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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>January 4, 2021</b></font></i><br>
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<p>[uh oh, Greta discovers both beer and sarcasm]<br>
Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg<br>
<b>Thank you so much for all the well-wishes on my 18th birthday!</b><br>
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-https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1345759558124384258/photo/1<br>
Tonight you will find me down at the local pub exposing all the
dark secrets behind the climate- and school strike conspiracy and
my evil handlers who can no longer control me!<br>
I am free at last!!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1345759558124384258">https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1345759558124384258</a><br>
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[Action item: Contact your Congress-person - ask for enthusiastic
support]<br>
H. RES. 5 [Aspirational House Rules for 117th Congress are now out]<br>
ADOPTING THE RULES FOR THE 117th CONGRESS <br>
<b>Select Committee on the Climate Crisis</b>. Subsection (d)
reauthorizes the Select<br>
Committee on the Climate Crisis. The subsection carries forward and
makes modest<br>
modifications to provisions from the 116th Congress. The
investigative jurisdiction of the Select<br>
Committee shall consist of policies, strategies, and innovations to
achieve substantial and<br>
permanent reductions in pollution and other activities that
contribute to the climate crisis<br>
which will honor our responsibility to be good stewards of the
planet for future generations and<br>
advance environmental justice. The Select Committee shall coordinate
with and advise standing<br>
committees with relevant jurisdiction with respect to such policies,
strategies, and innovations.<br>
Additionally, the Select Committee is authorized to receive any
records transferred to it by a<br>
standing committee if obtained pursuant to a subpoena or deposition
recommended by the<br>
Select Committee. The subsection requires that all policy
recommendations be submitted to<br>
committees by December 31, 2021, and that all reports be submitted
to the House by<br>
December 31, 2022.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/117-HRes5-SxS.pdf">https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/117-HRes5-SxS.pdf</a><br>
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[Associated Press - FEMA risky futures]<br>
<b>Los Angeles is riskiest US county but New Yorkers should beware
tornadoes</b><br>
New Fema index considers exposure to natural disasters<br>
East coast more vulnerable to twister damage than Oklahoma<br>
Jan 2 2021<br>
<br>
Los Angeles county is the riskiest county in the US, according to a
new Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) index which considers
18 kinds of natural disasters, from earthquakes, hurricanes and
tornadoes to floods, volcanoes and tsunamis.<br>
<br>
The National Risk Index spotlights places long known as danger
spots, like Los Angeles, but some places highlighted run counter to
expectations.<br>
<br>
For instance, eastern cities such as New York and Philadelphia rank
far higher on the risk for tornadoes than Oklahoma and Kansas, where
twisters are part of local lore, while the county with the biggest
coastal flooding risk is one in Washington state that is not on the
ocean, although its river is tidal.<br>
<br>
The index scores how often disasters strike, how many people and how
much property are in harm’s way, how vulnerable the population is
socially and how well the area is able to recover. That results in a
high risk assessment for big cities with both lots of poor people
and expensive property, ill-prepared for once-in-a-generation
disasters.<br>
<br>
The degree of risk isn’t just how often a type of natural disaster
strikes a place but how bad the toll would be, said Fema official
Mike Grimm.<br>
<br>
Two New York City counties, Philadelphia, St Louis and Hudson
county, New Jersey are therefore Fema’s top five riskiest counties
for tornadoes. Oklahoma county, Oklahoma, which has seen more than
120 tornadoes since 1950, including one that killed 36 in 1999,
ranks 120th.<br>
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Some Fema risk rankings seem obvious. Miami is the highest risk for
hurricanes, lightning and river flooding. Hawaii county is top in
volcano risk and Honolulu county for tsunamis, Dallas for hail,
Philadelphia for heatwaves and Riverside, California for wildfires.<br>
<br>
Himanshu Grover at the University of Washington called the Fema
index “a good tool, a good start” but one with flaws, such as
seeming to downplay disaster frequency.<br>
<br>
Risks are changing because of climate change and the Fema index does
not seem to address that, Ropeik said. Fema officials said climate
change shows up in flooding calculations and will probably be
incorporated in future updates.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/fema-national-risk-index-los-angeles-new-york-tornadoes">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/02/fema-national-risk-index-los-angeles-new-york-tornadoes</a>
<p>- -[source material]</p>
<b>National Risk Index (NRI)</b><br>
The National Risk Index is a new, online mapping application from
FEMA that identifies communities most at risk to 18 natural hazards.
