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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>August 28, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[Water, water,...]<br>
<b>40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up
Fast.</b><br>
By Abrahm Lustgarten - Aug. 27, 2021...<br>
Americans are about to face all sorts of difficult choices about how
and where to live as the climate continues to heat up. States will
be forced to choose which coastlines to abandon as sea levels rise,
which wildfire-prone suburbs to retreat from, and which small towns
cannot afford new infrastructure to protect against floods or heat.
What to do in the parts of the country that are losing their
essential supply of water may turn out to be the first among those
choices.<br>
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Making a bad situation worse, leaders in Western states have allowed
wasteful practices to continue that add to the material threat
facing the region. A majority of the water used by farms — and thus
much of the river — goes to growing nonessential crops like alfalfa
and other grasses that feed cattle for meat production. Much of
those grasses are also exported to feed animals in the Middle East
and Asia. Short of regulating which types of crops are allowed,
which state authorities may not even have the authority to do, it
may fall to consumers to drive change. Water usage data suggests
that if Americans avoid meat one day each week they could save an
amount of water equivalent to the entire flow of the Colorado each
year, more than enough water to alleviate the region’s shortages.<br>
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Water is also being wasted because of flaws in the laws. The rights
to take water from the river are generally distributed — like deeds
to property — based on seniority. It is very difficult to take
rights away from existing stakeholders, whether cities or individual
ranchers, so long as they use the water allocated to them. That
system creates a perverse incentive: Across the basin, ranchers
often take their maximum allocation each year, even if just to spill
it on the ground, for fear that, if they don’t, they could lose the
right to take that water in the future. Changes in the laws that
remove the threat of penalties for not exercising water rights, or
that expand rewards for ranchers who conserve water, could be an
easy remedy.<br>
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A breathtaking amount of the water from the Colorado — about 10
percent of the river’s recent total flow — simply evaporates off the
sprawling surfaces of large reservoirs as they bake in the sun. Last
year, evaporative losses from Lake Mead and Lake Powell alone added
up to almost a million acre feet of water — or nearly twice what
Arizona will be forced to give up now as a result of this month’s
shortage declaration. These losses are increasing as the climate
warms. Yet federal officials have so far discounted technological
fixes — like covering the water surface to reduce the losses — and
they continue to maintain both reservoirs, even though both of them
are only around a third full. If the two were combined, some experts
argue, much of those losses could be avoided.<br>
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The bureau’s projections mean we are close to uncharted territory.
The current shortage agreement, negotiated between the states in
2007, only addresses shortages down to a lake elevation of 1,025
feet. After that, the rules become murky, and there is greater
potential for fraught legal conflicts. Northern states in the
region, for example, are likely to ask why the vast evaporation
losses from Lake Mead, which stores water for the southern states,
have never been counted as a part of the water those southern states
use. Fantastical and expensive solutions that have previously been
dismissed by the federal government — like the desalinization of
seawater, towing icebergs from the Arctic, or pumping water from the
Mississippi River through a pipeline — are likely to be seriously
considered. None of this, however, will be enough to solve the
problem unless it’s accompanied by serious efforts to lower carbon
dioxide emissions, which are ultimately responsible for driving
changes to the climate.<br>
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Meanwhile, population growth in Arizona and elsewhere in the basin
is likely to continue, at least for now, because short-term fixes so
far have obscured the seriousness of the risks to the region. Water
is still cheap, thanks to the federal subsidies for all those dams
and canals that make it seem plentiful. The myth persists that
technology can always outrun nature, that the American West holds
endless possibility. It may be the region’s undoing. As the author
Wallace Stegner once wrote, “One cannot be pessimistic about the
West. This is the native home of hope.”<br>
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This article is copublished with ProPublica, the nonprofit
investigative newsroom.<br>
<br>
Abrahm Lustgarten is an environmental reporter for ProPublica.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/sunday-review/colorado-river-drying-up.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/sunday-review/colorado-river-drying-up.html</a><br>
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<p>[good idea, but how do I get there? and how do I leave the
country? Perhaps the world should be carbon free. ]</p>
<b>Denmark and Costa Rica Want to Make a No Fossil Fuels Allowed
Club</b><br>
The proposed alliance would only allow in countries that have made
steps to ban the production of fossil fuels.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/denmark-and-costa-rica-want-to-make-a-no-fossil-fuels-a-1847566220">https://gizmodo.com/denmark-and-costa-rica-want-to-make-a-no-fossil-fuels-a-1847566220</a><br>
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[The Queen goes there Nov 1 - 12]<br>
<b>COP26: Queen to attend climate conference in Glasgow</b><br>
(BBC) — The Queen will attend the COP26 climate conference in
Glasgow, organisers have confirmed.<br>
The 95-year-old monarch will join world leaders at the event which
was originally due to take place in November last year but was
postponed due to the Covid pandemic.<br>
It will now be held at the Scottish Events Campus from 1-12
November.<br>
The summit is expected to attract 120 heads of state, including US
President Joe Biden.<br>
Others expected to travel to Scotland include Pope Francis and
climate campaigner Greta Thunberg.<br>
COP26 president Alok Sharma tweeted that he was "absolutely
delighted" that the Queen will attend the summit.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58360381">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58360381</a><br>
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[Radical actions]<br>
<b>Why the United States Is Killing the World</b><br>
Aug 27, 2021<br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
Why United States imperialism is causing climate change, explained.
