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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>August 1, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[a new month]<br>
<b>Soaring heat, dry conditions in West lead to fire warnings;
California faces potential power outages</b><br>
The Dixie Fire, the largest wildfire burning in California, is
expected to see increased fire behavior Saturday due to drying
conditions. Meanwhile, the state is preparing for potential power
outages.<br>
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Excessive heat -- combined with extreme drought in Western states --
is a challenge for battling wildfires. In Oregon, red flag warnings
are in place as thunderstorms are expected to create new fire starts
from lightning strikes over "critically dry fuels," the National
Weather Service said Saturday. Nine new fires were reported in the
last day, the National Interagency Fire Center said...<br>
- -<br>
At least 87 fires are burning across the country, with weather
conditions over the weekend conducive to new fire starts in some
areas of the West, including Oregon, according to the National
Weather Service. More than 2,700 square miles have been consumed by
fire so far...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/31/wildfire-updates-new-fire-warnings-west-california-power-outages/5443378001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/31/wildfire-updates-new-fire-warnings-west-california-power-outages/5443378001/</a><br>
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[cough, cough]<br>
<b>Dangerous B.C. air quality is among the worst on the planet</b><br>
Isabella O'Malley<br>
Digital Reporter, Environmental Scientist<br>
Saturday, July 31st 2021 - Hundreds of wildfires in B.C. and a
stagnant atmospheric pattern are contributing to hazardous air
quality.<br>
Friday brought the worst air quality on Earth to British Columbia.
The usual culprits in China, India and Iran were fair in comparison
to the southern Interior. Castlegar, B.C., had a daily average air
quality index of 415 --marking the third worst day in the past seven
years and the first time two days have exceeded 400 in the same
year. Tuesday's index reading was 404.<br>
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Some of the most dangerous components in wildfire smoke are carbon
monoxide and microscopic, ultrafine particles called PM 2.5, which
are 2.5 microns in diameter or smaller and cause health
complications when they enter the lungs or bloodstream...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/dangerous-british-columbia-air-quality-is-among-the-worst-on-the-planet">https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/dangerous-british-columbia-air-quality-is-among-the-worst-on-the-planet</a><br>
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[Near Paradise]<br>
<b>In the shadow of Paradise, nearby residents make uneasy peace
with fire</b><br>
Smoke, closed businesses and constant worry have changed life for
those living with disaster on their doorstep<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/31/california-towns-fire">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/31/california-towns-fire</a><br>
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[video]<br>
<b>Why fossil fuel companies should be lawyering up</b><br>
Jul 30, 2021<br>
DW Planet A<br>
Corporations and governments have mastered the art of dodging the
bullet when it comes to tackling climate change. But now they're in
trouble. Climate activists around the world are taking them to court
in climate litigation cases– and they're winning.<br>
<br>
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't
need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift
towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what
dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small:
What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday
we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.<br>
<br>
0:00 Intro<br>
0:52 Suing governments <br>
3:21 Inaction as human rights violation<br>
5:01 Children suing polluters<br>
6:11 Fossil fuel companies losing<br>
8:37 Climate litigation as a solution?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVYzHgHx8U4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVYzHgHx8U4</a><br>
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[lower lake]<br>
<b>Lake Oroville feet away from historic low, could beat record in
coming days</b><br>
OROVILLE, Calif. — How low can Lake Oroville go? While losing over a
foot of water each day, historically low is the answer.<br>
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The lake is on track to beat its lowest recorded record: 645 feet
above sea level in September 1977. Friday, it sits at 646.97 feet,
just feet away from a new record.<br>
