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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>August 25, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[positive politics - NYTimes]<br>
<b>Climate Is Taking On a Growing Role for Voters, Research Suggests</b><br>
Concern about global warming is steady despite other crises, a
survey found, and the number of voters who are deeply engaged on the
issue is rising sharply.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/climate/climate-change-survey-voters.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/climate/climate-change-survey-voters.html</a>
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[ Live ]<br>
<b>Wildfires raging across California 'historic' – as it happened</b><br>
Wildfires death toll up to seven<br>
Explainer: how did the fires starts, and are they normal?<br>
Photo essay: the evacuees with nowhere to go<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/aug/24/california-fires-evacuation-orders-bay-area-wildfires-latest-news-updates">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/aug/24/california-fires-evacuation-orders-bay-area-wildfires-latest-news-updates</a><br>
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[map of current fires]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1298016578164781056/photo/1">https://twitter.com/Cal_OES/status/1298016578164781056/photo/1</a><br>
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[check CAL Fire]<br>
<b>SCU Lightning Complex</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/">https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2020/8/18/scu-lightning-complex/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/">https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/</a><br>
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[fire watch]<br>
<b>California wildfires death toll up to seven as huge blazes burn
on</b><b><br>
</b>Fires started by lightning with more forecast to come<br>
Sheriff's deputy: 'This is one of the darkest periods'<br>
Wildfires explained: how did they start – and is this normal?<br>
Three massive wildfires chewed through parched northern California
landscape on Sunday as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make
other preparations ahead of a frightening weather system packing
high winds and more of the lightning that sparked the huge blazes
and scores of other fires, putting nearly a quarter-million people
under evacuation orders and warnings.<br>
At the CZU Lightning Complex fire in the Santa Cruz mountains, south
of San Francisco, authorities announced the discovery of the body of
a 70-year-old man in a remote area called Last Chance. The man had
been reported missing and police had to use a helicopter to reach
the area, which is a string of about 40 off-the-grid homes at the
end of a windy, steep dirt road north of the city of Santa Cruz.<br>
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The area was under an evacuation order and Santa Cruz sheriff's
chief deputy Chris Clark said it was a stark reminder of the need
for residents to leave the area.<br>
<br>
"This is one of the darkest periods we've been in with this fire,"
he said.<br>
<br>
The fatality was the first for the CZU fire and seventh fire victim
in the state in the last week that has seen 650 wildfires across
California, many sparked by the more than 12,000 lighting strikes
recorded since 15 August. There are 14,0000 firefighters. 2,400
engines and 95 aircraft battling the fires.<br>
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The Santa Cruz fire is one of three "complexes," or groups of fires,
burning on all sides of the San Francisco Bay Area. All were started
by lightning...<br>
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The LNU Lightning Complex fire in wine country north of San
Francisco and SCU Lightning Complex south-east of the city have
grown to be two of the three largest fires in state history, both
burning more than 500 square miles. The LNU fire has been the most
deadly and destructive, accounting for five deaths and 845 destroyed
homes and other buildings. Three victims were in a home under an
evacuation order.<br>
<br>
Officials surveying maps at command centers are astonished by the
sheer size of the fires, Cal Fire spokesman Brice Bennett said...<br>
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Authorities said their effort in Santa Cruz was hindered by people
who refused to evacuate and those using the chaos to steal. Santa
Cruz county sheriff Jim Hart said 100 officers were patrolling and
anyone not authorized to be in an evacuation zone would be arrested.<br>
<br>
"What we're hearing from the community is that there's a lot of
looting going on," Hart said.<br>
He and county district attorney Jeff Rosell expressed anger at what
Rosell called the "absolutely soulless" people who seek to victimize
those already hit by the fire. Among the victims was a fire
commander who was robbed when he left his vehicle.<br>
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"I can't imagine a bigger low-life," Hart said, promising to catch
him and vowing "the DA is going to hammer him".<br>
<br>
Holly Hansen, who fled the LNU fire, was among evacuees from the
community of Angwin allowed to go back to their homes for one hour
to retrieve belongings. She and her three dogs waited five hours in
her SUV for their turn. Among the items she took with her were
photos of her pets.<br>
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"It's horrible, I lived in Sonoma during the [2017] Tubbs Fire, so
this is time No2 for me. It's horrible when you have to think about
what to take," she said. "I think it's a very raw human base emotion
