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[Anyone in the West should view Fire news]<br>
<b>Holt Hanley Weather</b><br>
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[3 different Smoke Maps]<br>
<b>Click and view for current US smoke </b><br>
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[Fire update]<br>
<b>Thousands evacuated as US wildfires burn across California and
Nevada - BBC News</b><br>
Jul 25, 2021<br>
BBC News<br>
Fire crews are battling extreme temperatures as they try to control
wildfires in California and Nevada. Hundreds of people have been
evacuated.<br>
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In Washington DC, the moon turned a bright orange colour due to the
smoke from the fires.<br>
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[DW video report ]<br>
<b>Wildfires ravage west coast of the United States | DW News</b><br>
Jul 23, 2021<br>
DW News<br>
America's West is on fire with wildfires ravaging 13 states, spewing
massive amounts of smoke and ash that's adversely affecting air
quality as far away as New York City.<br>
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The largest wildfire at present is in the western state of Oregon.
Bootleg Fire has already destroyed an area larger than Los Angeles.<br>
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Many experts are convinced that the extreme heat and drought fueling
the fires in the US is caused by climate change. And it's also why
mega fires are becoming more frequent.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhjtF7Z2laQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhjtF7Z2laQ</a><br>
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[evaluation]<br>
<b>The West is burning. Climate change is making it worse.</b><br>
Almost 1.5 million acres of the US are on fire right now.<br>
Cameron Peters - - Jul 25, 2021<br>
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More than 2.77 million acres have burned so far in 2021, about
800,000 more than at the same time last year but less than in 2019
and other previous years...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/2021/7/25/22592004/wildfires-climate-change-reconciliation-bill">https://www.vox.com/2021/7/25/22592004/wildfires-climate-change-reconciliation-bill</a><br>
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[The Chinese call theirs the Fifty Cent Army]<br>
THE INTERPRETER<br>
<b>Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming</b><br>
Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on
behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of
unreality.<br>
By Max Fisher - - July 25, 2021<br>
In May, several French and German social media influencers received
a strange proposal.<br>
<br>
A London-based public relations agency wanted to pay them to promote
messages on behalf of a client. A polished three-page document
detailed what to say and on which platforms to say it.<br>
<br>
But it asked the influencers to push not beauty products or vacation
packages, as is typical, but falsehoods tarring Pfizer-BioNTech’s
Covid-19 vaccine. Stranger still, the agency, Fazze, claimed a
London address where there is no evidence any such company exists.<br>
<br>
Some recipients posted screenshots of the offer. Exposed, Fazze
scrubbed its social media accounts. That same week, Brazilian and
Indian influencers posted videos echoing Fazze’s script to hundreds
of thousands of viewers...<br>
<br>
The scheme appears to be part of a secretive industry that security
analysts and American officials say is exploding in scale:
disinformation for hire...<br>
<br>
Private firms, straddling traditional marketing and the shadow world
of geopolitical influence operations, are selling services once
conducted principally by intelligence agencies.<br>
<br>
They sow discord, meddle in elections, seed false narratives and
push viral conspiracies, mostly on social media. And they offer
clients something precious: deniability.<br>
<br>
“Disinfo-for-hire actors being employed by government or
government-adjacent actors is growing and serious,” said Graham
Brookie, director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic
Research Lab, calling it “a boom industry.”<br>
<br>
Similar campaigns have been recently found promoting India’s ruling
party, Egyptian foreign policy aims and political figures in Bolivia
and Venezuela...<br>
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Since 2019, Graphika, a digital research firm, has tracked a network
it nicknamed “Spamouflage” for its early reliance on spamming social
platforms with content echoing Beijing’s line on geopolitical
issues. Most posts received little or no engagement.<br>
In recent months, however, the network has developed hundreds of
accounts with elaborate personas. Each has its own profile and
posting history that can seem authentic. They appeared to come from
many different countries and walks of life.<br>
<br>
Graphika traced the accounts back to a Bangladeshi content farm that
created them in bulk and probably sold them to a third party.<br>
<br>
The network pushes strident criticism of Hong Kong democracy
activists and American foreign policy. By coordinating without
seeming to, it created an appearance of organic shifts in public
opinion — and often won attention.<br>
<br>
The accounts were amplified by a major media network in Panama,
prominent politicians in Pakistan and Chile, Chinese-language
YouTube pages, the left-wing British commentator George Galloway and
a number of Chinese diplomatic accounts.<br>
<br>
A separate pro-Beijing network, uncovered by a Taiwanese
investigative outlet called The Reporter, operated hundreds of
Chinese-language websites and social media accounts.<br>
<br>
Disguised as news sites and citizen groups, they promoted Taiwanese
reunification with mainland China and denigrated Hong Kong’s
protesters. The report found links between the pages and a
Malaysia-based start-up that offered web users Singapore dollars to
promote the content.<br>
<br>
But governments may find that outsourcing such shadowy work also
carries risks, Mr. Brookie said. For one, the firms are harder to
control and might veer into undesired messages or tactics...
