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<font size="+1"><i>October 15, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[From the Financial Times]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/e1d2087e-ce34-11e8-9fe5-24ad351828ab">Bank
of England tells institutions to prepare for climate change</a></b><br>
Banks and insurers put on notice to appoint top executives to
oversee environmental risks<br>
The Bank of England will put banks and insurers on notice to vastly
improve their planning for the long-term risks of climate change,
placing senior executives in the line of fire if their institutions
take insufficient action.<br>
In an unprecedented step for a regulator of a global financial
centre, the BoE's Prudential Regulation Authority will on Monday
tell boards of banks and insurers to identify a senior executive to
take charge of managing climate-change risks and report to the board
-- or face consequences...<br>
<font size="-1">more at- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/e1d2087e-ce34-11e8-9fe5-24ad351828ab">https://www.ft.com/content/e1d2087e-ce34-11e8-9fe5-24ad351828ab</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[latest]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45859325">Trump:
Climate change scientists have 'political agenda'</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45859325">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45859325</a></font><br>
[whip-lash]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://time.com/5424427/donald-trump-60-minutes-climate-change/">President
Trump Says Climate Change Isn't a Hoax, but Thinks It Might
'Change Back Again'</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://time.com/5424427/donald-trump-60-minutes-climate-change/">http://time.com/5424427/donald-trump-60-minutes-climate-change/</a></font><br>
[also Trump]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2018/oct/15/show-me-the-scientists-trump-reiterates-his-climate-change-doubts-video">Show
me the scientists': Trump reiterates his climate change doubts –
video</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2018/oct/15/show-me-the-scientists-trump-reiterates-his-climate-change-doubts-video">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2018/oct/15/show-me-the-scientists-trump-reiterates-his-climate-change-doubts-video</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Independent]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-mental-health-extreme-weather-stress-depression-us-ipcc-a8583601.html">Climate
change already causing increases in stress, depression and
negative mental health, study shows</a></b><br>
Women and people on low incomes are more likely to report mental
health problems due to weather<br>
Andy Gregory<br>
- - - - -<br>
On average, months with temperatures above 30C or more than 25 days
of rainfall saw increased reports of stress, depression and
"problems with emotions", scientists said in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.<br>
Nick Obradovich, the study's co-author and Massachusetts Institute
of Technology research scientist, said: "It's really important to
consider this as yet another piece in the puzzle of understanding
how climate change will influence society, and the conclusion here
is that it's not likely to be good."<br>
<br>
The sheer scale of the study adds important weight to the growing
body of evidence that shows exposure to climate change-related heat
worsens mental health and increases suicide rates.<br>
<br>
Alarmingly, Dr Obradovich's team also found that women and those on
low incomes were 60 per cent more likely to report mental health
problems as a result of weather than the highest earners...<br>
- - - -<br>
Delving deeper into the findings, Dr Obradovich said: "One of our
theories is it's possibly being driven through the effects of higher
temperatures upon sleep. However, there's a lot of other ways it
could be happening."<br>
<br>
He believed other possible factors could include the negative
effects of heat upon an individual's productivity and cognitive
function, or its impact upon the brain's ability to regulate
emotion.<br>
<br>
"We don't know for sure and a big part of the work that we as
climate change social scientists and impact scientists have to do is
figure out what is driving the effects - largely because if you're a
policymaker you want to know what you should target to reduce these
effects," he said.<br>
<br>
Dr Obradovich also pointed out the study did not take into account
the impact that the existential risk of climate change could be
having upon our collective mental health, or harder to quantify
symptoms of climate change such as rising sea levels.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-mental-health-extreme-weather-stress-depression-us-ipcc-a8583601.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-mental-health-extreme-weather-stress-depression-us-ipcc-a8583601.html</a></font><br>
- -- - <br>
[related studies]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://qz.com/1421070/as-climate-change-worsens-mental-health-probably-will-too/">As
climate change worsens, mental health probably will too</a></b><br>
By Zoe Schlanger October 11, 2018<br>
On Oct. 8, a consortium of 90 scientists from 40 countries published
