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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>June</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 23, 2023</b></i></font><font
face="Calibri"><br>
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<font face="Calibri"></font><font face="Calibri"><i>[ Real dangers
of broadcasting ]</i></font><br>
U.S. <br>
<b>Iowa meteorologist Chris Gloninger quits 18-year career after
death threat over climate coverage</b><br>
BY LI COHEN<br>
JUNE 22, 2023 <br>
Gloninger, the chief meteorologist for CBS affiliate KCCI in Des
Moines, Iowa, has spent the past 18 years working at seven news
stations across five states. But on Wednesday, the New York native
tweeted that he now must focus on his "health, family and combating
the climate crisis" in another way. <br>
<br>
"After a death threat stemming from my climate coverage last year
and resulting in PTSD, in addition to family health issues, I've
decided to begin this journey *now*," he tweeted. "...I take immense
pride in having educated the public about the impacts of climate
change during my career."...<br>
- -<br>
The threats Gloninger referenced in his resignation began in June
2022. <br>
"Getting sick and tired of your liberal conspiracy theory on the
weather," an email Gloninger shared that's dated June 21, 2022,
says. "Climate changes every day, always has, always will, your
pushing nothing but a Biden hoax, go back to where you came from." <br>
<br>
Another email dated three days later from the same address asks for
his home address, saying, "We conservative Iowans would like to give
you an Iowan welcome you will never forget." <br>
<br>
And another sent from the same person a few weeks later told him to
"go east and drown from the ice cap melting." <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-meteorologist-chris-gloninger-quits-18-year-career-after-receiving-death-threat-over-his-climate-coverage/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-meteorologist-chris-gloninger-quits-18-year-career-after-receiving-death-threat-over-his-climate-coverage/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Michigan moose sick ticks ick]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Moose herds threatened by ticks, brain
worms, the result of climate change</b><br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Moose populations are being decimated in
Minnesota, Maine, New Hampshire and other states as parasites
their toll <br>
Michigan’s U.P. herds are remaining steady for now, thanks in part
to severe winters in recent years <br>
But climate change is a longer-term threat, warming winters and
allowing ticks and brain worms to thrive</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The best defense is a long, frigid winter,
which can kill the pest as they shed from their host. But those
are growing more rare as climate change warms the Great Lakes
region, and ticks are thriving as a result. <br>
<br>
A 2018 study by the University of New Hampshire found that of 179
radio-tagged moose calves, only 54 survived over a three-year
period. More than 40,000 ticks were found on each dead calf,
“causing emaciation and severe metabolic imbalance from blood
loss.” <br>
<br>
Seth Moore, natural resources director for the Grand Portage Band
of Lake Superior Chippewa, which is leading research on moose
populations, said the rising toll of tick infestations is a direct
result of climate change. Winter is coming on later and spring is
arriving earlier, leaving fewer cold, snow-covered days to kill
off ticks...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Once inside the moose, the worms attack their
neurological system, leaving the animals delirious and
defenseless. Side effects of brain worms, Cartensen said, include
disorientation — walking in circles or with a tilted head — and
losing fear of humans...<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/moose-herds-threatened-ticks-brain-worms-result-climate-change">https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/moose-herds-threatened-ticks-brain-worms-result-climate-change</a><br>
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<i>[ ick ]</i><b><br>
</b><b>Rotting seaweed, dead fish, no sand: Climate change threatens
to ruin US beaches</b><br>
Elizabeth Weise<br>
USA TODAY<br>
june 17. 2023<br>
As Americans flock to the beach this summer, they're often greeted
with disconcerting news: Their destination might be smelly with dead
fish or rotting seaweed, − and danger often lurks from rip currents
or even shark attacks.<br>
<br>
In a warming world, those problems are set to get worse, experts
say.<br>
<br>
"The climate is changing and it's changing drastically," said Todd
Crowl, director of the Institute of Environment at Florida
International University in Miami. "It is measurable and happening."<br>
<br>
No single ruined beach day should be directly attributed to a
warming globe. But the rise in atmospheric and ocean temperatures is
rapidly altering the stretches of coastline where land and water
meet...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/17/gross-climate-change-effects-soil-us-beaches-seaweed-dead-fish/70318332007/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/17/gross-climate-change-effects-soil-us-beaches-seaweed-dead-fish/70318332007/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>June 23, 1988</b></i></font> <br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"> June 23, 1988: NASA scientist James Hansen
warns the US Senate about the risks of human-caused climate
change.</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Calibri"><b>Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells
Senate</b><br>
By Philip Shabecoff, Special To the New York Times<br>
June 24, 1988<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">The earth has been warmer in the first
five months of this year than in any comparable period since
measurements began 130 years ago, and the higher temperatures
can now be attributed to a long-expected global warming trend
linked to pollution, a space agency scientist reported today.<br>
<br>
Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing
rising global temperatures of recent years to the predicted
global warming caused by pollutants in the atmosphere, known
as the ''greenhouse effect.'' But today Dr. James E. Hansen of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a
Congressional committee that it was 99 percent certain that
the warming trend was not a natural variation but was caused
by a buildup of carbon dioxide and other artificial gases in
the atmosphere.<br>
<br>
Dr. Hansen, a leading expert on climate change, said in an
interview that there was no ''magic number'' that showed when
the greenhouse effect was actually starting to cause changes
in climate and weather. But he added, ''It is time to stop
waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong
that the greenhouse effect is here.'' An Impact Lasting
Centuries<br>
<br>
If Dr. Hansen and other scientists are correct, then humans,
by burning of fossil fuels and other activities, have altered
the global climate in a manner that will affect life on earth
for centuries to come.<br>
<br>
Dr. Hansen, director of NASA's Institute for Space Studies in
Manhattan, testifed before the Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee.<br>
<br>
He and other scientists testifying before the Senate panel
today said that projections of the climate change that is now
apparently occurring mean that the Southeastern and Midwestern
sections of the United States will be subject to frequent
episodes of very high temperatures and drought in the next
decade and beyond. But they cautioned that it was not possible
to attribute a specific heat wave to the greenhouse effect,
given the still limited state of knowledge on the subject.
