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Surface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind-boggling 118 degrees
https://www.cnet.com/news/surface-temperatures-in-siberia-heat-up-to-a
-mind-boggling-118-degrees/
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The Republican Party is still playing the same game as always
The GOP platform:
The Democratic Party’s energy policy can be summed up in a slogan currently popular among its activists: “keep it in the ground.” Keeping energy in the earth will keep jobs out of reach of those who need them most. For low-income Americans, expensive energy means colder homes in the winter and hotter homes in the summer, less mobility in employment, and higher food prices. The current Administration, and particularly its EPA, seems not to care. Its Clean Power Plan — the centerpiece of the President’s war on coal — has been stayed by the Supreme Court. We will do away with it altogether. The Democratic Party does not understand that coal is an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource. Those who mine it and their families should be protected from the Democratic Party’s radical anticoal agenda. - from the Republican Platform www.gop.com/platform/americas-natural-resources/
The same Administration now requires the Department of Defense, operating with slashed budgets during a time of expanding conflict, to use its scarce resources to generate 25 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2025. Climate change is far from this nation’s most pressing national security issue. This is the triumph of extremism over common sense, and Congress must stop it. - also from the Republican Platform
Trump’s breach of the Paris Climate Accord and his crusade against green energy was a crime against humanity and the earth. He put over a hundred billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during his years as president, encouraging coal and Big Oil, and only wished it had been more. Trump’s actions are a time bomb that will kill millions when their full effect is felt.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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A Week After the Pacific Northwest Heat Wave, Study Shows it Was ‘Almost Impossible’ Without Global Warming
The extreme temperatures have shaken scientists’ fundamental understanding of heat waves and triggered concerns about a climate tipping point.
The high temperatures in late June that killed hundreds of people in Oregon, Washington and Canada were so unusual that they couldn’t have happened without a boost from human-caused global warming, researchers said Wednesday when they released a rapid climate attribution study of the heat wave in the Pacific Northwest.
The temperatures were so far off the charts that the scientists suggested that global warming may be triggering a “non-linear” climate response, possibly involving drought magnifying the warming, to brew up extreme heat storms that exceed climate projections.
Climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, made the Pacific Northwest heat wave at least 150 times more likely, and increased its peak temperatures by about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the study by World Weather Attribution concluded.
“I think it’s by far the largest jump in the record that I have ever seen,” said Fredi Otto, a University of Oxford climate researcher and co-author of the study. “We have seen temperature jumps in other heat waves, like in Europe, but never this big.”
The extreme temperature spike shook up some fundamental assumptions about heat waves, said co-author Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute. “It was way above the upper bounds,” he said. “It was surprising and I’m shaken that our theoretical understanding of how heat waves behave was so roughly broken. We’ve dialed down our certainty.” If global warming has pushed the climate past a heat wave tipping point, he added, “we are worried about these things happening everywhere.”
The Pacific Northwest heat wave should be a big warning, said co-author Dim Coumou, with the Institute for Environmental Studies at VU Amsterdam and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. It shows climate scientists don’t understand the mechanisms driving such exceptionally high temperatures, suggesting that “we may have crossed a threshold in the climate system where a small amount of additional global warming causes a faster rise in extreme temperatures.”
In an unrelated study published July 6, European Union researchers studying climate tipping points found additional evidence that human-caused warming could be “abrupt and irreversible,” partly because the current warming is so fast that the climate system can’t adjust. Even the “safe operating space of 1.5 or 2.0 degrees above present generally assumed by the IPCC might not be all that safe,” said co-author Michael Ghil, with the University of Copenhagen.
About 800 people died across the Pacific Northwest during the heat wave, a number that will probably still go up as officials examine medical records and statistics in the coming weeks and months. The peak temperature was 121.3 degrees Fahrenheit on June 29 in Lytton, British Columbia. After setting heat records for Canada on three consecutive days, the town was mostly destroyed by a wildfire driven by hot winds in the dried out forests nearby. In addition to contributing to several major wildfires in the region that are still burning, the heat cooked growing fruit and scalded foliage on trees and other vegetation.
The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said Wednesday that the average June temperature was the highest on record for North America and the fourth-highest on record globally.
