Read This First, Heuristics (1), Glossary (A-H), Mini Lessons (4)
-1. Encouragement to Live in Dangerous Places, 1.1. Earthquake and Sleeping, 1.2. Power of the Word Trump, 1.3. Avoiding the Jaws of Decisions, Brexit Climage, Scientific Integrity Act, 2. Trash of Biblical Proportions, THEPA, Fake or Biased, Trump Environmentalist 3. Baked Alaska, 3.1. Glacial Anthropology, 3.2. Mass Triage, 4. Famine and Disease, 4.1. Butterfly Effect Crops, 5. Microbiome Update, 6. Reliable ≠ Valid, 7. Another Chanc(g)e to get it Right, Policy, ICE Raids, Evacuation, 8. Language and the Biosphere, 9. Gore and Godwin’s Law, 10. Globalists Versus Nationalists, 11. Madam Secretary, <ADDED >1. Zen of funding, does a problem exist if no one is willing to pay to mitigate it, >2. Kentucky Bourbon Marinade, Trumping Coal, >3. Spinning Global Nuclear Disasters, >4. Rising Swamp Levels and Forced Imprisonment, Migration & Hiding, >5. Moribundx Venezuela, >6. Crime and ASF, >7. Practicing Medicine without Water, >8. Smokey Bear, >9. Russian and US Agreement on Wind Power, >10. Congo Ebola. 190714-Vaccine. 190714-Polemic.
Other Topics: BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Infectious Disease, NIMBY, Visceral Trump, Decision Making, Truth or dare decisions, Fox News, Credibility of Sources, Donations (or Bribes), Global Pollution and Health Observatory, Blow Fish, Exxon Valdez, Disaster Tourism, Hurricane, Viral News, Deployment, Evacuation, FEMA, ICE
-1. Media Disaster Reporting Can Throw a Wrench in the Way You Process Disaster Risk 2015, and pertinent today with risks of sea level rise and megafire and yet these are still prime real estate areas, <ADDED 190707-180715-4>14, the reporting of natural disasters can actually encourage people to move to more dangerous places. Way to go, brains – Do Our Brains Hamper Our Response to Climate Change’s Growing Threat. Catastrophe on Camera: Why Media Coverage of Natural Disasters Is Flawed 2011. Reporting on Risk: How the Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Disasters and Other Hazards 1994. A Study of Mass Media Reporting in Emergencies 1985. Perhaps more intriguing is why there is so little study of this, especially as recent history should make it clear there is a problem. Climate Change Victims: What Will You Do Next: Contemporary politics generates a lot of noise and smoke, with little attention devoted to understanding, analysing and fixing the causes of the noise and smoke. The global public discourse is dominated by statements made by politicians and aspirants to power, designed to shock, awe and draw support. The statements are rarely about real underpinning threats facing society. Buying out Beach Homes May Be Simpler than Fighting Floods. One Climate Crisis Disaster Occurs Every Week, U.N. Official Warns, and note the use of climate crisis, <ADDED 190519-190505-7A>2. Climate Change or Climate Crisis. To Really Engage People, the Media Should Talk about Solutions, Cover the Climate Crisis like it Is One. On Fox News, Patrick Michaels Falsely Claims Humans Are Only Responsible for Half of Global Warming may be a Blow Fish fallacy, focusing attention on a specific point distracting from the main point. Whether half or not the average temperature is still the same and will still have consequences, cause is not as important as effect in this case. Presumably that human caused can be controlled by humans and lowering higher average by one of two degrees will still help. Deconstructing Climate Misinformation to Identify Reasoning Errors. [Photo, Cartoon]. Climate Change Is Going to Cost Florida a Lot of Money.
