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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>July</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 27, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Fires in Europe ]</i><br>
</font> <b>‘Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes
spread across nine countries</b><br>
‘There is no magical defence mechanism,’ says Greek prime minister
as fires burn in northern Africa and southern Europe<br>
Helen Sullivan , Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo, and agencies<br>
Wed 26 Jul 2023<br>
Wildfires were burning in at least nine countries across the
Mediterranean on Tuesday as blazes spread in Croatia, Italy and
Portugal, with thousands of firefighters in Europe and north Africa
working to contain flames stoked by high temperatures, dry
conditions and strong winds.<br>
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At least 34 people were killed in Algeria, where 8,000 firefighters
on Tuesday battled blazes across the tinder-dry north. Fires burned
in a total of 15 provinces, leading to the evacuation of more than
1,500 people from their properties.<br>
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Witnesses described fleeing walls of flames that raged “like a
blowtorch”, destroying homes and coastal resorts and turning vast
forest areas into blackened wastelands.<br>
The Algerian online news site TSA quoted the National Meteorological
Office as saying temperatures had reached 50C (122F) in some
regions.<br>
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Among those killed this week were 10 soldiers trapped by flames at
Beni Ksila, in Bejaia province, according to the defence ministry.
The official APS news agency reported on Monday night that 34 people
had died across several regions.<br>
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Local media reflected anger about the latest deadly fires. The TSA
news site asked: “In view of all these measures, why couldn’t we
avoid the disaster?”<br>
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Fanned by strong winds, fires forced the closure of two border
crossings with neighbouring Tunisia, where blazes have been
especially fierce in the north-western Tabarka region.<br>
More than 300 people were evacuated from the coastal village of
Melloula by boat and overland and firefighters were still battling
blazes on Tuesday in three areas in the north-west: Bizerte, Siliana
and Beja. Firefighters struggled to extinguish flames destroying
forests and citrus and hazelnut groves.<br>
The official TAP news agency reported one death, that of a school
principal who died of asphyxiation from a fire in Nafza, in the
north-west.<br>
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Wildfires also broke out in the woodlands of Latakia, a governorate
on the Mediterranean in north-western Syria, and helicopters are
being used to extinguish fires.<br>
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“Firefighting teams are working to put out the massive wildfires
that have broken out in the woods of Latakia northern countryside
which are still uncontrolled until now,” the North Press Agency
reported firefighters as saying on Tuesday.<br>
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Italy has been hit by violent storms and wildfires. At least seven
people were killed on Tuesday after storms in the north and
wildfires in Sicily.<br>
Among those killed was a 16-year-old girl. The prime minister,
Giorgia Meloni, said the girl died when a tree fell on her tent
during a scout camp near Brescia after high winds and torrential
rain overnight.<br>
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Milan residents reported torrential rain and hail on Tuesday
morning, which flooded streets and uprooted trees, some of which
fell on to parked cars.<br>
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While the north was drenched, the heatwave across the south
persisted, with temperatures of 47.6C (117F) recorded in the eastern
Sicilian city of Catania on Monday. The bodies of two people in
their 70s were found in a house destroyed by the flames, while an
88-year-old woman was found near the Sicilian city of Palermo,
according to media reports.<br>
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Sicily’s regional president, Renato Schifani, said he planned to ask
the government to declare a state of emergency for the island. A
decision was expected to be made at Wednesday’s ministers’ meeting
in Rome.<br>
The civil protection minister. Nello Musumeci, wrote on Facebook:
“We are experiencing in Italy one of the most complicated days in
recent decades – rainstorms, tornadoes and giant hail in the north,
and scorching heat and devastating fires in the centre and south.
