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<font size="+1"><i>April 3, 2017 Mudslides, Uncovering
darkest denial, Noam Chomsky on Climate</i></font><br>
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255);">Dozens of children are among those killed in devastating
mudslides in south-west Colombia, according to President Juan
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<blockquote> Portfolio managers face dilemma over environment versus
money in carbon polluters<br>
"The climate is moving much faster than people think, and the
responses are going to move much faster as well", he says, arguing
that measures to help polluters announced last week by the
administration of Donald Trump may ultimately prove helpful. <br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">There's another story to tell
about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>. And it
starts with water</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Now I'm not speaking of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b>-<b style="font-weight:
normal;">change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>denial.
For at this juncture, with wild temperature swings and
record-breaking weather becoming the norm, outright denial amounts
to a kind of temper tantrum, a primitive railing against the
inconvenience and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">...</b></div>
<blockquote> One challenge to reckoning with climate change is that
despite all the weather anomalies we've been seeing, it's
difficult to confidently link climate change to any one event.
This perpetuates the notion that climate change is an abstraction
to be pushed off into the future, and leads to cognitive
dissonance in that it seems impossible to "prove" what we know to
be so. Let me now introduce an alternate definition of climate
change: "manifestations of distorted carbon, water and energy
cycles". That doesn't negate the single story of fossil fuel-borne
carbon but broadens it in a way that creates opportunities beyond
fighting fossil fuel interests. At this moment of reckless
distraction and denial, it is crucial to find meaningful paths
forward.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5A8BVrjRfU">(video)
Starr Forum: Racing to the Precipice: Global Climate,
Political Climate</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> March 23, 2017 - Starr Forum lecture with <b>Noam
Chomsky on climate change and President Trump.</b><br>
About Noam Chomsky:<br>
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive
scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist.
Sometimes described as "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky
is also a major figure in analytic philosophy, and one of the
founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Institute
Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), where he has worked since 1955, and is the author of over
100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass
media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and
libertarian socialism.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgNTVvAbfMw&t=5s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgNTVvAbfMw&t=5s</a></font><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgNTVvAbfMw&t=5s"> <font
color="#000099" size="+1"><b>(video) Noam Chomsky on Climate
Change 2016</b></font></a><br>
Published on Jul 23, 2016<br>
Noam Chomsky speaks to Big Sky High School (Missoula) students
about climate change, May 24, 2016, during Indigenous Movements of
Latin America day.<br>
Top comment by Richard Pauli: <i>Leave it to a professor of
linguistics to say it exactly right. This is an astoundingly
powerful and important talk for Chomsky to deliver. And he
must have selected you, a group of high school students to
receive this message. You are blessed .. even to hear such
harsh words. Chomsky often speaks before audiences of grad
students, intellectuals and professors - always on matters of
politics and perception and misinformation. He had touched on
environmental and climate issues before, but usually just a
phrase or so, often to illustrate a different point. Here, in
this statement, he delivers the strong ultimatum, without
apology - but the harsh severity is absolute - and to you, the
most important audience. We should have been addressing high
school students all this time... for the past 40 years we have
known of the incremental danger. Forces of misinformation and
denial have kept conclusions at bay for decades,... even in the
minds of the greatest thinkers, cultural suppression and
agnotology have been tremendously successful. Your world is
now yours. Most of your wise elders really did not want to
leave you this kind of world. We could not figure out how to
change. Of course, Chomsky knows: just speak up. Identify
and say what is wrong. In speaking it, you will find the
solution. This is one of the most important talks he has ever
given. Thank you for hearing it and sharing it with the
world.</i><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/217-cpa-newsletter-april-2017-doorway-to-the-underworld">http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/217-cpa-newsletter-april-2017-doorway-to-the-underworld</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/217-cpa-newsletter-april-2017-doorway-to-the-underworld">DOORWAY
TO THE UNDERWORLD</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> With its more literal meaning shading into the realms
of imagination, death and the unconscious...the latest in a string
of reports about dramatic craters caused by methane release in
Siberia. It tells of long-buried forests, animal carcasses and
200,000 years of climate records being uncovered.... the term
'methane time-bomb';...<br>
But it is the underworld in myth and metaphor that opens up rich
ground for psychology and its application to fields like commerce
and politics. The over-arching truth is that so much of what
drives human life is covert and remote from civilised ideals.