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This could drop dramatically further to 620 feet by late October,
according to Molly White, Water Operations Manager for the
Department of Water Resources (DWR)...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://krcrtv.com/news/local/lake-oroville-feet-away-from-historic-low-could-beat-record-in-coming-days">https://krcrtv.com/news/local/lake-oroville-feet-away-from-historic-low-could-beat-record-in-coming-days</a>
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[agreed]<br>
<b>Our biggest enemy is no longer climate denial but climate delay</b><br>
Ed Miliband - Fri 30 Jul 2021<br>
Nothing is more dangerous than the illusion of action – which is all
that the British government is offering<br>
Future generations will look back on the climate events of 2021 and
say: “That was the year they ran out of excuses.”<br>
<br>
Heatwaves and flooding here in the UK, temperatures topping 50C in
Pakistan, hundreds killed by a heatwave in British Columbia, deadly
floods in Germany and China. All within a single month. Add to that
the recent dire warning from the Met Office that the age of extreme
weather has just begun.<br>
<br>
The wake-up call that this offers is not just the obvious one: that
climate breakdown is already here. It also illustrates that we, in
this generation, are in a unique position in the history of this
crisis. Climate breakdown can no longer be plausibly denied as a
threat etched only in the future. And all too soon, avoiding it may
be a luxury lost to the past. The window to avoid catastrophe is
closing with every passing day. We’re in the decisive decade in this
fight, and we must treat the climate crisis as an issue that stands
alone in the combination of its urgency and the shadow it casts over
future generations..<br>
The actions we take defy the normal rhythm of political cycles. What
we do in the next few years will have effects for hundreds of years
to come. Unless the world cuts emissions in half in this decade, we
will probably lose the chance to avoid warming of significantly more
than the 1.5C set out in the 2015 Paris accord. We have seen the
catastrophic effects of a world warmed by just 1.2C. What happens if
we get to 2.5 or 3C? By then, we’ll look back at recent summers as
not the hottest we’ve ever had but, in all likelihood, the coolest
we will ever have again.<br>
<br>
The accompanying truth is that our biggest enemy is no longer
climate denial but climate delay. The most dangerous opponents of
change are no longer the shrinking minority who deny the need for
action, but the supposed supporters of change who refuse to act at
the pace the science demands. As Bill McKibben, environmentalist and
climate scholar, says on climate: “Winning slowly is the same as
losing.”...<br>
- -<br>
Meanwhile, we know that inaction is entirely unaffordable, leaving
massive costs of climate damage racked up and left for future
generations. The OBR also tells us that delay will significantly
raise the cost of action, in part because we are baking high carbon
into our infrastructure. We will have to make the transition at some
point; failing to act now will betray our children and grandchildren
and will just end up costing more.<br>
<br>
We should act now not just because we must avoid future generations
living in a disaster movie but because rewriting the script can
produce a better world. Rapid decarbonisation is the imperative, but
we can do so in a way that fixes the inequalities that exist in our
current economic system. This is the promise of the Green New Deal –
that this transformative programme of investment can also generate
good jobs, help existing industries transition and create new ones,
ensure warmer homes, cleaner air, and a lasting shift in wealth and
power across our country. This is the vision we must fight for.<br>
<br>
Particularly, in this year of all years, what we do here at home has
real impacts around the world. If other governments believe that a
country that has led the way on climate is full of hot air, it
simply undermines trust and lets the big polluters off the hook. In
the less than 100 days left to COP26, the prime minister must
finally wake up to the fact that this is not a glorified
international photo opportunity but a complex and fragile
negotiation where he must deliver at home and engage in the hard
yards of diplomacy.<br>
<br>
Just over 50 years ago, Martin Luther King said of the fight for
racial and economic justice: “We are now faced with the fact that
tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
In the unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a
thing as being too late.” As the generation that stands astride the
causes and consequences of this climate emergency, we must take heed
of those words.<br>
<br>
Ed Miliband is the Labour MP for Doncaster North and shadow