a report warning that inaction could lead to catastrophic climate
change in the next 20 years. On the same day, a paper published in
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers
from MIT, Harvard, and other top American research institutions
concluded that climate change has the potential to worsen mental
health on a mass scale. And such changes may already be measurable
in the US population.<br>
<br>
The team used responses from the US Centers for Disease Control's
long-running health survey of American adults, which samples
randomly selected US residents each year. One question on the survey
asks people about their mental health:<br>
<blockquote>"Now thinking about your mental health, which includes
stress, depression, and problems with emotions, for how many days
during the past 30 days was your mental health not good?"<br>
</blockquote>
The researchers used survey responses from 2002 to 2012, taking in
about 2 million participants cumulatively. Since the survey includes
data on where the respondents lived and when they answered the
question, the team was able to pair the results with historical
meteorological data.<br>
<br>
They found that, on average, every additional 1 degree Celsius of
warming over five years was linked to an increase of mental health
issues in those areas by 2%. In already-hot places, where the
average monthly temperature was between 25C and 30C (77F and 86F),
just making the shift to an average monthly temperature above 30C
added 0.5% more mental health difficulties to the population.<br>
<br>
To consider the impact of extreme weather disasters on mental
health, they looked at the effect of Hurricane Katrina. The storm
increased the prevalence of mental health difficulties among those
affected by 4%, they found.<br>
They also found that, on average, the mental health of low-income
people was most harmed by hotter temperatures. Women, on average,
were also harmed more than men. Given that this data was on people
living in the US--a wealthy country with a relatively temperate
climate--they note that countries with "less-temperate climates,
insufficient resources, and greater reliance on ecological systems
may see more severe effects of climate change on mental health."<br>
Of course, survey responses can't indicate clinically diagnosed
mental health conditions. But given that mental health conditions
often go undiagnosed in a clinical setting, the researchers note
that survey responses have the advantage of including instances of
distress that would otherwise fly under the statistical radar.<br>
<br>
What's more, the study is about correlation, not causation--we still
don't know conclusively what, if anything, weather can do to cause
mental distress. Exposure to more extreme weather "may produce
physiological stressors that precipitate poor mental health," or
"such extremes may initiate inflammatory processes that worsen
mental health," the researchers hypothesize.<br>
<br>
Or, they write, the effects may be caused "entirely through
reductions in health maintenance behaviors, like exercise and
sleep." Research already links warming nighttime temperatures to
worse sleep quality, for example. And hotter summers in southern
states is already projected to lead (pdf) to less exercise there.
But more research is needed to truly determine the cause of the
worsened mental health found in this study.<br>
<br>
"Given the vital role that sound mental health plays in personal,
social, and economic wellbeing--as well as in the ability to address
pressing personal and social challenges--our findings provide added
evidence that climatic changes pose substantial risks to human
systems," the researchers write.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://qz.com/1421070/as-climate-change-worsens-mental-health-probably-will-too/">https://qz.com/1421070/as-climate-change-worsens-mental-health-probably-will-too/</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[even more]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/25/1801528115">Empirical
evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change</a></b><br>
Nick Obradovich, Robyn Migliorini, Martin P. Paulus, and Iyad Rahwan<br>
<b>Significance</b><br>
<blockquote>Wellbeing falters without sound mental health. Scholars
have recently indicated that the impacts of climate change are
likely to undermine mental health through a variety of direct and
indirect mechanisms. Using daily meteorological data coupled with
information from nearly 2 million randomly sampled US residents
across a decade of data collection, we find that experience with
hotter temperatures and added precipitation each worsen mental
health, that multiyear warming associates with an increased
prevalence of mental health issues, and that exposure to tropical
cyclones, likely to increase in frequency and intensity in the
future, is linked to worsened mental health. These results provide
added large-scale evidence to the growing literature linking
climate change and mental health.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
<blockquote>Sound mental health--a critical facet of human
wellbeing--has the potential to be undermined by climate change.
Few large-scale studies have empirically examined this hypothesis.
