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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>November 2</b></i></font></font><font
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<i>[ Southern California wildfires ]</i><br>
<b>SoCal fire evacuates thousands</b><br>
Kelly Andersson<br>
October 31, 2023<br>
Santa Ana<br>
A wildfire fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds raced across rural land
southeast of Los Angeles and has forced 4,000 people from their
homes. The Highland Fire started not long after noon Monday in dry
brushy hills near the community of Aguanga in Riverside County,
about 60 miles south of Palm Springs. The Associated Press reported
today that the fire has grown to 3½ square miles, or 2200 acres with
zero containment.<br>
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Cal Fire reported that resources included 5 airtankers and 5
helicopters, along with 52 engine companies and 6 ground crews.<br>
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NBC Los Angeles reported that evacuation orders are in effect for
thousands after the fire doubled in size overnight.<br>
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The brush fire started Monday in the Aguanga area of Riverside
County, about 60 miles southwest of Palm Springs.<br>
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KTLA5 has video from yesterday:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_h1J4XaLIU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_h1J4XaLIU</a><br>
At least 1,300 homes and 4,000 residents were under evacuation
orders, which were still in effect this morning. The fire burned
across a sparsely populated area that includes horse ranches and a
large mobile home site; Cal Fire said this morning that only 15 or
so homes were threatened.<br>
<br>
Southern California Edison was reportedly looking into cutting power
to nearly 150,000 customers in six counties — to prevent new starts
from downed trees or wind-damaged electrical equipment — but fewer
than 300 customers thus far were affected by power shutoffs.<br>
<br>
The NWS issued a wind advisory for the region through Tuesday night,
predicting winds of 15 to 25 mph and gusts up to 50 mph,
particularly in the foothills and adjacent valleys.<br>
<br>
These are the first major Santa Anas of the season; the strong, hot,
dry, dust-bearing winds typically blow down to the coastal areas
from inland desert regions in the fall. Santa Ana winds have fueled
some of the largest and most devastating wildfires in California
history.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/2023/10/31/socal-fire-evacuates-thousands/">https://wildfiretoday.com/2023/10/31/socal-fire-evacuates-thousands/</a>
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<i>[ NBC News ]</i><br>
<b>Thousands evacuate as wildfire burns in Southern California</b><br>
NBC News<br>
Oct 31, 2023 #California #Wildfire #Fire<br>
Hundreds of firefighters are battling a wildfire in Riverside
County, California, that's being fueled by unpredictable Santa Ana
winds and some residents say they had just minutes to get away.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pytxQuHf4m0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pytxQuHf4m0</a><br>
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<i>[ winter season - fire season ]</i><br>
<b>California wildfire puts 1,300 homes at risk as Santa Ana winds
whip flames</b><br>
About 4,000 residents were evacuated southeast of Los Angeles as the
blaze remained completely uncontained<br>
Louise Boyle<br>
Senior Climate Correspondent, New York<br>
October 31, 2023<br>
A wildfire that erupted in Southern California has grown to 2,200
acres overnight and remains completely uncontained, according to
emergency officials.<br>
<br>
The Highland Fire started around 12.30pm on Monday in Aguanga, a
tiny town located in a rural, hilly area of Riverside County,
southeast of Los Angeles.<br>
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Around 1,300 homes and 4,000 residents were under evacuation orders,
Cal Fire said. There is a continued threat to structures with road
closures and evacuation orders in place.<br>
<br>
An evacuation center was opened 20 miles away at a high school in
Temecula.<br>
<br>
The flames were being whipped by 20-25mph Santa Ana winds. The
blustery, dry gusts, which blow out of the desert in Southern
California, are at their worst from October to January. The fire
conditions are being exacerbated by low humidity.<br>
The fire had already ripped through a handful of buildings in the
area but it was unclear if any homes were destroyed. No injuries
were reported.<br>
<br>
Officials were hopeful that winds would ease on Tuesday, and that
they could “box in” the wildfire with 300 firefighters, bulldozers,
three air tankers and three helicopters.<br>
<br>
The Highland Fire is one of the few large and active blazes in
California in 2023, where fire season has failed to reach the
monstrous proportions of recent years.<br>
<br>
More than 315,000 acres have burned in California this year,
according to Cal Fire, a significant drop from the 1.1million acre
five-year average.<br>
In part, this has been due to historic rains from at least 30
atmospheric rivers which have impacted the state this year and led
to catastrophic flooding.<br>
Fire season in California used to run from May until October,
however the impacts of the climate crisis have now made wildfires a
year-round possibility.<br>
<br>
Larger, more intense fires are fuelled by extreme heat and drought.