In early July, extreme heat boiled over in northern Scandinavia, with parts of Finland reporting record-breaking temperatures. Persistent heat across northeastern Russia is fueling fires there that are emitting record levels of carbon dioxide for this time of year. And in the West, yet another spasm of dangerous heat i
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Merkel tours ‘surreal’ flood scene, vows aid, climate action
https://apnews.com/article/europe-floods-7ddb112f034d10973b766dc028eca
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Wildfires rage in Russia’s Siberia, cause airport to close
https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-government-and-politics-fir
es-environment-and-nature-0701097671f846805860c184b215ff74
Huge Oregon blaze grows as wildfires burn across western US
https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-science-health-fires-environment-
and-nature-98130ca2eda415754bbb085b2dd0a23d
UNESCO chides Australia over Great Barrier Reef proposal
https://apnews.com/article/environment-and-nature-australia-united-nat
ions-3a03a34def7d47e6a70d0515bd3962e7
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Monster wildfire tests years of forest management efforts
Ecologists in a vast region of wetlands and forest in remote Oregon have spent the past decade thinning young trees and using planned fires to try to restore the thick stands of ponderosa to a less fire-prone state.
This week, the nation’s biggest burning wildfire provided them with an unexpected, real-world experiment. As the massive inferno half the size of Rhode Island roared into the Sycan Marsh Preserve, firefighters said the flames jumped less from treetop to treetop and instead returned to the ground, where they were easier to fight, moved more slowly and did less damage to the overall forest.
https://apnews.com/article/science-fires-environment-and-nature-oregon
-weather-9a8021b4073fc50309ddf9bad479d956
EXPLAINER: What’s fueling Russia’s ‘unprecedented’ fires?
RECORD HEAT
MONITORING DIFFICULTIES
NEGLECT OF FIRE SAFETY RULES
ARSON
CONTROVERSIAL (let it burn)_REGULATIONS
https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-russia-environment-and-natu
re-climate-change-9f08b16cc35f773d27ce6b2746b410cd
While good forest management practices can help tame wildfires, evidence from areas without any forest management practices show that the planet is more vulnerable to extreme fires than it has been in the past.
I didn't use the extreme forest fires in Australia, Indonesia and Brazil as examples, because those areas have been massively disrupted. But large portions of Siberia are intact, creating examples of what's happening in natural systems.
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This is almost as creepy as the videos that came out of Fort McMurray, Canada.
This video takes an hour in real time, for the fire not visible over a distant ridge at the start to overtake the camera at the end.
BTW, doing a quick check on Fort McMurray to refresh my memory, I found this sad result:
Firefighters from 2016 Fort McMurray Fire Now Battling Lung Damage
https://www.netnewsledger.com/2021/07/20/firefighters-from-2016-fort-m
cmurray-fire-now-battling-lung-damage/
Firefighters who fought Fort McMurray wildfire suffer persistent lung damage
https://troymedia.com/health/firefighters-found-to-have-persistent-lun
g-damage-from-fort-mcmurray-wildfire/
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Climate change IPCC report is 'code red for humanity', UN scientists say
IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Press Release:
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2021/08/IPCC_WGI-AR6-Press-Rel
ease_en.pdf
Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
The full report is 3,949 pages. The 42 page Summary for Policymakers (SPM) provides a high-level summary of the understanding of the current state of the climate.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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"Bottom line is that we have zero years left to avoid dangerous climate change, because it's here," Michael E. Mann, a lead author of the IPCC's 2001 report, told CNN.
Unlike previous assessments, Monday's report concludes it is "unequivocal" that humans have caused the climate crisis and confirms that "widespread and rapid changes" have already occurred, some of them irreversibly.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/world/global-climate-change-report-un-i
pcc/index.html
How did Trump respond? This way: "Communist Democrat Party". Trump passionately hates the Green New Deal, the only way to save the world from burning to death.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/news-gyuymdj5zs0
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Biden* isn't going to save you from global warming.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Biden* isn't going to save you from global warming.
Are you kidding me comrade? When Trump tried to hide the climate change report you said nothing and instead attacked Obama. When Trump blocked science from the white house you said very little. If it was anyone else you would have started a thread about it.
You have zero credibility when condemning Biden now. First thing Biden did is rejoin the global climate accord. You condemn Biden for not being a miracle worker now, while conveniently forgetting Republicans have blocked everything the Democrats have tried to do about climate change for decades. They did this by spewing climate denial and fake facts.
Biden just became president and is trying. When he was vice president he tried and when a senator he tried. Shoo troll...
Trump Administration Tried To Bury His Climate Study
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=63204
Science given the boot at White House
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=61767
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