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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>March 11, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Weather traumas in our intensifying climate predicament -
LATimes report ]</i><br>
<b>‘Unrivaled’ weather pummels California</b><br>
First of a new series of atmospheric river storms brings
evacuations, flooding and at least 2 deaths<br>
<p>By Melissa Gomez, Jessica Garrison, Ian James, Susanne Rust and
Hayley Smith</p>
FRESNO — California’s deadly storm season turned even deadlier
Friday as the first of two atmospheric river storms descended on the
state, prompting widespread evacuation orders as it flooded creeks
and rivers and dropped warm, heavy rain atop the state’s near-record
snowpack.<br>
One person, who has not been identified, was killed when a portion
of a roof collapsed at a coffee distribution warehouse in Oakland,
authorities said. He was a worker at the facility, where at least
one other employee was injured in the collapse.<br>
The fatality comes after a series of nine back-to-back atmospheric
river storms in January contributed to nearly two dozen deaths ,
including people killed by falling trees and surging stormwater.
Heavy snowpack in recent weeks contributed to at least 13 deaths in
the San Bernardino Mountains, where many residents were trapped for
days behind walls of snow.<br>
At least two recent deaths have been confirmed as storm-related,
according to Nancy Ward, director of the California Governor’s
Office of Emergency Services.<br>
The extreme weather has resulted in “15 shelters open in nine
counties, more than 9,400 people under evacuation orders,
approximately 54,000-plus people without power, and unfortunately
two deaths that have so far been confirmed by the coroner’s office
to be storm-related thus far,” Ward said Friday...<br>
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The Office of Emergency Services has readied high-water vehicles,
search-and-rescue teams, fire resources and other emergency
operations to respond to areas most vulnerable to flooding and
overtopped rivers, Ward said.<br>
President Biden approved an emergency declaration request from Gov.
Gavin Newsom, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and
the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support state and local
responses to the storm.<br>
Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in 34 counties, activating
the California National Guard and other state agencies to respond to
storm-related emergencies.<br>
“California is deploying every tool we have to protect communities
from the relentless and deadly storms battering our state,” Newsom
said.<br>
“In these dangerous and challenging conditions, it is crucial that
Californians remain vigilant and follow all guidance from local
emergency responders.”<br>
As Friday wore on, the “Pineapple Express” storm — which is
gathering warm, subtropical moisture from Hawaii — made landfall in
several communities from the Central Coast to the southern Sierra.<br>
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“This is an unrivaled, unparalleled weather event not experienced in
several decades,” Kris Mattarochia, science and operations officer
with the National Weather Service in Hanford, said during a briefing
in Fresno. “There will be high water in areas that are usually not
impacted. So everyone needs to be ready. … Combined with snowmelt,
the Kings River, along with smaller streams like Mill Creek, will be
pushed to limits which are unimaginable.”<br>
More than a dozen locations along the state’s river systems were
surging above flood stage, including portions of the Eel, Russian,
Salinas, Carmel, Sacramento, Merced and Cosumnes rivers and Bear
Creek, according to the National Weather Service.<br>
Nearly 30 more were above “monitor stage,” indicating the potential
for overtopping and flooding in low-lying areas. Major flash
flooding was reported in the Tulare County area of Springville —
where officials conducted dozens of water rescues Friday morning —
and in Kernville, where the roaring Kern River surrounded some
houses and mobile homes , spurring an evacuation order ...<br>
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“After a while, you’ve just got to laugh, otherwise you’re just
gonna have horrible mental health,” said Cindi Busenhart, a resident
of Soquel who was nearly stranded after a portion of the road near
Bates Creek collapsed.<br>
Save for a small wooden footbridge, Busenhart and all of her
neighbors are for the most part stuck — unable to drive in or out,
depending on friends and relatives on the other side to help with
transporting people, food and goods.<br>
“I don’t know how long it’s gonna take before they can actually,
like, fix it. … I mean, the creek is just raging,” she said. “It
didn’t take a little bit of a road out. It took a massive amount of
the road out. ... There’s no way out.”...<br>
Times staff writer Grace Toohey contributed to this report from Lake
Arrowhead. Gomez reported from Fresno, Garrison from Sacramento,
James from San Luis Obispo, Rust from Palo Alto and Smith from Los
Angeles.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=37c2e048-db3d-4c68-9a59-f615b668b188">http://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=37c2e048-db3d-4c68-9a59-f615b668b188</a><br>
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<i>[ Reuters ]</i><br>
<b>US senators blast Treasury's 'lack of progress' on climate risks</b><br>
By Andrea Shalal<br>
WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - Three U.S. senators blasted the
Treasury Department on Thursday for what they called its failure to
act more swiftly on countering climate risks, and they urged
Secretary Janet Yellen to appoint a new climate counselor to lead
the effort.<br>
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In a letter to Yellen viewed by Reuters, Democratic Senators
Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse and Edward Markey criticized
the work done by John Morton, Yellen's first climate counselor.
