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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>September 26, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[coming to Ca]<br>
<b>Triple-digit temperatures could spark new fires just a few weeks
after a record heatwave</b><br>
Gabrielle Canon - Fri 25 Sep 2020 <br>
California is bracing for another dangerously warm weekend, with dry
winds, parched vegetation, and triple-digit temperatures threatening
to ignite new fires and complicating containment efforts in an
embattled state.<br>
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With only a few weeks' reprieve after a record heatwave in early
September, firefighters have made progress in containing the dozens
of blazes tearing across the region. But fatigued crews - many of
whom have spent weeks fighting on the frontline - are preparing for
a potentially rough week ahead.<br>
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Red flag warnings have been issued across northern California from
Saturday through Monday. "Even if you live on the coast or in the
city, you're going to feel the heat Monday," Drew Tuma, a local ABC
meteorologist, said. "I expect some places to hit 106F, 107F Monday
- easily."<br>
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Heat isn't the only concern. Gusty winds and low humidity are
expected to elevate extreme fire dangers into early October,
especially as swaths of the state experience "severe drought",
according to analysts with the US Department of Agriculture.<br>
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In northern and central areas, the strongest winds were forecast to
occur from Saturday night into Sunday morning, followed by another
burst Sunday night into Monday. In southern California,
meteorologists anticipate very hot and dry weather conditions with
weak to locally moderate Santa Ana winds on Monday.<br>
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The Pacific Gas & Electric utility warned it may have to shut
off power to areas where gusts of wind could damage its equipment or
hurl debris into lines that could ignite flammable vegetation. The
utility posted a power cut "watch alert" for Saturday evening
through Monday morning for about 21,000 customers in portions of
northern Butte, Plumas and Yuba counties.<br>
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The heat isn't just weather - it's part of a trend. NASA researchers
who document the rising temperatures report that the fires and the
conditions that cause them are going to get worse.<br>
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"Heatwaves are becoming more frequent, lasting longer, and
increasing in night-time temperature and humidity, particularly in
urban regions such as the Los Angeles basin," reported Glynn Hulley,
a climate scientist at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who
co-authored a study this year on increasingly intense heatwaves. Los
Angeles recorded its highest temperature ever - 121F - in early
September...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/25/california-heatwave-temperatures-wildfires">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/25/california-heatwave-temperatures-wildfires</a><br>
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[measuring heat on maps]<br>
<b>California Heatwave Fits a Trend</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147256/california-heatwave-fits-a-trend">https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/147256/california-heatwave-fits-a-trend</a><br>
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[From Nexus Hot News]<br>
<b>Thousands Likely Dead From Wildfire Smoke Show 'The Hidden Cost
Of Air Pollution Exposure'</b>: As many as 3,000 people in
California over the age of 65 have died between August 1 and
September 10 because of the unprecedented smoke from the state's
record-breaking wildfires, according to researchers at Stanford
University. The estimate -- which other experts said was almost
certainly lower than the actual number of excess deaths caused by
wildfire smoke -- dwarfs the 26 confirmed fatalities caused directly
by the fires, and shows "the hidden cost of air pollution exposure,"
Marshall Burke, an associate professor of earth system science at
Stanford whose team estimated the impacts, told the San Francisco
Chronicle. Burke also said California's record-breaking extreme heat
could have been a factor. The Stanford estimates come amid growing
concern in the scientific and medical communities over the
potentially life-long harms caused by wildfire smoke exposure. Burke
also predicted the coronavirus pandemic and systemic racism and
inequality worsened the toll. "There's evidence that exposure to air
pollution worsens COVID-19 outcomes [and] there's this socioeconomic
and racial gradient to COVID-19 outcomes," he said. "We see much
worse outcomes among many minority groups." Both extreme heat and
wildfires are made worse and more likely by climate change, which is
caused by burning fossil fuels. "If we're in this for the long haul
(because) climate change isn't going away, we really need to stay on
top of this," Dr. Stephanie Christenson, an assistant professor and
pulmonologist at UC San Francisco, told the Chronicle. (San
Francisco Chronicle, Sacramento Bee, Chico Enterprise, ABC-7 KGO
News, AP, KTVU, Insider, Weather Channel; Long-term damage: Vox;