Help me make more videos like this via Patreon:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingCl">https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingCl</a>...<br>
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at
how United States imperialism is causing climate change and killing
the world. Specifically, I look at how the United States is
responsible for a large amount of the world's cumulative emissions,
the birthplace of the oil industry, and now fosters a growing
natural gas industry. While the United States has promised
substantial. emissions cuts, they are too slow and too late. The
United States' imperialist endeavors abroad have also worked to
destabilize regions and prevent resilience in the face of climate
change. From protecting oil fields and fossil fuel interests in the
Gulf and Iraq Wars to various attempted coups, United States
imperialism has made it that much harder to deal with climate
change. In addition, United States-backed sanctions have also dealt
crushing blows to countries try to build resilience in the face of
COVID-19 and the climate crisis. In short, driven by profit and
territorial expansion, the United States is not only causing climate
change but also making it worse for those on the frontlines...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYu_WOrL_gM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYu_WOrL_gM</a><br>
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[writer Rebecca Leber is cool]<br>
<b>It’s time to rethink air conditioning</b><br>
Air conditioning warms the planet. Here’s how to break a vicious
cycle.<br>
By Rebecca Leber -- Aug 26, 2021, 2:20pm EDT<br>
What if the most American symbol of unsustainable consumption isn’t
the automobile, but the air conditioner? In cool indoor spaces, it’s
easy to forget that billions of people around the world don’t have
cooling — and that air conditioning is worsening the warming that
it’s supposed to protect us from.<br>
<br>
There are alternatives: We can build public cooling spaces and
smarter cities, with fixes like white paint and more greenery. Some
experts have hailed heat pump technology as a more efficient option.
But as the planet warms and more of its inhabitants have spare
income, AC sales are increasing. Ten air conditioners will be sold
every second for the next 30 years, according to a United Nations
estimate. Access to air conditioning can literally mean life or
death for the young, elderly, and those with medical conditions such
as compromised immune systems.<br>
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The rise of ACs has an enormous cost: Over time, chemicals known as
refrigerants leak out of AC units and accelerate climate change...<br>
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It’s easier for us to understand climate violence in terms of things
like hurricane damage or wildfires. They’re very spectacular. But
what’s actually happening is a lot more tedious and really difficult
to narrate.<br>
<br>
I realized air conditioning was a way to get at the very material
nature of the climate crisis — but in a way that is quite
unspectacular, because the refrigerant is literally invisible to all
the senses. The paradox is that we’re surrounded by air
conditioning, but hardly anybody thinks about it.<br>
<br>
What I hoped to do with the book was by tracing this history people
could consider a radically different way of living, one that doesn’t
have to be suffering. It can actually be pleasurable. I think a lot
of people are too afraid to even try that because they think they
have to give something up. I hope that it can open the door just a
little bit for people to really re-contextualize what it means to be
comfortable. I think there’s something to be said about making us a
bit more comfortable with the discomfort of outside air...<br>
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Many of the people reading this may be sitting in an air-conditioned
space right now. So what is the alternative vision?<br>
<br>
I’m interested in more radical changes so that the same technology
that was bred in the United States, and that same definition of
comfort, doesn’t just get carbon-copied and spread to the rest of
the world.<br>
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When you have open asphalt, which often falls in sections of the
city with the working poor, you have hotter cities. Planting more
trees and green space can lower the urban heat island effect by
several degrees. You can also have better-designed buildings, but
that’s tricky because you need new materials and lots of money. You
can provide heat pumps, but you also need to redesign the building’s
air systems. And we also need more access to publicly cooled spaces
so that we’re not all, individually, cooling our homes.<br>
<br>
And then there are the cultural solutions: It’s really worth looking
at why heat waves cause so many deaths. We don’t treat heat waves
like the emergency they are. In a heat wave, people assume you just
keep working. It’s not just that people die because they get too
hot. It’s often because the medical infrastructure is not there.
