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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>September 12, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[USA Today]<br>
<b>Climate Point: Big Oil battered by lawsuits. America battered by
extreme weather.</b><br>
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Staring down threats from climate change, a groundswell of citizens,
cities and states are taking Big Oil to court. Many of these
lawsuits aim to force fossil fuel companies to pay costs associated
with mitigating extreme weather, but they're also an attempt to
break the industry's grip on global politics. It's been a big week
climate litigation...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/09/11/big-oil-faces-lawsuits-west-faces-extreme-fires-amid-climate-change/5770041002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/09/11/big-oil-faces-lawsuits-west-faces-extreme-fires-amid-climate-change/5770041002/</a><br>
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[Calif Gov speaks]<br>
<b>Newsom details 'climate emergency' as fires rage</b><br>
Sep 11, 2020<br>
Reuters<br>
California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke after surveying the damage
caused by wildfires in the state, calling it part of a 'climate
emergency'.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bODhnSgwj0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bODhnSgwj0</a><br>
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[evacuations]<br>
<b>'I have never seen anything like this': Oregon towns emptied and
confusion spreads amid fires</b><br>
In Molalla and other western towns, fear, uncertainty and
disinformation gripped residents as hundreds of thousands in the
state evacuate..<br>
Jason Wilson in Molalla, Oregon<br>
Fri 11 Sep 2020<br>
Hundreds of thousands of people in Oregon were ordered to leave
their homes on Thursday as wildfires encroached on their properties.
The evacuations clogged highways, emptied entire towns and sparked
confusion in a state that has not grappled with wildfires of this
size before.<br>
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Large-scale evacuations in the state began within the metropolitan
area of Portland, Oregon's largest city. Clackamas county, home to
some 420,000 people in the metro's south, was already under varying
levels of fire alert when officials on Thursday afternoon told
residents of the city of Molalla to leave...<br>
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As in other western towns, fear, uncertainty and disinformation
gripped Molalla ahead of the evacuation.<br>
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In preceding days, Facebook pages associated with the town were
filled with rumors of looters and Antifa raids. On its Facebook page
overnight, Molalla police were forced to amend an earlier call for
residents to report suspicious activity.<br>
<br>
"This is about possible looters, not antifa or setting of fires,"
the edit read. "There has been NO antifa in town as of this posting
at 02am. Please, folks, stay calm and use common sense."...<br>
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By late afternoon, more of the county, including southern parts of
Oregon City, had been subjected to evacuation orders. Although
Mulino and Molalla remained eerily empty, the highways and bridges
leading over the Willamette River into Portland were at a virtual
standstill around 5pm, as a large proportion of Clackamas county
residents fled the wildfires.<br>
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While they queued at the gateways to Portland, that city's mayor,
Ted Wheeler, declared that city was in a state of fire emergency,
and closed all city-owned outdoor areas, while opening evacuation
sites for fire victims.<br>
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Wheeler's move on Thursday evening underlined the fact that the
fires, which had wholly consumed several rural, mountain towns, were
now reaching into the west's largest cities.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/11/oregon-fires-towns-emptied-molalla">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/11/oregon-fires-towns-emptied-molalla</a><br>
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[Associated Press]<br>
<b>Think 2020's disasters are wild? Experts see worse in future</b><br>
By SETH BORENSTEIN<br>
September 9, 2020<br>
Freak natural disasters -- most with what scientists say likely have
a climate change connection -- seem to be everywhere in the crazy
year 2020. But experts say we'll probably look back and say those
were the good old days, when disasters weren't so wild.<br>
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"It's going to get A LOT worse," Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim
Cobb said Wednesday. "I say that with emphasis because it does
challenge the imagination. And that's the scary thing to know as a
climate scientist in 2020."<br>
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Colorado University environmental sciences chief Waleed Abdalati,
NASA's former chief scientist, said the trajectory of worsening
disasters and climate change from the burning of coal, oil and gas
is clear, and basic physics.<br>
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"I strongly believe we're going to look back in 10 years, certainly
20 and definitely 50 and say, 'Wow, 2020 was a crazy year, but I
miss it,'" Abdalati said.<br>
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That's because what's happening now is just the type of crazy
climate scientists anticipated 10 or 20 years ago.<br>
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"It seems like this is what we always were talking about a decade
ago," said North Carolina State climatologist Kathie Dello.<br>
Even so, Cobb said the sheer magnitude of what's happening now was
hard to fathom back then. Just as the future of climate disasters is
hard to fathom now.<br>
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"A year like 2020 could have been the subject of a marvelous science
fiction film in 2000," Cobb said. "Now we have to watch and digest
