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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>August 24, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[understood]<br>
<b>The Future is Grim in California</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/californias-disasters-are-a-warning-climate-change-is-here/615610/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/californias-disasters-are-a-warning-climate-change-is-here/615610/</a><br>
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[situation]<br>
<b>Climate change is driving wildfires, giving 'rocket fuel' to
tropical storms</b><br>
Aug 23, 2020<br>
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Andrew Freedman:<br>
Climate change is having a very clear and significant impact on
wildfire size wildfire patterns in California. And you're seeing
more extreme fire behavior now than you did before. So we're seeing
more unpredictable conditions on fire lines. It's more dangerous for
firefighters. We're seeing more weird things like fire, tornadoes,
for example. All of this points in the direction of having more
extreme fire days...<br>
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Yeah, it's a record season for tropical storm season in the Atlantic
already. And part of that is due to natural climate variability,
which favors a multi-decade old string of active seasons, but not
all of it.<br>
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The Atlantic sea surface temperatures are so much warmer than
average right now. That part of that is due to climate change. So
instead of giving just regular gasoline to these storms, you're
essentially giving them rocket fuel where if atmospheric conditions
are right, they will rapidly intensify and potentially catch coastal
residents off guard...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-driving-wildfires-giving-rocket-fuel-to-tropical-storms">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-driving-wildfires-giving-rocket-fuel-to-tropical-storms</a><br>
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[Tweet on climate change and hurricanes ]<br>
Prof. Katharine Hayhoe<br>
@KHayhoe<br>
<b>"Was it caused by climate change?" </b>is the most common
question when we hear about an extreme event. But when it comes to
hurricanes, that's the wrong question. The right one is, "how much
worse did climate change make it?" (thread)<br>
10:29 AM · Aug 31, 2019·Twitter Web App<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1167851841041981440">https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1167851841041981440</a><br>
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RESEARCH ARTICLE<br>
<b>The motley drivers of heat and cold exposure in 21st century US
cities</b><br>
View ORCID ProfileAshley Mark Broadbent, View ORCID ProfileEric
Scott Krayenhoff, and View ORCID ProfileMatei Georgescu<br>
<b>Significance</b><br>
We present climate projections of population-weighted heat and cold
exposure that directly and simultaneously account for greenhouse gas
(GHG) and urban development-induced warming. Previous population
heat and cold exposure estimates have not accounted for urban
development-induced climate impacts, have neglected interactions
between urban development-induced warming and GHG-induced climate
change, and have used fixed temperature thresholds that may be
inappropriate for some cities. We develop a more detailed and
nuanced definition of extreme heat and cold exposure through key
innovations, and our predicted exposure is substantially greater
than previous assessments. Our results demonstrate that Sunbelt
cities are projected to undergo the largest relative increase in
population heat exposure to locally defined extreme heat conditions
during the 21st century.<br>
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<b>Abstract</b><br>
We use a suite of decadal-length regional climate simulations to
quantify potential changes in population-weighted heat and cold
exposure in 47 US metropolitan regions during the 21st century. Our
results show that population-weighted exposure to locally defined
extreme heat (i.e., "population heat exposure") would increase by a
factor of 12.7-29.5 under a high-intensity greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and urban development pathway. Additionally,
end-of-century population cold exposure is projected to rise by a
factor of 1.3-2.2, relative to start-of-century population cold
exposure. We identify specific metropolitan regions in which
population heat exposure would increase most markedly and
characterize the relative significance of various drivers
responsible for this increase. The largest absolute changes in
population heat exposure during the 21st century are projected to
occur in major US metropolitan regions like New York City (NY), Los
Angeles (CA), Atlanta (GA), and Washington DC. The largest relative
changes in population heat exposure (i.e., changes relative to
start-of-century) are projected to occur in rapidly growing cities
across the US Sunbelt, for example Orlando (FL), Austin (TX), Miami
(FL), and Atlanta. The surge in population heat exposure across the
Sunbelt is driven by concurrent GHG-induced warming and population
growth which, in tandem, could strongly compound population heat
exposure. Our simulations provide initial guidance to inform the
