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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>September 24, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[Yale's Leiserowitz]<br>
<b>Voters want climate questions at the debates</b><br>
One week before the first presidential debate of the U.S. general
election, our new national poll finds strong voter support for
climate action and for moderators asking Joe Biden and Donald Trump
questions about climate change during the presidential debates.<br>
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About three-quarters (74%) of registered voters say they want
climate questions asked during the three presidential debates,
according to our new poll conducted on behalf of The Guardian, VICE
Media Group and Covering Climate Now with Climate Nexus, and the
George Mason University Center on Climate Change Communication.<br>
<br>
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of registered voters say they are more
likely to vote for a candidate who supports 100% clean electricity
by 2035, and seven out of 10 (70%) support the United States’
participation in the Paris Agreement. Almost two-thirds (65%) of
voters say comprehensive climate legislation should be a priority
for the next Congress and the president in 2021, including about a
third (34%) who say it should be a top priority.<br>
<br>
A partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats around climate
change persists, but a majority (72%) of American voters across the
political spectrum support climate action, including majorities of
Democrats (85%), Independents (71%), and Republicans (56%)...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/">https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/</a><br>
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[why not 2025?]<br>
<b>Newsom calls for California ban on new gas-fueled cars by 2035</b><br>
By COLBY BERMEL 09/23/2020 <br>
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SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for California to ban new
gasoline-fueled vehicles within 15 years in a bid to combat climate
change and make the state the first in the nation to stop sales of
cars with internal combustion engines.<br>
<br>
The Democratic governor on Wednesday signed an executive order that
directs the California Air Resources Board to establish regulations
requiring that all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California
in 2035 be zero-emission vehicles...<br>
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Kassie Siegel, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s
Climate Law Institute, called it "rhetoric rather than real action."<br>
<br>
"Newsom can’t claim climate leadership while handing out permits to
oil companies to drill and frack," she said in a statement. "He has
the power to protect Californians from oil industry pollution, and
he needs to use it, not pass the buck."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/09/23/newsom-calls-for-california-ban-on-new-gas-fueled-cars-by-2035-1317947">https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/09/23/newsom-calls-for-california-ban-on-new-gas-fueled-cars-by-2035-1317947</a><br>
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[1 million]<br>
<b>As wildfires, flooding, and hurricanes grow more frequent,
climate migration begins</b><br>
More than 1 million disaster-related displacements have occurred
each year on average in the U.S. since 2016. Some people never
return home.By Samantha Harrington | Tuesday, September 22, 2020<br>
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Although it’s difficult to predict the number of people who may be
displaced by disasters like hurricanes and wildfires in the future,
six feet of sea level rise alone could force 13.1 million Americans
to move by 2100.<br>
<br>
In September 2020, more than 10% of the population of Oregon
evacuated from encroaching wildfires. Some may choose not to return.<br>
<br>
After the Valley Fire, an estimated 3,000 people were rendered
homeless. In the aftermath, Waldon and her husband lived for a time
in a trailer with their four cats and three dogs. "It was a
nightmare," she recalled...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/09/as-wildfires-flooding-and-hurricanes-grow-more-frequent-climate-migration-begins/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/09/as-wildfires-flooding-and-hurricanes-grow-more-frequent-climate-migration-begins/</a><br>
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[uh oh, salt water in the well]<br>
Nature Climate Change<br>
<b>Increasing threat of coastal groundwater hazards from sea-level
rise in California</b><br>
Published: 17 August 2020<br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
<blockquote>Projected sea-level rise will raise coastal water
tables, resulting in groundwater hazards that threaten shallow
infrastructure and coastal ecosystem resilience. Here we model a
range of sea-level rise scenarios to assess the responses of water
tables across the diverse topography and climates of the
California coast. With 1 m of sea-level rise, areas flooded from
below are predicted to expand ~50–130 m inland, and low-lying
coastal communities such as those around San Francisco Bay are
