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[a surge heatwave becomes permanent summer heat]<br>
<b>The Record Temperatures Enveloping The West Are Not Your Average
Heat Wave</b><br>
June 19, 2021<br>
ERIC WESTERVELT<br>
...<br>
These sprawling, persistent high-pressure zones popularly called
"heat domes" are relatively common in later summer months. This
current system is different.<br>
<br>
"It's not only unusual for June, but it is pretty extreme even in
absolute terms," says Daniel Swain, climate scientist at the UCLA
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. "It would be a
pretty extreme event for August," Swain says, when these typically
occur.<br>
<br>
This heat dome's reach is remarkable, too: It has set record highs
stretching from the Great Plains to coastal California. And these
aren't just records for that specific date or month, but in a few
spots, they are records for the singularly hottest day in the entire
period of record, sometimes stretching back 100 to 150 years.
"That's a pretty big deal," Swain says.<br>
"It's unusual in that it's more intense in terms of the maximum
temperature," says Alison Bridger, a professor in the Meteorology
and Climate Science department at San Jose State University. "And
how widespread the impact is."<br>
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This current heat dome "fits with climate change ideas, global
warming, meaning that it's just a little bit warmer than it would
have been last year," Bridger says. "And if we have this next year,
it'll be just a little bit warmer again."<br>
<br>
The "heat dome" is making droughts even worse<br>
It's also coinciding with and worsening record drought across big
parts of the West. These two things, Daniel Swain says, are now
making each other worse.<br>
<br>
"The drought is leading to extremely low soil moisture, which is
making it easier for these high pressure systems to generate extreme
heat waves because more of the sun's energy is going into heating
the atmosphere rather than evaporating nonexistent water in the
soil."<br>
<br>
And that is only making things hotter and drier...<br>
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Experts say this current heat dome is yet more evidence of the
impact of human-caused climate change...<br>
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"It's just so clear at this point," says climate scientist Swain,
"when it comes to record-breaking heat events, the study has been
run for event after event after event in region after region after
region in year after year."<br>
<br>
And the answer is almost always the same, he says: "There's a
crystal clear human fingerprint on extreme heat and extreme heat
events ... climate change is making these sorts of things worse."<br>
<br>
And what was historically rare is now becoming almost commonplace:
Forecasters say there's a chance of yet another heat wave of similar
magnitude in the West about 10 days from now.<br>
"That sounds crazy, except that last summer we saw like three to
five of these, you know, 'unprecedented events' in different regions
of the West," Swain points out.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008248475/the-record-temperatures-enveloping-the-west-is-not-your-average-heat-wave">https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1008248475/the-record-temperatures-enveloping-the-west-is-not-your-average-heat-wave</a><br>
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[today's lesson in language:]<br>
<b>Eight ways to make your climate change social media posts matter
– from a communication expert</b><br>
June 17, 2021<br>
Social media gives everyone the opportunity to argue with the world.
So if you want to persuade people about the need to tackle climate
change and how we should do it, social media is a pretty good place
to start. Many people clearly think so: environmentally conscious
Instagram hashtags like #zerowaste boast 4 million posts and
counting.<br>
<br>
But how do you get your posts about climate change to cut through
the noise – and inspire positive climate-related behaviour change
and support for policies that mitigate the climate crisis? Here are
some key insights from recent research on communicating about
climate change.<br>
<b>1. Relevance matters</b><br>
As individuals, our power to fight climate change is limited but
vital. The more we understand climate change as threatening our own
beloved habitats, the more we are likely to accept far-reaching
social and political decisions that will protect the planet in the
long run.<br>
<br>
<b>2. Conciseness helps</b><br>
The sheer abundance of internet chatter can quickly become
overwhelming. Whether positive or negative, we know that the short
snippets of information provided by Twitter or Instagram – no matter
our belief in our own immunity to them – shape the way we think
about key social ideas and, in turn, the way we react. Since people
don’t often have the time or attention to wade through long
arguments, it’s best to keep your contributions brief and to the
point.<br>
<br>
<b>3. Chase positive, realistic targets</b><br>
Research demonstrates that if we feel that preventing climate
threats is beyond our power, we may just give up and do nothing.
Climate anxiety is real, and it can be paralysing. That means
positive messages are much better than negative ones at making
people act. Giving your audience tips on how to recycle, for
example, beats listing all the problems with recycling.<br>
<br>
<b>4. Avoid misleading terminology</b><br>
Climate change is complicated. And communication about climate
change is often less clear, less streamlined and more prone to being
miscommunicated than discussions about more immediate threats like a
pandemic.<br>
<br>
This means you need to choose your words carefully and precisely.
