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<p><font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>February</b></i></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 22, 2024</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ Picture, dry lake floods ]</i><br>
Photos<b>: Temporary lake forms in Death Valley National Park</b>,
people come to play<br>
Heavy rains led to a temporary lake forming in the normally bone-dry
park in California. Nature lovers have been taking advantage of the
rare event.<br>
These are spooky beautiful - cover shot is the best... people look
so creepy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/national-parks/2024/02/21/death-valley-national-park-lake-tourists/72676947007/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/national-parks/2024/02/21/death-valley-national-park-lake-tourists/72676947007/</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/ancient-lake-reemerged-death-valley-national-park-stay/story?id=107347931">https://abcnews.go.com/US/ancient-lake-reemerged-death-valley-national-park-stay/story?id=107347931</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/reemergence-rare-lake-death-valley-national-park-106651983">https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/reemergence-rare-lake-death-valley-national-park-106651983</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/71c7330f-12c2-4945-b09a-2788271446c3/badwaterbasin-2-gmh-240219_1708368928981_hpEmbed_3x2.jpg">https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/71c7330f-12c2-4945-b09a-2788271446c3/badwaterbasin-2-gmh-240219_1708368928981_hpEmbed_3x2.jpg</a><br>
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<p><i>[ Hurricane season talk - video ]</i><br>
<b>Hurricanes, AMOC, and Wind Maps- Oh My!</b><br>
American Resiliency<br>
Feb 21, 2024<br>
This intensely nerdy video is here to answer your top recent
questions about hurricane outlooks and AMOC modeling. We start
with some info on the near-term hurricane outlook. If you want to
get straight to the AMOC paper- big thanks to DJ Jablonsky for
finding this gem- jump about 4 minutes in. This gives us a LOT
more details about what is modeled to happen in the first 10 years
after AMOC turns off, both regionally in the US and around the
globe.<br>
Paper available through the kindness of one of the authors,
Taschetto, right here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361134395_Interbasin_and_interhemispheric_impacts_of_a_collapsed_Atlantic_Overturning_Circulation">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361134395_Interbasin_and_interhemispheric_impacts_of_a_collapsed_Atlantic_Overturning_Circulation</a><br>
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<i>[ see the paper in Nature Climate Change ]</i><br>
<b>Interbasin and interhemispheric impacts of a collapsed Atlantic
Overturning Circulation</b><br>
June 2022Nature Climate Change 12(6):1-8<br>
DOI:10.1038/s41558-022-01380-y<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361134395_Interbasin_and_interhemispheric_impacts_of_a_collapsed_Atlantic_Overturning_Circulation">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361134395_Interbasin_and_interhemispheric_impacts_of_a_collapsed_Atlantic_Overturning_Circulation</a><br>
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<i>[ Investigative journalist - Atlas Network ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Corruption | Amy Westervelt</b><br>
Planet: Critical<br>
Feb 21, 2024<br>
Truth is stranger than fiction—but fiction is better written.<br>
<br>
We know their playbooks and their networks, but the bad guys of this
story are in no rush to change their tactics. From funding dodgy
research to bleating lies on prime time television, the fossil fuel
industry and its allies are audaciously villainous. They’d been
getting away with it for decades—but now independent media has them
running scared.<br>
<br>
Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative climate journalist
and media founder with 20 years on the climate beat. Her
investigations have exposed the worst crimes of the fossil fuel
industry, and she now leads an international team of climate
reporters at Drilled who uncover the connections between
governments, industry and policy. <br>
<br>
She joins me today to discuss their recent exposé of The Atlas
Network, the shadowy ecosystem of think tanks pushing for the
criminalisation of climate activists all around the world. Amy
explains the roots of the network’s beginnings in World War Two, its
rapid expansion as neoliberalism sunk its teeth into global
politics, and its vast grip today on policy-makers around the world.
This is a startling conversation, revealing the terrifying reach of
right-wing extremism and corporate capture, with Amy suggesting the
only path forward may indeed be revolutionary. <br>
🔴 Amy: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amywestervelt.com/">https://www.amywestervelt.com/</a><br>
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<blockquote>0:00 Intro<br>
04:51 Why is the world in crisis?<br>
08:21 Intersectional Strategies<br>
16:28 Reforming Capitalism<br>
22:31 The Atlas Network<br>
42:25 The Illusion of Choice <br>
50:16 Corporate Capture<br>
01:00:21 Revolution and Soveriegnty<br>
01:10:32 Outro<br>
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<i>[ more info on Atlas Network from Wikipedia ]</i><br>
<b>Atlas Network</b><br>
Atlas Network, formerly known as Atlas Economic Research Foundation,
is a non-governmental 501(c)(3) organization based in the United
States that provides training, networking, and grants for
libertarian, free-market, and conservative groups around the
world...<br>
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Atlas Network has been described as "self-replicating, a think tank
that creates think tanks."The 2019 and 2020 Global Go To Think Tank
Index Report ranked Atlas Network as 54th among the "Top Think Tanks
in the United States."The organization's website says it is not
named after Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, but some published
sources say it is. Atlas Network has "hundreds of member think tanks
across the world, and their members produce white papers, meet with
politicos, liaise with the media, write legislation, and much more,"
as described by WNYC.<br>
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In 1981, Atlas Network helped economist Hernando de Soto found the
Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Peru[11] and invested
in the Institut Economique de Paris (IEP) in France. In 1983, Fisher
helped launch the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in
Dallas, Texas,[11] and the Jon Thorlaksson Institute in Iceland.
