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<font size="+1"><i>September 19, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/category-5-hurricane-maria-hits-dominica">Category
5 Hurricane Maria Hits Dominica</a></b><br>
Category 5 Hurricane Maria made a direct hit on the small Lesser
Antilles island of Dominica (population 72,000) near 9 pm EDT
Monday, becoming Dominica's first Category 5 landfall on record. At
the time of landfall, an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft
measured surface winds of 160 mph and a central pressure of 924 mb.
Maria likely did catastrophic damage to Dominica.<br>
Heavy rain squalls and rising winds were being observed late Monday
afternoon at Melville Hall Airport on Dominica, which measured
sustained winds at 31 mph, gusting to 48 mph, at 6 pm EDT Monday.
That station then went off-line, as did Canefield Airport, an hour
later. A personal weather station on the northwest end of the island
stopped transmitting as of 9:50 pm EDT Monday, after measuring a
pressure of 986 mb. Satellite loops and radar out of Martinique and
Barbados clearly show Maria's small, 9-mile diameter eye, surrounded
by a daunting array of spiral bands with heavy thunderstorms,
Maria's hurricane-force winds were confined to a relatively narrow
40-mile diameter region around the hurricane's small eye, but the
tropical storm-force wind area was 230 miles in diameter.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/category-5-hurricane-maria-hits-dominica">https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/category-5-hurricane-maria-hits-dominica</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41314881">Hurricane
Maria strengthens to category five storm</a></b><br>
Hurricane Maria has strengthened to a "potentially catastrophic"
category five storm, US forecasters say, as it bears down on islands
in the Caribbean.<br>
The island of Dominica is one of the first in its path, facing
sustained winds of 260km/h (160mph).<br>
Maria is moving roughly along the same track as Irma, the hurricane
that devastated the region this month.<br>
Martinique declared a maximum-level alert while another French
island, Guadeloupe, ordered evacuations.<br>
Hurricane warnings are also in place for:<br>
Puerto Rico: The US territory expects Maria to make landfall as a
category three on Tuesday. It escaped the worst of Irma and has been
an important hub for getting relief to islands more badly affected.
Governor Ricardo Rossello urged islanders to seek refuge<br>
US Virgin Islands and British Virgin Islands: Both island chains
suffered severe damage from Irma and President Donald Trump declared
a state of emergency for the US territories on Monday. British
authorities fear debris left behind by Irma could be whipped up by
the new storm and pose an extra threat.<br>
Warnings are also in effect for St Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat and
St Lucia while hurricane watches are in place for St Martin, Saba,
St Eustatius and Anguilla.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41314881">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41314881</a></font><br>
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<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/this-department-is-the-last-hideout-of-climate-change-believers-in-donald-trumps-government/">This
Department Is the Last Hideout of Climate Change Believers in
Donald Trump's Government</a></b><br>
Even if no one else in Donald Trump's Washington is ready or willing
to deal with climate change, the US military will be. It's already
long been preparing in its own fashion to take a pivotal role in
responding to a world of recurring natural disasters. This, in turn,
will mean that in the coming years climate change will increasingly
dominate the domestic national-security agenda (whether the Trump
administration and those that follow like it, or even admit it) and
such domestic emergencies will undoubtedly be militarized. In the
process, the very concept of "homeland security" is destined to
change.<br>
As global warming intensifies, instability and chaos, including
massive flows of refugees, will only grow, undoubtedly inviting yet
more military interventions abroad. Meanwhile, climate change will
increase chaos and devastation at home and there, too, it seems that
Washington will often see the military as America's sole reliable
response mechanism. As a result, decisions will have to be made
about ending American conflicts abroad and refocusing domestically
or that overstretched military will simply swallow even more of the
government's dollars and gain yet more power in Washington. And yet,
whatever else the armed forces might (or might not) be capable of,
they are not capable of defeating climate change, which, at its
essence, is anything but a military problem. While there are
potential solutions to it, those, too, are in no way military.<br>
Despite their reluctance to speak publicly about such environmental
