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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>August 24, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[harsh weathers]<br>
<b>Rescuers are searching for the people still missing after
Tennessee’s deadly flash floods.</b><br>
At least 21 people are dead. Follow here for the latest news on
extreme weather and climate, including floods, wildfires, drought
and more.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/24/us/climate-change">https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/24/us/climate-change</a><br>
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[XR activism video report from London]<br>
<b>Channel 4 News | Impossible Rebellion | 23 August 2021 |
Extinction Rebellion UK</b><br>
Aug 23, 2021<br>
Extinction Rebellion UK<br>
Help XR mobilise and donate: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://extinctionrebellion.uk/donate/">https://extinctionrebellion.uk/donate/</a>
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Extinction Rebellion UK: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://extinctionrebellion.uk/">https://extinctionrebellion.uk/</a> <br>
International: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rebellion.global/">https://rebellion.global/</a> <br>
Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR">https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR</a> <br>
Facebook: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/XRebellionUK/">https://www.facebook.com/XRebellionUK/</a> <br>
<blockquote>1. Tell The Truth <br>
2. Act Now <br>
3. Beyond Politics <br>
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World Map of Extinction Rebellion Groups:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rebellion.global/branches/">https://rebellion.global/branches/</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9hfGWmRb9k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9hfGWmRb9k</a><br>
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[Changes to our planet]<br>
<b>Rain and Warmth Trigger Intense Melting in Greenland</b><br>
By KATHRYN HANSEN, NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY -- AUGUST 22, 2021<br>
The island’s vast ice sheet underwent multiple bouts of widespread
melting this summer, exacerbated in August 2021 by rain.<br>
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The Greenland Ice Sheet underwent two bouts of intense melting in
July 2021, and forecasts called for even more to follow. They were
right. Summer heat spurred another major melt event on August 14–15,
2021, but this time, the melting was exacerbated by rainfall.<br>
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Every year from around May to early September, melting takes place
across the vast sheet of ice that covers Greenland. Besides
contributing directly to sea level rise, meltwater can flow to the
base of the ice sheet via crevasses and moulins, accelerating the
flow of ice toward the ocean.<br>
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Within a melting season there can be the occasional “melt
event”—brief periods with more melting and runoff than during
‘typical’ summer days. The seventh-largest melt event on record (by
area) occurred on July 28, when melting covered about 881,000 square
kilometers (340,000 square miles) of the ice sheet, according to
data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Melting on August
14—the peak of the unusual late-summer event—was slightly smaller,
covering about 872,000 square kilometers.<br>
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According to Lauren Andrews, a glaciologist with NASA’s Global
Modeling and Assimilation Office, the pattern of melting differed
for each event. “While the late-July melt event was extensive in
northern Greenland, the August event was focused in southern
Greenland,” she said.<br>
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The island’s southern tip was visible amid clouds on August 15,
2021, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image (above) of part of the
melt area. The image is false color to better differentiate between
areas of clouds (white), snow (cyan), bare ice (blue), and meltwater
or slushy ice (darker blue). Ocean water appears the darkest blue,
almost black. For comparison, a second image shows the area on
August 12, prior to the melt event.<br>
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Notice that by August 15, the area of bare ice extends farther
inland. “The snow line has retreated, exposing more of the darker,
underlying ice,” Andrews said. “This retreat is most obvious when we
look closely at the outlet glaciers and was likely driven by the
large melt event on August 14–15.”<br>
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Andrews also noted that the melting extended well inland toward the
interior of the ice sheet and reached Summit Station—National
Science Foundation’s research station located near the top of the
ice sheet, nearly two miles above sea level.<br>
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“During melt events, these processes can occur over parts of the ice
sheet that do not typically experience melt, making the impact more
widespread,” Andrews said. “Positive feedbacks like these are
starting to take their toll.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scitechdaily.com/rain-and-warmth-trigger-intense-melting-in-greenland/">https://scitechdaily.com/rain-and-warmth-trigger-intense-melting-in-greenland/</a><br>
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[Text clips and full audio]<br>
<b>Californians face annual trauma with wildfires. Why don’t we talk
about our eco-anxieties?</b><br>
BY ARIELLA COOK-SHONKOFF - SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE<br>
AUGUST 20, 2021<br>
Ever since the pivotal 2019 California wildfire season, when I awoke
more fully into the reality of the climate crisis, I’ve often felt
alone. This is odd, considering I live in a community surrounded by
family and friends and many in my circle work directly on climate
issues. But when it comes to talking about my raw, undeniable fears
and concerns as a Californian facing more wildfires each year, there
has been a well of near silence.<br>
<br>
As a psychotherapist, I’m particularly curious about how other
people experience their own vulnerabilities about wildfires, and how
this influences choices and behaviors. In talking to other people —
parents, therapists, neighbors, friends and clients — I’m struck by
how much Californians don’t want to talk about wildfires, even as we
anticipate them every day from May to November...<br>
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As soon as wildfires fade in late November and the holidays bring
welcome distraction, though, the topic is often shelved. Little — if
any — talk is initiated during what has become our state’s shrinking
“off-season.”<br>
<br>
The second California, the one which I find myself identifying with,
involves a fairly consistent waxing and waning of anxiety and dread.