Because what is hidden is so much of the truth, it is liable to
erupt into view. Our individual and collective 'deals' with the
Dionysian depths do much to shape our stories about life. They
also colour our awareness of the non-human world and Nature in
particular. Our myths reflect the chaotic interaction in our minds
of thought and Nature.<br>
What Makes Reality?<br>
In relation to the laws of the natural world , we will either
adapt to reality or perish; it's as simple as that – physics
doesn't bargain. In the realm of human affairs, what passes for
reality is very much about bargains. Despite this, and even when
considerable will-power and political power coincide, there are
limits to omnipotence, stubborn fences between fantasy and
reality. ...<br>
The news vacuum ... is a reminder of the collusions at work in
denial, condemning the subject of climate change to Cinderella
status. This continues, despite the wider signs that the presiding
'ugly brothers' in Washington are starting to see their hubris
unravel. What is happening in the physical world, in the efforts
of science to make sense of it, in the realms of policy, media and
all our minds remains a maelstrom of uncertainty and
contradiction. Government and policy news is predominantly grim
(EPA evisceration, threats to NOAA and NASA, XL Keystone reversal,
repercussions for G20 climate change funding). The climate/
ecological alert has been in condition red for a long time. But
fairy godmothers of unknown and largely untested powers are
appearing in various places and guises... <br>
Adrian Tait from <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org">http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org</a><br>
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href="http://www.sciencealert.com/siberia-s-huge-doorway-to-the-underworld-is-getting-so-big-it-s-uncovering-millennia-old-forests-and-carcasses?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1">http://www.sciencealert.com/siberia-s-huge-doorway-to-the-underworld-is-getting-so-big-it-s-uncovering-millennia-old-forests-and-carcasses?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://www.sciencealert.com/siberia-s-huge-doorway-to-the-underworld-is-getting-so-big-it-s-uncovering-millennia-old-forests-and-carcasses?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1">Siberia<font
color="#000099">'</font>s <font color="#000099">'</font>doorway
to the Underworld<font color="#000099">'</font> Is Getting So
Big It<font color="#000099">'</font>s Uncovering Ancient
Forests</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> It's no secret that Siberia's permafrost has been on
thin ice lately. Conditions are varying so much that huge holes
are appearing out of nowhere, and, in some places, tundra is quite
literally bubbling underneath people's feet...<br>
But new research has revealed that one of the biggest craters in
the region, known by the local Yakutian people as the 'doorway to
the underworld', is growing so rapidly that it's uncovering
long-buried forests, carcasses, and up to 200,000 years of
historical climate records...<br>
Known as the Batagaika crater, it's what's officially called a
'megaslump' or 'thermokarst'....<br>
Not only is the crater already the largest of its kind, almost 1
km (0.6 miles) long and 86 metres (282 feet) deep, but it's
getting bigger all the time...<br>
The crater formation first started after a large chunk of forest
was cleared nearby in the 1960s...<br>
Because the ground was no longer shaded in the warm, summer
months, it heated up more rapidly than it had in the past,
eventually causing the permafrost to melt and the ground to
collapse. Major flooding in 2008 made the melting even worse, and
contributed to the size of the crater.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-2"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/quaternary-research/article/div-classtitlepreliminary-paleoenvironmental-analysis-of-permafrost-deposits-at-batagaika-megaslump-yana-uplands-northeast-siberiadiv/6E1CDD9631CF354F08444B50DD2EBE4D">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/quaternary-research/article/div-classtitlepreliminary-paleoenvironmental-analysis-of-permafrost-deposits-at-batagaika-megaslump-yana-uplands-northeast-siberiadiv/6E1CDD9631CF354F08444B50DD2EBE4D</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/quaternary-research/article/div-classtitlepreliminary-paleoenvironmental-analysis-of-permafrost-deposits-at-batagaika-megaslump-yana-uplands-northeast-siberiadiv/6E1CDD9631CF354F08444B50DD2EBE4D">Preliminary
paleoenvironmental analysis of permafrost deposits at Batagaika
megaslump, Yana Uplands, northeast Siberia</a></b><br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote> A megaslump at Batagaika, in northern Yakutia, exposes
a remarkable stratigraphic sequence of permafrost deposits ~50–80
m thick. To determine their potential for answering key questions
