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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>June 13, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[Drought risk display]<br>
<b>How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself.</b><br>
By Nadja Popovich<br>
June 11, 2021<br>
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An intense drought is gripping the American West. Extreme conditions
are more widespread than at any point in at least 20 years,
according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, the government’s official
drought-tracking service.<br>
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And the hottest months of summer are still to come.<br>
Early June Drought Conditions in the West<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/11/climate/california-western-drought-map.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/11/climate/california-western-drought-map.html</a><br>
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[Gee. seven super leaders]<br>
<b>G7 leaders commit to boost climate finance contributions</b><br>
What would you like to learn more about?<br>
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G7 leaders in their joint communique reaffirmed the collective
developed countries goal to jointly mobilise $100 billion a year
from public and private sources, through to 2025.<br>
The Group of Seven nations have agreed to increase their climate
finance contributions and meet an overdue spending pledge of $100
billion a year to help poorer countries, calling on other developed
countries to join the effort.<br>
<br>
In a copy of a joint communique following a weekend meeting of the
world's seven largest advanced economies, the G7 said: "We reaffirm
the collective developed countries goal to jointly mobilise $100
billion/year from public and private sources, through to 2025, in
the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on
implementation."<br>
<br>
"Towards this end, we commit to each increase and improve our
overall international public climate finance contributions for this
period and call on other developed countries to join and enhance
their contributions to this effort."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.trtworld.com/life/g7-leaders-commit-to-boost-climate-finance-contributions-47482">https://www.trtworld.com/life/g7-leaders-commit-to-boost-climate-finance-contributions-47482</a><br>
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[Not very smart]<br>
<b>Study faults California for building homes in wildfire areas</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/study-faults-california-building-homes-wildfire-areas-2021-06-10/">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/study-faults-california-building-homes-wildfire-areas-2021-06-10/</a><br>
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[yuk...video of Sea Snot ]<br>
<b>Turkey scrambles to stop slimy 'sea snot' in coastal waters | DW
News</b><br>
Jun 6, 2021<br>
DW News<br>
Turkey is struggling to stop the spread of a slimy substance
accumulating in its seas. The outbreak of the naturally-occurring
mucus-like matter is the biggest on record. And if left untreated,
experts warn the sludge could soon coat large parts of Turkey's
coastal waters.<br>
Thick, oozing, soupy slime is covering the coast of the Sea of
Marmara near Istanbul.<br>
Biologists call it marine mucilage - others dub it 'sea snot.'<br>
It's source, organisms feeding on human waste in the warming water,
is equally icky.<br>
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to clean up the
gunk.<br>
Officials have been ordered to inspect waste water facilities to
find sources of pollution.<br>
The substance extends deep below the surface, suffocating sea life.<br>
For fisherman, the filth is fouling their boats, and killing their
catch.<br>
It's not the first time the sludge has appeared, but this year's
outbreak is unprecedented.<br>
Turkish opposition politicians want tougher penalties on pollution,
and climate change mitigation measures.<br>
Biologists say humans must cease flushing their waste into the sea,
if they want to stop the snot.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOn1vLBUFKY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOn1vLBUFKY</a><br>
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[important observations]<br>
<b>Satellite Observations Show Marine Clouds Amplify Global Warming</b><br>
A new analysis of satellite cloud observations finds that global
warming causes low-level clouds over the oceans to decrease, leading
to further warming. The work, led by researchers at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with
colleagues from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the NASA
Langley Research Center, appears online in Nature Climate Change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scitechdaily.com/satellite-observations-show-marine-clouds-amplify-global-warming/">https://scitechdaily.com/satellite-observations-show-marine-clouds-amplify-global-warming/</a><br>
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Reference: “Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce
uncertainty of climate sensitivity” by Timothy A. Myers, Ryan C.
Scott, Mark D. Zelinka, Stephen A. Klein, Joel R. Norris and Peter
M. Caldwell, 13 May 2021, Nature Climate Change.<br>
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01039-0<br>
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[RMA seems to be a big local meeting in Wesport, CT]<br>
June 12, 2021<br>
<b>On My Watch – David Pogue tells the RMA how to prepare for
climate change</b><br>
Greenwich Sentinel<br>
By Anne Semmes<br>
<br>
David Pogue talks plain talk about that complex story of climate
change. Pogue, who lives in Westport, has a voice for science, often
hosting PBS Nova science specials and explaining away on Ted Talks.
