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<font size="+1"><i>August 7, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWPZeQzN_Ws">(music video)
Billy Bragg - King Tide and the Sunny Day Flood (Lyric Video)</a></b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://exclaim.ca/artists/billy_bragg">Billy Bragg</a> has
turned his attention to climate change with the arrival of a new
single today (August 4)<br>
Bragg opened up about the track in a statement <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.billybragg.co.uk/king-tide-and-the-sunny-day-flood/">on
his website:</a><br>
Sunny day flooding is a costal phenomenon in which strong tides
cause water to gush up from drains and beneath the ground, swamping
basements and inundating roads. Rises in sea level due to melting
ice-caps are making it an increasingly common occurrence in Florida,
where some residential areas are experiencing it on an almost
monthly basis. These communities are canaries in the mine, already
living with the stark realities of climate change that some still
deny is happening. On a planet the surface of which is 70% water, in
which the temperature of oceans drives our weather systems, we will
all be affected by global warming unless we act now to limit the
damage done.<br>
King Tide And The Sunny Day Flood'' is the new track from Billy
Bragg available to download or stream here: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://BBragg.lnk.to">https://BBragg.lnk.to</a><br>
/KTATSDFYo<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19688">(video
+ transcript) Portland Pledges To Defend Ban on Fossil Fuel
Infrastructure Projects</a></b><br>
(theRealNews.com)<br>
City Council votes to appeal overturn of their historic ban of all
new fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Nick Caleb, Staff Attorney
at the Center for Sustainable Economy says local governments should
be able to protect residents from dangers of fossil fuels<br>
D. LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris for The Real News. As the
residents of Portland, Oregon endure a searing heat wave, the City
of Portland has voted to defend its anti-fossil fuels policy.
Portland's first of its kind zoning ordinance, which banned new
fossil fuel projects within city limits and prevented existing
facilities from expanding, was overturned by the Oregon Land Use
Board of Appeals on July 19th of this year, and that happened under
pressure from the Western States Petroleum Association. But, this
week, on August 2nd, Portland City Council voted unanimously, five
to nothing, to appeal the decision by Oregon's Land Use Board of
Appeals. Now, with us here to discuss what may become a precedent
setting case, we are joined by Nicholas Caleb from Portland, Oregon.
Nicholas is an attorney with the Center for Sustainable Economy, an
organization that intervened in the litigation before the Land Use
Board of Appeals. Thank you for joining us, Nicholas.<br>
NICK CALEB: ... Generally in land use law, it's forward thinking.
A lot of existing ... Well, most of existing developments are
grandfathered in, and so it sort of, in the future, new fossil fuel
infrastructure would be prohibited, but the existing terminals would
be allowed to operate.<br>
...We feel very strongly that it's highly logical that local
governments be able to protect their residents from the dangers of
the fossil fuel industry, which includes spills, explosions,
derailments. We've seen a lot of that out in Oregon. Not to mention
the climate impacts, and so again, we don't agree with the LUBA
ruling and we think that we have a good chance on appeal.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19688">http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=19688</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.popsci.com/amp/global-wildfire-maps">THIS IS
HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD IS CURRENTLY ON FIRE</a></b><br>
THE 2017 FIRE SEASON IS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON.<br>
By Kendra Pierre-Louis August 04, 2017<br>
You may have missed the memo (we get it, there’s been a lot going
on) but the world is currently on fire as massive blazes burn in the
United States, Canada, and across Europe. To give you a sense of the
scale of the inferno, we’ve included maps of the wildfires, as well
as images from some of the fiery scenes. Here, is the lowdown.<br>
Here in the United States the Forest Service is reporting that 2017
is shaping up to be a worse than average fire year based on acres of
federal, private and state land burned. So far, 5.6 million acres of
land has burned this year, or 1.8 million acres more than the ten
year average of 3.8 million acres burned by this time. Some states
like Nevada are saying that 2017 is the worst fire season in 15
years, while Montana has already used up much of its firefighting
budget, even as much of the state remains in drought conditions
according to the US Drought Monitor. The state may have to tap into
reserve and federal funding but that isn’t the only cost. Brent M.