prioritization of urban climate adaptation measures and policy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/12/2005492117?_ga=2.190904746.1879565487.1598121628-1404867443.1595385063">https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/08/12/2005492117?_ga=2.190904746.1879565487.1598121628-1404867443.1595385063</a><br>
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[Meteorologist retired to Maine, excellent briefing on weather and
climate]<br>
<b>Central Maine Weather 101</b><br>
Aug 21, 2020<br>
Thompson Free Library<br>
Local meteorologist & former Navy weather forecaster Ed Hummel
presents a short virtual course on how weather works in this part
of Maine and how it's changing due to climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PR8iI1NQvU&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PR8iI1NQvU&feature=youtu.be</a><br>
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[Monbiot on colonial thinking]<br>
<b>Finding Our Feet</b><br>
21st August 2020<br>
Landed power, built on theft, slavery and colonial looting,
crushes our freedoms. It is time to reclaim them.<br>
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th August 2020<br>
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Boris Johnson's attack on our planning laws is both very new and
very old. It is new because it scraps the English system for
deciding how land should be used, replacing it with something
closer to the US model. It is old because it represents yet
another transfer of power from the rest of us to the lords of the
land, a process that has been happening, with occasional
reversals, since 1066.<br>
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A power that in 1947 was secured for the public - the democratic
right to influence the building that affects our lives - is now
being retrieved by building companies, developers and the people
who profit most from development, the landowners. This is part of
England's long tradition of enclosure: seizing a common good and
giving it to the rich and powerful. Democracy is replaced with the
power of money.<br>
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Almost all of us, in England and many other nations, are born on
the wrong side of the law. The disproportionate weight the law
gives to property rights makes nearly everyone a second-class
citizen before they draw their first breath, fenced out of the
good life we could lead.<br>
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Our legislation's failure to moderate the claims of property
denies other fundamental rights. Among them is equality before the
law. If you own large tracts of land, a great weight of law sits
on your side, defending your inordinate privileges from those who
don't. We are forbidden to exercise a crucial democratic right -
the right to protest - on all but the diminishing pockets of
publicly-owned land. If we try to express dissent anywhere else,
we can be arrested immediately.<br>
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The freedom to walk is as fundamental a right as freedom of
speech, but in England it is denied across 92% of the land. Though
we give landowners 3 billion [pound sterling] a year from our own
pockets in the form of farm subsidies, we are banned from most of
what we pay for. The big estates have seized and walled off the
most beautiful vistas in England. In many parts of the country, we
are confined to narrow footpaths across depressing landscapes,
surrounded by barbed wire. Those who cannot afford to travel and
stay in the regions with greater access (mostly in the north-west)
have nowhere else to go.<br>
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The pandemic has reminded us that access to land is critical to
our mental and physical well-being. Children in particular
desperately need wild and interesting places in which they can
freely roam. A large body of research, endorsed by the government,
suggests that our mental health is greatly enhanced by connection
to nature. Yet we are forced to skulk around the edges of our
nation, unwelcome anywhere but in a few green cages and places we
must pay to enter, while vast estates are reserved for single
families to enjoy.<br>
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This government seeks not to redress the imbalance, but to
exacerbate it. Its proposal to criminalise trespass would deny the
rights of travelling people (Gypsies, Roma and Travellers) to
pursue their lives. It also threatens to turn landowners' fences
into prison walls. Last week I mentioned the illegal quarrying of
the River Honddhu I discovered. Had I not been trespassing, I
would not have seen it and had it stopped. Criminalising trespass
would put free range people outside the law, and landowners above
the law.<br>
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The government's proposed award to landowners and builders, of
blanket planning permission across great tracts of England, will
tilt the law even further towards property. Housing estates will
be designed not for the benefit of those who live in them, but for
the benefit of those who build them. We will see more vertical
slums as office blocks are turned into housing, and more
depressing suburbs without schools, shops, public transport or
green spaces, entirely dependent on the car. It will do nothing to
solve our housing crisis, which is not caused by delays in the
planning system but by developers hoarding land to keep prices
high, homes used for investment rather than living, and the
government's lack of interest in social housing. By shutting down
our objections, Johnson's proposal is a direct attack on our