business, energy and industry secretary<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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[learning something from observations]<br>
<b>Good wildfire news? Evidence from the Bootleg Fire supports
thinning forests.</b><br>
A story from Oregon offers lessons for a dried-out, overheated West.<br>
Nathanael Johnson - - Jul 26, 2021<br>
The Nature Conservancy had been preparing for this moment for
decades. The Jim Castles research station sits at the north end of
the Sycan Marsh reserve: 30,000 acres of mixed wetland and dry pine
forest in the Klamath Basin, which the nonprofit acquired in the
1980’s. The conservation group worked with the Klamath Tribes that
call this area home to restore the forested areas to the landscape
that existed before Americans took over the land and began putting
out fires. They cut down small trees, leaving fire-adapted specimens
like thick-barked ponderosa pines, and they began setting fires,
allowing them to consume decades of needles and branches on the
forest floor...<br>
- -<br>
In the next few years, scientists will scrutinize the Sycan Marsh to
see how the Bootleg Fire reacted to different types of forest
management, Caligiuri said, which will help people understand how to
tame wildfires. There’s a long way to go, but neighbors across the
West are organizing community groups to thin trees and conduct
prescribed burns, while state and federal agencies are ramping up
spending to increase this kind of management. People are starting to
move in the right direction, Hepner said, “and yet sometimes
conditions seem to be outpacing us.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/extreme-weather/wildfire-bootleg-fire-news-forests/">https://grist.org/extreme-weather/wildfire-bootleg-fire-news-forests/</a><br>
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[maybe change the name to Highway 61]<br>
<b>Will climate change and a rising ocean mean the end of the road
for NC Highway 12?</b><br>
The highway runs the length of the Outer Banks, supporting the
economy, welcoming tourists and often providing a lifeline for
residents. But as sands shift and the sea rises, can N.C. 12
survive?<br>
The road runs the length of the developed Outer Banks. It is a
crucial engine for the region’s economy and a lifeline for
year-round residents of the region’s small coastal towns. Now,
engineers, scientists and homeowners are making choices about how to
best protect the highway and, thus, the villages it supports.<br>
<br>
A handful of flood- and erosion-prone spots along Highway 12 have
posed particular problems for local officials and transportation
engineers for almost a century. Sea levels in the Outer Banks are
rising twice as fast as they are along North Carolina’s southeastern
coast and storms are strengthening, heightening urgency among
officials to find new answers to an old problem.<br>
<br>
The choices facing the Outer Banks are particularly stark, but they
are similar to those people in many other parts of the state and
country will face as climate change’s effects continue to worsen: At
what cost do you maintain homes, businesses and livelihoods in a
place that is gravely imperiled?...<br>
- -<br>
“When sand is deposited through overwash, that is the land form
adjusting to changing conditions,” Moore said. “Every time we reset
island elevation by removing that sand, we’re increasing
vulnerability as sea level continues to rise. We’re trying to hold
the elevation of the island fixed as the sea level is rising around
it.”...<br>
- - <br>
“It’s scary having to worry about somewhere that you grew up your
whole life and you slowly see the water coming up and you slowly see
the storms taking more and more with it, and it’s hard making
decisions and having to worry about other things other than here,”
Barley said.<br>
<br>
Barley isn’t sure she’ll come back to Hatteras Island after she
walks across the graduation stage in Greenville, possibly as soon as
2023.<br>
<br>
“If I find a better opportunity somewhere else, then I probably
won’t,” Barley said.<br>
<br>
“But this is always home,” she continued. “I don’t think anywhere
that I ever move would ever feel as much like home as this place
does.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article252949138.html">https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article252949138.html</a><br>
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[Dark outlook]<br>
<b>Why the Paris Climate Agreement Might be Doomed to Fail</b><br>
An economist argues that the international accord, which depends on
collective action, does not include the kinds of incentives and
penalties that would ensure that countries do their part.<br>
<br>
By Nicholas Kusnetz - - July 28, 2021<br>
Not long before the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, Scott
Barrett wanted to test how likely it was that the pact would work.
