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<font size="+1"><i>September 3, 2018</i></font><br>
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[video - check your local waterway]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FbqFlD7MjQ">Green slime
oozes into Florida midterm election</a></b><br>
CNN - Published on Aug 28, 2018<br>
Thick green algae is devastating Florida's Treasure Coast, a health
hazard that has become a key issue in the state's midterm election.
CNN's Jennifer Gray reports.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FbqFlD7MjQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FbqFlD7MjQ</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Encouraging innovation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180830180056.htm">Dual-layer
solar cell sets record for efficiently generating power</a></b><br>
Date: August 30, 2018<br>
Source: UCLA Samueli School of Engineering<br>
Summary: Materials scientists have developed a highly efficient
thin-film solar cell that generates more energy than typical solar
panels, thanks to its double-layer design...<br>
- - - -<br>
The team's new cell converts 22.4 percent of the incoming energy
from the sun, a record in power conversion efficiency for a
perovskite-CIGS tandem solar cell. The performance was confirmed in
independent tests at the U.S. Department of Energy's National
Renewable Energy Laboratory. (The previous record, set in 2015 by a
group at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, was 10.9 percent.)
The UCLA device's efficiency rate is similar to that of the
poly-silicon solar cells that currently dominate the photovoltaics
market.<br>
The research, which was published today in Science, was led by Yang
Yang, UCLA's Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Professor of Materials
Science.<br>
"With our tandem solar cell design, we're drawing energy from two
distinct parts of the solar spectrum over the same device area,"
Yang said. "This increases the amount of energy generated from
sunlight compared to the CIGS layer alone."<br>
- -<br>
"Our technology boosted the existing CIGS solar cell performance by
nearly 20 percent from its original performance," Yang said. "That
means a 20 percent reduction in energy costs."<br>
He added that devices using the two-layer design could eventually
approach 30 percent power conversion efficiency. That will be the
research group's next goal.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180830180056.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180830180056.htm</a></font><br>
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<br>
[maximum combustion moment- no sound]<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/m18rR50UEi4?t=9m30s">Burning Man Burns
2018</a></b><br>
ThatWitchNeverWas<br>
Published on Sep 1, 2018<br>
2018 Burning Man Burns, from their official live stream 09/01/18<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/m18rR50UEi4?t=9m30s">https://youtu.be/m18rR50UEi4?t=9m30s</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Book announcement Sept 25th]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Way-World-Ends-Hurricanes/dp/1250160464">This
Is the Way the World Ends: How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves
and Hurricanes Are Converging on America Hardcover - September
25, 2018</a></b><br>
by Jeff Nesbit (Author)<br>
Publisher's blurb:<br>
<blockquote>"With This is the Way the World Ends Jeff Nesbit has
delivered an enlightening - and alarming - explanation of the
climate challenge as it exists today. Climate change is no far-off
threat. It's impacting communities all over the world at this very
moment, and we ignore the scientific reality at our own peril. The
good news? As Nesbit underscores, disaster is not preordained. The
global community can meet this moment - and we must." -Senator
John Kerry<br>
<br>
A unique view of climate change glimpsed through the world's
resources that are disappearing.<br>
<br>
The world itself won't end, of course. Only ours will: our
livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we're squarely at the
tipping point.<br>
<br>
Longer droughts in the Middle East. Growing desertification in
China and Africa. The monsoon season shrinking in India. Amped-up
heat waves in Australia. More intense hurricanes reaching America.
Water wars in the Horn of Africa. Rebellions, refugees and
starving children across the globe. These are not disconnected
events. These are the pieces of a larger puzzle that environmental
expert Jeff Nesbit puts together<br>
<br>
Unless we start addressing the causes of climate change and stop
simply navigating its effects, we will be facing a series of
unstoppable catastrophes by the time our preschoolers graduate
from college. Our world is in trouble - right now. This Is the Way
the World Ends tells the real stories of the substantial impacts
to Earth's systems unfolding across each continent. The bad news?
