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<font size="+1"><i>July 25, 2018</i></font><br>
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[CBS storms and fires]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/extreme-weather-temperatures-wildfires-flooding-forecast-today-2018-07-23/">Extreme
weather wallops both coasts with flooding, scorching heat,
wildfires</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/extreme-weather-temperatures-wildfires-flooding-forecast-today-2018-07-23/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/extreme-weather-temperatures-wildfires-flooding-forecast-today-2018-07-23/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[fierce fires]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/greeks-urged-to-leave-homes-as-wildfires-spread-near-athens">Greece
wildfires: scores dead as holiday resort devastated</a></b><br>
Death toll rises to 74 as Red Cross official says 26 people died as
they huddled together on beach in Mati<br>
Tue 24 Jul 2018 <br>
Greece fires: deadly blazes rage around Athens - video<br>
The worst wildfire to hit Greece in over a decade tore through a
small resort town near Athens on Monday afternoon, killing at least
74 people, injuring almost 200 and forcing hundreds more to rush on
to beaches and into the sea as the blaze devoured houses and cars.<br>
Huge, fast-moving flames trapped families with children as they
tried to flee from Mati, 18 miles (29km) east of the Greek capital.
Among the dead were 26 people whose bodies were found huddled
tightly together close to the beach, a Red Cross official said on
Tuesday morning...<br>
- - - <br>
The 26 who died close to the beach "had tried to find an escape
route but didn't make it in time," Nikos Economopoulos, the head of
Greece's Red Cross, told the country's Skai TV. "Instinctively,
seeing the end nearing, they embraced."<br>
A fire brigade spokesman said at least 74 people had died. The toll
was expected to rise as rescue crews searched through the charred
remains of houses.<br>
The government said at least 172 people were hurt, including 16
children, and 11 adults were in a serious condition. The Greek
coastguard said the bodies of four people were retrieved from the
sea off Mati.<br>
But there were also stories of remarkable rescues: coastguards and
others saved 696 people who had fled to beaches, while boats pulled
another 19 people alive from the sea.<br>
The town they had left behind had been gutted. Many hours after the
blaze broke out, the strong smell of charred buildings and trees
lingered in the air. White smoke rose from smouldering fires...<br>
- - - -<br>
"It happened very fast," he told the Associated Press. "The fire was
in the distance, then sparks from the fire reached us. Then the fire
was all around us. The wind was indescribable."<br>
- - - -<br>
Areas around Athens were like a tinderbox, emergency workers said,
after a dry winter and a summer heatwave in which temperatures have
risen above 40C. However, heavy rain was forecast across southern
Greece on Wednesday.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/greeks-urged-to-leave-homes-as-wildfires-spread-near-athens">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/greeks-urged-to-leave-homes-as-wildfires-spread-near-athens</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Awakening syndrome]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/23/republican-carlos-curbelo-pitches-carbon-tax-climate-change">Republican
lawmaker pitches carbon tax in defiance of party stance</a></b><br>
Representative Carlos Curbelo has proposed a tax on carbon dioxide
emissions but Republicans are expected to block it<br>
Curbelo's bill has virtually no chance of becoming law, however, due
to the serried ranks of Republicans in Congress who instinctively
reject any sort of government intervention, particularly taxes, to
help stem the increasing heatwaves, floods, fierce storms and social
upheaval caused by a warming planet...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/23/republican-carlos-curbelo-pitches-carbon-tax-climate-change">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/23/republican-carlos-curbelo-pitches-carbon-tax-climate-change</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[give and take]<br>
<b> <a
href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Brown-proposes-big-change-in-wildfire-liability-13101511.php">Brown
proposes big change in wildfire liability to help California
utilities</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Brown-proposes-big-change-in-wildfire-liability-13101511.php">https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Brown-proposes-big-change-in-wildfire-liability-13101511.php</a><br>
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<br>
[USA Today]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/24/pakistan-one-worlds-leading-victims-global-warming/809509002/">Pakistan
is ground zero for global warming consequences</a></b><br>
Pakistan contributes less than one percent of the world's greenhouse
gases blamed for causing global warming, yet its 200 million people
are among the world's most vulnerable victims of the growing
consequences of climate change.<br>
The nation is facing ever-rising temperatures, drought and flooding