<br>
For another, firms organized around deceit may be just as likely to
turn those energies toward their clients, bloating budgets and
billing for work that never gets done.<br>
<br>
“The bottom line is that grifters are going to grift online,” he
said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/europe/disinformation-social-media.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/europe/disinformation-social-media.html</a>
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[Here is the most trusted database of Misinformers]<br>
<b>Climate Disinformation Database</b><br>
Welcome to DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, where you can
browse our extensive research on the individuals and organizations
that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected
leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution
and fight global warming.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/climate-disinformation-database/">https://www.desmog.com/climate-disinformation-database/</a><br>
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[Another trusted database of known deceivers]<br>
<b>SourceWatch</b><br>
The Center for Media and Democracy publishes SourceWatch to track
corporations.<br>
We provide well-documented information about corporate public
relations (PR) campaigns, including corporate front groups, people
who "front" corporate campaigns, and PR operations.<br>
<br>
Please visit SourceWatch's sister websites EXPOSEDbyCMD, to find our
investigations and original documents we release, PRWatch, to read
our original reporting, and ALECexposed, to see our award-winning
investigation of a corporate front group where corporate lobbyists
actually vote as equals with elected legislators on "model"
legislation to change our rights.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch">https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch</a>
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[dispense with despair]<br>
<b>How to Calm Your Climate Anxiety</b><br>
Between wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes, we’re all feeling
nervous about the future. But stewing or ignoring the problem won’t
ease your burden.<br>
By Molly Peterson - July 23, 2021<br>
Three years ago, after the Woolsey Fire, 53-year-old Greg
Kochanowski returned to the Santa Monica Mountains and drove past
his own street without recognizing it.<br>
<br>
The most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles County history had torn
through his Seminole Springs neighborhood, burning more than half of
the area’s homes to the ground, including his. What remained was “a
moonscape,” he said — ash and char, black and gray.<br>
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Losing his home was traumatic. But losing his bearings in his own
neighborhood “scared the hell out of” him, Mr. Kochanowski
remembered, and triggered new existential concerns about climate
change.<br>
Now he agonizes over his 14-year-old daughter’s future. “What kind
of a world will Ava grow up in?” he said. “Will Southern California
be uninhabitable when she is my age?”<br>
Mr. Kochanowski’s sense of dread fits into an array of sentiments
often called climate anxiety, a term that includes anger, worry and
insecurity stemming from an awareness of a warming planet.<br>
“I actually think many people have been experiencing this silently
and privately for a number of years,” said Renee Lertzman, a climate
psychologist and consultant to businesses and nonprofits. But “the
conversation is no longer marginal. It really has burst through.”<br>
<br>
Evidence that climate change threatens mental health is mounting,
according to a recent report from Imperial College London’s
Institute of Global Health Innovation. Higher temperatures are tied
to depressive language and higher suicide rates. Fires, hurricanes
and heat waves carry the risk of trauma and depression.<br>
<br>
Cascading climate-driven disasters have forced American Red Cross
volunteers to stay in the field for months, rather than weeks, said
Trevor Riggen, who runs the group’s domestic disaster programs. He
noted that because of climate change, the Red Cross has been
shifting from a focus on immediate trauma, “to this more chronic
condition that needs a different type of mental health intervention,
or spiritual care.”<br>
<br>
Young people, especially report feeling debilitated by climate
anxiety and being frustrated by older generations. “They try to
understand, but they don’t,” said 16-year-old Adah Crandall, a
climate and anti-freeway activist in Portland, Oregon. “I am scared
for my future because of the inaction of adults in the past.”<br>
Today, when the humidity drops, Mr. Kochanowski sees the anxiety on
his neighbors’ faces. Hot days stretch across more of the year and
dewy, cool mornings are rare. Sometimes, he wonders if they should
move on.<br>
<br>
“You realize the larger forces that have always been beyond your
control,” he said. “That level of realization makes you feel a
little helpless.”<br>
<br>
Andi Poland, 49, a technical recruiter who lives near Denver, said
she too experiences anxiety, grief and dread about a hotter planet.
