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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>May</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 10, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ danger of high Wet Bulb temperatures -- 10 min video
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/vqBrL8BokSk">https://youtu.be/vqBrL8BokSk</a> ]</i><br>
<b>Too HOT and HUMID to Live: Extreme Wet Bulb Events Are on the
Rise</b><br>
PBS Terra<br>
May 9, 2023<br>
As climate change continues warming the planet, a new and invisible
killer is emerging: extreme wet bulb temperatures. This refers to a
potentially lethal combination of heat and humidity that, until now,
have appeared somewhat infrequently around the world. But models
predict that they are likely to become an increasingly big problem
in the coming years. <br>
<br>
In this episode we explore the intersection between climate science
and meteorology to tell you where in the world is most at risk of
these increasingly dangerous conditions. <br>
<br>
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced
by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural
disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can
do to prepare.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ water flows below and around ] </i><br>
</font> <b>Greenland glacier discovery shows sea level projections
are too low</b><br>
Andrew Freedman, author of Axios Generate<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Scientists may be significantly</b>
underestimating the amount of melting yet to come from glaciers
that end in the sea, according to a new study.<br>
<br>
<b>Why it matters: </b>The study reveals that seawater is
intruding deep into northwest Greenland's Petermann Glacier,
thinning the ice from below.<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">-- Petermann acts like a doorstop,
holding back vast quantities of land-based ice. As the glacier
thins, inland ice moves faster into the ocean, raising global
sea levels.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- If all that inland ice were to melt, it
would raise global sea levels by about 1.6 feet, the study
found.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Zoom in: </b>The researchers used satellite
radar data from three different spacecraft constellations to
obtain precise readings of the glacier's height and vertical
motion.<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">-- They found that seawater, which
is slightly above freezing there, is moving inland along the
grounding line, which is where the glacier transitions from
resting on bedrock to a floating ice shelf.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- Most computer models used to project ice
melt from marine-terminating glaciers like Petermann assume that
little to no melting occurs at the grounding line, study
coauthor Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and
University of California, Irvine told Axios via email.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Threat level:</b> The glacier is rising and
falling with the tides, as water flushes underneath it and
penetrates more than a mile inland multiple times per day, the
study found.<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">--This finding surprised Rignot,
particularly how far inland the relatively warm ocean waters are
moving.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/northwest-greenland-petermann-glacier-sea-level">https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/northwest-greenland-petermann-glacier-sea-level</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Much more that
expected....https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220924120 ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>Melt rates in the kilometer-size grounding
zone of Petermann Glacier, Greenland, before and during a
retreat</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Enrico Ciracì, Eric Rignot, Bernd Scheuchl,
and Luigi Dini</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Contributed by Eric Rignot; received December
8, 2022; accepted March 30, 2023;</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">May 8, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">120 (20) e2220924120</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220924120">https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220924120</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Significance</b><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">We present a record of glacier ice
dynamics and ice melt rate at the boundary between grounded ice
and ocean—or grounding line—of Petermann Glacier, a major outlet
glacier in Northwest Greenland. The traditional view of
grounding lines implemented in ice sheet models in charge of
projecting sea level rise is that they not migrate during the
tidal cycle and experiences no ice melt. Instead, the satellite
record reveals kilometer-size grounding line migrations—or
grounding zones—with preferential intrusions along preexisting
subglacial channels. The highest melt rates of ice are recorded
within the grounding zone. Vigorous ice-ocean interaction in
kilometer-wide grounding zone will make projections of sea level
rise from glaciers potentially double.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Abstract</b><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Warming of the ocean waters
surrounding Greenland plays a major role in driving glacier
retreat and the contribution of glaciers to sea level rise. The
melt rate at the junction of the ocean with grounded ice—or
grounding line—is, however, not well known. Here, we employ a
time series of satellite radar interferometry data from the
German TanDEM-X mission, the Italian COSMO-SkyMed constellation,
and the Finnish ICEYE constellation to document the grounding
line migration and basal melt rates of Petermann Glacier, a
major marine-based glacier of Northwest Greenland. We find that
the grounding line migrates at tidal frequencies over a
kilometer-wide (2 to 6 km) grounding zone, which is one order of
magnitude larger than expected for grounding lines on a rigid
bed. The highest ice shelf melt rates are recorded within the
grounding zone with values from 60 ± 13 to 80 ± 15 m/y along
laterally confined channels. As the grounding line retreated by
3.8 km in 2016 to 2022, it carved a cavity about 204 m in height
where melt rates increased from 40 ± 11 m/y in 2016 to 2019 to
60 ± 15 m/y in 2020 to 2021. In 2022, the cavity remained open
during the entire tidal cycle. Such high melt rates concentrated
in kilometer-wide grounding zones contrast with the traditional
plume model of grounding line melt which predicts zero melt.