Within two decades or so, our carbon budget will reach a point of
no return.<br>
<br>
But there's good news. Like every significant challenge we've
faced-from creating civilization in the shadow of the last ice age
to the Industrial Revolution-we can get out of this box canyon by
understanding the realities and changing the worn-out climate
conversation to one that's relevant to every person. Nesbit
provides a clear blueprint for real-time, workable solutions we
can tackle together.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Way-World-Ends-Hurricanes/dp/1250160464">https://www.amazon.com/This-Way-World-Ends-Hurricanes/dp/1250160464</a></font><br>
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[KIRKUS REVIEW]<br>
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jeff-nesbit/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends/">How
Droughts and Die-Offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging
on America</a></b><br>
by Jeff Nesbit<br>
A passionate overview of human-induced global warming whose effect
on climate, agriculture, ecosystems, and extinction is approaching a
point of no return.<br>
In 30 short yet detailed chapters, journalist Nesbit (Poison Tea:
How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the
GOP, 2016)-a former White House communications official who is now
the executive director of Climate Nexus - explains the science
behind climate change, how it affects specific nations today, and
the far more dismal afflictions that are just around the corner
unless nations can get their acts together. The 10 hottest years in
human history have occurred since the turn of the century. The major
cause, atmospheric carbon dioxide, is not only rising faster than
ever, but will continue to rise for decades after we stop adding to
it-which we are doing at an alarming rate. Shrinking ice at the
Earth's poles may be of less concern than the vanishing snowpack and
glaciers at the so-called "Third Pole": the Himalayas, which serve
as a source of water for over 1 billion people. Readers may find
modest hope in the obligatory how-to-fix-it final chapters. Many
world leaders worry about climate change, and some are trying to
help. This is not the case in the United States, where, bizarrely,
the subject has become politicized. Democrats accept its reality,
and Nesbit praises former President Barack Obama for his warnings,
neglecting to add that he took no action. Still, this is preferable
to Congressional Republicans who consider it a liberal affectation.
Thus, offended on discovering a CIA research project on the effect
of global warming on national security, they cut off funding.<br>
An above-average example of the stream of similar books pouring off
the presses. That there is a large audience for this genre is a
cause for optimism-perhaps the only one.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jeff-nesbit/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends/">https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jeff-nesbit/this-is-the-way-the-world-ends/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[more risk to come]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/1/17800358/california-mendocino-wildfire-dead-trees">California
has 129 million dead trees. That's a huge wildfire risk.</a></b><br>
But no one can afford to cut them all down.<br>
By Umair Irfan Updated Sep 1, 2018, 10:27am EDT<br>
The die-off, meanwhile, that's created so much fuel is a symptom of
the years-long drought that has parched the Western United States.
With limited water, trees have shriveled up or succumbed to bark
beetle infestations, with some of the most severe declines in
central California. And as the climate warms and more people move
into high-risk areas, the damages from wildfires are projected to
increase...<br>
- - - - <br>
Which means forest fires are not due to environmental terrorist
groups, as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke suggested, nor are they due
to logging companies cutting down fire-resistant trees, as some
activists have claimed, nor are they due to landowners opposing
prescribed burns (and it's definitely not "water foolishly being
diverted into the Pacific Ocean").<br>
<br>
The big failure is that the US has not put in the time and money
needed to be able to live next to forests, harvest the trees, and
reduce wildfire risks. There is no coherent vision across all levels
of government, and conflicting priorities like forest preservation
and property protection have exacerbated fire risks. "The idea of
caring for a forest is much like caring for a garden," Geissler
said. "You have to invest in it to keep it healthy."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/1/17800358/california-mendocino-wildfire-dead-trees">https://www.vox.com/2018/9/1/17800358/california-mendocino-wildfire-dead-trees</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Youth own tomorrow]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/01/swedish-15-year-old-cutting-class-to-fight-the-climate-crisis?CMP=fb_gu">The
Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate
crisis</a></b><br>
Following Sweden's hottest summer ever, Greta Thunberg decided to go
on school strike at the parliament to get politicians to act<br>
Every day for two weeks, Thunberg has been sitting quietly on the
cobblestones outside parliament in central Stockholm, handing out
leaflets that declare: "I am doing this because you adults are
shitting on my future."<br>
Thunberg herself is a diminutive girl with pigtails and a fleeting
smile - not the stereotypical leader of a climate revolution.<br>
"I am doing this because nobody else is doing anything. It is my
moral responsibility to do what I can," she says. "I want the
politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate
and treat it like a crisis."<br>
When people tell her she should be at school, she points to the
textbooks in her satchel.<br>
- - - -<b><br>
</b><b>"Greta is a troublemaker, she is not listening to adults. But
we are heading full speed for a catastrophe, and in this situation
the only reasonable thing is to be unreasonable."</b><br>
There are signs that more Swedes are listening. The Green party, a
partner in the centre-left coalition government, was languishing in
the polls before the country was hit by more than 60 forest fires,
which raged for weeks through a rural tinderbox created by the
unprecedented drought. Now the party's support is up by half to
about 6%.<br>
Sweden's reindeer at risk of starvation after summer drought<br>
Read more<br>
"I am very impressed by Greta's courage and determination," says
Janine Alm Ericson, a Green member of parliament.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/01/swedish-15-year-old-cutting-class-to-fight-the-climate-crisis?CMP=fb_gu">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/01/swedish-15-year-old-cutting-class-to-fight-the-climate-crisis?CMP=fb_gu</a></font><br>
- - - - -<br>
[Brief, plain word essay]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://medium.com/@wedonthavetime/greta-thunberg-sweden-is-not-a-role-model-6ce96d6b5f8b">Greta
Thunberg: "Sweden is not a Role Model"</a></b><br>
15-year-old Greta Thunberg sits down outside the Swedish parliament
every day until the Swedish election - for the climate. Here is her
own strong and apprehensive text about the climate crisis and our
ineptitude to deal with it:<br>
<blockquote>I want to feel safe.<br>
<br>
When I walk home late at night.<br>
<br>
When I sit on the subway.<br>
<br>
When I sleep at night.<br>
<br>
But I don't feel safe.<br>
<br>
How am I supposed to feel safe when I know that we are facing the
most acute crisis in the history of mankind? When I know that if
we don't act now, everything will soon be too late?<br>
<br>
The first time I heard about global warming, I thought: that can't
be right, no way there is something serious enough to threaten our
very existence.<br>
<br>
Because otherwise, we would not be talking about anything else. As
soon as you turn on the TV, everything would be about this issue.
Headlines, radio, newspapers. You would never read or hear about
anything else.<br>
<br>
As if a world war was raging.<br>
<br>
But in fact, no one was talking…<br>
<br>
And if they did, it was never in line with the scientists'
statements. The other day I watched a debate between party leaders
on TV and saw how they were allowed to stand there and lie. They
said it made no sense to make an effort to curb Sweden's
emissions, since we were such a "role model". That we should focus
on "helping" other countries to cut their emissions.<br>
<br>
Sweden is not a role model. The people of Sweden yearly emits 11
tonnes of CO2 per capita. We're on eighth place in the world
according to WWF.<br>
<br>
We're the ones who need help.<br>
<br>
I don't understand how they can be allowed to lie like that on TV.<br>
<br>
Maybe many grown-ups think the issue of climate change is
difficult to understand? Maybe that's why, whenever there's a
television program about the climate, it turns into children's
television? I grasped the issue of climate change when I was 12
and decided to never fly again, nor eat meat.<br>
<br>
The climate crisis is the defining issue of our time. Yet everyone
believes that we can solve the crisis without effort, without
sacrifice.<br>
<br>
"Think positive!" everybody says.<br>
<br>
As if the passengers on Titanic, after the collision with the ice
berg, would have sat down to talk about what stories the survivors
could tell and how famous they would be. Or the number of jobs
that would be created in the effort to help the survivors.<br>
<br>
However, the ship would have sunk anyway, no matter their actions.
We can, on the other hand, stop the collision. We know the ice
berg is there. We even know its exact coordinates. But we're not
slowing down, nor are we changing course. And so we praise
ourselves, perhaps, for having managed to unload some weight.
