[✔️] May 11, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Early wildfires, Yale and games, Netflix game, Seeking help, Sheldon Solomon philosophizing, 400 years till oceans boil, Lessons from Venus at RealClimate, Oil and Terrorism

Thu May 11 11:29:06 EDT 2023

/*May*//*11, 2023*/

/[ look to the sky ] /
*Early Wildfires, Heat Waves Show Grim Signs of Global Climate Crisis*
May 9, 2023
An early, aggressive wildfire season in Alberta, alarming, summer-like 
temperatures in parts of the Mediterranean, scorching, road-melting heat 
to South Asia, and torrential rain causing deadly floods in 
Congo-Kinshasa, are all signs this spring of anthropogenic climate 
change and a “grim augur of things to come.”...
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Relatively cooler weather is helping the more than 1,000 firefighters 
battling blazes across the northern and east-central parts of Alberta, 
but the province remains in a state of emergency and has asked the 
federal government for military assistance. Nearly 30,000 people have 
been displaced from their homes, and several precious structures have 
been lost to the flames, with small Indigenous communities reporting 
significant losses, reports CBC News. As of Tuesday morning, 89 
wildfires were burning across the province, 24 of them deemed out of 
control. The Globe and Mail says that nearly 400,000 hectares have been 
burned so far this year, compared to 417 hectares this time last year.

The government said it could be months before all the blazes are brought 
under control, Reuters writes. Alberta’s oil and gas producers have shut 
in at least 280,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day—more than 3% of 
Canada’s output—taking precautionary measures to protect equipment and 
workers...
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May is typically a fire month for Alberta, with so much dead organic 
matter lying around after the winter. But this year, a combination of 
unusual and early heat and ongoing drought has generated more volatile 
conditions. A similar situation may unfold in the Northwest Territories, 
with winter long gone—spring having arrived sooner than usual—and hot, 
dry conditions forecast for summer.

Climate change is causing wildfire seasons in Canada to grow longer and 
more severe, said Mike Flannigan, research chair for predictive 
services, emergency management and fire science at Thompson Rivers 
University in Kamloops. He noted that Alberta’s spring wildfire season 
is already “off to a roaring start.”

The combination of more frequent and intense lightning storms with ever 
drier vegetation is leading to “higher intensity fires that are 
difficult to impossible to extinguish,” he added. Which means that 
“we’re almost moving to fire years instead of fire seasons.”

“That’s the result because we’re getting warmer.”
https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/05/09/early-wildfires-heat-waves-floods-show-grim-signs-of-global-climate-crisis/
/[ seeking help from the stress and chaos of traumatic  news  ]/
*Communities*
Gen Dread is a free newsletter that talks about the emotional pain that 
the climate and wider ecological crisis is causing, and how to put it to 
work. https://gendread.substack.com/p/generation-dread-finding-purpose

Project InsideOut “applies the latest research and best practices in 
psychology to help people on the journey from despair, passivity, and 
denial toward courageous, more impactful environmental action.” 
https://projectinsideout.net/guiding-principles/ 
https://projectinsideout.net/

https://www.allwecansave.earth/circles
The All We Can Save Project envisions that, by 2030, women leading on 
climate will hold the power to create transformational change and will 
experience deep joy in their work to build a just and livable future.

The Climate Psychology Alliance spreads awareness of climate psychology 
and mental health through educational events and climate outreach. Also 
see Handbook of Climate Psychology. 
https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/

/[ We all face the same fate -- long philosophizing interview 
https://youtu.be/Nve1E0MA_Ec ]/
*How Death Drives the Anthropocene | Sheldon Solomon*
Planet: Critical
May 10, 2023  #politicalcrisis #climatecrisis #socialcrisis
Are you afraid of dying?

Sheldon Solomon has been researching death anxiety and its impact on our 
behaviour for decades, finding that unmitigated death awareness drives 
mindless consumption, political polarisation and more disordered 
behaviour. In short, our fear of death could be driving the climate crisis.

We discuss the link between death awareness and self-awareness, how 
cultural beliefs are used to anesthetize death anxiety, how Western 
culture has the ironic effect of exacerbating that very anxiety that 
it's trying to solve, and why the solutions lie with imagination and 
creativity.

