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<font size="+1"><i>August 29, 2018</i></font><br>
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[live radio]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/28/frances-star-environment-minister-quits-saying-alone-green-issues/">French
environment minister quits live on radio, saying he was 'alone'
on green issues in Macron's government</a></b><br>
President Emmanuel Macron suffered a major political blow Tuesday as
his popular environment minister resigned live on radio - without
informing the French leader beforehand.<br>
Nicolas Hulot, one of the most respected members of the cabinet
among the French public, took even his interviewers by surprise on
the France Inter radio station when announcing his move.<br>
"I am taking the decision to leave the government," Hulot said,
adding that he felt "all alone" on environmental issues within the
government.<br>
The 62-year-old TV celebrity, who made his name as an environmental
campaigner, was lured into government last year by Macron, but has
repeatedly clashed with his cabinet colleagues over policy.<br>
"We're taking little steps, and France is doing a lot more than
other countries, but are little steps enough?... the answer is no,"
he added.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/28/frances-star-environment-minister-quits-saying-alone-green-issues/">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/28/frances-star-environment-minister-quits-saying-alone-green-issues/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[California risk defined]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27082018/california-climate-change-assessment-evidence-global-warming-science-risks-policy-clean-energy">California
Climate Change Report Adds to Evidence as State Pushes Back on
Trump</a></b><br>
The assessment warns of increasing wildfires, worsening droughts and
more severe coastal flooding. State lawmakers are looking for
solutions in renewable energy.<br>
Phil McKenna<br>
BY PHIL MCKENNA<br>
California published a comprehensive assessment Monday of the risks
global warming is creating for the state, providing a thick tome of
evidence advocates can now use to push climate legislation, pursue
litigation, and attempt to sway public opinion as they take on
industry and try to counter the Trump administration.<br>
The climate change assessment by the world's 5th largest economy
relied on dozens of peer-reviewed reports that detail the effects
climate change is having today and what to expect in the future,
including extreme wildfires, droughts, heat waves and floods that
are projected to occur with increasing frequency and severity.<br>
"In California, facts and science still matter," Gov. Jerry Brown
said. "These findings are profoundly serious and will continue to
guide us as we confront the apocalyptic threat of irreversible
climate change."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27082018/california-climate-change-assessment-evidence-global-warming-science-risks-policy-clean-energy">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/27082018/california-climate-change-assessment-evidence-global-warming-science-risks-policy-clean-energy</a></font><br>
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[announcement]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/">CALIFORNIA'S FOURTH
CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/">http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/</a><br>
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[be sure to see the tools section]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/tools/">http://www.climateassessment.ca.gov/tools/</a><br>
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[press summaries from Climate Nexus]<br>
<strong>A Hot, Dry, Burning, Eroding, 'Apocalyptic' Sunshine State:
</strong>Climate change will create a devastating new normal in
California of intense heatwaves and destructive fires if nothing is
done to curb emissions, a new state report finds. California's
fourth-annual <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b3586667aa&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Climate Change Assessment</a> finds that<b> large
fires like this summer's record-breaking Mendocino Complex and
Carr fires will increase 50 percent by 2100 and burn 77 percent
more land under a business-as-usual emissions scenario.</b> The
report also finds 31 to 67 percent of beaches could erode by 2100,
deaths from heat waves in cities could double or triple by 2050, and
water supply from snowpack could decline by two-thirds by 2050.
"These findings are profoundly serious and will continue to guide us
as we confront the apocalyptic threat of irreversible climate
change," Gov. Jerry Brown said in a statement. (<a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=3f5fd6d47f&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">LA Times</a> $, <a
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target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">SF Chronicle</a> $, <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=7c09ad180f&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">The Guardian</a>, <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=7e315e3ac7&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">InsideClimate News</a>, <a
href="https://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=39249a8be2&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #dd2953;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Fortune</a>)<br>
<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif"></span><span
style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif"> </span><font size="-1">from
Shravya Jain at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatenexus.org/">https://climatenexus.org/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate Liability News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/08/28/hawaii-climate-costs-hurricane-lane/">Hawaii
Begins to Tally Costs, Contemplate a Future of Extreme Rainfall</a></b><br>
As Hawaii begins to clean up and assess the damage from Hurricane
Lane, which dumped more than 40 inches of rain on the islands to
become one of the wettest storms in U.S. history, the state is
wrestling with what may be its new, wetter reality. The deluge was
Hawaii’s second devastating rain event this year as the state
absorbed 49 inches from an extreme downpour in early May.<br>
Climate scientists have predicted that climate change would make
hurricanes wetter-because a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture
and warmer oceans provide more energy for storms-and the events of
the past year have brought significant evidence to support that.
