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<font size="+1"><i>July 30, 2018</i></font><br>
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LA Times<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-new-carr-fire-mainbar-20180729-story.html">Death
toll mounts as wildfires rage across California</a></b><br>
The death toll from the state's wildfires continued to mount Sunday,
with eight fatalities now reported from blazes burning in Shasta
County and near Yosemite National Park.<br>
In Mariposa County, where firefighters have spent weeks battling the
Ferguson fire, officials reported that a firefighter based at
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks died after being struck by a
falling tree. Meanwhile, crews attacking the Carr fire in and around
Redding said they had located another body - the fourth civilian to
perish in that blaze - and reported that hundreds more structures
were destroyed.<br>
Firefighters are battling 17 wildfires across the state, which have
consumed more than 200,000 acres combined in terrain stretching from
Southern California to the Oregon border, said Jonathan Cox,
battalion chief and information officer with the California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. With so many burning
near populated areas, "resources are obviously stretched thin," he
said.<br>
"We've had 17 fires before," Cox said. "But these are impacting
communities - and they're large fires, not small."...<br>
<font size="-1">more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-new-carr-fire-mainbar-20180729-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-new-carr-fire-mainbar-20180729-story.html</a></font><br>
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[Fire news tracker]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2018/fire-tracker/">2018
California Fire Tracker</a></b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires-2018/">Full
fire coverage </a><br>
This interactive map developed in The San Francisco Chronicle
newsroom provides information on wildfires burning across
California.<br>
<b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2018/fire-tracker/">https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2018/fire-tracker/</a></font><br>
</b>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Fire perimeters are based on infrared
and thermal imaging from NASA's MODIS and VIIRS-I products.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires-2018/">SF
Chronicle California Wildfires</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires-2018/">https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires-2018/</a><br>
</font>- - - -<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.redding.com/story/news/2018/07/30/carr-fire-what-we-know-monday-morning/862260002/">Carr
Fire: Today’s motto - "Looking for small victories"</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.redding.com/story/news/2018/07/30/carr-fire-what-we-know-monday-morning/862260002/">https://www.redding.com/story/news/2018/07/30/carr-fire-what-we-know-monday-morning/862260002/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://abc7news.com/photos-apocalyptic-carr-fire-burns-through-shasta-county/3835150/">PHOTOS:
Apocalyptic Carr Fire burns through Shasta County</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abc7news.com/photos-apocalyptic-carr-fire-burns-through-shasta-county/3835150/">http://abc7news.com/photos-apocalyptic-carr-fire-burns-through-shasta-county/3835150/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[follow the money]<b><br>
</b><b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/07/29/global-heat-wave-will-hit-your-wallet-soon/">Global
Heat Wave will Hit Your Wallet Soon</a></b><br>
July 29, 2018<br>
<a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-25/heatwave-hits-commodities-from-crops-in-texas-to-french-power">Bloomberg:</a>
<br>
Commodity producers are having a summer to remember, for all the
wrong reasons.<br>
A heatwave across swathes of North America, Europe and Asia, coupled
with a worsening drought in some areas, is causing spikes in the
prices of anything from wheat to electricity. Cotton plants are
stunted in parched Texas fields, French rivers are too warm to
effectively cool nuclear reactors and the Russian wheat crop is
faltering.<br>
The scorching heat is extracting a heavy human cost - contributing
to floods in Japan and Laos and wildfires near Athens. Relief from
soaring temperatures, which topped 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees
Fahrenheit) in the Arctic Circle, may not arrive for at least two
weeks.<br>
- - - -<br>
The heat and lack of rainfall is pummeling crops across Europe as
far as the Black Sea. Output in Russia, the world's top wheat
exporter, is set to fall for the first time in six years, while
concerns continue to mount about smaller crops in key growers such
as France and Germany. Wheat futures for December have jumped almost
10 percent in the past month in Paris, with prices this week
reaching the highest since the contract started trading in 2015...<br>
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<a
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-07-drought-germany-breadbasket.html">Phys.org:</a><br>
While southern Germany has seen largely normal rainfall this year,
the north has been in the grip of an unrelenting high-pressure
system creating weather conditions more familiar in southern France
or Italy.<br>
"We expect billions in losses," DBV president Joachim Rukwied told
German media last week.<br>
<a href="https://www.investors.com/research/futures/wheat-crop/">Investor's
Business Daily:</a><br>
A drought that's hit wheat crops across the Black Sea region and
Europe will force top buyer Egypt to pay more for supplies.<br>
The cheapest offer in Tuesday's tender was more than $14 a metric
ton higher than what Egypt's state-run buyer paid in its last
purchase, according to traders familiar with the process and data
compiled by Bloomberg. The General Authority for Supply Commodities
is seeking wheat for Sept. 1-10 delivery.<br>
Benchmark futures trading in Chicago have surged almost 20% this
year, and Paris wheat for December is trading near a record for the
contract. Dry weather means Russian production will fall for the
first time in six years. Output in Ukraine will be lower than
expected. Crops in France, Germany and the Baltic countries are also
expected to decline from a year earlier.<br>
