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<font size="+1"><i>October 16, 2017</i></font><br>
<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/bYcBGL63yTc">Bodycam
footage shows woman's rescue from California wildfire</a></b><br>
Bodycam footage from a Sonoma County police officer shows the rescue
of a woman in Santa Rosa. Thirty-five fatalities have been recorded
so far, making it the deadliest week in California wildfire history.
The death toll could rise further as search-and-rescue teams are
deployed to sift through the remains of 3,500 burned buildings.
Hundreds of missing persons reports have been resolved, but stories
continue to emerge of people who did not make it out alive 'Just ash
and bones': California wildfire survivors mourn loved ones<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/bYcBGL63yTc">https://youtu.be/bYcBGL63yTc</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/europe/ireland-and-britain-brace-for-unusual-european-hurricane.html">Ireland
and Britain brace for unusual European hurricane - Ophelia is
the most-eastern Category 3 Atlantic hurricane on record</a></b><br>
Rain is no stranger to Ireland, but hurricanes?<br>
Hurricane Ophelia, the 10th hurricane of the Atlantic season, was
spinning toward Ireland on Sunday, bringing with it the potential
for structural damage, significant coastal flooding and dangerously
high seas.<br>
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said on Sunday that, as of 11
a.m. Atlantic Standard Time, Ophelia had slowed to a Category 1 but
was still dangerous, with top sustained winds near 90 miles an hour,
with stronger gusts. On Saturday, the center had described it as a
Category 3 hurricane with top winds of 115 miles an hour.<br>
In London, the Met Office, Britain's meteorological service, said
that Ophelia had been the most-eastern Category 3 Atlantic hurricane
on record.<br>
<font size="-1">$ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/europe/ireland-and-britain-brace-for-unusual-european-hurricane.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/world/europe/ireland-and-britain-brace-for-unusual-european-hurricane.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/10/ireland-and-britain-brace-for-unusual.html">http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/10/ireland-and-britain-brace-for-unusual.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-10-poll-americans-blame-wild-weather.html">Poll:
Americans blame wild weather on global warming</a></b><br>
A new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs
Research finds that 68 percent of Americans think weather disasters
seem to be worsening, compared to 28 percent who think they are
staying the same and only 4 percent who say they are less severe.<br>
And 46 percent of those who think it's getting worse blame man-made
climate change mostly or solely for the wild weather, while another
39 percent say it's a combination of global warming and natural
variability.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-10-poll-americans-blame-wild-weather.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-10-poll-americans-blame-wild-weather.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theroot.com/disaster-relief-workers-in-puerto-rico-treat-themselves-1819438945">Disaster
Relief Workers in Puerto Rico Treat Themselves to
Taxpayer-Funded 'Spa Day' Given by ... Puerto Ricans</a></b><br>
Here are a couple of things your tax dollars have paid for in the
past few weeks: Vice President Michael Pence's NFL protest/publicity
stunt, the Scotch tape keeping Donald Trump's ties together, White
House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders calling for Jemele Hill
to get fired, and federal relief workers treating themselves to a
"spa day" - from the very people they are supposed to be helping.<br>
A veteran doctor has alleged that federal disaster relief workers in
Puerto Rico brought in locals to treat them to manicures and
pedicures. The incident was so egregious and "personally abhorrent"
to the senior medical officer that she quit the disaster-response
team in Puerto Rico.<br>
The story was originally reported by<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/doctor-quits-puerto-rico-medical-relief-team-over-spa-day-1072301123804">
Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show</a> and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/federal-employees-allegedly-brought-in-puerto-ricans-to-provide-them-a-spa-day-while-doing-disaster-relief-report/">picked
up by Raw Story.</a><br>
The doctor, who has served on humanitarian missions in 10 countries
for over 20 years, says she has never seen a disaster relief
operation being run the way it has been in Puerto Rico. Maddow never