most at risk. Coastal topography is a controlling factor;
long-term rising water tables will intercept low-elevation
drainage features, allowing for groundwater discharge that damps
the extent of shoaling in ~70% (68.9–82.2%) of California’s
coastal water tables. Ignoring these topography-limited responses
increases flooded-area forecasts by ~20% and substantially
underestimates saltwater intrusion. All scenarios estimate that
areas with shallow coastal water tables will shrink as they are
inundated by overland flooding or are topographically limited from
rising inland.<br>
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<b>Main</b><br>
Over the next century, rising sea levels are predicted to cause
widespread inundation of coastal terrestrial areas, wetland loss and
more severe nuisance flooding. Relative sea levels are projected to
increase for much of Earth’s coastlines6, presenting a wide range of
coastal hazards for the ~1 billion people living in low-elevation
coastal areas by 2050... Along with the increasing exposure of
coastal communities to overland flood risk, rising sea levels will
cause unconfined coastal groundwater levels (that is, water tables)
to rise, leading to inland flooding hazards via subsurface
connections to the sea10. An improved understanding of the physical
controls on the severity of the groundwater hazards caused by
sea-level rise (as opposed to human-induced controls, such as
pumping causing saltwater intrusion) is therefore urgently needed.<br>
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Graphical definition of the saline groundwater wedge footprint and
saltwater intrusion.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0874-1/figures/8">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0874-1/figures/8</a><br>
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This gives a relative measure of the saltwater intrusion that can be
expected as the footprint migrates inland. With 1 m of sea-level
rise, saltwater intrusion in the flux-controlled models will expand
the wedge footprint inland to underlie ~50 km2 of new areas on
average...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0874-1">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0874-1</a><br>
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[Column]<br>
<b>Putting the Existential Threat of Climate Change Front and Center</b><br>
Until recently, the US mainstream media featured more climate
silence than climate science.<br>
By Katrina vanden Heuvel - Sept 22, 2020<br>
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When President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden meet on the
debate stage next week, many West Coast wildfires will almost
certainly still be raging. Moderator Chris Wallace should ask the
candidates about climate change, an issue on which they are starkly
divided.<br>
<br>
Biden believes that climate change is an "existential threat" that
demands immediate, far-reaching action--what scientists the world
over have been saying for decades. Given Trump’s recent remarks to
California officials, we shouldn’t expect much science from his
administration--more of Trump’s Earth-is-flat promises that
temperatures will magically "start getting cooler, you just watch."<br>
<br>
In good news, the eerie orange sky over San Francisco is returning
to blue, and firefighters are making progress against several of the
most significant wildfires. But, critically, that doesn’t mean the
larger issue is going away...<br>
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Until recently, the U.S. mainstream media featured more climate
silence than climate science. (Many foreign outlets have more
regularly covered the climate story, and its impact, for years.) No
questions were asked about climate change in the 2016 general
election debates. When a landmark U.N. report warned in 2018 of
calamitous consequences absent action in the next decade, only 22 of
the 50 largest U.S. newspapers featured the story on their home
pages.<br>
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More recently, when flames engulfed more than 44,400 square miles of
Australia and drove thousands of people from their homes, news
outlets filled with images of charred and displaced kangaroos,
koalas and other wildlife. By one estimate, nearly 3 billion animals
were killed. Many reports linked the fires to climate change. But
the fires faded from news coverage -- and public consciousness.<br>
<br>
New catastrophes lead to spikes in coverage. But sometimes media
outlets appear to have climate amnesia: Journalists forget to link
the latest incidents to the overall threats, and in the periods
between coverage spikes, the story goes largely unmentioned.<br>
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To be sure, some newsrooms have significantly ramped up climate
coverage, partly because Greta Thunberg and other young people drew
millions into the streets last year and forced media outlets to pay
attention. Separately, a critical mass of news organizations,
including the Nation -- of which I am editorial director -- and the
Columbia Journalism Review, collaborated to form Covering Climate
Now (CCNow) to encourage the media as a whole to do a better job of
covering the defining story of our time. The initiative features
some of the biggest news outlets, including the Guardian, NBC, CBS,
