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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>June 29, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[records]<br>
<b>Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Is Buckling Roads And Melting Power
Cables</b><br>
Temperature records are shattering across a region that rarely deals
with intense heat.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pacific-northwest-heat-wave-roads_n_60da357ce4b085480fe39872">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pacific-northwest-heat-wave-roads_n_60da357ce4b085480fe39872</a><br>
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[boosting one economy]<br>
<b>Hotel prices surge as Washingtonians search for air conditioning
to escape record-setting heat</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.q13fox.com/news/hotel-prices-surge-as-record-setting-heat-hits-western-washington">https://www.q13fox.com/news/hotel-prices-surge-as-record-setting-heat-hits-western-washington</a><br>
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[where is it sunshine all day long]<br>
<b>Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle</b><br>
The ongoing climate crisis is not going to spare Siberia.<br>
Isaac Schultz - 6/22/21 <br>
Newly published satellite imagery shows the ground temperature in at
least one location in Siberia topped 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48
degrees Celsius) going into the year’s longest day. It’s hot Siberia
Earth summer, and it certainly won’t be the last...<br>
But the ground temperature being so warm is still very bad. Those
temperatures beleaguer the permafrost—the frozen soil of yore, which
holds in greenhouse gases and on which much of eastern Russia is
built. As permafrost thaws, it sighs its methane back into the
atmosphere, causing chasms in the Earth...<br>
Besides the deleterious effects of more greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere, the permafrost melting destabilizes the Siberian earth,
unsettling building foundations and causing landslides. It also
exposes the frozen carcasses of many Ice Age mammals, meaning
paleontologists have to work fast to study the species that thrived
when the planet was much colder. For all the talk of reanimating the
woolly mammoth, one’s got to remember: the place they knew is long
gone.<br>
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The same region also suffered through a heat wave that led to a very
un-Siberian air temperature reading of 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38
degrees Celsius) exactly a year ago to the day from the new freak
heat. It’s the hottest temperature ever recorded in the region. It
was also in the 90s last month in western Siberia, reflecting that
the sweltering new abnormal is affecting just about everywhere. And
it’s not just the permafrost suffering; wildfires last year in
Siberia pumped a record amount of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere, ensuring more summers like this are to come.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/ground-temperatures-hit-118-degrees-in-the-arctic-circl-1847144505">https://gizmodo.com/ground-temperatures-hit-118-degrees-in-the-arctic-circl-1847144505</a><br>
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[new and important - HDWI data display represents wildfire risk]<br>
<b>The Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDWI)</b><br>
Experimental/Research Site<br>
Server appears to be running normally again. Check dates carefully
still and let us know if you see any further issues.<br>
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<blockquote>What is HDW?<br>
The Hot-Dry-Windy Index (HDW) was designed to help users
determine which days are more likely to have adverse atmospheric
conditions that make it more difficult to manage a wildland
fire. It combines weather data from the surface and low levels
of the atmosphere into a first-look product.<br>
<br>
HDW was designed to be very simple – a multiplication of the
maximum wind speed and maximum vapor pressure deficit (VPD) in
the lowest 50 or so millibars in the atmosphere. Because HDW is
affected by heat, moisture, and wind, seasonal and regional
variability can be found when comparing HDW values from
different locations and times.<br>
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HDWI Status: Updated at 0751 UTC / 28 Jun 2021<br>
<br>
HDWI Forecasts, 30-year CFSR Climatology, and 30-day GEFS analysis
archive available through the dropdowns here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://eamcweb3.usfs.msu.edu/HDW/images/HDW_GEFS/HDW_GEFS_53.0_-119.5.png">https://eamcweb3.usfs.msu.edu/HDW/images/HDW_GEFS/HDW_GEFS_53.0_-119.5.png</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hdwindex.org/">https://www.hdwindex.org/</a><br>
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[7 years ago]<br>
<b>Study Examines Link Between Drought, Earthquakes</b><br>
By Conan Nolan and Andrew Lopez - May 16, 2014 <br>
