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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>July 31, 2021</b></font></i> <br>
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[new opinion]<br>
<b>Our biggest enemy is no longer climate denial but climate delay</b><br>
Ed Miliband<br>
Nothing is more dangerous than the illusion of action – which is all
that the British government is offering<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/30/climate-denial-delay-inaction-british-government">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/30/climate-denial-delay-inaction-british-government</a><br>
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[That's me ]<br>
<b>Pacific Northwest in the grips of another heat wave amid
worsening drought</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I2ZLWZ7K3BEOPMGLEOV3ISBJU4.png&w=916">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/I2ZLWZ7K3BEOPMGLEOV3ISBJU4.png&w=916</a><br>
Temperatures are skyrocketing yet again in the Pacific Northwest as
the second major heat wave of the summer overtakes the region. This
heat wave is not nearly as intense as the “unprecedented” event in
late June, but is still bringing temperatures up to 15 to 25 degrees
above normal.<br>
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The excessive heat comes as the region’s drought situation becomes
more severe. Drought conditions blanket over 93 percent of the
Pacific Northwest, a 38 percent leap from just three months ago,
according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.<br>
<br>
What you need to know about how wildfires spread<br>
<br>
The combination of heat and drought have created tinderbox
conditions away from the coast. The National Interagency Fire Center
lists 37 active large blazes in Oregon, Washington and Idaho,
including the Bootleg Fire, which has charred more than 413,000
acres in south central Oregon...<br>
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Looking ahead, prolonged hot and dry weather is expected into the
autumn in the West, around the same time that offshore wind events
increase in frequency and intensity. That will bolster wildfire risk
even more, and it’s likely that devastating wildfires, extreme fire
behavior and suffocating pollution will be pervasive in the months
ahead.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/30/pacific-northwest-heat-wave-drought/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/30/pacific-northwest-heat-wave-drought/</a><br>
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[CBS]<br>
<b>Portland city council bans homeless encampments in "high risk"
wildfire areas</b><br>
People experiencing homelessness in Portland, Oregon, will no longer
be able to camp in certain "high risk" areas of the city after the
Portland City Council approved new fire safety protocols on
Wednesday. The ban aims to lower the risk of accidental fires
ignited at homeless encampments amid a devastating wildfire season,
local commissioners said...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-bans-homeless-encampments-wildfires/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-bans-homeless-encampments-wildfires/</a><br>
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[Sweat and melt]<br>
<b>Greenland: enough ice melted on single day to cover Florida in
two inches of water</b><br>
Data shows ice sheet lost 8.5bn tons of surface mass on Tuesday<br>
All-time record temperature of 19.8C in region on Wednesday<br>
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“The alarming thing to me is the political response, or lack of it.
Sea-level rise is like a slow-moving train, but once it gets rolling
you can’t stop it. It’s not great news.”<br>
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If all the ice in Greenland melted, the global sea level would jump
by about 6 meters (20ft), and although this is unlikely to happen on
any sort of foreseeable timescale, scientists have warned that the
world’s largest island is reaching a tipping point due to the
pressures exerted upon it by global heating.<br>
Greenland’s ice is melting faster than any time in the past 12,000
years, scientists have calculated, with the ice loss running at a
rate of around one million tons a minute in 2019. Greenland and the
earth’s other polar region of Antarctica have together lost 6.3tn
tons of ice since 1994.<br>
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This rate of ice loss, which is accelerating as temperatures
continue to increase, is changing ocean currents, altering marine
ecosystems and posing a direct threat to the world’s low-lying
coastal cities, which risk being inundated by flooding. A 2019
research paper found the Greenland ice sheet could add anything
between 5cm and 33cm to global sea levels by the end of the century.