This application visualizes natural hazard risk metrics and includes
data about expected annual losses, social vulnerabilities and
community resilience. <br>
<br>
The National Risk Index's interactive web maps are at the county and
census tract level and made available via geographic information
system (GIS) feature services for custom analyses. With this data,
you can discover a holistic view of community risk to natural
hazards via online maps and data...<br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/products-tools/national-risk-index">https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/products-tools/national-risk-index</a>...</p>
<p>How the National Risk Index Can Help<br>
The Index is intended to help users better understand the natural
hazard risk of their respective areas or communities. Intended
users include planners and emergency managers at the local,
regional, state and federal levels, as well as other decision
makers and interested members of the general public. With improved
understanding of natural hazard risk, communities can take action
to reduce it. <br>
<br>
<b>Specifically, the National Risk Index can help with: </b><br>
<br>
-- Enhancing hazard mitigation plans<br>
<br>
-- Identifying the need for more refined risk assessments<br>
<br>
-- Encouraging community-level risk communication and engagement<br>
<br>
-- Developing codes and standards<br>
<br>
-- Informing long-term community recovery<br>
<br>
-- Prioritizing and allocating resources<br>
<br>
-- Updating emergency operations<br>
<br>
-- Informing the insurance and mortgage industries<br>
<br>
-- Educating new homeowners and renters <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/products-tools/national-risk-index/overview">https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/products-tools/national-risk-index/overview</a><br>
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[“All things are ready, if our minds be so.” Shakespeare 'Henry V'
- first line by Henry after his St Cripins Day speech]<br>
<b>Group Interventions for Climate Change Distress</b><br>
December 10, 2020<br>
Beth Mark, MD , Janet Lewis, MD<br>
<br>
From disasters and social disruptions to existential concerns,
climate distress groups may not only provide much-needed support to
patients but may also help psychiatry’s public health responses.<br>
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”--Helen
Keller<br>
<br>
The climate crisis presents unique and complex challenges to the
mental health and wellness of individuals and communities.1,2 The
need for interventions at a global scale increasingly leads mental
health providers to look toward large group interventions. This
article outlines a number of the more popular group approaches. It
informs psychiatrists about the climate distress groups that our
patients may access and advances our understanding of these groups’
methods, which may help psychiatry’s own public health response.<br>
<br>
We can anticipate an increasing number of population-wide climate
events, from disasters and social disruptions to existential
concerns. Within disaster psychiatry, it is now suggested that3:<br>
<br>
Beyond contemporary approaches of diagnosing and treating
illness...there should be a transition to early screening and
delivery of public health interventions that are evidence-based,
cost-effective, readily accessible and community-focused with the
goal of reducing distress, enhancing well-being and functioning,
reducing the rate of progression to psychological disorders and,
ultimately, improving the overall trajectory….<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/group-interventions-climate-change-distress">https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/group-interventions-climate-change-distress</a>
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[One new emerging organization]<br>
<b>Good Grief Network</b><br>
10-Steps to Personal Resilience & Empowerment in a Chaotic
Climate<br>
Our unique 10-Step Program helps individuals and communities build
resilience by creating spaces where people can lean into their
painful feelings about the state of the world and reorient their
lives toward meaningful action.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.goodgriefnetwork.org/">https://www.goodgriefnetwork.org/</a><br>
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[Climate Psychology Alliance UK Zoom meeting]<br>
<b>NEXT EVENT: 9TH JANUARY 2021</b><br>
An online workshop about how we can attend with others to the
difficult feelings associated with Covid-19 and the Climate
Emergency.<br>
About this Event<br>
<b>THROUGH THE DOOR: a therapeutic practice for the commons</b><br>
<br>
An online workshop about how we can attend with others to the
troubles of Covid-19 and the Climate Emergency<br>
<br>
CPA is running a series of workshops aimed at developing a shared
practice that draws on therapeutic skills to meet the urgent needs
of the climate emergency.<br>
<br>
In these experiential workshops we will explore issues such as what
