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<font size="+1"><i>July 3, 2018</i></font><br>
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[stop. please.]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/relentless-heat-wave-to-grip-northeastern-us-into-july-4/70005343">'Relentless'
heat wave to grip northeastern US into July 4</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/relentless-heat-wave-to-grip-northeastern-us-into-july-4/70005343">https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/relentless-heat-wave-to-grip-northeastern-us-into-july-4/70005343</a><br>
<br>
[the heat index: a quantity expressing the discomfort felt as a
result of the combined effects of the temperature and humidity of
the air]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://weather.com/maps/current-heat-index">Current Heat
Index Map</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/maps/current-heat-index">https://weather.com/maps/current-heat-index</a></font><br>
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[Chart to calculate heat index]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-index">Heat Index</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-index">https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-index</a></font><br>
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[do-it-yourself math]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/heatindex.shtml">Heat
Index Calculator</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/heatindex.shtml">http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/html/heatindex.shtml</a></font><br>
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[Methane surface map]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/methane-forecasts?time=2018063000,60,2018070212&projection=classical_north_america&layer_name=composition_ch4_surface">Methane
at surface [ ppbv ] (provided by CAMS, the Copernicus Atmosphere
Monitoring Service)<br>
Saturday 30 Jun, 00 UTC T+60 Valid: Monday 2 Jul, 12 UTC</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/methane-forecasts?time=2018063000,60,2018070212&projection=classical_north_america&layer_name=composition_ch4_surface">https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/cams/methane-forecasts?time=2018063000,60,2018070212&projection=classical_north_america&layer_name=composition_ch4_surface</a><br>
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<br>
[Wildfire Today]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wildfiretoday.com/2018/07/02/wildfire-potential-increases-in-california-and-the-northwest/">Wildfire
potential increases in California and the Northwest</a></b><br>
MDT July 2, 2018)<br>
<blockquote>"Abnormally dry conditions along the West Coast allowed
for a northward expansion of drought into western Oregon and
Washington in June. Some improvement was noted across the southern
Great Plains while drought emergence was observed across the Lower
Mississippi River Valley. Preexisting drought conditions and
continued drier than average conditions across the Southwest
allowed for a normal progression of the fire season across the
Four Corners Region until mid-month when the remnants of Hurricane
Bud moved north from Mexico and produced widespread wetting
rainfall that reduced the elevated large fire potential in that
area. While rainfall amounts that were greater than 200% of
average were received across Arizona, New Mexico, and portions of
southwestern Colorado, the Great Basin and California remained
very dry receiving less than 10% of average precipitation.
Temperatures across the West were near average for the month from
the Pacific Coast east to the Continental Divide. East of the
Divide, temperatures were near average.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wildfiretoday.com/2018/07/02/wildfire-potential-increases-in-california-and-the-northwest/">http://wildfiretoday.com/2018/07/02/wildfire-potential-increases-in-california-and-the-northwest/</a></font><br>
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[From LA Times]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-county-fire-20180702-story.html">Wildfire
in Yolo County spreads to 44,500 acres; only 3% containment</a></b><br>
A wildfire burning through the Yolo County countryside grew to
44,500 acres overnight, fire officials said Monday.<br>
More than 1,200 fire personnel battled the blaze into the morning,
ordering evacuations and establishing control lines in the face of
hot, gusty winds.<br>
Fire officials said red flag conditions - a perilous mix of low
humidity, strong winds and high temperatures - could continue to
fuel the fire.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-county-fire-20180702-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-county-fire-20180702-story.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[One would think this should be a top story in a national newscast]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/07/02/rhode-island-climate-liability-suit/">Rhode
Island Becomes the First State to File Climate Suit Vs. Oil
Industry</a></b><br>
Rhode Island is suing 21 oil and gas companies, state attorney
general Peter Kilmartin announced on Monday, becoming the first U.S.