The world is on track for “the mid to upper end of that”, Lipovsky
said.<br>
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“It’s very worrisome,” said Tedesco. “The action is clear – we need
to get to net zero emissions but also we need to protect exposed
populations along the coast. This is going to be a huge problem for
our coastal cities.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/30/greenland-ice-sheet-florida-water-climate-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/30/greenland-ice-sheet-florida-water-climate-crisis</a><br>
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[complex $ simplified with audio or text]<br>
<b>Subsidies really do matter to the US oil & gas industry --
one in particular</b><br>
A subsidy that pads company profits & make new projects
profitable.<br>
David Roberts -- July 30, 2010<br>
Fossil fuel subsidies are a vexed and peculiar topic. On one hand,
everyone seems to agree they’re bad and should be eliminated (it’s
in Biden’s jobs bill, for instance). On the other hand, they never
go anywhere...<br>
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In 2017, the International Monetary Fund tried to tally up implicit
subsidies across the globe and came up with an eye-popping $5.2
trillion...<br>
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<b>Like much climate policy, removing fossil fuel subsidies requires
directly confronting fossil fuels</b><br>
I take three things from this research. One, fossil fuel subsidies
really do strengthen the economics of US oil and gas companies and
accelerate investment and exploration. That’s what they’re designed
to do, and they do it. Two, the oil and gas industry really does
materially benefit from being allowed to offload its environmental
risks onto the public.<br>
<br>
And three, the deduction for intangible drilling costs is the main
fight. It is the big subsidy, the one that’s actually pushing new
oil and gas projects over the line into profitability, and it is a
much more specific target than “fossil fuel subsidies.” It seems
like something some clever group ought to be able to build a
campaign around...<br>
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The problem is that the benefits of fossil fuel exploration and
production are concentrated in a few regions and communities and the
members of Congress who represent those communities are
hyper-motivated to preserve existing advantages. In contrast, the
benefits of ramping down fossil fuel production are spread out,
geographically and temporally, so few members of Congress will
champion it with the same vigor.<br>
<br>
That’s how climate policy runs aground in the US — in the
translation from high-flown rhetoric to policies that will
materially affect the bottom lines of fossil fuel companies.<br>
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This study offers us a marker of serious commitment: repealing the
deduction for IDCs. When Congress actually gets around to addressing
that age-old subsidy, we’ll know we’re finally getting somewhere.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/subsidies-really-do-matter-to-the">https://www.volts.wtf/p/subsidies-really-do-matter-to-the</a>?[Very NPR
dialog all positive no politics, no philosophy
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[last 15 minuets are best]<b><br>
</b><b>How do we adapt: climate change on the west coast with
Marketplace's Molly Wood</b><br>
July 29, 2021<br>
KUOW<br>
Climate change is the mother of all disruptions. As the West Coast
grapples with its impacts — from drought-igniting wildfires to sea
level rise inundating coastal areas — how are communities and
businesses adapting? <br>
<br>
Molly Wood, host of Marketplace’s How We Survive, moderates a
conversation with journalists from public radio stations in Seattle,
Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Southern California about
where the boldest and most thoughtful solutions are coming from in
their regions. What policies and emerging technologies may help us
stem rising global temperatures and their most severe outcomes? What
green solutions will serve community needs equitably? Which climate
projects are enticing investors and poised to create industry giants
in the next decade? How are communities, industry and the public
sector working together — or at odds — to turn things around? The
panel will address these regional concerns, along with audience
questions, as they explore the future of climate adaptation. <br>
Guests:<br>
Molly Wood, Marketplace’s ‘How We Survive’ (moderator)<br>
Tom Banse, KUOW<br>
Jes Burns, OPB<br>
Sharon McNary, KPCC<br>
Ezra David Romero, KQED<br>
Co-Presented by KPCC, KQED, KUOW, OPB, and American Public Media.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t4Z6W_UnpU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t4Z6W_UnpU</a><br>
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[DeSmog]<br>
<b>Scientists who Issued ‘Climate Emergency’ Declaration in 2019 Now
say Earth’s Vital Signs are Worsening</b><br>
A rapid and urgent phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, scientists
warn, in order to avoid crossing dangerous climate tipping points.<br>
Scientists who Issued ‘Climate Emergency’ Declaration in 2019 Now
say Earth’s Vital Signs are Worsening<br>
Nick Cunningham - -Jul 27, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/27/scientists-warn-earth-vital-signs-are-worsening-tipping-point-climate-emergency/">https://www.desmog.com/2021/07/27/scientists-warn-earth-vital-signs-are-worsening-tipping-point-climate-emergency/</a><br>
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[NYTimes magazine]<br>
<b>He Wrote a Gardening Column. He Ended Up Documenting Climate
Change.</b><br>
Over 45 years, his advice to Alaskans has changed with the
transformation of the planet.<br>
By Zach St. George<br>
July 28, 2021<br>
In the summer of 2019, Jeff Lowenfels told me, one of his friends
successfully grew okra in Anchorage. Lowenfels could not believe it.
