[TheClimate.Vote] September 3, 2019 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Tue Sep 3 07:40:19 EDT 2019

/September 3, 2019/

[big and slow hurricane]
*Hurricane Dorian Updates: 5 Dead in Bahamas as Lashing Continues*
The Category 3 storm came to a standstill as it pummeled the Bahamas. It 
is expected to move "dangerously close" to the Florida coast Tuesday night.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/02/us/hurricane-dorian-updates.html

[30 sec videos]
*THE WATER IS RISING, BUT ADMIRAL HORATIO HORNTOWER IS IN DENIAL.*
Standing atop a melting iceberg, Admiral Horatio Horntower ponders 
life's mysteries with a series of animal friends. They recognize what 
Admiral Horntower can't: We're at the brink of global meltdown. Directed 
By Errol Morris. Starring Bob Odenkirk. Presented by Biscuit Filmworks & 
Fourth Floor Productions.
https://youtu.be/YUDqXAqNstU
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[See all the videos]
*GlobalMeltdown.com*
The water is rising, but Admiral Horatio Horntower is in denial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHflySYu_1U&list=PLVmRJGCDzW4T-3WioidGH2MWai74ETI2T
http://www.iftf.org/globalmeltdown/

[next comes phony baloney]
*Beyond Meat uses climate change to market fake meat substitutes. 
Scientists are cautious*
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/02/beyond-meat-uses-climate-change-to-market-fake-meat-substitutes-scientists-are-cautious.html

[Aussie sarcasm-and-snark - climate strike Sept and Oct]
*Honest Government Ad | We're F**ked*
thejuicemedia
Published on Sep 2, 2019
The Government has made an ad about the state of the world as we enter 
the third decade of the 21st century, and it's surprisingly honest and 
informative.
Global Climate Strike: https://globalclimatestrike.net
Infor for Wordlwide Rebellion: https://rebellion.global
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOmdkN6MOwU

[Samantha Bee is popular TV  ]
*Full Frontal Rewind: Climate Change | Full Frontal on TBS*
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Published on Sep 2, 2019
Unfortunately, the DNC declined to have a presidential debate on the 
very real, very serious topic of climate change. Fortunately, we've put 
together some of our top pieces on the topic from over the year. 
#FullFrontalRewind
Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/ 9:30c 
on TBS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyMAmakw1dU

[Alaska TV news report]
*"There's no doubt about it" -- Researchers suggest increased fire 
activity, and cost, due to climate change in Alaska*
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Theres-no-doubt-about-it-Researchers-suggest-increased-fire-activity-and-cost-due-to-climate-change-in-Alaska-559099721.html 

[Whaaat?  Why]
*Air Pollution Linked to Psychiatric Illness*
Pauline Anderson - Medscape
August 22, 2019
Poor air quality is associated with higher rates of several psychiatric 
disorders, new research suggests.

Analyzing large datasets from the United States and Denmark, 
investigators found significant correlations between air pollution and 
bipolar disorder in both countries and between air pollution and 
depression, schizophrenia, and personality disorder in Denmark.

"If we know which environmental insults can trigger disease, we can 
probably prevent it in some patients, especially if we know they are 
genetically vulnerable," corresponding author Andrey Rzhetsky, PhD, 
professor of medicine and human genetics, University of Chicago, 
Illinois, told Medscape Medical News.

The findings were published online August 20 in PLOS Biology.

A Complex Mixture
Heritability explains the development of psychiatric disorders to a 
large extent, but "it's never 100%," and it is increasingly evident that 
environmental insults play an important role, Rzhetsky said.

Air pollution is a complex mixture of small particulate matter, gases, 
metals, and organic contaminants generated by natural erosion of stones 
and human-made materials, exhaust of transport vehicles, industrial 
activity, and fires.

There's already evidence from human, animal, and in vitro studies that 
airborne pollutants can end up in the brain and are implicated in the 
etiology of neurologic and psychiatric disorders.

For the current study, the researchers carried out two analyses, one 
using US data, and the other Danish data.

It was impossible to have the same design for the two datasets, said 
Rzhetsky. He added that the two countries have different cultures and 
diverging approaches to healthcare, population tracking, and 
environmental monitoring.

For the US analysis, the investigators used the IBM MarketScan health 
insurance claims database, which includes inpatient and outpatient 
claims, medical procedures, and prescription medications for more than 
151 million patients, for the period from 2003 to 2013.

Their analysis included the quality of air, water, and land (for 
example, chemicals in the soil) and the "built" environment (for 
example, vehicular traffic, transit access, and pedestrian safety).

To quantify air pollution, the researchers used the Environmental 
Protection Agency air quality index, which is a summary measure of 87 
potential air pollutants. Rzhetsky noted that for this analysis, the 
researchers had air quality measurements at only one time point and at a 
county level.

The researchers transformed environmental predictors into septiles, with 
Q1 indicating the best quality and Q7 the worst quality.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/917128

[one man's ailment as metaphor]
*John Doyle - Climate 'catastrophe-check' for UN Aid Agencies*
UPFSI Published on Sep 1, 2019

John is a long time EU staffer stationed in Brussels with over 2 decades 
of responsibility in the environmental policy arena.  He is about as 
frustrated and disillusioned with what he has experienced as one can 
get. After all the time and effort he's spent trying to strengthen 
environmental laws, policies and practices in the EU and among its 
trading partners, he see's weak, disingenuous responses, and too often 
no response or even counter-productive responses.

Stuart Scott was asked to make a 'reality-check' presentation to UN aid 
agencies with responsibility climate change in May 2019 in Geneva, 
Switzerland.  With a recent cancer diagnosis, Stuart was unable to 
travel, and John provided a highly qualified alternative speaker.  Here 
is John's 'catastrophe-check' to the UN aid agencies attending.

The presentation was said to have been passed on up to UN HQ in New 
York, and when screened there for senior staff, it raised considerable 
concern.

Diplomacy is the art and science of posturing, distortion and 
fabrication about underlying false and ideological mental positions 
about reality.  We are operating under a global political network of 
self-delusional agencies and individuals who seem to believe that if 
they just keep repeating a false narrative about Reality it will become 
true and real.

Parties to the climate talks need to stop talking so much and start 
acting.  But for this to happen, the world's citizens need to take them 
to account.  The Student Strikes and other forms of civil disobedience 
are what's needed, but much more of it.  One day a week of student 
striking is an inadequate response for a future being stolen for a full 
seven-days a week forever.

Stuart is hoping to heal enough from his cancer by treatment at the Mayo 
Clinic that he will be able to attend COP-25 to produce 
ScientistsWarning.TV programs daily again live from the climate talks.  
If you wish to contribute to the Fund for Stuart's Healing here's the 
link http://bit.ly/2kiQz2T

The parallels between the cancer Stuart has contracted and the cancer 
that human civilization has contracted are so strong that he is aching 
for the chance to make the case live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Deaz3UN0rw

[Long read]
*Chasing The Methane Dragon That Lurks In The Deep Sea*
We went into the depths of the ocean with a scientist seeking to 
understand how frozen gas deposits might respond in a rapidly warming world.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/methane-hydrate-atlantic-samantha-joye_n_5d681737e4b0488c0d117841

*This Day in Climate History - September 3, 2008 - from D.R. Tucker*
September 3, 2008: In his address to the Republican National Convention 
in St. Paul, Minnesota, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael 
Steele blows off concerns about climate change by proclaiming: "Drill, 
baby, drill!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdSsOnVWhic
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