While a “positive trend” sounds nice, it can be bad news when it
concerns temperature. Referring to an “upward trend” might be wiser.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>5. Climate is global: weather is local</b><br>
People, particularly in the UK, love to talk about the weather.
Erroneously, it’s frequently linked directly to the overall climate,
especially if a speaker wants to express climate scepticism. With
Britain seeing snow in April, Niagara Falls frozen over this year
and weather predictions always unreliable, why should anyone believe
in the certainty of climate change or in the urgency of fighting
against it?<br>
<br>
Talking about the weather in the context of climate change is often
misleading, since it’s not reflective of the broader climate
picture. But in places where climate change affects the weather
directly, articulating global change in terms that respect local
concerns like flooding or drought can be more effective.<br>
<br>
<b>6. Avoid uncertainty</b><br>
The scientific evidence for climate change is undeniable, but the
details of how it will unfold are less clear. Yet when climate
scientists talk about “uncertainties” regarding the planet’s future,
they’re less likely to be taken seriously by the public. Framing the
same outcomes as “risks” is far more effective.<br>
<br>
But describing the probability of future scenarios convincingly and
clearly is a challenge which requires clear language. Take Greta
Thunberg, whose transparent, direct communications about climate
change have sparked a worldwide climate movement supported by social
media. Snippets like “How dare you?”, “Never too small to make a
difference,” or “Our political leaders have failed us,” lodge in
people’s minds, leaving little room for misunderstanding.<br>
<br>
<b>7. Suggest concrete action</b><br>
Research shows that demonstrating actual, specific risks that are
tangible and close to home – like the threat to birds or bees in our
gardens – helps fight climate denial by presenting evidence people
can witness for themselves.<br>
<br>
Likewise, advice for making simple, practical changes, like growing
flowers that help bees flourish or carrying reusable shopping bags,
is more likely to have a direct practical effect than sharing
theoretical and complex scientific discourse.<br>
<br>
<b>8. Listen</b><br>
Maybe the most important requirement of all is to listen. We must
make the effort to understand our audience’s stumbling blocks to
accepting the reality of the climate crisis. After all, people whose
concerns have been truly heard are much more open to questioning
their behaviour – which is what it takes to achieve global change.<br>
<br>
The author would like to acknowledge Jenna Burns (Bangor University
intern) for the important contributions made to the compilation of
this article.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/eight-ways-to-make-your-climate-change-social-media-posts-matter-from-a-communication-expert-161026">https://theconversation.com/eight-ways-to-make-your-climate-change-social-media-posts-matter-from-a-communication-expert-161026</a><br>
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[the future]<br>
<b>War Against Climate Change: Managed Retreat and Floating Cities
of the Future</b><br>
New research finds that moving off the coast and away from floods
can expand options.<br>
<br>
University of Delaware disaster researcher A.R. Siders said it’s
time to put all the options on the table when it comes to discussing
climate change adaptation.<br>
<br>
Managed retreat — the purposeful movement of people, buildings, and
other assets from areas vulnerable to hazards — has often been
considered a last resort. But Siders said it can be a powerful tool
for expanding the range of possible solutions to cope with rising
sea levels, flooding, and other climate change effects when used
proactively or in combination with other measures.<br>
<br>
Siders, a core faculty member in UD’s Disaster Research Center, and
Katharine J. Mach, associate professor at the University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, provide a
prospective roadmap for reconceptualizing the future using managed
retreat in a new paper published online in Science on June 17, 2021.<br>
<br>
“Climate change is affecting people all over the world, and everyone
is trying to figure out what to do about it. One potential strategy,
moving away from hazards, could be very effective, but it often gets
overlooked,” said Siders, assistant professor in the Joseph R.
Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration and the
Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences. “We are looking at the
different ways society can dream bigger when planning for climate
change and how community values and priorities play a role in that.”<br>
video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZm6N3Ws20&">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZm6N3Ws20&</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scitechdaily.com/war-against-climate-change-managed-retreat-and-floating-cities-of-the-future/">https://scitechdaily.com/war-against-climate-change-managed-retreat-and-floating-cities-of-the-future/</a><br>
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[Our friend electricity]<br>
<b>Josh Pearce PhD: Base Load is the Least Useful Power</b><br>
Jun 19, 2021<br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Josh Pearce teaches engineers at Michigan Tech University<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIpO_HWRKBc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIpO_HWRKBc</a><br>
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[What's up with Mitt?]<br>
<b>Why Mitt Romney says ‘the world has changed,’ and what that means
for fighting wildfires in the West</b><br>
By Katie McKellar -- Jun 18, 2021<br>
Blaming the American West’s “unprecedented” wildfire problem on
decades of poor forest management and the reality of a hotter and
drier climate, Sen. Mitt Romney on Friday unveiled a bill to create
a new commission to tackle the issue...<br>
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“It’s getting drier in the American West,” Romney said. “Our state’s
getting drier. The fires are becoming bigger. The loss of life is
more significant. And continuing to do the things the way we’ve done
them in the past doesn’t make a lot of sense.”<br>
So that’s why Romney said he and bill sponsor Rep. John Curtis,
R-Utah, have worked with Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly on the Wildland
Fire Mitigation and Management Commission Act to create a commission
to mitigate and prevent wildfires that is made up not just federal
officials, but also local officials and wildfire experts.<br>
“It’s an attempt to say, ‘Well, frankly, we can learn from some
others,’” Romney said, noting that officials in Australia formed a
similar commission to “recognize that the climate is changing. It’s
getting hotter and drier. How do we protect our lands and our people
in this new circumstance?”<br>
For funding, Romney said, the bill will seek what may be millions
out of roughly $42.5 billion proposed for “resiliency” in a nearly
$1 trillion, five-year infrastructure spending plan he and a group
of nine other bipartisan senators have agreed upon. It’s unclear
whether the Senate plan will garner enough support as it is less
than President Joe Biden’s $2.6 trillion proposal. House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi signaled earlier this week it may run into trouble.<br>
<br>
Romney noted he’s no wildfire “expert,” but he listed off possible
solutions the commission could explore: Cutting red tape for
controlled burns whose permits, he says, take too long to obtain;
allowing more highly flammable dead wood to be removed from forests
for commercial purposes; or funding more aircraft to assist
firefighters.<br>
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Give preference to nonfederal stakeholders from a state that has had
at least one FEMA Fire Management Assistance declaration or a major
disaster declaration for a fire in at least four of the last five
years.<br>
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Recommend policies to improve forest management tactics, federal
spending and budgeting for wildfires, as well as long-term
management and land maintenance strategies.<br>
Report to Congress policy recommendations on short- and long-term
wildfire prevention, mitigation, suppression, management and
rehabilitation to combat future wildfires from becoming
“catastrophic disasters.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/6/18/22540472/how-sen-romney-wants-protect-utah-and-the-west-from-wildfires-drought-disaster-emergency-fire-risk">https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/6/18/22540472/how-sen-romney-wants-protect-utah-and-the-west-from-wildfires-drought-disaster-emergency-fire-risk</a><br>
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[Pandemic is practice for global calamities of climate]<br>
<b>Nobody is Safe if Someone is Unsafe</b><br>
Jun 17, 2021<br>
New Economic Thinking<br>
A dialogue between Jayati Ghosh, Rohinton Medhora, Joseph E.
Stiglitz, coordinated by Robert Johnson at the 2021 Trento Economics
Festival<br>
<br>
The world won’t emerge from the pandemic until the pandemic is
controlled everywhere, and this is a special concern because of the
new mutations that are likely to arise where the disease is running
its course. So too, the world won’t have a robust economic recovery
until at least most of the world is on the course to prosperity.
Global growth is far more muted now than then, and inward-looking
policies in some of the nations where growth has been restored have
resulted in an increase in their trade surplus, attenuating the
global impact of their recovery.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IulggT6ar7I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IulggT6ar7I</a>
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[Disney's Loki? - Walt approved?]<br>
<b>How Did 'Loki' Episode 2 Sneak in Terrifying, Prescient Satire
About Climate Change?</b><br>
BY GREGORY LAWRENCE<br>
PUBLISHED Jun, 19, 2021...<br>
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To an extent, Loki bringing up something like climate change should
not surprise me. The two previous Disney+ MCU shows, WandaVision and
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, were more than willing to dive
into deep issues beyond any requisite thrills or lore-setting. Heck,
Episode 1 of Loki itself was an existential dive into a human's
capacity to shut down when faced with the fact of death.<br>
<br>
The specificity of climate change in Loki does surprise me, though.
