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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>April 18, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[Entertaining instructional video 27 min]<br>
<b>Climate Change Is An Absolute Nightmare - School Friendly
Version!</b><br>
Apr 16, 2021<br>
UpIsNotJump<br>
Welcome to my School Friendly Climate Change Video!<br>
<br>
So. What is Climate Change? Do you know the facts? No?<br>
<br>
Well I personally had no idea. One day it just hit me, I knew very
little about climate change. Even with a useless degree in
chemistry, climate change is a confusing mess of strange and
difficult to understand information.<br>
<br>
I made this video to gather all the facts I could find about climate
change, in a fun way, and without any bias on my part. I wanted
anyone who watched this video (and myself too!) to understand all
the important facts relating to climate change. Non-scientists
welcome. <br>
<br>
Science is exciting! It’s just school and most of our education
systems aren’t…<br>
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In a few months this video will be uploaded as to remove any
language or scenes not suitable for schools, so it can be used to
teach about climate change in schools. [this version]<br>
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Games used to make the space visuals<br>
SpaceEngine: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/31...">https://store.steampowered.com/app/31...</a><br>
Universe Sandbox: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/23...">https://store.steampowered.com/app/23...</a><br>
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Dr. Simon Clark provided much of the climate change graphics at the
end, subscribe!:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRr_xrOm66qaigIbwFLvbQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRr_xrOm66qaigIbwFLvbQ</a>..<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_5PyOreBbo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_5PyOreBbo</a><br>
[see more footnotes for source]<br>
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[BBC - New Zealand to show how money must follow the law]<br>
<b>NZ to launch world-first climate change rules</b><br>
New Zealand is to become the world's first country to bring in a law
forcing its financial firms to report on the effects of climate
change.<br>
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The country wants to be carbon neutral by 2050 and says the
financial sector needs to play its part.<br>
<br>
Banks, insurers and fund managers can do this by knowing the
environmental effect of their investments, says its Climate Change
Minister James Shaw.<br>
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Legislation is expected to receive its first reading this week.<br>
<br>
"This law will bring climate risks and resilience into the heart of
financial and business decision making," said Mr Shaw.<br>
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About 200 of the country's biggest companies and several foreign
firms that have assets of more than NZ$1bn ($703m, £511m) will come
under the legislation.<br>
<br>
"Becoming the first country in the world to introduce a law like
this means we have an opportunity to show real leadership and pave
the way for other countries to make climate-related disclosures
mandatory," said New Zealand's Commerce and Consumer Affairs
Minister David Clark.<br>
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The law will force financial firms to assess not only their own
investments, but also to evaluate the companies they are lending
money to, in terms of their environmental impact.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56728381">https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56728381</a><br>
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[Watching the CO2 numbers]<br>
<b>Rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide continues unabated</b><br>
Despite Covid-induced reductions in industrial activity last year,
climate concerns remain<br>
Every day, above where this column appears in the newspaper, the
latest daily atmospheric carbon dioxide readings are recorded in
parts per million from the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii.<br>
<br>
Week by week they keep rising and make for grim reading. We are
within a whisker of 420ppm, 50% more than the 280ppm of
pre-industrial times, before we began to burn oil and coal in
significant quantities.<br>
<br>
When carbon dioxide levels were last at this level, 3.6m years ago,
sea levels were 20 metres higher and vast areas now covered in ice
were forested. Land where many of our coastal cities now stand and
much of our food is grown were deep under water. Large areas in the
tropics would have been uninhabitable because they would have been
too hot.<br>
<br>
Just as alarming as the carbon dioxide levels are those of methane,
30 times as potent a greenhouse gas. Despite pandemic-induced
reductions in industrial activity last year, methane levels produced
from fracking activities, leaky pipelines, cattle ranching as well
as melting permafrost rose faster than at any time since records
began 40 years ago.<br>
<br>
It shows that all efforts to avoid overheating the climate taken so
far are hopelessly inadequate and will not prevent the impending
chaos.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/17/rise-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-covid-climate">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/17/rise-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-covid-climate</a><br>
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[following the money into lands of dark ethics]<br>
<b>It’s not just Big Oil. Big Meat also spends millions to crush
good climate policy.</b><br>
A new study reveals how the companies you buy meat from block
climate action.<br>
By Sigal Samuel - Apr 13, 2021<br>
<br>
You probably already know that the fossil fuel industry has spent
many millions of dollars trying to sow doubt about climate change
and the industry’s role in it.<br>
<br>
But did you know that big meat and dairy companies do the same
thing?<br>
<br>
According to a new study out of NYU, these companies have spent
millions of dollars lobbying against climate policies and funding
dubious research that tries to blur the links between animal
agriculture and our climate emergency. The biggest link is that
about 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from meat
and dairy...<br>
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In fact, the NYU paper notes that if the Food and Agriculture
Organization is right in projecting that meat consumption will rise
73 percent by 2050, emissions by some meat and dairy companies could
exceed the emissions of several fossil fuel companies.<br>
<br>
That means people who care about the climate need to get serious
about holding Big Meat and Big Dairy accountable, just as they’ve
been trying to do for years with Big Oil.<br>
<br>
“There has to be a big reimagining of meat and dairy,” Jacquet said.
