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<font size="+1"><i>August 14, 2017</i></font><br>
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Politically Blonde (Video commentary)<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RAEFjLUYU">Climate
Change Is Real And We're All Going to Die</a></b><br>
Because we need to fix our climate crisis as of, like, yesterday.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RAEFjLUYU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RAEFjLUYU</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/excessive-heat-replaced-excessive-storms-poland-170813110353567.html">Excessive
heat replaced by excessive storms in Poland</a></b><br>
For the second time in a week, Poland has been hit by extraordinary
storms. <i>(93 mph)</i><br>
see images: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdmegaxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/8/13/9e750c71116e46a2b7d7c19f196aaaf2_9.jpg">http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdmegaxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/8/13/9e750c71116e46a2b7d7c19f196aaaf2_9.jpg</a><br>
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href="http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/8/13/8c92ce5fa07e420cb07c69b6ae43e094_18.jpg">http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/8/13/8c92ce5fa07e420cb07c69b6ae43e094_18.jpg</a><br>
Five people have died in freak accidents as a result of violent
storms in Poland. All the deaths were a result of falling trees in
the area surrounding the Park Narodowy Bory Tucholskie, a national
park of peat bogs, pine forests and lakes.<br>
Deutsche Welle reported that rescuers had to force their way through
"kilometres" of fallen trees in the Tuchola Forest to reach the site
of Friday night's tragedy.<br>
A front of Atlantic air has forced itself into Spain, through the
Alps, Austria and the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland. Hail the
size of hens' eggs fell in Spain. Flash floods raged through the
Italian Alps, tomb stones were felled in the Czech Republic but
Poland may have seen the most dramatic effect on Friday night.<br>
This particular storm appears to have been a mesoscale convective
system (MCS), grown to such an extent that it produced destructive
winds. An MCS typically creates a gust front or "squall line" that
produces straight line wind damage.<br>
Drone footage from northern Poland shows hundreds of shallow-rooted
pine trees felled all in one direction. This is typical of a
straight line blast of wind, not a tornado.<br>
The city of Elblag, to the east of the national park, reported a
sudden but short-lived increase in wind speed to 151 km/h (<i>93 mph</i>)
before midnight. Lesser gusts, but equally sudden, and short-lived
gusts were reported at Lebork and Chojnice.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/excessive-heat-replaced-excessive-storms-poland-170813110353567.html">http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/excessive-heat-replaced-excessive-storms-poland-170813110353567.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0812/896885-poland-storms/">https://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0812/896885-poland-storms/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4214881/wild-weather-sweeps-europe-thunder-storms/">https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4214881/wild-weather-sweeps-europe-thunder-storms/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/2115e218-802e-11e7-94e2-c5b903247afd">Saudi
Aramco's value at risk from climate change policies</a></b><br>
Financial Times 10h ago<br>
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href="https://www.ft.com/content/2115e218-802e-11e7-94e2-c5b903247afd">https://www.ft.com/content/2115e218-802e-11e7-94e2-c5b903247afd</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_I6xzpFM1A">Climate &
Extreme Weather News #53 (August 8th to 11th 2017)</a></b><br>
36 mins of assorted video clips.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_I6xzpFM1A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_I6xzpFM1A</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/433yg9/global-investment-firm-warns-78-degrees-of-global-warming-is-possible">Global
Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible</a></b><br>
Motherboard Aug 9, 2017<br>
A leading British global investment firm has a warning for its
clients: If we keep consuming oil and gas at current rates, our
planet is on course to experience a rise in global average
temperatures of nearly 8degrees (14degrees) by the end of the
century. This would make Earth basically uninhabitable for humans.<br>
Although this is the darkest scenario we've seen so far, there's
reason for cautious optimism: the new projections point out that
it's unlikely investors will simply ignore this risk, meaning that
our present level of fossil fuel consumption could decrease...<br>
But oil and gas companies, the briefing warns, have not caught up
with this reality—at some point, though, they will have to get on
board.<br>
The dashboard shows unmistakably that our current pathway is heading
to unprecedented disaster: but it also shows that there is a good
chance this worst-case scenario can be averted, as some of the
world's biggest investors begin to pay serious attention to the
potential consequences of what will happen if we don't change
course.<br>
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href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/433yg9/global-investment-firm-warns-78-degrees-of-global-warming-is-possible">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/433yg9/global-investment-firm-warns-78-degrees-of-global-warming-is-possible</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/13/the-eco-guide-to-optimism">The
eco guide to optimism</a></b><br>
The Guardian<br>
Let's begin with the bad news. First, Earth Overshoot Day – the
point at which the world consumes more natural resources than the
planet can renew throughout the year – shifted forward this year to
2 August, putting humanity in the red for longer.<br>
Research revealed that summer temperatures in parts of the Middle
East and North Africa are increasing twice as fast as the average
pace of global warming, so by 2100 it will be impossible to live
there.<br>
Also, climatologists fear that global wheat will not be able to bear
the heat (a potential disaster given that it supplies 20% of dietary
calories worldwide) and others say there is only a 5% chance we can
stay under 2 degrees of warming (the threshold set by the Paris
Agreement).<br>
The Sixth Mass Extinction might be upon us but the most endangered
species on the planet right now is the climate optimist. <br>
Dystopian visions are strangely seductive. A better way to look at
this is as an age of great transformation. Excitement brings out the
optimist....<br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/13/the-eco-guide-to-optimism">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/13/the-eco-guide-to-optimism</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/08/13/542645647/in-egypt-a-rising-sea-and-growing-worries-about-climate-changes-effects">(audio)
In Egypt, A Rising Sea — And Growing Worries About Climate
Change's Effects</a></b><br>
"Last winter was the worst," says Bedair Mohammad. "The sea
swallowed up some of the land and got closer and closer to the
village. We're seeing things we never saw before, in a way that
could make us believe this is anger from God on the village and its
people."<br>
Mohammad says every year the winds get stronger, the waves get
higher and more land disappears. They have to go further and further
out to sea to find the same fish they used to catch close to shore.<br>
Mohammad says last year, the winds were so strong, the third story
of his house was knocked down. Boats were tossed up from the water
into the road....<br>
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href="http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/08/13/542645647/in-egypt-a-rising-sea-and-growing-worries-about-climate-changes-effects">http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/08/13/542645647/in-egypt-a-rising-sea-and-growing-worries-about-climate-changes-effects</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/BqqZzY0fjC0">This Day in Climate History
August 14, 2008 </a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/BqqZzY0fjC0"> </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 14, 2008: GOP presidential candidate John McCain discusses
his<br>
views on energy and climate change in Aspen, Colorado.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/BqqZzY0fjC0">http://youtu.be/BqqZzY0fjC0</a><br>
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