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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>July 17, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[eyes to the horizon]<br>
<b>Oregon wildfire causes miles-high ‘fire clouds’ as flames grow</b><br>
Pyrocumulus clouds viewable from 100 miles away as Bootleg fire
grows beyond size of New York City<br>
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Smoke and heat from a huge wildfire in south-eastern Oregon are
creating giant “fire clouds” over the blaze – dangerous columns of
smoke and ash that can reach up to six miles (10km) in the sky and
are visible from more than 100 miles (160km) away.<br>
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Authorities have put these clouds at the top of the list of the
extreme fire behavior they are seeing amid the Bootleg fire, the
largest wildfire burning in the US. The inferno grew on Friday to
about 377 sq miles (976 sq km), an area larger than New York City,
and was raging through a part of the American west that is enduring
a historic drought.<br>
<p>Extreme fire behavior, including the formation of more fire
clouds, was expected to persist on Friday and worsen into the
weekend. There are currently at least 70 wildfires burning in the
western United States and dozens more in Canada...</p>
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In Oregon, fire authorities say the clouds are forming between 3pm
and 5pm each day as the sun penetrates the smoke layer and heats the
ground below, creating an updraft of hot air. Crews are seeing the
biggest and most dangerous clouds over a section of wilderness made
up mostly of dead trees, which burn instantly and with a lot of
heat.<br>
<br>
For four days in a row, the Bootleg fire has generated multiple fire
clouds that rise nearly six miles into the atmosphere and are
“easily visible from 100 to 120 air miles away”, authorities said on
Friday. The conditions that create the clouds were expected to
worsen over the weekend.<br>
<br>
When a pyrocumulus cloud forms over a fire, meteorologists begin to
watch carefully for its big brother, the pyrocumulonimbus cloud.
Nasa has called the latter the “fire-breathing dragon of clouds”
because it is so hot and big that it creates its own weather.<br>
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In a worst-case scenario, fire crews on the ground could see one of
the monster clouds spawn a “fire tornado”, generate its own dry
lightning and create dangerous hot winds below. The clouds can also
send particulate matter from the smoke column up to 10 miles above
Earth’s surface.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/16/bootleg-fire-oregon-fire-clouds-pyrocumulus">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/16/bootleg-fire-oregon-fire-clouds-pyrocumulus</a><br>
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[Financial Times strong opinion]<br>
<b>How the pandemic foretells the climate crisis</b><br>
‘The destruction of the Amazon is climate’s Delta variant. When
Brazilian rainforests shrink, rich countries heat up too’<br>
Simon Kuper -- July 15,2012<br>
When England drops nearly all its Covid-19 restrictions on July 19,
it won’t be the end of the pandemic. It may not even be the
beginning of the end. But it is a foreshadowing of an ending of
sorts. One day, rich countries will emerge from Covid-19 while poor
countries remain stuck in it. And this isn’t just the scenario for
the pandemic. It is probably also a preview of the climate crisis...<br>
- -<br>
If the only hope now is moral awakening, then there’s no hope. Based
on what we’ve learnt from Covid-19, our best chance to avoid climate
catastrophe is a tech fix developed in a rich country in its own
self-interest that would save the world at modest additional cost.
