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<font size="+1"><i>June 3, 2018</i></font><br>
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[CNN]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/03/us/west-coast-wildfires/index.html">Thousands
of acres ablaze in California, Colorado and New Mexico</a></b><b><br>
</b> (CNN)Massive wildfires in California, Colorado and New Mexico
have torched thousands of acres and forced hundreds to evacuate
their homes.<br>
A vegetation fire in Laguna Beach, California, about 50 miles south
of Los Angeles has torched about 250 acres and is being fought by
over 400 firefighters, according to the Orange County Fire
Authority. There was 0% containment as of Saturday night.<br>
No injuries or damaged structures have been reported in the fire
that's been dubbed the Aliso Fire, but evacuations are underway in
the Top of the World neighborhoods in Laguna Beach. By Saturday,
about 2,000 Laguna Beach residents had been evacuated.<br>
Some of the mandatory evacuations were lifted Saturday night, but
mandatory evacuations remained in effect for the Top of the World
neighborhood, according to the Orange County Fire Authority.<br>
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<b>Colorado fire prompts state of local disaster</b><br>
A blaze known as the 416 Fire in Colorado's La Plata County has
burned 1,100 acres, US Forest Service spokesman Jim Mackensen told
CNN on Saturday.<br>
The fire, about 15 miles outside the town of Durango, is 0%
contained and has forced the evacuations of 1,500 residents,
Mackensen said. No structures have been destroyed, he added. <br>
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<b>Hundreds of firefighters battling New Mexico fire</b><br>
And a massive fire in Colfax County, New Mexico, had grown to 27,290
acres by Saturday morning and was 0% contained, according to
InciWeb. Nearly 450 personnel were battling that fire.<br>
A mandatory evacuation order was in place for the town of Cimarron,
where 296 structures were threatened by the blaze, called the Ute
Park Fire, InciWeb said.<br>
Jim Smith told CNN he noticed the fire on a hill above his home in
the nearby village of Eagle Nest. At the time, he thought it was a
small trash fire.<br>
"It's been so dry here that once a fire starts in our part of the
country, it expands rapidly," he said.<br>
"By the time I got home, in about 15 minutes, it was covering
probably four square blocks. And half an hour later, almost a square
mile."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/03/us/west-coast-wildfires/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/03/us/west-coast-wildfires/index.html</a></font><br>
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[Red Cross]<br>
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Safety</a></b><br>
Learn how to keep your family and home safe during a wildfire<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/types-of-emergencies/wildfire">http://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/types-of-emergencies/wildfire</a><br>
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<br>
[Smithsonian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ocean-heatwaves-longer-more-intense-180969221/#5Q77xhxLFHqq5MrP.99">Ocean
Heatwaves Are Getting Longer and More Intense</a></b><br>
If the past century is any indication, global warming may be
contributing to less stable marine ecosystems<br>
On land, heatwaves can be deadly for humans and wildlife and can
devastate crops and forests.<br>
Unusually warm periods can also occur in the ocean. These can last
for weeks or months, killing off kelp forests and corals, and
producing other significant impacts on marine ecosystems, fishing
and aquaculture industries.<br>
Yet until recently, the formation, distribution and frequency of
marine heatwaves had received little research attention.<br>
Climate change is warming ocean waters and causing shifts in the
distribution and abundance of seaweeds, corals, fish and other
marine species. For example, tropical fish species are now commonly
found in Sydney Harbour.<br>
But these changes in ocean temperatures are not steady or even, and
scientists have lacked the tools to define, synthesize and
understand the global patterns of marine heatwaves and their
biological impacts.At a meeting in early 2015, we convened a group
of scientists with expertise in atmospheric climatology,
oceanography and ecology to form a <a
href="http://www.marineheatwaves.org/" target="_blank">marine
heatwaves working group</a> to develop a <a
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079661116000057"
target="_blank">definition for the phenomenon</a>: A prolonged
period of unusually warm water at a particular location for that
time of the year. Importantly, marine heatwaves can occur at any
time of the year, summer or winter.<br>
<div class="pw-hidden-cp">Over the past century, <a
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03732-9"
target="_blank">marine heatwaves have become longer and more
