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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>January 19, 2021</b></font></i> <br>
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[not surprising]<br>
<b>Hounded by Wildfires, Californians Rethink Their Willingness to
Rebuild</b><br>
In the aftermath, some people are deciding to just begin new lives
elsewhere. The pandemic and longstanding housing problems haven’t
made the choices any easier.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/realestate/california-wildfires-rebuild.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/realestate/california-wildfires-rebuild.html</a><br>
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[today's danger]<br>
<b>Wildfire danger in January? In ultra-dry California, PG&E
says safety blackout is coming</b><br>
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Saturday it could impose a “public
safety power shutoff” Monday night in portions of nine counties —
Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, San Luis Obispo, Santa
Barbara, Tulare and Tuolumne counties. By Sunday, PG&E scaled
back the planned blackout down by 15,000 customers to approximately
6,100 in Fresno, Kern, Madera, Mariposa and Tulare counties...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article248570985.html">https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article248570985.html</a><br>
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<p>[power outage from weather]<br>
<b>PG&E could potentially shut off power to 6000 customers due
to strong winds</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydcFwn8oF_o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydcFwn8oF_o</a></p>
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[NYC]<br>
<b>NYC mayoral candidate Ray McGuire’s ties to conservative Koch
brothers deeper than first thought</b><br>
By MICHAEL GARTLAND<br>
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS - JAN 17, 2021<br>
Mayoral candidate Ray McGuire’s ties to the Koch brothers aren’t
limited to serving as banker of the conservative donors’ company
years ago.<br>
Charles Phillips, a top-ranking member of McGuire’s campaign, also
presided over a software firm that worked with Koch Industries more
recently.<br>
Before joining McGuire’s campaign, Phillips, a former Marine, served
as CEO of Infor, a company that was acquired by Koch Industries last
year and did business with them since 2017.<br>
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Phillips’ connection to the company, which is owned by industrialist
Charles Koch, raises more questions about the Democratic candidate’s
ties to the big-fish right wing donors after the Daily News revealed
last week that McGuire served as the company’s banker while working
as an executive at Citi...<br>
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In Democratic circles, the brothers are known for their enormous
donations to conservative causes.Over the years, they’ve thrown
around their financial heft to bankroll the highly influential
Americans for Prosperity political action committee, which helped
roll back measures to address global warming, promoted tax cuts for
the rich and successfully pushed for the passage of anti-union laws
in states including Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin.<br>
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Mike Kink, executive director of the pro-labor Strong Economy for
All coalition, described McGuire’s connections to the Koch brothers
as problematic for people on the left.<br>
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“The campaign’s deep connections to Koch Industries is definitely
disturbing to both progressives and labor and those of us who are
fighting for an economy that works for regular people, not just the
super rich,” he said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-ray-mcguire-charles-phillips-koch-brothers-mayor-campaign-20210118-2ufa62tkwfg53ecxkvyi3vg4qa-story.html">https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/new-york-elections-government/ny-ray-mcguire-charles-phillips-koch-brothers-mayor-campaign-20210118-2ufa62tkwfg53ecxkvyi3vg4qa-story.html</a><br>
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[Common Sense]<br>
<b>We should spread awareness about global warming</b><br>
Jim Hsu, staff writer - January 17, 2021<br>
Global warming is a long-occurring problem that has been proven to
be harmful to our environment and our ways of living. People know of
this problem, yet few try to find a fix. People should learn more
and spread awareness about global warming and its direct impact on
us.<br>
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There are individuals who refuse to believe that global warming is
real, even though the proof that global warming is real is evident.