happens when:<br>
<br>
collective anxiety leads to dysfunctional activations<br>
symptoms such as helplessness, grief and resentment are widespread
but denied<br>
the articulation, witnessing and validation of such feelings is
difficult<br>
boundaries and permissions for therapeutic comment are ambiguous<br>
This can happen with chance encounters of those interested in
climate and Covid-19 matters or through the intentional convening of
climate cafés and other specific groups, whether through Zoom or
not. While we may be trained to stay with the client’s difficulties
and attend to unconscious process, the very different context of
more public events requires an unlearning of expectable therapy
transactions and an opening to new opportunities to be with the
process.<br>
<br>
‘Going through the door’ evokes the liminal space of transiting a
cultural threshold, a passage through the uncertainty that requires
relinquishing the ‘normal’ and being open to another reality. Our
training and practice may have allowed us to tolerate the anxiety
that goes with this transition and hence we can be containers and
even catalysts for transformation. The workshop intends to give a
taste of this and also encourage practical explorations such as with
Climate Cafés where such skills can be brought to fruition.<br>
<br>
During the day we hope to:<br>
manage our own anxiety and name underlying dynamics and process<br>
create an open, fertile space that is contained and safe enough for
sharing<br>
make a place for feelings such as confusion, helplessness, rage and
despair<br>
make links with participants’ experience of being with
other-than-human nature<br>
draw on the creative imagination of the group to face the challenges
of deep adaptation to an unknown future<br>
explore possibilities for the deployment of participants’
therapeutic skills in new and different contexts<br>
Online Workshop 9 January, 10.00am-4.30pm<br>
<br>
Facilitators are:<br>
Rebecca Nestor, CPA Board member, facilitator, organisational
consultant and doctoral researcher at the Tavistock Clinic on the
experience of leaders in climate change organisations<br>
<br>
Chris Robertson: Ex. CPA Chair, co-founder of Re-Vision and
co-editor of Transformation in Troubled Times.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.culture-crisis.net">https://www.culture-crisis.net</a><br>
<br>
This is a professional workshop that has continued to be developed
since 2018. Fees are:<br>
<br>
Non-members: £60; Members: £40<br>
<br>
Discounted/Bursary (20% of participants): £25; Student: £15<br>
<br>
Places limited to 18 persons.<br>
<br>
If yo have booked your place on the workshop but have not received
details of how to join, please first check your spam filter and if
that doesn't help, contact <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cpaeventbrite@gmail.com">cpaeventbrite@gmail.com</a>.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/through-the-door-a-therapeutic-practice-for-the-commons-tickets-124075869265">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/through-the-door-a-therapeutic-practice-for-the-commons-tickets-124075869265</a><br>
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[high risk - Frontiers in Climate ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE]<br>
<b>Climate Extreme Seeds a New Domoic Acid Hotspot on the US West
Coast</b><br>
14 December 2020 <br>
<blockquote> A heatwave that blanketed the northeast Pacific Ocean
in 2013–2015 had severe impacts on the marine ecosystem through
altered species composition and survival. A direct result of this
marine heatwave was a sustained, record-setting harmful algal
bloom (HAB), caused by the toxigenic diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia,
that led to an unprecedented delay in harvest opportunity for
commercial Dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister) and closure of
other recreational, commercial and tribal shellfish harvest,
including razor clams. Samples collected during a cruise in summer
2015, showed the appearance of a highly toxic “hotspot” between
Cape Mendocino, CA and Cape Blanco, OR that was observed again
during cruises in the summers of 2016–2018. The transport of toxic
cells from this retentive site northward during wind relaxations
or reversals associated with storms resulted in economically
debilitating delay or closure of Dungeness crab harvest in both
northern California and Oregon in 2015–2019. Analyses of historic
large-scale Pseudo-nitzschia HABs have shown that these events
occur during warm periods such as El Niño, positive phases of the
Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or the record-setting marine
heatwave. In order to reduce the impacts of large-scale HABs along
the west coast of North America, early warning systems have been
developed to forewarn coastal managers. These early warning
systems include the Pacific Northwest and California HAB
Bulletins, both of which have documented elevated domoic acid and
increased risk associated with the northern California hotspot.