Last August, Hurricane Harvey inundated the Houston area with more
than 60 inches of rain, the most rain ever recorded from a tropical
storm system in the U.S. Studies have already shown that Harvey’s
rainfall was more than triple what it would have been without global
warming.<br>
<b>Penn State scientist Michael Mann calls rising carbon dioxide
levels in the atmosphere "steroids for the storms."</b><br>
In what could be worse news for Hawaii, a recent study showed
warming waters in the Pacific could double the tropical storm
activity around that area by 2100 if global warming continues toward
2 degrees C over pre-industrial times. The state has been directly
hit by only three major hurricanes since 1871, although one of
them-Hilo, which dumped 52 inches of rain on the state in 1950-is
the second wettest in U.S. history after Harvey...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/08/28/hawaii-climate-costs-hurricane-lane/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/08/28/hawaii-climate-costs-hurricane-lane/</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
</b>[technology turns to dust and smoke]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/nasa-visualization-shows-california-wildfires.html">This
NASA image shows how California's wildfires are affecting the
atmosphere</a></b><br>
As wildfires continue to burn in California, NASA has released a
visualization that illustrates one of the ways in which the fires
are affecting the atmosphere.<br>
NASA's Earth Observatory, the arm of the space agency that shares
with the public images of the Earth and its climate, created the map
(embedded above, and below with captions) which shows aerosols in
the atmosphere. Aerosols are the solid particles and liquid droplets
in the air.<br>
animated video map <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://t.co/wl9Py7DPFY">https://t.co/wl9Py7DPFY</a> <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/nasa-visualization-shows-california-wildfires.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/28/nasa-visualization-shows-california-wildfires.html</a></font><br>
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[visualizing particles globally]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92654/just-another-day-on-aerosol-earth">NASA
data visualization</a></b><br>
Take a deep breath. Even if the air looks clear, it is nearly
certain that you will inhale millions of solid particles and liquid
droplets. These ubiquitous specks of matter are known as aerosols,
and they can be found in the air over oceans, deserts, mountains,
forests, ice, and every ecosystem in between.<br>
If you have ever watched smoke billowing from a wildfire, ash
erupting from a volcano, or dust blowing in the wind, you have seen
aerosols. Satellites like Terra, Aqua, Aura, and Suomi NPP "see"
them as well, though they offer a completely different perspective
from hundreds of kilometers above Earth’s surface. A version of a
NASA model called the Goddard Earth Observing System Forward
Processing (GEOS FP) offers a similarly expansive view of the
mishmash of particles that dance and swirl through the atmosphere...<br>
- - - - big image <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/92000/92654/asia_geo5_2018235_lrg.png">https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/92000/92654/asia_geo5_2018235_lrg.png</a><br>
Some of these inputs come from satellites; others come from data
collected by sensors on the ground. Fire radiative power data from
the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors on
Aqua and Terra is one type of satellite data that was assimilated
directly into the model. This type of data includes information
about the location and intensity of fires-something that the model
uses to help calculate the behavior of black carbon plumes.<br>
Some of the events that appear in the visualization were causing
pretty serious problems on the ground. On August 23, Hawaiians
braced for torrential rains and potentially serious floods and
mudslides as Hurricane Lane approached. Meanwhile, twin tropical
cyclones-Soulik and Cimaron-were on the verge of lashing South Korea
and Japan. The smoke plume over central Africa is a seasonal
occurrence and mainly the product of farmers lighting numerous small
fires to maintain crop and grazing lands. Most of the smoke over
North America came from large wildfires burning in Canada and the
United States.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92654/just-another-day-on-aerosol-earth">https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92654/just-another-day-on-aerosol-earth</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Calif political wind shear]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-walters-climate-20180824-story.html">Sweating
out a close race, GOP Rep. Mimi Walters ties wildfires to
climate change</a></b><br>
By MICHAEL HILTZIK - AUG 24, 2018 <br>
The adage "All politics is local" often attributed to the late House
Speaker Tip O’Neill appears to be working its magic in the
once-solidly Republican Orange County district of Rep. Mimi Walters.<br>
Walters is facing a stiff challenge in November from Democrat Katie
Porter, a UC Irvine law professor. So it may be no surprise that
she’s trimming her political sails to catch the prevailing winds.