Whether that will entail a reduction in meat consumption or a total
switch to plant-based or lab-grown meat and dairy, one thing is for
sure: “Given what we know about climate change,” Jacquet said, “it
seems clear that business as usual is not the answer.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22379909/big-meat-companies-spend-millions-lobbying-climate">https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22379909/big-meat-companies-spend-millions-lobbying-climate</a><br>
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[source material ]<br>
<b>The climate responsibilities of industrial meat and dairy
producers</b><br>
Oliver Lazarus, Sonali McDermid & Jennifer Jacquet <br>
Climatic Change volume 165, 25 March 2021 <br>
<blockquote>Abstract<br>
Our view of responsibility for climate change has expanded to
include the actions of firms, particularly fossil fuel producers.
Yet analysis of animal agriculture’s role in climate
change—estimated as 14.5% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas
emissions—has mainly focused on the sector as a whole. Here we
examine the world’s 35 largest meat and dairy companies for their
commitments to mitigating climate change and find four companies
that have made an explicit commitment to net-zero emissions by
2050. In general, these commitments emphasized mitigating energy
use, with minimal focus on emissions (e.g., methane) from animal
and land use, which make the biggest warming contributions in the
agricultural sector. We also compare the companies’ projected
global emissions under a business-as-usual scenario to their
headquarter countries’ future emissions, assuming each country’s
compliance with their commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement.
Taking this view of responsibility and emissions accounting (which
is not the conception of responsibility in the Paris Agreement),
our results show that including industrial meat and dairy
producers’ full global emissions in national accounting would
impact national targets for greenhouse gas reductions. As
examples, by our calculations, two companies—Fonterra in New
Zealand, and Nestlé in Switzerland—would make up more than 100% of
their headquarter country’s total emissions target in the coming
decade. Finally, we evaluated using 20 yes-or-no questions and a
variety of sources the transparency of emissions reporting,
mitigation commitments, and influence on public opinion and
politics of the 10 US meat and dairy companies. According to the
evidence we collected, all 10 US companies have contributed to
efforts to undermine climate-related policies. Each of these
analyses approaches responsibility in new and different ways.