Climate Signals Background: Extreme heat, Wildfires, 2020 Western
wildfire season)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/20200925-thousands-dead-from-smoke-tornadoes-moving-wet-ashtray">https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/20200925-thousands-dead-from-smoke-tornadoes-moving-wet-ashtray</a>
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[source material]<br>
<b>Indirect mortality from recent wildfires in CA</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.g-feed.com/2020/09/indirect-mortality-from-recent.html">http://www.g-feed.com/2020/09/indirect-mortality-from-recent.html</a>
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[NPR ]<br>
<b>Are we missing the point about climate change?</b><br>
California is facing its worst wildfire season on record. Tropical
storms and hurricanes are brewing in the Atlantic with abnormal
frequency. The effects of climate change are becoming more apparent,
but if we focus on climate change as the problem to solve, we're
missing the bigger picture, say Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and
Katharine Wilkinson. They teamed up to co-edit the book "All We Can
Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis." The
book features poems, essays and other works of art by their "binder
full of climate women." Johnson and Wilkinson also created an
accompanying nonprofit, The All We Can Save Project.<br>
<br>
"Marketplace's" Molly Wood spoke to Johnson and Wilkinson about the
book and how they think of the intersection of the climate and
racial justice movements. The following is an edited transcript of
their conversation.<br>
<b>The carbon footprint concept</b><br>
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: Yeah, and even more so a problem caused by
a very small group of humans who made some horrible decisions on
behalf of the rest of us. One of the problems with the environmental
movement is that it has allowed the fossil fuel industry to spread
the blame across all of us. You know, BP created this concept of a
carbon footprint that we're now all obsessed with instead of
thinking about how we can focus on systems change, how we can
transform our energy and transportation and buildings and
agriculture and land use and manufacturing. That's the work that
needs to be done. Not just all of us, you know, not emitting
anything, because that doesn't work. I mean, we've seen during the
pandemic that even at the beginning, when people were all basically
staying home, that emissions only went down 7% or 8%. So the whole
individual responsibility thing is not going to get us there. And so
this book puts forward a more collective vision...<br>
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<b>Johnson</b>: It's not a major theme in the book. Katharine, did
you want to talk about our one main finance essay from Regine?<br>
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<b>Katharine Wilkinson</b>: Sure, yeah. So we were really excited to
collaborate with Regine Clement, who runs CREO. And she's grappling
with the question, how do we use the current economic system? How do
we use extractive capitalism to transform extractive capitalism? So
I think that the tricky thing to me is that the rules of the game
have to fundamentally change. We can't just play the game better. I
don't think that will get us to the kinds of radical emission cuts
that need to happen this decade, and then beyond. But there's
clearly a really strong economic case for climate solutions...<br>
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<b>Communities of color</b><br>
<b>Johnson</b>: I think we don't understand it, because we don't
want to, because it complicates something that is already really
hard, right? That's the pushback that I hear most often. It's not
like, "I'm a racist, and I want to save the planet." It's more like,
"Solving climate change is hard enough, without bringing in all
these other layers. Can we just please focus on climate change now,
first, and we'll deal with, like, police not murdering Black people
for no reason later?" And the answer is no. No, we can't. We have to
walk and chew gum on this one. And there are many reasons for that.
One is just it's the right thing to do. And so I hate having to give
other reasons. But one of those other reasons is, you know, we know
from polling by Yale and George Mason universities that people of
color actually are more concerned about the climate crisis. But how
can we expect Black people to be focused on climate solutions when
making sure they have the basic right to live and breathe? And so
this "I can't breathe" has become a rallying cry across the racial
and climate justice groups, that it's not just in relation to police
brutality, but in the ways that communities of color are burdened
with more polluted air and where power plants decide to locate
themselves, and then, you know, people who are breathing that dirty
are being more at risk for extreme forms of COVID. And so, of
course, these things are all connected. And wouldn't it be great if
we were building the winning team by including the people who were
already on board and wanted to help?<br>
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<b>Wilkinson</b>: And I just want to add that when we think about
climate change as "the problem," I think that's where we start to