These early warnings enable mitigative actions such as selective
opening of safe harvest zones, increased harvest limits during low
risk periods, and early harvest in anticipation of impending HAB
events. The aims of this study are to show trends in nearshore
domoic acid along the US west coast in recent years, including the
recent establishment of a new seed bed of highly-toxic
Pseudo-nitzschia, and to explore how early warning systems are a
useful tool to mitigate the human and environmental health and
economic impacts associated with harmful algal blooms.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2020.571836">https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2020.571836</a>
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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 -
January 4, 1996 </b></font><br>
<br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"The earth's average surface temperature climbed to a
record high last<br>
year, according to preliminary figures, bolstering scientists'
sense<br>
that the burning of fossil fuels is warming the climate.<br>
<br>
"Spells of cold, snow and ice like the ones this winter in the<br>
northeastern United States come and go in one region or another,
as do<br>
periods of unusual warmth. But the net result globally made 1995
the<br>
warmest year since records first were kept in 1856, says a
provisional<br>
report issued by the British Meteorological Office and the
University<br>
of East Anglia.<br>
<br>
"The average temperature was 58.72 degrees Fahrenheit, according
to<br>
the British data, seven-hundredths of a degree higher than the<br>
previous record, established in 1990.<br>
<br>
"The British figures, based on land and sea measurements around
the<br>
world, are one of two sets of long-term data by which surface<br>
temperature trends are being tracked.<br>
<br>
"The other, maintained by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies<br>
in New York, shows the average 1995 temperature at 59.7 degrees,<br>
slightly ahead of 1990 as the warmest year since record-keeping
began<br>
in 1866. But the difference is within the margin of sampling
error,<br>
and the two years essentially finished neck and neck.<br>
<br>
"The preliminary Goddard figures differ from the British ones
because<br>
they are based on a somewhat different combination of observations<br>
around the world.<br>
<br>
"One year does not a trend make, but the British figures show the<br>
years 1991 through 1995 to be warmer than any similar five-year<br>
period, including the two half-decades of the 1980's, the warmest<br>
decade on record.<br>
<br>
"This is so even though a sun-reflecting haze cast aloft by the
1991<br>
eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines cooled the earth<br>
substantially for about two years. Despite the post-Pinatubo
cooling,<br>
the Goddard data show the early 1990's to have been nearly as warm
as<br>
the late 1980's, which Goddard says was the warmest half-decade on<br>
record.<br>
<br>
"Dr. James E. Hansen, the director of the Goddard center,
predicted<br>
last year that a new global record would be reached before 2000,
and<br>
yesterday he said he now expected that 'we will still get at least
a<br>
couple more' by then.<br>
<br>
"Dr. Hansen has been one of only a few scientists to maintain<br>
steadfastly that a century-long global warming trend is being
caused<br>
mostly by human influence, a belief he reiterated yesterday."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/world/95-is-hottest-year-on-record-as-the-global-trend-resumes.html?pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/world/95-is-hottest-year-on-record-as-the-global-trend-resumes.html?pagewanted=print</a><br>
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