Like the first group, we do all the right things, but with an added
layer — after another dry winter this year and the inevitable creep
toward hotter, drier summer months — of gearing up, mentally and
physically, primed for a large dollop of eco-anxiety...<br>
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The quietest of all is the third California. These are people and
communities who’ve survived the unspeakable from a wildfire: death,
injury, emotional suffering, multiple evacuations, relocation, loss
of possessions and livelihoods. In a geographical sense, the
aftermath of wildfires is an insular experience; long after the
smoke has dissipated, local communities endure harsh environmental
impacts and gradually begin a long, uncertain road to recovery
infused with the after-effects of trauma that most living in the
rest of our huge state are spared.<br>
<br>
Wildfire-affected communities are regionally disparate — largely out
of sight and earshot to those in unaffected areas, contributing to a
notable lack of integration in the collective psyche. Attempting to
heal trauma and secure affordable, insured housing while enduring
wildfires all over again each year is an overwhelming challenge.<br>
<br>
By now, I know friends, acquaintances and clients who have chosen to
move, citing wildfires as their primary driver. I wonder if and when
my own family will leave. As breathtaking and dynamic as California
can be, it seems to me that great tolerance is required just to be
here anymore. Perhaps fierce roots, loyalty, community and sense of
place maintain the status quo.<br>
<br>
This year or next year, or the one after that, when my brain
repeatedly signals a flight response instinct, do I pick up my
family and move to greater safety? How long can I reasonably silence
my internal alarm, which is really a basic survival instinct? And at
what cost? Although I’m not sure of these answers, now that I have
found people who feel as I do, I can talk about all of this.<br>
<br>
We all need to talk about all of this. If more people are able and
willing to talk about wildfires and their impacts — emotionally,
spiritually, through an environmental justice lens — a fourth
California may emerge, one of empathy, solidarity and radical
climate engagement.<br>
<br>
Ariella Cook-Shonkoff is a psychotherapist and art therapist based
in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a steering committee member of
Climate Psychology Alliance-North America.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article252340798.html">https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article252340798.html</a><br>
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[Antarctic research]<br>
<b>High geothermal heat flow beneath Thwaites Glacier in West
Antarctica inferred from aeromagnetic data</b><br>
Ricarda Dziadek, Fausto Ferraccioli & Karsten Gohl <br>
Communications Earth & Environment volume 2, Article number: 162
(2021) Cite this article<br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
Geothermal heat flow in the polar regions plays a crucial role in
understanding ice-sheet dynamics and predictions of sea level rise.