It’s often that even the people who have air conditioning are too
afraid to turn it on because they can’t afford it. It’s often
because people are left alone.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/22638093/air-conditioning-worsens-climate-change-ac">https://www.vox.com/22638093/air-conditioning-worsens-climate-change-ac</a><br>
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[A reasonable idea]<br>
<b>How We End Consumerism</b><br>
Jun 4, 2021<br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
How we end consumerism, explained. Help me make more videos like
this via Patreon: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingCl">https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingCl</a>...<br>
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at
how we end consumerism. Specifically, I unpack how degrowth and
ecosocialism can work in tandem to stop consumerism and
overconsumption and reduce emissions in order to transition to a
zero-carbon, post-climate change world. Degrowth is a response to
the rampant growth/profit capitalist paradigm that fuels consumerism
and is causing climate change. Degrowth de-centers capitalism and
consumerism and instead argues for a world wherein there's a planned
contraction of rich economies to allow for the well-being of
everyone in the world. Degrowth, however, can't function well
without ecosocialism. Ecosocialism recognizes that the climate
crisis is a capitalist crisis and vice versa. In order to degrowth
to work it needs to incorporate full democratic control of the means
of production and the state in order to avoid draconian measures of
austerity. Degrowth and ecosocialism represent an end to consumerism
and overconsumption.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcUaD8pxaY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcUaD8pxaY</a><br>
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[Yale Climate Change Communications harkens back]<br>
<b>Study: Extreme weather may not lead to increased support for
climate action</b><br>
Many people aren’t making the connection between global warming and
weather disasters.<br>
by JENNIFER MARLON - JUNE 16, 2021<br>
Climate scientists have been warning for decades that global warming
will lead to more extreme weather. And so as more Americans start to
personally experience disastrous weather events, it’s reasonable to
ask whether they will support aggressive climate action.<br>
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The short answer is already clear: not necessarily.<br>
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The signal of climate change is difficult for people to notice
against the noisy background of day-to-day and seasonal changes in
weather.<br>
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But even when a neighborhood, city, or region experiences truly
unusual weather, some will see it as clearly connected to global
warming while for others, the connection won’t even occur to them.
Just as two people can respond completely differently to political
events, current fashions, or to a football game, two individuals can
share what seems to be an identical experience and yet come away
with completely different conclusions about what happened, what
caused it, and what to do about it...<br>
<blockquote><b>We do not simply use our senses to record information
about our surroundings and daily events – we interpret those
events</b><br>
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“Experience” is much more slippery than most of us realize. We do
not simply use our senses to record information about our
surroundings and daily events — we interpret those events and filter
them through our emotions, memories, culture, and in the case of
weather and climate, our politics. We then combine our beliefs,
attitudes, and evaluations of our past experiences to form new
opinions, construct new cause-and-effect models in our minds, and to
ultimately build narratives about events that allow us to make sense
of the world and how we fit into it...<br>
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In our study, people did not link local increases in heavy rainfall
with global warming. Given that the connections between global
warming and precipitation patterns are more complex than those for
temperature alone, perhaps this is not surprising. Yet the
relationship is important and has major consequences for our economy
and health. Scientists recently calculated that the impact of global
warming on Hurricane Sandy includes a price tag of $8 billion from
the flooding damage. But many Americans don’t understand how carbon
pollution could cause an increase in flooding and hurricane damage.
For them, the dots have not been connected yet between cause and
effects.<br>
<br>
Many are working to connect these dots, showing how climate change
is already shaping our lives, and explaining the causal chains
between burning fossil fuels, heating the planet, and increasing
extreme weather. Kenton Gewecke, chief meteorologist at KOMU 8 in
Columbia, Missouri, is just one example. He hosts a series called
“Show Me Climate,” in which he talks to scientists and explains how
temperatures, rainfall patterns, storms, and other events are
changing in Missouri. Gewecke says many viewers appreciate the
information. If other broadcast meteorologists follow Gewecke’s
lead, they’ll serve as trustworthy and knowledgeable guides to help
Americans understand and learn from our experiences.<br>
<br>
Jennifer Marlon, Ph.D., is a research scientist and lecturer at the
Yale School of the Environment and the Yale Program on Climate
Change Communication.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/study-extreme-weather-may-not-lead-to-increased-support-for-climate-action/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/study-extreme-weather-may-not-lead-to-increased-support-for-climate-action/</a><br>
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[experience teaches]<b><br>
</b> <b>Hot dry days increase perceived experience with global
warming</b><br>
<blockquote> Abstract<br>
Public perceptions of climate change in the United States are
deeply rooted in cultural values and political identities. Yet, as
the public experiences extreme weather and other climate
change-related impacts, their perceptions of the issue may shift.
Here, we explore whether, when, and where local climate trends
have already influenced perceived experiences of global warming in
the United States. Using a large national survey dataset (n =
13,607), we compare Americans’ experiences of climate with
corresponding trends in seven different high-resolution climate
indicators for the period 2008 to 2015. We find that increases in
hot dry day exposure significantly increases individuals’
perceptions that they have personally experienced global warming.