frequent around the world</a>. The number of marine heatwave
days increased by 54 per cent from 1925 to 2016, with an
accelerating trend since 1982.<span>..</span><br>
</div>
<font size="-1">Read more: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ocean-heatwaves-longer-more-intense-180969221/#5Q77xhxLFHqq5MrP.99">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ocean-heatwaves-longer-more-intense-180969221/#5Q77xhxLFHqq5MrP.99</a></font><br>
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<br>
"It's just that in previous times, the empires that collapsed didn't
take the entire natural world with them." <br>
Cynthia Travis<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com/issues/May2018/articles/Cynthia_Travis-The_Wisdom_of_the_Breakdown.html">THE
WISDOM OF THE BREAKDOWN</a></b><br>
I must have muttered the requisite You're right and I'm so sorry but
really, what the hell do you say when your child recognizes that
Life itself is threatened and no one in charge seems to care? I have
carried this conversation like a stone in my heart ever since. It
has become the koan at the core of my life. <br>
<blockquote>Multi-generational trauma has eroded our capacity to
envision a vibrant future and live accordingly. Empire, power,
greed and gambling are addicting and now it seems the survival of
Life on Earth is on the table. It is significant that men are
leading this reckless charge (more prominently than women): we
would do well to understand what makes males more prone to
distorted judgment (along with heart disease, autism, dyslexia and
violence) and we need to ask ourselves how we as parents -
especially those of us who are mothers-- have failed to ingrain in
our children a love of the Earth and the mandate to protect the
Future. <br>
</blockquote>
Why are we participating in our own slow murder, and the murder of
all that we love? My outrage, my grief, cannot be met by marching,
signing petitions, voting, or calling my representatives. <br>
<blockquote>Refugees of weather and war have, by some estimates,
surpassed 65 million with projections for climate refugees alone
to reach 150 million by 2020;1. Some refugee children in Sweden
have lost the will to live but do not die. As happens with plants
that have been too long without soil, the trauma of extended
uprooting has pushed these teenagers into impenetrable comas. One
day they are fine, the next day they are on life support. This new
illness has been named Uppgivenhetssyndrom - resignation
syndrome.; We might consider that the children's resignation,
their apathy, mirrors that of the adults who have failed them, in
particular the governments of the countries that have not (yet)
fallen into chaos. Mahmoud Darwish's words appear like images from
a dream: Longing has a country, a family, and an exquisite taste
in arranging wildflowers. It has a time chosen with divine care, a
quiet mythical time in which figs ripen slowly and the gazelle
sleeps next to the wolf in the imagination of the boy who never
witnessed a massacre.3 In my guilty heart, I give silent thanks
that my son did not fall into comatose despair. Given the sheer
numbers of refugees swelling humanity's edges, it may only be a
matter of time before the disease of resignation to a futureless
future becomes an epidemic. <br>
</blockquote>
Contrary to what we have been told, Time is not money. It is the
sensory experience of the rhythms of Life. Like Moses, we will
practice the art of the impossible. It may take five hundred years
to learn it. Until now, we have reserved our practice of the
impossible to mean conquering natural limits. Now it is time to add
the understanding that it's impossible for us to continue as we are.
<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com/issues/May2018/articles/Cynthia_Travis-The_Wisdom_of_the_Breakdown.html">http://www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com/issues/May2018/articles/Cynthia_Travis-The_Wisdom_of_the_Breakdown.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Rain and the Rhinoceros]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/conscience-and-resistance/">Conscience
and Resistance </a></b><br>
To find clarity in times of conflict, we must listen to the quiet
voice within. <br>
by Scott Russell Sanders <br>
<blockquote>And it sounds like what the rain says. We still carry
this burden of illusion because we do not dare to lay it down. We
suffer all the need that society demands we suffer, because if we
do not have these needs we lose our "usefulness" in society-the
usefulness of suckers. We fear to be alone, and to be ourselves,
and so to remind others of the truth that is in them. -Rain and
the Rhinoceros by Thomas Merton <br>
</blockquote>
Of all Merton's works, none has had a greater impact on me than the
essay I encountered first. "Rain and the Rhinoceros" offered me
guidance at a time when I felt lost. It emboldened me to think
critically about dominant beliefs and behaviors in American society,
and to challenge those that violated my own ethics and affections.