Sheldon Solomon is Professor of Psychology at Skidmore College. His 
studies of the effects of the uniquely human awareness of death on 
behaviour were featured in the award winning documentary film Flight 
from Death: The Quest for Immortality. He is co-author of In the Wake of 
9/11: The Psychology of Terror and The Worm at the Core: On the Role of 
Death in Life.

    00:00 intro
    03:29 The community of people working on the crisis
    09:13 The psychology of the crisis
    19:30 The role of imagination
    21:44 The existential crisis
    29:47 Learning to die
    36:30 Death anxiety and individualism
    43:33 The impact of individualism
    54:43 Resurrecting humanity
    01:06:40 The war on "woke"
    01:14:49 Who would you like to platform?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nve1E0MA_Ec

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/[ James K Rowe ]/
Sep 16, 2013
Dr. James Rowe is an Associate Professor with the School of 
Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences. In this video, 
James discusses his research into political ecology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiMXjqP2SUA
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/[ Forget CO2 - just the addition of heat to the Earth system could lead 
to an overheated apocalypse -  a recent YouTube video ]/
*I recently learned that waste heat will boil the oceans in about 400 
years.*
Sabine Hossenfelder
Feb 25, 2023  #science #climate #tech
All power plants create waste heat that contributes to global warming. 
At the moment, the contribution is fairly small, but if mankind 
flourishes it is bound to increase and eventually it will become a 
problem. The only thing we an do about it is to build an air condition 
for the planet. Scientists have come up with some ideas how to address 
the problem that I hope you will find entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4

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/[ Text posting at RealClimate ]/
*Lessons from Venus*
11 APR 2006 ...
Venus has vastly more CO2 in its atmosphere than Earth, the same basic 
principles govern the operation of the greenhouse effect for both 
planets: the fact that air cools by expansion as it rises means that the 
upper parts of the atmosphere are colder than the surface, while the 
opacity of greenhouse gases to infrared means that infrared radiation 
can only escape from the upper portions of the atmosphere...
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/lessons-from-venus/

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/[ Text posting at RealClimate ]/
*Venus Unveiled*
16 MAR 2008 BY RAYPIERRE
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/03/venus-unveiled/

/[ YALE and games ]/
*‘Highwater,’ the new video game that immerses players in a dystopian 
world ravaged by climate change*
Created by Demagog Studios, ‘Highwater’ takes players on a 
sometimes-satirical journey filled with moral questions.
CC avatar
by YCC TEAM
MAY 9, 2023
A new video game called “Highwater” immerses players in a dystopian 
world ravaged by climate change-induced floods, war, and chaos.

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In the game, players help a teenager named Nikos sneak onto a rocket 
ship the rich have built to flee to Mars.
“Since wars are raging, people are dying of dysentery, et cetera, he 
wants to move to a better life,” says Igor Simic, CEO and creative 
director of Demagog Studios, which created Highwater.

To get there, Nikos must navigate the landscape by boat, collect his 
friends, and fight adversaries.

Along the way, players face moral questions.
“So for example, you might decide not to help someone because there 
isn’t enough space in your boat, or you might decide to help them,” 
Simic says.

The game is satirical at times. Simic says it’s meant for entertainment, 
not to preach about climate change.

But the creators were influenced by natural disasters, such as Hurricane 
Katrina and flooding in Serbia.

“That triggered something, just the images of boats going around the 
water that is up to the first floor or second floor,” Simic says.

So while the game depicts a fictional world, it reflects real fears 
people have about climate disasters.

Reporting credit: Ethan Freedman / ChavoBart Digital Media
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/05/highwater-the-new-video-game-that-immerses-players-in-a-dystopian-world-ravaged-by-climate-change

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/[ Here's the game - it is locked into a Netflix membership ]/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netflix.NGP.Highwater
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/128958

/[The news archive - looking back at the link between oil and terrorism.]/
/*May 11, 2011*/
May 11, 2011: MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan and former Department of Homeland 
Security head Tom Ridge discuss the nexus between oil and terrorism.

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dylan-ratigan-show/42995814#42995814

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