As an economist who studies international cooperation, Barrett
decided to design a game to model how the signatories might behave.<br>
<br>
Poker chips stood in for emissions cuts. The goal was to avoid
“catastrophe,” which players could achieve by contributing some of
their chips to a collective pot. Just as no one knows the exact
level of emissions cuts necessary to avoid a given amount of
warming, the players did not know exactly how many chips the pot
needed to avoid catastrophe, only that the threshold lay within a
certain range.<br>
<br>
Players were told to agree on a common goal for the pot, and to make
pledges for their own contributions. If they avoided catastrophe,
everyone received a substantial pay-out. If they failed, each player
was given only a small number of chips, creating a clear incentive
to reach the goal.<br>
Barrett is the vice dean of Columbia University’s School of
International and Public Affairs, and designed the experiment with
Astrid Dannenberg, a behavioral and environmental economist at the
University of Kassel, in Germany. The key question was whether the
“name-and-shame” structure of the Paris Agreement, in which
governments periodically review each others’ pledges, would lead
countries to make steeper emissions cuts. <br>
<br>
Barrett and his colleague ran many rounds of the game with different
players, and the result was clear: The pact’s design led players to
agree on a higher collective goal, and to make more ambitious
individual pledges. But for the most part, players ended up
contributing fewer chips than they had promised, barely giving more
than they would have without the “name-and-shame” design, which did
little to avoid catastrophe.<br>
<br>
The outcome of the game illustrates a problem inherent to climate
change: Success or failure is determined only by whether the
collective goal is achieved, regardless of how much any single
country contributes. So while countries are all but assured of a bad
outcome if they don’t take action, they could be even worse off if
they limit their own emissions sharply but others do not.<br>
<br>
“What they want is some kind of assurance that others will
contribute,” Barrett said.<br>
<br>
The game showed that the Paris accord, like the global climate pacts
that preceded it, fails to provide this assurance, Barrett said... <br>
- -<br>
India initially resisted joining the agreement. At the time, the
country was planning to expand the production and use of CFCs. But
in 1992, as it saw its potential trading market shrink because it
could not make deals with countries that had signed, and with the
promise of payments to help phase out CFCs if it joined, India
signed the protocol.<br>
<br>
In contrast, in 2015, not long before signing the Paris Agreement,
India announced plans to double its coal production. “And the rest
of the world just pretty much shrugged its shoulders,” Barrett said.<br>
<br>
India wanted to develop its economy and reduce poverty. Burning more
coal was the simplest way to do that, and the accord gave no
compelling incentives to look at alternatives.<br>
<br>
“If you have an effective system for negotiation,” Barrett said,
“then what the rest of the world should have said is, ‘Of course we
understand why you want to do that. But if you do that, you’re going
to undermine your future development as well as that of everyone
else. And’—this is really critical—‘Here’s another technology that
gives you the same energy you would have gotten from coal, and the
only reason you’re not going to it in the first place is because
it’s more expensive. But we’re going to pay you the difference.’”...<br>
To work, Barrett said, diplomats would also have needed a stick to
punish India if it didn’t agree, as they did with the trade barrier
in the Montreal Protocol.<br>
<br>
One of the key shortcomings of the Paris Agreement, Barrett argues,
is that it fails to address the “free-rider problem,” which stems
from the fact that countries would enjoy the benefits of global
efforts to limit emissions regardless of their contributions. This
creates a temptation to ride on the emissions cuts of other nations,
and can doom the overall effort: If everyone shirks, the global cuts
never materialize.<br>
<br>
“And that’s been the whole problem from the beginning,” he said.
“We’ve had 30 years of negotiations, more diplomatic effort on this
than any other in all of world history, and all this time global
emissions have been rising.”...<br>
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“Climate change is going to produce winners and losers, and if
you’re a loser, you’re going to fight like hell to make sure that
climate regulation doesn’t move forward,” said Jessica Green, an
associate professor of political science at the University of
Toronto. “And in fact, that’s what we’ve seen.”<br>
<br>
Green and others identify the decades-long fight waged by the fossil
fuel industry as the most important force holding back change. They
point to studies that have demonstrated the well-known effects of
lobbying by oil and gas companies, and to research findings that run
counter to the idea that global climate efforts have been stymied by