These conditions are driven by a climate crisis caused largely by
carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.<br>
Beyond California, 2023 has been broken records for the scale of
wildfires across the Northern Hemisphere.<br>
The US witnessed its deadliest wildfire in more than a century in
Hawaii this summer after large parts of the historic town of Lahaina
on Maui was destroyed.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/wildfire-california-map-riverside-santa-ana-b2439152.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/wildfire-california-map-riverside-santa-ana-b2439152.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Reuters ]</i><br>
<b>China's smog-covered north on highest pollution alert as
visibility drops</b><br>
By Liz Lee<br>
October 31, 2023<br>
BEIJING, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Authorities issued their highest
warnings for fog and haze on Tuesday as smog enveloped major cities
in northern China, warning the public that visibility could drop to
less than 50 metres (164 feet).<br>
<br>
Northern province Hebei launched an anti-pollution emergency
response, listing traffic safety controls for when necessary
including suspending flight takeoffs and landings, temporarily
closing highways and suspending ferries, China's meteorological
bureau said in a notice.<br>
Authorities also warned road users to stop in safe parking areas
when conditions required and asked people to stay indoors.<br>
<br>
Beijing said it would implement traffic control measures if the
capital activates its highest air pollution warning.<br>
<br>
Heavy smog has engulfed the country's north for a few days while
autumn temperatures soared to typical early summer levels close to
30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas.<br>
Experts said weak cold air currents from the north pole were a key
factor behind the unusual weather.<br>
<br>
As air pollution levels in the wider Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area and
northern part of Henan province reached moderate to severe,
pollution control experts said increased industrial activities,
heavy trucking and crop fires had contributed to the haze, state
media CCTV reported.<br>
<br>
Regional power consumption in late October was up 5% compared with
first half of the month, more significantly in the cement, brick and
tile industries, worsening conditions, CCTV said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-smog-covered-north-highest-pollution-alert-visibility-drops-2023-10-31/">https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-smog-covered-north-highest-pollution-alert-visibility-drops-2023-10-31/</a><br>
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<i>[ We all eat our vegetables and we do thank you ]</i><br>
<b>Extreme Heat Pushes More Farmworkers to Harvest at Night,
Creating New Risks</b><br>
Working in the dark may help agricultural workers keep cool, but
safety advocates worry the trend could also be causing more
accidents and compromising worker health.<br>
By Kristoffer Tigue<br>
October 31, 2023<br>
American farmworkers are increasingly at risk of heat-related
illness and death as climate change drives temperatures around the
world to record highs. That’s pushing more and more workers to
harvest crops at night to avoid extreme heat, according to recent
reports, which is creating a host of new risks that experts say need
to be more thoroughly studied.<br>
<br>
More than 2 million U.S. farmworkers, who typically toil outdoors
under a hot summer sun, are exceptionally at risk of succumbing to
heat-related illness, the Environmental Defense Fund warned in a
July report, with heat-related mortalities 20 times higher for crop
workers than in other private industries, as well as employees in
local and state government. About three weeks of the summer harvest
season are now expected to be too hot to safely work outdoors, the
report’s authors added, and that number will only increase as global
warming continues.<br>
<br>
Government data and other studies have found that an average of 43
farmworkers die every year from heat-related illness. But top
officials with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
which oversees U.S. working conditions, say that number is
significantly undercounted, largely because heat doesn’t get
factored into deaths from cardiac arrests and respiratory failures.
One advocacy group estimated that heat exposure could be responsible
for as many as 2,000 worker fatalities in the U.S. each year.<br>
<br>
In fact, this summer was the hottest on record for the entire
northern hemisphere, federal scientists announced in September, in
large part because of climate change. Parts of the Midwest and large
regions of Europe are also experiencing record hot Octobers.<br>
<br>
As the daytime heat has gone up, a growing number of agriculture
workers—many of whom are Latino and undocumented—now work while it’s
still dark out. But that could be trading one risk for a set of
others, labor and safety advocates are warning.<br>
<br>
“What concerns me most is the negative impacts on workers,” Heather
Riden, program director at UC Davis Western Center on Agriculture
Health and Safety, said in an interview with Civil Eats. “What does
it mean to have a person work three or four hours in the morning,
then come back in the evening to work another three or four hours?
And what does that do for their sleep schedule, their family life,
and their ability to stay awake when they’re driving at two in the
morning? That is where we don’t have data; we don’t know the
bigger-picture implications.”<br>
<br>
The UC center published a report in 2019 that pointed to the
increasing trend of nighttime crop harvesting, noting that such work
could be causing more accidents due to poor visibility and tired
employees. Working at early hours is especially dangerous for
farmworkers who operate machinery, the report said, and the practice
could even lead to disrupted sleep and hormone cycles that
contribute to long-term health issues for workers, including an
increased chance for miscarriages.<br>
<br>
Lorena Abalos, who harvests cherries and blueberries in Washington
state with her teenage son, told NPR that they began starting their
shifts at 3 a.m. or earlier after an especially severe heat wave
killed hundreds of people in 2021 across swaths of the Pacific
Northwest. Harvesting at night, however, proved to be its own
danger, she said, so she stopped bringing her son along.<br>
<br>
“I no longer wanted to take him when we started to go in at 3 a.m.
