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<font size="+1"><i>October 11, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Hurricane Michael fast strike]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/10/hurricane-michaels-assaults-panama-city-florida/1596550002/">In
a harrowing two hours, Hurricane Michael devastates Panama City</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/10/hurricane-michaels-assaults-panama-city-florida/1596550002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/10/hurricane-michaels-assaults-panama-city-florida/1596550002/</a></font><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-10-10-hurricane-michael-impacts-florida-gulf-coast"><b>Hurricane
Michael in Florida: Beach Towns Left in Ruins; Air Force Base
Damaged</b></a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-10-10-hurricane-michael-impacts-florida-gulf-coast">https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2018-10-10-hurricane-michael-impacts-florida-gulf-coast</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/images-showing-michaels-destruction-emerge-houses-submerged/story?id=58412487">Images,
video showing Michael's destruction emerge: 'All the houses are
submerged'</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/images-showing-michaels-destruction-emerge-houses-submerged/story?id=58412487">https://abcnews.go.com/US/images-showing-michaels-destruction-emerge-houses-submerged/story?id=58412487</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[the first task of a town crier, is to cry out]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/08/Majority-of-top-US-newspapers-fail-to-mention-landmark-climate-change-report-on-their-home/221608">Majority
of top U.S. newspapers fail to mention landmark climate change
report on their homepages</a></b><br>
After new U.N. IPCC climate report comes out, only 22 of the top 50
U.S. newspapers' homepages made note of it<br>
October 8, 2018 - TED MACDONALD<br>
A United Nations scientific panel released a major new climate
change report on the night of October 7, warning of dire
consequences if world governments don't take unprecedented and
dramatic steps in the next decade to rein in greenhouse gas
emissions. The next morning, the majority of top U.S. newspapers
failed to mention the report on their homepages.<br>
<br>
IPCC report warns that fast, sweeping action is necessary to fight
climate change<br>
At 9 p.m. EDT on October 7, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) released its long-awaited special report about
what will happen if the average global temperature rises more than
1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and what would be
required to prevent such a rise. The average temperature has already
risen 1 degree C worldwide, and we will see dramatic and deadly
impacts if it rises 2 degrees or more, which is now considered
extremely likely. The IPCC report was requested by world leaders as
part of the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The report emphasizes the
need for unprecedented action in the coming years to prevent the
worst effects of climate change, and warns of the dire impacts if
humanity fails to take that action.<br>
<br>
The majority of top U.S. newspapers neglected to cover the IPCC
report on their homepages<br>
Between 9 a.m. and noon EDT on October 8, Media Matters analyzed the
homepages of the top 50 U.S. newspapers as ranked by average Sunday
circulation. Twenty-eight of the papers did not mention the report
on their homepages at all:<br>
<blockquote>The Arizona Republic<br>
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette<br>
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<br>
The Baltimore Sun<br>
The Buffalo News<br>
Chicago Sun Times<br>
Chicago Tribune<br>
The Cincinnati Enquirer<br>
The Columbus Dispatch<br>
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)<br>
The Dallas Morning News<br>
The Denver Post<br>
El Nuevo Dia (Puerto Rico)<br>
Fort Worth Star-Telegram<br>
Houston Chronicle<br>
New York Daily News<br>
Newsday (New York and Long Island, NY)<br>
The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)<br>
The Orange County Register<br>
The Oregonian<br>
Orlando Sentinel<br>
The Philadelphia Inquirer<br>
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<br>
San Antonio Express-News<br>
San Diego Union-Tribune<br>
The Star-Ledger (New Jersey)<br>
Tampa Bay Times<br>
St. Paul Pioneer Press<br>
</blockquote>
Of the above newspapers, 10 serve cities that are listed among the
"25 U.S. Cities Most Affected by Climate Change" in a 2015
weather.com report: Baltimore, Buffalo, Columbus, Denver,
Louisville, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, and St.