real-time disaster after disaster after disaster, on top of a
pandemic. The outlook could not be any more grim. It's just a
horrifying prospect."<br>
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"The 2030s are going to be noticeably worse than the 2020s," she
said.<br>
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University of Michigan environment dean Jonathan Overpeck, a climate
scientist, said that in 30 years because of the climate change
already baked into the atmosphere "we're pretty much guaranteed that
we'll have double what we have now."<br>
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Expect stronger winds, more drought, more heavy downpours and
floods, Abdalati said.<br>
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"The kind of things we're seeing are no surprise to the (scientific)
community that understands the rules and the laws of physics,"
Abdalati said.<br>
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"A lot of people want to blame it on 2020, but 2020 didn't do this,"
Dello said. "We know the behavior that caused climate change."<br>
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Consider the world's environment like an engine: "We have injected
more energy into the system because we have trapped more heat into
the atmosphere," said World Meteorological Organization
Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.<br>
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That means more energy for tropical storms as well as changes to
rainfall patterns that bring drought to some places and heavy
rainfall to others, Taalas said.<br>
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In California, where more than 2.3 million acres have burned, the
fires are spurred by climate change drying plants and trees that
then go up in flames, said University of Colorado fire scientist
Jennifer Balch. California is in the midst of a nearly 20-year
mega-drought, the first of its kind in the United States since
Europeans arrived, Overpeck said.<br>
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Scientists also make direct connections between heat waves and
climate change.<br>
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Some disasters at the moment can't be directly linked to man-made
warming, such as the derecho, Overpeck said. But looking at the big
picture over time shows the problem, and it's one that comes down to
the basic physics of trapped heat energy.<br>
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"I am not an alarmist. I don't want to scare people," Abdalati said.
"It's a problem with tremendous consequences and it's too important
not to get right."<br>
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And so even though the climate will likely get worse, Overpeck is
also optimistic about what future generations will think when they
look back at the wild and dangerous weather of 2020.<br>
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"I think we'll look back and we'll see a whole bunch of increasingly
crazy years," Overpeck said. "And that this year, in 2020, I hope we
look back and say it got crazy enough that it motivated us to act on
climate change in the United States."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/3570f775ee3007888cd651d37fcbd465">https://apnews.com/3570f775ee3007888cd651d37fcbd465</a>
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[Activism - book promo video]<br>
<b>Erin Brockovich: Superman's Not Coming</b><br>
September 11, 2020<br>
Climate One<br>
Erin Brockovich was vaulted into national recognition in 2000, after
the eponymous movie starring Julia Roberts made her a water activism
icon. Famous for her focus on contamination, Brockovich says there
is a larger threat facing water's very existence: climate change,
and the impact it has on dwindling freshwater supplies, longer
droughts, and hotter weather.<br>
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Superman isn't coming to protect our water or environment, writes
Brockovich in her latest book -- and neither are corporations,
politicians or the "gutted" EPA. How can individuals and communities
take collective action to safeguard our environment and our
resources? What are today's leading activists doing to create change
that lasts?<br>
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Join us for a conversation on speaking truth to power with Erin
Brockovich, author of Superman's Not Coming: Our National Water
Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/axLNzz-P8MA?t=772">https://youtu.be/axLNzz-P8MA?t=772</a><br>
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[Cough,cough]<br>
<b>Portland's Air Quality Drops to the Worst in the World</b><br>
Sep 11, 2020<br>
Bloomberg QuickTake News<br>
Drone footage of Portland, Oregon, taken September 10 showed smoke
settled over the city as wildfires raged across the state.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O7NwRtGBQ0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O7NwRtGBQ0</a><br>
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[take better pictures]<br>
<b>Your Phone Wasn't Built for the Apocalypse</b><br>
Why the orange sky looks gray<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/09/camera-phone-wildfire-sky/616279/">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/09/camera-phone-wildfire-sky/616279/</a><br>
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[for new med students]<br>
<b>Doctors offer guide for teaching the health effects of climate
change in medical residency</b><br>
By SHRADDHA CHAKRADHAR - SEPTEMBER 10, 2020<br>
As massive wildfires, hurricanes, and record-breaking temperatures
hit parts of the U.S., a group of doctors is urging medical
residency programs to implement standardized curricula on the health
impacts of climate change.<br>
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Their framework, published in a paper Wednesday in Academic
Medicine, includes a breakdown of high-risk populations, including
the elderly and low-income families, and a review of the current
