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<i><font size="+1"><b>April 28, 2020</b></font></i><br>
<p>[from the Nib - a distilled message]<br>
<b>The Pandemic to Come</b><br>
by Maria Stoian<br>
POSTED ON APRIL 27, 2020<br>
The response to COVID-19 is a preview of how we’ll react to
climate catastrophe.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thenib.com/covid-19-climate-change/">https://thenib.com/covid-19-climate-change/</a><br>
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[near future]<br>
<b>Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since
records began</b><br>
Global lockdowns have lowered emissions but longer-term changes
needed, say scientists<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/27/meteorologists-say-2020-on-course-to-be-hottest-year-since-records-began">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/27/meteorologists-say-2020-on-course-to-be-hottest-year-since-records-began</a><br>
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[Podcast - Joe Biden's warm-up chat about climate with Jay Inslee]<br>
<b>On Climate Change with Governor Jay Inslee</b><br>
Here’s the Deal<br>
Politics<br>
On this special Earth Day episode, Governor Jay Inslee joins former
Vice President Joe Biden for a discussion on COVID-19, climate
change, and why he's endorsing Joe.Episode Guide:0:46 Governor
Inslee Joins the Show 2:40 Coronavirus Response in...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-climate-change-with-governor-jay-inslee/id1505238447?i=1000472332555">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-climate-change-with-governor-jay-inslee/id1505238447?i=1000472332555</a><br>
[slower means harder]<br>
<b>Hurricanes Could Be Slowing Down Due to Rising CO2 Levels, And
That's Not a Good Thing</b><br>
DAVID NIELD26 APRIL 2020<br>
Scientists are warning that an increase in global warming could
significantly slow down hurricanes, potentially leading to more
destruction.<br>
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While slowing down might sound like a good thing, the researchers
are talking about the speed hurricanes progress, not wind speed. So
this slow down means more time to carve out a trail of destruction
with both wind and rain when they hit land.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencealert.com/hurricanes-are-slowing-down-because-of-co2-giving-them-more-time-to-wreak-havoc">https://www.sciencealert.com/hurricanes-are-slowing-down-because-of-co2-giving-them-more-time-to-wreak-havoc</a><br>
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[source data]<br>
<b>Tropical cyclone motion in a changing climate</b><br>
Science Advances 22 Apr 2020:<br>
Vol. 6, no. 17, eaaz7610<br>
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz7610<br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote>The locally accumulated damage by tropical cyclones
(TCs) can intensify substantially when these cyclones move more
slowly. While some observational evidence suggests that TC motion
might have slowed significantly since the mid-20th century, the
robustness of the observed trend and its relation to anthropogenic
warming have not been firmly established. Using large-ensemble
simulations that directly simulate TC activity, we show that
future anthropogenic warming can lead to a robust slowing of TC
motion, particularly in the midlatitudes. The slowdown there is
related to a poleward shift of the midlatitude westerlies, which
has been projected by various climate models. Although the model’s
simulation of historical TC motion trends suggests that the
attribution of the observed trends of TC motion to anthropogenic
forcings remains uncertain, our findings suggest that 21st-century
anthropogenic warming could decelerate TC motion near populated
midlatitude regions in Asia and North America, potentially
compounding future TC-related damages.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/17/eaaz7610">https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/17/eaaz7610</a><br>
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[Michael Moore bad move - bad movie]<br>
<b>Planet of the Humans Comes This Close to Actually Getting the
Real Problem, Then Goes Full Ecofascism</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/planet-of-the-humans-comes-this-close-to-actually-getti-1843024329">https://earther.gizmodo.com/planet-of-the-humans-comes-this-close-to-actually-getti-1843024329</a><br>
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<b>Skepticism Is Healthy, but Planet of the Humans Is Toxic - A
Critical Review</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/skepticism-is-healthy-but-planet-of-the-humans-is-toxic/">https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/skepticism-is-healthy-but-planet-of-the-humans-is-toxic/</a><br>
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[why misinformation?]<br>
<b>Michael Moore produced a film about climate change that’s a gift
to Big Oil</b><br>
Planet of the Humans deceives viewers about clean energy and climate
activists.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/21238597/michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-climate-change">https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/21238597/michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-climate-change</a><br>