miss these intersections and entanglements. When we understand,
actually, that climate change is a manifestation of the problem,
right? It's emerging out of a system that we're getting so much
feedback that it's not working. Racial violence is part of that
feedback. Massive wealth inequality as part of that feedback. The
epidemics of loneliness and meaninglessness are part of that
feedback. But if we're just thinking about climate change as "the
problem we need to solve," then our analysis isn't deep enough about
what's actually going on here, and that's what it's actually going
to take to solve it.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.marketplace.org/2020/09/24/are-we-missing-the-point-about-climate-change/">https://www.marketplace.org/2020/09/24/are-we-missing-the-point-about-climate-change/</a><br>
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[New climate book $29]<br>
<b>All We Can Save</b><br>
TRUTH, COURAGE, AND SOLUTIONS FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS<br>
Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645808/all-we-can-save-by-edited-by-ayana-elizabeth-johnson-and-katharine-k-wilkinson/">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645808/all-we-can-save-by-edited-by-ayana-elizabeth-johnson-and-katharine-k-wilkinson/</a>
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[Good question]<br>
Covering Climate Now is a global journalism initiative committed to
more and better coverage of the defining story of our time. <br>
<b>The Media's Climate Coverage Is Improving, but Time Is Very Short</b><br>
Climate Beat Newsletter<br>
Sep 23<br>
By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope<br>
<br>
In this autumn of horrific fires and deadly floods, it's easy to
overlook one bit of promising news on the climate front: Some major
US media coverage of the crisis is finally getting better.<br>
<br>
We're seeing the evidence this week as Covering Climate Now--a
collaboration of four hundred-plus news outlets, with a combined
audience of two billion people--publishes and broadcasts a profusion
of stories about climate change and the 2020 US elections. Climate
change has been largely overlooked in general-election coverage to
date, with one exception: September 14, when Donald Trump said of
California's record wildfires, inaccurately, that "science doesn't
know" whether the earth will keep getting hotter and his Democratic
opponent, Joe Biden, warned that re-electing a "climate arsonist" to
the White House would ensure worse blazes in the future.<br>
<br>
Covering Climate Now's week of coverage, which runs September 21
through 28, aims to give climate change the attention it deserves.
The collaborative, co-founded last year by CJR and The Nation in
association with The Guardian, aims to help news organizations
increase and improve coverage of the crisis as well as its
solutions. Even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the looming Supreme
Court battle, and the other huge news stories of 2020, "the climate
emergency remains the central question facing the world," United
Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a September 8
interview with Covering Climate Now. As Justin Worland wrote in a
landmark special issue of Time magazine on July 7, the US elections
will shape whether we "keep driving off the climate cliff or take
the last exit."<br>
<br>
NBC News, which joined Covering Climate Now in April, kicked off
this current week of joint coverage by launching a new series,
Planet 2020. Al Roker, the network's chief climate correspondent and
long-time weather forecaster, has been talking about climate change
on the Today show for months, describing its links to wildfires and
hurricanes without wiggle words or alarmism. Now, Roker and cohost
Savannah Sellers, the host of NBC's daily digital news show Stay
Tuned, are connecting the dots between extreme weather, climate
change, and the 2020 elections where, as Sellers reported,
"millennials and Gen-Z will make up 37 percent of eligible voters
and concern over climate change is ... shaping up to be more
important to all voting blocs than ever before." <br>
<br>
Also this week, our partners at Reuters and Agence France Presse
delivered a story to their thousands of newsroom clients around the
world that puts the Paris Agreement goals in a new light, reporting,
"The richest one percent of people are responsible for more than
twice as much carbon pollution as the poorest half of the world's
population."<br>
<br>
Good climate coverage by Covering Climate Now partners is begetting
good climate coverage among the media as a whole. More of America's
leading newspapers are speaking more loudly and plainly about
climate change, notably The New York Times, The Washington Post, the
Philadelphia Inquirer, the Arizona Republic, and the Los Angeles
Times. The latter headlined a September 14 story about the state's
wildfires "A Climate Apocalypse Now." Among magazines, Bloomberg has
launched a new digital outlet and accompanying print edition,
Bloomberg Green, that is a must-read for the far-reaching economic
aspects of the climate story.<br>
<br>
On television, Covering Climate Now partner PBS NewsHour continues
to set the pace for sustained, informed climate coverage. And on
August 8, CNN rebroadcast climate correspondent Bill Weir's "The
Road to Change," a documentary that we praised in April as perhaps
