social cost of losing functionality of all coastal cities is practically incalculable."
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In a move that could help the United States and Canada meet pledges they made at last year's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a plan to cut oil and gas industry methane emissions 40–45 percent, compared to 2012 levels, by 2025. In Canada, the environment ministry will work with provinces and other parties to implement national regulations by 2017; in the United States, the plan calls for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop regulations "immediately" (subscription). Although the EPA issued a methane rule for new oil and gas sources last year, some experts and Obama administration officials believe that a regulation for existing sources is needed to meet the new reduction pledge.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said the EPA will begin tackling the issue by requiring oil and gas companies to report certain data about methane output in April.
"I'm confident the end result of this effort will be a common-sense, reasonable standard to reduce methane emissions that are contributing to climate change," she said.
New data suggests that annual releases of methane in the United States total nine million tons—much higher than previously thought.
The commitments to reduce emissions of methane by the United States and Canada were part of a joint statement in which Obama and Trudeau announced a range of environmental initiatives to combat climate change, expand renewable energy, and protect the Arctic region and in which they promised that their two countries would "play a leadership role internationally in the low carbon global economy over the coming decades." According to the statement, Obama and Trudeau consider the agreement reached in Paris a "turning point" in global efforts to combat climate change, and they will cooperate in implementing it, committing to signing it "as soon as feasible."
Among the announced actions, it was the plan to reduce methane—a chemical that is many more times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide—that drew the most praise and criticism, reported the Los Angeles Times. Some representatives of the oil and gas industry said they were already taking steps to reduce methane leaks, and some environmental groups said a better solution would be to reduce fossil fuels and hydraulic fracturing, which is linked to those leaks. Other environmental groups said methane reduction delivers a nearer-term climate payoff than cutting carbon dioxide from power plants.
Sea Level Rise Big, Underestimated
A new study in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that future sea-level increases due to climate change could displace anywhere from 4.3 to 13.1 million people in coastal communities in the U.S. by the end of the century.
"Projections are up to three times larger than current estimates, which significantly underestimate the effect of sea-level rise in the United States," said study co-author Mathew Hauer of the University of Georgia. Why? Earlier studies don't account for population growth.
A second study in the journal Earth System Dynamics explores the feasibility of delaying the problem of rising seas by pumping vast quantities of ocean water onto the continent of Antarctica to thicken the ice sheet by freezing the water.
"This is not a proposition," said Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and one of the study's co-authors. "It's a discussion. It's supposed to initiate the discussion on how big the sea level problem really is."
The researchers find that it would take more than 7 percent of the global energy supply just to power the pumps needed to get the water at least 435 miles inland to the Antarctic ice sheet so it could freeze—preventing the heavy, newly formed ice sheets from sliding into the ocean. That's just one of the many hurdles to engineering, much less financing such a project, according to the Earth System Dynamics study.
"When we stop the pumping one day, additional discharge from Antarctica will increase the rate of sea-level rise even beyond the warming-induced rate," Levermann said. "The magnitude of sea-level rise is so enormous, it turns out it is unlikely that any engineering approach imaginable can mitigate it."
Study Finds Connection to Climate Change for Some Extreme Weather Events
A newly released report by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine makes it easier to connect climate change with some extreme weather events. Published in the National Academies Press, the report indicates that we can now say more about the extent to which weather events have been intensified or weakened as a result of climate change.
"In the past, a typical climate scientist's response to questions about climate change's role in any given weather event was 'we cannot attribute any single event to climate change,'" the report said. "The science has advanced to the point that this is no longer true as an unqualified blanket statement. In many cases, it is now often possible to make and defend quantitative statements about the extent to which human-induced climate change (or another casual factor, such as a specific mode of natural variability) has influenced either the magnitude or the probability of occurrence of specific types of events or event classes."
Technology and the length of human climatic records have made "attribution science" possible, but it is still new. The Washington Post reports that temperature-related events allow for the strongest attribution statement since the "chain of causality from global warming to the event is shortest and simplest."
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. denied a request for a stay or injunction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS) rule—a rule that 20 states have claimed is "unlawful and beyond EPA's statutory authority." The ruling means MATS, which requires coal-burning power plants to install technologies to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, remains in effect while the EPA continues its study of compliance costs.
The stay denial, issued solely by Chief Justice Roberts and without comment, follows a June Supreme Court decision in which five justices found that the EPA should have considered compliance costs when determining whether it was "appropriate and necessary" to regulate mercury emissions from the power sector. The June ruling did not strike down the regulation; rather, it required the EPA to take costs into consideration.