Groundwater pumping amid California’s historic drought may be
affecting earthquakes along the San Andreas fault, according to a
new study.<br>
<br>
The pumping, which has been going on for decades in the usually
fertile San Joaquin Valley, is now leading to an increase in
temblors in the area, according to the study, spearheaded by Western
Washington University, which was published in the science journal
Nature.<br>
<br>
"As the valley is going down, you are unclamping the San Andreas
fault,” said Dr. Susan Hough of the U.S. Geological Survey. "When
you take out the water, it’s the weight of the water that is
affecting the crust and the faults.”<br>
<br>
The study suggests that while the Central Valley is sinking, the
mountain ranges that surround it are climbing....<br>
<p>"An earthquake that is induced is going to happen anyway. If you
hasten it a little bit, maybe it will happen in September instead
of January, but it’s not really a game changer,” Hough said.<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/study-finds-link-between-drought-earthquakes/70952/">https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/study-finds-link-between-drought-earthquakes/70952/</a></p>
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[everything is connected]<br>
<b>How Droughts Influence Earthquakes</b><br>
Diandong Ren and Rong Fu<br>
Accepted: November 02, 2019<br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
<blockquote>Earthquakes result from strain build-up from without and
weakening from within faults. A generic co-seismic condition is
presented that includes just three angles representing,
respectively, fault geometry, fault strength, and the ratio of
fault coupling to lithostatic loading. Correspondingly, gravity
fluctuations, bridging effects, and granular material
production/distribution form an earthquake triad. As a dynamic
constituent of the gravity field, groundwater fluctuation is the
nexus between the triad components. It is pivotal in regulating
major seismic irregularity, by reducing natural (dry, or purely
tectonic, stationary seismicity) inter-seismic periods and by
lowering magnitudes. Specifically, to exert stress on the fault,
groundwater does not need to reside deep in proximity to the
locked fault interface, as it can work remotely. It can act
mechanically-direct (MD), by a differential de-loading and
superimposing a seismogenetic lateral stress field, thereby aiding
plate-coupling, from without, or mechanically-indirect (MI) by
enhancing fault fatigue, and hence weakening the fault, from
within. To verify this hypothesis, gravity measurements, and a
numerical model, are used. The remote action hypothesis is
globally applicable. Detailed results are presented for the
Himalayan and New Zealand regions. The gravity recovery and
Climate experiment (GRACE measurements) reveals that major
earthquakes (Mw 5 and above) always occur in the dry stage,
indicating drought and associated groundwater extraction is an
important trigger for major earthquakes. By exploring 73
historical records successfully reproduced by the model, it is
found that for collisional (e.g., the peri-Tibetan Plateau) and
strike-slip (e.g., the San Andreas Fault) systems, the MD
mechanism dominates, because the orographically induced spatially
highly variable precipitation is channeled into greater depth by
through-cut faults. Droughts elsewhere also are seismogenetic, but
likely through MI effects. In a warming future climate, mechanisms
identified here play a greater role in increasing the recurrence
frequency of major earthquakes, but also in slightly reducing
their severity.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scholars.direct/Articles/environmental-studies/aes-3-025.php?jid=environmental-studies">https://scholars.direct/Articles/environmental-studies/aes-3-025.php?jid=environmental-studies</a><br>
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<p>[Nexus Hot News Denier Roundup]<br>
<b>New Big Oil Plan To Disclose Emission Reductions Simply Ignores
90% Of Their Pollution</b><br>
<br>
Much like the Republican Party’s greenwashing, the oil industry is
responding to public pressure on climate change with empty
gestures meant to make it sound like they’re taking the problem
seriously, without actually doing anything serious. <br>
<br>
This spring, the American Petroleum Institute updated its public
stance on climate, claiming it was open to a possible carbon
price. But of course, there was a catch: They wanted consumers to
pay the price for pollution, not the polluters. They get to look
like they’re taking a big new step away from extremist climate
denial, while actually remaining firm in their refusal to stop
polluting or accept any responsibility for the damage their
products cause. <br>
Last week, API took another industrial-sized-ass-covering step,
announcing a new template for oil and gas companies to use to
provide “transparency” (their term) about greenhouse gas
emissions, and the progress being made to reduce those pollutants.