state to attempt to hold the industry responsible for climate
change-driven damages.<br>
"For a very long time, there has been this perception that 'Big Oil'
was too big to take on, but here we are-the smallest state, the
Ocean State-taking on the biggest, most powerful corporate polluters
in the world," Kilmartin said, adding that Rhode Island has too much
at stake not to sue.<br>
The suit was filed in Bristol County Superior Court and alleges that
the 21 companies-including oil giants Exxon, BP, Shell, Chevron,
ConocoPhillips and others- knowingly contributed to climate change
and failed to adequately warn Rhode Island citizens about the risks
posed by their products.<br>
The state alleges the companies' actions caused sea level rise and
violated state laws by polluting, impairing and destroying the
state's natural resources, interfering with the public's ability to
use and enjoy those resources...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/07/02/rhode-island-climate-liability-suit/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/07/02/rhode-island-climate-liability-suit/</a><br>
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<br>
[just a reminder]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/07/02/climate-will-have-real-estate-impacts-and-soon/">Climate
Will Have Real Estate Impacts -and Soon</a></b><br>
July 2, 2018<br>
Video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/qRGuQKv4gPU">https://youtu.be/qRGuQKv4gPU</a><br>
New study looks at chronic flooding risk in coming decades from
climate warming with subsequent sea level rise and tidal flooding.<br>
video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/jCIiK3mKUug">https://youtu.be/jCIiK3mKUug</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/07/02/climate-will-have-real-estate-impacts-and-soon/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/07/02/climate-will-have-real-estate-impacts-and-soon/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[after permafrost melts, does it become peat?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/29/more-saddleworth-style-fires-likely-as-climate-changes-scientists-warn">More
Saddleworth-style fires likely as climate changes, scientists
warn</a></b><br>
Saddleworth fires will also exacerbate problems as the UK's
peatlands store huge amounts of carbon that they will release<br>
Fri 29 Jun 2018 10.35 EDT <br>
Firefighters tackle the wildfire on Saddleworth Moor<br>
Northern Europe should brace itself for more upland fires like the
one on Saddleworth Moor this week as the climate changes and extreme
weather events become more common, scientists have warned.<br>
As the army joined firefighters to tackle the blaze near Manchester
and a second fire was reported on nearby upland, scientists said
similar events are increasingly likely in future, with potentially
devastating consequences for the environment and human health. <br>
Guillermo Rein, professor of fire science at Imperial College
London, said recent studies showed "climate change is expected to
increase the fire frequency and severity of wildfire in Europe".<br>
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Dr Richard Payne of the University of York agreed, saying that
"devastating events like we are seeing today at Saddleworth Moor are
likely to happen more often in the future". He also warned the fires
would exacerbate climate change, as the UK's peatlands store huge
amounts of carbon that is then released.<br>
"The UK's peaty moorlands are crucial for the carbon they lock away
as peat," he said. "Since the last ice age these peatlands have
helped cool our climate but fires can reverse that effect, rapidly
returning carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide."<br>
The fire at Saddleworth Moor could also have more immediate health
implications. Prof Susan Page of the University of Leicester said
peat fires release toxic chemicals into the air as well as small
particulates that have long-term health implications - especially
for children or those with existing respiratory conditions.<br>
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He said: "With none of the current pollution abatement strategies in
the early industrial period, these moors were on the receiving end
of a whole range of quite nasty industrial pollutants. So these
peats are a store of past pollution, which could be remobilised in
the current fires with unknown consequences for human health."<br>
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"What we need to do is get this dry hard habitat back to being a
wetland environment that can resist fire more effectively and across
which water travels much more slowly," he said.<br>
Thomas Smith at the LSE said other UK moorlands were highly
susceptible with "moderate to very high fire danger ratings across
most of the UK and the Republic of Ireland".<br>
He said that besides the Saddleworth Moor fire, there were at least
two fires burning in the Northumberland national park this week,
"one of which appears to be quite large at over 2km across".<br>
"The last time we had conditions similar to this was in spring
2011," he said, "when there were fires breaking out across the whole
of the UK and the Republic of Ireland, from a forest fire in
Berkshire to moorland fires in the Scottish Highlands. I should
imagine that fire and rescue services in areas at risk will be
preparing themselves for a busy weekend."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/29/more-saddleworth-style-fires-likely-as-climate-changes-scientists-warn">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/29/more-saddleworth-style-fires-likely-as-climate-changes-scientists-warn</a></font><br>
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<br>
AUDIO<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/07/the-teacher-friendly-book-on-climate-change/"> Introducing
a teacher-friendly book on climate change </a></b><br>
The authors are raising money to send it to as many science teachers
as possible.<br>
Searching for information about climate change can turn up confusing
or misleading material. So one group is helping teachers sort fact
from fiction.<br>
Moore: "They're in this very mixed-message environment where they're
hearing a whole bunch of different things, and it's really difficult
to know what to think, to know what to do. And so we really felt
like we couldn't sit by."<br>
Alexandra Moore is with the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.priweb.org/">Paleontological Research
Institution</a>, which last year published a book called <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://teachclimatescience.wordpress.com/">The Teacher
Friendly Guide to Climate Change</a>. It covers the basic science
of climate change, impacts in different regions, and solution
strategies.<br>
Now, the organization is raising funds to distribute the guide for
free to as many teachers as possible. The campaign started after a