Witham, a 29-year-old firefighter from Mentone, California, was
killed cutting down a tree while working on the Lolo Peak Fire.<br>
Despite urgent conditions, funding for the nation’s six Regional
Climate Centers (RCCs) which provide data that we use to help
control and prevent wildfires is on the chopping block. The
President’s proposed budget would slash the Centers’ budgets by 82%,
from $3.65 million to $650,000.<br>
The Centers were originally developed in the 1980s with bipartisan
support because of the service and expertise they provide as data
collectors, analyzers and subject matter experts. If they’re
eliminated, “We’’ would of a lot of fundamental climate services,”
Tim Brown Research Professor Climatology Director Western Regional
Climate Center told PopSci. “That includes information for decision
makers for drought, fires and floods, and impacts, on transportation
and human health, water supplies, energy and disaster management
planning, all of these areas the regional climate center program
supports.”<br>
On a more concrete level this includes banal information, such as
yesterday’s temperature high and low—that’s Regional Climate Center
Data. More critically, if we’re talking fires, this also means the
loss of Western Based US Drought Monitoring Author which adds to the
weekly drought map that government uses to allocate drought relief
as well as an early drought warning system—i.e. the conditions which
can precede wildfires.<br>
Across the border from the United States, fires are also currently
scorching Canada’s British Columbia. This is the province’s second
worst fire season on record and NASA satellites have identified the
conflagration from space. It’s unsurprising that the smoke is
billowing over the border into nearby Seattle in Washington state
which is also under a heat advisory. On Thursday, the city hit a
record breaking 94 degrees at the Seattle Tacoma airport. The
regular high for the region at this time of year is 77 degrees.
Between the heat and the fact that the region has been, according to
US Drought Monitor is unnaturally dry that wildfires are knocking on
their door is unsurprising.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.popsci.com/amp/global-wildfire-maps">http://www.popsci.com/amp/global-wildfire-maps</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/">InciWeb
Incident Information System</a></b><br>
InciWeb is an interagency all-risk incident information management
system. The system was developed with two primary missions:<br>
- Provide the public a single source of incident related information<br>
- Provide a standardized reporting tool for the Public Affairs
community<br>
A number of supporting systems automate the delivery of incident
information to remote sources. This ensures that the information
regarding active incidents is consistent, and the delivery is
timely.<br>
Disclaimer<br>
Information posted on this website is for information purposes only.<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/26/how-europe-s-wildfires-have-more-than-trebled-in-2017"><b>Climate
Change Blamed As EU's Forest Fires Treble In 2017</b></a><br>
Exclusive: The number of forest fires in the EU has trebled so far
this year, according to figures obtained by Euronews, affecting an
area nearly the size of Luxembourg.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/26/how-europe-s-wildfires-have-more-than-trebled-in-2017">http://www.euronews.com/2017/07/26/how-europe-s-wildfires-have-more-than-trebled-in-2017</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor%28hidden%29,MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor%28hidden%29,MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Fires_Terra,Reference_Labels%28hidden%29,Reference_Features%28hidden%29,Coastlines&t=2017-08-04&z=3&v=-150.5749562937063,-67.18875655594405,207.1750437062937,93.68624344405595">-<br>
Nasa WORLDVIEW of Fires and Thermal Anomalies</a></b><br>
for August 4th 2017 <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor%28hidden%29,MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor%28hidden%29,MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Fires_Terra,Reference_Labels%28hidden%29,Reference_Features%28hidden%29,Coastlines&t=2017-08-04&z=3&v=-150.5749562937063,-67.18875655594405,207.1750437062937,93.68624344405595">https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=geographic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Fires_Terra,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines&t=2017-08-04&z=3&v=-150.5749562937063,-67.18875655594405,207.1750437062937,93.68624344405595</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/science/let-forest-fires-burn-what-the-black-backed-woodpecker-knows.html?_r=0">Let
Forest Fires Burn?<br>
What the Black-Backed Woodpecker Knows</a></b><br>
A scientific debate is intensifying over whether too much money and
too many lives are lost fighting forest fires.<br>
By JUSTIN GILLIS AUG. 6, 2017<br>
By the 1930s, industrial-scale techniques allowed firefighting
agencies, including the United States Forest Service, to suppress
fires across the landscape.<br>
A handful of scientists began arguing decades ago that this was a
mistake. Over the past decade or so, the research has crystallized
into a new understanding of the role of fire in forests.<br>
Far from being calamities, fires are now seen by many experts as
essential to improving the long-term health of the forests, thinning