He now has a user-friendly book, “How to Prepare for Climate Change
– A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos,” that was a riveting
topic at a recent RMA talk.<br>
<br>
His ability to simplify those key words of climate change, the
greenhouse effect, began with a photo of two dogs in a car. “If we
want to reach people, we should call it the dog-in-the- car-
effect…how you come back to your car in the summer it’s like boiling
inside. Same exact thing – trapped infrared energy reflected from
the sun. In the climate analog – we are the dog.”<br>
<br>
He then shared a graph that starkly showed the dramatic rise in the
levels of C02. “And if we zoom in on the last 150 years, we’ll see
that it really began about the time we began burning coal and oil
with the Industrial Revolution.”<br>
He has another term for global warming more inclusive, global
weirding. “It’s heat waves,” his list begins, freak snowstorms,
flooding, water shortages. historic rains, droughts. “We had the
most hurricanes last season…Nature is a network of interconnected
systems – you can’t turn one knob without affecting a bunch of other
things.”<br>
<br>
Addressing last year he said, “We were coping with COVID crisis, but
the climate crisis did not slow down…2020 was tied for the hottest
year ever reported on the planet. We also achieved the hottest
temperature ever measured on the planet…over 130 degrees in Death
Valley. We also had the most wildfires burning – the most areas in a
season…five million acres burned, which is equal to the entire area
of Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island. And another terrible
wildfire season is coming up out west.”<br>
<br>
So, just how many climate change deniers are out there he posed?
According to an annual study by Yale Program on Climate Change
Communication, there are 29 percent of Americans believing climate
change is just a natural cycle. “That’s actually the lowest number
it’s ever been in these surveys. Just as a point of comparison,
remember that 20 percent of us believe that aliens walk among us.”<br>
<br>
But Pogue quickly moved off to his “Practical Guide to Surviving the
Chaos.”<br>
<br>
So, how is that changing climate affecting us? “There’s an epidemic
in this country of what’s called eco-despair or climate
anxiety…After Hurricane Katrina, one in five residents are still
suffering from PTSD…Since 2016 rates of depression are up 33
percent.” How to deal with this despair? Pogue’s’ “whole book is
about taking action to sleep better at night.”<br>
<br>
Like choosing wisely where one lives. “Forty million Americans move
every year, especially in the pandemic. The basic guideline is you
want to be inland far enough from the sea level rising and
flooding.” Check out the “cool” website called, “Surging Seas” – <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sealevel.climatecentral.org/">https://sealevel.climatecentral.org/</a>
“You plug in any address, and it’ll show you the water levels over
time as the sea levels rise…Coastal Connecticut is not as bad as
Miami. I would not be buying real estate in Miami…already they’re
getting sunny day flooding 100 days a year, when it hasn’t been
raining, when there hasn’t been a hurricane. And that happens
because of the tides.”<br>
<br>
“You want to be north far enough to escape the heat waves, as well
as the mosquitoes and ticks that we’ve got here, and you want to be
west enough to avoid the hurricanes, and you want to be east far
enough to avoid the wildfires. And you need fresh water – the entire
western half of the country is in more or less perpetual drought.”<br>
<br>
Pogue picks 14 cities “basically above the 42nd parallel. The Great
Lakes area, baby, that’s where it’s at – no hurricanes and
wildfires, plenty of drinking water, no sea level rise. All those
great old rust belt cities are expected to have this huge
resurgence. Places with a lot of culture, art museums, symphonies,
zoos, and hospitals, very important in the climate crisis era.
Another option is Burlington, Vermont. It feels like a seaside town
because it’s on Lake Champlain, a lake 500 miles long, no sea level
rise, low obesity, highly educated, the lowest crime rate in the
country, really big on cheese and maple syrup and ice cream. Ben and
Jerry’s is nearby.”<br>
<br>
How to invest in climate change? “When you invest in a clean energy
focused company, you are helping to solve the problem. You’re making
money at the same time. It turns out that 38 states, and growing
now, have renewable energy mandates. They must get 50 percent of
their power from renewable energy by 2030. Who stands to benefit
from those laws? The utility companies, because they will be the
people that the states are buying electricity from. So, companies
like NextEra and Xcel Energy are good investments.”<br>
<br>
And, with General Motors intending to phase out of gas cars in 14
years, Pogue shared, “It’s the companies that mine lithium that will
be sitting pretty.”<br>
<br>
Pogue instructed all RMA attendees to download the app, “Emergency,”
pronto. “It’s free. It’s from the American Red Cross, and it’s
really cool – you put in your address, or your children’s addresses,
grandchildren’s addresses. If any disaster starts heading yours or
their way it will come to life and start beeping and get your
attention. even when the cell network is down, like where’s the
nearest shelter, basic first aid, how to survive a flood or
hurricane.<br>
“Most experts also agreed that you should set up a go-bag. This is a
backpack that you keep in the front closet with enough stuff in it,
so that you can survive out of the house for a couple of days. So,
snacks, first aid gear, flashlight…grab ID and cash, and any
medicines. When another hurricane Sandy comes along and you’re told
to evacuate, you don’t want to be at the end of the line of cars
stuck in traffic trying to escape.”<br>
<br>
But if you can’t, don’t forget your water heater. “There’s 40 or 80
gallons of clean fresh drinking water already within the walls of
your own home. So, what you do is you shut off the intake at the
top, and then you can pour out water from the bottom spigot, let it
cool off, and you’ve got clean drinking water.”<br>
<br>
And gear up against those ticks! “It turns out that the changing
climate is not unpopular with everybody. Ticks love it. Tick
territory is growing because the winters are not killing them…or
killing off the deer.” Lyme Disease is increasing. “And the thing is
you don’t always know that you’ve got Lyme disease.” So those 30,000
reported cases in the 1990’s could now be 300,000 cases a year.