-1.1. California Residents So Rattled by Earthquakes They're Sleeping Outside is a misleading headline -3↓. It is true that people do sleep outdoors if their home is damaged and they have no place to go. There is also the Jaws Effect*-1.3↓, 190602-3, that if other people are sleeping outdoor, other people will especially with continuous aftershocks, [Photo -2- -3- -4-]. There will also be a short time when more people will be moving out of state, or hesitate to come to the state, and more people buying earthquake insurance. There will also be humor, ‘Are the Emmys and Grammy Safe?’ Celebrities Respond to Southern California Quake, Millennials Are Reacting to the California Earthquakes in the Most 2019-ish Ways, YouTube Livestream Gets Hits by California Earthquake. Earthquake Jokes Go Viral as Us West Coast Mocks 'Overreacting' East Coast 2011. Californians deal with earthquakes all the time - New Yorkers do not. So when the US East Coast panicked over Tuesday's 5.9 magnitude tremor, the jokes were hard to resist.
-1.2. The Billionaire Cofounder of Home Depot Plans on Donating up to 90% of His $5.9 Billion Fortune, and Trump's 2020 Campaign Will Be One of the Beneficiaries, is an accurate headline, but also causes a knee jerk with the word “Trump”. After the 90 year old billionaire dies, 80 to 90% of his total wealth will go to his foundation to build centers to help veterans with disabilities around the country, fund medical research, and provide care for children with autism. Aside from philanthropy, Marcus is also a major political donor: He supported, and intends to again support, Trump's presidential bid. He was one of Trump's largest donors in 2016, giving $7 million. As a noted philanthropist in Georgia, he donated $250 million to fund the construction of the Georgia Aquarium, and has made contributions to an autism center and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Peter Thiel Addresses 'Visceral Reactions' Toward His Support of Trump: Is it Really Bad for Business 2016. Trump Defends Home Depot Co Founder after Shoppers Threaten Boycott. [Photo, Meme]. Home Depot Responds to Calls for Boycott over Co Founder's Support for Trump. Fake News: Ross Perot Did Not Leave $100 Million to the Trump 2020 Campaign -2-.
-A. The Purell Presidency: Trump Aides Learn the President’s Real Red Line, a germaphobe, the president enforces hygiene inside the White House, and wherever else he goes, which gives insight to immigrants as disease and eugenic beliefs, -2, -190602-3.2↓, but then there is Trump Washes His Hands of Climate Change, Donald Trump Called Climate Change a Hoax. Now He's Awkwardly Boasting About Fighting It -2A↓ [Cartoon]. America Is Making Progress on the Environment — to the Chagrin of Critics, Daily Caller.
-1.3. See 181118-2.1 for another perspective on Jaws as it related to decision making. Social Context Influences Decision Makers' Willingness to Take Risks. Do differences in performance have an impact on risky decision. The result of their study is that people's willingness to take risks increases as soon as they get a lower return than other people with whom they compare themselves. At the same time, decision makers take lower risks if they get a higher return than their peers. In terms of parademic this is not decision making but making a choice. Decisions are when there is uncertainty of what the outcome will be, choices are made when there is a perception of what the outcome will be. This does not mean that the choice is made in certain, but that it is believed to have higher odds than other choices, in other words risk perception that can be influenced by Dunning-Kruger who play odds and avoid what the believe are actual decisions. The Provision and Utility of Earth Science to Decision Makers: Synthesis and Key Findings, -3.1↓, 190714-Polemic-4.1A.
-A. Revealed: Climate Change Denier Makes Big Donations to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. May’s Brexit Catastrophe Will Define Her – but Her Climate Target Will Have the Greater Impact on British Politics. How Brexit Could Impact the U.K.'s Climate Goals$. The Climate Tragedy of Brexit. -180513-1.1↓.