We do not find robust evidence that other precipitation and
temperature anomalies have had a similar effect. We also use
multilevel modeling to explore county-level patterns of perceived
experiences with climate change. Whereas the individual-level
analysis describes a likely causal relationship between a changing
climate and individuals’ perceived experience, the multilevel
model depicts county-level changes in perceived experience
resulting from particular climate trends. Overall, we find that
exposure to hot dry days, has a modest influence on perceived
experience, independent of the political and socio-demographic
factors that dominate U.S. climate opinions today.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378021000261?via%3Dihub">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378021000261?via%3Dihub</a><br>
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[Free cooling, just add water - thanks Dave ]<br>
<b>Install a Cooling Tower on Your Property</b><br>
BROWSE OUR SOLAR COOLING TOWER SELECTION IN TUCSON & PHOENIX, AZ<br>
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install a solar cooling tower. This option uses even less energy
than a swamp cooler. Choose Southwest Solar Inc. when you're looking
for a solar cooling solution in Tucson and Phoenix, AZ. Our owner
can help you pick the best option for your property. If you want
lower energy bills, solar cooling is the right choice to make.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://southwest-solar.com/cool-towers">http://southwest-solar.com/cool-towers</a><br>
"I have been goosebump chilled at Tucson airport at the
Environmental Research labs cooling tower on a 100 degree day with
60-65 degree air pouring down on me as a wind at the patio outside
the bottom of the tower. Only electric consumption was a small
water pump lifting water to top of tower and spraying onto media
pads. The airflow is pulled in through the pads even when there is
no exterior wind by the cold wet air dropping by gravity down the
tower. The rush of accelerating cold wet air creates way more
airflow than a fan would as the tower is very large in diameter as
well as tall. Solar to power the small pump is easy. Only a decent
water supply is a requisite and my experience with a limited water
supply gravity fed to our AZ home was that our swamp coolers in non
monsoon dry heat cooled very effectively and used surprisingly
little water. The water drains down through the pads and is repumped
with comparatively little lost to actual evaporation. In hot dry
climates the old Arab cooling towers updated with some but not
massive water usage can REALLY cool large interior spaces. Only got
wet areas don’t allow this kind of cooling. Also cooling mostly or
only at night where there are large day/night differentials, again
more in deserts or near the ocean coasts, followed by closing up
heavily insulated buildings during the hot daytime. Also the mid
afternoon siestas practiced in Mediterranean countries followed by
working more into the cooler evenings has been a good practice.
Eating the evening meal later as a result also works. But that also
requires going to bed later for digestive reasons. Big cultural
differences." Dave Martin <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://southwest-solar.com/cool-towers">http://southwest-solar.com/cool-towers</a><br>
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[Free cool]<br>
<b>Cooling towers: a bibliography</b><br>
You are accessing a document from the Department of Energy's (DOE)
OSTI.GOV. <br>
This site is a product of DOE's Office of Scientific and Technical
Information (OSTI) and is provided as a public service.<br>
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Abstract<br>
This bibliography cites 300 selected references containing
information on various aspects of large cooling tower technology,
including design, construction, operation, performance, economics,
and environmental effects. The towers considered include
natural-draft and mechanical-draft types employing wet, dry, or
combination wet-dry cooling. A few references deal with alternative
cooling methods, principally ponds or spray canals. The citations
were compiled for the DOE Energy Information Data Base (EDB)
covering the period January to December 1980. The references are to
reports from the Department of Energy and its contractors, reports
from other government or private organizations, and journal
articles, books, conference papers, and monographs from US
originators.<br>
Whitson, M. O.. Cooling towers: a bibliography. United States: N.
p., 1981. Web. doi:10.2172/6616286.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6616286">https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6616286</a><br>
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[video report on the victory <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/Evy2EgoveuE">https://youtu.be/Evy2EgoveuE</a> do not
miss this video ]<br>
<b>Exxon Lobbyist Caught on Camera Going Full Cartoon Villain</b><br>
Aug 10, 2021<br>
Climate Town<br>
Oh my god! He admit it!<br>
Patreon: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.patreon.com/ClimateTown">https://www.patreon.com/ClimateTown</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evy2EgoveuE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evy2EgoveuE</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 28, 2008</b></font><br>
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August 28, 2008: Al Gore and Barack Obama address the Democratic
National Convention, with Gore denouncing the Bush administration
for denying the climate crisis and Obama promising to make clean
energy a priority in his administration.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/dYdV1wszqhM">http://youtu.be/dYdV1wszqhM</a> (Gore)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/nmEI9Doctqs">http://youtu.be/nmEI9Doctqs</a> (Obama)<br>
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