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<font size="+1"><i>June 19, 2017<br>
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<b>(VIDEO) Climate & Extreme Weather News #35 (June 15th-June
18th 2017)</b></a><br>
Surging wildfire activity in a grassland biome<br>
Portugal fire news video<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">We Can't Fight<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>if We Keep Lying to
Ourselves</span></a></h2>
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By Chris Hedges<br>
We must embrace a despair that unflinchingly acknowledges the bleak
future that will be created by climate change. We must see in any
act of resistance, even if it appears futile, a moral victory.
African-Americans understand, in a way perhaps only the oppressed
can grasp, that our character and dignity will be measured by our
ability to name and resist the malignant forces that seem to hold us
in a death grip. Catastrophic climate change is inevitable. Our
technology and science will not save us. The future of humanity is
now in peril. At best, we can mitigate the crisis. We cannot avert
it. We are fighting for our lives. If we do not rapidly build
militant movements of sustained revolt, movements willing to break
the law and attack the structures of the corporate state, we will
join the 99.9 percent of species that have vanished since life first
appeared on earth.<br>
"In these circumstances refusing to accept that we face a very
unpleasant future becomes perverse," Clive Hamilton writes in
"Requiem for a Species." "Denial requires a willful misreading of
the science, a romantic view of the ability of political
institutions to respond, or faith in divine intervention."<br>
"The fear is that at a certain point we cross the line and there's a
tipping point," he said. "The primary cause of greenhouse gas
emissions will become the breakdown of these natural systems, and
then it really is out of our control."..<br>
Failed states, proliferating in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the
Middle East, are ruled by phantom governments...<br>
One of the great dangers of state failure in the global south in the
short term is the hardening and drift towards increasingly
authoritarian, xenophobic, quasi-fascist type of politics in the
global north and developing states."..<br>
On one July night in 1977 the power went out in New York City. There
were citywide riots. Arsonists started 1,037 fires. Looters smashed
their way into 1,616 stores. There was over $300 million in damage.
This Hobbesian nightmare will become normal in more and more parts
of the globe as we traverse the sixth great mass extinction, brought
on by the activity of human beings...<br>
The greatest existential crisis of our time is to at once accept the
tragic reality before us and find the courage to resist.<br>
It is comforting to pretend this is not happening, to foster false
hopes and fool ourselves with the myth of human progress, but these
illusions only tranquilize us at a moment when we should be rising
in collective fury against those who are orchestrating our doom...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_cant_fight_climate_change_if_we_keep_lying_to_ourselves_20170618">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/we_cant_fight_climate_change_if_we_keep_lying_to_ourselves_20170618</a></font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/17/antarctica-insect-plant-invasion-house-flies-mosses-warmer-climate">The
latest threat to Antarctica: an insect and plant invasion</a></b></font><br>
Rise in tourism and warmer climate bring house flies - and the
growth of mosses in which they can live<br>
Antarctica's pristine ice-white environment is going green and
facing an unexpected threat - from the common house fly. Scientists
say that as temperatures soar in the polar region, invading plants
and insects, including the fly, pose a major conservation threat.<br>
More and more of these invaders, in the form of larvae or seeds, are
surviving in coastal areas around the south pole, where temperatures
have risen by more than 3C over the past three decades. Glaciers
have retreated, exposing more land which has been colonised by
mosses that have been found to be growing more quickly and thickly
than ever before - providing potential homes for invaders. The
process is particularly noticeable in the Antarctic peninsula, which
has been shown to be the region of the continent that is most
vulnerable to global warming.<br>
As a result, the Antarctic's scarce plant life - which currently
grows on only 0.3% of the continent - has responded dramatically,
according to British researchers writing in Current Biology. The
group, led by Dan Charman of Exeter University, studied cores
drilled into moss banks on islands off the peninsula and found that
the rate of moss growth is four or five times higher than it was
before 1950. "The sensitivity of moss growth to past temperature
rises suggests that ecosystems will alter rapidly under future
warming, leading to major changes in the biology and landscape of
the region," said Charman. "In short, we could see Antarctic
greening to parallel well-established observations in the Arctic."<br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/17/antarctica-insect-plant-invasion-house-flies-mosses-warmer-climate">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/17/antarctica-insect-plant-invasion-house-flies-mosses-warmer-climate</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2017/06/researchers-voice-concern-about-warmer-arctic-waters-and-effects-fish">Researchers
voice concern about warmer Arctic waters and effects on fish</a></b><br>
"We have never before been in this situation", says marine
researcher Mette Skern-Mauritzen<br>
By<font color="#666666"> </font>Atle Staalesen<br>
The waters in the Arctic are warming at an alarming pace,
researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research say.
That has consequences for life in the sea, and for the work of the
marine researchers, the Marine Research Institute informs.<br>
"When assessing the changes over the last 15 years, we see that the
development has progressed incredibly quickly", says Mette
Skern-Mauritzen.<br>
She is heading a research group at IMR which looks at consequences
of the warmer Arctic sea water.<br>
"When the temperature increases, the fish species move towards the
north", she says. "The stocks which are fond of warm water spread
out over bigger areas and increase in numbers", she adds<br>
That concerns the Atlantic cod, the key fish in the Norwegian and
Barents Seas.<br>
Especially the traditional Arctic species come in squeeze from the
trend. These are normally small fish which live close to the sea
bottom. The have to move further north to survive, because their
traditional water are simply becoming too warm, the researchers say.<br>
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href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2017/06/researchers-voice-concern-about-warmer-arctic-waters-and-effects-fish">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2017/06/researchers-voice-concern-about-warmer-arctic-waters-and-effects-fish</a></font><br>
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</font><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/61984a.htm"><i>This
Day in Climate History June 19,</i><i> 1984 </i></a> -
from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="+1"> </font>In remarks that would prompt
Fox News to butcher him as a RINO <i>(Republican In Name Only)</i>
today, President Ronald Reagan declares:<br>
<br>
"What is a conservative after all but one who conserves, one who
is committed to protecting and holding close the things by which
we live. Modern conservatives in America want to protect and
preserve the values and traditions by which the Nation has
flourished for more than two centuries.<br>
<br>
"We want to protect and conserve the idea that is at the heart of
our national experience, an idea that can be reduced to one word:
freedom. And we want to protect and conserve the land on which we
live - our countryside, our rivers and mountains, our plains and
meadows and forests. This is our patrimony. This is what we leave
to our children. And our great moral responsibility is to leave it
to them either as we found it or better than we found it."<font
color="#666666">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/61984a.htm">http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/61984a.htm</a></font><br>
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