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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>November 24, 2020</b></font></i> <br>
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[BBC]<br>
<b>Biden cabinet: John Kerry named climate envoy as inner circle get
key posts</b><br>
US President-elect Joe Biden is to nominate one of the leading
architects of the Paris climate agreement as his climate envoy.<br>
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Ex-US Secretary of State John Kerry was one of several named for top
positions by the Biden transition team on Monday.<br>
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It marks a big break with the climate policy under the Trump
administration as Mr Biden makes good on his campaign pledge to
tackle climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55046714">https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55046714</a><br>
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[looking up from the NYTimes]<br>
<b>Finding Hope When Things Feel Gloomy</b><br>
Creating hope may be an uphill climb, but there are ways to get
there.<br>
By Jenny Taitz - Nov. 18, 2020<br>
<br>
In my practice as a clinical psychologist, on more days than not, I
hear some version of this plea: "How can I feel hopeful without
deluding myself?"<br>
<br>
I get it. While helping appropriately skeptical people build
meaningful lives, I never want to sugarcoat the state of the world.
Feeling frustration and pain makes sense during this unnerving time.<br>
<br>
Yet there is still room for hope, which isn't a flimsy feeling or
about convincing yourself that things will improve. Hope is an
action-filled process -- and I teach my patients to look at it that
way, too. According to a renowned hope researcher, Dr. Charles
Snyder, who was a professor in psychology at the University of
Kansas, hope arises when you identify paths to approach your goals
alongside a willingness to persevere despite obstacles.<br>
<br>
When you equate hope with empowering behaviors, it doesn't feel
optimistic so much as realistic.<br>
<br>
But even when pursuing hope feels unnatural, it can be liberating.
Maintaining hope when facing challenges predicts both emotional and
physical resilience, while hopelessness, or the combination of
experiencing negative life events and believing you're powerless,
fuels depression.<br>
<br>
"Hope is a psychological stabilizer -- it protects our well-being
from stressful events," said Mark Manson, an author who writes about
hope and happiness.<br>
<br>
Even if you feel emotionally depleted now, research suggests that
it's possible to consciously and systematically increase hope. In
analyzing dozens of studies on brief hope interventions in older
adults, Silvia Hernandez, a doctoral candidate at Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland, said cognitive behavioral therapies
can significantly improve hope in people struggling with depression,
health and bereavement.<br>
<br>
"We know that if we can help a person bear the storm, they will
eventually see sunlight," Ms. Hernandez said. "Holding onto the
smallest sliver of hope can be enough to pull us through and
ultimately save a life."<br>
<br>
Here are some of my favorite ways to spark and maintain hope in hard
times.<br>
<br>
<b>Control what you can</b><br>
While you should allow yourself to experience a certain amount of
distress and mourning, step away from the urge to give up entirely.
When crises in the world at large feel out of your control, thinking
about the various components of your life -- and setting small,
specific goals to improve them -- can help reduce feelings of
helplessness.<br>
<br>
"I remember the values, like kindness and compassion, that form the
North Star I try to navigate my life by, and keep in touch with
their importance through the turmoil and uncertainty and anxiety of
life right now," said Sharon Salzberg, a mindfulness teacher and the
author of "Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the
World."<br>
<br>
"Doing this gives my life a cohesive path that feels like it is
onward leading," she said.<br>
<br>
<b>Swap microaggressions for 'micro-progressions'</b><br>
If it feels overwhelming to think about how to take steps forward
right now, try noticing small opportunities in what Cory Newman,
director of the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of
Pennsylvania, calls "micro-progressions."<br>
<br>
"Contrary to microaggressions, which are small but hurtful and
accumulative comments or actions that show insensitivity toward
persons who are not in the 'white privilege camp,'
micro-progressions are small actions that communicate respect," Dr.
Newman said.<br>
<br>
While these deliberate behaviors don't undo inequalities, they are
steps in the direction of beginning emotional reparations.<br>
<br>
"Micro-progressions are best delivered without any announcement, as
if they are not special, but just normal," Dr. Newman said. "An
example would be resisting an urge to comment in a meeting while a
person of color who has not yet finished speaking continues to have
the floor."<br>
<br>
<b>Work on your mental agility</b><br>
Remember that a key facet of hope is creatively problem-solving when
obstacles arise. Plan ways to move forward rather than shutting down
when stressors come up. Similar to athletes who anticipate "hitting
a wall," rehearse pushing past fatigue. If you strategize before
you're drained, you can keep going.<br>
<br>
Of course, shifting from feeling as if there are no options to
actively brainstorming and executing ideas takes practice. It can be
tough to get past all-or-nothing thinking. In cognitive psychology,
there's a bias known as functional fixedness, where people become
locked into seeing only one use for common objects, even when that's
not the case. One example I use with clients is peanut butter: While
it's a spread for a sandwich, it can also be used to remove gum from
your hair. In the same way, thinking resourcefully may not come
easily, but if you let yourself think out of the box, you may find
surprising solutions.<br>
<br>
So take a moment to anticipate thoughts or urges that haunt you,
like, "I can't," or notice when you're itching to give something up,
then imagine how you might shift your inner soundtrack, perhaps by
seeing these thoughts as visitors you don't have to take too
seriously. You can also list thoughts that hijack you, each on its
own index card, then shuffle through them casually (e.g. "Why
bother?") as you continue to sit with your emotions and move toward
pursuing meaningful actions.<br>
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</b><b>Consider what is still true for you</b><br>
In the midst of so much pain, it's possible to consciously notice
what hasn't been broken by all the disruption and change. Ms.