Most recently, Walters signed on to an Aug. 22 letter from the
congressional climate solutions caucus observing that the western
wildfires are being "fueled by climate change" and inviting Gov.
Jerry Brown to a meeting to discuss policy options.<br>
The assertion places Walters at odds with President Trump, who has
called climate change a "hoax" and blamed the fires on "bad
environmental laws," and with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who has
pointed the finger at "environmental terrorist groups" who interfere
with government forest management programs.<br>
It also places Walters at odds with her own record on environmental
issues, which is one of the worst in Congress. As my colleague Evan
Halper observed this week, the League of Conservation Voters gives
her a lifetime score of 4% on legislative votes, and a 3% score for
2017.<br>
That record probably won’t help Walters in November. Election
forecasters have moved her district from Republican-leaning to a
toss-up. Although GOP voters outnumber Democrats by nearly 8
percentage points, the district went for Hillary Clinton in the 2016
presidential election. We’ve asked Walters’ Washington office to
comment but haven’t heard back.<br>
District voters tend to be well-educated, which suggests that they
don’t hold much truck with climate change denialism. They also have
close to firsthand experience with wildfires. The Holy fire has been
burning for more than two weeks in remote parts of Orange and
Riverside counties; although authorities say the fire was triggered
by arson, climate change may play a role in its severity, as it has
with other blazes during this ferocious fire season in California...<br>
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Last year, she was a co-sponsor of the "Stopping EPA Overreach Act,"
which stated that nothing in five major federal environmental laws,
including the Clean Air Act, the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969 and the Endangered Species Act, "authorizes or requires the
regulation of climate change or global warming."<br>
Among her fellow co-sponsors were four other environmentally
benighted California GOP members of Congress. All had lifetime
ratings from the league as bad or worse than hers - Tom McClintock
of Elk Grove (4%), David Valadao of Hanford (4%), Devin Nunes of
Tulare (3%), and Doug LaMalfa of Richvale (1%). If Walters is really
trying to distinguish herself from the Republican Party’s appalling
record on climate change, she has a steep hill to climb.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-walters-climate-20180824-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-walters-climate-20180824-story.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[check the food supply]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pek3/scientists-warn-the-un-of-capitalisms-imminent-demise">Scientists
Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise</a></b><br>
A climate change-fueled switch away from fossil fuels means the
worldwide economy will fundamentally need to change.<br>
Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report
commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN
Secretary-General. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly to a
radically different global economy, due to our increasingly
unsustainable exploitation of the planet’s environmental resources.<br>
Climate change and species extinctions are accelerating even as
societies are experiencing rising inequality, unemployment, slow
economic growth, rising debt levels, and impotent governments.
