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Steven Koonin vs Climate Reality
It would be wonderful to discover NASA scientist James Hansen’s June 23, 1988 warning to the U. S. Congress about climate change, and his 2016 video “Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms [ . . .],” were wrong. I could change this fishing/climate blog into just a fishing blog. I could write about many other social…
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Thoughts and Prayers for Thousands of Klamath Falls, Oregon, Farmers/Ranchers, Facing Water Shut Off for “First Year in History” as “Millions of Migrating Birds” Suffer and “70% of [ . . . Downriver Salmon Smolts Are] Already Dead in the Traps Used to Collect Them”
My all-time best fishing buddy was my second cousin Gary Starbuck who lived in Kamath Falls, Oregon, so I made visits there the past five years. I had dinner with ranching families, and found them hardworking, honest, with an uncommon joy in life. So, my thoughts and prayers go to the thousands in Klamath Falls,…
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Massachusetts Review Accepting Work Until June 15 About “climate refugees, environmental migrants, and others who are experiencing the disaster firsthand”
Thanks to Alaskan Writer Ken Waldman who endorsed my new book for this: http://massreview.org/node/9564 Here are “General Guidelines.” In a related matter, one of my top posts is “Schellnhuber: ‘Rising Seas Could Affect 1.4 Billion People by 2060′” with a 2017 film trailer for Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow about “massive human migration.”
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Climate Emergency and Harlan Howard’s “three chords and the truth”
It has been widely reported Harlan Howard defined country music as “three chords and the truth,” and it could also be a motto for the climate emergency. In 2019 Johan Rockström, one of the climate scientists I most respect, claimed he was misquoted by Gaia Vince’s May 18, 2019 article in The Guardian regarding effects of a 4…
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President Biden’s April 22/23 Climate Summit (also called “Leaders’ Climate Summit”), and Noble Prize Summit — OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE April 26/27/28
I watched most of the first day of President Biden’s April 22/23 Climate Summit, and participated in the Noble Prize Summit — OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE April 26/27/28. There were some tech glitches in both, but overall I’m glad I watched/attended. I respect U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s visit to China before President Biden’s…
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Documenting a Vanishing Pacific Northwest Ecosystem and Culture
April 30, 2021 Update — Yesterday apnews.com reported “California officials will again truck [‘more than 16.8 million’] young salmon raised at fish hatcheries in the state’s Central Valley agricultural region to the Pacific Ocean because projected river conditions show that the waterways the fish use to travel downstream will be historically low and warm due to…
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Biden, Putin, Xi Jinping, and Obama Should Fish Together Before Biden’s April 22/23 Climate Summit
April 20, 2021 Update — According to dw.com in Germany, President of Russia Vladimir Putin will attend U. S. President Joe Biden’s April 22/23 Climate Summit. Sustraitstimes.com in Singapore reported Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping will also attend. It was widely reported U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has been in China trying…
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87 year-old Social Scientist Dr. Mayer Hillman’s Warning to Humanity in October 2020
Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion. A 2018 article in The Guardian by Patrick Barkham noted “[Dr. Mayer Hillman] is anxious we are not side-tracked by his best-known research, which challenged the supremacy of the car.” The article quoted Hillman, “With doom ahead, making a case for cycling as the primary mode of transport is almost irrelevant…
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Sir David Attenborough’s Warning to Humanity at UN Security Council Feb. 23, 2021
Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion. Michelle Nichols at reuters.com reported “Attenborough, 94, the world’s most influential wildlife broadcaster, addressed a virtual meeting of the 15-member council on climate-related risks to international peace and security, chaired by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.’If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that…
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It May Be Too Late for Paris Climate Conference Goal of 1.5 C Meaning “a further 70–90%” of Earth’s Coral Reefs May Be Lost According to IPCC
Dave Borlace, noted as best “explainer” in my “Updated Best Practices for Climate Crisis,” posted a helpful video on 1/27/21 Is it too late to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming?. His video notes on 1/8/21 “the European Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) published a climate update [ . . . . ].” Borlace says we may reach 1.5…