matters right now, top officials in the Pentagon are painfully aware
of the problem at hand. They know that global warming, as it
progresses, will generate new challenges at home and abroad,
potentially stretching their capabilities to the breaking point and
leaving this country ever more exposed to the ravages of climate
change without offering any solutions to the problem. As a result,
the generals face a fundamental choice. They can continue to
self-censor their sophisticated analysis of climate change and its
likely effects, and so remain complicit with the administration's
headlong rush into national catastrophe, or they can speak out
forcefully on its threat to homeland security, and the resulting
need for a new, largely non-military strategic posture that puts
climate action at the top of the nation's priorities<br>
<font size="-1">Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and
world-security studies at Hampshire College and the defense
correspondent of The Nation.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/this-department-is-the-last-hideout-of-climate-change-believers-in-donald-trumps-government/">https://www.thenation.com/article/this-department-is-the-last-hideout-of-climate-change-believers-in-donald-trumps-government/</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
</b><b><a
href="http://thebulletin.org/beyond-%E2%80%9Ccatastrophic%E2%80%9D-climate-change11122">Beyond
"catastrophic" climate change</a></b><br>
A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences makes the case for a new category of climate change so
risky that it goes beyond "dangerous" and even "catastrophic." The
authors call the new category "unknown."<br>
The authors propose two additional categories: Warming beyond 3
degrees would be "catastrophic," and warming beyond 5 degrees would
be "unknown."<br>
Xu and Ramanathan calculate a 50 percent probability that warming
will cross the dangerous threshold within three decades if
greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, and a 5 percent probability
of reaching catastrophic levels. That may sound low, but as
Ramanathan told the San Diego Union-Tribune, "you would not get on
an airplane if you thought there was a 5 percent chance that it was
going to crash."<br>
What are the odds that humanity will venture, or rather blunder,
into the unknown? If emissions remain unchecked, the two scientists
project a 50 percent probability that the global population will be
subjected to catastrophic risks by the end of the century, and a 5
percent probability of being fully in the unknown category.<br>
Xu and Ramanathan recommend a "three-lever strategy" to limit
warming: reducing carbon dioxide emissions to a net of zero;
reducing emissions of short-lived but potent "super pollutants" such
as methane and hydrofluorocarbons; and extracting and sequestering
as much as 1 trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by
the end of the century. "Basically, for a safe climate, all three
levers . . . must be deployed as soon as possible," they write.<br>
If that doesn't happen, it may be too late to avoid catastrophe. Or
whatever comes after that.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thebulletin.org/beyond-%E2%80%9Ccatastrophic%E2%80%9D-climate-change11122">http://thebulletin.org/beyond-%E2%80%9Ccatastrophic%E2%80%9D-climate-change11122</a></font><br>
<b>.<br>
<a
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/09/14/1618481114.full">Well
below 2 degrees C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous
to catastrophic climate changes</a></b><br>
Abstract<br>
The historic Paris Agreement calls for limiting global temperature
rise to "well below 2 degreesC." Because of uncertainties in
emission scenarios, climate, and carbon cycle feedback, we interpret
the Paris Agreement in terms of three climate risk categories and
bring in considerations of low-probability (5%) high-impact (LPHI)
warming in addition to the central (∼50% probability) value. The
current risk category of dangerous warming is extended to more
categories, which are defined by us here as follows: >1.5
degreesC as dangerous; >3 degreesC as catastrophic; and >5
degreesC as unknown, implying beyond catastrophic, including
existential threats. With unchecked emissions, the central warming
can reach the dangerous level within three decades, with the LPHI
warming becoming catastrophic by 2050. We outline a three-lever
strategy to limit the central warming below the dangerous level and
the LPHI below the catastrophic level, both in the near term
(<2050) and in the long term (2100): the carbon neutral (CN)
lever to achieve zero net emissions of CO2, the super pollutant (SP)
lever to mitigate short-lived climate pollutants, and the carbon
extraction and sequestration (CES) lever to thin the atmospheric CO2
blanket. Pulling on both CN and SP levers and bending the emissions
curve by 2020 can keep the central warming below dangerous levels.
