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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>April 28, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[The Arctic - text & video explanations]<br>
<b>The ‘heat bombs’ destroying Arctic sea ice</b><br>
Apr 23, 2021<br>
Scripps Oceanography<br>
Pockets of warm water from the Pacific Ocean are entering the Arctic
Ocean, accelerating the melt of sea ice. An international team of
researchers led by Scripps Oceanography made unprecedented
measurements of the physical and biological changes this incursion
has brought about. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-IpzUyfBRI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-IpzUyfBRI</a>
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[information battlegrounds -- mis-using social media]<br>
<b>Climate FUD Campaigns Change Tactics As More Accept Climate
Science</b><br>
Michael E. Mann and other scientists say climate deniers have
stopped attacking global warming but have started challenging green
policies in new ways...<br>
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Mann has published a new book this year entitled The New Climate
War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. In it, he argues,“It just
isn’t credible to deny climate change or the impacts it’s having.
People see it with their own two eyes. So there’s a shift in
tactics. Now it’s softer forms of denial, and efforts to diminish
the impacts of climate change.”..<br>
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In March, Sumit Sharma, senior researcher in tech competition for
Consumer Reports, said, “We’re at a tipping point. Different
agencies and legislators are coming at it from different angles, but
they’re converging on the idea that these platforms have too much
market power and reducing that dominance would result in more
innovation and a better online experience for consumers.”<br>
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Is America about to see a spate of activity designed to break up
these powerful monopolies the way Teddy Roosevelt and this Trust
Busters did a century ago? Perhaps. There seems to be an appetite
for such action on both sides of the aisle in Congress. Whether that
is good policy or not, it would likely rein in some of the creative
ways climate deniers have for recasting their message to spread more
fear, uncertainty, and doubt. There are few who would not welcome
such a change in the social media world.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cleantechnica.com/2021/04/27/climate-fud-campaigns-change-tactics-as-more-accept-climate-science/">https://cleantechnica.com/2021/04/27/climate-fud-campaigns-change-tactics-as-more-accept-climate-science/</a><br>
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[Where's the Money?]<br>
<b>Biden's unlikely new ally on climate change: Corporate America</b><br>
Now corporate lobbyists need Republicans in Washington to deliver on
policy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/27/bidens-climate-change-corporate-america-484784">https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/27/bidens-climate-change-corporate-america-484784</a><br>
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[Where's the Beef?]<br>
<b>Biden’s climate change plan may not nix cheeseburgers, but
science says beef should be on the chopping block</b><br>
A GOP social media frenzy about Biden banning beef has no meat to
it, but beef plays significant role in greenhouse gas emissions<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/26/biden-climate-beef-ban/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/26/biden-climate-beef-ban/</a><br>
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[anytime is sad]<br>
<b>More people die in winter than summer, but climate change may see
this reverse</b><br>
April 26, 2021<br>
Climate change not only poses enormous dangers to the planet, but
also harms human health. In our study published today, we show some
of the first evidence climate change has had observable impacts on
Australians’ health between 1968 and 2018.<br>
<br>
We found long-term heating is associated with changed seasonal
balance of deaths in Australia, with relatively more deaths in
summer months and relatively fewer deaths in winter months over
recent decades.<br>
<br>
Our findings can be explained by the gradual global warming
associated with climate change. Over the 51 years of our study,
annual average temperatures increased by more than 1°C in Australia.
