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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>March 24, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<p><font face="Calibri"> <i>[ I dunno, how many more tornadoes
till you think something is not quite right? ]</i></font><br>
<b>Yes, there was just a tornado near Los Angeles. Is climate
change to blame?</b><br>
The tornado adds to the latest bout of extreme weather California
is experiencing.<br>
By Li Zhouli @vox.com <br>
Mar 23, 2023, <br>
In a rare turn of events, a town southeast of Los Angeles was hit
by a tornado on Wednesday, marking the latest extreme weather the
region has fielded in recent months.<br>
<br>
Tornadoes aren’t unheard of in California, but they are less
common compared to other parts of the country, with fewer than 10
typically observed in the state per year, according to the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Wednesday’s
tornado — which affected the town of Montebello and damaged 17
buildings — was also especially strong, and is the most severe to
affect the region in 40 years, per the National Weather Service.<br>
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The tornado followed another weaker tornado, which touched down
Tuesday in Carpinteria, a town northwest of Los Angeles, and
months of other extreme weather in the state.<br>
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As Vox’s Benji Jones reported, California has experienced what’s
known as “weather whiplash” throughout this year, as it’s endured
days of intense rain and flooding after dealing with a severe
drought. That rain was the product of a phenomenon called
“atmospheric rivers,” what Jones describes as “narrow corridors of
water in the sky,” which appear to be happening more frequently
this year and causing severe damage.<br>
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There’s likely a connection between the storms that California has
experienced and this week’s tornadoes. The atmospheric rivers and
the rain they brought probably helped lead to increased moisture
in the air, which enabled the recent tornadoes to form in the
region, says Perry Samson, a professor of atmospheric science at
the University of Michigan. “You’ve got the conditions for
instability set up by these atmospheric rivers,” Samson told
Vox...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/science/2023/3/23/23653712/los-angeles-tornado-montebello-california">https://www.vox.com/science/2023/3/23/23653712/los-angeles-tornado-montebello-california</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ Cartoon ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>This is the last ever cartoon about
climate change (of course it isn’t)</b><br>
First Dog on the Moon<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/24/this-is-the-last-ever-cartoon-about-climate-change-of-course-it-isnt">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/24/this-is-the-last-ever-cartoon-about-climate-change-of-course-it-isnt</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Assemblage of video opinion clips. 6
mins]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>Don't Look Up except it's real life</b></font><br>
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Regan Parenton</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Mar 22, 2023</font><br>
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Have a cup of coffee. </font><br>
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We are the comet.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ hold on to the older values - video
YouTube 48 min ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Bright Green Lies, with Max Wilbert |
How The Environmental Movement Lost Its Way</b><br>
Hart Hagan<br>
Mar 6, 2023<br>
HART HAGAN: My guest is Max Wilbert who, along with co-authors
Lierre Keith and Derrick Jensen, wrote the book “Bright Green
Lies, How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can
Do About It.” <br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">So I never fully bought into the
idea that these technologies were going to save us. <br>
<br>
At best--or at worst I should say--I only thought of them as
stopgap measures to reduce harms as we transition to a
sustainable way of life. But what I saw begin to happen very
rapidly throughout the last 20 years, is a transition where the
environmental movement--which had been once focused on
protecting habitat and defending wild places and wild
creatures--has shifted almost entirely to focus on global
warming and specifically on addressing global warming through
technology.<br>
<br>
I see this as a huge problem, not because I support fossil
fuels--or I believe global warming isn't a problem. It's the
exact opposite. It's because I believe these are inadequate
solutions to global warming and because I think they're
ultimately destructive to the planet as a whole. They're
counterproductive to the environmental movement's goals. <br>
<br>
But of course, they’ve become very popular--these ecological
so-called solutions. And I think it's mainly because they're
profitable industrial products that you can sell. <br>
<br>
There's a lot of money involved. That money has gotten
governments on board. It's gotten corporations on board. It's
led to a lot of foundation funding and big philanthropy money
for nonprofits that promote this type of thing. That has led to
the entire environmental movement--the entire climate
movement--being focused almost with blinders on this one single
approach.<br>
<br>
HART HAGAN: I bet the environmental movement has welcomed you
with open arms and given you nothing but positive feedback. How
has that gone?<br>
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MAX WILBERT: It's a mixed bag because I would say that at the
grassroots level, there are a lot of environmentalists who
understand these issues, and who have never lost sight of the
fundamental values of this movement, a love and reverence for
the planet and for other beings and creatures around us. There
is a real criticism and mistrust--justified mistrust--of
technological solutions and especially solutions that are led by
corporations and major international institutions. <br>
<br>
Those people I think understand somewhat intuitively that the
technological solutions to global warming are a farce to some
extent. <br>
<br>
With that said, a lot of those people have been superficially
convinced that that's the way forward. So in some ways it feels
like when I talk to those people, I'm helping them to rediscover
their own beliefs. I'm making it okay for them to say out loud
what they really believe in their hearts, which is that this is
a problem, this direction that we're seeing the movement go in.
<br>
<br>
Then, on the other side, you have the more mainstream
environmentalists and especially the mainstream climate
activists, the institutional organizations, the large NGOs and
so on. And you have people in government and business who are
very convinced that this is the path forward, that technology is
going to save us. <br>
<br>
Those people are hard to reach. And those people in my
experience will often attack someone like me. They say that I'm
a shill for the fossil fuel industry, that I must be getting
paid by the oil companies to talk about these things, that I'm
getting in the way of progress, or they will just completely
ignore me and try to focus on the work that they're doing to
promote these technologies...<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ How many more cases until you're sure
climate change is to blame ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Flesh-eating bacteria cases could
increase and occur in more places due to climate change, study
finds</b><br>
BY CAITLIN O'KANE<br>
MARCH 23, 2023 <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Scientists have found that climate
change may lead to an increase in so-called flesh-eating bacteria
in the waters along the East Coast of the U.S.<br>
<br>
The bacteria Vibrio vulnificus is usually found in warm waters
with low salinity, or salt content. While the bacteria is common
in subtropical regions, there has been an increase of infections
from Vibrio in more northern locations, such as the Delaware Bay.