"Egypt will have to pay more," said Pierre Tronc, a broker at BGC
Partners, speaking before offers were made. "It is just a question
of price. I don't see supply being a problem."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/07/29/global-heat-wave-will-hit-your-wallet-soon/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/07/29/global-heat-wave-will-hit-your-wallet-soon/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Climate.gov and NOAA]<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/climate-change-rule-thumb-cold-things-warming-faster-warm-things">Climate
change rule of thumb: cold "things" warming faster than warm
things</a></b><br>
Author: Deke Arndt<br>
Colder places are warming faster than warmer places<br>
This rule of thumb is really dominated by the fact that the arctic
is the fastest-warming large region on the planet. The Arctic is
warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the world. This
"Arctic amplification" is driven by a handful of factors; the
largest of these is the retreat of seasonal snow and ice. As the
white stuff goes away, it exposes darker surfaces and land cover
underneath; this introduces an additional warming effect across the
region.<br>
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If you've been following the National Center for Environmental
Information's<a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/201510"
id="anch_8"><span> </span>monthly reports</a><span> </span>(and
you should!), you may have noticed that this year's extensive warmth
in the western United States is driven by extremes in <a
href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/national/statewidetminrank/201501-201510.gif"
id="anch_9">minimum (overnight low) temperatures</a>, even more so
than<a
href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/national/statewidetmaxrank/201501-201510.gif"
id="anch_10"><span> </span>maximum (afternoon high) temperatures</a>.
And that's not just a snapshot, it's a trend. As the world warms,
nighttime temperatures are slightly outpacing daytime temperatures
in the rate of warming. Technically speaking, since 1900, the rate
of warming for overnight temperatures is<span> </span><a
href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/us/110/0/tmin/ytd/12/1895-2015?base_prd=true&firstbaseyear=1901&lastbaseyear=2000&trend=true&trend_base=100&firsttrendyear=1900&lasttrendyear=2015"
id="anch_11">1.45F per century</a>, versus a daytime warming of<a
href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/us/110/0/tmax/ytd/12/1895-2015?base_prd=true&firstbaseyear=1901&lastbaseyear=2000&trend=true&trend_base=100&firsttrendyear=1900&lasttrendyear=2015"
id="anch_12"><span> </span></a><a
href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/us/110/0/tmax/ytd/12/1900-2015?base_prd=true&firstbaseyear=1900&lastbaseyear=2000&trend=true&trend_base=100&firsttrendyear=1900&lasttrendyear=2015"
id="anch_13">1.13F per century.</a><span> </span>That may not seem
like a big deal, until you realize that the nighttime rate is more
than 20% higher than the daytime rate.<br>
The relative warming of nighttime temperatures also translates
strongly into the pattern of extremes, which tend to amplify changes
in the baseline. The graphic below depicts the<a
href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/cei/" id="anch_14"><span> </span>US
Climate Extremes Index</a>, or CEI for short, for overnight
temperatures (top panel) and afternoon temperatures (bottom panel)
for each summer since 1910.<br>
- - - <br>
Colder seasons are warming faster than warmer seasons<br>
The migration of seasonal snow lines isn't just a north-south
latitude thing; it's also an up-down altitude thing. On mountains
themselves, there is a noticeable effect of<a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1029/2008GL034026/abstract"
class="confirmation confirmation-check-processed" target="_blank"
id="anch_4"><span> </span>increased warming at mountain stations
near the average snow/no-snow line</a>, which is leaning more
toward no-snow- and thus, additional warming-in recent years. The
rate of warming with elevation in general is complex - probably too
complex to qualify as a rule of thumb, but there is evidence that<span> </span><a
href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/mountain-air-becoming-less-brisk-more-high-elevation-observations"
id="anch_5">high-elevation places are warming more</a>, on
average, than lower elevation places.<br>
In most of the mid-latitudes, where most Americans live, and where
we have something resembling four seasons each year, the cold season
is warming the most rapidly of all. This shows up clearly in the US
temperature record, particularly during the last quarter-century,
when the excursions from the long-term average are much larger
during the winter season than the summer.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/climate-change-rule-thumb-cold-things-warming-faster-warm-things">https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/climate-change-rule-thumb-cold-things-warming-faster-warm-things</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[data visualization]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.methanelevels.org/">Global
CH4 Levels</a></b><br>
RECENT AND HISTORICAL METHANE DATA COMBINED.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.methanelevels.org/">http://www.methanelevels.org/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Opinion]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.telegram.com/news/20180728/letter-forget-russiagate-clean-up-environment-or-were-cooked">Letter:
Forget Russiagate, clean up environment or we're cooked</a></b><br>
I just heard astrophysicist Adam Frank, and saw Al Gore's "An
Inconvenient Sequel," and feel "Enough is enough." Our news obsesses
on Russiagate and war against Iran while only one issue truly
matters, the fact that once those ice sheets and glaciers melt,
we're done. This new Iran war the psychos are selling us will cost
us the trillions we need to get off fossil fuels. We need to be
putting aside differences, stop the paranoia, start a dialogue with
every single world leader, and start talking about how, together,
we're going to stop runaway Global Warming by eliminating fossil
fuels. Many of our differences are over these fuels anyway. The
Telegram and every media outlet has got to sound the alarm and get
us going. The time for inaction is over.<br>
- - - - <br>
As Adam Frank says, " Venus is 800 degrees, hot enough to melt lead.
