<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 21, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[video interview with a fire photojournalist]<br>
<b>Apocalyptic Images from the West Coast Wildfires | Amanpour and
Company</b><br>
Sep 20, 2020<br>
Amanpour and Company<br>
Images from the West Coast wildfires are truly apocalyptic:
buildings in ashes, searing red skies cloaked in smoke, and entire
communities destroyed. Kent Nishimura has risked his life to
document all this in his role as photojournalist for the Los Angeles
Times. He joins the show to share his images and experiences from
the past few days.<br>
Originally aired on September 14, 2020.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l64hGuVoww">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l64hGuVoww</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
[like tobacco]<br>
<b>How the oil industry made us doubt climate change</b><br>
By Phoebe Keane<br>
BBC News<br>
- -<br>
"By cynically manipulating and distorting scientific evidence, the
manufacturers of doubt have seeded in much of the public a cynicism
about science, making it far more difficult to convince people that
science provides useful - in some cases, vitally important -
information.<br>
"There is no question that this distrust of science and scientists
is making it more difficult to stem the coronavirus pandemic."<br>
It seems the legacy of "the tobacco playbook" lives on.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53640382">https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53640382</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
[many in line to sue the oil companies]<br>
<b>Charleston aims to force fossil fuel companies to pay $2bn to
combat climate crisis</b><br>
South Carolina city sues large oil firms, claiming they concealed
knowledge that their product would cause damage to coastal cities
around the world...<br>
- - <br>
Flooding was a rare occurrence when Tecklenburg, who is 65, was
growing up in Charleston but it now blights the city. Each of his
five years as mayor has seen a major flood, with Hurricane Matthew,
in 2016, and Hurricane Irma, in 2017, causing vast volumes of water
to pour over the Battery, a historic seawall and tourist drawcard.<br>
<br>
"Our city and harbor became one," he said. "It’s now an annual
occurrence. People’s homes have been damaged, causing hundreds of
millions of dollars in insurance claims. It’s a major threat to our
city."...<br>
- - <br>
These efforts have yet to garner a significant breakthrough, with a
number of cases dismissed by judges, as the oil companies have
argued the moves are a frivolous waste of time. "There is no merit
to the claims," said a Chevron spokesman in response to the
Charleston lawsuit. "They are not a serious solution to a serious
problem. There is no evidence Chevron misled the public about
climate change. Those claims are false."<br>
<br>
Climate activists have retained hope, however, that the courts will
start to swing behind the cases and have been further buoyed by
promises made by Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for US president,
that his administration would pursue fossil fuel companies for
climate damages.<br>
<br>
The best sign the legal strategy is working is that "these cases are
proceeding through the court system", according to Ama Francis, a
fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law
School.<br>
<br>
"The public is ready to hold this corrupt industry accountable for
causing and lying about climate change, and officials across the
country are stepping up to take action," said Richard Wiles,
executive director of the Center for Climate Integrity.<br>
<br>
"As climate change floods cities like Charleston, Big Oil is now
knee-deep in lawsuits seeking justice for decades of the industry’s
lying about their central role in causing the problem."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/20/charleston-force-fossil-fuel-companies-pay-2bn-combat-climate-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/20/charleston-force-fossil-fuel-companies-pay-2bn-combat-climate-crisis</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<br>
[Euronews video 6 mins]<br>
<b>Special report: What's really happening in the Arctic and
Siberia?</b><br>
Aug 17, 2020<br>
euronews (in English)<br>
Draining lakes, advancing forests, and sinking permafrost - we
witness the reality of climate change in western Siberia and bring
you the latest Copernicus data on the Arctic region.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tAYdrQadaA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tAYdrQadaA</a><br>
<br>
<p><br>
</p>
[BBC video]<br>
<b>The Siberian landscape scarred by climate change</b><br>
18 SEPTEMBER 2020|CLIMATE CHANGE<br>
Scientists are warning that, across Siberia, vast swathes of ground
- normally frozen all year round - are thawing - with potentially
devastating consequences for the climate. As it thaws, the Earth is
believed to be releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases,
accentuating the problem of global warming.<br>
<br>
BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has been to the remote
Yakutia region to look at the thawing permafrost.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08rswtc/the-siberian-landscape-scarred-by-climate-change">https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08rswtc/the-siberian-landscape-scarred-by-climate-change</a><br>
<br>
<p><br>
</p>
[lecture]<br>
<b>Complexities of Jet Streams: Storms Near Japan Caused Wild
Weather Whiplashing in USA: Part 3 of 3</b><br>