Partially because so many of Disney's markets, from the USA to
China, are so directly responsible for the worsening of climate
change (and we've seen how eager Disney is to erase any fact of life
to make it more lucratively palatable for its markets). Partially
because Loki's previous exploration of death was still filtered
through a character, rather than through its viewers.<br>
But when it arrives in Episode 2, it arrives wholly. It arrives
ready to state, as a fact, that we human beings will be devastated
by many climate disasters to come. And most provocatively, it
arrives with a blunt sense of humor, a pointed sense of satire, and
a grimly prescient foresight as to how we human beings will deal
with it all.<br>
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Apocalypses, plural, are inevitabilities in working for the TVA, in
examining the various timelines of existence. It's not "will the
world end," it's "which end of the world are you talking about?" So
when Loki (Tom Hiddleston) poses a theory to Agent Morbius (Owen
Wilson) that the variant Loki they're looking for would be hiding in
an apocalypse, they head to Pompeii right before Mount Vesuvius
erupted and killed all the city's inhabitants. This is a real piece
of human history, but one so removed from our everyday life, so
abstracted as to have been the subject of a Paul W.S. Anderson
disaster film, that we can swallow it being used as the springboard
for entertainment somewhat easily. Even when Loki starts dancing at
the onset of the eruption, shouting gleefully terrifying bursts of
existentialism like, "Enjoy your last meal while you can! Nothing
matters! Nothing has any consequence! Dance while you still can!", a
sense of intellectual remove occurs. "I can enjoy this as being
unusual," we think, "because I am so removed from anything like this
happening."<br>
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In summation, as Mobius puts it, "most things in history are kinda
dumb and everything gets ruined eventually." That doesn't stop him
from wanting a brighter future, which for him, is symbolized by his
love of the jet-ski. It's a silly thing to love, especially in the
face of such higher-stakes, existence-threatening issues. But Mobius
loves it all the same. And when asked why, he responds simply:
"Helps remind me of what we’re fighting for."<br>
<br>
Change is possible, through the motivation of joy, of your favorite
popcorn TV shows, of anything you can grab your hands on. It just
has to be.<br>
New episodes of Loki premiere Wednesdays on Disney+.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://collider.com/loki-episode-2-climate-change/">https://collider.com/loki-episode-2-climate-change/</a><br>
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[video games and global warming - due out in October of this year,
if we make it.]<br>
<b>How ‘Battlefield 2042”s extreme weather affects combat</b><br>
Force on force of nature<br>
By Jack Grimshaw - 17th June 2021<br>
EA Dice‘s Battlefield 2042 game designer Daniel Berlin appeared
during tonight’s (June 17) Xbox Games Showcase Extended to talks
about how extreme weather affects the game’s combat.<br>
Using the new map Hourglass as an example, Berlin discussed how the
sandstorm is a massive map-wide wall of sand that sweeps from one
side of the map to the other. When caught in the sandstorm, the
player’s visibility will be reduced – altering how weapons, tanks,
and helicopters will be used...<br>
He also added that debris would light the map differently even after
the sandstorm has passed, and its effects will still be relevant.<br>
Berlin also discussed the tornado that was originally revealed in
the first Battlefield 2042 trailer. The large column of twisting
wind will roam around the map of its own free will, causing chaos
wherever it goes.<br>
<br>
It changes the physics of an area, throwing around helicopters,
cars, and players. This will break up any fight in the area and make
outdoor areas unusable while the tornado wreaks havoc.<br>
Connected to this, Berlin talked about the Plus System. This is the
new mechanic that allows players to swap attachments mid-match using
a new menu. Berlin’s example was that players might want to change
their weapon configuration during a sandstorm to better suit the
reduced visibility. It can also be used when fighting in confined
spaces while a tornado denies outdoor combat.<br>
<br>
He states that the game is truly a sandbox in the players’ hands and
that players are in control of everything that happens in a match.<br>
<br>
Battlefield 2042 is available for pre-purchase on Steam, Origin, and
consoles.<br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/how-battlefield-2042s-extreme-weather-affects-combat-2972311">https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/how-battlefield-2042s-extreme-weather-affects-combat-2972311</a></p>
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[Hear the game producer]<br>
<b>Battlefield 2042 In-Depth Look | Xbox Games Showcase 2021</b><br>
Jun 17, 2021<br>
GameSpot<br>
DICE revealed new details about the latest entry into the
Battlefield franchise, Battlefield 2042. Battlefield 2042 will
feature series staple Conquest and Breakthrough. Breakthrough is
much a much more guided experience, where teams are compressed into
smaller spaces, while Conquest will be the standard open sandbox
battles. Battlefield 2042 will allow for massive 128 player online
battles. In order to deal with this, Battlefield 2042 will include
cluster objectives. Battlefield 2042 releases October 22, 2021.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyNaADqpCl4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyNaADqpCl4</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back at backwards thinking]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
June 20, 1979</b></font><br>
<p>Solar heaters are installed on the roof of the White House by
President Carter. The panels would be yanked down by President
Reagan in August 1986.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/_88idk1VJGU">http://youtu.be/_88idk1VJGU</a> <br>
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