Under the swiftly changing social conditions provoked by climate
change, we can expect new imaginings of responsibility for GHG
emissions, as well as increased attention to the role of corporate
actors and their accountability for climate change impacts.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-021-03047-7">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-021-03047-7</a><br>
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[Weather - Cat1 to Cat5 in 24 hrs]<br>
<b>Super typhoon Surigae explodes to Cat. 5 intensity</b><br>
Andrew Freedman<br>
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Super Typhoon Surigae surged in intensity from a Category 1 storm on
Friday to a beastly Category 5 monster on Saturday, with maximum
sustained winds estimated at 190 mph with higher gusts.<br>
<br>
Why it matters: This storm — known as Typhoon Bising in the
Philippines — is just the latest of many tropical cyclones to
undergo a process known as rapid intensification, a feat that
studies show is becoming more common due to climate change.<br>
<br>
The storm appears destined to recurve out to sea just northeast of
the Philippines, sparing the disaster-prone country from its worst
impacts, but it will bring heavy rains, high seas and gusty winds to
some areas.<br>
It may also help shake up weather patterns far downstream, including
across North America, over the next few weeks.<br>
Details: The storm maxed out at the top end of the scale according
to techniques that meteorologists use to estimate storm intensity
via satellites, scoring an 8 out of 8 on one particular metric,
which is unusual.<br>
<br>
Of note: Since aircraft do not fly into West Pacific typhoons the
way they do in the Atlantic, we may never know how strong Super
Typhoon Surigae is, and it's possible the 190 mph intensity is an
underestimate.<br>
By the numbers: The storm is the first Category 5 tropical cyclone
(a category that includes hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones) to
occur in 2021. Typically, each year sees about 18 Category 4 and 5
storms around the world.<br>
<br>
The storm jumped from a 90-mph Category 1 storm Friday to a 180-mph
Category 5 super typhoon 24 hours later, a staggering rate of
intensification that is more than double the criteria for rapid
intensification. The storm further intensified to an estimated
maximum sustained winds of 190 mph by Saturday evening.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.axios.com/super-typhoon-surigae-category-5-a67131f7-31a1-4f1b-b4bf-fa1091b3a4bb.html">https://www.axios.com/super-typhoon-surigae-category-5-a67131f7-31a1-4f1b-b4bf-fa1091b3a4bb.html</a><br>
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[Seattle area news<b> - this is my area]</b><br>
<b>Officials warn of early start to wildfire season after
devastating 2020</b><br>
by Cole Miller, KOMO News Reporter April 16th 2021<br>
A brush fire that broke out in Pierce County Friday signals what
could be the start to yet another devastating wildfire season in the
Pacific Northwest after a catastrophic 2020.<br>
<br>
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources issued a
temporary burn ban spanning the 13 million acres it protects. The
ban will last as long as the dry and hot conditions are in place.<br>
<br>
Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz is urging anyone going out
this weekend to be extremely cautious and be mindful of the fire
threat.<br>
<br>
“We’re going to have another bad year this year most likely,” said
Franz in a Zoom interview.<br>
<br>
Fire and units from Orting battled the blaze, eventually containing
it Friday evening. At one point, a few homes were threatened. One
fire fighter suffered minor injuries.<br>
<br>
In Oregon, a 40-acre brush fire threatened structures near Oregon
City, just outside of Portland. Crews with Clackamas Fire were able
to knock it down after a few hours.<br>
<br>
In Washington state, Franz said this early start to the fire season
is worrisome. DNR employs just 60 full-time fire fighters and
training is still taking place. Fire season usually starts around
June or July.<br>
<br>
“And we don’t even have our seasonal fire fighters up and ready,”
added Franz.<br>
<br>
Other agencies up and down the Puget Sound are already gearing up
for wildfire season. Last year, 40 percent of wildfires flared up
west of the Cascades. Across the state, more than 1,600 wildfires
scorched roughly 800,000 acres.<br>
<br>
“What we used to think of as that fire season typically on the east
side of the state where its hot and dry all the time, has really
kind of changed as the west side experiences warmer and drier
summers,” said Captain Joe Root with Puget Sound Fire.<br>
<br>
With local resources bracing for what’s ahead, Franz also tells KOMO
News that federal resources will likely be stretched thin again this
year. It’s why she’s pushing the state legislature to specifically
fund work to combat the destructive fires, calling 5 of the last 6
years ‘catastrophic.’<br>
<br>
“We have to have consistent, dedicated revenue every year,” said
Franz. HB1168 would provide $125 million every two years for funding
wildfire response, speeding up forest rehabilitation, and boost
community resilience.<br>
<br>
The bill recently passed the Senate unanimously and heads back to
the House. Franz is confident it will get to the floor for a vote
and to Governor Jay Inslee’s desk even with the clock winding down
on this year’s legislative session.<br>
<br>
“We’re urging our legislature to help make Washington more dependent
on itself to have those resources and to have them earlier for the
exact situation we’re facing right now, here in April,” she said.<br>
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If passed, the bill would provide funding over the next eight years.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://komonews.com/news/local/officials-warn-of-early-start-to-wildfire-season-after-devastating-2020">https://komonews.com/news/local/officials-warn-of-early-start-to-wildfire-season-after-devastating-2020</a><br>
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[awaken the mind]<br>
<b>Therapists are reckoning with eco-anxiety</b><br>
by Isobel Whitcomb -- Apr 17, 2021<br>
Andrew Bryant, a therapist based in Tacoma, Washington, felt
helpless the first time climate change came up in his office. It was
2016, and a client was agonizing over whether to have a baby. His
partner wanted one, but the young man couldn't stop envisioning this
hypothetical child growing up in an apocalyptic, climate-changed
world.<br>
<br>
Bryant was used to guiding people through their relationship
conflicts, anxieties about the future, and life-changing decisions.