Here, we show that short-term exposure to more extreme weather,
multiyear warming, and tropical cyclone exposure each associate
with worsened mental health. To do so, we couple meteorological
and climatic data with reported mental health difficulties drawn
from nearly 2 million randomly sampled US residents between 2002
and 2012. We find that shifting from monthly temperatures between
25 C and 30 C to >30 C increases the probability of mental
health difficulties by 0.5% points, that 1C of 5-year warming
associates with a 2% point increase in the prevalence of mental
health issues, and that exposure to Hurricane Katrina associates
with a 4% point increase in this metric. Our analyses provide
added quantitative support for the conclusion that environmental
stressors produced by climate change pose threats to human mental
health.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/25/1801528115">http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/25/1801528115</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[because MIT says so]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/543546/why-climate-models-arent-better/">Why
Climate Models Aren't Better</a></b><br>
Even as computer models grow more powerful and more precise, they
remain uncertain as to regional effects.<br>
by Richard Martin - November 18, 2015<br>
- - - -<br>
Accurate climate models are critical to understanding the
consequences of rising greenhouse-gas emissions.<br>
There are two types of widely used climate models: large,
complicated, planetary-scale models that harness supercomputing
capabilities at major research institutes, generally known as
atmosphere-ocean general circulation models, and higher-resolution
models that use input from the general circulation models to make
calculations at regional scales. Around 40 of the general
circulation models were used for the Fifth Assessment Report,
released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in
November 2014; they are more accurate for long-term, worldwide
forecasts, including the key measure of climate sensitivity--the
amount of warming, in global mean temperature, that will happen when
the amount of carbon in the atmosphere doubles from pre-industrial
levels. The smaller, high-resolution models are better for examining
the likely regional effects of climate change.<br>
<br>
So models continue to get better. But most climate scientists
acknowledge that there are limits: no matter how sophisticated our
models become, <b>there will always be an irreducible element of
chaos in the earth's climate system that no supercomputer will
ever eliminate...</b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/543546/why-climate-models-arent-better/">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/543546/why-climate-models-arent-better/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
Elizabeth Kolbert:<br>
"if a smoke alarm rings in the kitchen and everyone's watching "Fox
& Friends" in the den, does it make a sound? <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/what-is-donald-trumps-response-to-the-uns-dire-climate-report">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/what-is-donald-trumps-response-to-the-uns-dire-climate-report</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[solastalgia is a new word]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://qz.com/1423202/a-philosopher-invented-a-word-for-the-psychic-pain-of-climate-change/">A
philosopher invented a word for the psychic pain of climate
change</a></b><br>
By Zoe Schlanger - October 13, 2018<br>
- - - -<br>
Last year, the American Psychological Association validated
"ecoanxiety" as a clinically legitimate diagnosis.<br>
But where is the language for the grief itself?<br>
In the early 2000s, a philosopher named Glenn Albrecht at the
University of Newcastle in Australia began to look for the words...
<br>
- - - -<br>
Solastalgia, Albrecht writes, has the added benefit of being a
"ghost reference" to nostalgia, sounding similar enough to evoke the
feeling of longing contained in that word. "Hence, literally,
solastalgia is the pain or sickness caused by the loss or lack of
solace and the sense of isolation connected to the present state of
one's home and territory," he writes. Solastalgia, then, is a very
intimate word, describing a psychic pain with very specific origins.
Here are the best parts of Albrecht's definition:<br>
<br>
[Solastalgia] is the pain experienced when there is recognition that
the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate
assault (physical desolation). It is manifest in an attack on one's
sense of place, in the erosion of the sense of belonging (identity)
to a particular place and a feeling of distress (psychological
desolation) about its transformation.<br>
…<br>
Solastalgia is not about looking back to some golden past, nor is it
about seeking another place as "home." It is the "lived experience"
of the loss of the present as manifest in a feeling of dislocation;
of being undermined by forces that destroy the potential for solace
to be derived from the present. In short, solastalgia is a form of
homesickness one gets when one is still at "home."<br>
<br>
Other thinkers recognized the symptoms described by solastalgia as a
type of sickness long before the word was coined. For example,
Albrecht writes that he was influenced by the Australian
environmental thinker Elyne Mitchell, who wrote a warning as early
as 1946 of the harm that befalls society when humanity loses its
stable bond to Earth's cycles and systems. In her book Soil and
Civilization, she wrote that when healthy ties between people and
their ecological environment are severed, "the break in this unity
is swiftly apparent in the lack of "wholeness" in the individual
person."<br>
<br>
"Divorced from his roots, man loses his psychic stability," Mitchell
wrote.<br>
<br>
If our wholeness is predicated on our natural environment, the grief
Zadie Smith describes watching her pear tree drown is all at once
deep sorrow for the tree, for the seasons, and for herself. In 2018,
life can feel in need of a dirge for the whole world, with scarcely
the language to write it. As climate change reaches its fine
tendrils into every ecosystem, reorganizing our corners of the
planet and our lives in subtle or brutal ways, a lack of language to
describe the sense of dislocation that comes with it is dislocating
in itself. We need more "intimate words" for this feeling.