Merton himself must have experienced such an awakening from
something he had read, for in The Sign of Jonas (1953) he remarked:
"There are times when ten pages of some book fall under your eye
just at the moment when your very life, it seems, depends on your
reading those ten pages. You recognize in them immediately the
answer to all your most pressing questions. They open a new road."<br>
<br>
While "Rain and the Rhinoceros" did not answer all of my most
pressing questions, it did give me the courage to face them. It
opened a road that led from the self-preoccupation of youth to an
adult concern for the well-being of other persons and other species,
and for the health of our living planet. It spoke to my dismay about
the contradictions between the teachings of the Gospel, as I
understood them, and the conduct of those self-professed Christians
who embrace racism, militarism, and consumerism, who scorn refugees,
neglect the poor, and show little concern for the devastation of
Earth. Merton's work affirmed my reverence for nature, my sense that
wildness is the divine creative energy owing through every atom and
cell and star.<br>
<br>
Today, half a century after first reading the essay, I feel less
sanguine about rain. I still recognize that wind and clouds and
precipitation obey the laws of physics, not our wishes, but I no
longer imagine that rain is impervious to our actions. Sulfur and
nitrous oxide released from coal-fired power plants turn rain
acidic, poisoning lakes and vegetation. Radioactive particles spewed
into the air from accidents at nuclear power plants-such as those at
Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima-descend in raindrops. By
burning fossil fuels, clearing forests, plowing up carbon-rich
soils, and raising methane-generating livestock, we have altered the
chemistry of the atmosphere in a way that traps more heat. A warming
atmosphere produces more extended droughts and more violent
downpours, turning arable regions into deserts and forests into
tinder for wild fires, burying villages in mudslides, displacing
more and more of the world's poorest people by rising sea levels and
floods.<br>
<br>
Merton did not live to witness how thoroughly we have tainted the
rain. He died in 1968, just as scientists were beginning to document
the damage from acid rain, and as the average global
temperature-which had crept upward since the onset of the Industrial
Revolution-was beginning to rise more steeply. Well before his
death, however, he noticed other ways in which humans were
despoiling our planetary home. He saw evidence of the damage in
Kentucky hillsides stripped of trees, heard it in the roar of
chainsaws and tractors clearing more of the monastery's land. He
learned with dismay that pesticides were poisoning birds. He
agonized over the ravaging of the Vietnamese people and countryside
by American bombs. Most alarming of all, he perceived in the
escalating arms race a threat to all life on Earth.<br>
<br>
The military jets that Merton heard cruising overhead signified more
than preparation for war; they signified the industrial order, with
its scorn for natural limits, its assault on land and sea and sky,
its harnessing of technology to serve human appetites. "[P]erhaps
our scientific and technological mentality makes us war-minded," he
suggested in Faith and Violence. "We believe that any end can be
achieved from the moment one possesses the right instruments, the
right machines, the right technique." The hubris that has led us to
devastate our home planet now prompts us to imagine we can continue
our plundering and pollution by employing even more grandiose
technology-by dumping powdered limestone in the oceans to counter
acidification, by covering deserts and glaciers with reflective
plastic sheets, by orbiting giant mirrors to reflect the sun's rays,
by mining asteroids or colonizing Mars.<br>
<br>
Soon after the 1962 publication of Silent Spring, Merton wrote in
his journal: "I have been shocked at a notice of a new book by
Rachel Carson on what is happening to birds as a result of the
indiscriminate use of poisons. . . . Someone will say: you worry
about birds. Why not worry about people? I worry about both birds
and people. We are in the world and part of it, and we are
destroying everything because we are destroying ourselves
spiritually, morally, and in every way. It is all part of the same
sickness, it all hangs together."<br>
<br>
In his writings from the 1960s, Merton traced this sickness to our
false sense of separation from nature and our unchecked appetite for
power and possessions. His diagnosis was grounded in the teachings
of Jesus and the Hebrew prophets, with their stern warnings against
greed and the piling up of material wealth; it drew on the Christian
monastic tradition, with its devotion to poverty and simplicity; and
it was informed in his later years by Asian philosophy, especially
Zen Buddhism. Beginning with "Rain and the Rhinoceros," his work has
helped me understand that our ecological crisis is, at root, a
spiritual crisis. We abuse and exploit Earth for the same reason we
abuse and exploit one another: because we have lost a sense of
kinship with our fellow human beings, with other species, and with
our planetary home.<br>
<br>
Merton felt this kinship keenly. "Here I am not alien," he wrote
from his cabin in the woods. "The trees I know, the night I know,
the rain I know. I close my eyes and instantly sink into the whole
rainy world of which I am a part, and the world goes on with me in
it, for I am not alien to it." His experience as well as his faith
convinced him that the waters and woods and fields and their myriad
creatures, human and nonhuman, all arise from the same divine
source. "[T]he whole world is charged with the glory of God," he
exulted in The Sign of Jonas, "and I feel fire and music in the
earth under my feet." We are sparks of that primordial re, notes of
that music, each of us, all of us, along with birds and butterflies,
maples and monkeys, frogs and ferns. Whatever power gave rise to the
cosmos, to life, to conscious- ness, still infuses and sustains all
things. What we call nature is simply this grand, evolving ow, which
brings each of us into existence, bears us along, and eventually
reclaims us. Knowing this vividly, as Merton did, how can we
desecrate Earth? How can we keep from crying out in wonder and
praise?<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/conscience-and-resistance/">https://orionmagazine.org/article/conscience-and-resistance/</a></font><br>
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[the Merton essay]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scribd.com/document/50263556/Rain-and-the-Rhinoceros">Rain
and the Rhinoceros by Thomas Merton</a></b><br>
Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and
distribute for money. By "they" I mean the people who cannot
understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its
gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what
cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something
actual is to place it on the market. The time will come when they
will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I
am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scribd.com/document/50263556/Rain-and-the-Rhinoceros">https://www.scribd.com/document/50263556/Rain-and-the-Rhinoceros</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://piefurcation.blogspot.com/2006/04/rain-and-rhinoceros-by-thomas-merton.html">http://piefurcation.blogspot.com/2006/04/rain-and-rhinoceros-by-thomas-merton.html</a><br>
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<br>
[For Canada this article is the new normal article]<br>
<b><a
href="https://thewalrus.ca/environmental-disaster-is-canadas-new-normal-are-we-ready/">Environmental
Disaster Is Canada's New Normal. Are We Ready?</a></b><br>
As parts of the country flood-again-an unprecedented audit reveals
serious flaws in our climate change policy<br>
BY Anne Casselman<br>
Updated May. 28, 2018 <br>
Canada was a pioneer in developing performance-audit methodology,
but it wasn't until the 1990s that the auditor general began to
apply it to environmental topics, eventually leading to the creation
of the role of commissioner of the environment and sustainable
development in 1995. In the words of Denis Desautels, auditor
general of Canada at the time: "Environment became the fourth e in
our work, along with economy, efficiency, and effectiveness."...<br>
<blockquote>But, no matter what reductions in emissions we make
today, correcting the course of our climate will take centuries.