But this felt different — personal. Bryant had long felt concerned
about climate change, but in a distant, theoretical way. The
patient's despair faced him with an entirely new reality: that
climate change would directly impact his life and the lives of
future generations.<br>
<br>
"I had never considered the possibility," Bryant said. In that
moment, his fear was a dense fog. All he could think about in
response to his client's anxiety was his own young children: What
world would they inherit? Should he feel guilty for bringing them
into it?<br>
<br>
"I didn't know what to do, I didn't know what to say," Bryant said.
He did know that nothing in his years of training and experience had
equipped him to deal with climate change. Bryant has since spent
years studying the mental health effects of climate change. Today,
he is well equipped for these situations. But that first experience
marked the beginning of a reckoning — one he sees happening in the
field at large.<br>
<br>
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) recognizes climate change
as a growing threat to mental health, but many mental health
professionals feel unequipped to handle the growing number of people
anxious and grieving over the state of the planet.<br>
<br>
Therapists in a few subspecialties, such as eco-therapy, train
specifically to integrate environmental awareness into their work
with clients. But these therapists make up a small percentage of the
field, and the vast majority of people don't have access to
climate-informed therapy. A 2016 study found that more than half of
therapists interviewed felt that their training had not adequately
prepared them to deal with the mental health impacts of the climate
crisis. Moreover, the same study found that although most
respondents recognized the importance of climate change in the
mental health profession at large, nearly half saw climate change as
irrelevant to their own work specifically.<br>
<br>
The reality is that climate change is impacting everyone in the
therapist's office; it's the background — and increasingly the
foreground — of life on Earth. But for a therapist who is themself
barely coming to terms with climate change, offering nonjudgmental
counsel to a patient can be particularly challenging...<br>
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It's only natural to feel anxious in the face of a melting planet
and the sixth mass extinction, both wrought by human actions. But
while humanity may be responsible for the carbon pollution warming
our planet, the reality is that just a few large corporations — and
complicit politicians — have set us on this path. As individuals,
it's easy to feel helpless to stop the destruction of the biosphere.<br>
<br>
That was my experience. I grew up in a region of Oregon heavily
impacted by drought and wildfire. Over the past 10 years, my grief
has steadily intensified as lack of snow closed the mountain where I
learned to ski, as smoke blanketed my hometown each summer. Though I
was in therapy for five years, I didn't speak about my yearly dread
of triple-digit temperatures, or my obsession over local snowpack
reports. I assumed that therapy couldn't ease my sadness, because I
was there to deal with internal problems. In contrast, climate
change seemed like the ultimate external problem. If I had no
control over climate change, how could I begin to tackle my own
despair?<br>
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One mental health professional told me about an experience with her
own therapist, when she divulged her anguish over the increasing
severity of drought. In response, her therapist asked "OK, but what
is this really about?" The otherwise highly competent, trusted
therapist couldn't comprehend that climate change was the sole cause
of her distress.<br>
<br>
While eco-anxiety is a natural response, it can also become
unhealthy when it becomes paralyzing, Clayton said. But that doesn't
make it exaggerated or misplaced.<br>
<br>
