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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>October 31, 2022</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ "the rain, it raineth on the just and the unjust..." ]</i><br>
<b>Rain finally puts an end to wildfire season in Western Washington</b><br>
Paige Browning<br>
OCT 27, 2022<br>
The 2022 wildfire season in Western Washington is over, thanks to
the rain the region has received since Friday.<br>
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"Areas around the Bolt Creek fire, specifically the 14,000 acres the
fire had burned so far, received between two and four inches of rain
over the past week which is plenty to saturate the ground, to get
through those dense canopies all the way down to the understory, and
it really has halted the spread of the fire," said Matthew Dehr, a
meteorologist with the Washington State Department of Natural
Resources.<br>
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Dehr said that the Bolt Creek fire, as well as others west of the
Cascade Mountains, are not expected to grow and more. Fire crews are
still keeping an eye out for flare ups in the area, however, and
ground crews are watching our for landslides and falling trees along
Highway 2.<br>
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"There are a lot of very damaged trees in that area now," Dehr said.
"I mean it's 14,000 acres, it's quite a large area that got impacted
by the fire so, luckily, we have not seen any landslides or debris
flow in that area yet. However, we do continue to get rain."<br>
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The Department of Natural Resources says that stretches along
Highway 2 are at risk of debris flow. There may be road closures in
the future.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://kuow.org/stories/rain-finally-puts-an-end-to-wildfire-season-in-western-washington">https://kuow.org/stories/rain-finally-puts-an-end-to-wildfire-season-in-western-washington</a><br>
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<i>[ a few aspects simple explanations ]</i><br>
<b>What Are the Solutions to the Climate Crisis? | Planet A</b><br>
Jan 17, 2022 In this episode of ‘Planet A’, Professor of
Environmental Science Garry Petersen explains how humans must adapt
if we are to avoid the tipping points that are leading towards
irreparable harm to the planet.<br>
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In 'Planet A', VICE World News takes viewers on a global tour of the
ecosystems that sustain life on earth to expose the existential
threats that reach far beyond climate change. <br>
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<p><i>[ BBC about Global warming at the Movies - long article ]</i><br>
<b>The climate films going beyond disaster</b><br>
By Becca Warner<br>
We need a subtler, more varied portrayal of climate change in film
than just climate disaster blockbusters, says Becca Warner<br>
In a fictional hospital in Seattle, surgeons are sweating through
their scrub caps as a heatwave descends on the city. With a sudden
whoosh and a clank, the building's overworked air conditioning
system comes to a halt. Within minutes, the stifling temperature
makes it unsafe to operate, and surgeons are forced to rush to
finish their procedures.<br>
<br>
The Grey's Anatomy doctors are navigating the same relationships
and patients that have kept them on our screens for some 400
episodes of the show. But in this episode, for the first time, the
backdrop to the drama is the very real issue of climate change.
The air conditioning system, Dr Richard Webber says, "wasn't
designed to be pushed that hard". Dr Addison Montgomery replies:
"the Earth wasn't designed to push this hard".<br>
<br>
It's a relatively rare example of the many kinds of
climate-related storylines that are typically missing from
fictional TV and film worlds. Social scientists and non-profits
argue that climate is a topic that belongs in many kinds of
on-screen stories, not just the occasional climate-disaster
thriller. But can seeing the realities of climate change affecting
characters on the big and small screen really help us to relate
differently to the unfolding climate crisis – to cope better, or
even change our behaviour?<br>
Non-profit storytelling consultancy Good Energy believes it can.
It is among a small but growing number of organisations calling
for far more TV and film scripts to feature climate-related
storylines, characters and reference points.<br>
<br>
In April 2022, it released its Good Energy Playbook, a set of
guidelines for embedding climate change into any on-screen story.
It joins other initiatives in drawing attention to the need for
film and TV to reflect the myriad ways climate change leaves its
mark on our everyday lives, including Planet Placement, a set of
tips for the TV and film industry from Bafta’s Albert, and the
Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC)'s Rewrite the Future.<br>
<br>
The Good Energy Playbook's suggestions are appropriately
wide-ranging: characters with climate anxiety and those fighting
against injustice; utopian narratives that explore climate
solutions; storylines that quietly weave climate references into
their characters' worlds. Examples span from showing solar panels
on houses in the background of a shot to main characters taking on
the fossil fuel industry.<br>
ood Energy argues that the stories on our screens should hold a
mirror up to our real, climate-changed lives. This includes
imagining what could go wrong, as many dystopian blockbusters
already have, but also what could go right. It also emphasises the
importance of thorough research and avoiding tired environmental
tropes; of recognising intersectionality and including
marginalised voices.<br>
<br>
The playbook was created by Good Energy founder Anna Jane Joyner,
whose background in climate communications led her to question why
climate was barely appearing in fictional TV and film worlds. "It
started very much as a personal campaign, where I just got on the
phone with as many screenwriters as I could," she says.<br>
<br>
She quickly learned that writers increasingly wanted to talk about
climate, she says, and were more and more worried about it in
their personal lives, but "didn't really have the support and
toolset to be able to do it".<br>
<br>
Storytellers might be ready to bring climate into the writers'
room, but is it the job of fictional TV shows and films to deliver
climate realities to our sofas and cinema seats? More to the
point, what good will it do?<br>
<br>
Irony in fiction can help us navigate the absurdity of the real
world, and our frustration at it<br>
Climate stories do, of course, already exist. A wave of dramatic,
often icy, nearly always apocalyptic movies has graced cinema
screens since The Day After Tomorrow's box office success in 2004.