In a supplemental finding proposed in November, the EPA indicated that the costs of implementing MATS were reasonable. The EPA is expected to finalize its cost accounting, which seeks to address court concerns, in April.
"These practical and achievable standards cut harmful pollution from power plants, saving thousands of lives each year and preventing heart and asthma attacks," said Melissa Harrison, EPA spokeswoman.
Melting of Greenland's Ice Sheet Accelerating with Loss of Reflectivity
A study in European Geosciences Union journal The Cryosphere finds that the reflectivity, or "albedo," of Greenland's ice sheet could decrease by as much as 10 percent by the end of the century, potentially leading to significant sea-level rise (subscription). The study links the diminishing capacity of Greenland's ice sheet to reflect solar radiation—so-called "darkening"—to positive feedback loops that quicken ice melt, allowing it to feed on itself.
Scientists have been aware of the feedback loops, lead author Marco Tedesco, a professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, told the Christian Science Monitor. "What's new," he said, "is the acceleration of the darkening, which started in 1996."
The research used satellite photos dating back to 1981 plus a model to examine the impact of increases of both impurities in the ice, often visible to the human eye, and the size of grains in the snowpack, which is often invisible to the human eye and which makes snow "'darker'—not dirtier, but more absorbent of energy from the sun," said Tedesco. As snowpack melts and refreezes, meltwater binds grains together. The larger the grains, the less reflective the surface of the ice sheet and the faster the melting, which keeps speeding up as the remaining impurities become concentrated at the surface.
The study attributes the acceleration of darkening in 1996 to a change in atmospheric circulation. The North Atlantic Oscillation, a natural weather cycle, went into a phase that favored incoming solar radiation and warm, moist air from the south. Although those conditions shifted in 2013 to favor less melting, the sensitivity of the ice sheet to atmospheric air temperatures had already increased, and in 2015, melting spiked again, affecting more than half of the Greenland ice sheet.
The study rejected one prominent theory of Greenland's darkening—namely, that worsening wildfires are releasing soot that is increasingly falling on Greenland. It finds "no statistically significant increase" in black carbon from fires in northern regions and an increase that is likely too small to matter from wildfires in temperate North America.
"Overall, what matters, it is the total amount of solar energy that the surface absorbs," said Tedesco. "This is the real driver of melting."
U.S. Makes First Green Climate Fund Payment
The United States has made the first payment to the United Nation's Green Climate Fund (GCF). The $500 million payment is part of a broader $3 billion pledge to the GCF, which helps poor countries fight climate change and adopt clean energy technologies.
"With this announcement, which comes less than three months after the historic Paris climate agreement, the United States continues to demonstrate leadership in the international climate arena," a State Department official told The Hill. "This grant is the first step toward meeting the president's commitment of $3 billion to the GCF and shows that the United States stands squarely behind our international climate commitments."
The GCF currently has $10.3 billion in pledges, of which $2.5 billion could be spent on projects in 2016. The GCF lacks staff to ensure GCF goals are met.
The Climate Post offers a rundown of the week in climate and energy news. It is produced each Thursday by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.


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How to copy an output on a GNOME terminal to clipboard from command line.
I'd like to be able to paste text from my console textfiles smoothly to Firefox.
How to copy an output on a GNOME terminal to clipboard from command line.
I'd like to be able to paste text from my console textfiles smoothly to Firefox.
You can highlight the text then right click and select copy, or pipe it to xclip:
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xclip may or may not be available depending on your distribution.
You can also just mark the terminal output you want to copy and it is copied to your clipboard automatically.
It's an old question but I thought it deserves a working answer. Either xsel or xclip can do this job. Personally I prefer to use
Then change to some app and do a paste (with CTRL-V, the paste option, etc.).
That's it!
What if you are doing the opposite, and copy some text in your browser and want to paste it into your terminal? (Well, of course you can just paste.) Or type:
X has got 3 different selections or clipboards. The "primary" one is the one that activates with the middle mouse button. That's what you get if you call
I recommend you do use the
If you prefer to use
After selecting the text, press Ctrl-Shift-C to copy it to the clipboard. The extra Shift is required as Ctrl-Cis already used in shells. Similarly, to paste, press Ctrl-Shift-V.
You can also just select it then middle-click in Firefox to paste it. This uses the cut buffer, which is slightly different to the clibpoard.