The climate upheaval that has hit our country demands of us all … a
change of attitude.”<br>
<br>
Italian firefighters said they tackled nearly 1,400 fires between
Sunday and Tuesday, including 650 in Sicily and 390 in Calabria, the
southern mainland region where a bedridden 98-year-old man was
killed as fire consumed his home.<br>
Meanwhile, prosecutors in Palermo launched an investigation into the
wildfires that have hit the Sicilian capital. According to
investigators, dozens of fires could have been set deliberately by
people, with hot winds and dry conditions fuelling the blazes.<br>
<br>
For years, the Sicilian mafia has been suspected of being involved
in the wildfires, pushed by the lucrative reforestation contracts,
although that link has not been proved in this week’s fires.<br>
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On Wednesday, authorities in Calabria released a video of an arson
suspect caught on camera by a drone. The Governor of Calabria said
the man was reported to the police.<br>
Greece has also been particularly hard hit this summer, with
authorities evacuating more than 20,000 people in recent days from
homes and resorts in the south of the holiday island of Rhodes.<br>
<br>
Close to 3,000 tourists had returned home by plane as of Tuesday,
according to figures from the transport ministry, and tour operators
have cancelled upcoming trips.<br>
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Two firefighting pilots died when their plane, which had been
dropping water, crashed on a hillside close to the town of Karystos
on the island of Evia, east of Athens...<br>
The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said: “I will state
the obvious: in the face of what the entire planet is facing,
especially the Mediterranean which is a climate change hotspot,
there is no magical defence mechanism, if there was we would have
implemented it.”<br>
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The body of a 41-year-old farmer, missing since Sunday, was also
found in a shack in a remote area.<br>
New evacuations were ordered overnight on the islands of Corfu, Evia
and Rhodes, where thousands of tourists were moved to safety over
the weekend.<br>
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In France, nearly 100 firefighters were trying to contain a wildfire
in the municipalities of Cagnes-sur-Mer and Villeneuve-Loubet, close
to Nice international airport, officials said on Tuesday.<br>
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The Bouches-du-Rhone department on Tuesday was placed under a “red
alert”, with authorities seeing a “very high risk” of wildfires.
More than 300 firefighters were battling to contain fires near the
city of Arles, police said.<br>
In Croatia, winds were so strong that firefighting aircraft could
not take off, local media reported. Firefighters battled wildfires
that were spreading just south of the Adriatic city of Dubrovnik, a
tourism destination, late on Tuesday.<br>
“It’s been a long night but we managed to stave off the part (of the
fire) that is important because of the houses,” firefighting unit
commander Stjepan Simovic told the Associated Press. “We must be
careful because the wind has started to pick up and the fire can
grow again.”<br>
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Winds brought disaster to neighbouring Montenegro, where two people
drowned and several were injured when strong southern winds hit the
coast, port authorities in the towns of Ulcinj and Petrovac said.<br>
<br>
A rapidly spreading wildfire at the centre of Spain’s island of Gran
Canaria on Tuesday prompted authorities to remove several hundred
villagers, shut three roads and deploy firefighting helicopters.<br>
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Antonio Morales, head of the Island Council of Gran Canaria, said
about 100 firefighters and nine aircraft were working to put out the
blaze that had so far burned through 200 hectares of forest.<br>
In Portugal, usually one of the European countries worst hit by
wildfires, according to EU data, hundreds of firefighters scrambled
on Tuesday to put out flames near the popular holiday destination of
Cascais, with strong winds complicating efforts.<br>
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The wildfire started in a mountainous area of the Sintra-Cascais
park, which covers about 56 sq miles (145 sq km) west of Lisbon.
More than 600 firefighters were brought in and water-bombing planes
also battled the blaze but had to stop operating as the night set
in.<br>
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The mayor of Cascais, Carlos Carreiras, said gusts of up to 37mph
were the biggest challenge and that some people had been evacuated
as a precaution.<br>
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Portugal is under a widespread drought affecting 90% of the country.<br>
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In Turkey, a hospital and a dozen homes were evacuated as a
precaution in the coastal town of Kemer, where firefighters for a
third day battled a blaze raging through a woodland. At least 10
planes, 22 helicopters and hundreds of firefighters were deployed to
extinguish the fire as meteorologists warned temperatures could rise
several degrees above seasonal averages.<br>
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On Wednesday, the EU commissioner for crisis management, Janez
Lenarčič said Brussels wanted to sign contracts this year for up to
12 firefighting planes to improve its ability to fight blazes
fuelled by climate heating.<br>
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The EU had already doubled its existing reserve fleet of
firefighting aircraft in the past year, after devastating fires last
summer in southern Europe exhausted its previous 13-craft capacity.<br>
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“The situation that we see in southern Europe shows that we are in