freedoms. It is a gift to the property tycoons who have poured £11
million into the Conservative party since he became Prime
Minister: a gift seized from the rest of us.<br>
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But we will not watch passively as we are turned into even more
inferior citizens. Launched today, a new book seeks to challenge
and expose the mesmerising power that landownership exerts on this
country, and to show how we can challenge its presumptions. The
Book of Trespass, by Nick Hayes, is massively researched but
lightly delivered, a remarkable and truly radical work, loaded
with resonant truths and stunningly illustrated by the author.<br>
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It shows how the great estates, from which we are excluded, were
created by a combination of theft from the people of Britain (the
enclosure of our commons) and theft from the people of other
nations, as profits from the slave trade, colonial looting and
much of the $45 trillion bled from India were invested into grand
houses and miles of wall: blood money translated into neoclassical
architecture.<br>
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It reveals how the "decorative pomp and verbose flummery" with
which the great estates are surrounded disguises this theft, and
disguises the rentier capitalism they continue to practice. It
explains how the landowners' walls divide the nation, not only
physically but also socially and politically. It shows how the law
was tilted away from the defence of people and towards the defence
of things. It shows how trespass helps to breach the mental walls
that keep us apart.<br>
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Accompanying the book is a new campaign, calling for the right to
roam in England to be extended to rivers, woodland, downland and
uncultivated land in the greenbelt, and to include camping,
kayaking, swimming and climbing. This is less comprehensive than
the rights in Scotland, which, despite the dire predictions of the
landowners, has caused little friction and a massive improvement
in public enjoyment. But it would greatly enhance the sense that
the nation belongs to all of us rather than a select few. A
petition to parliament launched by Guy Shrubsole, author of
another crucial book, Who Owns England, seeks to stop the
criminalisation of trespass. Please sign it.<br>
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We can expect these efforts to be testerically opposed in the
billionaire press. This is what happened when a group of us
launched the Land for the Many report last year: it was greeted by
furious attacks and outrageous falsehoods across the rightwing
papers. Even the mildest attempts to rebalance our rights are
treated as an existential threat by those whose privilege is
ratified by law. But we cannot allow their fury to deter us. It is
time to decolonise the land.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.monbiot.com">www.monbiot.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.monbiot.com/2020/08/21/finding-our-feet/">https://www.monbiot.com/2020/08/21/finding-our-feet/</a><br>
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[Gail the Actuary]<br>
<b>Gail Tverberg: Post-doom with Michael Dowd</b><br>
Aug 23, 2020<br>
thegreatstory<br>
This conversation with Gail Tverberg was recorded in June 2020.
Gail's website is: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ourfiniteworld.com">https://ourfiniteworld.com</a> To learn more about
Gail, see: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ourfiniteworld.com/about/">https://ourfiniteworld.com/about/</a><br>
"Regenerative conversations exploring overshoot, grief, grounding
and gratitude"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uke_veuXpKY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uke_veuXpKY</a><br>
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[propaganda wars video]<br>
<b>Sacha Baron Cohen Rips Facebook and Other Social Media Giants |
NowThis</b><br>
Nov 25, 2019<br>
NowThis News<br>
'If Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler
to post 30-second ads' — Listen to Sacha Baron Cohen slam the social
media industry for facilitating the spread of hate, lies, and
conspiracies through its creation of the 'greatest propaganda
machine in history.'...<br>
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In US news and current events today, though Sacha Baron Cohen is
best known for roles in The Spy, Who Is America, and Ali G, this
week he went viral for speaking out against Facebook, Mark
Zuckerberg, and other social media sites. In this now famous Sacha
Baron Cohen Facebook speech at the Anti-Defamation League, Cohen
blamed social media companies for allowing the spread of hate speech
and conspiracy theories. Facebook political ads have been the target
of politicians like AOC recently, as Facebook has vowed to not
police lies in political ads.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irwVRMH04eI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irwVRMH04eI</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 -
August 24, 2005 </b></font><br>
[7 minute YouTube Video]<br>
MSNBC's Olbermann on David Koch<br>
Aug 25, 2010<br>
lhfang86<br>
MSNBC's Olbermann on David Koch<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRbLXN4j7Do&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRbLXN4j7Do&feature=youtu.be</a><br>
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