mentions the doctor's name, but in a response to a query from the
show, the Department of Health and Human Services - whose medical
staffers reportedly organized the spa day - refers to the doctor as
"Dr. Khanna."<br>
According to Khanna, members of the Disaster Medical Assistance Team
"used the triage tents that are supposed to be for medical care and
instead brought in local Puerto Rican residents to give the medical
workers cut-rate manicures and pedicures." The spa treatments were
given while the relief workers were on the clock.<br>
Khanna also shared photos with MSNBC that show the medical
professionals wearing flip-flops in an environment that was supposed
to be sterile. <br>
"I can no longer serve with honor," Khanna told her superiors at the
agency.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.theroot.com/disaster-relief-workers-in-puerto-rico-treat-themselves-1819438945">http://www.theroot.com/disaster-relief-workers-in-puerto-rico-treat-themselves-1819438945</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/14/geoengineering-is-not-a-quick-fix-for-climate-change-experts-warn-trump">Geoengineering
is not a quick fix for climate change, experts warn Trump</a></b><br>
Leading researchers and campaigners express concern that
geoengineering research could be used as an excuse not to reduce CO2
emissions...<br>
Leading climate scientists have warned that geoengineering research
could be hijacked by climate change deniers as an excuse not to
reduce CO2 emissions, citing the US administration under Donald
Trump as a major threat to their work.<br>
David Keith, a solar geoengineering (GE) expert at Harvard
University has said there is a real danger that his work could be
exploited by those who oppose action on emissions, at the same time
as he defended himself and colleagues from the claims GE strengthens
the argument for abandoning the targets set by the Paris climate
agreement. <br>
"One of the main concerns I and everyone involved in this have, is
that Trump might tweet 'geoengineering solves everything - we don't
have to bother about emissions.' That would break the slow-moving
agreement among many environmental groups that sound research in
this field makes sense," Keith said on the sidelines of the Climate
Engineering Conference (CEC) in Berlin.<br>
Indeed, utterances from people in or close to the Trump
administration - most notably GE proponent secretary of state Rex
Tillerson, who has referred to climate change as "just an
engineering problem" - make it clear they either tacitly or directly
support the idea of climate engineering...<br>
"All the techniques being proposed have potentially severe
environmental impacts," said Silvia Ribeiro of the ETC Group,
leading campaign monitors of new technologies and their possible
impact on the world's poorest.<br>
"They also ignore the question as to why there's not enough
political will to have done more to tackle climate change until now
and they in turn serve to justify the inaction," she added.<br>
"At the best climate engineering is a supplement, and it could be
that we shouldn't do it," he insisted. "Our work is to inform better
choices and it would actually be very useful to know for sure it
didn't work. Right now there are heads of state and others in
leadership who are explicitly assuming it could work, that it's
there if we need it. But let's say we found something deep in the
climate models which suggested we were overoptimistic about solar
geoengineering, then I would say 'abandon it'. That would be great.
I'd love to publish that."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/geoengineering_is_not_a_quick_fix_for_climate_change_experts_warn_trump">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/geoengineering_is_not_a_quick_fix_for_climate_change_experts_warn_trump</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/14/geoengineering-is-not-a-quick-fix-for-climate-change-experts-warn-trump">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/14/geoengineering-is-not-a-quick-fix-for-climate-change-experts-warn-trump</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thestandard.com.ph/opinion/columns/sounds-of-science/249365/the-science-of-resilience.html"><br>
The science of resilience</a></b><br>
posted October 15, 2017 at 12:01 am by Pecier Decierdo<br>
As I am writing this, wildfires rage in the wine country of
California. A month ago and several states away, two storms battered
the southeastern part of the United States in quick succession. Not
long after, a third ravaged islands in the Caribbean. Here in the
Philippines, we are getting used to comparable weather extremes.
Here's the punch line - scientists say we should get used to it.