I’m told that sucking carbon out of the atmosphere at the scale
required might not prove totally impossible.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/012afde2-a7d7-4e52-8937-4ddf973ebc18">https://www.ft.com/content/012afde2-a7d7-4e52-8937-4ddf973ebc18</a><br>
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[Lessons not learned, are being repeated]<br>
<b>3 years ago, Paradise was destroyed by the deadliest wildfire in
US history. Now, the town nervously watches one burning 10 miles
away.</b><br>
Be prepared, not scared.<br>
<br>
That's the mantra in the rural Northern California town of Paradise,
virtually destroyed by a wildfire less than three years ago. Today
Paradise sits 10 miles from the Dixie Fire, an uncontained blaze
that has swept through more than 3½ square miles of mostly brush and
timber since igniting Wednesday.<br>
<br>
The fire is one of more than 70 in 12 states from California to
Minnesota fueled by weeks of heat, drought and other factors in a
relentless loop this summer...<br>
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It already has been a hot summer. The nation has set 585 all-time
heat records in the past 30 days, according to the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration. They include 349 daily high
temperatures and 236 warmest overnight lows.<br>
<br>
Temperatures were expected to ease later next week, but don't look
for cool weather anytime soon, Storm said.<br>
<br>
"Extreme heat is expected to relent slightly as next week continues,
but temperatures are still anticipated to remain well above normal,"
she said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/15/wildfires-west-more-extreme-heat-and-weather-weekend/7976468002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/15/wildfires-west-more-extreme-heat-and-weather-weekend/7976468002/</a><br>
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[Science]<br>
<b>Rockslides in the Arctic: Why do we care?</b><br>
Research notes<br>
<blockquote>Global climate warming is most severe in the Arctic. One
consequence is a widespread reduction in permafrost. Continuous,
stable permafrost can act as a physical glue that helps anchor
unstable slopes. Increasingly, scientists are reporting collapse
of rock slopes in the High Arctic.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://framsenteret.no/forum/fram-forum-2021/rockslides-in-the-arctic-why-do-we-care/">https://framsenteret.no/forum/fram-forum-2021/rockslides-in-the-arctic-why-do-we-care/</a><br>
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[DeSmogBlog]<br>
<b>The U.S. Shale Revolution Has Surrendered to Reality</b><br>
Fracking companies aren’t drilling as investment continues to dry
up.<br>
Justin Mikulka -- Jul 16, 2021 <br>
“Drill, baby, drill is gone forever.” <br>
<br>
That was the recent assessment of Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman
of the American oil industry’s future potential. As Saudi Arabia’s
energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz is one of the most influential
voices in the global oil markets. Fortune termed it a “bold taunt,”
and a warning to U.S. frackers to not increase oil production. <br>
<br>
The response by the U.S. producers — to shut up and take it —
quietly confirms this reality. Shale oil’s era of growth appears to
be over. The reason is that even as global oil demand and prices
rise, the economics of the shale oil business model continue to not
work. The U.S. shale industry has lost hundreds of billions of
dollars in the past decade producing oil and selling it for less
than it cost to produce.<br>
<p>This was possible because despite the losses, investors kept
giving the industry money. But now investors appear to have grown
tired of losing money on U.S. shale companies and new lending to
the industry has dropped dramatically.- -</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/coloradochris/22444880389/in/photolist-AcnSYn-R9cBW2-R9cB5c-R9czDX-QXFtr2-R9cBua-QyZHBY-R9cAic-PUxY8p-R9cESH-R9cD2i-R9cFd2-QXB1ix-PRNhXE-R9cCkt-R9cDoF-PRNj7U-R9cE4D-QXFtEZ-R9cztB-PRNia3-R9cCBF-R5KMZQ-PRNgnL-R9cDFV-QXDsxn-PRNjtf-R9cALg-R9czTK-QXAZtX-R9cFSP-PRNhKf-PRNjCy-QyV58h-PRNhjW-PUxUwr-QXB15M-PRNgQ9-2iTBN5w/">https://www.flickr.com/photos/coloradochris/22444880389/in/photolist-AcnSYn-R9cBW2-R9cB5c-R9czDX-QXFtr2-R9cBua-QyZHBY-R9cAic-PUxY8p-R9cESH-R9cD2i-R9cFd2-QXB1ix-PRNhXE-R9cCkt-R9cDoF-PRNj7U-R9cE4D-QXFtEZ-R9cztB-PRNia3-R9cCBF-R5KMZQ-PRNgnL-R9cDFV-QXDsxn-PRNjtf-R9cALg-R9czTK-QXAZtX-R9cFSP-PRNhKf-PRNjCy-QyV58h-PRNhjW-PUxUwr-QXB15M-PRNgQ9-2iTBN5w/</a><br>
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Some estimates are that the U.S. shale industry has lost half a
trillion dollars of investor money during the U.S. fracking boom.