Some Dispute Link<br>
<br>
Some scientists still argue that warmer temperatures in recent
years may be a result of natural fluctuations rather than
human-induced changes.<br>
<br>
Several Senators on the Committee joined witnesses in calling
for action now on a broad national and international program
to slow the pace of global warming.<br>
<br>
Senator Timothy E. Wirth, the Colorado Democrat who presided
at hearing today, said: ''As I read it, the scientific
evidence is compelling: the global climate is changing as the
earth's atmosphere gets warmer. Now, the Congress must begin
to consider how we are going to slow or halt that warming
trend and how we are going to cope with the changes that may
already be inevitable.'' Trapping of Solar Radiation<br>
<br>
Mathematical models have predicted for some years now that a
buildup of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels
such as coal and oil and other gases emitted by human
activities into the atmosphere would cause the earth's surface
to warm by trapping infrared radiation from the sun, turning
the entire earth into a kind of greenhouse.<br>
<br>
If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues,
the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees
Fahrenheit from the year 2025 to 2050, according to these
projections. This rise in temperature is not expected to be
uniform around the globe but to be greater in the higher
latitudes, reaching as much as 20 degrees, and lower at the
Equator.<br>
<br>
The rise in global temperature is predicted to cause a thermal
expansion of the oceans and to melt glaciers and polar ice,
thus causing sea levels to rise by one to four feet by the
middle of the next century. Scientists have already detected a
slight rise in sea levels. At the same time, heat would cause
inland waters to evaporate more rapidly, thus lowering the
level of bodies of water such as the Great Lakes.<br>
<br>
Dr. Hansen, who records temperatures from readings at
monitoring stations around the world, had previously reported
that four of the hottest years on record occurred in the
1980's. Compared with a 30-year base period from 1950 to 1980,
when the global temperature averaged 59 degrees Fahrenheit,
the temperature was one-third of a degree higher last year. In
the entire century before 1880, global temperature had risen
by half a degree, rising in the late 1800's and early 20th
century, then roughly stabilizing for unknown reasons for
several decades in the middle of the century. Warmest Year
Expected<br>
<br>
In the first five months of this year, the temperature
averaged about four-tenths of a degree above the base period,
Dr. Hansen reported today. ''The first five months of 1988 are
so warm globally that we conclude that 1988 will be the
warmest year on record unless there is a remarkable,
improbable cooling in the remainder of the year,'' he told the
Senate committee.<br>
<br>
He also said that current climate patterns were consistent
with the projections of the greenhouse effect in several
respects in addition to the rise in temperature. For example,
he said, the rise in temperature is greater in high latitudes
than in low, is greater over continents than oceans, and there
is cooling in the upper atmosphere as the lower atmosphere
warms up.<br>
<br>
''Global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe
with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect
relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed
warming,'' Dr. Hansen said at the hearing today, adding, ''It
is already happening now.''<br>
<br>
Dr. Syukuro Manabe of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration testified today that a number of factors,
including an earlier snowmelt each year because of higher
temperatures and a rain belt that moves farther north in the
summer means that ''it is likely that severe mid-continental
summer dryness will occur more frequently with increasing
atmsopheric temperature.'' A Taste of the Future<br>
<br>
While natural climate variability is the most likely chief
cause of the current drought, Dr. Manabe said, the global
warming trend is probably ''aggravating the current dry
condition.'' He added that the current drought was a foretaste
of what the country would be facing in the years ahead.<br>
<br>
Dr. George Woodwell, director of the Woods Hole Research
Center in Woods Hole, Mass., said that while a slow warming
trend would give human society time to respond, the rate of
warming is uncertain. One factor that could speed up global
warming is the widescale destruction of forests that are
unable to adjust rapidly enough to rising temperatures. The
dying forests would release the carbon dioxide they store in
their organic matter, and thus greatly speed up the greenhouse
effect. Sharp Cut in Fuel Use Urged<br>
<br>
Dr. Woodwell, and other members of the panel, said that
planning must begin now for a sharp reduction in the burning
of coal, oil and other fossil fuels that release carbon
dioxide. Because trees absorb and store carbon dioxide, he
also proposed an end to the current rapid clearing of forests
in many parts of the world and ''a vigorous program of
reforestation.''<br>
<br>
Some experts also believe that concern over global warming
caused by the burning of fossil fuels warrants a renewed
effort to develop safe nuclear power. Others stress the need
for more efficient use of energy through conservation and
other measures to curb fuel-burning.<br>
<br>
Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, an atmospheric physicist with the
Environmental Defense Fund, a national environmental group,
said a number of steps can be taken immediately around the
world, including the ratification and then strengthening of
the treaty to reduce use of chlorofluorocarbons, which are
widely used industrial chemicals that are said to contribute
to the greenhouse effect. These chemicals have also been found
to destroy ozone in the upper atmosphere that protects the
earth's surface from harmful ultraviolet radiation from the
sun.<br>
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