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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>September 7, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[CBS news on heatwave - mentions global warming]<br>
<b>Western U.S. facing weather whiplash this weekend</b><br>
Sep 6, 2020<br>
CBS News<br>
Three of California's four largest wildfires on record are still
burning, with a dangerous heatwave expected across the western
United States this weekend. CBS News meteorologist and climate
specialist Jeff Berardelli spoke to CBSN's Lana Zak about heat and
the snow in store for the region.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-gAP4K16dQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-gAP4K16dQ</a><br>
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[grid risk]<b><br>
</b><b>All-time record heat across Southern California fuels fires,
threatens power supply </b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-06/southern-california-braces-for-more-record-breaking-heat-as-firefighters-battle-wildfires-across-the-state">https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-06/southern-california-braces-for-more-record-breaking-heat-as-firefighters-battle-wildfires-across-the-state</a><br>
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[Wildfire News & Opinion articles]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/">https://wildfiretoday.com/</a>
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<b>National Interagency Fire Center</b><br>
National Preparedness Level 5<br>
This report will be updated daily.<br>
September 6, 2020<br>
Nationally, 72 new fires were reported which resulted in seven new
large fires. Currently, 80 large wildland fires have burned 2.2
million acres. Even with the higher temperatures and humidities,
firefighters contained two large fires.<br>
<br>
Two hundred thirty-three soldiers from the 14th Brigade Engineer
Battalion based out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington are
deployed in support of the August Complex.<br>
<br>
Three wildland fire suppression crews and three overhead personnel
from Quebec, Canada are supporting fire suppression efforts in the
Northern California Area.<br>
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One RC-26 aircraft with Distributed Real-Time Infrared (DRTI)
capability and support personnel from the 141st Air Refueling Wing
(Washington Air National Guard) has been deployed to Fairchild AFB
(Spokane, WA), in support of wildland fire operations.<br>
<br>
Two MAFFS C-130 airtanker and support personnel each from the 153rd
Airlift Wing (Wyoming Air National Guard) and the 146th Airlift Wing
(California Air National Guard) have been deployed to support
wildland fire operations in California.<br>
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<b>Weather</b><br>
Very hot, dry, and unstable conditions will be present along the
West Coast states, southern Great Basin, and Arizona as the high
pressure ridge begins to retreat to the West and weaken slightly.
Overnight humidity recoveries in these areas will again be poor. To
the northeast, the upper level winds will increase in response to an
approaching trough. This will produce breezy conditions across
eastern Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Western Montana to go along
with low afternoon humidity levels and will make today a borderline
critical fire weather day. In the East, a breezy westerly flow will
continue across the northern tier from Minnesota to New England.
Slight cooling will occur across the Deep South as a very weak
frontal boundary moves east from the Tennessee River Valley to the
Atlantic Coast.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm">https://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm</a><br>
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[Insurance Information Institute]<br>
Facts + Statistics: Wildfires<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires">https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires</a><br>
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[Heated permafrost makes an explosive burp]<br>
<b>Land in Russia's Arctic Blows 'Like a Bottle of Champagne'</b><br>
Since finding the first crater in 2014, Russian scientists have
documented 16 more explosions in the Arctic caused by gas trapped in
thawing permafrost.<br>
By Andrew E. Kramer<br>
Sept. 5, 2020<br>
MOSCOW -- A natural phenomenon first observed by scientists just six
years ago and now recurring with alarming frequency in Siberia is
causing the ground to explode spontaneously and with tremendous
force, leaving craters up to 100 feet deep...<br>
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The pit plunged into darkness, surrounded by the table-flat,
featureless tundra. As Mr. Chuvilin stood looking in, he said, slabs
of dirt and ice occasionally peeled off the permafrost of the crater
wall and tumbled in.<br>
<p>"It was making noises. It was like something alive," Mr. Chuvilin
said.</p>
<p>While initially a mystery, scientists have established that the
craters appearing in the far north of western Siberia are caused
by subterranean gases, and the recent flurry of explosions is
possibly related to global warming, Mr. Chuvilin said.Since the
first site was found in 2014, Russian geologists have located 16
more on the Yamal and Gydansk peninsulas, two slender fingers of
land stretching into the Arctic Ocean...</p>
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"The permafrost is actually not very permanent, and it never was,"
Mr. Chuvilin said.<br>
<br>
Within a year or two of erupting, the craters fill with water and
appear no more suspicious than small lakes.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/world/europe/russia-arctic-eruptions.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/world/europe/russia-arctic-eruptions.html</a>
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[use Google Maps to see a random places in the Yamal pennisula,
Siberia ]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Yamal+Peninsula/@68.5536718,71.5039684,15843m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x449055f4f8dea577:0x8ae223c41688bebf!8m2!3d70!4d70">https://www.google.com/maps/place/Yamal+Peninsula/@68.5536718,71.5039684,15843m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x449055f4f8dea577:0x8ae223c41688bebf!8m2!3d70!4d70</a><br>
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[best estimate: uses about 0.6% of all electricity per year]<br>
<b>The Harsh Truth About Bitcoin Mining And Climate Change</b><br>
By Alex Kimani - Sep 06, 2020, 12:00 PM CDT<br>
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Energy magazine Joule has estimated it at 45.1TWh/year, or about
0.2% of all global electricity produced, with a carbon footprint at
22.0 to 22.9 MtCO2.<br>
<br>
Digiconomist uses the portion of mining revenues spent on
electricity costs to estimate power consumption. Using this method,
the organization estimates current consumption at 73.1 TWh/year.