Salzberg practices and prescribes reflecting on the question,
"What's still true?"<br>
<br>
"If you can find something intact, whole, unbroken, it will give you
hope," she said. "It might be the life reflected in a child's smile
or a puppy's antics. It might be nature; it might be fundamental
beliefs in things like the power of love."<br>
<br>
One thing that never changes is that it's impossible to predict the
future. Instead of expecting that everything will go terribly, shift
into a more open state of mind. Curiosity helps interrupt despair,
Dr. Newman said.<br>
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Added Mr. Manson: "Few of the challenges we face today are
historically unique and most of the long-term trends show that the
world is continuing to get better."<br>
<br>
<b>Build a hope kit</b><br>
Gathering uplifting photos, music, mementos and a list of practices
that inspire you can help you access the motivation to keep going
when you need a boost. While this may seem superficial, one study
showed that creating a hope collection significantly increased hope
in patients with terminal cancer.<br>
<br>
"Go to the park, remove your shoes, and feel the grass," advised
Juan Carlos Ruiz, a pastor at the Lutheran Church of the Good
Shepherd in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Over the course of the pandemic,
Mr. Ruiz has provided funerals and burials for many undocumented
individuals, at no cost to their families. To bolster his hope, he
similarly anchors himself with nature.<br>
<br>
Creating hope takes willingness and ongoing effort, like an uphill
climb, yet ultimately leads to enjoying an improved perspective --
not to mention awe-inspiring views.<br>
<br>
Jenny Taitz is an assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at the
University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of "How to be
Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity
While Looking for a Soul Mate" and "End Emotional Eating."
@drjennytaitz<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/smarter-living/finding-hope-when-things-feel-gloomy.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/smarter-living/finding-hope-when-things-feel-gloomy.html</a><br>
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[ACU lecture] <br>
<b>2020 Hydrology Early Career Award November Lecture Series
Frontiers in Hydroclimate Change</b><br>
Nov 23, 2020<br>
AGU<br>
In recognition and celebration of our 2020 Hydrology Section Early
Career Awardees, we will be launching a new seminar series for the
month of November. Our Early Career awardees will be presenting
30-minute seminars on their advances and views of the future. You
will also hear from their nominators about their accomplishments.<br>
<br>
Please join us on the first three Friday's of November 2020 to hear
from these outstanding young hydrologists.<br>
<br>
Our first lecture on Friday, November 6, by Dr. Veronica Morales
from the University of California, Davis is entitled: "Frontiers in
Subsurface Transport". On Friday November 13, Dr. Simone Fatichi
from the National University of Singapore will present on "Frontiers
in Ecohydrology". On Friday, November 20, Dr. Niko Wanders from
Utrecht University will present on "Frontiers in Hydroclimate
Change".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggY7ElsvwDY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggY7ElsvwDY</a><br>
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[Podcast - Got Science - audio from the Union of Concerned
Scientist]<br>
<b>Why Trust Science? with Author Naomi Oreskes</b><br>
Updated Nov 6, 2020<br>
This episode starts with part four of our series on who pays for
climate damages followed by a replay of Dr. Naomi Oreskes discussing
her book, Why Trust Science?<br>
<b>In this episode</b><br>
- We find out what flossing has to do with trusting science<br>
- Colleen and Naomi discuss Naomi's new book, Why Trust Science?.<br>
- Naomi explains why double blind studies aren't always necessary,
or possible<br>
more at - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/why-trust-science-0">https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/why-trust-science-0</a><br>
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[Opinion from Naomi Oreskes CNN]<br>
<b>America's devastating divorce from science</b><br>
Opinion by Naomi Oreskes<br>
September 15, 2020<br>
(CNN)What do you say about a 75-year-old dream that has died? In
1945, Vannevar Bush, the MIT dean who mobilized American science
during World War II, laid out the blueprint for what would become
the social contract between science and American society for the
next half century.<br>
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America would support science -- particularly through a new agency,
called the National Science Foundation (NSF) but also through
existing or expanded federal agencies such as NASA, the Weather
Service, and the US Geological Survey -- and in return science would
support America, through technical innovation that would better our
material conditions and information that would enable us to face
life's challenges and solve them.<br>
Government was key to Bush's vision: the NSF would be a federal
agency and it would be the federal government, through Congressional
appropriations, that would support basic scientific research,
trusting that the investment of taxpayer dollars would be readily
repaid.<br>
For several decades, that dream seemed to be fulfilled. Congress
generously supported science, and both Republican and Democratic
presidents signed the relevant appropriations bills. Those
presidents also appointed highly qualified people to run
science-oriented agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency,
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).<br>
And science, by and large, delivered on Bush's promise. Scientists
developed safe and effective vaccinations against deadly childhood
diseases, advanced the development of computer science and
artificial intelligence, created a theoretical framework for
understanding why earthquakes happen where they do, and learned to
make remarkably accurate weather forecasts. Not all of this was done
on the federal dime, but an awful lot of it was.<br>
But then many things changed, one of which was climate change.
