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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>February </b></i></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>27, 2024</b></i></font><font
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<i> [ adjustment is part of the sport ]</i><br>
<b>World-famous sled dog race canceled because of lack of snow</b><br>
The event normally brings thousands of spectators and valuable
tourism to one of the most rural parts of the Northeast<br>
Patrick Whittle<br>
2.27.24<br>
The longest sled dog race in the eastern United States has been
canceled due to a lack of snow on the ground.<br>
The Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races have taken place in
northern Maine for more than three decades, including a 250-mile
event that is the marquee sled dog race in New England.<br>
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But this year, snowfall has been well below average in Maine, and
it's not safe to run the races, organisers said.<br>
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A forecasted heavy rainstorm and period of unseasonably warm weather
also bode poorly for trail conditions, said Can-Am president Dennis
Cyr.<br>
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“The unique challenges presented by the lack of snow have led us to
conclude that moving forward with this year’s race could compromise
the well-being of all involved,” Cyr said. "It is a decision made
with heavy hearts but necessary caution.”<br>
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The races are held in Fort Kent, more than 300 miles north of
Portland near the border with Canada. The town has had 46.8 inches
(119 cm) of snow this year and normally would have had more than 80
inches (203 cm) by now, the National Weather Service said.<br>
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The races were founded in 1992 and they've had to occasionally
reroute over the years because of conditions. The race was halted
early in 1994 due to thinning ice and a cold snap on race day
resulted in last-minute changes in 2017. The 2021 races were also
canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<br>
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The event normally brings thousands of spectators and valuable
tourism dollars to one of the most rural parts of the Northeast.
It's one of many cold weather events that has been jeopardized in
recent years by increasingly warm winter temperatures in northern
parts of the country. This month's Pond Hockey Classic in New
Hampshire was moved from Lake Winnipesaukee because of a lack of
thick ice.<br>
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Organisers said plans are underway to bring back the races next
year.<br>
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The race is “not just an event; it's a tradition that celebrates the
remarkable bond between the mushers and their sled dogs, as well as
the rugged beauty of Maine's winter landscape,” said event vice
president Sarah Brooks.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/can-am-sled-dog-race-canceled-snow-b2502810.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/can-am-sled-dog-race-canceled-snow-b2502810.html</a>?<br>
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<i>[ #1 High school science experiment from the great Richard Alley
]</i><br>
<b>Vital Signs of Thwaites, the "Doomsday Glacier" Episode #1.
(Climate Change Education)</b><br>
USIceDrilling<br>
Feb 3, 2024<br>
Dr. Richard and Dr. Karen Alley take vital signs of Thwaites Glacier
in Antarctica to see if it is deserving of the "Doomsday Glacier"
nickname. Three vital signs are examined throughout the series to
access how this glacier may single handedly impact future
predictions of sea level rise. In this episode, the speed of the
glacier over the last 20 years is analyzed using satellite imagery.
Episode One of a three-part series. This video is part of the U.S.
Ice Drilling Program's School of Ice Virtual Field Lab Series. (CC)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHgSCCQrttI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHgSCCQrttI</a><br>
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<i>[ #2 highschool ]</i><br>
<b>Vital Signs of Thwaites, the "Doomsday Glacier" Episode #2.
(Climate Change Education)</b><br>
USIceDrilling<br>
Feb 20, 2024<br>
Dr. Richard and Dr. Karen Alley take vital signs of Thwaites Glacier
in Antarctica to see if it is deserving of the "Doomsday Glacier"
nickname. Three vital signs are examined throughout the series to
access how this glacier may single handedly impact future
predictions of sea level rise. In this episode, the speed of the
glacier over the last 20 years is analyzed using satellite imagery.
Episode Two of a three-part series. This video is part of the U.S.