The crop was shorthand for all the change he has witnessed since he
moved to the city in the 1970s, a distance between past and present
that he has measured in vegetables and fruits — from cabbage, snow
peas and potatoes to tomatoes, pumpkins and now, incredibly, okra.
“Holy crow!” he said. “We can grow anything!...<br>
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In 2002, Lowenfels was converted. The epiphany came from an image,
captured by an electron microscope, of fungal hyphae strangling a
nematode that was attacking a tomato root. A fellow garden writer
had sent it to him. He was stunned, suddenly realizing his
ignorance. He read everything he could about the soil food web. “I
didn’t sleep for 24, 48 hours,” he told an Anchorage Daily News
reporter in 2006. Was that true? It doesn’t matter. He was changed.
For decades, he had encouraged readers to douse their yards with
pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers. “No longer,” he wrote. “Not
here.”...<br>
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Climate change is a perceptual puzzle, says Brian Brettschneider, a
research scientist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage.
The zigzag of year-to-year variation tends to obscure trend lines.
Extreme weather, meanwhile, becomes more extreme in the retelling,
the colds colder, the hots hotter. Which details are normal, which
are abnormal and which are wholly new? The only way to anchor
ourselves in reality, Brettschneider says, is via long-term record.
“It’s important to be able to put things in context,” he says. “You
have to be able to look back.”...<br>
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The next week was devoted to zinnias. The week after that, he urged
readers to prepare their garden for the first frost, admitting that
he had “no idea” when it would arrive. In the months that followed,
he reminded them not to rake their lawns, urged them to leash their
cats outdoors and suggested they try growing luffa and pawpaws. Why
not? Just see that they don’t escape. The pandemic arrived in March.
He answered questions about tomatoes, about repelling hares (try
human urine) and about eating slugs (cook them first). November
marked the beginning of his 45th year as a columnist. He asked
readers not to sterilize their soil, advised them on ornamental
kale, offered tips on the care of poinsettias and Christmas
cactuses. On and on he continued, week after week, as spring
stretched into summer.<br>
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May 14, 2021: “Spruce bark beetles are still the No. 1 subject of
questions I get, and I get lots.”<br>
<br>
June 25, 2021: “A reader wants to know what I have against radishes.
My mild aversion to rhubarb she can understand, but radishes?”<br>
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July 16, 2021: “Tomatoes like buzzing insects to pollinate, so the
latest advice is to put an electric toothbrush on stems to vibrate
the pollen out of the flowers.”<br>
<br>
The columns were written for the mundane reasons of the present.
Considered one by one, they didn’t look like much of anything at
all.<br>
Zach St. George is a freelance reporter focused on climate change
and conservation. He is the author of “The Journeys of Trees,” an
investigation into the future of forests.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/magazine/gardening-column-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/magazine/gardening-column-climate-change.html</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
31, 2013</b></font><br>
On MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes," climate scientist Michael Mann
discusses what it was like to be targeted and harassed by Virginia
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/right-wing-gubernatorial-candidate-waged-war-on-science-39494723774">http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/right-wing-gubernatorial-candidate-waged-war-on-science-39494723774</a><br>
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