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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>September 14, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[NYT news]<br>
<b>In Visiting a Charred California, Trump Confronts a Scientific
Reality He Denies</b><br>
A president who has mocked climate change and pushed policies that
accelerate it is set to be briefed on the scorched earth and
ash-filled skies that experts say are the predictable result...<br>
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If Mr. Biden is elected, he has vowed to rejoin the Paris agreement
and reinstate those rules, while pushing to enact even stronger
policies, spending up to $2 trillion to promote the development of
renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.<br>
<br>
But experts said it may take far more than that to rebuild the
American climate change legacy -- or its ability to persuade other
governments to take similar action. That is a profound consequence,
the experts said, because climate change is a global problem and
cannot be meaningfully mitigated unless the world's largest
polluters all work in concert.<br>
"The really big effect of what Trump has done is to send a message
to the rest of the world that the United States is not credible on
climate change," said Mr. Victor of the University of California,
San Diego. "The rest of the world is not going to know if we're
serious because we keep swinging back and forth."<br>
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"Over the past 50 years, the effectiveness in creating international
deals came from U.S. leadership," he added. "And now nobody knows if
we're going to do that anymore."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/politics/california-fires-trump-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/politics/california-fires-trump-climate-change.html</a>
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[winds of change]<br>
<b>As Wildfires Burn Out of Control, the West Coast Faces the
Unimaginable</b><br>
Firefighters across California and Oregon are bracing for stronger
winds that could partly clear the air -- but also fan the flames of
uncontrolled blazes...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/Wildfires-Oregon-California-Washington.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/Wildfires-Oregon-California-Washington.html</a><br>
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[MediaMatters]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>Cable news largely failed to mention the
connection between climate change and wildfires in its coverage</b></font><br>
Only 13% of segments on the wildfires mentioned climate change<br>
- -<br>
Prime-time coverage of the wildfires was abysmal across all three
networks. Out of 12 hours of programming, MSNBC dedicated 12 minutes
of coverage to the fires in prime time, while CNN dedicated just
three minutes of coverage over the four-day period. Fox News
dedicated nearly six minutes; but it was largely in one segment from
Carlson focused on denying the connection between the wildfires and
climate change, despite overwhelming evidence that our overheated
climate is playing a role in intensifying the fires in California
and across the West.<br>
<br>
Notably, the cable coverage mirrors broadcast TV news' failure to
connect the dots between climate change and the devastation
unfolding in the West Coast. Over a four-day period from September 5
through 8, only 15% of broadcast coverage of the wildfires mentioned
climate change, meaning almost all television news programs have
largely reported these historic fires as an isolated phenomenon
instead of part of the climate crisis we are in.<br>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/cable-news/cable-news-largely-failed-mention-connection-between-climate-change-and-wildfires-its">https://www.mediamatters.org/cable-news/cable-news-largely-failed-mention-connection-between-climate-change-and-wildfires-its</a><br>
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[E&E News]<br>
<b>Earth Hasn't Warmed This Fast in Tens of Millions of Years</b><br>
Chemical analyses of ancient sediments allowed scientists to put
together one of the most comprehensive climate histories of the
planet...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-hasnt-warmed-this-fast-in-tens-of-millions-of-years/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-hasnt-warmed-this-fast-in-tens-of-millions-of-years/</a><br>
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[cough, cough]<br>
<b>The Fires May be in California, but the Smoke, and its Health
Effects, Travel Across the Country</b><br>
Fine particulate matter and ozone from wildfire smoke are associated
with heart and lung diseases, compromised immune systems and even
vulnerability to Covid-19...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082020/california-fire-smoke-health-effects">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26082020/california-fire-smoke-health-effects</a><br>
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[trends]<br>
ENVIRONMENT<br>
<b>Heatwaves are becoming more deadly as nights warm faster than
days</b><br>
<blockquote>- The U.S. this summer has experienced stifling hot
temperatures that have set all-time records and put millions of
people under excessive heat warnings. <br>
- Lower nighttime temperatures that typically provide critical
relief from the hot days are disappearing as the climate changes.<br>
- Temperature extremes are a result of global climate change as
well as a so-called urban heat island, which occurs when heat from
the daytime is taken in by heat-absorbing asphalt or concrete,
driving hotter nights and early mornings.<br>
- Dry and hot conditions exacerbate wildfires, which are currently
tearing through California, Oregon and Washington state. <br>