Solastalgia is a start.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://qz.com/1423202/a-philosopher-invented-a-word-for-the-psychic-pain-of-climate-change/">https://qz.com/1423202/a-philosopher-invented-a-word-for-the-psychic-pain-of-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Al Gore, Al Gore, Al Gore]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/10/13/pbs-newshour-al-gore-on-michael-florence-harvey-and-climate-change/">PBS
Newshour: Al Gore on Michael, Florence, Harvey and Climate
Change</a></b><br>
October 13, 2018<br>
For right wingers, there is a psychological necessity to demonize Al
Gore.<br>
They know that the theft of the 2000 election, (with the active low
level participation of newly appointed SCOTUS member Brett
Kavanaugh..) lead to the elevation of the worst President in
history, at least until now.<br>
George Bush went on to kill thousands of innocents in Iraq and
Afghanistan, drive the economy into the Great Recession, and
encumber us with trillions in extra debt to pay for these
catastrophes. The psychic weight of taking responsibility for that
is simply too great for the fragile psyches of right wing
Fox-a-holics to bear - "..if I'm responsible for that, what am I?"<br>
The continuing confirmation of Gore's prescience on the climate
issue is simply more weight on the delicate structure.<br>
The only way out is that Al Gore MUST be a demon of the most
dangerous kind - so it makes for a cottage industry of self
reinforcing ideations.<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/CT-x-j1FeSQ">Al
Gore calls Trump's deregulation proposals 'literally insane'</a></b><br>
PBS NewsHour<br>
Published on Oct 12, 2018<br>
Former vice president and climate change activist Al Gore warns that
climate change could be an "existential threat" and calls President
Trump's response an "outlier reaction." In a wide-ranging interview,
Judy Woodruff speaks with Gore about Hurricane Michael, President
Trump, the UN Climate Change report out this week, and why he thinks
Democrats will fare well in the midterm elections.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/CT-x-j1FeSQ">https://youtu.be/CT-x-j1FeSQ</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/10/13/pbs-newshour-al-gore-on-michael-florence-harvey-and-climate-change/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/10/13/pbs-newshour-al-gore-on-michael-florence-harvey-and-climate-change/</a><br>
<br>
</font> <br>
[sardonic Jimmy Kimmel Live video 1:40 ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Xaplni0lc">We Are Doomed</a></b><br>
Jimmy Kimmel Live<br>
Published on Oct 10, 2018<br>
There is a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change that says we have 12 years to get our act together or we will
face catastrophic events including flooding, droughts, wildfires,
disease and mass death. The Trump Administration issued their own
report agreeing that climate change is going to be a catastrophe,
but concluded that we're doomed anyway, so why bother doing anything
about it? But there's always a silver lining.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Xaplni0lc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Xaplni0lc</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?_r=0">This
Day in Climate History - October 15, 2007</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
October 15, 2007: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman ridicules
right-wing outrage over Al Gore's Nobel Prize win.<br>
On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall
Street Journal's editors couldn't even bring themselves to mention
Mr. Gore's name. Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long
list of people they thought deserved the prize more.<br>
<blockquote>What is it about Mr. Gore that drives right-wingers
insane?<br>
<br>
Partly it's a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American
people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the
White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build
around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr.
Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge
the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.<br>
<br>
And now that Mr. Bush has proved himself utterly the wrong man for
the job -- to be, in fact, the best president Al Qaeda's
recruiters could have hoped for -- the symptoms of Gore
derangement syndrome have grown even more extreme.<br>
<br>
The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of
view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush
mocked him as the "ozone man," but three years later the
scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded
Iraq, "the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger
to the United States than we presently face from Saddam." And so
it has proved.<br>
<br>
But Gore hatred is more than personal. When National Review
decided to name its anti-environmental blog Planet Gore, it was
trying to discredit the message as well as the messenger. For the
truth Mr. Gore has been telling about how human activities are
changing the climate isn't just inconvenient. For conservatives,
it's deeply threatening.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?_r=0</a><br>
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