“I am glad that I am short for this earth,” she said. “I figure I
have one-third of my life left. I am not upset that I only have that
much time.”<br>
<br>
But experts say those dark emotions can also be the basis for
empowerment — and progress. Writing in The Lancet, researchers
recently argued that climate anxiety “may be the crucible through
which humanity must pass to harness the energy and conviction that
are needed for the lifesaving changes now required.”<br>
<br>
<b>Your feelings about climate are justified.</b><br>
Anxiety is a rational response to the growing risks of climate
change, according to Merritt Juliano, a therapist in Westport,
Conn., and the co-president of the Climate Psychology Alliance North
America. But we shouldn’t hide from it or ignore it.<br>
<br>
“Our emotions are not something to be solved,” Ms. Juliano said.
Rather than shove concerns about climate away, people need to
identify them and realize they are there for a reason. “Embracing
them makes us that much stronger.”<br>
<b>Connection to other people is key.</b><br>
In one poll of 1,000 people by the American Psychiatric Association,
more than half said they’re concerned about the impact climate
change is having on mental health. You don’t have to survive a
hurricane to experience climate anxiety, said Britt Wray, a
post-doctorate fellow who studies the mental health impacts of
climate change at Stanford University. Suffering a longer mosquito
season in Pennsylvania, seeing orcas disappear from Puget Sound or
simply reading about catastrophic flooding in Germany can prompt a
deeper emotional reaction to changing climate.<br>
“We can all reach out at arm’s length and touch it, no matter what
our standing, no matter what our life experience is,” said Dr. Wray.<br>
<br>
As the pandemic made clear, when people don’t talk about anxiety,
the resulting isolation can lead to depression, Dr. Lertzman said.<br>
<br>
Informal gatherings called climate cafes, organized across the
country and world, aim to bring people together to share feelings
and reactions to the climate crisis. Other groups combine community
with action.<br>
<br>
The nonprofit Good Grief Network offers support for climate distress
through a 10-step process, introduced at weekly meetings that
culminate with a commitment to “reinvest in meaningful efforts.”<br>
<br>
Bradley Pitts, a 43-year-old artist, says his climate-related
emotions have offered him “opportunities to engage in decisions in a
different way.” After attending Good Grief meetings, he and his wife
have shifted personal choices toward adapting to and mitigating
climate change. They purchased an old commercial farm in upstate New
York, and committed to returning it to meadows and forestland.<br>
After reckoning with climate anxiety, Pitts said, “Sitting on the
sidelines is no longer an option.”<br>
<b>Action is the antidote to anxiety.</b><br>
“We don’t see any single approach as a silver bullet” against
climate anxiety and inaction, said Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, the
Good Grief Network’s executive director. Instead, the goal is to do
things, small or large, that mean something to you, and reflect the
internal shift in your outlook.<br>
<br>
For instance, people often associate energy efficiency with turning
off lights, but a single use of a clothes dryer uses as much
electricity as running a standard LED bulb for 13 days.<br>
<br>
ReWild Long Island promotes biodiverse alternatives to traditional
lawns, which volunteer Charlie Sacha calls “America’s biggest and
most wasteful crop.” Ms. Sacha, 17, is a Manhasset High School
senior; she said that she had her first anxiety attack in 2018,
after reading that greenhouse pollution must be reduced by 45
percent by 2030 to prevent a dangerous 2.7 degrees of warming.<br>
<br>
“I don’t have that much power to do things on a grand global level,”
she said. “But you can quite literally make a change in your own
backyard.”<br>
<br>
Some people join local “buy nothing” groups in order to minimize the
heavy carbon footprint of shipped purchases. Others work to get
climate-aware politicians elected.<br>
<br>
ISeeChange, a community climate and weather platform, encourages
volunteers to record observations about local change online. In New
Orleans, participants collective storm-water data to show flooding
impacts outside of expected models. As a result, local officials
redirected nearly $5 million in federal funding to build a bigger
