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<font size="+1"><i>August 9, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Australia]<br>
BBC News - August 8<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45107504">New
South Wales drought now affects entire state</a></b><br>
Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), is now
entirely in drought, officials have confirmed.<br>
A dry winter has intensified what has been called the worst drought
in living memory in parts of eastern Australia.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45107504">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-45107504</a></font><br>
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BBC video <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUyLkv8yRec">Extreme
weather 2018 - NSW 100% in drought (Australia) - BBC News - 8th
August 2018</a></b><br>
Published on Aug 8, 2018<br>
What this means for the state of New South Wales, farmers, the
country and the long term forecast for the entire area in this
winter period for the summer yet to come and beyond.<br>
Part of the 'extreme weather and climate change' series (on this
channel), as this year is proving particularly hot yet again and in
more places in the northern hemisphere on planet Earth in 2018. (See
play list "Weather extremes 2018" for more).<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUyLkv8yRec">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUyLkv8yRec</a></font><br>
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[emotional video documentary 31minutes]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByMrCKkZco">The face of
Australia's drought crisis</a></b><br>
ABC News (Australia) Published on Aug 6, 2018<br>
In this special edition of 7.30 we travel to Australia's drought
zones to capture the harshness of life on the land when it stops
raining, and the unimaginable resilience it takes to endure.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByMrCKkZco">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByMrCKkZco</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Coal Wire Editor's note]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mailchi.mp/8cd89c3fbd05/munich-re-and-lloyds-step-back-from-coal-us-coal-use-plummets-calls-for-holcim-coal-spill-clean-up?e=94e2a8c6ad">CoalWire</a></b><br>
The good news of the week is the growing number of financial
institutions, most notably <b>Munich Re and Lloyds Banking Group,
paring back their support for the coal industry</b>. In the US,
the Tennessee Valley Authority has flagged that it does not envisage
the need for any major new plants other than renewables over the
next 20 years. The US Energy Information Administration has revealed
that coal consumption has plummeted by over one-third over the last
decade. In Taiwan, the government is now grudgingly conceding that
public opposition to a new coal plant has to be reckoned with.<br>
The transition is far from smooth, though. The revelation in the
latest CoalSwarm coal plant data that some previously suspended coal
plants in China are now being built despite the existing massive
overcapacity is alarming. Even if the plants eventually run at a
reduced capacity, huge amounts of scarce capital will have been
wasted to provide a short-term economic boost from building them...<br>
- - -<br>
Coal controversies keep on rolling along. In South Korea, the major
public utility KEPCO is facing an investigation into whether it,
among other importers, breached United Nations sanctions on coal
imports from North Korea. In the US, a coal company has been
revealed to have secretly been bankrolling opposition to a wind farm
in Ohio. In Indonesia, the global cement company Holcim is facing
calls to clean up a major coal spill in a bay in Aceh province. In
the Philippines a Holcim subsidiary has acknowledged it spilled coal
into the ocean from a cement plant storage area.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mailchi.mp/8cd89c3fbd05/munich-re-and-lloyds-step-back-from-coal-us-coal-use-plummets-calls-for-holcim-coal-spill-clean-up?e=94e2a8c6ad">https://mailchi.mp/8cd89c3fbd05/munich-re-and-lloyds-step-back-from-coal-us-coal-use-plummets-calls-for-holcim-coal-spill-clean-up?e=94e2a8c6ad</a></font><br>
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<br>
[opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/07/climate-change-catastrophe-political-will-grassroots-engagement">Don't
despair - climate change catastrophe can still be averted</a></b><br>
Simon Lewis<br>
The future looks fiery and dangerous, according to new reports. But
political will and grassroots engagement can change this...<br>
As a research scientist in this field, I can give some nuance to the
headlines. One common way of thinking about climate change is the
lower the future carbon dioxide emissions, the less warming and the
less havoc we will face as this century progresses. This is
certainly true, but as the summer heatwave and the potential
hothouse news remind us, the shifts in climate we will experience
