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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>September 18, 2020</b></font></i></p>
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<b>Google searches for climate refugee up 92% in past week</b><br>
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[clips from the Atlantic]<br>
<b>Why Republicans Still Don't Care About Climate Change</b><br>
Extreme-weather events represent an irresistible force for action.
But an immovable object is in the way.<br>
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RONALD BROWNSTEIN - Sept 17, 2020<br>
Mary Nichols has been part of the struggle to prevent catastrophic
climate change for about as long as anyone in American life. For
years, she's directed California's pathbreaking efforts to reduce
carbon emissions as the chair of the California Air Resources
Board--a position she held first in the 1970s before taking it up
again in 2007. Nichols has also served at the federal level, working
as the chief regulator for air pollution at the Environmental
Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. And yet
even Nichols has never seen anything that crystallizes the dangers
of climate change more clearly than the historic outbreak of
wildfires scorching California and other western states this year.<br>
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"Yes, absolutely," she told me earlier this week, when I asked her
whether this year's fires are the most tangible danger to California
that she's seen from climate change. "It's not suddenly going to
reverse itself … to years when there's no fire season, or it's not
going to happen until October. The changes are going to be real, and
they are going to be long-lasting."<br>
<br>
Carol Browner served as the EPA administrator for both of Clinton's
presidential terms and later worked as President Barack Obama's
first White House adviser on climate. When she looks at the
confluence of extreme-weather events battering the United States in
recent years--not only the wildfires, but also the Gulf Coast
hurricanes, Midwest flooding, and the Southwest's extreme
heat--Browner likewise sees stark evidence that climate change is
disrupting American life earlier and more powerfully than almost
anyone expected when the debate over these issues seriously began
about three decades ago.<br>
<br>
"What we have now is the absolute environmental demonstration or
evidence of just how dramatic the impact of climate change is going
to be. This is not going to stop," Browner told me. "There is going
to be something next year, and the year after, if we don't get on
it."<br>
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Environmental scientists and policy experts around the country agree
that the massive wildfires are just the latest indicator that
climate change has thrust the U.S., and the world, into a dangerous
new era. But it's far from certain that the growing recognition of
that threat can break the stalemate over climate policy in
Washington. The accumulating evidence about climate change's
destructive power represents an irresistible force for action. But
it's colliding with an immovable object: the unbreakable resistance
to any response among both Republican voters and elected officials.<br>
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Anthony Leiserowitz, the director of the Yale climate program, says
that in the past, even those Americans concerned about climate
change tended to see it as a remote problem. "It was distant in
time, [in] that the impacts won't be felt for a generation or more,"
he told me. And it was "distant in space"--"this is about polar
bears and maybe some developing countries, but not the United States
… not my friends, not my family, not me."<br>
<br>
Seen through that lens, he said, climate "just blended in the
background with 1,000 other issues out there … so we can deal with
it later. That's where more of the country was in 2007 and 2008. Now
we skip forward to today, that's not true anymore because of the
[weather] events we've been talking about."..<br>
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Even if Republicans remain obdurate, unified Democratic control of
Congress and the White House is more likely to produce climate
action than the last Democratic trifecta in 2009 and 2010, most
experts I spoke with said. At that point, the House Democratic
Caucus still contained a large number of southern and rural "blue
dog" members who resisted cap-and-trade climate legislation the
chamber passed in 2009. (Forty-four Democrats voted no.) Now the
House Democratic Caucus is overwhelmingly centered on urban and
suburban districts where acting on climate is popular. As Karpinski
said: "If you look at 2018, the key reason why Nancy Pelosi is now
the speaker [is because] it's mostly suburban and some of the
semi-urban districts. It's a combination of young people,
communities of color, and suburban women. They are the most
supportive of this issue and want action."<br>
<br>
If Biden wins and Democrats gain the Senate majority, he could drive
a big part of his climate agenda through a coronavirus-relief
stimulus package; his plan includes massive spending to promote
renewable power, electric cars, and energy-efficiency upgrades for
homes and businesses. Obama did the same thing in the stimulus
package he signed to counter the Great Recession, tucking in huge
investments in clean energy (that Biden as vice president was
assigned to oversee).<br>
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But to secure Senate approval for measures that directly limit
carbon emissions, Democrats would almost certainly have to end the
filibuster, which empowers what I've called the "brown blockade" of
Senate Republicans who represent the fossil-fuel-producing states.