because it was very dangerous,” she said. “We would run into snakes,
other animals and we pick blindly because they gave us a little lamp
and we barely see our hands.”<br>
<br>
Some states have passed safety standards for outdoor agricultural
work that takes place at night. California, for example, approved
standards in 2020 that require adequate lighting that minimizes
glare, rear lighting for self-propelled equipment, pre-shift safety
meetings and reflective safety gear for workers to wear. But it’s
unclear how well those standards are being enforced, and because
there are no federal regulations, many other outdoor workers in
states without requirements remain unprotected. <br>
<br>
Advocates have been calling for such federal protections for years,
but to no avail. That means—at least for now—many farmworkers will
be stuck choosing between which threat they want to face: the heat
or the dark.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31102023/todays-climate-extreme-heat-farmworkers-harvest-at-night-climate-change/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31102023/todays-climate-extreme-heat-farmworkers-harvest-at-night-climate-change/</a><br>
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<p><i>[ Nick Breeze ClimateGenn ]</i><br>
<b>Dr Kaitlin Naughten, British Antarctic Survey - Ice sheet Loss
Acceleration Now Unstoppable</b><br>
Nick Breeze ClimateGenn<br>
Oct 31, 2023<br>
Full interview available for Youtube and Patreon members to view.
Will be available in summary version soon.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5N-HxDfNxA&list=PL_KA9gR6zLeE7J45lQlr2HBJx-zXRi8MD">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5N-HxDfNxA&list=PL_KA9gR6zLeE7J45lQlr2HBJx-zXRi8MD</a><br>
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<p><i>[ OK -- time for a book -- this text from Amazon ]</i><br>
<b>Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times<br>
</b>In this heartfelt and soul-searching work, brimming with
warmth, humor, and insight, the beloved Guardian columnist spends
a year exploring how to pursue a rich and meaningful life, turning
to the wisdom of the Stoics for insights into the deepest
questions of existence.<br>
<br>
Like many people today, Brigid Delaney was searching for answers
to timeless questions: How can we be good? Find inner peace?
Properly grieve? Tame our insecurities, such as the fear of
missing out? Determine what truly matters?<br>
<br>
Centuries ago, the Stoics pondered many of these same questions.
And so, at an important inflection point in her own life, Brigid
decided to let these ancient philosophers be her guide. Brigid is
rash where the Stoics are logical; she runs on chaos, while the
Stoics relinquish control of things beyond their reach. Over the
course of a year, she dedicated herself to following the wisdom of
Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. She hoped to discover how
best to live—how she could use the wisdom of these ancient
thinkers to navigate life in the modern world.<br>
<br>
In Reasons Not to Worry, Brigid shares what she learned, showing
us how we, too, can draw on the Stoics to regain a sense of agency
and tranquility and find meaning in our lives. From learning to
relinquish control to cultivating daily awareness of our mortality
to building community, Brigid’s insights are very funny and very
wise.<br>
<br>
Stoicism can be a tough medicine to swallow, but no longer.
Thoughtful, timely, surprisingly practical, and filled to the brim
with ways to learn how best to be in the world, Delaney’s guide
provides compelling and sensible reasons not to worry.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Not-Worry-Stoic-Chaotic-ebook/dp/B0BRY86QSS/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/Reasons-Not-Worry-Stoic-Chaotic-ebook/dp/B0BRY86QSS/ref=sr_1_1</a><br>
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<i>[ wonderful show-and-tell from permafrost scientists - video ]</i><br>
<b>Alaska's Permafrost in Warming Arctic</b><br>
National Science Foundation News<br>
May 30, 2023<br>
Did you know that much of the water in Alaska is not above ground,
but frozen in the ground under your feet? However, as air
temperatures rise with climate change, this frozen ground known as
permafrost is thawing. How do you even study water that is
underground, if you can’t see it? Using a novel blend of field
measurements, satellite data, and mathematical models, scientists
are trying to piece together how water is changing in the warming
Arctic. <br>
<br>
Join a team of researchers and educators live from the Toolik Field
Station (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.uaf.edu/toolik/">https://www.uaf.edu/toolik/</a>), as they explore how the water
cycle in the Arctic is changing. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIlG0L5WHUI&t=7s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIlG0L5WHUI&t=7s</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>November 2, 2014 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> November 2, 2014:<br>
• The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"The gathering risks of climate change are so profound
they could stall or even reverse generations of progress against
poverty and hunger if greenhouse emissions continue at a runaway
pace, according to a major new United Nations report.<br>
<br>
"Despite rising efforts in many countries to tackle the problem,
the overall global situation is growing more acute as developing
countries join the West in burning huge amounts of fossil fuels,
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said here on Sunday.<br>
<br>
"Failure to reduce emissions, the group of scientists and other
experts found, could threaten society with food shortages, refugee
crises, the flooding of major cities and entire island nations,
mass extinction of plants and animals, and a climate so
drastically altered it might become dangerous for people to work
or play outside during the hottest times of the year."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/03/world/europe/global-warming-un-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/03/world/europe/global-warming-un-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change.html</a><br>
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