will not be smooth, gradual and linear changes. They may be fast,
abrupt, and dangerous surprises may happen. However, an unstoppable
globally enveloping cascade of catastrophe, while possible, is
certainly not a probable outcome...<br>
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Could civilisation weather this level of warming?<br>
The honest answer is nobody knows. Dystopia is easy to envisage: for
example, Europe is not coping well with even modest numbers of
migrants, and future flows look likely to increase substantially as
migration itself is an adaptation to rapid climate change. How will
the cooler, richer parts of the world react to tens of millions of
people escaping the hotter, poorer parts? Throw into the mix
long-term stagnating incomes for most people across the west and
climate-induced crop failures causing massive food price spikes and
we have a recipe for widespread unrest that could overload political
institutions...<br>
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However, taking a step back from the gloom, we face the same three
choices in response to climate change as we did before this
scorching summer: reduce greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation), make
changes to reduce the adverse impacts of the new conditions we
create (adaptation), or suffer the consequences of what we fail to
mitigate or adapt to. It is useful to come back to these three
options, and settle on the formula that serious mitigation and wise
adaptation means little suffering.<br>
<br>
Despite this basic advice being decades old, we are heading for some
mitigation, very little adaptation, and a lot of suffering. Why is
this happening? This is because while the diagnosis of climate
change being a problem is a scientific issue, the response to it is
not. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground is, for example, a question
of regulation, while investing in renewable energy is a policy
choice, and modernising our housing stock to make it energy
efficient is about overcoming the lobbying power of the building
industry. Solving climate change is about power, money, and
political will...<br>
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Thinking about climate change as a practical political problem helps
avoid despair because we know that huge political changes have
happened in the past and continue to do so. The future is up to us
if we act collectively and engage in politics. To quote Antonio
Gramsci: "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist
because of will." Looked at this way, we can see the politics as a
battle between a future shaped by fear versus a future shaped by
hope.<br>
<br>
That hope is built on a better story of the future and routes to
enact it. The outline of this story is that given the colossal
wealth and the scientific knowledge available today, we can solve
many of the world's pressing problems and all live well. Given that
our environmental impacts are so long-lasting, the future is the
politics we make today.<br>
<font size="-1">Simon Lewis is professor of global change science at
University College London and the University of Leeds, and
co-authored The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene
(Pelican) with Mark Maslin</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/07/climate-change-catastrophe-political-will-grassroots-engagement">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/07/climate-change-catastrophe-political-will-grassroots-engagement</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://weather.com/news/news/2018-08-07-wildfire-smoke-detected-majority-us-states">NEWS
Wildfire Smoke Detected in Majority of U.S. States</a></b><br>
Western wildfires are sending their smoke plumes across much of the
United States.<br>
This is causing unhealthy air quality in parts of the West, as well
as unworldly sunrises and sunsets.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/news/news/2018-08-07-wildfire-smoke-detected-majority-us-states">https://weather.com/news/news/2018-08-07-wildfire-smoke-detected-majority-us-states</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Nature Communications]<br>
Published: 02 August 2018<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05457-1">Wildfire
as a major driver of recent permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands</a></b><br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote>Permafrost vulnerability to climate change may be
underestimated unless effects of wildfire are considered. Here we
assess impacts of wildfire on soil thermal regime and rate of
thermokarst bog expansion resulting from complete permafrost thaw
in western Canadian permafrost peatlands. Effects of wildfire on
permafrost peatlands last for 30 years and include a warmer and
deeper active layer, and spatial expansion of continuously thawed
soil layers (taliks). These impacts on the soil thermal regime are
associated with a tripled rate of thermokarst bog expansion along
permafrost edges. Our results suggest that wildfire is directly