Paul.<br>
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Other major newspapers in cities heavily affected by climate change
also failed to highlight the IPCC report. The Las Vegas
Review-Journal, the largest newspaper in Nevada, did not note the
report on its homepage. Las Vegas is ranked third in the weather.com
list. The Miami Herald also did not mention the IPCC report on its
homepage, though it did link to an article about how the risk of
sea-level rise threatens real estate prices. Miami will be
particularly affected by sea-level rise; a study published last year
in the journal Nature concluded that rising seas as a result of
climate change could cause more than 2.5 million Miami residents to
flee the city...<br>
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href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/08/Majority-of-top-US-newspapers-fail-to-mention-landmark-climate-change-report-on-their-home/221608">https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/08/Majority-of-top-US-newspapers-fail-to-mention-landmark-climate-change-report-on-their-home/221608</a></font><br>
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[Beckwith video comment]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZs6LdQ1cQ">Abrupt
Climate Change Will Rapidly Blow Past 1.5C and 2C</a></b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Published on Oct 10, 2018<br>
As I filmed today, yet another massive hurricane has just come
ashore in Florida's panhandle. Hurricane Michael, at 155 mph (1 mph
shy of Cat. 5) appeared almost out of nowhere and strengthened
rapidly in the way too-warm Gulf of Mexico. This video is not just
on this storm, but primarily on the human/media/global storm that
has arisen with the release of the IPCC 1.5C report on our present
state of the climate system, and whether or not we can keep global
temperature rise to 1.5C or even to 2C. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZs6LdQ1cQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZs6LdQ1cQ</a></font><br>
- - - <br>
[YouTube video report from RealNews]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSg4KpijU9k">Michael Mann:
We Are Even Closer To Climate Disaster Than IPCC Predicts</a></b><br>
TheRealNews<br>
Published on Oct 9, 2018<br>
A new report from the world's leading body on climate change says we
could see catastrophic global warming by 2030, and climate scientist
Michael Mann says their predictions are too conservative<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSg4KpijU9k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSg4KpijU9k</a><br>
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</font><br>
[Yale Climate Communications]<br>
Oct 9, 2018<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans-are-more-worried-about-global-warming-but-show-signs-of-losing-hope/">Americans
are More Worried about Global Warming, and Show Signs of Losing
Hope</a></b><br>
By Matthew Ballew, Jennifer Marlon, Edward Maibach, Abel Gustafson,
Matthew Goldberg and Anthony Leiserowitz<br>
With weather becoming more extreme--including powerful hurricanes,
stronger droughts and heatwaves, and increased flooding due to
sea-level rise--more Americans are personally experiencing the
effects of climate change. It is, therefore, no surprise that this
increase in danger is accompanied by an increase in worry about
global warming. In our recent nationally representative survey of
American adults, more than six in ten said they were "very" or
"somewhat" worried about global warming, whereas fewer than half did
in 2010.<br>
<br>
In contrast, our data show that American's feelings of hope about
global warming have declined over the past two years--diverging from
worry. In 2010, the number of Americans expressing hope was similar
to that of worry: about 46% of the U.S. population said they were
"very" or "moderately" hopeful when thinking about global warming.
During the final years of the Obama Administration (from 2014 to
2016) and the signing of the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, there was
an uptick in both hope and worry. However, from 2017
onward--coinciding with the Trump Administration--Americans became
more worried and less hopeful about global warming.<br>
<br>
Research indicates that worry and hope motivate constructive
engagement with global warming. In a 2014 study conducted by Dr.
Nicholas Smith, a social and environmental psychologist at the
University of Westminster, and Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of
the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, the emotions of
worry and hope were among the strongest predictors of public support
for climate change policy.<br>
<br>
The increase in worry may be motivating some Americans to act on
global warming. Still, remaining hopeful is also important to spur
engagement. Data from our latest 2018 nationally representative
survey show that Americans who remain hopeful are consistently more
likely than those with less hope to say they will act on global
warming, including contacting a government official, donating and
volunteering to environmental organizations, and joining a campaign
to convince elected officials to take action. Hopeful Americans are
also more likely to discuss global warming with their friends and
family and support policies to reduce global warming, such as
regulating CO2 (the primary greenhouse gas) as a pollutant,
requiring utilities to use more renewable energy (e.g., solar, wind
power), and funding more research into renewable energy...<br>
- - - -<br>
Although global warming is one of the world's most serious threats
to humans and other species there are many reasons to remain hopeful
about reducing global warming. Our 2018 research on American public
opinion reveals several key reasons:<br>
<blockquote>- Most Americans support diverse policies to reduce
global warming. For example, 85% of Americans support funding more
research into renewable energy, 77% support regulating CO2 as a
pollutant, 70% support setting strict CO2 limits on existing
coal-fired power plants, and 68% support requiring fossil fuel
companies to pay a carbon tax.<br>
- Most Americans (70%) think environmental protection is more
important than economic growth when there is a conflict between
the two.<br>
- Americans across the country overwhelmingly support teaching
climate science in schools: about 79% agree that schools should
teach children about the causes, consequences, and potential
solutions to global warming (even in conservative states).<br>
</blockquote>
Beyond public opinion on global warming, many individuals,
organizations, and institutions in the United States are joining the
fight against global warming.<br>
For instance:<br>
<blockquote>- Institutions across the U.S. are upholding the 2016
Paris Climate Agreement to reduce heat-trapping carbon pollution
(see We Are Still In). So far, 10 states, 280 cities and counties,
344 colleges and universities, and over 2,000 businesses and
investors have pledged to join the global pact to reduce global
warming.<br>
- About half of Fortune 500 companies have committed to at least
one climate or clean energy goal, according to a 2017 Worldwide
Wildlife Foundation report. In fact, Fortune 100 companies are
leading the way, as 63% have set one or more clean energy goals.
