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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ DW documentary ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Why this fire turned into a major
catastrophe | DW News</b><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Aug 11, 2023 #Hawaii #wildfire #climatechange<br>
At least 55 people have died in wildfires on two Hawaiian islands.
Many more are still missing. The governor says the blazes are the
worst natural disaster in the history of the US state. Residents
were shocked by the speed with which the fires spread and had
harrowing escapes.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ politics meets calamity ]</i></font><br>
<b>Neo-Nazis Are Using Climate Disasters to Recruit New Members</b><br>
Experts have been sounding the alarm that the far-right are
exploiting climate change and natural disasters.<br>
By Tess Owen<br>
August 11, 2023,<br>
When a historic storm rolled through central Vermont last month,
drowning its capital Montpelier and its surrounding communities in
waist-high flood waters, one group of men saw a moment of
opportunity. <br>
<br>
The men, who called themselves PINE — The People’s Initiative of New
England— responded to the aftermath to assist clean-up efforts,
clear debris from the streets and homes, and pass out bottled water.
<br>
PINE describes itself as a “grassroots effort founded to advocate
for and advance the interests of New Englanders,” which sounds
innocuous enough—and that’s by design. But PINE is a new front for
the neo-Nazi street gang NSC-131, which formed in 2019 and has
chapters across New England. While NSC-131 brazenly touts Nazi
symbols and throws up Hitler salutes during public appearances, PINE
is intended as a softer, more socially acceptable mask. The goal of
this is for NSC-131 to broaden their appeal, especially to those who
agree with their messaging but may not want to publicly affiliate
with an explicitly neo-Nazi organization. <br>
<br>
In a recently released manifesto, first reported by Rolling Stone,
PINE calls for New England to secede from the U.S. and establish a
white ethnostate. And they think they can do that by drumming up
local support, through “activism and community outreach.” <br>
<br>
Hence: their flood relief efforts. <br>
<br>
Extremists around the world typically seek to exploit moments of
instability or chaos for their own gain, and that’s particularly
true in the aftermath of natural disasters. <br>
Weak or muddled government responses to hurricanes, flooding or
wildfires have previously created windows of opportunity for
extremists to position themselves as reliable, trusted sources of
aid—and show government agencies to be useless in a moment of
crisis. <br>
<br>
And, by ingratiating themselves in impacted communities, extremists
are able to reach into a larger pool of prospective recruits. <br>
<br>
This is a trend that experts say they expect to see more of in the
coming years. As the effects of climate change grow more severe,
communities that have been destabilized by natural disasters may
increasingly find themselves leaning on wolves in sheeps clothing—
extremists dressed up as good samaritans. <br>
<br>
A paper published last year by the National Consortium for the Study
of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism explored the various ways
that extremists and terrorists exploit climate change and disasters
for their own gain. One example they offer is how, in the aftermath
of a disaster, those actors take advantage of perceptions that the
government has been ineffective in their response and use them to
foster “radicalization narratives of alienation and abandonment.”
They also then try to “fill in this gap by responding to the
challenges posed by climate change to enhance their local
authority.” <br>
Militias like the Oath Keepers have historically pounced on any
opportunity they can to expose weaknesses in federal agencies like
FEMA (which is a go-to source of anti-government conspiracy
theories). Members of the group, including their founder Stewart
Rhodes, who was recently convicted of seditious conspiracy for his
role in the Jan. 6 riot, responded to calls for volunteers in the
aftermath of Category 4 Hurricane Harvey in 2017. <br>
<br>
A recent joint report by Grist and HuffPost looked at Oath Keepers
and other militias’ exploitation of climate disasters over the
years. Oath Keepers also traveled to Florida and Puerto Rico in 2017
following hurricanes, and returned to Florida the following year
after Hurricane Michael. Oath Keeper leadership also urged their
members to travel to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee in
2021, after a string of catastrophic tornadoes moved through the
region, according to Grist/Huffpost. <br>
<br>
Armed extremists, galvanized by conspiracy theories about “antifa,”
set up roadblocks in 2020 and interrogated people fleeing wildfires
in Oregon. And last year, an anti-government group called Echo
Company of the California State Militia’s 2nd Regiment showed up
with military-style trucks and fatigues to provide hot breakfasts
to people who’d been evacuated from their homes due to the Oak Fire
near Mariposa County. Along with breakfast, members of the militia
passed out business cards with QR codes and directions of how to
join their organization, NBC reported. <br>
<br>
As for PINE—they shared images of their “activism” on their Gab and
Telegram channels, making sure to note that they also distributed
their propaganda in the process. “Montpelier is a short distance
from me,” responded one person. “VT is so far left I too often
assume there are no like minded people. Good to see this.” <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xmap/neo-nazis-are-using-climate-disasters-to-recruit-new-members">https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xmap/neo-nazis-are-using-climate-disasters-to-recruit-new-members</a>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ radical notion "Too hot for stupid" ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Climate Crisis: The GOP Death Cult is