Contrary to the way policymakers usually think about these problems,
the new report says that these are not really separate crises at
all.<br>
Rather, these crises are part of the same fundamental transition to
a new era characterized by inefficient fossil fuel production and
the escalating costs of climate change. Conventional capitalist
economic thinking can no longer explain, predict, or solve the
workings of the global economy in this new age, the paper says...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pek3/scientists-warn-the-un-of-capitalisms-imminent-demise">https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pek3/scientists-warn-the-un-of-capitalisms-imminent-demise</a><br>
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[The UN paper is]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bios.fi/bios-governance_of_economic_transition.pdf">Global
Sustainable Development Report 2019 drafted by the Group of
independent scientists</a></b><br>
GOVERNANCE OF ECONOMIC TRANSITION<br>
We live in an era of turmoil and profound change in the energetic
and material underpinnings of<br>
economies. The era of cheap energy is coming to an end (Murphy 2014,
Lambert et al. 2014, Hall et al.<br>
2014, Hall et al. 2009, Hirsch et al. 2005). Because economies are
for the first time in human history<br>
shifting to energy sources that are less energy efficient,
production of usable energy (exergy) will require<br>
more, not less, effort on the part of societies to power both basic
and non-basic human activities. Sink<br>
costs are also rising; economies have used up the capacity of
planetary ecosystems to handle the waste<br>
generated by energy and material use. Climate change is the most
pronounced sink cost.<br>
What will happen during the oncoming years and decades when we enter
the era of energy transition,<br>
combined with emission cuts, and start to witness more severe
effects of climate change? That is the big<br>
question. What kind of economic understanding and governance models
do we need, now that<br>
economies are undergoing dramatic rather than incremental change?...<br>
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In view of the challenges encountered today in implementing
meaningful international agreements, the<br>
most likely option for initiating transitions to sustainability
would be for a group of progressive states to<br>
take the lead. This would require economic thinking that enables
large public investment programs on the<br>
one hand and strong regulation and environmental caps on the other.
In the modern global economy,<br>
states are the only actors that have the legitimacy and capacity to
fund and organize large-scale<br>
transitions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bios.fi/bios-governance_of_economic_transition.pdf">https://bios.fi/bios-governance_of_economic_transition.pdf</a><br>
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<br>
[Wow! Actual sponsored content about global warming!]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Kt_oU9iss">What Could
Happen in a World That's 4 Degrees Warmer | WIRED Brand Lab</a></b><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Kt_oU9iss"><br>
</a>WIRED<br>
Published on Aug 27, 2018<br>
Produced by WIRED Brand Lab for Western Digital at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.datamakespossible.com/">https://www.datamakespossible.com/</a><br>
Comedian Aparna Nancherla explores how global warming and climate
change will directly affect our lives 100 years from now when the
average global temperature is projected to increase by 4 degrees
Celsius, or 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit. Nancherla met with Professor of
Atmospheric Science at UC Berkeley, Inez Fung, and Chief Data
Officer at Western Digital, Janet George to to make predictions
about how we’ll live in a 4C World.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.datamakespossible.com/">https://www.datamakespossible.com/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Kt_oU9iss">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Kt_oU9iss</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[NPR says]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/08/27/642321572/scientists-link-air-pollution-exposure-to-cognitive-decline">Air
Pollution Exposure Harms Cognitive Performance, Study Finds</a></b><br>
"We can say that the bigger impact is toward the older adults," Chen
added.<br>
China Shuts Down Tens Of Thousands Of Factories In Unprecedented
Pollution Crackdown<br>
The scientists found both short-term and cumulative effects of air
pollution on cognitive performance. Pollution's impact on verbal
test performance became worse as people aged, particularly among men
and people with less education.<br>
People with lower education levels are likely to experience more
harm, Chen says, because they work outside more often and are
exposed to higher levels of pollution.<br>
He says exposure to pollution could make elderly people less
effective in making major financial and medical decisions.<br>
Could the link between cognitive decline and pollution be caused by
a another factor? Chen says the study tries to overcome that issue
by testing the same people over time.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/08/27/642321572/scientists-link-air-pollution-exposure-to-cognitive-decline">https://www.npr.org/2018/08/27/642321572/scientists-link-air-pollution-exposure-to-cognitive-decline</a></font><br>
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[huh, what's that?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals">Air
pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals</a></b><br>