the climate crisis. It’s already here,” Lenarčič said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/26/northern-hemisphere-heatwaves-mediterranean-fires-croatia-portugal">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/26/northern-hemisphere-heatwaves-mediterranean-fires-croatia-portugal</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Considering the futures -- A tourist
promoter says fires are "a man made disaster" ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Will heat and fire drive tourists
out of the Mediterranean? | DW News</b><br>
DW News<br>
Jul 25, 2023 #wildfires #tourism #mediterranean<br>
The areas affected by the fires around the Mediterranean are not
only densely populated but also encompass several globally
renowned tourist destinations. Each year, millions of tourists
visit these regions. In many Mediterranean countries, tourism
plays a vital role, serving as a major, if not the most
significant, economic sector. The ongoing fires could potentially
have severe consequences, impacting not just the environment but
also the livelihoods of communities heavily reliant on the tourism
industry in the region.<br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Jennifer Francis talks about El </font></i><i><font
face="Calibri">Niño</font></i><font face="Calibri"><i> - video ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Why is everyone talking about El Niño
this year?</b><br>
Arctic Basecamp<br>
Jun 19, 2023 #elniño #OceanCurrents #ClimateScience<br>
Why is everyone talking about El Niño this year? <br>
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El Niño is a climate pattern characterised by unusually warm ocean
temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific, which
can lead to significant changes in weather patterns worldwide.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ What it's like on a Delta plane in the
heat <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/trCGqM7OIyk">https://youtu.be/trCGqM7OIyk</a> ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Las Vegas airplane passengers stuck
on plane in triple-digit heat | LiveNOW from FOX</b><br>
Live NOW from FOX</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">What was the experience like</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jul 18, 2023<br>
Multiple airline passengers waiting to takeoff from the airport in
Las Vegas became sick after waiting in triple-digit heat while
taxiing behind more than a dozen other flights, according to Fox
News field producer Krista Garvin, who was aboard the flight.<br>
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The situation worsened, and flight attendants were seen running up
and down the aisles with oxygen tanks. Multiple passengers had
passed out and some had soiled themselves.<br>
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"By the time we got back to the gate, paramedics were waiting.
There was an ambulance on the ground," Garvin said. "Towards the
back, you knew that people were getting sick."<br>
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LiveNOW's Lexie Petrovic spoke with Garvin about the nightmare
flight experience and how Delta Airlines was remedying the
situation.<br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ If politics meet global warming ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>‘Battle plan’: How the far right would
dismantle climate programs</b><br>
By Scott Waldman | 07/26/2023 <br>
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<font face="Calibri">A coalition of conservative groups has
assembled a plan to systematically target most of the federal
government’s work on climate and clean energy.<br>
<br>
It proposes a sweeping deconstruction of government programs that
goes far beyond what former President Donald Trump attempted to do
by targeting “deep state” employees in federal agencies. And it’s
designed to be implemented on the first day of a Republican
presidency.<br>
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Called Project 2025, it would block the expansion of the
electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the
EPA environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department’s
renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting
California’s electric car standards; and give Republican state
officials more power to regulate polluting industries.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">It was written by hundreds of conservative
policy experts, energy lobbyists, industry consultants and former
Trump administration officials. If enacted, it could decimate the
federal government’s climate work, stymie the clean energy
transition and shift agencies toward servicing and nurturing the
fossil fuel industry rather than regulating it.<br>
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“Project 2025 is not a white paper. We are not tinkering at the
edges. We are writing a battle plan, and we are marshaling our
forces,” said Paul Dans, director of Project 2025 at the Heritage
Foundation. “Never before has the whole conservative movement
banded together to systematically prepare to take power day one
and deconstruct the administrative state.”<br>
<br>
The comprehensive plan — which runs 920 pages and covers virtually
all operations of the federal government, not just energy and
climate programs — was compiled by the Heritage Foundation as a
road map for the first 180 days of the next GOP administration.<br>
<br>
Its details were crafted by more than 400 people, including former
Trump officials who could earn top spots in his next
administration, if he is reelected.<br>
<br>
Republican primary candidates all pledged to go after President
Joe Biden’s signature piece of climate legislation, the Inflation
Reduction Act. Biden’s climate executive orders would also likely
be rolled back the day he leaves office.<br>
<br>
But the ideas laid out in Project 2025 show that conservative
organizations want to move federal agencies away from public