[terawatts per year]<br>
<p>Those figures, though, could be quite conservative with the
Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index placing the upper
bound at 104.3TWh. That is about 0.4% of global electricity
production and enough to power Switzerland for two years with some
change. The carbon footprint is ginormous, too--34.7 Mt CO2 per
year, [million tons of CO2] comparable to the carbon footprint of
Denmark.</p>
It is worth noting that Cambridge's estimated consumption of 65
TWh/year tallies favorably with Digiconomist's figure, which works
out to ~0.4% of global electricity output. These sources were chosen
not least because Digiconomist seems to have been validated by
Cambridge and possibly won a long-running diatribe against Marc
Bevand (publisher of the 2017 estimates) regarding whose methodology
is more accurate.<br>
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That would place total energy by cryptocurrency mining at
~100TWh/year, or about 0.6% of global electricity consumption in
2019. Even with more efficient rigs being constantly pressed into
action, electricity costs will probably continue to hover at ~60% of
mining revenue over the long-term according to some estimates,
meaning energy consumption by crypto mining will only continue to
climb in the foreseeable future. Emerging mining technologies like
merged mining, however, could possibly mitigate some of that.<br>
<br>
Regarding CoinShare's bold claim that the bitcoin network sources
nearly three-quarters of its energy from renewable sources, the
actual figure is closer to 30%.<br>
<br>
The long and short of it: Bitcoin and crypto mining are definitely
playing a part in global warming, but nowhere near the scale of the
transport sector, which consumes ~25% of the world's energy output,
mostly in the form of fossil fuels.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Harsh-Truth-About-Bitcoin-Mining-And-Climate-Change.html">https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Harsh-Truth-About-Bitcoin-Mining-And-Climate-Change.html</a><br>
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[source data Joule]<br>
<b>The Carbon Footprint of Bitcoin</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30255-7">https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30255-7</a><br>
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<b>Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index</b><br>
The Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index provides the latest estimate of
the total energy consumption of the Bitcoin network.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption">https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption</a><br>
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<b>Bitcoin's energy consumption is underestimated: A market dynamics
approach</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629620302966?via%3Dihub">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629620302966?via%3Dihub</a>
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[instead try "Que sera, sera"]<b><br>
</b><b>'That's the Way It Is': Trump's Dismissal of Hurricane Laura
and Climate Crisis Echoes Remarks on COVID-19 Deaths</b><br>
By Sharon Kelly • September 1, 2020<br>
At an August 30 briefing in Orange, Texas, during a visit to tour
damage from Hurricane Laura, President Trump answered a question
about climate change and hurricanes. Texas has had big storms for a
long time, he said, and "that's the way it is."<br>
<br>
The phrase carried echoes of his remarks on COVID-19 -- made at a
time when the coronavirus had killed over 156,000 and infected over
4.7 million in the U.S. -- that the virus's death toll "is what it
is."<br>
<br>
In the month since Trump spoke those words to Axios, over 26,600
more people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19, federal numbers
show. Each death represents its own specific tragedy for those close
by and, for those tasked with responding to the pandemic, each one
represents another difficult reminder that the novel virus's death
toll yesterday is not what it is today.<br>
<br>
Similarly, when it comes to the climate crisis, the questions the
world faces aren't only about what natural hazards like droughts and
hurricanes looked like yesterday. Nor are they simply about how
those hazards, now worsened by the climate crisis, are affecting us
today -- as wildfires continue to blaze in California and
forecasters keep tabs on tropical storms Nana and Omar.<br>
<br>
The question President Trump was asked in Texas was about the risks
that stronger hurricanes pose to the fossil fuel industry and the
ways that climate change is beginning to endanger the oil refineries
and petrochemical plants clustered along the U.S. Gulf Coast, that
is, the industry responsible for a sizable contribution to the
climate emergency itself...<br>
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"A number of decades ago, people like me would still talk about
climate change as something in the future that we could prevent with
appropriate action," said Prof. Tornqvist. "Now we're at the point
where we can still prevent the worst outcomes, but there are certain
things we are not going to be able to prevent any more."<br>
<br>
"There's still many things that we can save, but that's going to
require action," he said, "and that action is going to have to
happen soon."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/09/01/trump-hurricane-laura-climate-change-way-it-is-louisiana">https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/09/01/trump-hurricane-laura-climate-change-way-it-is-louisiana</a><br>
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[video with Beckwith-the-Alarmed]<br>
<b>How Atmospheric Rivers Will Cause a Biblical Flood that will
Drown California: Part 1 of many</b><br>
Sep 4, 2020<br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
In November of 1861 it started to rain in California, and continued
to rain for 45 days. There was so much water that it essentially
filled up the entire Central Valley, submerging cities such as
Sacramento under 15 to 20 feet of water. It took many months for the
waters to subside. As bad as this megaflood was, recent research on
riverbed soil core samples shows that in the 1800 years prior to
1861, there were 6 megafloods even larger, and 3 about the same
magnitude. Megafloods occurred about every 100-200 years. With
climate change, and a much warmer and energetic atmosphere with at
least 7% more water vapour, the Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) causing
these catastrophes are 3 times more frequent, so every 35 to 65
years. Today, an inundation of the Central Valley in California
would wipe out 25% of US food supply.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxA26VrnGMs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxA26VrnGMs</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 -
September 7, 2011 </b></font><br>
<p>On MotherJones.com, investigative journalist Brad Friedman, in
part two of his report on a secretive June 2011 meeting in
Colorado held by billionaire climate-change deniers Charles and
David Koch, notes that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spoke at the
meeting--and that David Koch called him "my kind of guy."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/audio-chris-christie-koch-brothers-seminar/">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/audio-chris-christie-koch-brothers-seminar/</a>
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