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[from May 2019]<br>
<b>Jared Diamond: There’s a 49 Percent Chance the World As We Know
It Will End by 2050</b><br>
By David Wallace-Wells<br>
Jared Diamond’s new book, Upheaval,... <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/jared-diamond-on-his-new-book-upheaval.html">https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/jared-diamond-on-his-new-book-upheaval.html</a><br>
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[TheWeek - doom and redemption]<br>
<b>Is there a limit to optimism when it comes to climate change?</b><br>
Fiacha Heneghan<br>
"We're doomed": a common refrain in casual conversation about
climate change. It signals an awareness that we cannot, strictly
speaking, avert climate change. It is already here. All we can hope
for is to minimize climate change by keeping global average
temperature changes to less than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
in order to avoid rending consequences to global civilization. It is
still physically possible, says the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change in a 2018 special report — but "realizing
1.5°C-consistent pathways would require rapid and systemic changes
on unprecedented scales."...<br>
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Suppose the baleful trends continue, that is, that our windows for
action continue to shrink, if the scale of change required continues
to grow unfeasibly large as we continue to wantonly pump CO2 into
the atmosphere. Should we expect a shift from climate
consequentialism to climate Kantianism? Will climate
consequentialists start tacking on that small but significant
qualifier, "even if it's hopeless," to their recommendations? The
disagreements between consequentialists and Kantians extend beyond
their metaethical intuitions to their pragmatic ones. The
consequentialist harbors a suspicion about the efficacy of
specifically moral exhortation. This suspicion is the wellspring of
a popular criticism of Kant's ethics, namely, that it rests on the
Pollyannaish assumption that we mortals have a capacity for
disinterested moral action.<br>
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Kant takes the concern seriously. The theme of moral motivation
recurs across his writings, but he comes to the opposite conclusion
from his critics. Many, he thinks, will rise to the occasion when
their moral obligations are presented to them starkly and without
appeal to their self-interest. "No idea," he argues in his
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, "so elevates the human mind
and animates it even to inspiration as that of a pure moral
disposition, revering duty above all else, struggling with the
countless ills of life and even with its most seductive allurements
and yet overcoming them."<br>
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Perhaps at the moment we still have the luxury of being strategic
about our messaging. It is not yet clear that the worst will come to
pass, and that we cannot, where plausible and effective, emphasize
the potential upsides of mitigation. Besides that, different
messaging strategies might be more or less effective on different
people. But if the pessimist one day becomes too persuasive to
ignore, it behooves us to have one more card to play in our pockets.
Moral exhortation, the Kantian argues, is an insurance policy
against fatalism. It is our reason for doing the right thing even in
the face of doom, when all other reasons fail. But let us hope they
do not.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theweek.com/articles/909256/there-limit-optimism-when-comes-climate-change">https://theweek.com/articles/909256/there-limit-optimism-when-comes-climate-change</a>
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[One more thought]<br>
<b>Richard Dawkins' horrifying analysis of humanity’s survival
instincts exposed</b><br>
RICHARD DAWKINS - the scientist and prominent atheist - revealed how
humans and the way their attention has been diverted by the modern
world means they are no longer apt for animal-like survival.<br>
By JOEL DAY - Apr 27, 2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1274336/richard-dawkins-science-evolution-humanity-extinction-atheism-biology-spt">https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1274336/richard-dawkins-science-evolution-humanity-extinction-atheism-biology-spt</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
April 28, 2010 </b></font><br>
The New York Times reports on the "epistemic closure"<br>
phenomenon on the right (also known as "the dumbing down of the<br>
American conservative movement"); the piece makes note of recent<br>
right-wing attacks on National Review writer Jim Manzi after he<br>
pointed out flaws in the climate-change section of talk-radio host<br>
Mark Levin's 2009 book "Liberty and Tyranny."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28conserv.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28conserv.html?_r=0</a><br>
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