(Unable to overcome a filibuster, the Senate never considered the
cap-and-trade climate bill the House passed in 2009.) And even if
Democrats do end the filibuster, serious climate legislation could
face a tight squeeze to reach a simple majority, with Joe Manchin,
from coal-producing West Virginia, and possibly other Democratic
senators having to take a very tough vote.<br>
<br>
All of those outcomes are impossible to predict. But what's clear is
that the tension will grow between a sluggish political system
locked in a partisan standoff and a climate system that is poised to
generate disruption at an accelerating pace. "This is not some 'new
normal' that we can plan around … it's a system that continues to
spiral out of control," says Vijay Limaye, an environmental
epidemiologist at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "There
definitely is a signal in these record-setting months that … we are
heading into a new era when we will see records set, and they will
fall just as quickly … It's hard for people to wrap their heads
around now, but as bad as things have been this year,
unquestionably, they will get worse."<br>
<br>
Nichols, the veteran climate regulator, is just as stark in her
warning: Even today's extreme weather may soon seem like the
(relative) calm before the storm. "The rate of change is
accelerating, so it is absolutely possible that we'll see more
visible signs of bigger storms," as well as higher temperatures and
sea-level rise, she said. "All of those things could happen much
faster."<br>
<br>
She explained that the famous apocalyptic scene from the movie The
Day After Tomorrow still isn't likely to happen, where big waves
wash over the skyscrapers of New York City. "But bigger storms and
more damage and loss of property and loss of life as a result
absolutely is likely going to continue--not just in a gradual slope,
but at a rate of acceleration that is greater than was predicted
before," she said.<br>
<br>
The biggest message of the California wildfires may be that not only
the terms but the tense of the climate debate is changing. Climate
change has evolved from something that will threaten America to
something that is doing so today. "The people who used to talk about
how they were trying to save the world for their grandchildren need
to start thinking about their children and even themselves," Nichols
said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/california-wildfires-and-politics-climate-change/616380/">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/california-wildfires-and-politics-climate-change/616380/</a><br>
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[BBC video report]<br>
<b>Why forest fires in Siberia, Russia threaten us all</b><br>
Wildfires in Siberia have been releasing record amounts of
greenhouse gases, scientists say, contributing to global warming.
The fires, fuelled by abnormally high temperatures, have been
burning as far north as the Arctic Circle.<br>
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BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg travelled to the remote
Yakutia region, in northeastern Russia, to gauge the effects of
climate change, both on local communities and on the planet.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-54126762">https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-54126762</a><br>
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[CBS 60 Minutes - on interview]<br>
<b>H.R. McMaster Says Terrorism, Climate Change Among Top Threats To
U.S. In '60 Minutes' Interview With Scott Pelley</b><br>
September 17, 2020...<br>
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Pelley's interview with McMaster will provide details about the
former National Security Advisor's battle with President Trump over
pulling troops out of Afghanistan, his thoughts on climate change
and the war against cyber security threats...<br>
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"McMaster is a fascinating character. He was a Lieutenant General, a
three star general and spent 33 years in the U.S. Army. When Donald
Trump asked him to be National Security Advisor, this was in 2017
and he was Trump's second National Security Advisor. He's a bit of
an iconoclast and that's the way he was as National Security
Advisor. The first thing he did when he went in as National Security
Advisor is change the president's mind about Afghanistan. The
president wanted out of Afghanistan and McMaster thought it was
important that we maintain troops there. One of the things that we
talk about in the story is how the president made this commitment to
McMaster, made this commitment in public and then reneged a little
over a year later."<br>
<br>
In his "60 Minutes interview," McMaster will address things he
things were terrific about the Trump administration and other things
he thought were tragic. Pelley's conversation with McMaster will
highlight McMaster's thoughts on the President Trump's relationship
with China and terrorism in the United States.<br>
<br>
"He [McMaster] believes that the threat of terrorism here in the
United States is far greater today than it was on 9/11," said
Pelley. "One of the things you might not expect the National
Security Advisor to talk about is climate change. McMaster believes
it is an enormous threat to the security of the world and to the
security of the United States. He talks about things like water
scarcity and food scarcity in the world and how that is going to be
an enormously disruptive thing as countries compete around the world
for dwindling resources. President Trump is of course famous for