group that dismisses climate science sent its own book to schools
across the U.S.<br>
Moore: "We were inspired to reach out to all the teachers in the
country."<br>
Moore says the money raised so far is enough to send the book to
about a quarter of the public high school science teachers in the
U.S.<br>
Moore: "We need to get out there and make sure that this message is
heard, that our message is effective and we are really taking this
information to the teachers and to the students who depend on them."<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/07/the-teacher-friendly-book-on-climate-change/">https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/07/the-teacher-friendly-book-on-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://teachclimatescience.wordpress.com/">The
Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change</a></b><br>
TFG Climate Change is written for teachers who could benefit from a
"teacher-friendly" resource that includes both the basics of climate
change science and perspectives on teaching a subject that has
become socially and politically polarized. Our audience is high
school Earth science and environmental science teachers, and the
guide is written to provide the information and graphics that a
secondary school teacher needs in the classroom. The book also
speaks to a wider audience, including educators of other grade
levels, subjects, and contexts, as well as non-teachers who find the
approach helpful. Climate change is a scientific issue, but it is
also a historical, social, psychological, and economic issue that
can only be deeply understood through mathematics, language and art.<br>
TFG Climate Change is funded by the National Science Foundation, and
published by the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) in
Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1932, the Paleontological Research
Institution has outstanding programs in research, collections,
publications, and public education. The Institution cares for a
collection of nearly three million specimens (one of the 10 largest
in the U.S.), and publishes Bulletins of American Paleontology, the
oldest paleontological journal in the Western Hemisphere, begun in
1895. PRI is a national leader in the development of informal (i.e.,
outside the classroom) Earth science education resources for
educators and the general public.<br>
TFG Climate Change is the latest book in a series of
Teacher-Friendly Guides™ published by the Paleontological Research
Institution, and written by expert scientists and educators in their
respective fields. Access all the previous Teacher-Friendly Guides™
on the PRI website at teacherfriendlyguide.org.<br>
Our Mission: The Paleontological Research Institution serves society
by increasing and disseminating knowledge about the history of life
on Earth.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://teachclimatescience.wordpress.com/">https://teachclimatescience.wordpress.com/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[clever]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180628120053.htm">Smartphones
used to track migrations caused by climate change</a></b><br>
Date: June 28, 2018<br>
Source: FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology<br>
Spanish researchers have developed a system that tracks human
displacement caused by climate change using the tracks of mobile
phones. With this model, which was tested during a severe drought in
Colombia in 2014, it was determined that the portion of the
population that migrated due to this event was 10% during the six
months of the study.<br>
Natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods cause sudden
population movements, as people try to find safe areas or follow
government instructions. These changes have already been captured
and modelled using geo-located tweets or cell phone records.<br>
Now, Spanish experts have applied the smartphone migration tracking
system for the first time to a more long-term phenomenon such as
climate change.<br>
The study, in which Enrique Frias-Martinez, researcher at Telefónica
Research, in Madrid, Spain, has participated, has used aggregated
and encrypted cell phone metadata to predict the migration caused by
a severe drought in 2014 in La Guajira, Colombia. La Guajira is a
rural department located in northeast Colombia, on the border with
Venezuela, and is mainly inhabited by the aboriginal population of
the Wayuus.<br>
As Frias-Martinez explains to Sinc, in the research, which received
funding from the National Science Foundation of the USA, cell phone
traces were used "to identify population flows in the municipalities
of the area affected by the drought."<br>
This information -he adds- "was then used to monitor migrations
using radiation models, which take into account not only the
characteristics of the population and the distance between origin
and destination, but also the economic opportunities of the place
where they end up."<br>
On the basis of this solution, the authors proposed a variation
based on considering the climate of the destination area as an
addition to the concept of economic opportunity to predict the
migrations caused by climate change.<br>
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"We have verified that, with cell phone traces, these migrations can
be characterized with a success rate of over 60%, both in terms of
the total number of people who migrate and the place where they move
to."<br>
The researcher says that "since displacements caused by climate
change - especially by extreme drought and soil erosion- are going
to be increasingly frequent, this mobile tracking system could be
very useful, especially if we take into account that these devices
are already widespread in developing countries."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180628120053.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180628120053.htm</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/07/03/study-media-still-largely-fail-to-put-wildfires/194733">This
Day in Climate History - July 3, 2013</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 3, 2013: Media Matters notes that mainstream media entities
have largely failed to point out that wildfires are likely to be
more severe due to human-caused climate change.<br>
<blockquote>A (2013) study of wildfire coverage from April through
July 1 finds that print and TV media only mentioned climate change
in 6 percent of coverage, although this was double the amount of
coverage from a year ago. While many factors must come together
for wildfires to occur, climate change has led to hotter and drier
conditions in parts of the West that have increased the risk of
wildfires.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/07/03/study-media-still-largely-fail-to-put-wildfires/194733">http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/07/03/study-media-still-largely-fail-to-put-wildfires/194733</a></font><br>
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