Reuters, Bloomberg and Agence France-Presse. An example of it
working: A year ago, CCNow partners published 3,640 climate stories
in a single week, making "climate change" the most-searched term on
Google. This week, CCNow outlets are collaborating on seven days of
coverage, with a focus on the coming U.S. elections.<br>
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Even in our digital era, television remains the leading news source
for Americans. This means that corporate behemoths and their
numerous local affiliate stations are the arbiters of what most
Americans learn about climate change. Underlying climate issues are
often absent from quick-hit broadcast segments. For instance, in 50
stories on ABC, CBS and NBC about Hurricane Laura late last month,
not one mentioned climate change, according to Media Matters, an
outlet that studies journalism coverage and trends. It found that
only 4 percent of broadcast news reports on the wildfires in August
mentioned climate change.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, Fox News and other right-wing media continue to live in
an alternate ecosystem, with Rush Limbaugh and others disputing a
connection between the California fires and climate change.<br>
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Unlike business or political stories that media outlets may play up
or down, climate change poses an existential threat to civilization
as we know it. If those who control what the public consumes online,
on television or in print fail to place the climate crisis in the
center of our national conversation, it verges on media malpractice.
Most news accounts shun terms such as "climate emergency" as
unacceptably activist, but "emergency" is the word that more than
11,000 scientists have used to describe our collective predicament.<br>
<br>
Several emergencies will drive voters this year: the pandemic, the
economic downturn, racial inequity and the long-awaited reckoning.
The climate emergency will not wait. Scientists say that we have a
scant 10 years to cut heat-trapping emissions in half by
transforming energy, agriculture, construction and other practices
-- or face indescribable catastrophe. This campaign season presents
an opportunity for the media to do better at explaining this
existential threat to the public and ask candidates at every level
of government what they plan to do.<br>
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As Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan put it: "This subject must
be kept front and center, with the pressure on and the stakes made
abundantly clear at every turn."<br>
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If a climate question isn’t asked at next week’s presidential
debate, journalists should follow up. Candidates must be asked
again, and again and again, how they will approach climate issues.
Our lives, and those of our children, depend on it.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-media-trump/">https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-media-trump/</a><br>
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[April 2019 indictment]<br>
<b>The media are complacent while the world burns</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cjr.org/special_report/climate-change-media.php">https://www.cjr.org/special_report/climate-change-media.php</a><br>
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[classic AOC video]<br>
<b>AOC explains why the Green New Deal is about more than climate</b><br>
AOC sits down with Chris Hayes at a town hall in the Bronx to talk
about how we need to "save ourselves and the planet." And she how
didn’t expect Republicans to "make total fools of themselves."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-explains-why-the-green-new-deal-is-about-more-than-climate-1468164675990">https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-explains-why-the-green-new-deal-is-about-more-than-climate-1468164675990</a>
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[Arctic update 5 min by NASA]<br>
<b>NASA Sees High Temperatures, Wildfires, Sea Ice Minimum Extent in
Warming Arctic</b><br>
Sep 21, 2020<br>
NASA Goddard<br>
On Sept. 15, 2020, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent
-- the second-lowest on record. This summer, temperatures soared in
the Siberian Arctic, and intense fires burned through peatland. The
Arctic region is warming three times faster than the rest of the
planet.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtM9KTVGFVw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtM9KTVGFVw</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 24, 2007 </b></font><br>
<p>California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses the United
Nations on his state's efforts to reduce carbon pollution.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climate-debate.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-address-to-the-united-nations-on-global-climate-change-r6.php">http://www.climate-debate.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-address-to-the-united-nations-on-global-climate-change-r6.php</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://youtu.be/LnPNvIHqaRo">http://youtu.be/LnPNvIHqaRo</a><br>
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