A handful of research studies looked at the impact this film had
on viewers, and found that it prompted greater concern about
climate change. It also shifted people's understanding of it and
made them more likely to say they would take action to reduce
their emissions or donate to a climate-related charity.<br>
<br>
These different impacts – on how people think, feel and behave –
appear to go hand-in-hand. A 2019 study of climate change in mass
media more broadly found that attitudes, understanding and
behaviour interlink. The authors called on governments to consider
media an important tool in making progress on important climate
pledges.<br>
<br>
Science also tells us that stories have a power that hard facts
often don't. Research has long established that the human brain
finds it easier to understand and remember information delivered
as a narrative, and has even found that stories can influence
behaviour. In one study, when research participants read about the
environment in the form of a story, they were almost twice as
likely to sign up to Greenpeace or recycle their paper than
participants who were given the same information as a series of
facts.<br>
Climate stories, then, seem like a pretty good idea. But these
sorts of narratives have been few and far between. Julie Doyle,
professor of media and communication at the University of Brighton
in the UK, says climate change has struggled for years get into
any form of fictional film or TV representation. "There's been a
silence around it," she says.<br>
<br>
In fact, according to Good Energy's commissioned research, just
0.6% of scripted TV and film released in the US between 2016 and
2020 mentioned the term "climate change". The word "dog",
meanwhile, was mentioned almost 13 times as frequently as all 36
climate keywords combined. And "beer” was uttered 19 times more
than "climate change".<br>
<br>
It's time to break the climate silence, says Doyle. "Mainstream
media has tended to follow rather than lead, and it would be great
if mainstream media could lead this."<br>
<br>
Being such an integral part of our everyday lives, media can
prompt discussions and debates about how we best address climate
change, she says. "There's still a real lack around that and that
seems like a loss but a great opportunity."<br>
<br>
The nightmarish post-apocalyptic worlds painted by the likes of
Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road rely on just one tool in
climate storytellers' armoury: fear<br>
Day-to-day mentions of climate change in media are especially
important because, while blockbuster climate films can have a
positive impact on awareness and action, the effect is woefully
short-lived. People can feel inspired to take action in the
moment, but the feeling fades in a matter of weeks.<br>
<br>
Michael Svoboda, assistant professor of writing at George
Washington University, has analysed over 85 climate-related films.
"I'm totally in favour of at least making a nod to climate change
in every film," he says. "When it's happening repeatedly, that
could change the conversation."<br>
<br>
We don't just need more climate stories but, as the Good Energy
Playbook outlines, different ones. The nightmarish
post-apocalyptic worlds painted by the likes of Snowpiercer and
Mad Max: Fury Road rely on just one tool in climate storytellers'
armoury: fear. And research shows that it may be a blunt one.<br>
<br>
When study participants were shown fear-inducing images of climate
change, like a dried-up lake or children suffering famine, they
were left feeling the importance of the issue but also powerless
to stop it. In contrast, images showing what people can do
personally, like a cyclist and a house with solar panels, gave
them the strongest sense of their own ability to make change. Too
much fear can rob people of agency – the very thing the collective
fight against climate change depends on. (You may also like: The
harm from worrying about climate change).<br>
Might hope be the antidote? Research suggests that it could. A US
survey looking at how people's attitude to climate change impacts
their likelihood to take political action on climate found that
those most likely to engage in climate-related actions and feel
like they can make a difference were people who felt "constructive
hope". This is the belief that humans can be the solution to
climate change, rather than having faith in a higher power. <br>
<br>
These findings point to the need for stories that show
human-powered possibilities. Svoboda describes Black Panther's
visionary landscape of Wakanda: an anti-colonial society powered
by clean energy. "Black Panther was an interesting movie in that
it envisions a sustainable world," he says. "If you're falling
back into the old genre boxes, you're not getting the job done."<br>
<br>
Even comedy has its place. When environmental communications try
to make people laugh, they attract more attention to environmental
issues and improve understanding of them.<br>
<br>
Certainly, sweaty bodies are less striking than collapsing
glaciers. This shouldn't stop us creating and seeking out stories
that offer greater psychological richness<br>
The climate crisis might not seem like a laughing matter, but
Nicole Seymour, associate professor of English at California State
University, says it can be. "We still underestimate the value of
comic relief and catharsis," she says. In fact, irony in fiction
can help us navigate the absurdity of the real world, and our
frustration at it. "There's something incredibly absurd about, for
example, Donald Trump denying climate change when it's so
palpable. So there's this way in which absurdity or absurdism
seems like the tactic to reach for to kind of capture this
moment."<br>
<br>
She points to comedian Sarah Cooper's brightly coloured Netflix
special, in which Cooper plays the part of a TV host on fictional
breakfast show Everything's Fine. With a fixed smile and cheerful
delivery, the show's weather anchor, played by Maya Rudolph,
explains that the week ahead will see temperatures "most likely
not survivable, so wear a jacket".<br>
<br>
"You can laugh about it," Seymour says, "but then also feel like,
'Okay, so someone else recognises that the world's gone mad'".
