[✔️] June 10, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*June 10, 2022*/

/[ "This is the beginning of a potentially scorching summer." ] /
*More Than 30 Million in Southwest Brace for Dangerous Heat*
Temperatures will rise well above 100 degrees in large swaths of 
California, Nevada and Arizona through the weekend. Meteorologists are 
warning residents to prepare now.
Dangerous and potentially deadly heat will settle over the Southwestern 
United States through much of the weekend, with temperatures in some 
locations expected to break records and exceed 100 degrees.

More than 30 million people in California, Nevada and Arizona are under 
some sort of heat-related alert through at least part of the weekend, 
the National Weather Service said. A heat wave is defined as a period of 
abnormally and uncomfortably hot and unusually humid weather that lasts 
for two or more days.

“Please protect yourself,” the Weather Service office in Phoenix warned 
residents, while the office in Sacramento said that the heat would 
affect everyone, not just people most sensitive to heat risk. 
Meteorologists in San Diego advised residents to learn the signs of heat 
exhaustion and heat stroke...
- -
It’s going to be dry and very hot. An excessive heat warning was in 
effect through Sunday night for the San Diego area, where temperatures 
were forecast to reach up to 116 degrees. Similar sweltering conditions 
were expected around the Grand Canyon and other parts of central and 
southwest Arizona. Las Vegas, a city used to soaring temperatures, could 
reach 109 degrees. Some of the most extreme heat is predicted in Death 
Valley, along the California-Nevada border, where the mercury could rise 
to 120 degrees.

A heat advisory was in effect through Saturday for a large swath of 
South Central California and western Nevada. Temperatures up to 100 
degrees were expected around the Los Angeles area and up to 106 degrees 
in the San Joaquin Valley. The Weather Service in Reno, Nev., said 
temperatures were forecast to max out around 100 degrees on Friday and 
that the potentially record-setting highs were unusually early in the 
summer season. On average, Reno doesn’t usually hit the 100 degree mark 
until about July 10, meteorologists said...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/us/heat-wave-california-arizona-nevada.html


[ New technology  ]
*Google's 'Dynamic World' Offers a Real-Time Sense of Humanity's 
Devastation of Earth*
In addition to features to display the planet’s changes to environmental 
disasters, the company is promoting new air quality layers on Google Maps.
Kyle Barr - June 8, 2022
https://gizmodo.com/google-dynamic-world-google-maps-1849041302
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[ Google Earth]
*Land cover data just got real-time*
https://blog.google/products/earth/dynamic-world-land-cover-data/



/[  Weather of a changed climate ]/
*Europe in Ruins! Crazy Storm in Germany, France and Italy (Jun. 06, 2022)*
Jun 6, 2022  Intense storms in southern and western Germany saw 
hailstones pile up to half a metre high.
So much hail fell in the village of Weiler, in Bavaria, over such a 
short period of time that some roads were entirely blocked with ice.

Scary Storm hit Delhi, India - https://youtu.be/wRoJVB2mh8U

Heavy Storm in Ontario, Canada - https://youtu.be/LqDht51u1DI

Tornado in Paderborn, Germany - https://youtu.be/sEsPc9wTqbk

Tornado in Kansas, USA - https://youtu.be/GYi47hGZ3a8

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildWeatherUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZlwpA9BxO4



/[   valid criticism - so what do we say?  (we should not steal the 
future from our children) ] /
*Stop telling kids that climate change will destroy their world*
Some “climate anxiety” is the product of telling kids — falsely — that 
they have no future.
By Kelsey Piper  Jun 8, 2022
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“You see children saying things like ‘The world’s going to burn up, 
we’re all going to be dead in 20 years,’ and that’s pretty unlikely,” 
Susan Clayton, a conservation psychologist who studies how climate 
change affects mental health, told National Geographic in an article 
about kids and climate anxiety.

Clayton has some good advice on what to do with a climate-anxious child. 
But it’s worth pausing on her quote. Why do we see kids saying that? 
Because books, stories, and protest messaging aimed at them tell them 
that! There’s pessimism in the water around climate change, and kids 
often take that pessimism far more literally than adults do.

A child holding a protest sign that reads, “I’m sure the dinosaurs 
thought they had time too.”
Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images
In some cases, it feels like adults are displacing our own frustration 
at political inaction on climate onto kids — and doing it by telling 
them things that aren’t true, and that they don’t have the perspective 
or context to take with the appropriate grain of salt.

The problem permeates advice about what kids can do about climate 
change, too.

