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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>May 31, 2021</b></font></i></p>
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[Associated Press]<br>
<b>Study blames climate change for 37% of global heat deaths</b><br>
By SETH BORENSTEIN - May 31, 2021<br>
More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due
directly to global warming, according to the latest study to
calculate the human cost of climate change.<br>
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But scientists say that’s only a sliver of climate’s overall toll —
even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global
warming such as storms, flooding and drought — and the heat death
numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.<br>
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Dozens of researchers who looked at heat deaths in 732 cities around
the globe from 1991 to 2018 calculated that 37% were caused by
higher temperatures from human-caused warming, according to a study
Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-science-environment-and-nature-f0b4baded0e335035fdb1ba8c8f65e53">https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-science-environment-and-nature-f0b4baded0e335035fdb1ba8c8f65e53</a>
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[video [though by 2035? Are you crazy?]]<br>
<b>Geothermal Energy meets Master Planned Communities : A blueprint
for the future?</b><br>
May 30, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
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Geothermal Energy has the potential to accelerate our move towards a
more sustainable energy future. The technology is most effective
when used at scale. Now a major housing development in Austin, Texas
is installing five miles of geothermal pipework to serve a Master
Planned Community that will comprise 7500 homes and 30,000
residents. And the best thing is - all the infrastructure is already
in place before the housing developer lays a single foundation.
Could this be a blueprint for the great suburban build out?<br>
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Video Transcripts available at our website<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justhaveathink.com">http://www.justhaveathink.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/F07RNxIAm9Q">https://youtu.be/F07RNxIAm9Q</a><br>
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[land sales]<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ecosmartsolution.com/">https://ecosmartsolution.com/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hersindex.com/hers-index/what-is-the-hers-index/">https://www.hersindex.com/hers-index/what-is-the-hers-index/</a><br>
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[Nicely produced video presentation]<br>
<b>Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2021-03-23: Andrew Shepherd</b><br>
Apr 26, 2021<br>
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies<br>
Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2021-03-23<br>
Speaker: Andrew Shepherd, <br>
Title: CryoSat – a decade of polar altimetry<br>
<blockquote><b>Abstract: </b>CryoSat-2 is ESA's first satellite
mission dedicated to measuring changes in the cryosphere and its
observations have transformed our capacity to study the polar
regions. Thanks to CryoSat-2, we now have an altogether new
appreciation of how Earth’s ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice,
glaciers, and polar oceans are evolving. As global temperatures
have risen, so too have rates of snowfall, ice melting, and sea
level rise, and each of these changes impacts upon the
neighbouring land, marine, and atmospheric environments.
CryoSat-2 measurements are now central to our awareness and
understanding of Arctic and Antarctic environmental change; a case
in point is the marine ice sheet instability that is underway in
West Antarctica, widely understood to be among the greatest
contemporary imbalances in the climate system, whose evolution has
been charted in satellite altimeter data since its onset. In this
presentation I will introduce the CryoSat-2 mission concept,
describe the technical advances that have improved our capability
to monitor land ice, sea ice, and the polar oceans, and review a
series of flagship studies that have allowed both long-standing
and unanticipated scientific problems in cryospheric research to
be solved.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XkGF9dpwRs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XkGF9dpwRs</a><br>
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[Sand and dust]<br>
<b>Buried Alive In Mongolia's Worst Sandstorms In A Decade</b><br>
May 30, 2021<br>
KHALIUN BAYARTSOGT<br>
EMILY FENG<br>
ULAANBATAR, Mongolia – This March, as Mongolian herder Batsaikhan
Enkhee tended to his sheep, the sky suddenly darkened. The wind
picked up, filling his shoes and shirt with coarse, heavy sand. A
massive sandstorm had engulfed the Mongolian grasslands.<br>
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"It was dark like the night," Batsaikhanm, 53, told NPR. "I thought
I would die."<br>
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The herder huddled with his sheep as airborne dirt blocked out the
sun. His brother found him the next day, buried in the sand, and dug
him out. He survived, but 200 of his sheep died in the storm, about
one-fifth of his herd.<br>
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Sheep weren't the only casualty. Nine Mongolian herders perished on
the steppes in what has been the worst sandstorm season in both