understanding on how climate impacts health -- such as the
relationship between air quality and respiratory illness. The
framework also encourages consideration of the health impacts of
displacement due to extreme weather events: Those who lose their
home due to a hurricane, for instance, often develop post-traumatic
stress disorder or face other mental health challenges; they are
also at a higher risk for developing other conditions such as food
insecurity that could in turn affect their physical and mental
health.<br>
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"We wanted to link the content to what residents are supposed to
learn anyway," said Rebecca Philipsborn, a pediatrician at the Emory
University School of Medicine and lead author of the new paper...<br>
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Physicians have been sounding the alarm on the health effects of
climate change for years, and the need to train future physicians
how to treat patients accordingly. In 2017, the American Medical
Association and more than 25 other health organizations created the
Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, which called
climate change "one of the most important issues of our time." And
earlier this year, a group of medical students from more than 50
U.S. medical schools founded Medical Students for a Sustainable
Future, an organization working to "recognize climate change as an
urgent threat to health and social justice."<br>
The AMA passed a resolution last year that supported including
climate change in medical training curricula at the undergraduate,
graduate, and postgraduate levels. While there have been some
efforts to offer climate change and health as an elective course at
medical schools, the authors of the new paper argue that there still
isn't a standardized way that climate change is incorporated into
medical training...<br>
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Do you think climate change training ought to be just for
residencies? And have schools expressed interest in adopting this
framework?<br>
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I think it's important across all levels of medical training, and
it's about continuing effort. This paper is specific to residency
education, but there are learning points across all levels. Our hope
is that this can serve as a starting point for residency program
directors, as I think that inclusion of climate change-related
content in the future is somewhat inevitable. What we want to do is
prepare doctors who are graduating now, so we have also discussed
offering this as part of continuing medical education for those who
already have their degree.<br>
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The framework has not been disseminated widely yet, so we're looking
forward to hearing what our program director colleagues think.<br>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/10/doctors-offer-guide-for-teaching-the-health-effects-of-climate-change-in-medical-residency/">https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/10/doctors-offer-guide-for-teaching-the-health-effects-of-climate-change-in-medical-residency/</a><br>
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[Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges]<br>
<b>Climate Change and the Practice of Medicine</b><br>
Essentials for Resident Education<br>
Philipsborn, Rebecca Pass MD, <br>
Academic Medicine: September 8, 2020 - Volume Publish Ahead of Print
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doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003719<br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote>Despite calls for including content on climate change
and its effect on health in curricula across the spectrum of
medical education, no widely used resource exists to guide
residency training programs in this effort. This lack of resources
poses challenges for training program leaders seeking to
incorporate evidence-based climate and health content into their
curricula. Climate change increases risks of heat-related illness,
infections, asthma, mental health disorders, poor perinatal
outcomes, adverse experiences from trauma and displacement, and
other harms. More numerous and increasingly dangerous natural
disasters caused by climate change impair delivery of care by
disrupting supply chains and compromising power supplies.
Graduating trainees face a knowledge gap in understanding,
managing, and mitigating these many-faceted consequences of
climate change, which--expected to intensify in coming
decades--will influence both the health of their patients and the
health care they deliver. In this article, the authors propose a
framework of climate change and health educational content for
residents, including how climate change (1) harms health, (2)
necessitates adaptation in clinical practice, and (3) undermines
health care delivery. The authors propose not only learning
objectives linked to the Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education core competencies for resident education, but
also learning formats and assessment strategies in each content
area. They also present opportunities for implementation of
climate and health education in residency training programs.
Including this content in residency education will better prepare
doctors to deliver anticipatory guidance to at-risk patients,
manage those experiencing climate-related health effects, and
reduce care disruptions during climate-driven extreme weather
events.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Climate_Change_and_the_Practice_of_Medicine_.97003.aspx">https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/9000/Climate_Change_and_the_Practice_of_Medicine_.97003.aspx</a>
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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 12, 2007</b></font><br>
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US District Judge William Sessions III issues a 240-page decision
upholding Vermont's right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from
vehicles. <br>
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