The last decade (2011 to 2020) was the hottest in the country’s
recorded history.<br>
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Hot and cold weather can have a variety of direct and indirect
effects on our health. Winter death rates generally exceed those in
summer months because infectious diseases, like influenza, tend to
circulate more in winter. Meanwhile, heat stress can exacerbate
chronic health conditions including heart disease and kidney
disease, particularly for older adults.<br>
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But the gap between cold-related deaths and heat-related deaths
appears to be narrowing. And when we compared deaths in the hottest
summers with the coldest winters, we found particularly warm years
increase the likelihood of seasonal mortality ratios approaching 1
to 1 (meaning equal deaths in summer and winter).<br>
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With summers expected to become hotter, we believe this is an early
indication of the effects of climate change in the future.<br>
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<b>Our research is unique</b><br>
Globally, our study is one of very few that directly shows the
health impacts of climate change. Most other studies examine the
effects of past weather or climate conditions on health and
extrapolate these into the future based on projected climate change
scenarios, with associated uncertainties. For example, demographic
characteristics of the population are likely to change over time.<br>
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Our findings support these worrying predictions. If warming trends
continue, it’s almost certain summer deaths will increase, and come
to dominate the burden of temperature-related deaths in Australia.<br>
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We found the speed of change in the ratio of summer to winter deaths
was fastest in the hottest years within each decade. This
strengthens our conclusion we’re observing an effect of long-term
climate change...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/more-people-die-in-winter-than-summer-but-climate-change-may-see-this-reverse-159135">https://theconversation.com/more-people-die-in-winter-than-summer-but-climate-change-may-see-this-reverse-159135</a><br>
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[Source matter]<br>
<b>Increased ratio of summer to winter deaths due to climate warming
in Australia, 1968–2018</b><br>
Ivan C. Hanigan Keith B.G. Dear Alistair Woodward<br>
First published: 26 April 2021
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13107">https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13107</a>.<br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
Objective: To determine if global warming has changed the balance of
summer and winter deaths in Australia.<br>
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<b>Methods:</b> Counts of summer and winter cause‐specific deaths of
subjects aged 55 and over for the years 1968–2018 were entered into
a Poisson time‐series regression. Analysis was stratified by states
and territories of Australia, by sex, age and cause of death
(respiratory, cardiovascular, and renal diseases). The warmest and
coldest subsets of seasons were compared.<br>
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<b>Results: </b>Warming over 51 years was associated with a
long‐term increase in the ratio of summer to winter mortality from
0.73 in the summer of 1969 to 0.83 in the summer of 2018. The
increase occurred faster in years that were warmer than average.<br>
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<b>Conclusions:</b> Mortality in the warmest and coldest times of
the year is converging as annual average temperatures rise.<br>
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<b>Implications for public health:</b> If climate change continues,
deaths in the hottest months will come to dominate the burden of
mortality in Australia.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1753-6405.13107">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1753-6405.13107</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://Theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/27/california-nestle-water-san-bernardino-forest-drought">https://Theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/27/california-nestle-water-san-bernardino-forest-drought</a>
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[Wildfires in Russia make a smoke curtain]<br>
<b>Wildfire infernos in Western Siberia as drivers in Novosibirsk
region report zero visibility</b><br>
By The Siberian Times reporter 26 April 2021<br>
Omsk region emergency services said number of wildfires is seven to
ten times above the ‘norm’...<br>
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Omsk region reported ‘record high’ number of wildfires and cases of
dry crass burning, that turn into wildfires this spring, with one
day last week counting nearly a thousand of new cases a day...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/wildfire-infernos-in-western-siberia-as-drivers-in-novosibirsk-region-report-zero-visibility-on-roads/">https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/wildfire-infernos-in-western-siberia-as-drivers-in-novosibirsk-region-report-zero-visibility-on-roads/</a><br>
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[dramatic colors in the VIDEO]<br>
<b>Siberian BBQ</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DudAobGvLtA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DudAobGvLtA</a>
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[Ooops]<br>
<b>Global greenhouse gas 2021 rebound. Is there any chance of
staying under 1.5 degrees Celsius?</b><br>
Apr 25, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Global greenhouse emissions dropped by 7% in 2020, for reasons that
we all understand only too well. Our new enforced way of life led
many to suggest we had discovered the template for a green recovery
and more sustainable way of living. So as we approach the half way
mark in 2021...how's that all going??
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<blockquote>"The IEA’s Executive Director Fatih Birol discussed
the report in a recent interview with the Guardian newspaper. He
said<br>
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“This is shocking and very disturbing. On the one hand,
governments today are saying climate change is their priority.
