<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p><i><font size="+1"><b>September 10, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[CBS news - pre-roll ads]<br>
<b>Wildfires and weather extremes: It's not coincidence, it's
climate change</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-extreme-weather-wildfires-snow-jet-stream/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-extreme-weather-wildfires-snow-jet-stream/</a><br>
<p>- -<br>
</p>
<b>AirNow Smoke and Fire Map </b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fire.airnow.gov/?lat=47.7167616&lng=-122.3262208&zoom=10">https://fire.airnow.gov/?lat=47.7167616&lng=-122.3262208&zoom=10</a>
<br>
<p>- - <br>
</p>
<b>Day, not night from San Francisco</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/pictures-photos-california-fires.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/pictures-photos-california-fires.html</a>
<p>- -<br>
</p>
[impressive overflight]<br>
<b>Almeda Fire: A plane flies over a house in Talent, Oregon and
drops fire retardant</b><br>
A plane drops fly retardant over a neighborhood in Talent during the
Alameda fire<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.statesmanjournal.com/videos/news/2020/09/09/almeda-fire-oregon-jackson-county-fire-retardant-plane-flyover-talent-house/5757035002/">https://www.statesmanjournal.com/videos/news/2020/09/09/almeda-fire-oregon-jackson-county-fire-retardant-plane-flyover-talent-house/5757035002/</a>
<p>- -<br>
</p>
<b>Southern Oregon wildfire updates: Almeda fire threatens 'lives
and structures' in Ashland, Medford</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/09/09/oregon-wildfires-map-update-almeda-fire-ashland-medford-evacuation/5759539002/">https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/09/09/oregon-wildfires-map-update-almeda-fire-ashland-medford-evacuation/5759539002/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redding.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/09/09/reader-photos-smoke-north-state/5764413002/">https://www.redding.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/09/09/reader-photos-smoke-north-state/5764413002/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<p><br>
</p>
[from the NYTimes newsletter]<br>
<b>The 'straightforward' link between climate and California's fires</b><br>
By John Schwartz<br>
California is on fire. Almost 2.5 million acres of land have burned
there so far this year -- nearly 20 times what had burned at this
time last year -- and the wildfire season is far from over.<br>
<br>
That means many scientists in the state aren't just studying their
field; many of them are living it.<br>
<br>
When I got in touch with Nina S. Oakley on Tuesday for an article
about the connections between climate change and California's
wildfires, she was in her car, driving toward the ocean.<br>
<br>
Dr. Oakley, a research scientist at the Center for Western Weather
and Water Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was
driving with her husband, Benjamin Hatchett, a climatologist, away
from their home in Santa Rosa, Calif., where choking smoke from
wildfires and power failures had made it impossible to work.<br>
<br>
For these climate scientists, and, increasingly, for all of us,
their discipline is anything but academic. The links between climate
change and some extreme weather phenomena can be hard to distinguish
from natural weather variability without extensive attribution
analysis, but the links between wildfires and a warming planet,
especially in California are "straightforward," said Park Williams,
a bioclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory. "Warmer temperatures dry the fuels, and all you need
from there is a spark."<br>
<br>
The effects of global warming on wildfires are varied. Want to learn
more about how people live in fire-prone areas and protect
themselves? How about the increasing problems for people who need to
insure their homes areas where fires are likely, or the growing
support among Americans for tough limits on building in fire and
flood zones? In California's fields where farm laborers are
suffering under the burdens of punishing heat and rising levels of
wildfire smoke, as well as the coronavirus pandemic. And as the
wildfire season continues, California is dealing with depleted ranks
of inmate firefighters.<br>
<br>
This year's fire season in California is far from over, and you
could say the same for the state's fire crisis. Dr. Williams
published a paper last year that pointed to the drying effects of
human-induced warming in much of the West. It concluded that the
effects on wildfire activity "over the next few decades will likely
be larger than the observed influence thus far."<br>
<br>
That, counterintuitively, gave me chills.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-california-wildfires.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-california-wildfires.html</a><br>
<br>
<p><br>
</p>
[who will become climate refugees]<br>
<b>Climate crisis could displace 1.2bn people by 2050, report warns</b><br>
Countries unable to withstand ecological threats among world's least