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Climate change is making heatwaves and droughts more common, intense
and widespread. Dry and hot conditions exacerbate wildfires, which
have grown more destructive in recent years. Dozens of major fires
are currently burning through the U.S. West Coast, destroying
hundreds of homes and wiping out entire neighborhoods in Oregon. <br>
<br>
Climate change is also causing more humid heatwaves. Hot and
saturated air doesn't allow sweat to evaporate as quickly and causes
the body to heat up even more, which can be deadly. <br>
<br>
"The trend in California that we have seen since the heat wave in
2006 is heat waves are also more humid, and Californians are
generally not acclimated to high levels of humidity and high
temperatures -- it's this combo that is most deadly," said Rupa
Basu, chief of air and climate epidemiology for the California
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment...<br>
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Across the world, every decade over the last 60 years has been
hotter than the last. It's virtually certain that 2020 will be among
the top hottest years in recorded history. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/12/climate-change-why-heatwaves-are-more-deadly-as-nights-warm-faster.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/12/climate-change-why-heatwaves-are-more-deadly-as-nights-warm-faster.html</a><br>
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[Writer speaks his opinion on Extinction Rebellion]<br>
<b>George Monbiot reacts to UK Gov 'organised crime'
reclassification attempt | Extinction Rebellion UK</b><br>
Sep 13, 2020<br>
Extinction Rebellion<br>
George Monbiot talks about authoritarian creep from the UK
government and why attempts to reclassify Extinction Rebellion as
'organised criminals' is a sign of Extinction Rebellion's success so
far.<br>
<br>
Today George has along with Stephen Fry, Sir Anthony Gormley, Andrea
Arnold OBE, Massive Attack, Stewart Lee, Sir Mark Rylance, Baroness
Helena Kennedy QC, Dr Rowan Williams and more than a hundred other
public figures have responded to those government and press
assertions in an open letter.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6H0EfOFDTY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6H0EfOFDTY</a><br>
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[feedback problem]<br>
<b>Arctic disintegration is worse than we thought.</b><br>
Sep 13, 2020<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Arctic sea ice is disappearing faster than we thought! That's a
phrase we've seen so often in the news recently that it's become
quite easy to just tune it out. But a raft of research published in
the Summer of 2020 finds that it's not just the sea ice but ALL of
the feedbacks loops in the region that are gaining pace at an
alarming rate, including the atmospheric temperature, the heat
stored in the oceans, the release of methane from thawing permafrost
and the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, all of which directly
contribute to the catastrophic climate change we're witnessing
everywhere on the planet.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz6WxTH-p3o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz6WxTH-p3o</a><br>
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[cough, cough, it's solistalgia]<br>
<b>Column: There's actually a word for the climate change-induced
despair you've been feeling</b><br>
Sitting at the dinner table with his wife, the philosopher struggled
to characterize the specific nature of their pain -- a pain
"experienced when there is recognition that the place where one
resides and that one loves is under immediate assault."<br>
<br>
Glenn Albrecht, the philosopher in question, and his wife, Jill,
first thought of the concept of nostalgia -- because, as Albrecht
writes, the term was once linked to "a diagnosable illness
associated with the melancholia of homesickness for people who were
distant from their home."<br>
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According to a 2017 American Psychological Assn. report Clayton
coauthored, the acute impacts will probably include more trauma and
post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake of climate change-induced
extreme weather and other major destabilizing events. Chronic
impacts could manifest as a heightened sense of helplessness,
hopelessness or fatalism as people reckon with profound changes to
their environment or what they see as their lack of control over
what's happening.<br>
<br>
But Clayton says some of the more incremental impacts of climate
change could damage our psychological well-being.<br>
<br>
"There is very good evidence that, for example, hot weather actually
is bad for our mental health," she explained. "You see increases in
suicide rates, increases in aggression and increases in psychiatric
hospitalization."...<br>
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So what is the middle ground between sticking our heads in the sand
and becoming psychologically overwhelmed by what we know? Say you
are lucky enough to be outside the path of acute danger, at least
for today. How can we lead a meaningful life with these threats
looming, knowing so much is beyond our control?<br>
<br>
"For all of us, we need to find this way of thinking -- There is
something I can do," Clayton said. Maybe you can't save the world,
but you can exert some small sense of control over your corner of
it, even with something as simple as readying your own evacuation
plans. She also mentioned pressing local officials on certain
issues, or voting to address the matter at hand.<br>
<br>
I worry that invoking these small steps might sound glib or
Pollyanna-ish, particularly in the face of such flagrant
destruction, made possible by so many years of greed and ineptitude.