health protections and environmental regulations in order to help
the industries they have been tasked with overseeing, said Andrew
Rosenberg, a senior NOAA official in the Clinton administration
and a senior fellow at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey
School of Public Policy.<br>
<br>
“What this does is it basically undermines not only society but
the economic capacity of the country at the same time as it’s
doing gross violence to the environment,” Rosenberg said.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>‘Governing conservatism’</b><br>
The proposals are laser-like in their precision. They also
indicate that Republican operatives learned a lesson from the
chaotic nature of the earliest days of the Trump administration,
when former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was fired from
overseeing the transition, said Neil Chatterjee, who was chair of
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under Trump.<br>
<br>
“Even if we lose the election and don’t get the opportunity to
govern, I still think this defined strategy is important because
we know what we’re for and what we can showcase to the American
people even if we’re out of power,” said Chatterjeee, who was not
involved in the plan. “We can say this is what we would do, this
is how we would handle these really complex issues.”<br>
<br>
A plan to deconstruct the government is just the beginning of what
Republicans will expect from their presidential candidate, said
Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who championed
controversial changes to welfare in the 1990s. Releasing it before
the primary race heats up can give people “time to absorb the new
idea, think it through and then embrace it.”<br>
<br>
“What you’re about to see is a dramatic shift in the landscape of
solutions away from the Left and toward a kind of creative,
governing conservatism,” Gingrich (R-Ga.) said.<br>
<br>
Former Trump administration officials played a key role in writing
the chapters on dismantling EPA and DOE.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The plan to gut the Department of Energy was
written by Bernard McNamee, a former DOE official who Trump
appointed to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. McNamee,
who did not have regulatory experience, was one of the most
overtly political FERC appointees in decades. He was a director at
the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank that
fights climate regulations, and was a senior adviser to Sen. Ted
Cruz (R-Texas).<br>
<br>
McNamee outlines cutting key divisions at DOE, including the
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Office of
Clean Energy Demonstrations and the Loan Programs Office. He has
called climate change a “progressive policy.”<br>
<br>
He also calls for cutting funding to DOE’s Grid Deployment Office,
in part to stop “focusing on grid expansion for the benefit of
renewable resources or supporting low/carbon generation.” Instead,
he calls for strengthening grid reliability, which he describes as
expanding the use of fossil fuels and slowing or stopping the
addition of cleaner energy. Part of his plan includes a massive
expansion of natural gas infrastructure.<br>
<br>
“Prevent socializing costs for customers who do not benefit from
the projects or justifying such cost shifts as advancing vague
‘societal benefits’ such as climate change,” McNamee wrote in the
report.<br>
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McNamee did not respond to requests for comment.<br>
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Preventing the expansion of the electric grid would slow down
renewable energy projects, threatening U.S. climate goals while
cooling the sector’s economic growth, said Mike O’Boyle, a senior
director at Energy Innovation and head of its electricity program.<br>
<br>
“If we totally step away from the role of the federal government,
our economy is going to miss out in a big way because the rest of
the world is moving on climate, so they’re poised to reap the
benefits both for their energy consumers but also in terms of
manufacturing,” he said.<br>
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<b>‘A conservative EPA’</b><br>
Mandy Gunasekara, who was the former chief of staff at EPA under
Trump, wrote a chapter within the plan to move the agency away
from its focus on climate policy and reducing carbon dioxide
emissions.<br>
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It outlines eliminating or downsizing agency functions including
the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, the
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assistance, and the Office of
Public Engagement and Environmental Education. It also would also
relocate regional EPA offices and would “downsize by terminating
the newest hires in low-value programs.”<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The overarching theme in remaking federal
agencies is to shift power away from the federal government and
toward states, in an effort to diminish regulations.<br>
<br>
“The challenge of creating a conservative EPA will be to balance
justified skepticism toward an agency that has long been amenable
to being coopted by the Left for political ends against the need
to implement the agency’s true function: protecting public health
and the environment in cooperation with states,” Gunasekara wrote.<br>
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She declined to comment for this story.<br>
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But that increase in state power wouldn’t apply to California,
which has a history of setting more aggressive environmental
standards than those of the federal government under a Clean Air
Act waiver. The Project 2025 plan would “ensure that other states
can adopt California’s standards only for traditional/criteria
pollutants, not greenhouse gasses.”<br>
<br>
Another key goal is to restructure how EPA uses science,