responsible for 2200 ± 1500 km2 (95% CI) of thermokarst bog
development in the study region over the last 30 years,
representing ~25% of all thermokarst bog expansion during this
period. With increasing fire frequency under a warming climate,
this study emphasizes the need to consider wildfires when
projecting future circumpolar permafrost thaw.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05457-1">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05457-1</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Bulletin of Atomic Scientists bring more criticism of NYTimes]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebulletin.org/2018/08/losing-it-lost-sight-of-some-climate-change-villains-but-not-the-scope-of-the-problem/">"Losing
Earth" lost sight of some climate change villains, but not the
scope of the problem</a></b><br>
By John Mecklin, August 6, 2018<br>
If inspiring responses from prominent journalists is a measure of
success - and it can be, in some circumstances - the New York Times
Magazine's issue-length retrospective, "Losing Earth: The Decade We
Almost Stopped Climate Change," is, to borrow a Hollywood term, a
smash hit. In part because of the Times' early promotional efforts
(which included a high-production-value video, complete with ominous
soundtrack), Nathaniel Rich's article became a journalistic item of
note even before it was published on Sunday.<br>
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Most of the criticism of the 30,000-word history focused on its
conclusion, which many commentators saw as downplaying the role of
the oil and gas industry and the Republican Party in making sure
nothing substantive or sweeping was done about climate change and
overplaying the human propensity not to deal with problems that will
not fully manifest til far in the future. The headlines of the
pieces give some notion of the scope and fervor of response to
Rich's opus:<br>
<blockquote>The Problem with The New York Times' Big Story on
Climate Change: By portraying the early years of climate politics
as a tragedy, the magazine lets Republicans and the fossil-fuel
industry off the hook. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/nyt-mag-nathaniel-rich-climate-change/566525/?utm_source=twb">(The
Atlantic)</a><br>
<br>
Scientists aren't impressed with New York Times' new story on
climate change: Experts label 30,000-word piece "historically
inaccurate" and "based on logical non sequiturs." (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/scientists-slam-new-york-times-climate-story-for-whitewashing-role-of-big-oil-and-gop-63fbc3a85b09/">Think
Progress</a>)<br>
<br>
Mag prints 70-page climate story, leaves some unsatisfied (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060091933?t=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eenews.net%2Fstories%2F1060091933">CLIMATEWIRE/E&E
News</a>)<br>
<br>
What the New York Times Magazine Got Right, and Wrong, in its
Climate Change History: While it expands the conversation to
include a broader audience, the piece lets the industries that
worked to hinder progress mostly off the hook. (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://undark.org/article/new-york-times-magazine-climate-change/">Undark</a>)<br>
</blockquote>
As if to rub salt in the wound, an Independent Petroleum Association
of America publication came out in support of Rich's take (even
while misstating it to significant degree):<br>
<blockquote>BOMBSHELL: NEW YORK TIMES DEBUNKS #EXXONKNEW CLIMATE
CAMPAIGN (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://eidclimate.org/bombshell-new-york-times-debunks-exxonknew-climate-campaign/">Energy
in Depth/Climate and Environment</a>)<br>
</blockquote>
Though I agree that Rich's piece fundamentally missed the mark on
explaining why the US government didn't move to address climate
change substantively and early, I think the article has redeeming
qualities that make it worth the time it takes to read. It provides
an interesting window into how the scientists and activists
interested in sparking action on climate change had to scheme and
plot to have any chance of getting the subject played prominently in
major American media (a situation that still - sadly, so sadly -
exists even today). And "Losing Earth" comes right out and states
the climate change stakes - explains the wholesale diminishment of
human civilization that will occur, if action isn't taken - in a way
that most major American media seem afraid to broach, even yet, even
now. Here's an example of Rich's admirable directness, which is only
one of many reasons to read an article that, flawed though it may
be, is the finely crafted result of 18 months of work:<br>
<br>
If by some miracle we are able to limit warming to two degrees, we
will only have to negotiate the extinction of the world's tropical
reefs, sea-level rise of several meters and the abandonment of the
Persian Gulf. The climate scientist James Hansen has called
two-degree warming "a prescription for long-term disaster."