I imagine the tendency of advice for kids about climate change to urge 
them to challenge their grownups, recycle, ride bikes, and attend 
protests is out of a well-intentioned urge to give them advice they can 
use right now. But I worry it sets them up for frustration, and is 
fundamentally not very honest about how they can solve climate change.

Kids who throw themselves wholeheartedly at those problems for their 
entire childhood, but who aren’t themselves Greta Thunberg, aren’t 
likely to get anywhere, and they won’t be positioned to get anywhere as 
an adult either.
The best way a 7-year-old can improve the world probably isn’t by 
pleading with adults. It’s by learning more and developing new skills 
that she’ll be able to directly bring to bear on problems like climate 
change when she gets older.

*Raising a better future*
When our daughter asks about environmental issues, I like to tell her 
that a few generations ago, there was smallpox, but some kids studied 
hard and grew up into grownups who fought to eradicate it. I tell her 
that there was leaded gasoline, but we learned it was bad and phased it 
out. I tell her that today there is climate change, and solving it is 
going to require new inventions and new ideas — and she can be the one 
to invent them.

I explain that if we had better batteries, then we could use solar for 
more of our power grid, so maybe she can learn how to invent better 
batteries. I explain that if we could grow beef without cows, they 
wouldn’t belch methane, so maybe she’ll be the one who figures out how 
to do that in a cost-effective way.

But I have yet to find a children’s book that frames the climate crisis 
that way: as a challenge, but one like the many that humanity has 
overcome, and one that our kids can overcome by learning about the world 
and inventing new solutions. If you know of one, I’m in the market for 
recommendations; if you don’t know, I invite you to think about where 
this hole in our messages for children leaves them.
https://www.vox.com/23158406/climate-change-tell-kids-wont-destroy-world



/[ From 2014, her "Universal Map of Doom" a //brilliant, funny and 
important//summary of our condition -- from the great Gail Zawacki - her 
last day was yesterday June 9th ] /
*"The Apocalypse Library at the End of the World" *
200 and 1 Essentials to Navigate the Doomosphere Map...for the Novice 
(and the Obsessed!)

Surely you can't have failed to notice the bellicose headlines warning 
of various and sundry paths that lead inexorably to Apocalypse Soon?  
Perhaps you want to know more, but just don't have time to sort it all 
out?  Maybe you can't decide what is worse - disappearing bees, bats and 
frogs; rising seas or lowered sperm counts...droughts, floods, 
hailstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis; exorbitant 
prices; or just ordinary pollution (and lots of it)?

Welcome and rejoice, doomer fans and neophytes too, you have found the 
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/[ henceforth, Gail will be unavailable to approve any blog posts ]/

Don't be mad about redundancies, or annoyed about omissions, or 
perplexed by non sequiturs. It's a BIG subject, and it is presented 
unfinished (because it will never be finished, until the grid goes 
down).  Contribute, don't - whine.  And do it soon, before the lights go 
out for good and this list is lost forever!..
http://doomfordummies.blogspot.com/ /( also available on Archive.org )/



/[ Author's essay, his new book is _Mother Ocean Father Nation_ --  ] /
*Why All Fiction is Climate Fiction Now*
Nishant Batsha on When Art Intersects with Unavoidable Reality
By Nishant Batsha - June 7, 2022
Perhaps everyone can now lay claim to moments of frightful clarity, 
memories of when the climate crisis becomes terrifyingly close, when it 
ceased to be a series of global meteorological events and more a waking 
nightmare of daily life. There are two from recent memory that stick out 
for me.

The first: it is October 2017, and I am still living in the Bay Area. My 
wife is out of town on a business trip, leaving me and the cat in our 
quiet home. The night has been unusually warm and windy—weather that 
conjures only fear in California. I wake up at one in the morning with a 
sense of panic deep in some limbic part of my brain: something is on 
fire; the house smells like smoke.

I frantically search our one-bedroom apartment, but everything is fine. 
I poke my head out the door and the neighborhood is quiet, darkened. The 
next day, it begins to rain ash. The Tubbs Fire rages to the north, 
pushing smoke across California.

The second: it is November 2019, and we have decided to leave California 
for Buffalo, where my wife will take up a job at a local university. We 
have a child now who is five-months old, and the Bay Area is too 
expensive to live, and fire season too stressful to navigate. We go to 
my parents’ house to celebrate Diwali, and the weather again is warm and 
windy.

On Highway 24, we see a fire break out on a hillside. Traffic slows to a 
crawl to rubberneck the dreadful Diwali light. It is eerily close to my 
sister’s home. We call her: “Are you okay?” They are given a few minutes 
to leave, but ultimately, she and her family are fine—the firefighters 
established a perimeter around her house, saving the structure...
We are living in a time of climate collapse.
- -
Perhaps it’s a slow accumulation of these events over years; perhaps 
it’s the inundation of headlines regarding the climate; perhaps it’s the 
feeling that the seasons themselves are being shifted: accelerated here, 
elongated there—regardless, the conclusion for me feels inescapable. The 
Anthropocene is a fundamental part of what it means to be human.