Stock up on DEET, use antibiotics quickly if you come down with Lyme
– “you can cure it for good. When you get back from a walk, take off
your clothes and throw them in the dryer – it kills whatever is on
them.” To remove a tick, “Just take some tweezers, grab it by the
head, pop it right out.’ And encircle your house/patio with nine
feet of lawn. “Nine feet to them is like Death Valley, they can’t
cross it.”<br>
<br>
The last chapter of Pogue’s book is called, “Where to Find Hope.” It
includes, “Look at the young people today…These people are going to
replace us, and they feel very strongly about decarbonizing. I think
it’ll take eight years or so, but I do believe we’ll get to a world
that doesn’t burn coal, oil and gas anymore.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2021/06/12/on-my-watch-david-pogue-tells-the-rma-how-to-prepare-for-climate-change/">https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2021/06/12/on-my-watch-david-pogue-tells-the-rma-how-to-prepare-for-climate-change/</a><br>
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[Congress may want to know this is possible but totally implausible]<br>
<b>How to Move The Planet Earth To Save It From The Sun</b><br>
Jun 11, 2021<br>
Scott Manley<br>
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On the timescale of hundreds of millions of years the sun is
increasing in luminosity, and may one day render the Earth
uninhabitable. Is it possible to envisage a way to move the entire
planet further from the Sun to prevent this fate? <br>
<blockquote>David Brin: Let's Lift The Earth<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/11/lets-lift-earth.html">http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/11/lets-lift-earth.html</a>.<br>
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The Wandering Earth<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth</a>..<br>
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Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary
orbits<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0102126.pdf">https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0102126.pdf</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5StYppuJ_lg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5StYppuJ_lg</a><br>
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[2 year old documentary]<br>
<b>Fleeing climate change — the real environmental disaster | DW
Documentary</b><br>
May 1, 2019<br>
DW Documentary<br>
How many millions of people will be forced to leave their homes by
2050? This documentary looks at the so-called hotspots of climate
change in the Sahel zone, Indonesia and the Russian Tundra.<br>
<br>
Lake Chad in the Sahel zone has already shrunk by 90 percent since
the 1960s due to the increasing heat. About 40 million people will
be forced to migrate to places where there is enough rainfall.
Migration has always existed as a strategy to adapt to a changing
environment. But the number of those forced to migrate solely
because of climate change has increased dramatically since the
1990s. It is a double injustice: after becoming rich at the expense
of the rest of the world, the industrialized countries are now
polluting the atmosphere with their emissions and bringing a second
misfortune to the inhabitants of the poorer regions. One of them is
Mohammed Ibrahim: as Lake Chad got hotter and drier, he decided to
go where the temperatures were less extreme and there was still a
little water, trekking with his wife, children and 70 camels from
Niger to Chad and then further south. The journey lasted several
years and many members of his herd died of thirst. Now he and his
family are living in a refugee camp: they only have seven camels
left. Mohammed is one of many who have left their homelands in the
Sahel - not because of conflict and crises, but because of the high
temperatures. He's a real climate refugee.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4Uv9_7KJE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4Uv9_7KJE</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming June
13, 1993</b></font><br>
<br>
The Baltimore Sun reports on the well-financed effort by libertarian
activists and fossil-fuel industry lobbyists to stop the BTU tax.<br>
<blockquote><b>Industry lobby, largely unanswered by White House,
poured water on Btu tax</b><br>
June 13, 1993|By Karen Hosler | Karen Hosler, Washington Bureau<br>
WASHINGTON -- Day after day, radio ads in the Louisiana bayous
warned Cajuns of a Washington plot to tax them every time they
turned on the air conditioners, televisions or even took "a cold
one out of the fridge."<br>
<br>
In South Dakota, thousands of fliers were distributed that
threatened higher prices on all goods from food to fertilizer and
a loss of 600,000 American jobs if President Clinton's Btu tax on
energy was enacted. The fliers included postage-paid protest notes
to be sent to the state's U.S. senators.<br>
<br>
Anti-Btu rallies were held in Bismarck, N.D., Billings, Mont.,
Phoenix, Ariz., and Omaha, Neb. Local television stations in as