When a therapist dismisses a client's distress, it can be profoundly
damaging, Davenport said. "The client becomes the problem and the
source of dysfunction," Davenport said of this scenario. "Anytime a
person is wrongfully blamed it can be painful, but coming from a
mental health professional, an expert where a power differential is
also in play, it can be disorienting for the client, causing them to
question their own reality." This dynamic harms the foundation of
trust between client and therapist, and can drive the anxious client
into further isolation, Davenport said...<br>
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When a therapist dismisses a client's eco-anxiety or grief, the
response doesn't necessarily come from a lack of empathy or concern
for the climate crisis, Hickman said. Oftentimes, the reaction
occurs because therapists themselves feel unable to cope with their
own feelings about environmental destruction — much less those of
the client. "Therapists are only human — but have a duty and
responsibility, I believe, to face this stuff and reflect on their
own vulnerability in order to help their clients," Hickman added.<br>
<br>
For John Burton, a psychoanalyst based in New York City, there's
rarely a day when he doesn't think about climate change. When a
client brings up the topic — even in a passing comment about air
travel or Greta Thunberg — he immediately feels a jolt of anxiety.<br>
<br>
"It stirs up such feelings of helplessness," he said. "That's what
comes up for me. It shouldn't."<br>
<br>
When a therapist hasn't begun to come to terms with their own
emotions around climate change, it can add to the emotional turmoil
of clients coping with overwhelming grief and anxiety, said Tree
Staunton, a climate psychotherapist in Bath, England. For example, a
therapist's own grief, anxiety or guilt might come off as
defensiveness or withdrawal.<br>
<br>
"In therapy, we need to stay with that person's reality and that
person's response. And the worst thing we can do as a therapist is
bring in our own defenses," Staunton said. "We don't want to really
experience the distress or the anxiety, so we can't hear the other
person's."<br>
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Climate anxiety and grief are what Davenport called
"disenfranchised" emotions. As a society, we don't yet make space
for it as a valid emotional response; not in the same ways that we
would for, say, grief over the death of a family member. "It's
prevalent, but no one's allowed to speak up," she said.<br>
<br>
Under a climate-informed model of therapy, therapists encourage
these people, who otherwise might remain silent, to bring their
grief and anxiety into the open. They might help clients tease out
passing comments about climate change, or even include climate
change-related questions on intake forms.<br>
<br>
It sometimes takes a crisis to provoke change. In the wake of the
9/11 attacks, the Council for Accreditation for Counseling and
Related Standards, which accredits master's and doctoral degree
programs in counseling and its specialties, began requiring programs
to include crisis, disaster and trauma response as core counseling
curricula.<br>
<br>
"Before 9/11, no one ever thought about the role of therapy for
disasters, ever," Burton said. He hopes that climate change will
force a similar change sooner, rather than later.<br>
<br>
For Bryant, that first experience working with an eco-anxious client
was a reckoning. Since then, Bryant has devoted years to learning
about the psychology of climate change. He facilitates study groups
on Zoom, posts detailed guidelines for leading a climate-change
support group, and gathers articles on climate science and
psychology. Today, others consider him a leader in the field of
climate-change informed psychotherapy. He's seen these changes
mirrored in the field at large.<br>
<br>
"I've seen a huge shift in discourse," Bryant said.<br>
<br>
In England, Staunton has been advocating for more systemic changes.