them and creating greater variability on the landscape.<br>
The families of wilderness firefighters who died on the job once
tended to accept their lot resignedly, but some are starting to sue,
asking why the government is defying the latest science in a risky
attempt to extinguish remote fires.<br>
“The lives of young people are not worth saving trees that really
need to burn anyway,” Dr. Ingalsbee said. “Families are no longer
going to be mollified by politicians showing up at the memorial
talking about their fallen heroes.” ... <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/science/let-forest-fires-burn-what-the-black-backed-woodpecker-knows.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/science/let-forest-fires-burn-what-the-black-backed-woodpecker-knows.html?_r=0</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19646:How-Much-Will-Methane-From-Thawing-Permafrost-Speed-Up-Global-Warming%3F">(video
+ transcript) How Much Will Methane From Thawing Permafrost
Speed Up Global Warming?</a></b><br>
TheRealNews.com - Methane "seeps" on the tundra may be more
problematic than previously thought, according to a new report
co-authored by Torsten Sachs, a researcher at the GFZ German
Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany<br>
(video 10:38 )<br>
Because the Arctic is heating up at twice the rate of the rest of
the globe, parts of the Arctic tundra are thawing. This may be
allowing long buried pockets of methane to be released into the
atmosphere, new research suggests. A study published in the journal
Scientific Reports has concluded that, "Strong geologic methane
emissions from discontinuous terrestrial permafrost in the Mackenzie
Delta, Canada suggests that these methane seeps on the Tundra may be
more problematic than previously thought."<br>
TORSTEN SACHS: The most significant finding is probably that we
were able to pick up these geologic methane seeps with our aircraft
measurements. We could actually see looking at such a large area
that even though they occur on only a small fraction of the area,
they could contribute up to 17% of the annual emissions. That's a
rough estimate, but still we saw that they play quite a significant
role. They haven't been looked at much before, maybe on an
individual basis, but not on such a large scale<br>
TORSTEN SACHS: Well, what's allowing us to be a bit more accurate
is that we can actually cover a large area and not just an
individual, small study site on the ground. The uncertainty that
most of the previous studies carry with them is that the Arctic is
huge. It's difficult to access. We have very few data so we have to
extrapolate from very small study sites to a very large area, and
that causes errors. We can look at 10,000 square kilometers at once
now and avoid certain location biases, so we can get a bit better
overview over the entire large area. There are pros and cons to both
scales, of course, but this is what we can contribute. We can look
at the big picture...<br>
D. LASCARIS: Right. Now I understand that methane is released not
only from the thawing permafrost but also in the microbiological
process of the thawing tundra. Can you explain the distinction and
which of these two is likely to be a greater source of methane
leakage into the atmosphere?<br>
TORSTEN SACHS: The greater source is definitely the microbial
methane production on the surface because permafrost very often is
essentially a wetland. So like in any wetland, even in temperate
latitudes, as long as there is oxygen present and microbes can chew
on organic material, that will produce methane, and that's what's
happening in large expanses of the permafrost world. The thought is
now there's a lot of organic carbon contained in the permafrost and,
if that thaws, the microbes have more to chew on and they're going
to produce more methane. On top of it, it gets warmer, which makes
them happier. They can produce even more methane, so that's what
most of the studies focus on.<br>
But in addition to that, there are large natural gas reservoirs in
the Arctic, and most of them are probably deep enough but some of
them are also kept in place because there is a lid of permafrost on
top of them. If you take that lid away or punch holes into it, that
could potentially allow methane to migrate to the surface along
fjords or any kind of geologic structure and be released to
atmosphere.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19646:How-Much-Will-Methane-From-Thawing-Permafrost-Speed-Up-Global-Warming%3F">http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19646:How-Much-Will-Methane-From-Thawing-Permafrost-Speed-Up-Global-Warming%3F</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.fews.net/">Acute Food
Insecurity: Near Term (June - September 2017)</a></b><br>
<b>Emergency Food Assistance Needs Rise to 81 Million</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.fews.net/">https://www.fews.net/</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?177732-1/former-vice-president-speech">This
Day in Climate History August 7, 2003</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 7, 2003: In a speech at New York University, Al Gore condemns
the Bush administration's dishonesty on climate policy and foreign
policy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?177732-1/former-vice-president-speech">http://www.c-span.org/video/?177732-1/former-vice-president-speech</a><br>
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