Together, the annual reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from
companies is comparable to 45 coal-fired power plants going off
the grid for one year.<br>
-The clean energy industry is flourishing. The 2018 E2 Clean Jobs
America Report shows that about 3.2 million Americans are employed
in the clean energy industry, such as solar, wind, energy
efficiency, and clean vehicles. The solar industry alone employs
about four times more workers than the coal industry, and the
energy efficiency industry (including contractors who perform
building and home upgrades) employs twice as many people as the
entire fossil fuel industry.<br>
</blockquote>
What can every American do to keep hope alive? All of us can take
action by discussing global warming with our friends and family,
changing our consumer choices (e.g., making clean energy with solar
panels, or buying clean energy from our utility company or a third
party provider), contacting our government officials to urge them to
act on global warming, and making clear to candidates that our votes
can be earned by those pledging to enact climate change policies.
For more information on how to act on global warming, check out this
list of resources.<br>
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href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans-are-more-worried-about-global-warming-but-show-signs-of-losing-hope/">http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/americans-are-more-worried-about-global-warming-but-show-signs-of-losing-hope/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[It's the economy stupid]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/11/climate-change-next-global-crash-world-economies-1929">Climate
change will make the next global crash the worst</a></b><br>
Larry Elliott<br>
The storm clouds are gathering, but the world's economies now have
far fewer shelters from disaster than they did in 1929<br>
- - - - <br>
On the day when the IMF issued a warning about trouble ahead for the
global economy, the latest report from the UN's intergovernmental
panel on climate change said the world had only a dozen years left
to take the steps necessary to prevent a global warming catastrophe.
The message is clear for those willing to hear it: get ready for a
time when economic failure combines with ecological breakdown to
create the perfect storm.<br>
<br>
Even without the added complication of climate change, the challenge
facing the finance ministers and central bank governors gathered in
Bali would be significant enough. The IMF has cut its forecast for
global growth, but the chances are that next year will be a lot
worse than is currently forecast. The risks, the IMF says, are
skewed to the downside. You bet they are...<br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/11/climate-change-next-global-crash-world-economies-1929">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/11/climate-change-next-global-crash-world-economies-1929</a></font><br>
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<br>
[video Democracy Now]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkB0YyXnzAU">Climate
Scientist: As U.N. Warns of Global Catastrophe, We Need a
"Marshall Plan" for Climate Change</a></b><br>
Democracy Now!<br>
Published on Oct 9, 2018<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://democracynow.org">https://democracynow.org</a>
- A new report from the United Nations' climate panel warns humanity
has only a dozen years to mitigate global warming and limit the
scope of global catastrophe. Otherwise, millions will be imperiled
by increasing droughts, floods, fires and poverty. The sweeping
report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges
immediate and unprecedented changes to global policy in order to
keep global warming at a maximum of 1.5ºC. We speak with Kevin
Anderson, Zennström professor in climate change leadership at the
Centre for Environment and Development Studies at Uppsala University
and chair of energy and climate change at the Tyndall Center for
Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester in Britain.
He says that the IPCC report fails to hold the world's highest
emitters accountable and argues a "Marshall Plan" for climate change
is necessary to save the planet from destruction. "About 70 percent
of global emissions of carbon dioxide [come] from about 20 percent
of the world population. … When we try to address climate change and
reduce our emissions by focusing on all 7.5 billion people, I think
it misunderstands where the actual responsibility of emissions
resides," Anderson says. "We're not developing policies that need to
be tailored to that particular 20 percent."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkB0YyXnzAU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkB0YyXnzAU</a></font><br>
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<br>
[White House accepts, but says it rejects]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/climate/white-house-approves-climate-report-what-that-means.html">The
White House Approved a Climate Report (and What That Even Means)</a></b><br>
By Lisa Friedman, John Schwartz and Eduardo Garcia<br>
Oct. 10, 2018<br>
- - - -<br>
Despite the scientists' call to action, Coral and Mark Landler
report, the response from the White House was muted, with President
Trump saying Tuesday evening only that he "will be looking at it."
