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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>August 21</b></i></font></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ avoiding extremism ] </i><br>
</font> <b><font face="Calibri">Weaponising the climate crisis: How
extremists and politicians are polarising the debate</font></b><i><font
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</font></i><font face="Calibri">By Rosie Frost<br>
Published on 20/08/2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri">As the UK looks at rolling back green
commitments, there are concerns that climate issues are feeding
into cultural confrontation and identity politics.<br>
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Climate change has once again become a hot topic in the UK but for
all the wrong reasons...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Jennie King, an expert in the evolving trends
of climate mis and disinformation, says that many aren’t entirely
sure what they mean when they use the term.<br>
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“You now have a space where the traditional climate deniers or
delayers are merging with a much broader and largely decentralised
universe of extremists and conspiracy movements,” the head of
Climate Research and Policy at the Institute for Strategic
Dialogue (ISD) explains...<br>
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This leaves the space open to “professional disinformation actors
and outrage merchants”...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">“What's really coming to the fore in
conversation at the moment is how easy it is to exploit the gap
between general public approval and recognition for the necessity
of climate action versus actually being able to propose and
implement an ambitious policy platform,” King adds.</font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">Ultimately what is lost in this
polarisation is the ability to have sober and candid conversations
about the net zero transition. Essential debates between citizens
and elected officials get pulled into this highly divisive space
and everyone loses out.<br>
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“[It] has nothing to do with the substance of policy and is all to
do with who should or should not be involved in the conversation,”
King explain<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/20/weaponising-the-climate-crisis-how-extremists-and-politicians-are-polarising-the-debate">https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/20/weaponising-the-climate-crisis-how-extremists-and-politicians-are-polarising-the-debate</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Eliot Jacobson is a climate mathematician
]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Collapse goes mainstream. Eliot
Jacobson on CNN detailing dire indicators.</b><br>
The Poetry of Predicament<br>
Aug 20, 2023<br>
Our thanks to Just Collapse for posting this CNN footage. <br>
<br>
Professor Eliot Jacobson is not a climate scientist - he is
however a very concerned global citizen who has dived deep into
the current, dire, human-caused collapse of Earth Systems. His
very regular postings on Twitter and his own blog have helped
thousands of people around the world understand just how
significant the events of this year, this season and today are as
indicators of an acceleration of human-caused collapse.<br>
<br>
In this CNN clip professor Jacobson articulates three different
stunning indicators of just how quickly we are causing "The Sixth
Mass Extinction."<br>
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Many thanks to professor Jacobson, to CNN, and our friends at Just
Collapse, for producing this clip.<br>
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We gladly include this clip in our most recent online course,
Collateral Beauty.<br>
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This course, and all of our offerings here in Living Resilience
and The Poetry of Predicament, are intended to support and
resource the global Collapse-Aware and Collapse-Acceptant
communities.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwHu9xiNh30">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwHu9xiNh30</a></font><i><font
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<i> </i><i><font face="Calibri"> [ This news report includes the
phrase: "a flock of choppers" ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>Washington wildfires burn homes and force
thousands to flee | GMA</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">ABC News</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Aug 20, 2023 #Washington #Wildfires
#StateOfEmergency</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">A state of emergency was declared in Washington
state, where one person is confirmed dead, more than 200
structures are damaged or destroyed and thousands of people have
evacuated.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOzd9F9e1T8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOzd9F9e1T8</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Serious studies of the longer term
effects of wildfires -- BBC ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Extreme
wildfires are increasing due to rising emissions, but they also
disrupt the climate in return. Weighing up the overall impact,
however, is tricker than it seems.</b><br>
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<font face="Calibri">By India Bourke<br>
17th August 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Albedo and evaporation</b><br>
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Wildfires can also influence climate back on the ground.<br>
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One mechanism involves changes to a landscapes' albedo, or ability
to reflect light. In the aftermath of a fire, charred surfaces can
reduce albedo, leading to an increase in surface warming.
Conversely, a reduced forest canopy can raise albedo by exposing
more reflective entities such as grass or snow, leading to a
cooling effect.<br>
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Another process involves the evaporation of water. Thriving plants
release water from their leaves in a process known transpiration,
and water also evaporates directly from the soil and canopies. The
surrounding air is cooled as a result. But when wildfires suppress
this, warming increases.<br>
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A 2019 study which investigated the interplay of these factors
found that the average surface temperature can warm for at least
five years after flames are extinguished. Reduced transpiration
was found to be the main cause of this, says Zhihua Liu, an
ecology researcher at the University of Montana and lead author of
the study...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230817-how-wildfires-push-up-temperatures-long-after-they-are-extinguished">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230817-how-wildfires-push-up-temperatures-long-after-they-are-extinguished</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ academic study from Nature Communications
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</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Biophysical feedback of global forest
fires on surface temperature</b><br>
Zhihua Liu, Ashley P. Ballantyne & L. Annie Cooper <br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri"><b>Abstract</b><br>
The biophysical feedbacks of forest fire on Earth’s surface
radiative budget remain uncertain at the global scale. Using
satellite observations, we show that fire-induced forest loss
accounts for about 15% of global forest loss, mostly in northern
high latitudes. Forest fire increases surface temperature by
0.15 K (0.12 to 0.19 K) one year following fire in burned area
globally. In high-latitudes, the initial positive climate-fire
feedback was mainly attributed to reduced evapotranspiration and
sustained for approximately 5 years. Over longer-term (> 5
years), increases in albedo dominated the surface radiative
budget resulting in a net cooling effect. In tropical regions,
fire had a long-term weaker warming effect mainly due to reduced
evaporative cooling. Globally, biophysical feedbacks of
fire-induced surface warming one year after fire are equivalent
to 62% of warming due to annual fire-related CO2 emissions. Our
results suggest that changes in the severity and/or frequency of
fire disturbance may have strong impacts on Earth’s surface
radiative budget and climate, especially at high latitudes...</font></blockquote>
<font face="Calibri">Our results also indicated that fire-induced
forest loss may alter Earth’s surface radiative budget through
different biophysical processes, despite the limited satellite
observations. Specifically, short-term fire-induced changes in
albedo exhibited distinct seasonal patterns, which appeared to
cancel each other out between snow and snow-free seasons
(Supplementary Figs. 8-9 and Supplementary Table 1), therefore
leaving decreased evapotranspiration during the growing season as
the dominant control on the surface radiative budget and thus
temperature response in early post-fire successional stages...</font><br>
<p><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08237-z">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-08237-z</a></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at
information malfeasance ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>August 21, 2007</b></i></font> <br>
August 21, 2007: U.S. District Judge Sandra Brown Armstrong rules
that the George W. Bush administration violated the 1990 Global
Change Research Act (signed into law, ironically enough, by Bush's
father) by not producing a legally required climate assessment
report. The report would finally be released in May 2008.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2007/08/22/court-rules-that-bush-admin-unlawfully-failed-to-produce-scientific-assessment-of-global-change/">http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2007/08/22/court-rules-that-bush-admin-unlawfully-failed-to-produce-scientific-assessment-of-global-change/</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/PRESS/global-warming-08-21-2007.html">http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/PRESS/global-warming-08-21-2007.html</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/PROGRAMS/policy/energy/complaint-national-assessment.pdf">http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/PROGRAMS/policy/energy/complaint-national-assessment.pdf</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20080705212954/http://www.usda.gov/oce/global_change/sap_2007_FinalReport.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/20080705212954/http://www.usda.gov/oce/global_change/sap_2007_FinalReport.htm</a>
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