We obviously need large-scale, sustained action from every level of
leadership. But if you are feeling profound grief and despair,
personal action can at least help repair your own sense of
powerlessness.<br>
<br>
Writing recently about his own reckoning with climate despair, my
colleague Sammy Roth, an energy reporter at The Times, quoted a line
from the rabbinic teachings of Pirkei Avot that I have thought about
often in the weeks since: "It is not your responsibility to finish
the work of perfecting the world, but you are not free to desist
from it either."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-13/solastalgia-climate-change-induced-despair">https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-13/solastalgia-climate-change-induced-despair</a><br>
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[important from last month]<br>
<b> </b><b>California is broiling and burning. Here are ideas for
dealing with climate despair</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2020-08-20/boiling-point-california-broiling-burning-boiling-point">https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2020-08-20/boiling-point-california-broiling-burning-boiling-point</a>---<br>
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[Sunday was a nice day for a spiritual message]<br>
<b>a course by bayo akomolafe</b><br>
<blockquote>
<p>I am quite confident that even as the oceans boil, and the
hurricanes beat violently against our once safe shores, and the
air sweats with the heat of impending doom, and our fists
protest the denial of climate justice, that there is a path to
take that has nothing to do with victory or defeat: a place we
do not yet know the coordinates to; a question we do not yet
know how to ask. The point of the departed arrow is not merely
to pierce the bullseye and carry the trophy: the point of the
arrow is to sing the wind and remake the world in the brevity of
flight. There are things we must do, sayings we must say,
thoughts we must think, that look nothing like the images of
success that have so thoroughly possessed our visions of
justice.</p>
May this new decade be remembered as the decade of the strange
path, of the third way, of the broken binary, of the traversal
disruption, the kairotic moment, the posthuman movement for
emancipation, the gift of disorientation that opened up new places
of power, and of slow limbs. May this decade bring more than just
solutions, more than just a future - may it bring words we don't
know yet, and temporalities we have not yet inhabited. May we be
slower than speed could calculate, and swifter than the pull of
the gravity of words can incarcerate. And may we be visited so
thoroughly, and met in wild places so overwhelmingly, that we are
left undone. Ready for composting. Ready for the impossible. -
Bayo Akomolafe (PhD), Teacher/Host<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://course.bayoakomolafe.net/">https://course.bayoakomolafe.net/</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 14, 2004 </b></font><br>
<p>British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares that climate change is
"...a challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in
its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence."
He further notes:<br>
<br>
"The problem...is that the challenge is complicated politically by
two factors. First, its likely effect will not be felt to its full
extent until after the time for the political decisions that need
to be taken, has passed. In other words, there is a mismatch in
timing between the environmental and electoral impact. Secondly,
no one nation alone can resolve it. It has no definable
boundaries. Short of international action commonly agreed and
commonly followed through, it is hard even for a large country to
make a difference on its own.<br>
<br>
"But there is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that
timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight
and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence
of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it
entirely."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/sep/15/greenpolitics.uk">http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/sep/15/greenpolitics.uk</a>
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