It's an experience that can make people feel less alone, she adds.
The response of climate scientists to the satirical disaster movie
Don't Look Up speaks to this, with some describing their relief at
feeling seen. "If a climate scientist can […] go to work the next
day and feel a little better, I feel like there's a lot of value
in that," says Seymour...<br>
Comedy also undercuts the kind of eco-moralising that can turn
people off environmental messages. "A lot of the texts and works
I'm looking at, they're making fun of themselves. It's a lot
harder to dismiss them, because they're sort of like, 'No, I get
it. I'm in on the joke, so we're all part of this,'" says Seymour.
"It's a more collaborative feeling rather than someone coming at
you, wagging their finger at you."<br>
<br>
Indeed, when communicating about climate, what isn't said could be
just as powerful as what is. Julia Leyda, a professor in film
studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
focuses her research on climate depictions that are understated,
even unconscious. In The Walking Dead, for example, characters are
visibly and constantly sweating, with no relief from the Sun's
relentless heat. The series therefore invites us to experience a
hotter, post-air-conditioning future.<br>
<br>
"It's not just science, it's not just numbers – it's our bodies,
it's our clothes, it's our daily life," says Leyda. "Media
prepares us to feel something we're going to feel soon. Watching
representations of this stuff in fiction on the screen kind of
helps us rehearse for it." These subtle references can be
meaningful even when climate isn't directly mentioned...<br>
Doyle says the Good Energy guidelines could reach even further.
Her work has highlighted the importance of collaborative
participation – "actually involving an audience in some way of
participating". This could mean multiple story endings that an
audience could choose from, or other creative ways for a viewer to
engage directly with what's unfolding on screen. The
possibilities, she says, "could be quite radical".<br>
<br>
To truly understand how climate stories can best be told, we need
more examples to experience and to study, including some that are
less dramatic than we are used to. Certainly, sweaty bodies are
less striking than collapsing glaciers. This shouldn't stop us
creating and seeking out stories that offer greater psychological
richness, and versions of reality that are more relatable, or more
ambitious.<br>
<br>
There is no single emotional lever to be pulled, but rather an
artist's palette of optimism and unease, joy and jeopardy. This
kind of depth and variety has the potential to mark a new chapter
in the bigger story of our relationship to climate change.<br>
<br>
Becca Warner is an environmental writer based in London, UK.
Follow her on Twitter @beccawarner. She briefly worked on Bafta
Albert's Planet Placement on a freelance basis several years ago.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221021-how-climate-change-in-film-shape-society">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221021-how-climate-change-in-film-shape-society</a></p>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 31, 2014</b></i></font> <br>
October 31, 2014: The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote> "'I’m not a scientist,' or a close variation, has
become the go-to talking point for Republicans questioned about
climate change in the 2014 campaigns. In the past, many Republican
candidates questioned or denied the science of climate change, but
polls show that a majority of Americans accept it — and support
government policies to mitigate it — making the Republican
position increasingly challenging ahead of the 2016 presidential
elections.<br>
<br>
"'It’s got to be the dumbest answer I’ve ever heard,' said Michael
McKenna, a Republican energy lobbyist who has advised House
Republicans and conservative political advocacy groups on energy
and climate change messaging. 'Using that logic would disqualify
politicians from voting on anything. Most politicians aren’t
scientists, but they vote on science policy. They have opinions on
Ebola, but they’re not epidemiologists. They shape highway and
infrastructure laws, but they’re not engineers.'<br>
<br>
"Jon A. Krosnick, who conducts polls on public attitudes on
climate change at Stanford, finds the phrase perplexing. 'What’s
odd about this ‘I’m not a scientist’ line is that there’s nothing
in the data we’ve seen to suggest that this helps a candidate,'
Mr. Krosnick said. 'We can’t find a single state where the
majority of voters are skeptical. To say, ‘I’m not a scientist’ is
like saying, ‘I’m not a parakeet.’ Everyone knows that it just
means, ‘I’m not going to talk about this.’"<br>
</blockquote>
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Further, the Times notes:<br>
<br>
"[A] cadre of Republican staffers and advisers, most under the age
of 40, have started pushing their bosses to find a way to address
the issue.<br>
<br>
'The general dialogue has been, ‘We have to do something about
this,’ said one Republican adviser who asked to remain anonymous in
order to speak candidly. 'We have to be less head-in-the-sand and
acknowledge we are losing public opinion on this issue.'”<br>
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