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<i><font size="+1"><b>June 29, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[Brazil redefines the future - video]<br>
<b>Bolsonaro : How quickly is he destroying the Amazon Rainforest?</b><br>
Jun 28, 2020<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Jair Bolsonaro took power in Brazil in October 2018. Since that time
he has waged a relentless war on one of the most delicate and
essential ecosystems on the planet. The damage is now so severe and
irreversible that the majority of the Amazon may well be nothing
more than dry savannah land within 3 decades. This video looks at
the scale of the challenge and what can be done.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TfPVzl0btA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TfPVzl0btA</a><br>
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[new yorker $ clips]<br>
<b>A Disastrous Summer in the Arctic</b><br>
By Carolyn Kormann<br>
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"This has been an unusually hot spring in Siberia," Randy Cerveny,
the World Meteorological Organization's rapporteur of weather and
climate extremes, said. "The coinciding lack of underlying snow in
the region, combined with over-all global temperature increases,
undoubtedly helped play a critical role in causing this extreme."
Siberia, in other words, is in the midst of an astonishing and
historic heat wave...<br>
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Toward the end of May, as the sun stopped dropping below the
horizon, the heat continued. In the town of Khatanga, far north of
the Arctic Circle, the temperature hit seventy-eight degrees
Fahrenheit, or forty-six degrees above normal, topping the previous
record by twenty-four degrees...<br>
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On May 29th, outside Norilsk, the northernmost city in the world,
the thawing ground buckled, causing an oil-storage tank to collapse
and spew more than a hundred and fifty thousand barrels, or
twenty-one thousand tons, of diesel fuel into the Ambarnaya River.
The spill was the largest to ever occur in the Russian Arctic...<br>
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And yet the Kremlin continues to incentivize increased oil and gas
development in eastern Siberia and the Arctic, which will lead to
more greenhouse-gas emissions, which will continue speeding up the
permafrost thaw...<br>
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The permafrost found in the area surrounding Verkhoyansk is some of
the deepest and oldest in the world, descending as much as five
thousand feet. Closer to the surface, a type of ice-rich permafrost
known as yedoma is particularly vulnerable to rapid thaws. The
result is thermokarst, the strange and sometimes shocking topography
that forms as the land slides, sags, and sinks. Mysterious sinkholes
suddenly appear, drunken forests fall, and hillocks destroy
farmland...<br>
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One of Russia's most extreme examples of thermokarst, known as the
Batagay megaslump, is a two-hundred-and-eighty-foot-deep,
half-mile-wide depression, situated just outside Verkhoyansk...<br>
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Some locals call it a gateway to the underworld, which seems
appropriate, as the slump releases more and more methane.
Researchers who have been to the slump say that they can hear the
thuds, booms, and cracks of the thawing ice. This summer, the sound
will be especially loud.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/a-disastrous-summer-in-the-arctic">https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/a-disastrous-summer-in-the-arctic</a>
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[A superb lesson in journalism - skewering analysis of one
disinformation item]<br>
<b>Are we headed for a Grand Solar Minimum?</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjgCaF9BGUo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjgCaF9BGUo</a><br>
[Potholer 54 video explains an information warfare battlefield]<br>
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[NYMagazine clips]<br>
<b>Global Warming Is Melting Our Sense of Time</b><br>
By David Wallace-Wells<br>
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The extreme weather of the last few summers has already inured us to
temperature anomalies like these, though we are only just at the
beginning of the livable planet's transformation by climate change
-- a transformation whose end is not yet visible, if it will ever
be, and in which departures from the historical record will grow
only more dramatic and more disorienting and more lethal, almost by
the year. At just 1.1 degrees Celsius of warming, where the planet
is today, we have already evicted ourselves from the "human climate
niche," and brought ourselves outside the range of global
temperatures that enclose the entire history of human civilization.
That history is roughly 10,000 years long, which means that in a
stable climate you would only expect to encounter an anomaly like
this one if you ran the full lifespan of all recorded human history
ten times over -- and even then would only encounter it once.<br>
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The arctic numbers from June 20 are terrifying enough; with more
context they become only more so. It was warmer there than it was
that same day, in Miami, Florida. In fact, it was warmer north of
the Arctic Circle than it has ever been, on any June day, in the
entire recorded history of Miami, which has only once, in the whole
tropical century for which temperatures there have been registered,
reached 100. It was about 30 degrees Fahrenheit warmer, in
Verkhonaysk, than the average high temperature in the region for
June, which means the arctic record was the equivalent, in terms of
temperature anomaly, of a 110-degree June day in New York or a
115-degree June day in Washington, D.C. According to preliminary
satellite data, land surface temperature in parts of arctic Siberia
reached that level last week, too -- 45 Celsius, or 113 Fahrenheit.
In terms of temperature anomaly, that's the equivalent of a
130-degree day in D.C. On Capitol Hill, that would be, very
comfortably, lethal heat...<br>
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One academic quoted in the story, Jesse Kennan of Tulane, painted
the picture even more starkly: "Conventional mortgages have survived
many financial crises," he said, "but they may not survive the
climate crisis."...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/global-warming-is-melting-our-sense-of-time.html">https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/global-warming-is-melting-our-sense-of-time.html</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 -
June 29, 2011 </b></font><br>
<p>Entercom Communications, the radio conglomerate perhaps best
known for running right-wing talk radio stations whose hosts
regularly promote climate-change denial, announces that it will
run a 350.org PSA featuring actor Ellen Page on its stations.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://350.org/about/blogs/ellen-page-records-psa-350org">http://350.org/about/blogs/ellen-page-records-psa-350org</a> <br>
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