particularly research that supports regulations by showing risks
to public health from industrial pollution. The plan would require
scientific studies to be “transparent and reproducible,” making it
impossible to use key public health studies that rely on private
data that cannot be disclosed to the public.<br>
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As part of that effort, one idea is to offer incentives for the
public “to identify scientific flaws and research misconduct,”
which might encourage opponents of regulations to target research.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ get some books ] </i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>6.4-Sigma Event: Antarctic Sea Ice
Hits Lowest Point Since Official Records Began</b><br>
ENVIRONMENT<br>
26 July 2023<br>
By CARLY CASSELLA<br>
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<font face="Calibri">2023 has gone from bad to worse for Earth's
southern ocean.<br>
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In February, climate researchers announced that Antarctica's sea
ice had hit its lowest summer level since satellite records began
45 years ago.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">A few months later, in June, during what should
be a 'winter growth phase', floating sea ice around Antarctica was
still struggling to recover.<br>
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A time series of sea ice in the southern ocean, put together by
climate researchers at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, shows July's coverage is well below where it
should be.<br>
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Compared to the extent of winter sea ice before 2010, the ocean is
now missing about 2.6 million square kilometers of ice – almost
four times the size of Texas.<br>
Prof. Eliot Jacobson<br>
@EliotJacobson<br>
Apologies in advance for not explaining this in any way, but here
are the daily standard deviations for Antarctic sea ice extent for
every day, 1989-2023, based on the 1991-2020 mean. Each blue line
represents the SD's for a full year. Lighter is more recent.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1683535568268050432">https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1683535568268050432</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Doddridge says the climate crisis is most
likely to blame, although how it is driving such extreme sea ice
melt remains unclear.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">For years now, Antarctica's ice has been
melting in a way that climate models never predicted.<br>
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The mismatch makes it clear that scientists do not yet have a
detailed understanding of how the southern hemisphere's ocean,
ice, and atmosphere actually interact.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">As the global temperature of the atmosphere has
warmed from fossil fuel emissions, evidence suggests the surface
of the southern ocean has somewhat cooled, while deeper parts have
warmed.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Cooler surface water might sound like a hopeful
condition for floating sea ice, but after years of a steady
increase in ice coverage, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly collapsed
in 2016.<br>
<br>
Why this happened so abruptly is something that climate scientists
are desperately trying to figure out.<br>
<br>
Initial studies suggest that increasingly warm winds in the region
might be driving the melt.<br>
<br>
Our transition into an El Niño has created particularly stormy
westerly winds across the Southern Ocean over the last few months.<br>
<br>
This likely broke up a lot of the new sea ice that usually forms
as winter sets in. But it can't fully account for the magnitude of
missing sea ice, Princeton University climate scientist Zachary
Labe explains in a blog post.<br>
<br>
Upwelling of warm waters could also be eating away at the icebergs
from underneath.<br>
<br>
Labe suggests the lack of ice also helped increase surface air
temperatures, which in turn likely warmed surface waters to create
a positive feedback loop further preventing ice formation.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">If enough sea ice melts around Antarctica,
scientists fear it could set off further positive feedback loops,
as waves and warm wind more easily reach the shore.<br>
<br>
"It's not just the extent of the ice, but also the duration of the
coverage," cryospheric scientist Rob Massom, of the Australian
Antarctic Division, explained to The Guardian.<br>
<br>
"If the sea ice is removed, you expose floating ice margins to
waves that can flex them and increase the probability of those ice
shelves calving. That then allows more grounded ice into the
ocean."<br>
<br>
Without more research, scientists are simply unable to predict
what will become of the southern ocean's sea ice in the years to
come.<br>
<br>
As the southern ocean helps drive Earth's entire ocean
circulation, it seems like something we should get on top of,
fast.<br>
<br>
"It may be that next winter it comes back," Doddridge told the
ABC.<br>
<br>
"We can hope. I don't know that it will."<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1683535568268050432">https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1683535568268050432</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at early
Barack Obama ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>July 27, 2004 </b></i></font> <br>
July 27, 2004: Illinois state senator and US Senate candidate
Barack Obama delivers a stirring speech at the Democratic National
Convention in Boston—one that curiously doesn't mention climate
change or the environment, save for his observation that
“[Democratic presidential candidate] John Kerry believes in energy
independence, so we aren't held hostage to the profits of oil
companies or the sabotage of foreign oil fields."<br>
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