Long-term disaster is now the best-case scenario. Three-degree
warming is a prescription for short-term disaster: forests in the
Arctic and the loss of most coastal cities. Robert Watson, a former
director of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, has argued that three-degree warming is the realistic
minimum. Four degrees: Europe in permanent drought; vast areas of
China, India and Bangladesh claimed by desert; Polynesia swallowed
by the sea; the Colorado River thinned to a trickle; the American
Southwest largely uninhabitable. The prospect of a five-degree
warming has prompted some of the world's leading climate scientists
to warn of the end of human civilization.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebulletin.org/2018/08/losing-it-lost-sight-of-some-climate-change-villains-but-not-the-scope-of-the-problem/">https://thebulletin.org/2018/08/losing-it-lost-sight-of-some-climate-change-villains-but-not-the-scope-of-the-problem/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Video DW documentary ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjkvSmYdiM">Summer of
extremes - crowded beaches and failing crops</a></b><br>
DW Documentary<br>
Published on Aug 6, 2018<br>
Germany is in the throes of a scorching heatwave. For seaside
resorts, it's a boon. But farmers fear massive crop losses and
demand billions in aid.<br>
High temperatures across the country - good news for some but a
disaster for others. The scene is almost apocalyptic on some of
Germany's farms: burning grain fields, dried-up soil and withered
crops. In some areas, nothing is growing at all any more, while
animals suffer in the dry heat. Home gardeners have been desperately
watering their plants while city authorities are calling on their
residents to water the trees in the streets. Barbecues are banned
due to the risk of wildfires in many of Germany's city parks, and
fireworks displays have had to be canceled. And there seems to be no
end to the sweltering heat.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjkvSmYdiM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yjkvSmYdiM</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
[heatwave heat opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/heatwave-weather-report-human-extinction-issue-a8478271.html">The
apocalyptic tone of heatwave-reporting doesn't go far enough -
not when the issue is human extinction</a></b><br>
The threat of the destruction of the earth isn't new, but its speed
is. The last such event took around 60,000 years. Now it's happening
in real time<br>
Richard Seymour <br>
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caked in ice, were charred. Further south, from </span><a
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like scorched flies in the heat, as though under a giant
magnifying glass. Across Europe, the same: </span><a
href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/german-farmers-nature-suffering-unusual-heat-wave-56932517"
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href="https://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=5795&id=201309&p=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/27/heatwave-made-more-than-twice-as-likely-by-climate-change-scientists-find"
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so will </span><a
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-heatwaves/study-sees-dramatic-rise-in-heatwave-deaths-by-2080-idUSKBN1KL2N7"
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baseline;">: 7,000 a year in the UK alone. </span><a
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180801160044.htm"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding:
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intense, leading to food shortages.</span><br>
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baseline;">Often, when another<span> </span><a
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/climate-change"
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inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(236, 26, 46);">climate change</a><span> </span>threshold is
reached, a </span><a
href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6865107/the-met-office-can-stick-advice-where-sun-doesnt-shine-let-us-enjoy-the-heat-while-it-lasts/"
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baseline;"><span> </span>emerges with exhortations to lighten up
and enjoy the sunshine. It would be mistaken to take such
scandal-seeking rhetoric at face value. It is superfluous: it
exhorts people to do what they're already doing. And for all its
apparent cheeriness, it is a counsel of nihilistic despair. If you
think something can be done, you will be serious and urgent rather
than facetious. The catastrophists are the optimists here.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
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float: none;">To be fair, heatwave panic is silly season news.
Sensationalism, though, is its own form of euphemism. For all
the apocalyptic tone of heatwave reporting, it doesn't go far
enough. Not when the issue is human extinction.</span></span><br>
<br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
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baseline;">The 2016 heatwave destroyed one third of coral in the
Great Barrier Reef. Ocean life is responsible for </span><a
href="http://www.ecology.com/2011/09/12/important-organism/"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding:
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baseline;">, and coral reefs are home to a quarter of all marine
life, more productive than forest or savannah. The extinction of
the reefs, a probability at this point, would</span><a
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425715000371"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding:
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font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">sharply reduce
the number of oxygen-producing phytoplankton</span></a><span
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baseline;">. Coupled with the </span><a
href="https://phys.org/news/2018-07-ocean-acidification-million-years.html"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding:
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
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baseline;">This is one of many dependencies supporting human life.
Consider another example. Bee populations are </span><a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-01/good-news-for-bees-as-numbers-recover-while-mystery-malady-wanes"
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baseline;">. But now scientists find that warming is likely to </span><a
href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2018/june/climate-change-linked-to-potential-population-decline-in-bees/"
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baseline;"><span> </span>anyway. Without their pollination work,
70 per cent of the crops that feed 90 per cent of the planet would
fail. The era of cheap food is </span><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/science/earth/science-panel-warns-of-risks-to-food-supply-from-climate-change.html?_r=0"
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hotter planet.</span><br>
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baseline;">We are already in the midst of a mass extinction event.