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Harry Benson is prone to violent, uncontrollable seizures and is under police guard after attacking two people.
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As Kansas City prepares for this week's festivities, and we survey the impending conference tournament for preview purposes, we have some obvious separation -- and some uncommon late-season intrigue -- in the Big 12.
At the top, there are a few contenders and/or obvious NCAA tournament inclusions (Kansas, Texas, Kansas State, Texas A&M, Missouri). At the bottom lie a handful of bad to just-plain-awful teams (Texas Tech, Iowa State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State).
But in the middle of the Big 12 -- as George Costanza would say, right in that meaty part of the curve -- is where the real action lies. In Colorado, Nebraska and Baylor, the Big 12 has three teams that desperately need Champ Week to prove themselves to the NCAA tournament selection committee. Of course, there are varying degrees of need here -- Colorado is right on the bubble; Nebraska and Baylor are still below it -- but all three teams share a common prospectus. Simply put, they need wins.
Throw in the action we could see at the top of the bracket -- where the dominant Jayhawks are competing for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tourney, where Texas is attempting to stanch a late-season slide and where Kansas State is streaking toward the tourney -- and you've got a lot to look forward to when things kick off Wednesday afternoon.
On Wednesday morning, we enter with questions. By Saturday night, we'll have the answers. Here are some of the things to watch for in the Big 12 this week:
1. Can Colorado take care of business?
As you read above, the Big 12 has three ostensible bubble teams heading into the conference tournament. They are Nebraska, Baylor and Colorado. Of the three, the Buffaloes have the most realistic shot an at-large bid. Colorado currently sits right on top of the bubble cut line in the same messy fray as Alabama, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Michigan State and others. Nebraska and Baylor currently fall a bit below that group: Our own Joe Lunardi has the Cornhuskers and Bears in his "next four out," which means both would have to leapfrog at least four or five teams along the ever-shrinking bubble to get into the tournament by Selection Sunday.
Perhaps it's fitting, then, that Colorado, with its No. 5 seed, clearly has the best draw of the group. If the Buffaloes handle Iowa State Wednesday, they'll play No. 4 seed Kansas State in the tournament's second round on Thursday. Colorado swept K-State in the regular season, and this remains a winnable game despite the Wildcats' late resurgence. But even if the Buffs can't top K-State in the second round, simply avoiding a loss to Iowa State might be enough to get into the tournament anyway.
2. Can Nebraska and Baylor shock the world?
The Cornhuskers and Bears didn't fare nearly as well in their Big 12 tourney draw. Unlike Colorado, both teams won't have the luxury of losing Thursday; both have to make a serious move up the bubble line to look more impressive than the handful of teams currently above them, and that means getting another signature, marquee win. The good news? Both teams have a shot. The bad news? Both of those shots are very, very long. If Baylor advances past Oklahoma in the first round, it will face Texas (gulp). If Nebraska advances past Oklahoma State in the first round, it will face Kansas (double gulp). And keep in mind that both teams are more than capable of losing those first-round games, let alone struggling against two of the toughest teams in the country. So, yes, at this point, if the Huskers and Bears want to go dancing, they're going to have to bust out some impressive -- and previously unseen -- moves.
3. Can Texas right its ship?
The Longhorns spent most of the season making opposing Big 12 offenses look like Division II squads. Then a few weeks ago, something strange happened: Texas stopped defending. Rick Barnes' team went from having one of the best defenses we've seen in years to one that got torched for 58 points in one half versus Colorado. With that D in sudden tatters, the Longhorns started dropping games -- at Nebraska, at Colorado, versus Kansas State. Texas bounced back with a close win at Baylor on Saturday, but it's hard to tell how much that means for this team going forward. Was that stretch of losses just a blip in an otherwise brilliant season? Or is Texas genuinely fading down the stretch, akin to last season's disappointing midseason slide? The Big 12 tournament should help answer that question.
4. Can Kansas State keep rolling?
The age-old maxim -- you want to play your best basketball down the stretch -- doesn't apply to any team in the nation more so than these Kansas State Wildcats. You know this story by now: Kansas State was ranked in the top five to begin the season but promptly lost that status thanks to its ugly offense, lackluster effort and a variety of personnel losses and off-the-court distractions. But ever since K-State toppled Kansas in Manhattan last month, the Wildcats are looking like a Final Four contender yet again, and Jacob Pullen is once again playing like a star. The question here is whether they can sustain that effort, and whether a loss now would derail the Wildcats and set them back just before the NCAA tournament.