Morton stepped down in December and returned to the private
sector....<br>
The senators said nearly two years had passed since Treasury created
a "Climate Hub" and named Morton to coordinate its strategies, but
the results have been disappointing.<br>
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Yellen has not yet named a replacement for Morton, although Treasury
has dozens of people working on climate-related issues, including
some in key senior positions...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senators-blast-treasurys-failure-move-faster-climate-risks-2023-03-10/">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senators-blast-treasurys-failure-move-faster-climate-risks-2023-03-10/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Time to stop drilling ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Biden Officials Back Alaska Oil Project
Scorned as Carbon Bomb</b><br>
-- Willow poses most consequential climate test yet for Biden<br>
-- Activists say ConocoPhillips project risks climate peril<i><br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-10/biden-officials-back-alaska-oil-project-called-carbon-bomb">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-10/biden-officials-back-alaska-oil-project-called-carbon-bomb</a><i><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ words from our Reminder-in-Chief ]</i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Al Gore warns it would be
‘recklessly irresponsible’ to allow Alaska oil drilling plan</b><br>
Ex-vice-president says new projects ‘are a recipe for climate
chaos’ ahead of Biden administration’s decision on Willow
development<br>
</font> Oliver Milman<br>
@olliemilman<br>
Fri 10 Mar 2023 <br>
Al Gore has warned it would be “recklessly irresponsible” to allow
an enormous, controversial oil drilling project to proceed in
Alaska, speaking ahead of a decision from the Biden administration
on whether to approve it. Gore spoke amid growing alarm among
Democrats and campaigners that the Willow development will
drastically undermine the US’s effort to confront the climate
crisis...<br>
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The International Energy Agency has said no new fossil fuel
infrastructure can be built if the world is to avoid disastrous
climate change and two dozen Democrats in Congress have written to
Biden warning that Willow poses “a significant threat to US progress
on climate issues”. The lawmakers called upon the president to “stop
this ill-conceived and misguided project”.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/10/al-gore-biden-alaska-oil-drilling-willow-development">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/10/al-gore-biden-alaska-oil-drilling-willow-development</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ "Science is chasing a bus that is out
of control" - interview YouTube video 34 min ]</i></font><br>
<b>“Mass extinction is already underway” - Peter Frankopan on how
humans have shaped the earth</b><br>
Channel 4 News<br>
Mar 10, 2023<br>
“We're the only species who have worked out to blow up everything
and kill everyone”. In his latest book, The Earth Transformed, Peter
Frankopan takes on the entirety of the history of planet earth, and
looks at how our lives have been shaped by environmental changes
since the dawn of our planet, 4.5 billion years ago, until the
present day. He tackles the transformation of the earth, teasing
apart the connection between humans and climate, explaining how “we
are the product of massive climate change in the past”, and looks
ahead to crises anew. <br>
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(Subscribe: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe">https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe</a>)<br>
<p>In this episode of Ways to Change the World, Peter Frankopan sits
down with Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss how humans have impacted
the world, the existential threat posed by nuclear war and global
superpowers, and what happens “when the music stops”. <br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m25r4PxYZcg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m25r4PxYZcg</a></p>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ tech innovation collects data on how
giant ice sheets rise and fall with tides ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Detecting
tidal grounding of ice shelves from space</b><br>
AGU<br>
Mar 10, 2023<br>
In a new paper in AGU's JGR Earth Surface, researcher report they
have developed a way to detect the temporary grounding of an ice
shelf in Antarctica using synthetic-aperture radar observations
from the 4-satellite COSMO-Sky-Med system. The grounding is caused
by tides, and plays an important role in how the ice shelf flows
by buttressing the ice shelf and slowing its seaward movement. The
researchers predict that long-term ocean warming and ice-shelf
thinning will make this kind of grounding less common and reduce
the buttressing effect.<br>
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Source: <br>
Inferring Tide-Induced Ephemeral Grounding in an Ice-Shelf-Stream
System: Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ How it's done in Antarctica ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Inferring Tide-Induced Ephemeral
Grounding in an Ice-Shelf-Stream System: Rutford Ice Stream,
West Antarctica</b><br>
Minyan Zhong, Mark Simons, Brent Minchew, Lijun Zhu<br>
First published: 27 January 2023
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JF006789">https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JF006789</a><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Abstract</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Antarctic ice shelves play a key role in
regulating the rate of ice flow in tributary ice streams.