about Quaternary environmental and climatic change in northeast
Siberia, we carried out a reconnaissance study of their
cryostratigraphy and paleoecology, supported by four rangefinder
14C ages. The sequence includes two ice complexes separated by a
unit of fine sand containing narrow syngenetic ice wedges and
multiple paleosols. Overall, the sequence developed as permafrost
grew syngenetically through an eolian sand sheet aggrading on a
hillslope. Wood remains occur in two forest beds, each associated
with a reddened weathering horizon. The lower bed contains high
amounts of Larix pollen (>20%), plus small amounts of Picea and
Pinus pumila, and is attributed to interglacial conditions. Pollen
from the overlying sequence is dominated by herbaceous taxa
(~70%–80%) attributed to an open tundra landscape during
interstadial climatic conditions. Of three hypothetical age
schemes considered, we tentatively attribute much of the Batagaika
sequence to Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 3. The upper and
lower forest beds may represent a mid–MIS 3 optimum and MIS 5,
respectively, although we cannot discount alternative attributions
to MIS 5 and 7.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/20/trump-fantasy-reality-travel-ban-nato-funding?CMP=share_btn_link">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/20/trump-fantasy-reality-travel-ban-nato-funding?CMP=share_btn_link</a><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/20/trump-fantasy-reality-travel-ban-nato-funding?CMP=share_btn_link">In
Donald Trump<font color="#000099">'</font>s fantasy world,
hints of reality are dawning</a></b></font><br>
Matthew d'Ancona<br>
<blockquote> The great philosopher-novelist Umberto Eco once
declared that we will always come up against "the hard core of
Being" and the "lines of resistance" that tell us when we are
talking rubbish, or acting nonsensically....<br>
There was a time when I wondered bleakly if Donald Trump may be
exempt from this philosophical precept. During the campaign he
piled lie upon lie, bigotry upon bigotry, slander upon slander –
and still won. We were told, absurdly, to take him "seriously but
not literally", as if all the talk of a Muslim ban, Mexican
rapists, and locking up his opponent was mere knockabout...<br>
I do not want to overstate the extent of Trump's recent encounters
with the irreducible facts. He still resides mostly in the
Mar-a-Lago of his mind, a lurid cognitive space where he perceives
the world as he wants it to be, rather than as it is. On Friday a
German journalist asked him why he's so scared of diversity in the
media that he speaks so often about fake news, and things such as
wiretapping, which "in the end, cannot be proven". Trump's
response was to scorn her as "a nice, friendly reporter" and evade
the question entirely by boasting of the US's growing strength.<br>
My claim is only that a few – just a few – chinks of light are
breaking through the carapace of populist delusion. To change the
metaphor: the waves of Trump's sociopathic belief that he can say
and do what he likes with impunity are starting to hit the rocks
of reality. There is nothing to celebrate yet, no cause to relax,
no outcome assured. Let us just say that this may, conceivably, be
the end of the beginning.<br>
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href="https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/02/michael-moore-calls-trump-s-actions-on-climate-change-declarati/22022903/">https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/04/02/michael-moore-calls-trump-s-actions-on-climate-change-declarati/22022903/</a></font><br>
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sig2-iR3Bc8yX3sGiyDANCpGf0A did--3120639983349900598"
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style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Moore calls Trump's
actions on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>'Declaration
of War'</span></a></h2>
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255);">Moore said, "For him to tear up every single regulation
instituted by President Obama on<span
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normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
for him to say that that will no longer be a concern when they
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Fighting Disease Outbreaks</span></a></h2>
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255);">BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Poor countries need
more resources and training on the ground to combat infectious
diseases that are spreading in new ways and to new places partly
due to a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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(Video) "The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" reports on the
role coal plays in fueling global warming.<br>
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