that threaten health, agriculture, water supplies and hopes for
development of a society that ranks in the bottom quarter of
nations, based on income per person.<br>
Pakistan is among 10 countries affected most by climate change,
according to the 2018 Global Climate Risk Index released by the
public policy group Germanwatch.<br>
Bridging the Middle East and South Asia, Pakistan is in a geographic
location where average temperatures are predicted to rise faster
than elsewhere, increasing 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees
Celsius) by the year 2100, according to a 2012 World Wildlife Fund
report.<br>
This past April 30, the temperature in the southern city of
Nawabshah soared to 122.4 degrees Fahrenheit (50.2 degrees Celsius),
the hottest day on earth ever recorded in April, the Pakistan
Meteorological Department and World Meteorological Organization
said. It was even hotter in the southern city of Turbat on May 28,
2017, when the temperature hit a sizzling 128.3 degrees Fahrenheit
(53.5 Celsius)...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/24/pakistan-one-worlds-leading-victims-global-warming/809509002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/24/pakistan-one-worlds-leading-victims-global-warming/809509002/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[What do you ask if you are super wealthy?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity">How
tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse</a></b><br>
They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum
computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into
their real topics of concern.<br>
Which region will be less affected by the coming climate crisis: New
Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for
his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition,
or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of
a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building
his own underground bunker system and asked: "How do I maintain
authority over my security force after the Event?"<br>
The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse,
social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot
hack that takes everything down.<br>
It's a reduction of human evolution to a video game won by finding
the escape hatch and bringing BFFs along for the ride<br>
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew
armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the
angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was
worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own
leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks
on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear
disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or
maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers - if that
technology could be developed in time....<br>
- - - -<br>
That's when it hit me: at least as far as these gentlemen were
concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology...they
were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do
with making the world a better place than it did with transcending
the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very
real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass
migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource
depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just
one thing: escape...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Barents Region is on fire]<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2018/07/barents-region-fire"><br>
Fire fighters combat wildfires from the Kola Peninsula to
Norrbotten as record heat wave continues north of the Arctic
Circle.</a></b><br>
By Thomas Nilsen - July 23, 2018<br>
After 31 wildfires in Norrbotten in recent days, fire fighters are
tired and need rest. But the danger is far from over, emergency
officials warn. The dry warm weather could last for at least another
week.<br>
Lars Gyllenhaal from Lulea is one of the many who have signed up as
volunteer to combat wildfires in Northern Sweden. He says all help
possible is need.<br>
"The scene I'm met with is similar to photos I've seen of the
burning Torne valley during Second World War. Then it was Hitler's
war machine that caused the fire and smoke skies. Now I'm asking
myself who is the crook now?"<br>
Gyllenhaal answers his own question: "It is probably ourselves, or
more correct, humanity which has triggered the climate changes we
suffer from," he says to the Barents Observer.<br>
- - - -<br>
Shortly after talking to the Barents Observer on Monday evening, yet
another wildfire was discovered near Jokkmokk, Norrbotten
Socialdemoraten reported. The newspaper informs that there have been
31 wildfires in Norrbotten recently. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2018/07/barents-region-fire">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2018/07/barents-region-fire</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[The Atlantic]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/high-temperatures-cause-suicide-rates-to-increase/565826/">Climate
Change May Cause 26,000 More U.S. Suicides by 2050</a></b><br>
<b>Unusually hot days have profound effects on mental health and