That is the amount of money required to fund the capital destruction
machines that produced oil above and beyond what the industry was
able to earn and re-invest from selling oil. There is very little
chance the industry will ever make that money back.<br>
<br>
The history of market booms is full of claims that “this time is
different,” that normal market economics no longer apply. This was
certainly the case in the U.S. housing boom that caused the Great
Recession. As DeSmog explained in 2018, these booms are driven by
U.S. monetary policy which allows them to go on for much longer than
would seem reasonable. <br>
<br>
From that perspective, the U.S. shale oil boom has been pretty
standard. However, like the dot-com boom of the 1990s and the
housing boom of the 2000s, eventually investors tire of losing
money, and the old rules of investing — where investors expect to
get a return on their investments — become attractive once again. <br>
<br>
The U.S. shale oil boom seems to have reached that moment. This
isn’t the outcome the industry and its supporters promised to
investors. The reality that the industry has never made money is
finally sinking in.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/16/us-shale-revolution-no-fracking-investment/">https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/16/us-shale-revolution-no-fracking-investment/</a><br>
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[Low pay jobs]<br>
<b>Building Solar Farms May Not Build the Middle Class</b><br>
Some of the wealthiest companies in the world are investing in the
green economy. But they’re not investing in paying union wages.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/business/economy/green-energy-jobs-economy.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/business/economy/green-energy-jobs-economy.html</a><br>
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[compare and contrast]<br>
<b>So far the drought is far worse than last year</b><br>
Bill Gabbert - July 16, 2021<br>
As @NOAANCElclimate pointed out, the Drought Monitor shows that the
severity of the drought is far worse than it was at about the same
date in 2020. Most of the areas in the 11 western states are in
Severe, Extreme, or Exceptional Drought.<br>
<p>So far this year the 49 states outside Alaska have burned almost
2.2 million acres, about the same that burned in all of 2019. The
10-year all-year average for those 49 states is 6.4 million acres.
In 2020 9.9 million acres burned in the lower 49 states.</p>
Drought monitor comparison, similar dates in 2020 & 2021.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Drought-monitor-comparison-2020-2021.jpg">https://wildfiretoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Drought-monitor-comparison-2020-2021.jpg</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/07/16/so-far-the-drought-is-far-worse-than-last-year/">https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/07/16/so-far-the-drought-is-far-worse-than-last-year/</a><br>
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[polite, insightful rant]<br>
<b>Chris Hedges "American Sadism"</b><b><br>
</b><b>Jul 7, 2021</b><br>
mediasanctuary<br>
Author, activist, teacher and dissident Chris Hedges spoke at The
Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on June 27, 2021. In
this talk Chris speaks about sadism, which he says:<br>
<br>
-Now defines nearly every cultural, social and political experience
in the United States. <br>
-Is expressed in the greed of an oligarchic elite that has seen its
wealth increase during the pandemic by $1.1 trillion while the
country has suffered the sharpest rise in its poverty rate in more
than 50 years. <br>
-Is expressed in extra-judicial killings by police in cities such as
Minneapolis.<br>
-Is expressed in our complicity in Israel’s wholesale killing of
unarmed Palestinians, the humanitarian crisis engendered by the war
in Yemen and our reigns of terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. <br>
-Is expressed in the torture in our prisons and black sites. <br>
-Is expressed in the separation of children from their undocumented
parents, where they are held as if they were dogs in a kennel.<br>
<br>
Chris Hedges goes on to say that...<br>
<blockquote>The historian Johan Huizinga, writing about the twilight
of the Middle Ages, argued that as things fall apart sadism is
embraced as a way to cope with the hostility of an indifferent
universe. No longer bound to a common purpose, a ruptured society
retreats into the cult of the self. It celebrates, as do
corporations on Wall Street or mass culture through reality
television shows, the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial
charm, grandiosity and self-importance; a need for constant
stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and
the incapacity for remorse or guilt. Get what you can, as fast as
you can, before someone else gets it. This is the state of nature,
the “war of all against all,” Thomas Hobbes saw as the consequence
of social collapse, a world in which life becomes “solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish, and short.” And this sadism, as Friedrich
Nietzsche understood, fuels a perverted, sadistic pleasure.the
cultural and social forces that have given rise to extremism in
the United States.<br>
</blockquote>
Please support The Sanctuary for Independent Media! For more
information and to donate, visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediasanctuary.org">https://www.mediasanctuary.org</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGCFVc-5yTM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGCFVc-5yTM</a>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming July
17, 2012</b></font><br>
On MSNBC's "NewsNation with Tamron Hall," Heidi Cullen of Climate
Central discusses the extreme drought tormenting the United States.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0eCaBV-osI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0eCaBV-osI</a><br>
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