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<font size="+1"><i>July 31, 2018</i></font><br>
<b><br>
</b>[CBC video report 3:00]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/YpRvOD_IvnA">Fires
in northern California leave several dead</a></b><br>
CBC News: The National<br>
Published on Jul 30, 2018<br>
Fires in northern California have left several people dead. CBC's
Lyndsay Duncombe reports. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/YpRvOD_IvnA">https://youtu.be/YpRvOD_IvnA</a><br>
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<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/30/carr-fire-intense-heat-firenadoes-fuel-deadly-california-blaze/862200002/">
Intense heat, 'firenadoes' fuel deadly Carr Fire in California</a></b><br>
REDDING, Calif. - Firefighters battling intense heat and strong
winds struggled Monday to gain control of a deadly Northern
California wildfire that has killed at least six people and
destroyed more than 700 homes.<br>
The fire had burned through 150 square miles and was growing, but
Cal Fire Incident Commander Brett Gouvea said it was not moving
deeper into this town of 92,000...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/30/carr-fire-intense-heat-firenadoes-fuel-deadly-california-blaze/862200002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/30/carr-fire-intense-heat-firenadoes-fuel-deadly-california-blaze/862200002/</a></font><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><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://abc7news.com/photos-apocalyptic-carr-fire-burns-through-shasta-county/3835150/"><br>
</a><font size="-1"><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>
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[should not surprise]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27072018/summer-2018-heat-wave-wildfires-climate-change-evidence-crops-flooding-deaths-records-broken">This
Summer's Heat Waves Could Be the Strongest Climate Signal Yet</a></b><br>
'In many places, people are preparing for the past or present
climate. <b>But this summer is the future.'</b><br>
By Bob Berwyn<br>
Earth's global warming fever spiked to deadly new highs across the
Northern Hemisphere this summer, and we're feeling the
results-extreme heat is now blamed for hundreds of deaths, droughts
threaten food supplies, wildfires have raced through neighborhoods
in the western United States, Greece and as far north as the Arctic
Circle.<br>
Earth's global warming fever spiked to deadly new highs across the
Northern Hemisphere this summer, and we're feeling the
results-extreme heat is now blamed for hundreds of deaths, droughts
threaten food supplies, wildfires have raced through neighborhoods
in the western United States, Greece and as far north as the Arctic
Circle.<br>
At sea, record and near-record warm oceans have sent soggy masses of
air surging landward, fueling extreme rainfall and flooding in Japan
and the eastern U.S. In Europe, the Baltic Sea is so warm that
potentially toxic blue-green algae is spreading across its surface.<br>
There shouldn't be any doubt that some of the deadliest of this
summer's disasters-including flooding in Japan and wildfires in
Greece-are fueled by weather extremes linked to global warming, said
Corinne Le Quere, director of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/">Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Research</a> at the University of East Anglia.<br>
"We know very well that global warming is making heat waves longer,
hotter and more frequent," she said.<br>
"The evidence from having extreme events around the world is really
compelling. It's very indicative that the global warming background
is causing or at least contributing to these events," she said...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27072018/summer-2018-heat-wave-wildfires-climate-change-evidence-crops-flooding-deaths-records-broken">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27072018/summer-2018-heat-wave-wildfires-climate-change-evidence-crops-flooding-deaths-records-broken</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Go kids !]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/07/30/supreme-court-kids-climate-case/">Supreme
Court Refuses to Halt Kids Climate Case</a></b><br>
The Supreme Court denied the federal government's request to halt
discovery and the trial in the youth climate lawsuit Juliana v.
United States. The court's rejection on Monday of the defendants'
application for a stay means the case will likely proceed to trial
as scheduled in U.S. District Court on October 29...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/07/30/supreme-court-kids-climate-case/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/07/30/supreme-court-kids-climate-case/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[PBS on NYTimes Magazine online tomorrow]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-u-s-lawmakers-failed-to-act-on-climate-change-decades-ago">Why
U.S. lawmakers failed to act on climate change decades ago</a></b><br>
Audio and text<br>
This coming week, The New York Times Magazine will devote an entire
publication of the Sunday magazine to the issue of climate change.