calling climate change a hoax, but McMaster says it is not a hoax,
the evidence is in and climate change will be one of the most
significant threats to U.S. national security going forward."<br>
<br>
Pelley says one of the biggest challenges of covering the Trump
administration is getting people to talk to him and the 60 Minutes
team on camera. The CBS News veteran has seen fear prevent current
and former White House employees from speaking out and telling the
truth.<br>
<br>
"Many agencies in previous administrations would tell you what they
found," said Pelley. "In this administration, it's more typical I
find that the agency will go to the White House and say what should
we say. That's not the way democratic societies work. It's not the
way the truth is told to the people who actually hold the power in
this country."<br>
<br>
Watch "60 Minutes" Sunday, September 20 at 7 p.m. EST.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/09/17/scott-pelley-hr-mcmaster-60-minutes/">https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/09/17/scott-pelley-hr-mcmaster-60-minutes/</a>
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[Youth activism classic music video - from April]<br>
<b>No One Is Disposable</b><br>
Apr 25, 2020<br>
Youth Vs Apocalypse<br>
The music video for Youth Vs Apocalypse's first single "No One Is
Disposable" is out NOW!!!! Thanks to everyone that has worked so
hard through this entire process. Go to bit.ly/streamNOID to stream
on ALL PLATFORMS!!! #NoOneIsDisposable #GreenNewDeal #GND
#peoplesbailout #resisttrumpocalypse #solidarityforsurvival
featuring<br>
Coco Peila, Dulce C. Arias, RyanNicole, Lizbeth Ibarra, Katerina
Gaines, Sarah Goody <br>
Produced by G3RM <br>
Video by Frank Antonio López<br>
The song is now available on ALL PLATFORMS so click the link to
stream:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/youthvsapocalypse/no-one-is-disposable-feat-dulce-ryan-nicole--coco-peila">https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/youthvsapocalypse/no-one-is-disposable-feat-dulce-ryan-nicole--coco-peila</a><br>
see the video - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/q9905wtDb_U">https://youtu.be/q9905wtDb_U</a>
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[From the Lancet Planetary Health:]<br>
<b>Climate anxiety in young people: a call to action</b><br>
Judy Wu<br>
Gaelen Snell<br>
Hasina Samji<br>
September 09, 2020<br>
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DOI:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30223-0">https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30223-0</a>
<p>Climate change poses a major threat to human health. Emerging
studies are elucidating the physical health effects of climate
change, such as increased rates of heat-related illnesses and
infectious diseases and exacerbation of cardiopulmonary
conditions; however, research is scarce on the psychological
effects, particularly in young people (defined by WHO as
individuals aged 10–24 years) and youth (15–24 years) who might be
disproportionately affected. The climate crisis could precipitate
new psychological conditions and worsen existing mental illnesses
among young people experiencing climate anxiety, yet pervasive
data gaps preclude our ability to act.
Natural disasters precipitated by climate change including
hurricanes, heatwaves, wildfires, and floods can lead to direct
psychological effects, such as increased rates of depression,
anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and other mental health
disorders.3 However, psychological effects of climate change
unrelated to a climate event are less well characterised. Referred
to as eco-anxiety, climate distress, climate change anxiety, or
climate anxiety, these terms describe anxiety related to the
global climate crisis and the threat of environmental disaster.
Symptoms associated with climate anxiety include panic attacks,
insomnia, and obsessive thinking. Feelings of climate distress
might also compound other daily stressors to negatively affect
overall mental health, potentially leading to increases in
stress-related problems such as substance use disorders, anxiety
disorders, and depression. With little available data, the
prevalence of climate anxiety cannot be quantified, although there
are indications that young people are adversely affected.</p>
<p>
For instance, global youth-led climate strikes, federal lawsuits
demanding government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
and advocacy by young climate activists such as Greta Thunberg and
Isra Hirsi show that youth are anxious about their collective
futures. In 2019, in March alone, an estimated 1·6 million
school-aged protestors in 125 countries demanded action be taken
to combat climate change. Direct effects of the climate crisis on
youth are already apparent: the global concentration of
atmospheric carbon dioxide is the highest it has been in 3 million
years, sea levels are continuously rising, and global temperatures
are the hottest ever recorded. To compensate, the lifetime carbon
dioxide emissions (or carbon budget) of the average young person
today will need to be eight times less than that of their
grandparents to restrict global warming to 1·5C, as the limit set
out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2018.</p>
<p>
Youth might be more likely than adults to experience ill-effects
associated with climate anxiety. They are at a crucial point in
their physical and psychological development, when enhanced
vulnerability to the effects of stress and everyday anxiety
elevate their risk of developing depression, anxiety, and
substance use disorders.