While increasing the speed.<br>
<br>
Will we slow down in time?<br>
<br>
If I live to be 100 I will be alive in the year 2103.<br>
<br>
When you think about "the future" today, you don't think beyond
the year 2050. By then I will, in the best case, not even have
lived half my life. What happens next?<br>
<br>
The year 2078 I will celebrate my 75th anniversary. If I have
children and grandchildren they may want to celebrate that day
with me. Maybe I will tell them about you? How do you want to be
remembered?<br>
<br>
What you do or don't do, right now, will affect my entire life,
and the lives of my children and grandchildren. Maybe they'll ask
why you did nothing, and why those who knew and could speak out,
didn't.<br>
</blockquote>
The above text is written by Greta Thunberg and translated from
Swedish by We Don't Have Time. It is published with Greta Thunberg's
approval.<br>
Web site: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.wedonthavetime.org">www.wedonthavetime.org</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@wedonthavetime/greta-thunberg-sweden-is-not-a-role-model-6ce96d6b5f8b">https://medium.com/@wedonthavetime/greta-thunberg-sweden-is-not-a-role-model-6ce96d6b5f8b</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[quick printed overview]<br>
<b><a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html">The
Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model</a></b><br>
Why It Might Work and Options to Counter It<br>
by Christopher Paul, Miriam Matthews<br>
Since its 2008 incursion into Georgia (if not before), there has
been a remarkable evolution in Russia's approach to propaganda. The
country has effectively employed new dissemination channels and
messages in support of its 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula,
its ongoing involvement in the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, and
its antagonism of NATO allies. The Russian propaganda model is
high-volume and multichannel, and it disseminates messages without
regard for the truth. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive,
and it lacks commitment to consistency. Although these techniques
would seem to run counter to the received wisdom for successful
information campaigns, research in psychology supports many of the
most successful aspects of the model. Furthermore, the very factors
that make the firehose of falsehood effective also make it difficult
to counter. Traditional counterpropaganda approaches will likely be
inadequate in this context. More effective solutions can be found in
the same psychology literature that explains the surprising success
of the Russian propaganda model and its messages.<br>
Recommendations:<br>
<blockquote><b>- Forewarn audiences of misinformation, or merely
reach them first with the truth, rather than retracting or
refuting false "facts."</b><b><br>
</b><b>- Prioritize efforts to counter the effects of Russian
propaganda, and focus on guiding the propaganda's target
audience in more productive directions.</b><b><br>
</b><b>- Compete with Russian propaganda. Both the United States
and NATO have the potential to prevent Russia from dominating
the information environment.</b><b><br>
</b><b>- Increase the flow of information that diminishes the
effectiveness of propaganda, and, in the context of active
hostilities, attack the means of dissemination.</b><br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html">https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[19 games]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://scied.ucar.edu/games-sims-weather-climate-atmosphere">Games
& Simulations - Weather, Climate, Atmosphere</a></b><br>
This page is a directory of educational games, simulations, and
virtual labs related to Weather, Climate, Atmospheric Science, and
the Sun and Space Weather.<br>
This list is a subset of a collection of links to games,
simulations, and virtual labs that span a larger range of STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) education topics.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://scied.ucar.edu/games-sims-weather-climate-atmosphere">https://scied.ucar.edu/games-sims-weather-climate-atmosphere</a></font><br>
- - -- -<br>
For instance: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://authoring.concord.org/sequences/388">https://authoring.concord.org/sequences/388</a><br>
Climate and Carbon Cycle Models - <font size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatemodels.uchicago.edu/">http://climatemodels.uchicago.edu/</a></font><br>
Mitigation simulator <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.koshland-science-museum.org/explore-the-science/interactives/mitigation-simulator">https://www.koshland-science-museum.org/explore-the-science/interactives/mitigation-simulator</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Nice comic rant - 5 min]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpJPOtxTkuU">Lewis Black
on Climate Change</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpJPOtxTkuU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpJPOtxTkuU</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdSsOnVWhic">This Day in
Climate History - September 3, 2008</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
September 3, 2008: In his address to the Republican National
Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, former Maryland Lieutenant
Governor Michael Steele blows off concerns about climate change by
proclaiming: "Drill, baby, drill!"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/03/steele-gives-gop-delegates-new-cheer-drill-baby-drill/tab/article/">http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/03/steele-gives-gop-delegates-new-cheer-drill-baby-drill/tab/article/</a>
<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdSsOnVWhic">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdSsOnVWhic</a> </font><br>
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