Continental-scale indirect estimates often have a low spatial
resolution and yield largest discrepancies in West Antarctica. Here
we analyse geophysical data to estimate geothermal heat flow in the
Amundsen Sea Sector of West Antarctica. With Curie depth analysis
based on a new magnetic anomaly grid compilation, we reveal
variations in lithospheric thermal gradients. We show that the
rapidly retreating Thwaites and Pope glaciers in particular are
underlain by areas of largely elevated geothermal heat flow, which
relates to the tectonic and magmatic history of the West Antarctic
Rift System in this region. Our results imply that the behavior of
this vulnerable sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is strongly
coupled to the dynamics of the underlying lithosphere.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00242-3">https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00242-3</a>
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[Take note of this]<br>
<b>5 possible climate futures—from the optimistic to the strange</b><br>
The five scenarios that form the backbone of the latest IPCC report
tell radically different stories about humanity’s future.<br>
<br>
MADELEINE STONE -- AUGUST 18, 2021<br>
The UN’s latest report on the state of the climate offers a stark
warning that humanity’s future could be filled with apocalyptic
natural disasters. But that future isn’t set in stone. Depending on
global economic trends, technological progress, geopolitical
developments, and most important, how aggressively we act to reduce
carbon emissions, the world at the end of the 21st century could
turn out to be radically different. Or not...<br>
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The new report features five climate narratives that differ in terms
of the level of projected warming and society’s ability to adapt to
the changes ahead. Each narrative pairs a different socioeconomic
development scenario with a different carbon emissions pathway,
resulting in a Choose Your Own Adventure-style series of endings to
the story of 21st-century climate change...<br>
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It is also possible that feedbacks within the climate system, such
as a massive pulse of CO2 and methane from thawing permafrost, will
push warming levels toward those worst-case projections even without
a sudden coal industry revival. The same thing could happen if the
climate proves more sensitive to human-caused carbon dioxide
emissions than scientists currently expect...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/5-possible-climate-futures-from-the-optimistic-to-the-strange">https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/5-possible-climate-futures-from-the-optimistic-to-the-strange</a><br>
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[Thanks goes to a local television forecaster for noticing]<br>
<b>Climate Change vs Global Warming</b><br>
Aug 23, 2021<br>
KXAN<br>
Meteorologist Kristen Currie explains the difference between the two
and how they impact you.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SvrY3iGTVE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SvrY3iGTVE</a><br>
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[2 year old history gives the best statement]<br>
<b>Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the
environment</b><br>
From now, house style guide recommends terms such as ‘climate
crisis’ and ‘global heating’<br>
Damian Carrington -- 17 May 2019 <br>
<p>Instead of “climate change” the preferred terms are “climate
emergency, crisis or breakdown” and “global heating” is favoured
over “global warming”, although the original terms are not banned.
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“We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while
also communicating clearly with readers on this very important
issue,” said the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. “The phrase
‘climate change’, for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when
what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity.”<br>
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“Increasingly, climate scientists and organisations from the UN to
the Met Office are changing their terminology, and using stronger
language to describe the situation we’re in,” she said.<br>
<p>The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, talked of
the “climate crisis” in September, adding: “We face a direct
existential threat.” The climate scientist Prof Hans Joachim
Schellnhuber, a former adviser to Angela Merkel, the EU and the
pope, also uses “climate crisis”.</p>
In December, Prof Richard Betts, who leads the Met Office’s climate
research, said “global heating” was a more accurate term than
“global warming” to describe the changes taking place to the world’s
climate. In the political world, UK MPs recently endorsed the Labour
party’s declaration of a “climate emergency”.<br>
<br>
The scale of the climate and wildlife crises has been laid bare by
two landmark reports from the world’s scientists. In October, they
said carbon emissions must halve by 2030 to avoid even greater risks
of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of
millions of people. In May, global scientists said human society was
in jeopardy from the accelerating annihilation of wildlife and
destruction of the ecosystems that support all life on Earth.<br>
<br>
Other terms that have been updated, including the use of “wildlife”
rather than “biodiversity”, “fish populations” instead of “fish
stocks” and “climate science denier” rather than “climate sceptic”.
In September, the BBC accepted it gets coverage of climate change
“wrong too often” and told staff: “You do not need a ‘denier’ to
balance the debate.”<br>
<br>
Earlier in May, Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has
inspired school strikes for climate around the globe, said: “It’s
2019. Can we all now call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate
crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis
and ecological emergency?”<br>
<br>
The update to the Guardian’s style guide follows the addition of the
global carbon dioxide level to the Guardian’s daily weather pages.
“Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen so dramatically –
including a measure of that in our daily weather report is symbolic
of what human activity is doing to our climate,” said Viner in
April. “People need reminding that the climate crisis is no longer a
future problem – we need to tackle it now, and every day matters.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/17/why-the-guardian-is-changing-the-language-it-uses-about-the-environment">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/17/why-the-guardian-is-changing-the-language-it-uses-about-the-environment</a>
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[Seattle NPR Radio report on fire-fighters ]<br>
<b>How to fight a wildfire (Full Episode) / Seattle Now</b><br>
Aug 23, 2021<br>
KUOW<br>
We all see the news stories and experience the smoke of wildfires up
and down the West coast. But what does it actually take to stop one
of those blazes? Today we find out.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yjud1GzvV8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yjud1GzvV8</a><br>
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[Art meets reality]<br>
<b>A Performance Piece That Pairs Painted Waves Alongside Real Ones</b><br>
On view in Newport, R.I., Melissa McGill’s latest is an ode to
nature and a reminder of our debt to it.<br>
The wind, of course, like the ocean, morphs from one moment to the
next. Thus, while the show always begins with the ensemble walking
in a procession over a hill and into view with their wave paintings
in tow, no two performances are exactly alike, something the team
figured they might as well embrace. “Rather than trying to have
everyone move synchronously, we opted for an improvisational score,”
said George. That created a basic structure while leaving room for
the weather, as well as for different personalities and ability
levels. “There’s this vacillation between the individual and the
group,” George added. Indeed, a viewer’s eye travels constantly,
taking in small pockets of beauty — the way a performer holds her
arm aloft, say, or how the light catches a particular brush stroke —
and then the whole expanse, which serves as a reminder of humans’
interconnectedness and the fact that information and a will to
effect change can travel, too. “With this project,” said Kazanjian,
“it’s almost as if the painted image becomes painted words used to
tell the story — because we know that, even after the performance is
over, it will live on in the telling.”<br>
<br>
“In the Waves” is free and open to the public. It will be performed
at 3 and 4 p.m. every afternoon from Aug. 24 to 28.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/t-magazine/melissa-mcgill-newport-waves.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/t-magazine/melissa-mcgill-newport-waves.html</a><br>
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[Boulder Colorado - clip]<br>
By ELIZABETH HERNANDEZ | <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ehernandez@denverpost.com">ehernandez@denverpost.com</a> | The Denver Post<br>
August 22, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.<br>
<b>Grieving over climate change? Colorado experts offer hope amidst
the haze</b><br>
Climate grief can take shape as depression, dysfunction, or losing
interest in things because they seem “pointless”...<br>
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<b>Using laughter to fight despair</b><br>
For Beth Osnes, a better world is one united in laughter.<br>
<br>
The University of Colorado Boulder associate theater professor has
experience in environmental work that led her to dream up a
different — and funnier — kind of climate communication.<br>
<br>
“So much of our communication is scaring the hell out of people and
convincing them the situation is hopeless,” Osnes said. “If we
believe that, we’re full of inaction and want to disengage as fast
as we can.”<br>
<br>
The 2017 climate report said psychological responses to climate
change — conflict avoidance, fatalism, fear, helplessness and
resignation — are on the rise. These responses, the report said, are
keeping the nation “from properly addressing the core causes of and
solutions for our changing climate.”<br>
<br>
Osnes teaches a course on creative climate communication dedicated
to making climate information fun and funny to pull more people
toward the cause. The class is largely for students about to
graduate into environmental science fields.<br>
<br>
“Their hearts are nearly on the ground,” Osnes said. “They know too
much. They’re overwhelmed. They need to process their emotions.”<br>
<br>
Osnes assigns projects in which students create informational
campaigns about climate-related issues, but begs them to be comical.
While teaching about the climate impact of the fashion industry and
the difference ethically sourced clothing can make on the planet,
Osnes asks students to don completely sustainable outfits — meaning
pieces are thrifted, hand-me-downs and recycled.<br>
<br>
Then, students photograph themselves in their outfits while wearing
green lycra bodysuits underneath to draw attention to themselves so
they can explain their messaging.<br>
<br>
“Once you start bringing together expression and purposeful action,
people feel like they can allow themselves hope,” Osnes said.<br>
<br>
Bolinger finds her hope in science.<br>
<br>
Despite the droughts, Bolinger knows there will be days of driving
rain soaking into the Earth. Despite the heat, Bolinger knows there
will be nights frosted by glittering snowflakes. The climate
scientist also takes comfort in the number of people trying to make
a better future.<br>
<br>
“There are so many people in Colorado working to slow down climate
change,” Bolinger said. “If you try to picture how to solve this
whole thing, it looks impossible. But if you really drill down to
the more local level, there are solutions and things you can tackle.
Consider even looking just in your neighborhood or your city to see
how you might be able to help. It’s a lot easier to tackle an issue
if you’re looking at where it directly impacts you versus trying to
think about a polar bear floating on a melting ice cap in the
Arctic.<br>
<br>
“There are solutions we can work on. There is hope.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.denverpost.com/2021/08/22/climate-change-grief-anxiety-mental-health/">https://www.denverpost.com/2021/08/22/climate-change-grief-anxiety-mental-health/</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
August 24, 2010</b></font><br>
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August 24, 2010: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann interviews Lee Fang of
Think Progress regarding Fang's coverage of the Koch Brothers. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/tRbLXN4j7Do">http://youtu.be/tRbLXN4j7Do</a> <br>
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