the collective action problems Barrett studies. <br>
<br>
“I think that the capture of political processes by fossil capital
is a huge, huge problem, and it is the first order problem,” Green
said. “Unless you deal with that, you can’t make meaningful
progress. You make incremental progress, and that’s what we’ve
done.”<br>
<br>
From this perspective, Montreal’s success hinged on the support it
received from the chemical industry. But this glosses over an
important detail: It was the agreement itself that helped bring the
industry on board.<br>
<br>
“When the Montreal Protocol was signed, there was opposition all the
way up to the signature,” said Stephen Andersen, who was working at
the EPA on ozone-depleting substances at the time, and has devoted
his career to supporting the protocol.<br>
<br>
“In fact, when the deal was made in Montreal, industry was
flabbergasted. They thought they’d blocked it,” Andersen said. Only
about two-dozen countries joined the agreement initially, “but as
soon as it was signed, industry started looking at it and saying,
’Well, if this is what’s happening, what should we do?’”...<br>
- - <br>
Barrett acknowledges that Montreal is an imperfect analogue for the
Paris Agreement. While CFCs were used in a relatively narrow set of
products, fossil fuels power the global economy. DuPont and other
chemical companies were in the best position to produce
alternatives, but it is not clear whether oil companies have any
competitive advantage in the renewable energy sector or other
fields.<br>
<br>
But he is not alone in thinking that the Paris Agreement’s avoidance
of trade restrictions misses an important opportunity to press
countries to act.<br>
<br>
“Trade is the thing that drives climate change,” said Diann
Black-Layne, ambassador for climate change for Antigua and Barbuda
and lead climate change negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island
States. “If you block the importation of goods and services—and
please include services—you would have a transition like you would
not believe.”<br>
- - <br>
“We do have good signs that the Paris Agreement is starting to work
the way it was intended to work,” said Nathaniel Keohane, president
of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, a climate change
think tank. “If it works, it would be because it creates a framework
where countries have to set targets and then are expected to live up
to them, and where their progress is monitored and reported on and
there’s a real degree of transparency. Now we are just on the cusp
of that.”<br>
<br>
Barrett said he is not optimistic. But he also doesn’t favor
replacing or renegotiating the Paris Agreement. “The message isn’t
that Paris is bad, it’s not,” he said. “The message is that Paris is
not enough.”<br>
<br>
Instead, Barrett points to a more obscure agreement as a model, one
that piggy-backed on the Montreal Protocol and could help countries
meet their targets under the Paris accord. In 2016, nations agreed
on the Kigali Amendment, which targets hydrofluorocarbons, potent
greenhouse gases that were developed as ozone-friendly replacements
for CFCs. Notably, the chemical industry and Republican Senators
pressed the Trump administration to join the agreement, but the
White House delayed ratification of the amendment. President Joe
Biden initiated the process in January.<br>
<br>
Barrett said diplomats should work to create smaller, more technical
agreements that could supplement the Paris Agreement, focusing, for
example, on emissions cuts in particular industries. These
agreements would lack the dramatic appeal of the Paris accord,
especially because any gains they achieved would necessarily be
incremental and limited. Barrett is not even convinced that these
types of pacts could limit warming to within the Paris agreement
targets, but he thinks it’s the best shot we’ve got.<br>
<br>
“This approach we’re taking of trying to do everything together
hasn’t worked,” he said. “Let’s try to build some other agreements.
And yeah, each one is not going to solve the problem, but each one
will do something. And maybe we can start, over a period of time,
start to piece things together.”<br>
<br>
Nicholas Kusnetz<br>
Reporter, New York City<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28072021/pairs-agreement-success-failure/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28072021/pairs-agreement-success-failure/</a><br>
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[Oreskes video - historian of science]<br>
<b>Is Climate Change the End? And if so, the End of What?</b><br>
Mar 28, 2019<br>
Case Western Reserve University<br>
Naomi Oreskes - -March 22, 2019<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/Gc7RNrh8i-A">https://youtu.be/Gc7RNrh8i-A</a><br>
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[David Suzuki]<br>
<b>Why it’s time to think about human extinction | Dr David Suzuki</b><br>
Dec 16, 2018<br>
Kerwin Rae<br>
After listening to this ep with Dr David Suzuki, you’ll never be the
same again. The environmentalist, activist, professor of genetics
and science broadcaster hits us with some home truths about what our
future will look like if we continue to live the way we have been.