peaceful, analysis finds<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/09/climate-crisis-could-displace-12bn-people-by-2050-report-warns">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/09/climate-crisis-could-displace-12bn-people-by-2050-report-warns</a><br>
- -<br>
[IEP]<br>
<b>The Institute for Economics & Peace aims to create a paradigm
shift in the way the world thinks about peace.</b><br>
MEASURING AND COMMUNICATING THE<br>
ECONOMIC VALUE OF PEACE<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.economicsandpeace.org/">https://www.economicsandpeace.org/</a><br>
<p>- -</p>
[Sept 29, 2020]<br>
<b>Launch of the Ecological Threat Register</b><br>
This September, the The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) will
be releasing a brand new, timely research product that will show
both exposure to risk, and the ability of nations and their
resilience - as measured by Positive Peace - to deal with major
impacts. The Ecological Threat Register (ETR) Report will highlight
the global hotspots that are exposed to higher risk of ecological
events, and measure ecological threats that countries are projected
to face between now and 2050.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://visionofhumanity.org/events/launch-of-the-ecological-threat-register/">http://visionofhumanity.org/events/launch-of-the-ecological-threat-register/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-ecological-threat-register-launch-tickets-116959279353">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-ecological-threat-register-launch-tickets-116959279353</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g9-hC-hlec&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g9-hC-hlec&feature=youtu.be</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
[positive future]<br>
<b>Soybeans flourish in thawing permafrost</b><br>
Moscow, Russia<br>
In the vast plains that blanket much of northern Russia a
once-unthinkable business is taking hold - soybean farming. It's the
result of years of increasing global temperatures, which are thawing
the permafrost and turning the land into fertile soil...<br>
- -<br>
Russian farmers have embraced the opportunity to grow soybeans. The
oilseed is processed into animal feed and demand has been strong
amid a boom for livestock production. Russia still relies on imports
of about 1 million metric tons of soybeans so domestic harvest is
expected to continue to grow...<br>
- -<br>
"I was a pessimist about the prospects of growing soybeans in
central Russia, but now I see I was wrong," said Dmitry Rylko,
director general at the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies, a
consultancy in Moscow. "I underestimated the scale of climate
change. I underestimated the potential of plant breeding."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.agupdate.com/agriview/news/crop/soybeans-flourish-in-thawing-permafrost/article_bd53eacd-dbd0-5e7e-ba80-69a6961fea54.html">https://www.agupdate.com/agriview/news/crop/soybeans-flourish-in-thawing-permafrost/article_bd53eacd-dbd0-5e7e-ba80-69a6961fea54.html</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
[electric car races]<br>
<b>Lewis Hamilton to enter his own team in new Extreme E
all-electric racing series</b><br>
British driver keen to highlight 'critical environmental issues'<br>
The new series will aim to raise awareness of climate crisis<br>
Giles Richards<br>
Tue 8 Sep 2020<br>
Lewis Hamilton has announced he is to make his first foray into
running his own racing team, with an entry into the new Extreme E
series next year. Hamilton's team, named X44, will compete in the
inaugural series of the all-electric off-road SUV championship set
to begin in 2021.<br>
<br>
Hamilton has been vocal in his support of environmental causes in
the past and believes the series will work positively to promote
further awareness of the climate crisis. The team is named after the
Formula One world champion's Mercedes car number and as with all of
the series' entrants, will feature two drivers, both as yet unnamed,
one male and one female.<br>
<br>
"It's an exciting new project and it will be fun to have a different
role from being the team driver," said Hamilton. "What is most
appealing though, is that the Extreme E championship will be not
only raising awareness of some of the most critical environmental
issues facing our planet, but also doing something about it through
working with local charitable organisations to leave behind no trace
and a long-lasting legacy of change."<br>
<br>
This is Hamilton's first major step away from driving and will
provoke further speculation on what course his career might take
when he chooses to retire from competing. The British driver is
pursuing his seventh F1 world championship title this season, and is
expected to sign a new contract with Mercedes to continue racing in
F1 shortly.<br>
<br>
The Extreme E championship was created by Alejandro Agag, the
founder of the all-electric Formula E series. The new championship
will consist of five meetings, each racing in locations that are
considered to be under threat or already damaged by climate change.