Sep 19, 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>
<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=hWH4UJy7GV8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWH4UJy7GV8</a><br>
<br>
<p><br>
</p>
[An InsideClimate News Project - video]<br>
<b>AMERICAN CLIMATE</b><br>
The animating idea behind American Climate, a documentary series of
short video portraits and essays we published last year, was that
intensifying extreme weather events caused by climate change had
already become a frightening new normal for thousands of Americans
in ways that would affect millions, even tens of millions, in the
years ahead.<br>
Rising temperatures are strengthening the destructive force of
wildfires, hurricanes and floods, putting tens of millions of
Americans at risk.<br>
Tens of thousands of Americans are already paying a high price,
their lives shattered by climate calamities.<br>
Here are twenty-one of their stories, and more.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/american-climate">https://insideclimatenews.org/american-climate</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
[message design]<br>
<b>Six ways to make your science sticky</b><br>
Sep 18, 2020<br>
John Cook<br>
This Critical Thinking About Climate video is an in-depth explainer
on how to communicate science in a way that grabs attention, gets
shared, and sticks in people's memory. The six traits of sticky
messages are Simplicity, Unexpectedness, Concreteness, Credibility,
Emotion, and Story ( SUCCES). Effective messages share some of these
six traits. In this video, I offer a range of techniques to make
your science more sticky, providing a number of science
communication examples.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gXD0-n7pms">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gXD0-n7pms</a><br>
<br>
<p><br>
</p>
[Classic history from 1966]<br>
<b>Mining Congress Journal, August 1966 – Air Pollution and the Coal
Industry</b><br>
This is an August 1965 article titled "Air Pollution and the Coal
Industry" in the Mining Congress Journal, by James Garvey, then
President of Bitumous Coal Research Inc. Garvey’s company developed
pollution control equipment. He outlines the growing push to
regulate pollution from coal fired power plants.<br>
<br>
The abstract reads:<br>
"Growing demands for cleaner air have serious implications for the
coal industry since more than half of the coal used today goes for
generation of electricity and the coal-burning electric utilities
are most likely to be affected by any air pollution restrictions.
Garvey reviews the pollution in coal and discusses ordinances that
have been passed to restrict use of fuels containing in excess of
one percent sulfur."<br>
<br>
In the midst of an article focusing mainly on sulfur and
particulates, Garvey diverges under the subheading, "Emission of CO2
Under Serious Study" and writes:<br>
<br>
"Among the gaseous materials discharged from the stack is carbon
dioxide. This is not generally considered to be a pollutant inasmuch
as it has never been demonstrated to have any adverse effects on
plants or animals. However, to illustrate the far-reaching aspects
of the air pollution problem, it should be noted that serious
studies are underway to determine whether more restrictions should
be placed on the emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. There
is evidence that the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s
atmosphere is increasing rapidly as a result of the combustion of
fossil fuels. If the future rate of increase continues as it is at
the present, it has been predicted that, because the CO2 envelope
reduces radiation, the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere will
increase and that vast changes in the climates of the earth will
result. Such changes in temperature will cause melting of the polar
icecaps, which, in turn, would result in the inundation of many
coastal cities, including New York and London."...<br>
- - <br>
He concludes in a somewhat conciliatory tone, writing under the
subheading, "Situation is Urgent", "There is a matter of urgency
being placed on this subject of air pollution control. We are in
favor of cleaning up our air. Everyone can point to examples in his
own comment where something should be done. Our aim, however, is to
have control that does not precede the technical knowledge for
compliance. We are, in effect, "buying time". Removal of sulfur from
coal and SO2 from flue gases are just two of these."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatefiles.com/coal/mining-congress-journal-august-1965-air-pollution-and-the-coal-industry/">http://www.climatefiles.com/coal/mining-congress-journal-august-1965-air-pollution-and-the-coal-industry/</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 21, 1998 <br>
</b></font><br>
In an anecdote that explains the mainstream media's skittishness
about covering climate change, TIME's international editor, Charles
Alexander, is asked by the Wall Street Journal if TIME's "Heroes for
the Planet" series, which is sponsored by Ford, will cover
environmentalists critical of the automobile industry's role in
furthering climate change. Alexander responds that those
environmentalists won't be covered, noting, "We don't run airline
ads next to stories about airline crashes."
<p>
</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/fear-amp-favor-2000-the-first-annual-report/">http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/fear-amp-favor-2000-the-first-annual-report/</a><br>
</p>
<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>