5. Can Missouri win away from Columbia?
Missouri is the No. 6 seed in this year's Big 12 tournament, which is probably a bit lower than most expected after the Tigers' solid nonconference run in November and December. The reason that seed is so low? Mizzou can't win on the road. Mike Anderson's team is 2-7 in road games this season -- those two wins coming at Iowa State and Oregon -- and its only neutral-court win of note came against Illinois in St. Louis on Dec. 22. The Tigers have been great at home and bad on the road, and historically, teams with bad road records fare poorly on the NCAA tournament's neutral floors. The Big 12 tournament can be a bit of a neutral-court practice session, and it will be interesting to see how the Tigers respond when they're not really at home but not really on the road, either.
Quick hitters
Player to watch: Texas forward Jordan Hamilton. Hamilton is always going to put points on the board, but when he is defending with gusto, the Longhorns can be downright impenetrable. Unfortunately, Hamilton is easily frustrated on the defensive end, and when he takes possessions off, the Longhorns give up far too many open looks in transition. You could argue that no player in the league is quite as important on both sides of the ball as the sophomore swingman.
Potential sleeper: Oklahoma State. Thanks to some putrid shooting, the Pokes have fallen out of bubble contention in the past month or so. But of the four teams in the Big 12's bottom rung, Oklahoma State is probably best equipped to surprise people this week. Can the Cowboys get hot? Don't rule it out.
Potential deep, deep sleeper: Iowa State. The Cyclones' 3-13 record in the Big 12 is deceiving, because Fred Hoiberg's team has been quietly playing opponents tough all season. I'm not saying Iowa State is going to win this thing but don't be surprised if the Big 12's regular-season wooden-spoon winner surprises Colorado in the first round.
The coronation: Kansas. No surprise here. Thanks to Texas' late slide, the Jayhawks are clearly this conference's top team, and with a couple of wins they'll seal yet another Big 12 conference tournament title, something we've grown quite accustomed to seeing in the past decade. And with the Jayhawks' large following in Kansas City -- not to mention the city's proximity to Lawrence, Kan. -- don't be surprised if this weekend turns into one long rock-chalking love-in.
Eamonn Brennan covers college basketball for ESPN.com. You can see his work every Monday through Friday in the College Basketball Nation blog.


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Indian Land completed an unbeaten run to capture the title in the Bruin Invitational junior varsity soccer tournament at Lancaster Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
The Junior Warriors, who went 3-0 in the tournament and outscored their foes 12-2, downed Buford, 5-1 to take the title.
IL led 1-0 after an own goal and then forged a 3-0 lead on a pair of Shea Rodgers' goals. Jake Retter and Garrett Gerdes each had an assist to Rodgers.
Buford's Andrew Ellis, on a Cole Keaton assist, made it 3-1, but IL answered as Gerdes and Jordan Szustwal tallied. Retter and Mason Huebsch each had an assist on the goals.
"I was proud of our team. We played outstanding defense," IL coach Tim Thornton said. "That was the key to our success."
Thornton saluted the play of Mason Mullis, Matthew Medlock and Austin Erwin.
IL, which defeated tourney host LHS, 4-0, on Friday, also took a 3-1 win over Buford to open play Saturday.
Justin Penn scored two goals and Shea Rodgers added another in the IL win. Jake Retter, Chris Blakeney and Garrett Gerdes each had an assist.
Buford's Randy Sweisberger scored on a header on a Cole Keaton corner kick.
In the consolation match, Lancaster posted a 2-1 win over Andrew Jackson, which dropped a 1-0 loss to Buford on Friday night.
AJ took a 1-0 lead on a Zack Arioli goal off a Josh Croxton assist. The Junior Bruins answered as Cory Lucas tallied off a penalty kick.
The Junior Bruins notched the winning goal as Austin Melvin scored on a 35-yard shot which just cleared the AJ keeper's hands.
The AJ Junior Vols opened play with a 4-2 win over the Junior Bruins on Saturday.
Josh Croxton gave AJ a 1-0 lead on an assist from Skylar Ghent.
Lancaster answered with Eric Valencia tallied to tie the match, 1-1.
In the seesaw match, AJ took a 2-1 edge as John Ware scored on a Keenan Eubanks' assist.
Lancaster tied the match on a Sarrikio Ingram goal off an Ed Ghent assist.
Croxton, on an Arioli assist, took a 3-2 lead and then wrapped up the victory as John Ware scored for the Junior Volunteers.
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