Already in the 1960s scientists were predicting that burning fossil
fuels would change our climate in dangerous ways, and by 1988 they
were telling us that the climate was, indeed, changing. But,
starting in the 1990s, rather than accepting these facts and finding
ways to act on them consistent with our values and principles,
conservative political and business leaders began to discount and
deny them.<br>
As the evidence got stronger, denial did not yield to acceptance,
begrudging or otherwise. Instead, the denial got increasingly
aggressive and belligerent.<br>
Today, denial has become deadly. The Western United States are
reeling in the face of unprecedented economic and ecological damage
from wildfires and the choking smoke those fires have left in their
wakes. As fires continue to rage, one Oregon official has advised
people to brace themselves for a "mass fatality incident."
Meanwhile, yet another monster hurricane is bearing down on the Gulf
Coast -- while four other tropical storms are churning -- an almost
unprecedented event.<br>
The damage and destruction of "extreme weather events" -- fueled by
man-made climate change -- is no longer a prediction, theory or
hypothesis. It's our regular reality. We are losing both lives and
livelihoods.<br>
And in the midst of this hydra of climate-fueled catastrophe, what
is our President, Donald Trump, doing? Hiring a notorious climate
science denier, David Legates, to help run NOAA -- the federal
agency most responsible for providing us with good climate
information. The Washington Post reported this week that Legates
formerly served as Delaware's climatologist but was "forced out"
because of his "controversial views" on the issue.<br>
But while the proposed appointment has been duly reported in the
press -- and scientists have duly protested -- it sadly isn't news.
This administration has repeatedly placed people who have questioned
or rejected science in positions of authority throughout the federal
service. Vice President Pence rejects evolutionary theory and
suggested that smoking doesn't kill, and the President himself, as
is well known, has claimed that climate change is a hoax.<br>
Another day, another outrage.<br>
Under these circumstances, it is tempting to respond by defending
science and scientists, and by calling for more funding for
research, more STEM education, and more scientists in the pipeline
through greater efforts at inclusion. But the reality of the past
two decades is that that approach doesn't work. As scientific
conclusions become more indisputable, the machinations of those who
are threatened by it become more outrageous.<br>
It is evident that our scientific social contract is broken. Too
many of our political leaders no longer seem to believe that science
serves our national purpose. They see scientific evidence not as
something to work with, but something to be worked around.<br>
The writer and Iraqi war veteran Roy Scranton has written that the
way he managed the dark reality of warfare was to embrace his own
death. Each day, he would wake up and tell himself that he needn't
fear, because he was already dead. "The only thing that mattered was
that I did my best to make sure everyone else came back alive."<br>
<br>
The unfortunate reality is that our elected government is
increasingly populated with many men and women who do not merely
ignore scientific facts, they appear to despise them and the people
who produce them. They see science as something that stands in the
way of their political goals, and therefore must be pushed out of
the way.<br>
The solution to this cannot be a call for more science or the
restoration of "scientific integrity," whatever that is. We have
tried that and it has failed. There comes a point when maybe one
simply has to accept that the dream has died and it is time for a
new one. I don't know what a new social contract for science would
look like, but I am pretty sure it is time to start looking for it.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/opinions/another-day-another-trump-outrage-on-climate-and-science-oreskes/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/opinions/another-day-another-trump-outrage-on-climate-and-science-oreskes/index.html</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 -
November 24, 2008 </b></font><br>
<p>In an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," Robert
Redford denounces the Bush administration's plan to have the
Bureau of Land Management hold an oil and gas lease auction in
Salt Lake City, Utah on December 19, 2008. That auction would
become famous for Tim DeChristopher's act of civil disobedience
during the event, as well as the auction's illegality.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/fmgYX8gfxfs">http://youtu.be/fmgYX8gfxfs</a> <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/americans-rejected-drill_b_144499">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/americans-rejected-drill_b_144499</a> <br>
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