holding the Earth Hostage to White Privilege</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Who are you going to believe, Republicans or a
bunch of lying climatologists?<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">FLORIDA PHOENIX</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">08/10/2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Diane Roberts</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">People, it’s too hot to be this stupid.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">A new NPR/PBS/Marist poll shows that nearly
three-fourths of Republicans don’t think the climate crisis is a
big deal and we don’t need to do anything about it.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">I guess the good news is that 56 percent of all
political persuasions say the climate crisis requires urgent
action. That includes nearly nine out of 10 Democrats and over
half of Independents.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">The Earth is being held hostage by the party of
ignorance, “conservatives” who no longer want to conserve anything
other than white privilege. They’ve become a death cult, denying
what’s obvious to rational, literate people. Who cares if the seas
are boiling? As long as they “own the libs.”</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">It’s not as if the science is unsettled. The
data are solid; we’ve been shown over and over again what’s
happening and told what to do about it.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">But Republicans see reducing fossil fuel use
and developing sustainable energy as just another front in the
culture war, right up there with reproductive rights, education,
race, gender issues, gay rights, and those satanic vaccines.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">This is the hottest summer in 120,000 years.
Accelerated climate change is causing sea water temperatures to
reach 100 degrees off the coast of Florida; parts of Canada are
bursting into flame; the Southwest is scorched; places in Europe
where a summer high temperature used to be maybe 80F, are now
watching their thermometers break 98.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">But who are you going to believe, Republicans
or a bunch of lying climatologists who have the receipts?</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">It’s common to characterize our inability to
address the skin-searing, ocean-boiling, crop-killing climate
crisis as “planetary suicide.” That’s partly true. Those of us in
the greenhouse gas emitting world are indeed colluding in our own
destruction.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Murder for hire</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">But this is also a long murder for hire,
contracted by Big Oil, Big Ag, Big Bank, the Republican Party, and
even a few Democrats. The corporations have understood the dangers
of climate change for more than 40 years.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">They don’t care. To them, high carbon emissions
smell like money.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Not only are right-wingers ignoring our frying
earth, they’re determined to push it to the brink. The Heartland
Institute, a cabal of ultra-libertarians initially famous for
questioning the link between tobacco and cancer, now peddles
climate denial to schools, shipping out propaganda masquerading as
“common sense” to educators, hoping to influence schools</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and
Baptist preacher, now publishes a “Kids’ Guide to the Truth About
Climate Change,” a brightly-colored booklet of misinformation and
senseless graphs assuring children the climate has always changed,
greenhouse gases have fluctuated for thousands of years, and if
“teachers and the media” say different, it’s because they “have an
agenda.”</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Dismissing the climate crisis is now a
full-time job for rightwing think tanks and politicians,
determined to protect the likes of Exxon, Shell, and BP. The
Heritage Foundation has concocted a policy document for the next
president (assuming that’s a Republican) demanding Washington nix
Joe Biden’s climate initiatives, gut the EPA, ramp up oil and gas
production, and maybe sell off public lands for drilling and
mining.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">A Wall Street Journal editorial board member
(who traffics in unhinged opinions) complains that Wall Street
Journal reporters (who deal in facts) shouldn’t keep writing about
the climate. Such scary stuff causes “mental disorders,” she says.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">It’s just a little heat wave. Calm down. Jump
in the pool!</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Woke fabrication</b></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">In Washington, Republicans work themselves into
fits, insisting that climate change is some kind of woke
fabrication. During a hearing in July, some of the House’s dimmer
bulbs tried to bully U.S. climate envoy John Kerry. They pulled
out spurious charts to “prove” the Earth isn’t warming and
attacked Kerry on the ground that his political science degree
from Yale isn’t real “science,” so how dare he lecture the
intellectual giants of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on
greenhouse gasses?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Not surprisingly, two congressmen from Florida
particularly distinguished themselves, behaving like third graders
denied another hit of Skittles, lobbing juvenile insults. Rep.