The regularity with which new or threatened extinctions are
announced - from the<span> </span></span><a
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href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45035560"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding:
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staggering. The background rate of extinction is 150-200 species a
day. This is "</span><a
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last such event took around 60,000 years. Now it's happening in
real time.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
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baseline;">And there are accelerators built in to this crisis. The
Arctic is </span><a
href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=9522&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fleaders%2F2017%2F04%2F29%2Fthe-arctic-as-it-is-known-today-is-almost-certainly-gone&sref=http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/heatwave-weather-report-human-extinction-issue-a8478271.html"
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inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">. By 2040, the ice will have
melted for good. That entails the loss of species, not least of
the polar bear. But it also means </span><a
href="http://www.npolar.no/en/facts/albedo-effect.html"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding:
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baseline;">less solar radiation deflected</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px
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baseline;">, further warming the planet.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
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font-synthesis: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align:
baseline;">This is one reason why the crisis is far worse than we
think. Paleoclimatologists have shown that past warming episodes
show that there are mechanisms which </span><a
href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=9522&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41561-018-0146-0&sref=http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/heatwave-weather-report-human-extinction-issue-a8478271.html"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding:
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inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit;
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style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
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baseline;">magnify its effects</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px
none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size:
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font-synthesis: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align:
baseline;">, not represented in current climate models from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the Paris Accords.
The agreed "carbon budget", even if anyone was adhering to it,
will not keep temperatures within two degrees of the
pre-industrial average.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size:
inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit;
font-stretch: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit;
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baseline;"></span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size:
inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit;
font-stretch: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit;
font-language-override: inherit; font-kerning: inherit;
font-synthesis: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align:
baseline;">The biggest obstacle to comprehending this is not the
climate denial industry. It is what the sociologist Stanley Cohen
called "implicatory denial": recognising a problem but denying its
consequences. This is far more insidious, particularly at the
level of policymaking. The denial of politicians is easy to
explain. An attack on fossil capitalism would be hugely
destabilising for the world economy. As Andreas Malm has pointed
out, it would destroy the worth of massive investments in plants,
infrastructures, supply chains and dependent industries. It would
burn a "planet of value". The transition would require a
collective mobilisation tantamount to world war. Few politicians
want that.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size:
inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit;
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baseline;"><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-size: 19px;
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normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform:
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size:
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font-stretch: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit;
font-language-override: inherit; font-kerning: inherit;
font-synthesis: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align:
baseline;">What about everyday denial? What about the cheerfulness
with which we just get on with things, and the resigned despair
that implies? Certainly, there is a pervasive sense of political
powerlessness. The work of the psychoanalyst Renee Lertzman
suggests that, in addition to this, behind such resignation often
lurks a thwarted mourning for worlds that have already been lost.
Worlds of childhood memory, independence, adventure, possibility.
Worlds perhaps bigger than those we find ourselves in. It's a
mourning stalled by ambivalence and guilt. This is one reason why
lectures on consumerism, as if the problem was popular appetite,
tend to be counterproductive.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size:
inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit;
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border:
0px none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size:
inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit;
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font-language-override: inherit; font-kerning: inherit;
font-synthesis: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align:
baseline;">But this also means that resignation is not the whole
story. There is a submerged yearning here which can become
politically effective. For that we need more than catastrophist
foresight. We need something to yearn for. We need to answer a
question that we barely even know how to ask: what will we do with
ourselves as a species if we choose not to go extinct?</span><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/heatwave-weather-report-human-extinction-issue-a8478271.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/heatwave-weather-report-human-extinction-issue-a8478271.html</a></font><br>
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[Really, stop it already]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07082018/heartland-institute-climate-change-denial-trump-administration-fossil-fuels-carbon-tax">Climate
Change Denialists Never Had It So Good. So Why the Angst?</a></b><br>
Despite having unprecedented influence in Washington to achieve a
fossil fuel-first agenda, conservative interests are eyeing events
outside the Beltway with unease.<br>
By Marianne Lavelle<br>
When climate science deniers and fossil fuel evangelists met Tuesday
in New Orleans for the Heartland Institute's second "America First"
conference on U.S. energy, they had every reason to celebrate the
unprecedented influence they enjoy in the Trump administration.<br>
Instead, they found plenty of reasons for dread.<br>
- - -<br>
Contrarian scientists, policy professionals and lawyers affiliated
with conservative interests contemplated the spread of the climate
action agenda as if it were a malignancy. While speakers at the
live-streamed sessions universally praised President Donald Trump
and his regulatory rollbacks, the overwhelming diagnosis was that
more aggressive policy surgery was needed...<br>
- - - <br>
High on their list of targets was the Environmental Protection
Agency's finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to human health
and welfare. That determination, affirmed by the Supreme Court, is
what empowers the agency to regulate global warming pollution.<br>
But the acting EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, has said he
considers the endangerment finding "settled law" and does not wish
to revisit it...<br>
- - - <br>
Another theme running through the sessions was exasperation with
corporations that have decided to take climate action on their own -
or at least have refused to challenge the consensus science that
human activity is the driver for global warming.<br>
<br>
"A number of regulated utilities across the country - no reason to
name names, but there are about a dozen of them - have announced
they are going to ... reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by
2050 from their generating fleet, which is the Barack Obama plan and
the Hillary Clinton plan," said Frederick Palmer, a senior fellow
with the Heartland Institute and a former vice president for the
coal company Peabody Energy. "So it's as if Donald Trump wasn't
elected president of the United States as far as they are
concerned."<br>
<br>
Palmer, who sits on the National Coal Council, a federal advisory
committee to the U.S. energy secretary, said the council will soon
release a study calling for action to bar coastal states from
prohibiting coal export terminals, as Washington State has done.