But on the other hand, we are seeing the second biggest
emissions rise in history. It is really disappointing.”<br>
<br>
Birol compared the current surge of emissions to the period just
after the 2009 financial crisis, when emissions rose by more
than six percent as countries tried to stimulate their economies
through cheap fossil fuel energy. <br>
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“It seems we are back on course to repeat the same mistakes,” he
warned. “I am more disappointed this time than in 2010.”<br>
So, the metaphorical green green grass of home is still some way
further off than last year’s brief respite might have led us all
to believe. All of which means the decisions and agreements made
by our world leaders in Glasgow this November will determine
whether we really are committed to keeping atmospheric
temperatures below two degrees Celsius and as close as possible
to one point five degrees, or whether we’ll set ourselves on a
course to sail straight past those dangerous limits into a
warming world with consequences that our species has never had
to face at any time in its entire existence."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me_cwc7hHUI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me_cwc7hHUI</a><br>
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[Koch, kough, cough, cack, hack...blurb for a new book]<br>
<b>The Secret History of Koch Industries</b><br>
Aug 12, 2019<br>
History in Five<br>
Author Christopher Leonard talks with us about his new book
"Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power
in America," Unknown to most, Koch Industries and the Koch
Industries companies touch nearly every aspect of modern life. Chris
Leonard tells us how he used the Koch bothers companies to reveal
the even bigger story of modern corporate America. The challenge
though was the private nature and culture of secrecy that exists in
Koch Industries. To unearth the facts that make “Kochland” so
eye-opening, Christopher Leonard made many trips to Wichita, Kansas,
home of the Koch Industries headquarters to interview sources, not
to mention dozens of other Koch Industries locations he visited to
find the scope and shape of the full company. <br>
<br>
Just as Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess
through "Too Big to Fail," Christopher Leonard’s “Kochland” uses the
extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in
the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate
America. Discover all the details today:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/book">https://www.simonandschuster.com/book</a>...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/Yr71tG-u4rs">https://youtu.be/Yr71tG-u4rs</a>
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[Book out]<br>
<b>Christopher Leonard's New Book Puts an Ever-Expanding 'Kochland'
on the Map</b><br>
Sharon Kellyon - Aug 16, 2019<br>
Christopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch
Industries and Corporate Power in America, begins, appropriately
enough, with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activity by
the company, standing in a field with a pair of binoculars, trying
to catch a glimpse of the daily operations of a company that prizes
secrecy.<br>
<br>
Koch Industries was under investigation for theft of oil from the
Osage and other Indigenous nations. Walking into the company’s
office building involved passing through security checkpoints,
Leonard explains, so numerous that one investigator later told
Leonard that it “reminded him of traveling to CIA headquarters in
Langley, Virginia.”<br>
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Through exhaustive reporting and extraordinary interviews with past
and current company executives, including some turned whistleblower,
Kochland offers readers a view far larger than can be seen through
binocular lenses, walking readers past those layers of security
checkpoints and into the inner workings of an institution that has
for decades tirelessly built itself into practically all American
lives, while largely evading accountability or transparency.<br>
<br>
While Charles and David Koch’s political operations have been the
subject of powerful investigative reporting by the New Yorker‘s Jane
Mayer, author of the landmark book Dark Money, and numerous others,
Leonard probes into the business that not only funds the Koch
political machine, but also represents the clearest embodiment of
the Kochs’ market fundamentalist political philosophy in action.<br>
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The Invisible Elephant in the Room<br>
In 1961, when Charles Koch joined his father Fred — a founder of the
John Birch Society who had, as Mayer reported, previously helped
Hitler and Stalin build out their oil refineries, Koch Industries,
was generating $3.5 million in profit a year, Leonard writes.<br>
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By the end of the Obama administration, company had grown enough to
leave Charles and David Koch with personal fortunes of $81 billion
(contrasted against Bill Gates’ $81 billion). Koch Industries says
its workforce now numbers 130,000 people worldwide, roughly half of
those in the U.S., and that it operates today in 60 countries. <br>
<br>
As much as it is mammoth — its “annual revenues are larger than that
of Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and U.S. Steel combined,” Leonard told
NPR — if Koch Industries is the elephant in the room, it has sought
to master the art of being a virtually invisible one...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/08/16/christopher-leonard-book-review-kochland-koch-industries/">https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/08/16/christopher-leonard-book-review-kochland-koch-industries/</a><br>
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<p>[Politicians want to fix global warming]<br>
<b>Full Documentary: Race To Save the Planet</b><br>
Aug 1, 2020<br>
Dave Malkoff<br>
Produced in 2019, several candidates in the 2020 U.S. Presidental
race talk about climate change and the environmental impact
domestic policy can have on the world.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW4q0a2lfm8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW4q0a2lfm8</a> </p>
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[Top climate scientists according to Reuters - no. 105 The
Cassandra]<br>
<b>Her prophecy of an Australian inferno was correct. Bad news for
the coal-loving government.</b><br>
The Cassandra - Julie Arblaster<br>
Soon after this top scientist warned that conditions were ripe for
wildfires, Australia went up in flames. Such warnings can go ignored
in the country, where the government has downplayed human-caused
climate change. Arblaster's career shows the challenges posed by the
politicization of science policy.<br>
“It's usually a time of celebration at the end of the school year.
But the nightly news this year has been shocking in comparison and
puts in stark contrast to our government’s lack of leadership on
climate change.” - JULIE ARBLASTER ON THE TERRIBLE WILDFIRES OF
2019-2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-scientists-arblaster/">https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-scientists-arblaster/</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 -
April 28, 2010 </b></font><br>
<p>April 28, 2010: The New York Times reports on the "epistemic
closure" phenomenon on the right (also known as "the dumbing down
of the American conservative movement"); the piece makes note of
recent right-wing attacks on National Review writer Jim Manzi
after he pointed out flaws in the climate-change section of
talk-radio host Mark Levin's 2009 book "Liberty and Tyranny."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28conserv.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28conserv.html?_r=0</a></p>
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