the best piece of climate journalism ever done by a mainstream US
news outlet. <br>
<br>
The problem is, these and other examples of first-rate climate
coverage remain the exception.<br>
<br>
Despite recent orange skies over the West Coast and fearsome storm
surges in the Gulf of Mexico, not to mention the 32 years since NASA
scientist James Hansen's US Senate testimony that man-made global
warming had begun, the climate crisis remains a marginal
afterthought in most US news coverage. Chris Wallace of Fox News has
announced that he will not even raise the subject of climate change
when moderating the first presidential debate between Trump and
Biden next week.<br>
<br>
And consider the scandalous absence of climate change from most
coverage of the wildfires, Hurricane Laura, the Iowa derecho, and
countless other extreme weather events of 2020. Only one of the
ninety-three news segments that ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, and MSNBC
aired during the week after Laura slammed the Louisiana coast
connected the storm to climate change, according to a study by the
watchdog group Media Matters. Of forty-six segments ABC, NBC, and
CBS aired on the California wildfires, only seven mentioned climate
change. <br>
<br>
This is media malpractice. It is also, from a business point of
view, foolish: the public actually wants more, not less, climate
coverage. According to a poll released today by our partners at The
Guardian and VICE Media, 74 percent of likely voters want the
moderators to ask climate questions at the upcoming presidential
debates.<br>
<br>
We are heartened by the progress Covering Climate Now has made in
helping the media rise to the existential challenge of the climate
crisis. Yet even as we celebrate that progress this week, we
recognize how far there is to go, and how little time we have to get
there. The first presidential debate takes place on September 29,
and five weeks later is Election Day. Between now and then,
newsrooms should follow the advice of Washington Post media
columnist Margaret Sullivan: "This subject must be kept front and
center, with the pressure on and the stakes made abundantly clear at
every turn."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.coveringclimatenow.org/climate-beat/medias-coverage-is-improving-but-time-is-short">https://www.coveringclimatenow.org/climate-beat/medias-coverage-is-improving-but-time-is-short</a>
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[news media on strike for more climate change coverage]<br>
<b>Climate Uprise</b><br>
<b>We are in a climate emergency.</b><br>
If we continue at our current rate of warming, scientists predict
that by 2100, sea levels will rise by more than three feet, up to a
fifth of everything living in the world's oceans will die, and more
than 200 million people will be displaced. On September 25, VICE
Media Group is joining Fridays for Future's Global Climate Day of
Action by going on digital strike: For 24 hours, we're solely
telling stories about the devastating effects of climate change
throughout the world and highlighting the people who are doing
something about it. Read our coverage of the crisis on<br>
VICE, Refinery 29, i-D, and Garage. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep43bn/climate-uprise">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep43bn/climate-uprise</a><br>
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[we are in early stages of exponential change]<br>
<b>The Planet Is Probably in Worse Shape Than We Can Even Predict</b><br>
Scientific estimates could be lowballing how bad the climate crisis
will get.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4gyw/the-planet-is-probably-in-worse-shape-than-we-can-even-predict">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4gyw/the-planet-is-probably-in-worse-shape-than-we-can-even-predict</a><br>
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[Wry headline not a joke ]<br>
<b>New Study Shows We Actually Do Live in Hell</b><br>
Dharna Noor<br>
Wednesday <br>
The climate crisis is bringing hellish conditions to the U.S.
Drought? Yup. Heat waves? Big time. And when those two forms of
extreme weather transpiring at the same time, the combination is
devastating. Just look at what we're seeing with the record-breaking
wildfires out West.<br>
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New research shows that the U.S. is seeing a lot more instances of
combined heat wave and drought events. And without drastic climate
action, those disasters will happen more often--and get worse.<br>
<br>
For the new study, published in Science Advances on Wednesday,
researchers analyzed instances of extremely hot and dry weather over
the past 122 years. To do so, they looked at precipitation and
temperature data from 1896 through 2017 from the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, and used several statistical and
geospatial techniques to tease out patterns in the frequency,
intensity, and locations of these climate catastrophes...<br>
<br>
Using a form of analysis called joint probability distributions of
climate observations, the authors determined what events qualified
as 25-year, 50-year, and 75-year events (as in, events that should
occur just once in every 25, 50, and 75 years). They found that
these conditions transpire far more frequently than they used to.