"We've got to get the left coast figured out," he said.<br>
- - - <br>
The highest Trump administration official to appear at the conclave
was Brooke Rollins, the former CEO and president of the conservative
Texas Public Policy Foundation. Rollins serves in the White House as
assistant to the president in the Office of American Innovation.
Heartland President Tim Huelskamp, a former Kansas Congress member
who chaired the Tea Party caucus, asked her if Trump would take on
the endangerment finding and other "golden calves of the left."
Rollins offered no answer, but urged the group to keep pushing.<br>
<br>
"We know the research of CO2 being a pollutant is just not valid,"
Rollins said. "And yet it's time to really continue research, and
continue making that argument, and continue changing the hearts and
minds of Americans."<br>
<br>
Jay Lehr, the Heartland Institute's science director, noted the
"major role" that Heartland played in urging Trump to withdraw from
the Paris climate accord.<br>
<br>
Lehr asked Rollins if Trump would stay the course. "People keep
thinking he could still back down," he said.<br>
<br>
"All of my experience has proven out that when this president says
he believes in something, then there is no one more bold or
courageous or fearless," Rollins said. "Does that mean I can say
today he will never change his mind? No. But it does go to the
question of how important organizations like Heartland and Texas
Public Policy Foundation are."<br>
<font size="-1">Marianne Lavelle is a reporter for InsideClimate
News. She has covered environment, science, law, and business in
Washington, D.C. for more than two decades. She has won the Polk
Award, the Investigative Editors and Reporters Award, and numerous
other honors.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07082018/heartland-institute-climate-change-denial-trump-administration-fossil-fuels-carbon-tax">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07082018/heartland-institute-climate-change-denial-trump-administration-fossil-fuels-carbon-tax</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Video, sorry kids, mature minds only]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/MUEtqAnPoP4">The
Nib: You Killed Smokey | 209.4</a></b><br>
Give a hoot! - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@thenib/climate-change-were-doomed-kids-7532cdd7e5df">https://medium.com/@thenib/climate-change-were-doomed-kids-7532cdd7e5df</a><br>
The political cartoonists of The Nib have teamed up for a new
animated series that strikes at the heart of our present-day
dystopia. In Season 1 we took you inside the sweatshop that produces
Trump's hair, met the brave, rich, white men who strip away our
reproductive rights, and got an exclusive look at our Illuminati
lizard overlords. Now Season 2 is here, and you're not wrong: things
are definitely getting weirder and worse, so we're in for lots more
fun. Featuring sizzling satire from the likes of Matt Bors, Jen
Sorensen, Matt Lubchansky, Emily Flake, and Keith Knight.<br>
Created by Matt Bors<br>
Executive Produced by Daniel Powell<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@thenib/climate-change-were-doomed-kids-7532cdd7e5df">https://medium.com/@thenib/climate-change-were-doomed-kids-7532cdd7e5df</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/MUEtqAnPoP4">https://youtu.be/MUEtqAnPoP4</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/5vmupjRkgmU">This Day in Climate History
- August 9, 2010</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 9, 2010: NASA scientist Jay Zwally appears on MSNBC's
"Countdown with Keith Olbermann" to discuss Greenland's ice melt
and the political dysfunction that has prevented legislative action
on climate change in the US.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/5vmupjRkgmU">http://youtu.be/5vmupjRkgmU</a><br>
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