To limit the LPHI warming below dangerous levels, the CES lever must
be pulled as well to extract as much as 1 trillion tons of CO2
before 2100 to both limit the preindustrial to 2100 cumulative net
CO2 emissions to 2.2 trillion tons and bend the warming curve to a
cooling trend.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/09/14/1618481114.full">http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/09/14/1618481114.full</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/climate/climate-change-denial.html">The
Real Unknown of Climate Change: Our Behavior</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/climate/climate-change-denial.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/climate/climate-change-denial.html</a><br>
<b><br>
</b><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/18/next-epa-science-advisers-could-include-those-who-question-climate-change/"><b>Next
wave of EPA science advisers could include those who question
climate change</b><br>
</a><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/18/next-epa-science-advisers-could-include-those-who-question-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/18/next-epa-science-advisers-could-include-those-who-question-climate-change/</a></font><b><br>
</b><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/09/arizona-officials-allegedly-covered-up-how-hot-it-got-in-some-state-prisons/">Arizona
Officials Allegedly Covered Up How Hot It Got in Some State
Prisons</a></b><br>
<b>Temperatures soared over the summer.</b><br>
This summer, temperatures soared in Arizona. The heatwave in June
was so severe that flights out of Phoenix were grounded. During that
week, the Arizona State Prison Complex-Douglas in the southeast
region of the state recorded temperatures up to 119 degrees in some
units. At the Safford prison, southeast of Phoenix, temperatures
inside the medical units hit 110 degrees. "Obviously, those are very
dangerous temperatures for anybody," David Fathi, a staff attorney
for the ACLU's National Prison Project who representedinmates in the
2012 lawsuit, told the Phoenix New Times. <br>
Employees at some facilities during this period reported feeling
unwell after working in extreme heat and called in sick because of
severe dehydration. Extreme heat waves are only expected to get
worse in the future thanks to climate change. On average, Phoenix
now has 16 days above 110 degrees per year. by 2050, that number is
expected to increase to 53.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/09/arizona-officials-allegedly-covered-up-how-hot-it-got-in-some-state-prisons/">http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/09/arizona-officials-allegedly-covered-up-how-hot-it-got-in-some-state-prisons/</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-09-17/climate-catastrophe-ignoring/">The
Climate Catastrophe We're All Ignoring</a></b><br>
By Jeremy Lent on Sep 17, 2017 01:17 pm<br>
With daily headlines pivoting from the unparalleled flooding from
Harvey in Houston to the devastation caused by Irma in Florida, it
might seem like the United States has its hands full just dealing
with our own climate emergencies. But meanwhile, multiply the damage
from Harvey and Irma a hundredfold and you'll get a feeling for the
climate-related suffering taking place right now in the rest of the
world.<br>
In this case, though, it's a different kind of mobilization that's
required. The threat we're facing comes, not from enemies at war
with us, but from the results of an economic system designed to
exploit the earth and the most vulnerable humans living on it at an
ever-increasing pace. As long as we measure ourselves and others by
how much we consume, we're complicit in fueling the global system
that's rapaciously devouring the earth.<br>
The good news is that there's a short window of time when a
fundamental shift in our economic, social, and political priorities
could still prevent global catastrophe. Alternative economic models
exist that offer ways to conduct commerce sustainably. Ultimately, a
flourishing future requires moving away from the growth-based,
consumption-obsessed values of global capitalism, and toward a
quality-oriented approach that could allow all of us to live on the
earth in dignity. It's even possible to draw down much of the carbon
that's already been emitted-the potential is there but it requires a
choice to be made: a shift in our society's values toward caring for
others alive right now, and for future generations.<br>
Will there be enough collective willpower to act and transform our
society before it's too late? That depends on the lessons learned
from Harvey, Irma, and the climate disasters still to come. Suppose,
as you're racing toward that crowd in the road, that you managed to
brake in time, get out of the car and join them. And then imagine
your surprise when you discover the road you were speeding on came
to an abrupt end around the next curve and was leading you directly
off the precipice. Ultimately, the climate catastrophe we're
ignoring will become all humanity's catastrophe unless we start
acting on it now.<br>
The post The Climate Catastrophe We're All Ignoring appeared first