Mongolia and China in a decade.<br>
The cloud of sand then blew its way over the course of the next day
into Beijing, more than 600 miles away. There, the sky suddenly
turned a garish yellow. The air quickly filled with plumes of coarse
grit, basting cars and balconies a dusty brown.<br>
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The result has been catastrophic in Chinese and Mongolian regions
bordering the Gobi. In northern China, tourists found themselves
trapped by pelting wind. Air pollution levels skyrocketed to more
than 20 times the healthy limit. Southern Mongolia was hit
particularly hard; successive sandstorms have killed an estimated
1.6 million livestock, which many herders depend on for income.<br>
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"Even the rescue teams could not even go forward because it was so
dark during the [March] storm," says Jargalsaikhan Sonomdash, the
governor of the southern Mongolian county of Airag, where 3,600
animals died after they were buried by sand drifts.<br>
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Mongolian climate experts say an unusually dry year for
precipitation created huge amounts of loose sand. "Almost no snow
fell last winter, and some provinces had no rain last summer," says
Dulamsuren Daskhuu, a senior researcher at Mongolia's Meteorology
and Environmental Monitoring Research Institute, a ministry.<br>
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"Many of us found our animals that were killed in the steppe because
they were stuck in sand and only their ears or head were left poking
out," Mydagmaa remembers. The survivors had been blinded by the
scouring sand.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/30/1000530563/buried-alive-in-mongolias-worst-sandstorms-in-a-decade">https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/30/1000530563/buried-alive-in-mongolias-worst-sandstorms-in-a-decade</a><br>
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[Really pandering to our fears]<br>
<b>Risk of brain-eating amoeba, flesh-eating bacteria may increase
due to climate change: Experts</b><br>
Infections are rare, but pathogens and bacteria thrive in warmer
waters.<br>
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The sweltering summer heat may send swimmers diving head-first into
the nearest body of water, but climate change may contribute to
life-threatening risks for swimmers as waterborne pathogens thrive
and multiply faster in increasingly warming waters, experts said.<br>
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Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the possibility
for dangerous pathogens, such as Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating
amoeba, and Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria, said Dr.
Sandra Gompf, an infectious disease specialist and professor of
medicine at the University of South Florida...<br>
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The amoeba enters the brain through a forceful push of water high
into the naval cavity, Gompf said, adding that it is important to
plug one's nose -- or avoid putting your head underwater all
together -- when swimming in freshwater 76 degrees Fahrenheit or
warmer. Ingesting Naegleria fowleri is not harmful.<br>
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The pathogen can linger in any body of freshwater, including lakes,
ponds, rivers, underchlorinated water parks and municipal water,
which is why it's imperative to boil water -- or use distilled water
-- when using a neti pot.<br>
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Vibrio vulnificus tends to cause diarrheal illness in most people,
but some can experience severe bloodstream infection or gangrene,
Gompf said. People with underlying conditions such as diabetes,
liver disease or poor immunity are more likely to become infected
with Vibrio vulnificus.<br>
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"With the continuing climate change, this is not something that's
just going to go away," Sutton said. "It is likely that as
temperatures increase, water will become more of a hospitable
environment to harbor organisms, not just like this, but other
bacteria and pathogens that can harm young kids who are just trying
to have fun in a lake in the summer."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/risk-brain-eating-amoeba-flesh-eating-bacteria-increase/story?id=77918655">https://abcnews.go.com/Health/risk-brain-eating-amoeba-flesh-eating-bacteria-increase/story?id=77918655</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 May
31, 2006 </b></font><br>
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-- On MSNBC's "Countdown," fill-in host Brian Unger discusses the
all-out effort by the fossil-fuel industry and the American
conservative movement to attack Al Gore in the wake of the release
of "An Inconvenient Truth."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2006/05/31/msnbcs-countdown-documented-the-swift-boating-o/135841">http://mediamatters.org/video/2006/05/31/msnbcs-countdown-documented-the-swift-boating-o/135841</a><br>
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-- Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr. launches a
completely incoherent attack on "An Inconvenient Truth."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060602165558/http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/hjenkins/?id=110008450">http://web.archive.org/web/20060602165558/http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/hjenkins/?id=110008450</a><br>
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