Temporal variations in the associated ice-shelf buttressing
stress are observed to impact ice flow in glaciers and ice
streams. Ephemeral grounding induced by tides is an important
mechanism for modulating the buttressing stress. Here, we
develop an approach to inferring variations in 3-D surface
displacements at an ice-shelf-stream system that explicitly
accounts for ephemeral grounding. Using a temporally dense
nine-month-long synthetic-aperture radar image acquisition
campaign collected over Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica, by
the 4-satellite COSMO-SkyMed constellation, we infer the
ephemeral grounding zones and the spatiotemporal variation of
the fortnightly ice-flow variability. We find ephemeral
grounding zones along the western ice-shelf margin as well as a
few prominent ephemeral grounding points in the central trunk
and in the vicinity of the grounding zone. Our observations
provide evidence for tide-modulated buttressing stress and the
temporally asymmetric response of ice-shelf flow to tidal
forcing. Long-term oceanic warming and ice-shelf thinning will
cause the loss of ephemeral grounding and decrease in ice-shelf
buttressing stress.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Key Points<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">- - We develop an approach to
inferring tide-induced ephemeral grounding of ice shelves from
synthetic-aperture radar observations</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">- - Ephemeral grounding plays a key role in
the asymmetric response of ice-shelf flows to tidal forcing</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">- - Long-term oceanic warming and ice-shelf
thinning will cause the loss of ephemeral grounding and
reduction in ice-shelf buttressing stress</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JF006789">https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JF006789</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ How cryo-scientists relax ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Party Ice in Kangerlussuaq</b><br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Mar 10, 2023<br>
Celebrating successful field sampling at the Kangerlussuaq
International Science Center, July 2013 - Dark Snow Project<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nn_vxhTzeM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nn_vxhTzeM</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Beckwith reviews Hagens ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Can Ecological Economics let us Survive and
Reset: Adjusting to Abrupt Climate System Change</b><b><br>
</b>Paul Beckwith<br>
Mar 10, 2023<br>
A few years ago Nate Hagens wrote a brilliant peer reviewed
scientific paper in the journal “Ecological Economics” titled:
“Economics for the Future: Beyond the SuperOrgasm” (sic Organism)<br>
<br>
I chat about the crucial messages of this paper, which are that
energy constraints will soon result in a collapse of our present
way of life. Orthodox economics does not consider energy
constraints, and our Superorganism society is on its last legs as
we create more and more credit (this debt) to extract dwindling
fossil fuels.<br>
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One barrel of oil contains 1700 kW hr of energy. Human power can
generate 0.6 kW hr with a days work. Thus, 11 years of human
labour is replaced by one barrel of oil. Thus, our fossil fuels
powering society do the equivalent work of an imaginary workforce
of 500 billion people; meanwhile the globe has about 4 billion
workers. Clearly, things will scale back enormously without fossil
fuels. That’s the physics, folks. <br>
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Of course burning fossil fuels releases carbon which has changed
the chemistry of our atmosphere and oceans, and we are cracking
up.<br>
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We are addicted to the present.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUlY_qa9Npw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUlY_qa9Npw</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[The news archive - looking back at how we
recognize stupidity ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>March 11, 2009</b></i></font> <br>
March 11, 2009: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann rips Paul Dellegatto,
meteorologist for Tampa, Florida Fox affiliate WTVT, for failing
to forecast the facts about human-caused climate change:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"[I]n the middle of a forecast
[Dellegatto] declared global warming was no longer a threat.
[Dellegatto stated,] 'Athens, Georgia, just about a week ago,
and they had up to half a foot of snow. Las Vegas got snow. It
actually snowed in New Orleans this winter.' Dellegatto went on
to say the current warming trend peaked in 1998 and, quote, 'I
just think the whole global warming doomsayer theory is tough to
see, based on recent calculations.'</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"Once again, this is science‘s fault. Never
should have used the phrase 'global warming.' 'Weather
disaster' would have worked. The mistake was they thought even
the dimmer folks would realize during global warming, it could
get colder from time to time, especially in the places where
it‘s not supposed to, like Tampa last month, when it got down to
28 here. This guy missed it, obviously because he was more
worried about putting in global warming denial propaganda into
the local freaking weather forecast on the local freaking Fox
station!"</font><br>
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href="http://www.nbcnews.com/video/countdown/29645384#29645384">http://www.nbcnews.com/video/countdown/29645384#29645384</a>
</strike>- <i>Sorry, NBC seems to have pulled this from their
archive, or perhaps Dellegatto is trying to restore his
reputation.</i><br>
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