This, they say, is "the new normal."<br>
The fight to reduce our carbon emissions is still a battle worth
fighting. There are, after all, countless reasons to mitigate the
worst effects of climate change. For one, our species' survival
depends on it. But while we are trying to prevent the worst from
happening, we should simultaneously begin adapting to the new
normal. This is where resilience comes in.<br>
Resilience is the capacity of a system to resist and recover from
damage...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thestandard.com.ph/opinion/columns/sounds-of-science/249365/the-science-of-resilience.html">http://thestandard.com.ph/opinion/columns/sounds-of-science/249365/the-science-of-resilience.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/doomsday-luxury-bunkers/index.html">Billionaire
bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse</a></b><br>
Say "doomsday bunker" and most people would imagine a concrete room
filled with cots and canned goods.<br>
The threat of global annihilation may feel as present as it did
during the Cold War, but today's high-security shelters could not be
more different from their 20th-century counterparts.<br>
The fortified structures are designed to withstand a nuclear strike
and come equipped with power systems, water purification systems,
blast valves, and Nuclear-Biological-Chemical (NBC) air filtration.<br>
Most include food supplies for a year or more, and many have
hydroponic gardens to supplement the rations. The developers also
work to create well-rounded communities with a range of skills
necessary for long-term survival, from doctors to teachers.<br>
Vicino says Vivos received a flurry of interest in its shelters
around the 2016 election from both liberals and conservatives, and
completely sold out of spaces in its community shelters in the past
few weeks.<br>
Vicino compares the individual spaces to underground yachts, and
even recommends that owners commission the same builders and
designers that worked on their actual vessels.<br>
"Most of these people have high-end yachts, so they already have the
relationship and they know the taste, fit, and finish that they
want," he explains.<br>
The vast complex includes a tram system to transport residents
throughout the shelter, where they can visit its restaurants,
theater, coffee shops, pool and game areas.<br>
"We have all the comforts of home, but also the comforts that you
expect when you leave your home," Vicino adds.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/doomsday-luxury-bunkers/index.html">http://edition.cnn.com/style/article/doomsday-luxury-bunkers/index.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-10-formation-coal-planet-snowball.html">Formation
of coal almost turned our planet into a snowball</a></b><br>
Phys.Org<br>
"It is quite an irony that forming the coal that today is a major
factor for dangerous global warming once almost lead to global
glaciation," ...<br>
While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million
years ago, the formation of coal brought the planet close to global
glaciation. For the first time, scientists show the massive effect
in a study to be published in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.<br>
When trees in vast forests died during the Carboniferous and Permian
periods, the carbon dioxide (CO2) they absorbed from the atmosphere
while growing was buried; the plants' debris over time formed most
of the coal that today is used as fossil fuel. Consequently, the CO2
concentration in the atmosphere dropped drastically and Earth cooled
down to such a degree that it narrowly escaped what scientists call
a "snowball state."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-10-formation-coal-planet-snowball.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-10-formation-coal-planet-snowball.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Texans-hit-hard-by-Hurricane-Harvey-rethink-12280474.php">Texans
hit hard by Hurricane Harvey rethink climate change</a></b><br>
"Those people probably don't want to hear about climate change, but
I guarantee in the back of their mind they think about it," he said.
"Because I thought about it. I said, 'I wonder what we're doing to
this planet to make it spiral out of control?'"<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Texans-hit-hard-by-Hurricane-Harvey-rethink-12280474.php">http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Texans-hit-hard-by-Hurricane-Harvey-rethink-12280474.php</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-10-16/news/8802080029_1_greenhouse-effect-global-warming-environmentalism">This
Day in Climate History October 16, 1988</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
October 16, 1988: Discussing the role of global warming in the
1988 presidential election, Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman
observes:<br>
"Last summer, one of the hottest and driest on record, the nation
was roused by alarms about the 'greenhouse effect'--the gradual
warming of the globe that threatens to turn coastal cities into
underwater ruins and corn fields into salt flats. <br>
"The problem is that for the last century or so industrial societies
have been releasing substances into the air that capture heat and
erode the Earth`s shield against the sun. The villains? Carbon
dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, methane from natural and
man-made sources and aerosol propellants.<br>
"But as soon as the heat dissipated, so did interest in the issue.
In the campaign, the greenhouse effect has gone almost
unmentioned...<br>
"Both candidates pretend the solutions will be painless and free.
Both pass over the obvious remedies in favor of the politically
appealing ones.<br>
"The nations of the world have taken one step by agreeing on a
treaty to reduce the use of aerosol propellants. But any serious
attempt to slow the warming of the Earth requires at least three
additional measures: discouraging the use of fossil fuels like coal,
oil and gas; big improvements in energy efficiency; and greater
reliance on nuclear power."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-10-16/news/8802080029_1_greenhouse-effect-global-warming-environmentalism">http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1988-10-16/news/8802080029_1_greenhouse-effect-global-warming-environmentalism</a></font><br>
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