[TheClimate.Vote] August 25, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Tue Aug 25 09:52:40 EDT 2020
/*August 25, 2020*/
[positive politics - NYTimes]
*Climate Is Taking On a Growing Role for Voters, Research Suggests*
Concern about global warming is steady despite other crises, a survey
found, and the number of voters who are deeply engaged on the issue is
rising sharply.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/climate/climate-change-survey-voters.html
[ Live ]
*Wildfires raging across California 'historic' – as it happened*
Wildfires death toll up to seven
Explainer: how did the fires starts, and are they normal?
Photo essay: the evacuees with nowhere to go
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/aug/24/california-fires-evacuation-orders-bay-area-wildfires-latest-news-updates
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[map of current fires]
https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1298016578164781056/photo/1
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[check CAL Fire]
*SCU Lightning Complex*
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/
[fire watch]
*California wildfires death toll up to seven as huge blazes burn on**
*Fires started by lightning with more forecast to come
Sheriff's deputy: 'This is one of the darkest periods'
Wildfires explained: how did they start – and is this normal?
Three massive wildfires chewed through parched northern California
landscape on Sunday as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make other
preparations ahead of a frightening weather system packing high winds
and more of the lightning that sparked the huge blazes and scores of
other fires, putting nearly a quarter-million people under evacuation
orders and warnings.
At the CZU Lightning Complex fire in the Santa Cruz mountains, south of
San Francisco, authorities announced the discovery of the body of a
70-year-old man in a remote area called Last Chance. The man had been
reported missing and police had to use a helicopter to reach the area,
which is a string of about 40 off-the-grid homes at the end of a windy,
steep dirt road north of the city of Santa Cruz.
The area was under an evacuation order and Santa Cruz sheriff's chief
deputy Chris Clark said it was a stark reminder of the need for
residents to leave the area.
"This is one of the darkest periods we've been in with this fire," he said.
The fatality was the first for the CZU fire and seventh fire victim in
the state in the last week that has seen 650 wildfires across
California, many sparked by the more than 12,000 lighting strikes
recorded since 15 August. There are 14,0000 firefighters. 2,400 engines
and 95 aircraft battling the fires.
The Santa Cruz fire is one of three "complexes," or groups of fires,
burning on all sides of the San Francisco Bay Area. All were started by
lightning...
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The LNU Lightning Complex fire in wine country north of San Francisco
and SCU Lightning Complex south-east of the city have grown to be two of
the three largest fires in state history, both burning more than 500
square miles. The LNU fire has been the most deadly and destructive,
accounting for five deaths and 845 destroyed homes and other buildings.
Three victims were in a home under an evacuation order.
Officials surveying maps at command centers are astonished by the sheer
size of the fires, Cal Fire spokesman Brice Bennett said...
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Authorities said their effort in Santa Cruz was hindered by people who
refused to evacuate and those using the chaos to steal. Santa Cruz
county sheriff Jim Hart said 100 officers were patrolling and anyone not
authorized to be in an evacuation zone would be arrested.
"What we're hearing from the community is that there's a lot of looting
going on," Hart said.
He and county district attorney Jeff Rosell expressed anger at what
Rosell called the "absolutely soulless" people who seek to victimize
those already hit by the fire. Among the victims was a fire commander
who was robbed when he left his vehicle.
"I can't imagine a bigger low-life," Hart said, promising to catch him
and vowing "the DA is going to hammer him".
Holly Hansen, who fled the LNU fire, was among evacuees from the
community of Angwin allowed to go back to their homes for one hour to
retrieve belongings. She and her three dogs waited five hours in her SUV
for their turn. Among the items she took with her were photos of her pets.
"It's horrible, I lived in Sonoma during the [2017] Tubbs Fire, so this
is time No2 for me. It's horrible when you have to think about what to
take," she said. "I think it's a very raw human base emotion to have
fear of fire and losing everything. It's frightening."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/24/california-wildfires-death-toll-evacuations-santa-cruz-bay-area-lightning-complex
[PBS brief video explains it]*
**Climate change is driving wildfires, tropical storms*
Clip: 08/23/2020 | 4m 44s |Video has closed captioning.
As hundreds of wildfires in California continue to blaze and thousands
of people evacuate, this year's hurricane season is on track to become
one of the busiest on record. Andrew Freedman, editor of Washington
Post's Capital Weather Gang joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how
climate change is aiding these natural disasters and what can be done
about it.
Aired: 08/23/20
https://www.pbs.org/video/climate-change-is-driving-wildfires-tropical-storms-1598205466/
[Peter Sinclair is the wise man of fossil fuels and global warming]
*Pandemic lands 'worst body blow' in modern history on fossil fuel
companies*
In a new video, independent journalists explain the mounting challenges
the industry faced even before COVID-19 came along.
By Peter Sinclair | Thursday, August 20, 2020
Watch the video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USD6qJzy8z0&feature=youtu.be
Serious stress, serious stress."
"An industry in its last days."
"Steady decline [in growth, demand] for the past decade."
"Cratering."
Those are a few of the characterizations of today's oil, natural gas,
and coal industries put forward by several independent journalists,
writers, and analysts in the new edition of the "This is Not Cool" video
series.
… And then, along came the coronavirus and the COVID-19 challenges,
providing one more blow to the energy industry.
Even pre-pandemic, the conventional energy sector "already had plans to
cancel major infrastructure projects like pipelines," independent
journalist Keith Schneider told Yale Climate Connections. And with the
pandemic, oil and gas experienced "the worst body blow in its modern
contemporary history," he said.
Journalist and writer Antonia Juhasz agrees, pointing to "an industry in
its last days, it's just getting hit from too many sides."
"Most of the new electricity generation coming online today is coming
from wind and solar," says Houston Chronicle reporter Chris Tomlinson.
And professor Dan Kammen of the University of California Berkeley says
solar and wind have been the cheapest energy options worldwide for at
least the past three consecutive years.
Kammen also says that he believes solar and wind energy initiatives can
advance two to three times as many job opportunities as traditional
fossil fuel projects: That would be critical to help long-time coal and
other fossil fuel industry employees whose decades of work has been
critical to economic development … and who society cannot simply leave
stranded as momentum turns toward a clean economy. Tending to the plight
of those workers whose jobs are lost will have to be part of the
energy-options puzzle, interviewees say.
watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USD6qJzy8z0&feature=youtu.be
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/08/pandemic-lands-worst-body-blow-in-modern-history-on-fossil-fuel-companies/
[Press release]
I am happy to bring to your attention my article *Bound by Infinities:
Technology, Immediacy and Our Environmental Crisis,* just published in
the American Journal of Psychoanalysis.
In print soon, and available online here:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs11231-020-09258-8
Keywords: omnipotent fantasy; technology; Bion; Winnicott; the body;
climate crisis; Covid-19
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Michael Melmed, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
New York, NY 10003
Assistant Professor, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - August 25, 2004 *
August 25, 2004: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program releases the
report "Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for
Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005."
http://web.archive.org/web/20041015135521/http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/ocp2004-5/ocp2004-5.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/science/26climate.html
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