What will life be like for our children and grandchildren? Can the
damage we’ve done to the planet be reversed? Is extinction of the
human race imminent?<br>
<br>
We talk about population control, the importance of renewable energy
and discuss what we can do right now in our own lives that can
actually make a difference. This is for anyone who cares about the
future of mankind. <br>
Timestamps:<br>
<blockquote>00:00 Introduction to Dr David Suzuki<br>
20:06 Why humanity has only got 1 minute left to live <br>
25:25 Humans are the only species that don't care about their own
children <br>
29:17 Educate yourself on politics or don't complain about the
government <br>
36:26 Can we be saved from our own extinction?<br>
59:09 A final challenge for entrepreneurs <br>
</blockquote>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktnAMTmgOX0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktnAMTmgOX0</a><br>
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[Big Think has made an excellent video]<br>
<b>Will America’s disregard for science be the end of its reign? |
Big Think</b><br>
Oct 3, 2020<br>
Big Think<br>
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From America's inception, there has always been a rebellious,
anti-establishment mentality. That way of thinking has become more
reckless now that the entire world is interconnected and there are
added layers of verification (or repudiation) of facts.<br>
<br>
As the great minds in this video can attest, there are systems and
mechanisms in place to discern between opinion and truth. By making
conscious efforts to undermine and ignore those systems at every
turn (climate change, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, politics,
etc.), America has compromised its position of power and effectively
stunted its own growth.<br>
<br>
A part of the problem, according to writer and radio host Kurt
Andersen, is a new media infrastructure that allows for false
opinions to persist and spread to others. Is it the beginning of the
end of the American empire?<br>
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TRANSCRIPT:<br>
<blockquote>KURT ANDERSEN: Americans have always been magical
thinkers and passionate believers in the untrue. We were started
by the Puritans in New England who wanted to create, and did
create, a Christian utopia and theocracy as they waited for the
imminent second coming of Christ and the end of days. And in the
South by a bunch of people who were convinced, absolutely
convinced, that this place they'd never been was full of gold just
to be plucked from the dirt in Virginia. And they stayed there
looking and hoping for gold for 20 years before they finally,
finally faced the facts and the evidence and decided that they
weren't going to get rich overnight there.<br>
<br>
So that was the beginning. And then we've had centuries of 'buyer
beware' charlatanism to an extreme degree and medical quackery to
an extreme degree, and increasingly exotic, extravagant,
implausible religions over and over again from Mormonism, to
Christian science, to Scientology in the last century. And we've
had this anti-establishment, "I'm not going to trust the experts.
I'm not going to trust the elite," in our character from the
beginning. Now, all those things came together and were
supercharged in the 1960s when you were entitled to your own truth
and your own reality. Then, a generation later when the internet
came along, giving each of those realities, no matter how false or
magical or nutty they are, their own kind of media infrastructure.<br>
<br>
We had entertainment, again, for our whole last couple 100 years,
but especially in the last 50 years, permeating all the rest of
life, including presidential politics, from John F. Kennedy
through Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton. So, the thing was set up
for Donald Trump to exploit all these various American threads and
astonishingly become president. But then you look at this history
and it's like, "Oh, we should've seen this coming."<br>
<br>
TYSON: The power of journalism: A mistake becomes truth. The print
journalism is taking what I said and turning it into an article,
so it has to pass through the journalist, get processed, and then
it becomes some written content on a page. One hundred percent of
those experiences, the journalist got something fundamentally
wrong with the subject matter. And just as an interesting point
about the power of journalists, I had people read the article and
say, "Neil, you must know better than that. That's not how this
works." They assumed the journalist was correct about reporting
what I said, not that I was correct and that the journalists was
wrong. This is an interesting power that journalists have over
whether you think what they're writing is true or not. That was
decades ago. In recent years, what I think has happened is that
they're more journalists who are science fluent that are writing
about science than was the case 20 years ago. So now I don't have
to worry about the journalist missing something fundamental about
what I'm trying...<br>
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Read the full transcript at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bigthink.com/videos/anti-science-pro-conspiracy-america">https://bigthink.com/videos/anti-science-pro-conspiracy-america</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S58vlJwhwDw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S58vlJwhwDw</a><br>
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[Great question]<br>
<b>Could sea level rise cut off Nova Scotia from the rest of North
America?</b><br>
Friday, July 30th 2021, 5:18 pm - Experts say that sea level rise is
having a noticeable impact in Atlantic Canada and is putting some
towns in jeopardy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/could-sea-level-rise-cut-off-nova-scotia-from-the-rest-of-north-america">https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/could-sea-level-rise-cut-off-nova-scotia-from-the-rest-of-north-america</a>
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<br>
[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
August 1, 1988</b></font><br>
<br>
Sacramento, California-based right-wing talk radio host Rush
Limbaugh begins his nationally syndicated program; over the next
three decades, Limbaugh aggressively promotes the notion that
climate science is a "hoax."<br>
<blockquote>
<p>RUSH TO JUDGMENT<br>
Attacking environmentalists as hippie-dip “wackos” who care more
about spotted owls than people and use polar bears for
propaganda, Rush Limbaugh has blinded millions of Americans to
the climate crisis.</p>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/05/wolcott200705">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/05/wolcott200705</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/wolcott200705">http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/wolcott200705</a> <br>
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