Progress--but the bad kind.<br>
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The study also found the areas that experience these compound events
are becoming more clustered: Rather than a smattering of scattered
regions seeing dry heat waves, the impacted areas are now larger and
closer together, which can put a huge strain on regional and
national relief efforts. To make matters worse, these climate
emergencies are happening in more places. The authors observed that
areas up north which were previously too wet and cold to see these
combined events are now experiencing them.<br>
<br>
The findings suggest that there's been a shift in what causes these
hot and dry events to happen. While the devastating heat and drought
of the 1930s Dust Bowl was primarily triggered by a lack of rain,
these days, extreme heat--which can cause moisture to evaporate--is
the big driver.<br>
<br>
"This is important because even in a slightly below normal
precipitation year, we might observe moderate to severe drought,"
Mojtaba Sadegh, an assistant civil engineering professor at Boise
State University who co-authored the study, wrote in an email.<br>
<br>
We're already seeing how awful these climate emergencies can be. Dry
heat is the perfect condition for wildfires to spark, especially
when you throw some strong winds into the mix (again, see: this
year's fires out West).<br>
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And even without fires, hot, dry weather poses giant challenges for
agriculture.<br>
<br>
"If it is hot, you need more water for irrigation, and if there is
drought, there is no water for that purpose," Sadegh said.<br>
<br>
This is all evidence that we need urgent action to curb the climate
crisis, or we'll risk more deadly fires and major damage to our food
supply. But if you're not convinced by, uh, the need to preserve
conditions that can support human life, maybe the price tags will
convince you. The authors note that in the U.S., three drought and
heatwave events between 2011 and 2013 caused damages equaling
roughly $60 billion.<br>
<br>
Even if emissions drop to zero tomorrow, we'll still need to adapt
to this new hot and dry world, a point Sadegh stressed. We need to
stop building new developments in fire-prone areas, improve our
water irrigation systems, and make our agriculture systems more
resilient. We also need to rebuild our ecosystems so they can
withstand increasingly extreme stress.<br>
<br>
"Reintroducing beavers to North American river valleys, for example,
can be one approach to increasing water holding capacity of
watersheds and enhancing resilience to climatic extremes," Sadegh
said.<br>
<br>
Of course, we also need urgent action to draw down greenhouse gas
emissions globally. Otherwise, we'll just keep making America hotter
and more dry at a rate we might not be able to adapt to.<br>
<br>
"We need to act NOW! Aggressive emission cuts are needed today," he
said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/new-study-shows-we-actually-do-live-in-hell-1845156224">https://earther.gizmodo.com/new-study-shows-we-actually-do-live-in-hell-1845156224</a><br>
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[Lots of talk about media ]<br>
<b>Covering Climate Now - and How | Sustain What Friday News Review</b><br>
Streamed live Sept 25, 2020<br>
Andrew Revkin<br>
Join host Andy Revkin in a Sustain What conversation on next steps
for climate journalism with Mark Hertsgaard, a veteran climate
journalist and co-founder of the year-old Covering Climate Now
initiative; climate-media analyst Max Boykoff from the University of
Colorado, Boulder's Media & Climate Change Observatory;
Genevieve Guenther, the founder of End Climate Silence;
investigative journalist Elisabeth Gawthrop; and the Earth Institute
environmental epidemiologist Robbie Parks, who worked with Gawthrop
and a reporting team on a climate-focused investigative series,
Hidden Epidemics.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9Uh_5G-Tg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9Uh_5G-Tg</a><br>
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[Horror show weather]<br>
<b>Zombie storms are rising from the dead thanks to climate change</b><br>
By Yasemin Saplakoglu - Sept. 25, 2020<br>
2020 presents to you... "zombie storms."<br>
Wildfires are burning the West Coast, hurricanes are flooding the
Southeast -- and some of those storms are rising from the dead. <br>
<br>
"Zombie storms," which regain strength after initially petering out,
are the newest addition to the year 2020. And these undead weather
anomalies are becoming more common thanks to climate change.<br>
<br>
"Because 2020, we now have Zombie Tropical Storms. Welcome back to
the land of the living, Tropical Storm #Paulette," the National
Weather Service wrote on Twitter on Tuesday (Sept. 22).]<br>
Earlier this month, Tropical storm Paulette formed in the Atlantic
Ocean and made landfall in Bermuda as a Category 1 hurricane,
according to CNN. It then strengthened over land into a Category 2
hurricane, before weakening and dying off five and half days later.