As a novelist, I’ve wondered what this conclusion means for my work. 
Does it mean that all my fiction has to be cli-fi? In a way, I know the 
answer is yes. And after writing my debut novel, Mother Ocean Father 
Nation, I feel like I’ve written a climate fiction book without 
realizing it...
My novel is set in 1985 and grapples with the fallout from a military 
coup in an unnamed South Pacific island nation. The story follows a 
brother and sister: one forced to stay behind, another forced to leave 
as a refugee to California. On its surface, the novel is about 
belonging, state power, migration, family, and identity—not necessarily 
anything to do with the climate.

But as I wrote the book, I found myself grappling with a question: what 
exactly is it that makes up the daily lived reality of collapse?

The climate collapse is not simply the destruction of the natural world 
and the processes couched therein, but also the human response 
inextricably meshed within that collapse. There’s the movement of 
people: single migration events, double migration, triple 
migration—moving from one place, then to another, then to still another, 
to find some semblance of home. It’s also the human capacity within 
these movements, the banal day-to-day life that one must live, even as 
everything falls apart. It’s the jobs that must be completed, the 
relationships that must be tended to, the day-in day-out of lives that 
trudge onwards...
My conclusion was simple: to write climate fiction is to write fiction 
that understands that the only constant is collapse.
But to live amidst disaster is not all suffering and pain. I wanted to 
ensure that my characters continued to desire—and find outlets for all 
that was pent-up within them. In moments of great crisis, rather than 
ceasing to exist, desires can begin to take an outsize role, coming to 
almost define the totality of someone’s internal—and external life.

In Mother Ocean Father Nation, Jaipal is a bisexual man used to finding 
gratification in the island’s resort hotels with foreigners: quick, easy 
encounters with men and women who don’t stay for long. But when the coup 
scares off all the tourists and the hotels begin to shut down, he is 
forced to contend with the depths of his own loneliness, even as he 
becomes the primary provider for his mother and father. He finds an 
outlet in an old friend, but also in communities driven underground, 
hidden places where he can explore the contours of his sexuality—places 
that comingle joy with the terror of something terrible happening to 
them all.
- -
These are the human environments of climate fiction: how does joy harden 
and encase itself when surrounded by misery? How can loneliness find a 
release? How does one continue the process of personal growth when 
forced to contend with circumstances unplanned and unpredictable?

If Jaipal must figure out answers to these question inside a country 
falling apart, it is Bhumi who must contend with them in exile. The 
academic standout of the family, she is forced to leave the country—and 
her studies—behind when a friendship with the daughter of a government 
official becomes a liability. Stuck in California, she’s in limbo. 
Without papers, she cannot continue her studies officially.

Her questions (Who am I? What defines me? What do I want out of this 
brief, haggard life?) are those existential questions which perhaps come 
to fore in any moment of crisis. Over the past few years, every day has 
brought a tremendous amount of anxiety for us all, sometimes through 
death and illness, but other times through the barrage of day-to-day 
inconsistencies: childcare shutdowns, school closures, the absence of 
work—the list goes on and on. And yet, even among all this suffering (or 
perhaps even because of this suffering), there remains the inconstant 
pain of growth, of trying to differentiate between the essential and 
frivolous, of attempting to distill the self into something truer.
The news is an infinite scroll of anxiety. Outside the window is the 
warmth of another out-of-season day. Getting through the day means 
ignoring the dread, putting aside the feeling that everything is simply 
a portent of what’s to come.

We are living in a time of collapse, and the writing of human beings 
caught in fire and food and in between political upheaval and daily life 
is the task I’ve set forth for myself. But what is written is not simply 
the recounting of miseries—even as things crumble, we’re caught inside 
the matrix of our own feeling. Perhaps, then, my climate fiction finds 
the stories that settle and grow from the dust of it all, the lives that 
somehow continue on, even when it seems like nothing can go another day.
https://lithub.com/why-all-fiction-is-climate-fiction-now/



/[The news archive - looking back to the briefest moment when Fox News 
slipped ]/
/*June 10, 2008*/
  Fox News Channel personality Shepard Smith states that climate-change 
deniers are "just a little crazy."
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/foxs-smith-people-who-get-stuck-in-toilets-are-a-little-crazy-just-like-global-warming-deniers-d12af034504d/

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