According to NASA, the Earth’s surface has risen temperature of
around 2.05 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 40 years, with most of
the temperature having come from the past six years. <br>
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have also started decreasing,
NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate experiment showed that Greenland
lost 279 billion tons of ice sheets from 1993 to 2019. “Global
warming is something that is so strongly backed by facts and
science, I think those who don’t believe in it are choosing to
ignore what’s clearly true,” junior Hannah Rah said...<br>
graphic -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://woottoncommonsense.com/8767/opinion/we-should-spread-awareness-about-global-warming/#modal-photo">https://woottoncommonsense.com/8767/opinion/we-should-spread-awareness-about-global-warming/#modal-photo</a><br>
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Even though people know about this issue, it would do well to spread
more awareness. “I think enough people are aware of global warming
but I don’t think quite as many people actively work to play their
part in reducing their carbon footprint,” Rah said.<br>
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To spread more awareness about global warming we can use platforms
like social media and include reliable and credible evidence while
doing so. Reminding others that global warming exists can make a
positive change. “I think that the information and statistics we
have collected should be shared, and our primary job should be to
educate. I think this alone is the best way of spreading awareness,”
Wool said.<br>
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When the idea of “global warming” is put into a person’s head, they
are likely to think of the problems global warming could bring or
the cause of this issue. “My first thought of global warming is the
greenhouse gases and the influence human activity has on the
environment, such as our use of non-renewable resources like coal,”
Rah said.<br>
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The devastation that global warming could cause our planet is no
doubt fearful to think of. “I think that global warming is heading
in a negative direction, and the possibilities of the damage it can
cause are virtually endless, but people can make a better effort to
halt its destruction,” Wool said.<br>
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Global warming is among one of the most important issues of the
planet. If global warming were to ruin the planet, it could mean the
destruction of humanity. “I think global warming is one of the most
important issues today because it concerns the well-being of our
planet, which is something we all share, so it is of the utmost
importance,” Rah said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://woottoncommonsense.com/8767/opinion/we-should-spread-awareness-about-global-warming/">https://woottoncommonsense.com/8767/opinion/we-should-spread-awareness-about-global-warming/</a><br>
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[USA Today]<br>
<b>‘The science is real’: Coastal experts hope Biden will partner to
combat sea level rise</b><br>
Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doug Fraser, USA TODAY<br>
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High-tide flooding occurs on average twice as often in coastal
communities as it did 20 years ago, federal data shows. And a report
last year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
showed 19 locations along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts broke or tied
records for flood days in 2019, including Miami, Savannah, Georgia,
Charleston, South Carolina, and Annapolis, Maryland. With sea levels
nationally up 1.1 feet relative to 1920 levels and rising, flood
days are forecast to increase exponentially...<br>
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While environmental issues often get wrapped up in the polarized
politics of Washington, much of what Biden might want to do over the
next four years is based more on economic arguments than a liberal
agenda, a consensus of scientists agree.<br>
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A good first step? Phillips sees an urgent need for Biden and his
administration to help manage risk by funding federal agencies to
“collect and analyze the most current data to make projections and
funding decisions,” especially when it comes to things like road
improvements and utility systems.<br>
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More frequent flooding in recent years takes away money set aside
for maintaining roads and water and sewer systems and makes it more
difficult to prepare for the future, Phillips said. In her state of
Virginia, for example, nine major flood events in 2018 and 2019
caused $1.6 billion in damage...<br>
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Thinking of coastal resilience projects as an investment against
future disaster relief costs may be essential to meeting needs,
scientists said. Already the demand far outstrips funding.<br>
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In 2017, the National Coastal Resilience fund awarded $13.8 million
to 19 projects, not quite 10% of the money requested among 167
proposals, Kryc said. Funding doubled in 2018 and 2019 to almost $30
million, but the demand remained 10 times the amount of available
money. <br>
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“These were projects that were shovel-ready and demonstrably
effective,” Kryc said.<br>
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers alone has a $98 billion backlog in
resiliency projects and spends about $2 billion a year, Phillips
added: “At that rate we’re never going to get there from here.”...<br>
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If the federal government, through the National Flood Insurance
Program, limited federal payouts and started telling people they’re
on their own if they build in a hazardous location, said Stetson’s
Evans, “that would probably drive the conversation on retreat and on
not advancing as much into vulnerable areas.”<br>
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Evans works with local governments along the coasts of Georgia and
Florida in safeguarding stormwater systems against intruding ocean
water and placing new public buildings in safe locations. He said
federal officials need to move quickly toward taking sea level rise
into account when planning federal projects in coastal regions.<br>
<br>
If federal funding for high-dollar construction projects were
contingent on planning for sea level rise, “that would make a big
difference,” Evans said.<br>
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“It’s really overdue,” he added. “We should have been doing it 25
years ago.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/01/18/coastal-experts-hope-biden-partner-combat-sea-level-rise/6559610002/">https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/01/18/coastal-experts-hope-biden-partner-combat-sea-level-rise/6559610002/</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 19, 1999 </b></font><br>
<p>In his State of the Union address, President Clinton declares,
"But our most fateful new challenge is the threat of global
warming; 1998 was the warmest year ever recorded. Last year’s heat
waves, floods, and storms are but a hint of what future
generations may endure if we do not act now."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/v3bZwSXjtCM">http://youtu.be/v3bZwSXjtCM</a> <br>
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