..<br>
But then, Paulette opened her frightening eye once again. She wasn't
gone. <br>
<br>
Paulette regained strength and became a tropical storm once more
about 300 miles (480 kilometers) away from the Azores Islands on
Monday (Sept. 21), according to CNN. The term "zombie storm" is new,
and though the phenomenon has been recorded before, it is thought to
be rare. <br>
But zombie storms are going to happen more often, said Donald
Wuebbles, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. And as with other natural disasters
that have been intensifying in recent years, such as wildfires and
hurricanes, climate change and rapid global warming are to blame. <br>
<br>
There has been an "extreme amount of heating of the Gulf (of
Mexico), particularly in some of the ocean areas off of the
Carribean," Wuebbles told Live Science. The Gulf of Mexico, where
many hurricanes gain strength before hitting the U.S., is
particularly vulnerable to global warming because the gulf waters
are very shallow -- and thus heat up easily, Wuebbles said.<br>
<br>
Atlantic Ocean storms typically form in warmer parts of the ocean
near Africa, due to a combination of atmospheric and ocean
conditions. They then "race across" the ocean toward the Americas,
Wuebbles said. Hurricanes need warm water and moist air to form,
according to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
Storms grow if there's a continuous supply of energy from warm water
and air, and they weaken when they move over cooler waters or over
land.<br>
"If they're not so strong, in the past, they would just die out,"
over the Atlantic, Wuebbles said. But now, they reach warm water in
the Carribean region and pick up energy again, he added. This is
also true for storms that haven't died out yet. For instance, about
a month ago, Hurricane Laura strengthened overnight from a Category
1 storm to a Category 4 storm because it picked up energy from warm
water in the Gulf, Wuebbles said. <br>
<br>
With a warming globe, "storms are likely to become more intense," he
added. That means the idea of "zombie storms" may be here to stay. <br>
<br>
Thankfully Paulette seems to have become a post-tropical cyclone
once more and will die out soon, according to the National Hurricane
Center. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.livescience.com/zombie-storms-climate-change.html">https://www.livescience.com/zombie-storms-climate-change.html</a>
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[AP news of fire]<br>
<b>Largest California wildfire threatens marijuana growing area...</b><br>
The threatened marijuana growing area is in the Emerald Triangle, a
three-county corner of Northern California that by some estimates is
the nation's largest cannabis-producing region.
<p>People familiar with Trinity Pines said the community has up to
40 legal farms, with more than 10 times that number in hidden,
illegal growing areas.<br>
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Growers are wary of leaving the plants vulnerable to flames or
thieves. Each farm has crops worth half a million dollars or more
and many are within days or weeks of harvest.<br>
<br>
One estimate put the value of the area's legal marijuana crop at
about $20 million.<br>
<br>
"There (are) millions of dollars, millions and millions of dollars
of marijuana out there," Trujillo said. "Some of those plants are 16
feet (5 meters) tall, and they are all in the budding stages of
growth right now."<br>
<br>
Gunfire in the region is common. A recent night brought what locals
dubbed the "roll call" of cannabis cultivators shooting rounds from
pistols and automatic weapons as warnings to outsiders, said Post
Mountain volunteer Fire Chief Astrid Dobo, who also manages legal
cannabis farms.<br>
<br>
Hundreds of migrant workers typically pour into the area this time
of year to help trim and harvest the plants, but it's uncertain
whether that population dwindled due to the coronavirus pandemic,
said Julia Rubinic, a member of the Trinity County Agriculture
Alliance, which represents licensed cannabis growers.<br>
<br>
Mike McMillan, spokesman for the federal incident command team
managing the northern section of the August Complex, said fire
officials plan to deliver a clear message that "we are not going to
die to save people. That is not our job."..<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-sacramento-marijuana-cannabis-fires-dcdfa5f82a53302d4d9b9d22e1f5b320">https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-sacramento-marijuana-cannabis-fires-dcdfa5f82a53302d4d9b9d22e1f5b320</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 26, 2015 </b></font><br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"When President Obama tried to tackle climate change in
his first term, he pushed Congress to limit and put a price on
carbon pollution, but the so-called cap-and-trade bill died in the
Senate in 2010. Among the chief reasons: Lawmakers from both
parties feared that any law to cut greenhouse gas emissions would
harm the nation's competitiveness compared with China, which was
then emerging as the world's largest polluter.<br>
<br>
"Since then, Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates have
repeatedly cited China's lack of action on climate change as the
chief reason that the United States should not take stronger
action.<br>
<br>
"On Friday in the Rose Garden, the story of how Washington and
Beijing will fight climate change took a stunning turn as
President Xi Jinping of China stood with Mr. Obama and announced
that China would put in place its own national cap-and-trade
system in 2017. Environmentalists hailed the announcement as
historic and said that China's move should effectively end
Republicans' main objection to enacting a domestic climate change
policy."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/world/asia/beijing-puts-ball-back-in-washingtons-court-on-climate-change.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/world/asia/beijing-puts-ball-back-in-washingtons-court-on-climate-change.html</a><br>
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