storm-water detention tank in one low-income neighborhood.<br>
<br>
<b>Whatever you do, make it stick.</b><br>
The very thing that fuels your anxiety — your imagination — may also
be your most powerful tool to overcome it, said Dr. Wray.<br>
<br>
In California, Mr. Kochanowski said the Woolsey Fire and the anxiety
that followed have reframed his work. A landscape architect, he’s
establishing what he calls a research laboratory to promote more
radical climate-adapted building and design.<br>
<br>
Mr. Kochanowski knows that fire is essential to the oak woodlands
and chaparral of his home — over the past two decades, fire has
forced his family to evacuate three times. But they love their
neighborhood, and believe they can help adapt it to a new climate
reality.<br>
<br>
Using noncombustible materials and sustainable defensible space,
they have rebuilt. And next to their new home, they planted a
flowering tipu tree, which can spread a canopy of shade within just
a few years. “The idea was, we’re not going to be defeated by this
thing,” he said.<br>
<br>
Molly Peterson is a Los Angeles-based investigative journalist who
focuses on the intersections of climate, catastrophe and public
health.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/well/mind/mental-health-climate-anxiety.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/well/mind/mental-health-climate-anxiety.html</a><br>
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[Radical Activism - audio interview]<br>
<b>Blow up pipelines? Tadzio Müller and Andreas Malm on what next
for the climate movement</b><br>
May 5, 2021<br>
Lukas Ondreka<br>
Why is Fridays For Future failing and what to do about it? Tadzio
Müller and Andreas Malm, two of the leading thinkers of the radical
climate movement, discuss what's next for the fight against climate
disaster in the global north.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnlDeLXaifY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnlDeLXaifY</a><br>
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[nuisance floodings will go beyond warming to lunar changes]<br>
<b>18.6 Year Lunar Cycle May Dramatically Increase Floods On Earth</b><br>
Jul 23, 2021<br>
Anton Petrov<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFASUe3bApQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFASUe3bApQ</a><br>
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[More fires expected in the Seattle area.]<br>
<b>CNN on fire whirls, fire tornadoes, and “pyro” clouds</b><br>
Bill Gabbert - -July 24, 2021<br>
A reporter for CNN, Rachel Ramirez, wrote an “explainer” article
about some of the phenomena associated with wildfires that are part
of the common parlance among wildland firefighters, but might seem
strange to normal people. Some of the topics covered are fire
whirls, fire tornadoes, pyrocumulus clouds, and fires “creating
their own weather.”<br>
<br>
Ms. Ramirez has quotes from Janice Coen, a scientist at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research and at least one other name that
will be familiar to our readers.<br>
<br>
Here is a brief excerpt from the article:<br>
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And as climate change accelerates, these wind patterns will continue
to shift.<br>
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“With the changing climate, the projected change is that the jet
stream will shift towards the north,” Coen told CNN, which means
that “we might see fewer of these events in California, and see more
in Oregon and Washington if these wind events, the regional weather
pattern, coincide with underlying dry periods in fortuitous
ignitions.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/07/24/cnn-on-fire-whirls-fire-tornadoes-and-pyro-clouds/">https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/07/24/cnn-on-fire-whirls-fire-tornadoes-and-pyro-clouds/</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 July
26, 2015</b></font><br>
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On CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," James Hansen discusses the risks of
sea level rise and the need for carbon pricing.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/07/26/dr-james-hansen-gives-his-idea-to-curb-climate-change-on-fareed-zakaria-gps/">http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2015/07/26/dr-james-hansen-gives-his-idea-to-curb-climate-change-on-fareed-zakaria-gps/</a><br>
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