The single-themed edition called "Losing Earth," will look at
scientific discoveries and decisions made on climate change from
1979 to 1989 through the story of a former NASA scientist. Nathaniel
Rich, who authored the edition, joins Hari Sreenivasan for more.<br>
Read the Full Transcript:<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-u-s-lawmakers-failed-to-act-on-climate-change-decades-ago">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-u-s-lawmakers-failed-to-act-on-climate-change-decades-ago</a><br>
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[Philosophical opinion - video and transcript]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/30/noam_chomsky_survival_of_organized_human">Noam
Chomsky: Survival of Organized Human Life is at Risk Due to
Climate Change & Nuclear Weapons</a></b><br>
At least eight people have died in California as climate
change-fueled wildfires rage statewide. In total, firefighters are
battling seventeen wildfires blazing across California, engulfing
more than 200,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations, including in
Yosemite National Park. The fires comes amid a surge of deadly
extreme weather worldwide, including in India, where more than 500
people have died as a result of flooding and heavy rains in recent
weeks. Scientists have linked increased flooding and rainfall to
climate change. For more we speak with world-renowned political
dissident, author, and linguist Noam Chomsky. He is a laureate
professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of
Arizona and Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, where he taught for more than 50 years....<br>
<blockquote>It was not known in 1945 that we were not only entering
the nuclear age, but entering a new geological epoch, what
geologists call the Anthropocene, an epoch in which human activity
is having severe and deleterious effects on the environment in
which human and other life can survive. We also entered into
what's now called the sixth extinction, a rapid extinction of
species, which is comparable to the fifth extinction 65 million
years ago when an asteroid, huge asteroid, hit the Earth, we
know...<br>
<br>
Humans beings, right now, this generation, for the first time in
history, have to ask, "Will human life survive?" And not in the
far future will organized societies-those are the issues we should
be concerned with. Everything else pales in significance in
comparison with this.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/30/noam_chomsky_survival_of_organized_human">https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/30/noam_chomsky_survival_of_organized_human</a></font><br>
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<br>
[From 2009 - more than we want to know, with lots of math]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php">O2
Dropping Faster than CO2 Rising</a></b><br>
Implications for Climate Change Policies<br>
New research shows oxygen depletion in the atmosphere accelerating
since 2003, coinciding with the biofuels boom; climate policies that
focus exclusively on carbon sequestration could be disastrous for
all oxygen-breathing organisms including humans...<br>
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Within the past several years, however, scientists have found that
oxygen (O2) in the atmosphere has been dropping, and at higher rates
than just the amount that goes into the increase of CO2 from burning
fossil fuels, some 2 to 4-times as much, and accelerating since
2002-2003. Simultaneously, oxygen levels in the world's oceans have
also been falling [4] (see Warming Oceans Starved of Oxygen, SiS
44).<br>
<br>
It is becoming clear that getting rid of CO2 is not enough; oxygen
has its own dynamic and the rapid decline in atmospheric O2 must
also be addressed. Although there is much more O2 than CO2 in the
atmosphere - 20.95 percent or 209,460 ppm of O2 compared with around
380 ppm of CO2 [now 410ppm] - humans, all mammals, birds, frogs,
butterfly, bees, and other air-breathing life-forms depend on this
high level of oxygen for their well being Living with Oxygen (SiS
43). In humans, failure of oxygen energy metabolism is the single
most important risk factor for chronic diseases including cancer and
death. 'Oxygen deficiency' is currently set at 19.5 percent in
enclosed spaces for health and safety, below that, fainting and
death may result.<br>
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</b><b>Large decreases in atmospheric oxygen detected</b><br>
Decrease in atmospheric O2 has been detected in stations around the
world for the past decade, a consistent downward trend that has
accelerated in recent years.<br>
The largest fall in O2 was observed in the study of Swiss research
team led by Francesco Valentino at University of Bern, for data
collected at high altitude research stations in Switzerland and
France. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php">http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php</a></font><br>
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Scripps O2 Program<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://scrippso2.ucsd.edu/">Atmospheric
Oxygen Levels are Decreasing</a></b><br>
Oxygen levels are decreasing globally due to fossil-fuel burning.
The changes are too small to have an impact on human health, but are
of interest to the study of climate change and carbon dioxide. These
plots show the atmospheric O2 concentration relative to the level
around 1985. The observed downward trend amounts to 19 'per meg' per
year. This corresponds to losing 19 O2 molecules out of every 1
million O2 molecules in the atmosphere each year<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://scrippso2.ucsd.edu/">http://scrippso2.ucsd.edu/</a><br>
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<b><br>
</b>[Latest: climate experts discussion]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atUpkiwURl8">Experts
Discuss Recent Heat Waves and Atmospheric Changes</a></b><br>
Climate State - Published on Jul 29, 2018<br>
The impacts of global warming are now 'playing out in real-time'. <b>Mike
Mann (Penn State), Jennifer Francis (Rutgers), and Noah
Diffenbaugh (Stanford), </b>discuss July 27th 2018 the recent
heat waves around the globe, and how it connects with the jet stream
pattern, moderated by Markeya Thomas of Climate Signals.<br>
Read the conversation summary at ClimateSignals.org <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://goo.gl/dK9gku">https://goo.gl/dK9gku</a><br>
Latest article on this subject by Mike Mann, published in The
Guardian <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://goo.gl/p8HfdD">https://goo.gl/p8HfdD</a><br>
Further reading: Thermogeddon: When the Earth gets too hot for
humans<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://barringtonstewart.wordpress.com/thermogeddon-when-the-earth-gets-too-hot-for-humans/">https://barringtonstewart.wordpress.com/thermogeddon-when-the-earth-gets-too-hot-for-humans/</a><br>
Amplification of Rossby waves <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby_wave#Amplification_of_Rossby_waves">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby_wave#Amplification_of_Rossby_waves</a><br>
Polar amplification <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_amplification">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_amplification</a><br>
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[Opinion] <br>
Scientific American goes Marvel <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/climate-change-were-not-literally-doomed-but/">Climate
Change: We're Not Literally Doomed, but...</a></b><b><br>
there's space for action between "everything is fine" and "the
apocalypse is upon us"</b><br>
By Kate Marvel on July 30, 2018<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/climate-change-were-not-literally-doomed-but/">https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/climate-change-were-not-literally-doomed-but/</a></font><br>
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Kate Marvel<br>
TED2017 <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_marvel_can_clouds_buy_us_more_time_to_solve_climate_chang">Can
clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_marvel_can_clouds_buy_us_more_time_to_solve_climate_change">https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_marvel_can_clouds_buy_us_more_time_to_solve_climate_change</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmk7nAvpMXQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmk7nAvpMXQ</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - July 31, - from
D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
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