The provisional season is scheduled to start in Senegal in January
before visiting Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Greenland and Brazil.<br>
<br>
Racing will take place across country over two laps of a 16km course
with each driver taking on one lap in what will be called an "X
Prix". The races will not be open to the public to minimise the
environmental impact but will be broadcast online. Britain's Jamie
Chadwick, who won the first W Series in 2019, is already signed up
to take part in the series. Also involved are multiple world rally
champion Sebastian Ogier, two-times DTM champion Timo Scheider,
Formula E champion Lucas di Grassi, Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer
and former IndyCar racer Katherine Legge.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/08/lewis-hamilton-to-enter-his-own-team-in-new-extreme-e-all-electric-racing-series">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/08/lewis-hamilton-to-enter-his-own-team-in-new-extreme-e-all-electric-racing-series</a><br>
<br>
- -<br>
<br>
<b>EXTREME E</b><br>
We bring electric racing to some of the most remote corners of the
planet to highlight the climate change challenges faced by different
ecosystems, whilst showcasing the performance of all-electric SUVs
in extreme conditions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.extreme-e.com/">https://www.extreme-e.com/</a><br>
<br>
<p><br>
</p>
[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
September 10, 2015 </b></font><br>
The New York Times reports on severe wildfires in California...<br>
- -<br>
Dr. Jain warned the situation was likely to grow worse. Medical
studies have shown that asthma hospitalizations reach their peak in
September, and the fire season will not be over by then.<br>
<br>
"What we have now makes the good-air days bad and bad-air days
worse," he said. "It jacks up the air to a whole 'nother level. What
the fire and particles do is like sunburn in their lungs, putting
the smoke right down in their lungs. We see a whole bunch of people
get exacerbated and getting hospitalized, no matter what we do."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/fires-in-west-leave-residents-gasping-on-the-soot-left-behind.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/fires-in-west-leave-residents-gasping-on-the-soot-left-behind.html</a>
<br>
<br>
/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------/<br>
<br>
/Archive of Daily Global Warming News <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/2017-October/date.html"><https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/2017-October/date.html></a>
/<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote">https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote</a><br>
<br>
/To receive daily mailings - click to Subscribe <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:subscribe@theClimate.Vote?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request"><mailto:subscribe@theClimate.Vote?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request></a>
to news digest./<br>
<br>
*** Privacy and Security:*This mailing is text-only. It does not
carry images or attachments which may originate from remote
servers. A text-only message can provide greater privacy to the
receiver and sender.<br>
By regulation, the .VOTE top-level domain must be used for
democratic and election purposes and cannot be used for commercial
purposes. Messages have no tracking software.<br>
To subscribe, email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:contact@theclimate.vote">contact@theclimate.vote</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:contact@theclimate.vote"><mailto:contact@theclimate.vote></a>
with subject subscribe, To Unsubscribe, subject: unsubscribe<br>
Also you may subscribe/unsubscribe at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote">https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote</a><br>
Links and headlines assembled and curated by Richard Pauli for <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://TheClimate.Vote">http://TheClimate.Vote</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://TheClimate.Vote/"><http://TheClimate.Vote/></a>
delivering succinct information for citizens and responsible
governments of all levels. List membership is confidential and
records are scrupulously restricted to this mailing list.<br>
<br>
<br>
</body>
</html>