on Resilience.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-09-17/climate-catastrophe-ignoring/">http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-09-17/climate-catastrophe-ignoring/</a></font><br>
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Greenmanbucket<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnEzS1RlLk">Keith
Schneider on Line 5 and the Economics of Pipelines</a></b><br>
Line 5 carries Tar Sands oil beneath the world's largest reservoir
of fresh water, and specifically at the Straits of Mackinaw, one of
the world's most beautiful places.<br>
It does not need to be there.<br>
Keith Schneider of Circle of Blue is a New York Times journalist
specializing in the nexus of water, climate, and energy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnEzS1RlLk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwnEzS1RlLk</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/18/how-watching-football-helped-me-understand-people-who-deny-climate-change/?utm_term=.8f1e116dda9c">How
watching football helped me understand people who deny climate
change</a></b><br>
Fans like me are denying science, too.<br>
By Daniel Glick<br>
...Then, as the new NFL season kicked off last week, I realized I
was a science denier, too. Even in the face of mounting evidence
that football is hazardous for players' brains, I couldn't stop
myself from watching. I cheered gleefully as the Patriots lost on
opening day Thursday Night Football and my Broncos prevailed on
Monday Night Football, kicking off the Super Bowl LII season.<br>
...This revelation was a psychic rout. I'd read that social
scientists have discovered that some people deny climate change
science because they understand that, if it's true, we really have
to change things fast - and governmental action would be inevitable.
In my case, no matter how much evidence I have that football is
damaging thousands of players, I don't want to give it up. And
suddenly, I get why EPA administrator Scott Pruitt doesn't want to
talk about how warmer oceans contribute to more intense hurricanes -
it's the same reason I don't want to think about the way steroids
make a 6-foot-5-inch, 280-pound defensive end even more deadly to
quarterbacks.<br>
I'm not quite ready to stop watching football completely, but I am
already starting to cut back. I stopped playing fantasy football.
And in the spirit of bipartisan compromise, I'm offering climate
deniers a trade. Although it might feel easier to completely
transform the world's energy economy than it will be for me to give
up football entirely, I'll offer them "Monday Night Football" and
the Super Bowl in exchange for a cap-and-trade program, with a
carbon tax to be named later.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/18/how-watching-football-helped-me-understand-people-who-deny-climate-change/?utm_term=.8f1e116dda9c">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/18/how-watching-football-helped-me-understand-people-who-deny-climate-change/?utm_term=.8f1e116dda9c</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
</b><b> Performance </b><br>
The Next Breath: Art & Debate<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/141539770">https://vimeo.com/141539770</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ouHJGieEU&t=1s">Newsbroke
(YouTube) Why The Media Isn't Linking Hurricanes To Climate
Change</a></b><br>
Newsbroke Sep 15, 2017<br>
After Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, it seems like now's the
perfect time to talk about climate change, right? FOX? NBC? ABC?
Head of the EPA? Former Texas governor Rick Perry? Anybody? No? No
one. Ugh.<br>
video report <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/n6ouHJGieEU">https://youtu.be/n6ouHJGieEU</a><br>
What are you seeing and reading about climate change? How do you
think the media has done on reporting on the links between
hurricanes and climate change? Let us know in the comments. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ouHJGieEU&t=1s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6ouHJGieEU&t=1s</a><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294488314.html">This
Day in Climate History September 19, 1988 </a>- from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
September 19, 1988: With a clarity not seen in mainstream media
after the rise of the climate-change denial industry, the Boston
Globe notes:<br>
"Carbon dioxide is the principal greenhouse gas, accounting for
roughly half of the greenhouse problem. Its concentration has been
increasing in the earth's atmosphere because the industrial world is
burning large amounts of oil, gas, and coal and because developing
countries such as Brazil and Indonesia are destroying millions of
acres of tropical forest each year. Both of these activities release
carbon dioxide.<br>
"Because carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as methane
and chlorofluorocarbons are trapping the sun's heat like the glass
in a greenhouse, scientists believe the earth is entering a period
of soaring global temperatures, rising sea levels, and disruptive
climate change."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294488314.html">http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/doc/294488314.html</a><br>
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