Aaron Padilla of API told reporters that the template “gives a
foundational picture of a company’s work to mitigate greenhouse
gas emissions.” <br>
<br>
It’s clearly meant to be a way for companies to highlight the
token efforts they’re making to address climate change to ward off
further government regulation. They can point to these disclosures
to claim the industry is already tackling the problem. But what it
really shows is that the industry is still in steadfast denial
about its culpability for the climate crisis.<br>
<br>
The template itself, provided as a one-page spreadsheet, is
actually pretty simple. The first section is for their Scope 1
emissions, things like methane leaks and flaring from the drilling
process. The second is their Scope 2 emissions, covering heating
and cooling facilities and other indirect pollution that they
generate in the course of producing fossil fuels. <br>
<br>
You may expect Scope 3 emissions to come next, given "Scope 3
emissions are approximately 90% of an upstream oil and gas
companies' emissions, and every major investor-led group working
on climate change expects such companies to report them," Carbon
Tracker’s Robert Schuwerk explained to S&P Global. <br>
<br>
But they aren’t mentioned in the template, and as Schuwerk said,
“leaving that out is a glaring omission.”<br>
<br>
In an accompanying guidance doc, API addresses Scope 3 emissions
only once, in a footnote acknowledging that they’re ignoring Scope
3 emissions (maybe next time!). <br>
<br>
Instead, they skip straight onto “GHG mitigation” efforts, like
carbon capture or renewable energy credits purchased so companies
can get credit for nibbling around the edges of the problem caused
primarily by the products they’re selling. <br>
<br>
Similarly, sections 4 and 5 give companies spots to give
themselves credit for reducing the intensity of their Scope 1
extraction emissions – claiming kudos for producing fewer
emissions while producing fossil fuels that, once sold and burned,
will completely swamp those reductions – and any other GHG
reduction targets they may feel like disclosing. Lastly, section 6
is just a place for them to have a third-party verification. <br>
<br>
If you’re wondering, then, just how much of the climate crisis the
oil industry can be trusted to address, this gives an answer: 10%,
at most. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/surfside-condo-collapse-could-be-a-preview-of-floridas-climate-future">https://newsletter.climatenexus.org/surfside-condo-collapse-could-be-a-preview-of-floridas-climate-future</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/blog/google-hyper-scalers-leading-charge-in-industry-push-to-go-24-7-carbon-free">https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/blog/google-hyper-scalers-leading-charge-in-industry-push-to-go-24-7-carbon-free</a><br>
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[Take it to court]<br>
<b>Climate change: Courts set for rise in compensation cases</b><br>
By Matt McGrath <br>
Environment correspondent<br>
June 28, 2021<br>
There's likely to be a significant increase in the number of
lawsuits brought against fossil fuel companies in the coming years,
say researchers.<br>
<br>
Their new study finds that to date, lawyers have failed to use the
most up-to-date scientific evidence on the cause of rising
temperatures.<br>
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As a result, there have been few successful claims for compensation.<br>
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That could change, say the authors, as evidence linking specific
weather events to carbon emissions increases.<br>
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Ministers 'should urge public to eat less meat'<br>
Climate action is still hotly contested in Australia<br>
A billion new trees might not turn Ukraine green<br>
So far, around 1,500 climate-related lawsuits have been brought
before the courts around the world.<br>
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There have been some notable successes for environmental groups,
such as in a recent case against Shell decided by a civil court in
the Netherlands.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57641167">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57641167</a><br>
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[news of insane governments]<br>
<b>Texas Matters: The State Of Climate Change Denial</b><br>
June 25, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/2021-06-25/texas-matters-the-state-of-climate-change-denial">https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/2021-06-25/texas-matters-the-state-of-climate-change-denial</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 29, 2013</b></font><br>
President Obama discusses his climate action plan in his weekly
radio address.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/06/29/weekly-address-confronting-growing-threat-climate-change">http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/06/29/weekly-address-confronting-growing-threat-climate-change</a>
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