High rates of simulated basal melting in grounded glacier ice in
numerical models will increase the glacier sensitivity to ocean
warming and potentially double projections of sea level rise.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220924120">https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220924120</a><br>
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<p><i>[ NYT book review. This will be an El Nino year. ]</i><br>
Apocalypse Then<br>
<b>The little-known story of drought, famine and pestilence that
killed millions at the turn of the last century.</b><br>
Related Link<br>
First Chapter: 'Late Victorian Holocausts'<br>
By AMARTYA SEN<br>
<br>
The subject of this gripping book is a series of famines that
devastated many countries in Asia, North Africa and Latin America
in the last quarter of the 19th century. Mike Davis estimates that
between 32 and 61 million people died from these famines in China,
India and Brazil, and there were many other countries in the
tropics that were also badly hit. There is plausibility in the
description on the dust jacket of Davis's book ''Late Victorian
Holocausts'' that these disasters were ''the greatest human
tragedy since the Black Death.''<br>
<br>
What exactly happened? Were climatic factors responsible? They
certainly had a role, Davis shows. The droughts associated with
the ''El Niño-Southern Oscillation'' led to a chain of large-scale
agricultural crises in the tropics and in northern China, and
these directly contributed to the disasters. Yet, despite the
adversity of nature, it is quite clear that starvation and famine
could have been prevented through counteracting economic and
social policies...<br>
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Davis has given us a book of substantial contemporary relevance as
well as great historical interest. To seize the broader
implications of this grisly history of needless suffering and
unnecessary misery, it is useful to distinguish clearly between
two different ways in which an agricultural disaster like a
drought or flood can cause economic difficulty. A drought or flood
may destroy crops. But it also devastates people's incomes by
slashing agricultural employment and wages. And it can destroy the
markets for the modest goods and services (from haircuts to craft
products) by which a great many other people earn their livings.
The economic adversity caused by droughts or floods far exceeds
their direct impact on the food supply...<br>
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The El Niño-Southern Oscillation, known by its acronym ENSO,
continues today with varying intensity. While it is important to
understand the climatic patterns of El Niño and other serious
natural hazards better, it is also critical not to see them as
inescapable causes of famine and devastation. ''The power of ENSO
events,'' Davis points out, ''indeed seems so overwhelming in some
instances that it is tempting to assert that great famines, like
those of the 1870's and 1890's (or, more recently, the Sahelian
disaster of the 1970's), were 'caused' by El Niño, or by El Niño
acting upon traditional agrarian misery. This interpretation, of
course, inadvertently echoes the official line of the British in
Victorian India as recapitulated in every famine commission report
and viceregal allocution: millions were killed by extreme weather,
not imperialism.''<br>
<br>
Davis has given us a book of substantial contemporary relevance as
well as great historical interest. To seize the broader
implications of this grisly history of needless suffering and
unnecessary misery, it is useful to distinguish clearly between
two different ways in which an agricultural disaster like a
drought or flood can cause economic difficulty. A drought or flood
may destroy crops. But it also devastates people's incomes by
slashing agricultural employment and wages. And it can destroy the
markets for the modest goods and services (from haircuts to craft
products) by which a great many other people earn their livings.
The economic adversity caused by droughts or floods far exceeds
their direct impact on the food supply.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/18/reviews/010218.18senlt.html?_r=l">https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/18/reviews/010218.18senlt.html?_r=l</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Book reading ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Late Victorian Holocausts El Nino Famines
and the Making of the Third World PT 1 Mike Davis</b><br>
Christie Malry Audiobooks<br>
Jan 5, 2023<br>
for further reading go to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.marxists.org/">https://www.marxists.org/</a>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/speci">https://theanarchistlibrary.org/speci</a>...<br>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://libcom.org">https://libcom.org</a><br>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weeklyworker.co.uk">https://weeklyworker.co.uk</a><br>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://revolutionarypapers.org">https://revolutionarypapers.org</a><br>
and for all books <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pdfdrive.com">https://www.pdfdrive.com</a><br>
and for scientific papers <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://sci-hub.st/">https://sci-hub.st/</a><br>
and also <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.patreon.com/ChristieMalry">https://www.patreon.com/ChristieMalry</a><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhn-XOpZ-10">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhn-XOpZ-10</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Interview with Mike Davis author of </i></font><i><font
face="Calibri">Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and
the Making of the Third World </font></i><i><font
face="Calibri"> ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><b>Mike Davis
political activist, urban and historical theorist, Marxist
American writer</b><br>
Geography Video<br>
Jul 18, 2012<br>
Mike Davis (born 1946) is an American Marxist writer, political
activist, urban theorist, and historian. He is best known for his
investigations of power and social class in his native Southern
California. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis</a>...)<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V2ceD_K_VY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V2ceD_K_VY</a></font>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at when the courts protected a
political conspiracy ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>May 10, 2005</b></i></font> <br>
May 10, 2005: The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia rules that the White House does not have to disclose
information regarding the infamous 2001 Cheney Energy Task Force.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/politics/10cnd-cheney.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/politics/10cnd-cheney.html?_r=0</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4647599">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4647599</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/11/court_backs_cheney_on_energy_meetings/">http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/11/court_backs_cheney_on_energy_meetings/</a><br>
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