to have fear of fire and losing everything. It's frightening."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/24/california-wildfires-death-toll-evacuations-santa-cruz-bay-area-lightning-complex">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/24/california-wildfires-death-toll-evacuations-santa-cruz-bay-area-lightning-complex</a><br>
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[PBS brief video explains it]<b><br>
</b><b>Climate change is driving wildfires, tropical storms</b><br>
Clip: 08/23/2020 | 4m 44s |Video has closed captioning.<br>
As hundreds of wildfires in California continue to blaze and
thousands of people evacuate, this year's hurricane season is on
track to become one of the busiest on record. Andrew Freedman,
editor of Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang joins Hari
Sreenivasan to discuss how climate change is aiding these natural
disasters and what can be done about it.<br>
Aired: 08/23/20<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pbs.org/video/climate-change-is-driving-wildfires-tropical-storms-1598205466/">https://www.pbs.org/video/climate-change-is-driving-wildfires-tropical-storms-1598205466/</a><br>
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[Peter Sinclair is the wise man of fossil fuels and global warming]<br>
<b>Pandemic lands 'worst body blow' in modern history on fossil fuel
companies</b><br>
In a new video, independent journalists explain the mounting
challenges the industry faced even before COVID-19 came along.<br>
By Peter Sinclair | Thursday, August 20, 2020<br>
Watch the video -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USD6qJzy8z0&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USD6qJzy8z0&feature=youtu.be</a><br>
<p>Serious stress, serious stress."<br>
"An industry in its last days."<br>
"Steady decline [in growth, demand] for the past decade."<br>
"Cratering."<br>
<br>
Those are a few of the characterizations of today's oil, natural
gas, and coal industries put forward by several independent
journalists, writers, and analysts in the new edition of the "This
is Not Cool" video series.<br>
<br>
… And then, along came the coronavirus and the COVID-19
challenges, providing one more blow to the energy industry.<br>
<br>
Even pre-pandemic, the conventional energy sector "already had
plans to cancel major infrastructure projects like pipelines,"
independent journalist Keith Schneider told Yale Climate
Connections. And with the pandemic, oil and gas experienced "the
worst body blow in its modern contemporary history," he said.<br>
<br>
Journalist and writer Antonia Juhasz agrees, pointing to "an
industry in its last days, it's just getting hit from too many
sides."<br>
<br>
"Most of the new electricity generation coming online today is
coming from wind and solar," says Houston Chronicle reporter Chris
Tomlinson. And professor Dan Kammen of the University of
California Berkeley says solar and wind have been the cheapest
energy options worldwide for at least the past three consecutive
years.<br>
<br>
Kammen also says that he believes solar and wind energy
initiatives can advance two to three times as many job
opportunities as traditional fossil fuel projects: That would be
critical to help long-time coal and other fossil fuel industry
employees whose decades of work has been critical to economic
development … and who society cannot simply leave stranded as
momentum turns toward a clean economy. Tending to the plight of
those workers whose jobs are lost will have to be part of the
energy-options puzzle, interviewees say.<br>
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<p>watch the video
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USD6qJzy8z0&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USD6qJzy8z0&feature=youtu.be</a> <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/08/pandemic-lands-worst-body-blow-in-modern-history-on-fossil-fuel-companies/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/08/pandemic-lands-worst-body-blow-in-modern-history-on-fossil-fuel-companies/</a></p>
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[Press release]<br>
I am happy to bring to your attention my article <b>Bound by
Infinities: Technology, Immediacy and Our Environmental Crisis,</b>
just published in the American Journal of Psychoanalysis.<br>
In print soon, and available online here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs11231-020-09258-8">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs11231-020-09258-8</a><br>
Keywords: omnipotent fantasy; technology; Bion; Winnicott; the body;
climate crisis; Covid-19<br>
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Michael Melmed, Psy.D.<br>
Clinical Psychologist<br>
New York, NY 10003<br>
Assistant Professor, Columbia University Department of Psychiatry <br>
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<br>
[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
August 25, 2004 </b></font><br>
<p>August 25, 2004: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program releases
the report "Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science
Program for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005." <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20041015135521/http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/ocp2004-5/ocp2004-5.pdf">http://web.archive.org/web/20041015135521/http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/ocp2004-5/ocp2004-5.pdf</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/science/26climate.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/science/26climate.html</a> <br>
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