Since the Trump administration has systematically worked to
discredit climate science and dismantle regulations aimed at
reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it fit a pattern.<br>
And yet Coral noted something significant: Despite its stance on
climate science, the Trump administration formally approved the
document. In the world of diplomacy, it sends a signal that even the
Trump administration might not be willing to publicly buck the
conclusions of the world's top climate scientists...<br>
- - - -<br>
It's notable that the report came out just as the American
economists William Nordhaus and Paul Romer won the Nobel Memorial
Prize in Economic Science for their work on climate change --
specifically, the notion that putting a price on carbon can be a
powerful force for taming emissions. That idea, Brad reports, is
picking up steam around the world.<br>
What news might the coming days bring? As you read this, Hurricane
Michael is expected to wallop the Florida Panhandle. Governor Rick
Scott called it a "monstrous storm" and potentially the worst to hit
that part of the state in decades. For more on how the United States
handles disasters, this eye-opening piece by Kevin Sack and John
Schwartz reports that at least $81 billion in taxpayer money has
been spent on recovery projects since 1992, often with no regard
for the realities of climate change.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/climate/white-house-approves-climate-report-what-that-means.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/climate/white-house-approves-climate-report-what-that-means.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Summary of condtions]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/global-warming-how-far-to-1-5c/">Global
Warming: How Far to 1.5°C?</a></b><br>
Posted on October 10, 2018 <br>
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There's been a lot of talk recently about limiting global warming to
1.5°C, mainly focused on two things: 1) how important it is, and 2)
how difficult it will be. This raises an important question: how far
have we come already, and how much farther until we reach the 1.5°C
limit?<br>
<br>
The threshhold 1.5°C refers to how much we have warmed the planet
above its pre-industrial temperature, but that of course begs the
question, what was pre-industrial temperature? It's easy to say it's
the long-term average around the year 1750 (about the start of the
industrial revolution), but we don't have enough historical
thermometer data to know precisely what that was. Various analyses
have substituted a different reference level based on a different
reference time. For example, some analysis uses the average
temperature over the period 1850-1899, some use the average over the
period 1861-1880. These aren't pre-industrial times, but at least
they give us a place to start, i.e. somewhere around the late 19th
century... <br>
- - -<br>
Even if we do decide on an aggressive emissions reduction plan and
actually stick to it, there are other things to worry about. There
really are feedbacks in the climate system and some of them might
get ugly. Best-known (and probably most-worried-about) is permafrost
melt, which threatens to add even more CO2 to the atmosphere than we
already have. Perhaps the best approach to these is: <b>don't poke
the bear...</b><br>
- - - - <br>
There's also the fact that most near-term forecasts are based on a
linear approximation of the climate system's response to
perturbations. We all know that linear response is usually close and
often useful, but we also know that the system isn't linear, and
when the nonlinearity kick in things can get very ugly.<br>
<br>
All of which emphasizes just how important it is to begin drastic
emissions reduction now. Most of the world seems to be waking up to
the fact of just how important and how urgent this is.
Unfortunately, the United States is going the wrong way at just the
wrong time.<br>
There's sure to be disagreement about many of my choices and
results. But only those in serious denial disagree with how
important it is to begin drastic emissions reduction now.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/global-warming-how-far-to-1-5c/">https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/global-warming-how-far-to-1-5c/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[societal resilience]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.salon.com/2018/10/09/mental-health-problems-linked-to-climate-change/">Mental
health issues linked to climate change</a></b><br>
Temperatures rising and the fear of more natural disasters is
affecting our mental health, a new study says<br>
warning on the impact of climate change from 90 scientists around
the world issued on Monday did not herald good news. According to
the report, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), a half-degree Celsius difference in the Earth's rising
temperature could mean the difference between saving the planet and
catastrophe.<br>
<br>
The impact of climate change extends beyond ruining Earth's
biosphere and our physical safety, however. A separate report
published this week suggests that climate change has a negative
impact on our mental health, too.<br>
<br>
The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS), links an increase
in monthly temperatures to a rise in mental health issues. The
empirical evidence stems from meteorological data paired with
information collected from nearly 2 million randomly sampled
residents in the United States. The data was collected over the span
of a decade.<br>
The report specifically focused on mental health outcomes due to the
effects of environmental stress -- such as temperature, and
precipitation, tropical cyclones -- but other climate change–related
issues are likely to impact mental health as well -- specifically,
the stress and anxiety of knowing natural disasters could be more
frequent as temperatures rise.<br>
<br>
"One thing we weren't able to study was the stress/anxiety
associated with the anticipation of more intense natural disasters
in the future," Nick Obradovich, lead author of the study and a
research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
Media Lab, told Salon in an email. "That stress/worry is likely to
also play a non-negligible role in the mental health impacts of a
changing climate."<br>
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) briefly
addresses on its website the impact climate change can have on
mental health: "For example, research demonstrated high levels of
anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder among people affected by
Hurricane Katrina, and similar observations have followed floods and
heat waves. Some evidence suggests wildfires have similar effects.