Additionally, chronic stress during youth might result in
permanent alterations in brain structure and the emergence of
psychopathologies later in life. As such, the stress of a climate
crisis during a crucial developmental period, coupled with an
increased likelihood of encountering repeated stressors related to
climate change throughout life, will conceivably increase the
incidence of mental illness over the life course. However, few
attempts have been made to investigate the short-term and
long-term effects of climate anxiety on the mental health of
youth.</p>
<p>
Measuring the magnitude of the effects of climate anxiety on youth
mental health, identifying which groups are most affected, and
partnering with youth to develop approaches to mitigate the mental
health effects is a pressing priority. Valid and reliable tools
for measuring climate anxiety should be developed and implemented,
and standardisation in the field promoted to enable comparisons
among and within populations. Few tools have been published in
peer-reviewed research and, concerningly, even fewer measure
climate anxiety in young people. Of the studies in youth, many do
not focus specifically on climate anxiety and its effects on
mental health, but instead investigate alternative outcomes such
as the relationship between climate concern and environmental
actions. Thus, the development of climate anxiety scales (like in
the 2020 publication by Clayton and Karazsia) and validation in
diverse youth populations might be a first step in addressing this
knowledge gap, followed by prospective studies in young people to
improve understanding of the long-term effects on mental health.</p>
Mental health professionals, policy makers, and advocates need
robust evidence to mitigate the effects of climate anxiety and
stress on the short-term and long-term mental health of young
people. There has never been such a large population of young people
globally, nor do we anticipate any reversal of the impacts of
climate change. Young people are agents of change, our future
leaders, and most likely to succeed in improving planetary health.
Thus, making investments to improve their mental health and
wellbeing will provide dividends now and in the future.<br>
<br>
"The climate crisis could precipitate new psychological conditions
and worsen existing mental illnesses among young people experiencing
climate anxiety, yet pervasive data gaps preclude our ability to
act"<br>
<br>
It's open access here: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30223-0/fulltext">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30223-0/fulltext</a><br>
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[2 classic video statements from Naomi Klein]<br>
<b>Capitalism vs. the Climate: Naomi Klein on Need for New Economic
Model to Address Ecological Crisis<br>
</b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/18/capitalism_vs_the_climate_naomi_klein">https://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/18/capitalism_vs_the_climate_naomi_klein</a><br>
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</b> <b>Naomi Klein on Motherhood, Geoengineering, Climate Debt
& the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement</b><br>
Web Exclusive<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/18/naomi_klein_on_motherhood_geoengineering_climate">https://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/18/naomi_klein_on_motherhood_geoengineering_climate</a><br>
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[a little bit of science lecture]<br>
<b>How Tropical Cyclones, Hurricanes, Typhoons Change the Strength
and Waviness of Jet Streams: 1 of 3</b><br>
Sep 17, 2020<br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
My main intention in this 3 part video series is to show you how
large cyclones (hurricanes, tropical cyclones, typhoons, even
medicanes) interact with the jet streams, and can either add energy
to them (amplify them) or take energy from them, depending on their
size, extent, rotation direction, and proximity to ridges and/or
troughs. The modified jet stream (faster or slower; wavier or less
wavy; streakier or more uniform)) that results from this interaction
then propagates thousands of miles downstream and changes weather
there. Specifically, I show how the strong tropical cyclones that
hit the Japan, South Korea region amplified the ridges and troughs
of the jet stream, which then propagated downstream over many days
and then caused a record breaking weather whiplashing from record
warm temperatures in parts of Colorado to freezing temperatures and
even snowfall. It is clear that the jet stream, which guides storms,
can have high amplitude ridges and troughs that can break off the
jet stream (cutoff lows, for example) generating cyclones, and now
it should be clear that cyclones can themselves modify the jet
streams by interacting with them. <br>
Yes, the dog wags it's tail, but clearly the moving tail can also
wag the dog!!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOK_TWptBZ0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOK_TWptBZ0</a><br>
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[referred to]<br>
<b>Paul Beckwith: Post-doom with Michael Dowd</b><br>
Sep 6, 2020<br>
thegreatstory<br>
This conversation with climate systems scientist and abrupt climate
change expert, Paul Beckwith, was recorded August 31, 2020. To learn
more about Paul and his work see: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://paulbeckwith.net">https://paulbeckwith.net</a><br>
Regenerative conversations exploring overshoot, grief, grounding and
gratitude.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rigPcFJbgsk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rigPcFJbgsk</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 18, 2014 </b></font><br>
<p>The New York Times reports on preparations for the People's
Climate March.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/nyregion/busy-days-precede-climate-change-march-in-manhattan-on-sunday.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/nyregion/busy-days-precede-climate-change-march-in-manhattan-on-sunday.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone</a><br>
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"Democracy Now!" interviews Naomi Klein about her new book "This
Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/18/capitalism_vs_the_climate_naomi_klein">https://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/18/capitalism_vs_the_climate_naomi_klein</a>
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