Venus should have jungles on it. It's the product of runaway global
warming, just like Earth will be if we go over a 2 degree rise. How
many record high years, superstorms, floods and droughts, wild
fires, dead coral reefs, crashed fisheries, sargassum
(macroalgae/seaweed) blooms, dying bats, polar bears, and trees, the
scariest being phyto plankton which we need to breathe, before
people wake up and take emergency action. We need a Green New Deal,
RIGHT NOW. Folks, wake up or we're done.<br>
Charlotte Burns<br>
Palmer<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.telegram.com/news/20180728/letter-forget-russiagate-clean-up-environment-or-were-cooked">http://www.telegram.com/news/20180728/letter-forget-russiagate-clean-up-environment-or-were-cooked</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[depends on your definition]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_climate_change">Glossary
of climate change</a></b><br>
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br>
This article serves as a glossary of climate change terms. It lists
terms that are related to global warming.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_climate_change">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_climate_change</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[or a full Trojan gift horse]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs">The
Carbon Tax and the Art of the Deal: Time for Some Horse-Trading</a></b><br>
BY: JOHN H. CUSHMAN, JR.<br>
Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo introduced a carbon tax bill in
Congress this week. What would he have to trade to win enough votes
for it to pass?<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25072018/republican-carbon-tax-bill-carlos-curbelo-congress-climate-change-regulation-highway-funding-gas-trade-offs</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[A Battleground in Mass Media - Video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NvHT-AmK4E">The War on
Science Presented by Shawn Otto</a></b><br>
Lone Star College-Kingwood<br>
Published on Mar 29, 2017<br>
Shawn Otto Q & A: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/okV8VCdywNA">https://youtu.be/okV8VCdywNA</a><br>
Shawn Otto has worked for years to get politicians to focus on and
debate the major science issues like climate change and to base
policy decisions on evidence, while working to get journalists to do
a better job of covering these important questions.<br>
[propaganda <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/4NvHT-AmK4E?t=46m27s">https://youtu.be/4NvHT-AmK4E?t=46m27s</a>]<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NvHT-AmK4E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NvHT-AmK4E</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
Texas Wind Passing the Heat Test<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/clean-economy-weekly">Clean
Economy Weekly (newsletter</a></b>):<br>
<blockquote>The electricity grid that serves most of Texas hit an
all-time record for demand last Thursday, topping out at 73,259
megawatts between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. The record may not stand for
long, as hot conditions continue.<br>
<b>The heat is causing hardship across the state and the country,
and also providing lessons for the people who manage the grid
and make energy policy.</b><br>
<b>Texas leads the nation in wind energy. Meanwhile, the state has
seen a wave of coal-plant closings, as the plants cannot compete
with less expensive power from renewables and natural gas....</b><br>
- - - - <br>
<b>The wind has been strong during times of peak demand in South
Texas, Webber said</b>. At the same time, West Texas has been
less windy, as the hot conditions lead to stagnant air, he said.<br>
The grid is run by the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas,
or ERCOT, and its planning for the heat can serve as a model,
Webber said. The council said in April that it expected
record-breaking demand and laid out the steps it would use to keep
the system running under high stress.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/clean-economy-weekly">https://insideclimatenews.org/newsletter/clean-economy-weekly</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Sarcasm or satire - from The Onion]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theonion.com/sea-level-rise-by-the-numbers-1827905162">Sea
Level Rise By The Numbers</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theonion.com/sea-level-rise-by-the-numbers-1827905162">https://www.theonion.com/sea-level-rise-by-the-numbers-1827905162</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[conclusion to a famous skit]<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/G6NfRMv-4OY?t=3m1s">Remembering what
Obama said about climate change</a></b><br>
President Obama's Anger Translator (Full + HD) at White House
Correspondent's Dinner<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/G6NfRMv-4OY?t=3m1s">https://youtu.be/G6NfRMv-4OY?t=3m1s</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/sWlwmzgLzVc">This Day in Climate History
- July 30, 2010</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 30, 2010: On MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," fill-in host
Chris Hayes and Mother Jones reporter Kate Sheppard discuss the coal
industry's role in killing climate-change legislation.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://youtu.be/sWlwmzgLzVc">http://youtu.be/sWlwmzgLzVc</a></font><br>
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