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This is likely due to warming coastal waters, according to the
study published in the Scientific Reports journal. An increase in
temperature affects the salinity of the water, which the bacteria
favors.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Climate change, population growth and an
increasingly elderly population will contribute to the surge in
these infections, the researchers say. <br>
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There are currently about 100 cases of these infections each year
in the U.S. and the Gulf Coast is considered a "global hotspot"
for the bacteria. The study looked at cases from the Gulf and
Atlantic coastlines of the U.S. over 30 years...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">The researchers looked for changes in the
disease's distribution and found between 1988 and 2018, the annual
amount of these infections increased from 10 to 80, and the cases
shifted north. This led the researchers to project that by 2081 to
2100 the cases may reach areas like New York – and they may
double. <br>
<br>
They believe in the next 20 years or so, the infections will creep
up about 11,000 km of the coastline and in the next 70 years, they
could be found more than 14,400 km up the coast, reaching as far
as the St. Lawrence River in Canada. That means by 2100, an
estimated 90 million to 210 million people will be at risk.<br>
<br>
People over 60 are more susceptible to the infection, and with the
over-60 age group increasing, cases for that group could double by
2041–2060 or triple by 2081–2100.<br>
<br>
Vibrio infections can be caused by eating raw or undercooked
seafoods, but Vibrio vulnificus is a form of it that infects
wounds and is often referred to "flesh-eating bacteria," according
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> An infection can occur when a small lesion in
the skin is exposed to the bacteria in seawater. The bacteria can
cause the area to die, causing the patient to need urgent surgery
to remove the tissue or risk amputation, the study says.<br>
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While the infections are still rare, mortality rates are high –
about 18 percent. Most fatalities occur within 48 hours of
exposure.<br>
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Treating these infections also the most expensive marine pathogens
to treat, with the U.S. spending $ 320 million a year, according
to the study. <br>
<br>
The CDC advises people with wounds, including those from surgery,
tattoos or piercings, to stay out of saltwater or brackish water,
to cover their wounds with a waterproof bandage and to thoroughly
wash cuts, especially after contact with saltwater, brackish water
or raw seafood and its juices. <br>
<br>
A study in 2019 found these infections had started occurring
outside the traditional geographic boundaries, and more often. In
just two years, five cases of Vibrio vulnificus had been linked to
the Delaware Bay, according to a study. One of the patients died.
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flesh-eating-bacteria-climate-change-increase-vibrio-vulnificus-study-finds-east-coast-united-states/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flesh-eating-bacteria-climate-change-increase-vibrio-vulnificus-study-finds-east-coast-united-states/</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Annals of Internal Medicine </i><i>]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Vibrio vulnificus Infections From a
Previously Nonendemic Area</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Madeline King, Lucia Rose, Henry Fraimow,
MD, Maria Nagori, MD, </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">October 2019</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Author, Article, and Disclosure Information</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.7326/L19-0133">https://doi.org/10.7326/L19-0133</a></font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Background:Vibrio vulnificus is a
gram-negative pathogen that lives in brackish, high-salinity
waters with surface temperatures above 13 °C. V vulnificus wound
infections occur through breaks in the skin, and intestinal
infections occur after consumption of seafood. Either route can
lead to bloodstream infections (1). Mortality from wound and
bloodstream infections is high, particularly in patients with
immunosuppression and those with cirrhosis or other
iron-overload states (2)...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L19-0133">https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/L19-0133</a></font><br>
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<i>[ Published at the Yale School of the Environment ]</i><br>
<b>In Eastern U.S., Climate Change Has Extended Forest Growing
Season by a Month</b><br>
MARCH 22, 2023<br>
A century of rising temperatures has extended the growing season of
hardwood forests in the eastern U.S. by one month, a new study
finds.<br>
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Growing season lasts from the first budburst in spring until trees
turn gold and crimson in the fall. As spring and fall grow warmer,
trees are bearing their leaves for longer, the research shows.<br>
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For the study, scientists tracked American elm, black walnut, white
oak, and four other species in northwest Ohio, comparing their data
to records collected by an Ohio farmer at the turn of the last
century. The farmer, Thomas Mikesell, gathered information on
temperature, rainfall, and tree growth from 1883 to 1912, producing
what may be the only early 20th-century record of forest growth in
North America, authors said.<br>
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Winter and spring temperatures have risen by up to 5 degrees F over
the last century, and today, growing season is around 15 percent
longer. The research was published in the journal PLOS One.<br>
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The findings are an “obvious indicator that temperatures are
changing and shows that things are not the way they used to be —
they are profoundly different,” Kellen Calinger-Yoak, a biologist at
The Ohio State University and lead author of the study, said in a
statement. “An entire month of growing season extension is huge when
we’re talking about a pretty short period of time for those changes
to be expressed.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://e360.yale.edu/digest/eastern-us-forest-growing-season-climate-change">https://e360.yale.edu/digest/eastern-us-forest-growing-season-climate-change</a>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[The news archive - looking back - after the
Titanic, this is the great naval metaphor -- a drunken
supertanker captain crashed into shoals in Alaska - no humans
killed, but devastating a pristine area of Alaska - see the
video news report ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>March 24, 1989</b></i></font> <br>
March 24, 1989: The notorious Exxon Valdez oil spill takes place.<br>
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