That organization was replaced by the Icelandic Research Centre for
Innovation and Economic Growth. Atlas Network grew from 15 think
tanks in nine countries in the mid-1980s to 457 think tanks in 96
countries as of 2020. Atlas Network helped establish the Hong Kong
Centre for Economic Research in 1987 and the Liberty Institute in
New Delhi in 1996.<br>
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Atlas Network has been linked to the tobacco industry. A 2017 paper
in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management said
that Atlas Network "channeled funding from tobacco corporations to
think tank actors to produce publications supportive of industry
positions."[13] The University of Bath's Tobacco Control Research
Group said the Atlas Network "appears to have played a particular
role in helping the tobacco industry oppose tobacco control measures
in Latin America" during the 1990s. Le Monde identified 17 Atlas
Network partners engaged in lobbying and advocacy for "tobacco harm
reduction," which supports vaping as a substitute for smoking. The
Guardian calculated that more than a fifth of all groups affiliated
with Atlas Network worldwide had either opposed tobacco controls or
taken tobacco donations.<br>
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Atlas Network has been linked to oil and gas producers. It
collaborated with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute of Canada in a
push for oil and gas development on Indigenous land, according to
documents described in The Guardian.[8] An article in The New
Republic blamed Atlas Network for its members' efforts in some
countries to demonize and criminalize climate protesting,
particularly in Germany.<br>
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The Intercept, The Guardian, and The New Republic have described
Atlas Network as having ties to conservative movements, including
the administration of Donald Trump in the United States, Brexit in
the United Kingdom, and anti-government protests in Latin
America.[34][35][16] According to The Guardian, "Atlas took no
position on Brexit itself, and many of its European partners were
opposed, but directors of UK groups in the network were prominent in
the official campaign to take Britain out of the EU." In Brazil,
Atlas Network had a role in the "Free Brazil" movement in 2014 that
led to the rise of Jair Bolsonaro, and sponsors the Liberty Forum
where policies of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva were opposed.<br>
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Atlas Network was linked to an online campaign that used fake
accounts against the Cuban government during the 2021 Cuban
protests, according to disinformation expert Julián Macías Tovar.
Tovar, cited in The Guardian, also said that Atlas Network members'
Twitter accounts had been involved in bot or troll centre campaigns
during the 2019 Bolivian political crisis, the 2021 Ecuadorian
general election, and the 2021 Peruvian general election.[37]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Network">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Network</a><i><br>
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[ DW News current climate changes - 6 min video ]<br>
<b>New climate data shows global temperatures continuing to rise
sharply | DW News</b><br>
Feb 20, 2024 #Climatechange #climatedata #globalwarming<br>
For the first time the world was 1.5 degrees warmer compared to
pre-industrial times. It was actually anticipated that this
important threshold would only be reached in the next few years or
the next decade. Recently, scientists expressed "alarm" over the
latest findings that the so-called AMOC, a system of ocean currents
in the Atlantic, is about to shift due to rapid ice melt. If it were
to fail, Europe would see a dramatic drop in temperatures of up to
10 degrees on average. In southern hemisphere countries, warming
could intensify, and in the Amazon region, the rainy and dry seasons
could be reversed. Sea levels would rise at a speed that would make
it impossible for humans to adapt in time. Have we already exceeded
the key 1.5-degree limit agreed in the Paris Climate Accord for
good? <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug9OUNAYPC4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug9OUNAYPC4</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[The news archive - quite dumb for 2010 -
avoiding disinformation ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>February 22, 2010 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> February 22, 2010: <br>
<b>The Economist calls out the Daily Mail for promoting the notion
that climate change "stopped" in 1995.</b><br>
ttp://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/02/climategate_distortions<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/cp-iB6jwjUc">http://youtu.be/cp-iB6jwjUc</a><br>
<b>Flogging the Scientists</b><br>
greenman3610<br>
Mar 15, 2010<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://climatecrocks.com/">http://climatecrocks.com/</a><br>
As a nonscientist, it's daunting for me to work thru the huge volume
of information on global climate change.<br>
I've found that the most reliable scientific information comes from
respected peer reviewed science journals .<br>
But journals have lots of big words, and lots of small print, and
very few illustrations to make it easy for me. You can see why
climate denies don't like them.<br>
But that's where the facts are.<br>
How can you tell a good science journal?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/cp-iB6jwjUc">http://youtu.be/cp-iB6jwjUc</a><br>
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