Recently, her advocacy led to the addition of new training standards
in the UK's Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy College, one of
10 subsections of the UK Council for Psychotherapy. New therapists
will be required to learn about the environmental and climate crises
and the unconscious defenses we're all employing when we think about
this crisis. They'll have to learn when to support those defenses in
clients — and how to help clients overcome them.<br>
<br>
In the coming years, the number of people on the frontlines of
climate change is going to grow. Widespread training promises more
widespread access to necessary mental healthcare, Staunton said.<br>
<br>
"Climate change is the context in which we're doing therapy,"
Staunton said. "And it can't be left out of therapy."<br>
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[Isobel Whitcomb is a science reporter based in the Pacific
Northwest. Her work covering health care and ecology has appeared in
Bay Nature Magazine, Hakai and Atlas Obscura.]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/therapists-are-reckoning-eco-anxiety">https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/therapists-are-reckoning-eco-anxiety</a><br>
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[Jennifer Francis -- a disruptive scientific paper just released - ]<br>
<b>How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the
Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events?</b><br>
J E Overland, T J Ballinger, J Cohen, J A Francis, E HannaR Jaiser,
B -M Kim, S -J Kim, J Ukita, T Vihma, M Wang and X Zhang<br>
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Published 18 March 2021 • © 2021 The Author(s)<br>
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 16, Number 4<br>
<blockquote><b>Abstract</b><br>
Pronounced changes in the Arctic environment add a new potential
driver of anomalous weather patterns in midlatitudes that affect
billions of people. Recent studies of these Arctic/midlatitude
weather linkages, however, state inconsistent conclusions. A
source of uncertainty arises from the chaotic nature of the
atmosphere. Thermodynamic forcing by a rapidly warming Arctic
contributes to weather events through changing surface heat fluxes
and large-scale temperature and pressure gradients. But internal
shifts in atmospheric dynamics—the variability of the location,
strength, and character of the jet stream, blocking, and
stratospheric polar vortex (SPV)—obscure the direct causes and
effects. It is important to understand these associated processes
to differentiate Arctic-forced variability from natural
variability. For example in early winter, reduced Barents/Kara
Seas sea-ice coverage may reinforce existing atmospheric
teleconnections between the North Atlantic/Arctic and central
Asia, and affect downstream weather in East Asia. Reduced sea ice
in the Chukchi Sea can amplify atmospheric ridging of high
pressure near Alaska, influencing downstream weather across North
America. In late winter southward displacement of the SPV, coupled
to the troposphere, leads to weather extremes in Eurasia and North
America. Combined tropical and sea ice conditions can modulate the
variability of the SPV. Observational evidence for
Arctic/midlatitude weather linkages continues to accumulate, along
with understanding of connections with pre-existing climate
states. Relative to natural atmospheric variability, sea-ice loss
alone has played a secondary role in Arctic/midlatitude weather
linkages; the full influence of Arctic amplification remains
uncertain.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abdb5d/meta">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abdb5d/meta</a><br>
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[Claritin made this story, but they didn't pay me for it]<br>
<b>New Study Says Climate Change Is Indeed Making Your Allergies
Worse</b><br>
By Ally Hirschlag2 days ago<br>
If you've been sneezing and rubbing your eyes more and more each
year, you're not alone. Pollen season is getting longer and more
intense thanks to Climate Change.<br>
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While pollen season extends into the fall, the study found the
biggest increases in pollen concentrations happen in the spring.
This makes sense considering how many pollen-producing plants begin
to bloom in the spring. Researches also noted the largest, most
consistent pollen increases were in Texas and the midwestern United
States.<br>
<br>
What you can do to keep your allergies in check<br>
<br>
Aside from using over-the-counter antihistamines and other allergy
medications to treat symptoms, you can try and avoid exposure to
pollen as much as possible. Check your local pollen alerts, and on
high pollen count days, keep your windows closed and stay inside
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m..<br>
<br>
If you have to go out for a while, leave your shoes outside when you
come back, and take your clothes off to wash as soon as you come
inside. It's also a good idea to shower at night since pollen can
get trapped in your hair.<br>
<br>
Vacuuming regularly and buying a couple HEPA air filters will also
help keep allergies at bay while your inside your home.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://weather.com/health/allergy/news/2021-04-16-study-climate-change-making-allergies-worse">https://weather.com/health/allergy/news/2021-04-16-study-climate-change-making-allergies-worse</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive- what don't we
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<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
April 18, 1977 </b></font><br>
<p>April 18, 1977: President Carter declares that the effort needed
to avert an energy crisis is the "moral equivalent of war."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7369">http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7369</a><br>
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