many as a dozen states were saturated with advertisements; phone
banks targeted calls to a select list of opinion makers; glossy
brochures full of industry-paid studies on the dire effects of the
tax were sent to local journalists who got follow-up calls from
public relations agencies offering interviews.<br>
<br>
These efforts were part of a sophisticated industry-financed
campaign that went largely unanswered by the White House and
succeeded last week in scaring both Mr. Clinton and the Senate
away from the centerpiece of his deficit-reduction program -- a
broad-based tax on the heat content of fuel as measured in tTC
British thermal units. As a result, the Senate Finance Committee
is struggling to craft an alternative energy tax -- one that is
likely to come under the same kind of organized attack as the Btu.<br>
<br>
'Astroturf'<br>
<br>
"Astroturf," is what critics like Oklahoma Rep. Mike Synar called
the $2 million state-of-the art lobby effort designed to look like
a grass-roots uprising against the Btu tax. The campaign was
largely the work of two groups, a powerful coalition of energy
producers, manufacturers and agriculture and another
Republican-led consumer group founded by an oil company executive.<br>
<br>
"It was very effective," said Sen. Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat
who was one of those targeted by the lobbying. "I think we
overreacted. There's always going to be some group that is
vociferously opposed to a tax. Our job is to see through the fog
and the guff. We abandoned the Btu too quickly."<br>
<br>
The anti-Btu campaign started almost as soon President Clinton
unveiled the tax in February as a way to raise $72 billion over
five years, encourage energy conservation and promote the use of
cleaner-burning fuels.<br>
<br>
The administration touted it as a fairer levy than a gasoline tax,
hitting everyone a little bit. The working poor would be spared
any impact because of an offsetting income tax credit for families
earning less than $30,000, the White House promised.<br>
<br>
But opponents argued that the tax would raise the cost of
practically everything while costing thousands of jobs in
energy-related industries, manufacturing and agriculture. And they
quickly dominated the debate.<br>
<br>
There were newspaper ads, anti-Btu buttons, and radio ads.<br>
<br>
Many people weren't sure what the Btu tax was even after they were
exposed to a negative barrage about its impact, much of it based
on statistics from industry-financed studies that are disputed by
the Clinton administration.<br>
<br>
But there is no doubt of the effectiveness of the campaign or the
likelihood that it might work just as well in combating whatever
tax the Senate comes up with as an alternative.<br>
<br>
Already, airlines, trucking companies and railroads are gearing up
to attack a proposed transportation fuels tax. Meanwhile, the huge
American Association of Retired Persons is activating its 34
million members to fight potentially deeper cuts in Medicare, the
health care program for the elderly, to make up for the money lost
by killing the Btu tax.<br>
<br>
Turnaround by Boren<br>
<br>
In Oklahoma, a prime section of the oil patch that was the top
target of the anti-Btu crowd, Sen. David G. Boren started out as
an enthusiastic admirer of Mr. Clinton's "bold plan" for deficit
reduction. But after an intense pounding by lobbyists, he became a
die-hard Btu opponent and was probably most responsible for the
administration's decision to abandon the tax last week.<br>
<br>
By then, at least three other Democratic members of the Senate
Finance Committee, whose states were also targeted by the lobbying
campaign, were insisting on major changes in the legislation as a
price for their support.<br>
<br>
Convinced it had little chance of salvaging the tax in the Senate,
the administration threw in the towel Tuesday less than two weeks
after the proposal had passed the House.<br>
<br>
House Speaker Thomas S. Foley argues almost daily that what Mr.
Clinton is trying to do in cutting spending and raising taxes by a
total of $500 billion over five years is extremely difficult, a
tougher task than any president in memory has tackled.<br>
<br>
Yet spokesmen for the American Petroleum Institute, the National
Association of Manufacturers, the Farm Bureau and others who were
involved in the anti-Btu lobbying campaign said they were
inadvertently aided by a White House that started strong but just
didn't follow through.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-06-13/news/1993164025_1_btu-tax-energy-tax-gasoline-tax">http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-06-13/news/1993164025_1_btu-tax-energy-tax-gasoline-tax</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181122205615/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-06-13/news/1993164025_1_btu-tax-energy-tax-gasoline-tax">https://web.archive.org/web/20181122205615/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-06-13/news/1993164025_1_btu-tax-energy-tax-gasoline-tax</a><br>
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