All of these events are increasingly fueled by climate change. Other
health consequences of intensely stressful exposures are also a
concern, including pre-term birth, low birth weight, and maternal
complications."<br>
<br>
Obradovich said the link between climate change and mental health
should be considered by government policy makers as they work to
combat climate change and its social ills.<br>
"Policymakers should be very actively considering how to increase
societal resilience to our changing climate," Obradovich said. "We
certainly won't go wrong if we improve the overall quality and
availability of mental health care. Doing so may help provide a
buffer against the added mental health stress presented by climate
change."<br>
NICOLE KARLIS<br>
Nicole Karlis is a news writer at Salon. She covers health, science,
tech and gender politics. Tweet her @nicolekarlis.<br>
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[Hot ice]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2018/10/melting-glaciers-novaya-zemlya-contain-radiation-nuclear-bomb-tests">Melting
glaciers at Novaya Zemlya contain radiation from nuclear bomb
tests</a></b><br>
A science expedition to the area has discovered "big concentrations
of radioactivity" in the ice – and concludes that the glaciers are
melting into the sea at record speed.<br>
By Thomas Nilsen - October 09, 2018<br>
The primary goals for the Russian researchers were to study whether
hundreds of containers with dumped radioactive waste in the Kara Sea
were leaking or not...<br>
- - -<br>
More worrying is the radiation discovered in the glaciers stretching
out in the waters.<br>
<br>
From 1957 to 1962, a total of 86 nuclear bomb tests were carried out
in the atmosphere at Novaya Zemlya. The tests include the largest
nuclear devices ever exploded, like the so-called 58 megatons
Tsar-bomb on October 30, 1961.<br>
Most bombs were exploded above ground at the northern polygon near
the Matotchin Shar dividing the northern and southern island of the
archipelago. Wind direction, for the most, was towards the north
when the tests took place.<br>
It is the fallout from these tests that now are about to melt out to
the sea...<br>
- - - <br>
"On the Novaya Zemlya, the wind direction is such that most of the
pollution is accumulated on the northern island and the northern ice
sheet. We have studied one of the glaciers that could carry such
pollution - the Nally Glacier in the Blagopoluchiye Bay, and in this
glacier we found parts that hold big concentrations of
radioactivity," Mikhail Flint tells...<br>
- - - -<br>
While there are close to nothing of commercial fisheries in the Kara
Sea, the Barents Sea has a high biological production and the
fisheries, in particular the cod fisheries, are of great importance
for both Norway and Russia.<br>
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href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2018/10/melting-glaciers-novaya-zemlya-contain-radiation-nuclear-bomb-tests">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2018/10/melting-glaciers-novaya-zemlya-contain-radiation-nuclear-bomb-tests</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/teaching-the-truth-about-climate-change.html">This
Day in Climate History - October 11, 2015</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
October 11, 2015. The New York Times editorial page observes:<br>
<blockquote>"Misinformation about climate change is distressingly
common in the United States -- a 2014 Yale study found that 35
percent of Americans believe that global warming is caused mostly
by natural phenomena rather than human activity, and 34 percent
think there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about
whether global warming is even happening. (In fact, an
overwhelming majority of scientists agree that climate change is
here and that it is caused by humans.) One way to stop the spread
of this misinformation is to teach children about climate change.<br>
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"The Next Generation Science Standards offer one guide for doing
so. Developed by a committee of scientists and education experts
and honed by teams in 26 states before their release in 2013, the
standards set forth a variety of scientific practices and concepts
for students from kindergarten through 12th grade to master.<br>
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"Middle school students should understand that 'human activities,
such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels,
are major factors in the current rise in Earth's mean surface
temperature.' In high school, students should learn that
human-caused environmental changes, including climate change, 'can
disrupt an ecosystem and threaten the survival of some species,'
and they should be able to use climate models to determine the
rate of climate change and its possible effects."<br>
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