Ice Drilling Program's School of Ice Virtual Field Lab Series. (CC)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkjy3S8yN4A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkjy3S8yN4A</a><br>
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<i>[ Shame, flame, defame, ]</i><br>
<b>Let’s Build a Climate Wall of Shame</b><br>
Feb. 23, 2024<br>
By Nate Loewentheil<br>
Mr. Loewentheil is the founder and managing partner of Commonweal
Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in clean energy,
health and financial technologies.<br>
Here is a proposal for the environmental movement: Pool
philanthropic funds for a day, buy a small plot of land in
Washington, D.C., and put up a tall marble wall to serve as a
climate memorial. Carve on this memorial the names of public figures
actively denying the existence of climate change. Carve the names so
deep and large, our grandchildren and great-grandchildren need not
search the archives.<br>
<br>
This is not a metaphor. The problem with climate change is the
disconnect between action and impact. If politicians vote against
construction standards and a school collapses, the next election
will be their last. But with climate change, cause and effect are at
a vast distance.<br>
<br>
We are already seeing the consequences of our past and present
greenhouse gas emissions. In coming decades, those emissions will
wreak their full havoc on the climate, and it will take hundreds,
possibly thousands, of years for those pollutants to fully
dissipate. But in the short term, the most immediate burdens are
borne mostly by the poor in America and distant people in distant
lands. Misaligned incentives are at the heart of why some political
and business leaders deny and delay.<br>
<br>
For them, there can be immediate political and economic benefits to
avowed ignorance, and by the time the waters rise, their deeds and
words will be forgotten. A memorial would help adjust for this
temporal gap. It would serve as a permanent testament of climate
deniers whose actions might otherwise be lost to history and a
reminder to those weighing their words today of what the future may
bring.<br>
The climate memorial would need to be in a highly visible place.
Perhaps a commission could be established to select one climate
antihero from academia or politics or business to be added to the
memorial each quarter. Better yet, the names could be crowdsourced.<br>
<br>
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would first nominate those who have sown confusion over climate
science, like Myron Ebell, who recently retired as director of the
Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and
Environment, where he sought to block climate change efforts in
Congress, and served as the head of Donald Trump’s transition team
for the Environmental Protection Agency. Mr. Ebell has argued that
the idea that climate change is “an existential threat or even
crisis is preposterous.”<br>
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Then there are lawmakers who have consistently stood in the way of
federal action, like the recently retired senator James Inhofe of
Oklahoma, the author of the book “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global
Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.”<br>
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True, some might celebrate their inclusion on the memorial as a
badge of honor. Let them. The memorial is designed to set the record
straight for posterity. In an age of effervescent social media
content, a climate memorial would etch permanently into the public
imagination the names of those who hewed to ignorance at a moment of
urgent crisis, one that requires “climate action on all fronts —
everything, everywhere, all at once,” as António Guterres, the
United Nations secretary general, put it last year.<br>
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By the same token, the memorial might induce some business and
political leaders to reflect on the longer arc of history. The
nature of a legacy is defined by future historians. To paraphrase
Thomas Reed, a speaker of the House in the late 19th century, only
after death can a politician hope to become a statesman. The
memorial might move a politician or business leader toward sanity.
The antihero nominees could be given a chance to reconsider their
positions before hammer hits marble.<br>
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Memorials bring the present into the future and the future into the
present and, in this case, would put the focus on what is at stake:
Earth and humanity’s place on it.<br>
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Our nation’s capital would be a good place to build the first
climate memorial, but we need not stop there. States like Florida
and Louisiana will be among the first to suffer the worst effects of
rising oceans and more severe weather. We should build
state-specific walls in Tallahassee and Baton Rouge to bring the
message home. Just make sure the memorials are situated well above
sea level<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/opinion/climate-change-memorial.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/opinion/climate-change-memorial.html</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - what did they do when they knew? ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>February 27, 2001 </b></i></font> <br>
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<p>February 27, 2001: Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill sends a memo
to President George W. Bush urging him to take strong action to
combat carbon pollution. The memo is ignored, and O'Neill would be
forced out as Treasury Secretary a year later.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ijQLBeDklxcC&pg=PA360&lpg=PA360&dq=paul+o%27neill+global+warming+memo+february+27&source=bl&ots=573aM1IF-O&sig=JrLs5DMwXJIc-AotPsqL-Z1VLHU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yKnAUrCKB_K-sQT36ILQDQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=paul%20o%27neill%20global%20warming%20memo%20february%2027&f=false">http://books.google.com/books?id=ijQLBeDklxcC&pg=PA360&lpg=PA360&dq=paul+o%27neill+global+warming+memo+february+27&source=bl&ots=573aM1IF-O&sig=JrLs5DMwXJIc-AotPsqL-Z1VLHU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yKnAUrCKB_K-sQT36ILQDQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=paul%20o%27neill%20global%20warming%20memo%20february%2027&f=false</a><br>
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