Cory Mills, who famously handed out “commemorative hand-grenades”
when he first took office, snarked about Kerry flying in on his
“private jet.”</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Another member of the Brain Trust, the Treasure
Coast’s Brian Mast, accused Kerry of pushing a “far-left radical
agenda.”</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Kerry doesn’t own a private jet, and you can
bet they knew that. Moreover, his “agenda” might better be
characterized as helping save us from the deadly consequences of
our own idiocy.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">But since when has reality mattered to the
likes of Mills, Mast, and the rest of the Idiot Caucus?</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Meanwhile, Florida burns and floods and our
supposed leaders don’t give a damn. On April 12 this year, Fort
Lauderdale got hit with 26 inches of rain in one day. Streets were
under two feet of water; airport runways were awash; houses
destroyed.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Ron DeSantis didn’t show up. He was on book
tour.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">After former Gov. Rick Scott, a man so spooked
by the politics of climate change that he forbade state employees
to even say “climate change,” decamped for the U.S. Senate,
Floridians felt a tiny shiver of hope. Newly-inaugurated Gov. Ron
DeSantis named a chief science officer.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Hell, no</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Could it be that the state would finally get
serious about mitigating greenhouse gases?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">That would be a super-sized hell, no.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">DeSantis talks a big game about “resilience”
and “saving the Everglades,” and he put together a “task force” to
tackle toxic blue-green algae — a huge health risk — but he hasn’t
done a damned thing to slow down production of the greenhouse
gases that are killing us or force polluters to stop dumping filth
in our waters.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">He refused to accept federal money to foster
energy efficiency and renewables such as wind and solar because, I
suppose, it might give him Joe Biden cooties.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">He ignores the increasingly vicious hurricanes,
the sunny-day floods, the coastal erosion, the ecological collapse
of our waterways, and that thick, stinking blanket of poisonous
algal bloom choking the life out of Lake Okeechobee.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">To slow down our carbon production, we need to
stop encouraging fossil fuel extraction and embrace solar and
wind. But DeSantis and his party refuse.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">To clean up our impaired waters, the governor
and Legislature must stop the sugar, dairy, and phosphate
interests from using them as a sewer system.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Shrug</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">To save the planet, we have to push the nations
of the earth — especially the U.S., India and China — to stop
gagging our skies with noisome emissions. We know this. The
Republican Party knows this. Ron DeSantis knows this.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Yet he shrugs and signs laws to help developers
drain, dredge, and pave what’s left of Florida.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">After all, these are the people funding his
campaign.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">DeSantis says he disapproves of “politicizing
the weather” and refuses to, as he puts it, “do any left-wing
stuff.”</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Left-wing stuff like caring for Floridians
suffering killer storms, undrinkable water, and roaring floods?</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">As my colleague Craig Pittman often reminds us,
during hurricane season Florida is trying to kill us.</font><font
face="Calibri"><br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Republican Party nihilism is trying to kill us
— all of us, every day.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/08/07/gop-death-cult-is-holding-the-earth-hostage-to-white-privilege/">https://floridaphoenix.com/2023/08/07/gop-death-cult-is-holding-the-earth-hostage-to-white-privilege/</a></font>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at other El Niños ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>August 13, 2015</b></i></font> <br>
August 13, 2015:<br>
The Los Angeles Times reports:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"In another sign that El Niño is
gaining strength and could soak California this winter, sea
surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean have increased to
their highest level so far this year.<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">"That temperature increase — 3.4
degrees Fahrenheit above the average — was recorded Aug. 5 by
the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center at a
benchmark location in the Pacific. That is slightly higher than
it was Aug. 6, 1997, when it was 3.2 degrees Fahrenheit above
normal.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">"The summer of 1997 was the prelude to the
largest El Niño event on record. Storms that winter brought
widespread flooding and mudslides, causing 17 deaths and more
than half a billion dollars of damage. Downtown L.A. got nearly
a year's worth of rain in February 1998."</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-el-nino-20150813-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-el-nino-20150813-story.html</a>
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