Impact of high levels of toxic air ‘is equivalent to having lost a
year of education’<br>
Damian Carrington and Lily Kuo in Beijing<br>
Mon 27 Aug 2018 <br>
Air pollution causes a "huge" reduction in intelligence, according
to new research, indicating that the damage to society of toxic air
is far deeper than the well-known impacts on physical health.<br>
<br>
The research was conducted in China but is relevant across the
world, with 95% of the global population breathing unsafe air. It
found that high pollution levels led to significant drops in test
scores in language and arithmetic, with the average impact
equivalent to having lost a year of the person’s education.<br>
<br>
"Polluted air can cause everyone to reduce their level of education
by one year, which is huge," said Xi Chen at Yale School of Public
Health in the US, a member of the research team. "But we know the
effect is worse for the elderly, especially those over 64, and for
men, and for those with low education. If we calculate [the loss]
for those, it may be a few years of education."<br>
<br>
Previous research has found that air pollution harms cognitive
performance in students, but this is the first to examine people of
all ages and the difference between men and women.<br>
The damage in intelligence was worst for those over 64 years old,
with serious consequences, said Chen: "We usually make the most
critical financial decisions in old age." Rebecca Daniels, from the
UK public health charity Medact, said: "This report’s findings are
extremely worrying."...<br>
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Aarash Saleh, a registrar in respiratory medicine in the UK and part
of the Doctors Against Diesel campaign, said: "This study adds to
the concerning bank of evidence showing that exposure to air
pollution can worsen our cognitive function. Road traffic is the
biggest contributor to air pollution in residential areas and the
government needs to act urgently to remove heavily-polluting
vehicles from our roads."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Opinion 3 years ago "World War III is well and truly underway. And
we are losing."]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://newrepublic.com/article/135684/declare-war-climate-change-mobilize-wwii">A
World at War-We’re under attack from climate change-and our only
hope is to mobilize like we did in WWII.</a></b><br>
By BILL MCKIBBEN<br>
In the North this summer, a devastating offensive is underway. Enemy
forces have seized huge swaths of territory; with each passing week,
another 22,000 square miles of Arctic ice disappears. Experts
dispatched to the battlefield in July saw little cause for hope,
especially since this siege is one of the oldest fronts in the war.
"In 30 years, the area has shrunk approximately by half," said a
scientist who examined the onslaught. "There doesn’t seem anything
able to stop this."<br>
<br>
In the Pacific this spring, the enemy staged a daring breakout
across thousands of miles of ocean, waging a full-scale assault on
the region’s coral reefs. In a matter of months, long stretches of
formations like the Great Barrier Reef-dating back past the start of
human civilization and visible from space-were reduced to white
bone-yards.<br>
<br>
Day after day, week after week, saboteurs behind our lines are
unleashing a series of brilliant and overwhelming attacks. In the
past few months alone, our foes have used a firestorm to force the
total evacuation of a city of 90,000 in Canada, drought to ravage
crops to the point where southern Africans are literally eating
their seed corn, and floods to threaten the priceless repository of
art in the Louvre. The enemy is even deploying biological weapons to
spread psychological terror: The Zika virus, loaded like a bomb into
a growing army of mosquitoes, has shrunk the heads of newborn babies
across an entire continent; panicked health ministers in seven
countries are now urging women not to get pregnant. And as in all
conflicts, millions of refugees are fleeing the horrors of war,
their numbers swelling daily as they’re forced to abandon their
homes to escape famine and desolation and disease.<br>
- - - -<br>
In this war we’re in-the war that physics is fighting hard, and
that we aren’t-winning slowly is the same as losing....<br>
Normally in wartime, defeatism is a great sin. Luckily, though, you
can’t give aid and comfort to carbon; it has no morale to boost. So
we can be totally honest. We’ve waited so long to fight back in this
war that total victory is impossible, and total defeat can’t be
ruled out. <br>
- - - -<br>
In California, thousands of homes were threatened in a wildfire
described by the local fire chief as "one of the most devastating
I’ve ever seen." Suburban tracts looked like Dresden after the
bombing. Planes and helicopters buzzed overhead, dropping bright
plumes of chemical retardants; if the "Flight of the Valkyries" had
been playing, it could have been a scene from Apocalypse Now.<br>
<br>
And in West Virginia, a "one in a thousand year" storm dropped
historic rain across the mountains, triggering record floods that
killed dozens. "You can see people in the second-story windows
waiting to be evacuated," one local official reported. A
particularly dramatic video-a kind of YouTube Guernica for our
moment-showed a large house being consumed by flames as it was swept
down a rampaging river until it crashed into a bridge. "Everybody
lost everything," one dazed resident said. "We never thought it
would be this bad." A state trooper was even more succinct. "It
looks like a war zone," he said.<br>
Because it is.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - August 29, - from
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