In the meantime, adaptation is compulsory. <br>
</blockquote>
The examination phase of a performance audit typically involves
grinding away on gargantuan files with auditing software, but the BC
audit team wanted to see climate adaptation for itself. "There's a
lot of public discussion around mitigation," says Carol Bellringer,
auditor general of British Columbia. "I think there's less
conversation, and there should be more around what is being done on
adaptation." BC faces increased risk of drought, flood, and forest
fire, and Bellringer and her team saw an opportunity to provide
value to British Columbians, more than 65,000 of whom were evacuated
last year during the province's worst wildfire season on record, by
making recommendations to government on how to improve its climate
resiliency...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thewalrus.ca/environmental-disaster-is-canadas-new-normal-are-we-ready/">https://thewalrus.ca/environmental-disaster-is-canadas-new-normal-are-we-ready/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E15FC355D167493C1A9178DD85F438785F9">This
Day in Climate History - June 3, 1977</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
June 3, 1977: The New York Times reports, <b>Climate Peril May
Force Limits On Coal and Oil, Carter Aide Says</b><br>
<blockquote>To avoid accumulation in the air of sufficient carbon
dioxide to cause major climate changes, it may ultimately be
necessary to restrict the burning of coal and other fossil fuels,
according to Dr. William D. Nordhaus of the President's Council of
Economic Advisers...<br>
- - -<br>
Dr. Nordhaus's argument was based in part on calculations by Dr.
Wallace S. Broecker of Columbia University's Lamont‐Doherty
Geological Observatory, who also presented a report. Each ton of
coal or other fossil fuel burned, he said, produces three tons of
carbon dioxide.<br>
<br>
Gas Acts Like Greenhouse Glass<br>
<br>
In the atmosphere carbon dioxide acts much like the glass of a
greenhouse. It readily permits the passage of sunlight, warming
the earth, but it inhibits the escape of heat into space as
infrared radiation....<br>
- - - <br>
<b>Serious Consequence Feared</b><br>
<br>
This would exceed the fluctuations of the last 100,000 years,
deduced from analysis of ocean sediments and cores from ice sheet
drill holes, and could have serious consequences. Dr. Nordhaus
also noted that the Princeton studies indicated a far more marked
warming in the polar regions than near the Equator.<br>
<br>
In the long run, as noted by Dr. Broecker, this could melt polar
ice, raising sea levels enough to flood many coastal cities and
food producing areas.<br>
<br>
To limit the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the air to an
increase of 100 per cent, he suggested an escalating tax schedule
that would impose 14 cents a ton of released gas in 1980,
increasing to $87.15 a ton by 2100.<br>
<br>
This would force energy consumers to shift to other sources, such
as nuclear energy, which he termed presently “the only proven
large‐scale and low‐cost alternative.” The shift from carbon‐based
fuels would not reach major proportions until about 40 years
hence.<br>
<br>
By then energy sources now at an early stage of development, such
as solar power and atomic fusion, might be able to contribute
electric power and noncarbon fuels.<br>
<br>
Since the United States contributes 10 to 20 percent of the carbon
dioxide, any solution must be international, Dr. Nordhaus said. It
will be “expensive, but not unthinkable,” he added.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E15FC355D167493C1A9178DD85F438785F9">http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E15FC355D167493C1A9178DD85F438785F9</a><br>
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