human physiology.</b><br>
For almost two centuries now, scientists have noticed a place's
suicide rate bears troubling links to the changing of the seasons
and the friendliness of its climate.<br>
In 1881, the Italian physician Enrico Morselli noted that suicide
rates peak in the summer, deeming the effect "too great for it to be
attributed to chance of the human will." Two decades later, the
French sociologist Emile Durkheim noticed the same effect—though he
also found the suicide rate was higher in Scandinavian countries.<br>
Even today, CDC data confirms that suicides peak in the United
States in the early summer.<br>
Now, scientists have identified one more way that climate shapes
suicide—and, worryingly, they have projected that it will only
become more pronounced as suicide rates rise in a rapidly warming
world.<br>
Unusually hot days cause the suicide rate to rise, according to a
study published Monday in Nature Climate Change. If a month is 1
degree Celsius warmer than normal, then its suicide rate will
increase by 0.7 percent in the United States and 2.1 percent in
Mexico.<br>
"It's sort of a brutal finding," says Marshall Burke, a professor of
earth science at Stanford University and one of the authors of the
paper...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/high-temperatures-cause-suicide-rates-to-increase/565826/"
style="">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/high-temperatures-cause-suicide-rates-to-increase/565826/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Ugh. Another violent distopian term: arctic monsoon]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4h2gm5tfxU">Arctic
Monsoons: A New Climate Nightmare</a></b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Published on Jul 23, 2018<br>
Please help me wake up mainstream media. We have a climate EMERGENCY
on our hands. Extensive, long duration heat waves, caused by a stuck
jet-stream are roasting people in heatwaves around the globe. People
living in the far north, in countries extending up north of the
Arctic Circle are enduring unprecedented heat, wildfires, drought,
and torrential rains and of course have no air conditioning; why
would they. With the land super-hot for days on end, convective
lifting (hot air rises) lowers air pressure at the surface, drawing
in moisture filled ocean air, leading to buildup of Arctic Monsoons,
yet another "unexpected" surprise<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4h2gm5tfxU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4h2gm5tfxU</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F11F8395E137B93C7AB178CD85F438785F9">This
Day in Climate History - July 25, 1977</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 25, 1977: The New York Times runs a front-page story entitled:
"Scientists Fear Heavy Use of Coal May Bring Adverse Shift in
Climate."<br>
<blockquote>The focus of concern is the addition of carbon dioxide
to the atmosphere by fuel burning. While that gas represents less
than one‐tenth of 1 percent of the atmosphere, it acts like glass
in a greenhouse. That is, it permits passage of sunlight to heat
the earth but absorbs infrared radiation that would otherwise
return some of that heat to space.<br>
<br>
In recent months several scientists have warned of the
consequences of increasing, long‐term dependence on fossil fuels,
notably coal, as the chief energy source because of what could be
disastrous effects on climate. The argument has been seized on by
advocates of nuclear energy.<br>
<br>
The new study does not deal with alternative energy sources. Nor
does it call for early curtailment of coal burning. Heavy use of
such fuel is being promoted by the Carter Administration as a
means of avoiding excessive dependence on nuclear energy.<br>
<br>
The central recommendation of the re port, prepared with help from
a number of Government agencies, laboratories and computer
facilities, is initiation of farreaching studies on a national and
international basis to narrow the many uncertainties that affect
assessment of the threat.<br>
<br>
To this end, it proposes creation by the Federal Government of a
climatic council to coordinate American efforts and to participate
in the development of international studies. Representatives of
the White House and Government agencies that would be involved in
such an effort were at the academy on Friday to hear presentations
on the 281‐page report...<br>
- - - -<br>
Much of the report deals with expected effects of a global
warming. Agricultural zones would be transferred to higher
latitudes. The corn belt, for example, would shift from fertile
Iowa to a Canadian region where the soil is far less fertile, Dr.
Revelle said.<br>
<br>
Particularly vulnerable, he added, would be the fringes of arid
regions, where a large part of the world population derives its
sustenance, though the effect is difficult to predict. Marine life
would suffer from lack of nutrients because a "lid" of warm water
would impede circulation that normally brings nutrients to the
surface....<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F11F8395E137B93C7AB178CD85F438785F9">http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F11F8395E137B93C7AB178CD85F438785F9</a><br>
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