-B. Hearing Will Put Scientific Integrity Policies in the Spotlight, which prohibits federal employees and contractors involved with science from engaging in this kind of damaging behavior; specifically, it states that they shall not: (1) Engage in dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, coercive manipulation, or other scientific or research misconduct; (2) Suppress, alter, interfere with, or otherwise impede the timely release and communication of, scientific or technical findings; (3) Intimidate or coerce an individual to alter or censor, or retaliate against an individual for failure to alter or censor, scientific or technical findings; or (4) Implement institutional barriers to cooperation and the timely communication of scientific or technical findings. Wonder if this will apply to education and textbooks Massachusetts Bill Seeks to Protect Science Education, Teaching Global Warming in a Charged Political Climate, 190616-4, <ADDED 190602-190224-1‡>8A. As Trump Touts Environmental Record, Analyst Resigns after Climate Change Testimony Was Censored. 190630-4, 190609-Polemic-1. | Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez to Introduce Measure to Declare Climate Change an Official Emergency, You Can’t Call Something an Emergency and Then Approve the Projects Causing It. Moving into Emergency Mode on Climate Change. Trump to Give Speech on 'America's Environmental Leadership'.
-2. Love Thy Neighbor: The Bible Belt Is Becoming a Dumping Ground. In a place where allegory is impossible to shake, the pain isn’t only economic and environmental – it’s also spiritual. The “not in my backyard” mentality has inspired the acronym NIMBY and is perhaps nowhere more prevalent than when referring to waste. Municipalities across the U.S. are facing disposal challenges, but particularly in the Northeast, which has little space thanks to the highest population density in America. Still, part of the southward trash shift is also about political belief. Northeastern lawmakers are tightening environmental and licensing regulations that make it harder to open new landfills or expand existing ones. In the past two years, the Northeast has raised its average landfill tipping fees – the per ton cost for anyone dropping off waste at a processing facility – more than any other region, except the Pacific. Meanwhile, Bible Belt states have been in a race to the bottom of the heap. Since 2016, only the South and South Central regions have lowered their tipping fees. That makes them the cheapest dumping grounds in America. The consideration for whether waste gets shipped further away is an economic one. With many state lawmakers actively courting waste management companies and incentivizing them with tax breaks, the revenue from managing waste still isn’t massive. Yet local government taxes on landfills have for decades proved attractive to cash trapped counties. [Photo]. | Toxic Algae Blooms Force Mississippi to Close All Mainland Beaches, Toxic Algae Bloom Closes 25 Beaches on Mississippi's Coast, Fed by Fresh Floodwaters, -190707-3↓. Faith, Farmers, and Climate Action. People of Faith Have a Calling to Find Solutions for Global Climate Change. The Role of Faith in Climate Change, Bufo Toads in South Florida & Poet Richard Blanco.
-A. Jeremiah 2:7 -2-, Numbers 35:33, Numbers 35:34, both of which contrast markedly from Trump Imaginary Dominionism-4, -3↓. Trump Defends Environmental Record That Critics Call Disastrous -2$- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7-, -1.2↑, Trump Touts Environmental Leadership, Even as D.C. Floods and Critics Pounce -2-, [Cartoon], Meteorologist Sets the Record Straight After AOC Blames D.C. Flash Flooding on Climate Change, 190707-2.2. -190707-3↓.
-B. Trump Says Green New Deal Would 'Crush' Poor Americans, Touts Environmental Record, -190407-6↓, [Cartoon], which is from Fox News but has recently not been spinning the way Trump wants, Trump Unleashes on Fox News: They Forgot the People Who Got Them There -2- -3-, Want to Fight Climate Change. Plant 1 Trillion Trees. Former Fox News Reporter Partners with Progressive Climate Change Advocate to Launch Lefty Version of Drudge Report. Trump Embraces Right Wing One America News Network to Make Fox News Jealous. | Trump Administration Officials Scrubbed Climate Change from Press Releases, the dire predictions of a USGS study on sea level rise were removed. The Trump Administration Is Accused of Burying Climate Change Research; Here’s What We Know. None of which is exactly news Trump Is Deleting Climate Change, One Site at a Time 2017*B, 190519-6, 190428-VCP-Research, 190331-VCP-UK, 190203-3.1*. AOC’s Chief of Staff Admits the Green New Deal Is Not about Climate Change. AP Fact Check: Trump and an Eco Legacy Not His Own, We're Working Harder: Fact-checking Trump's Event on His Environmental Record. Beyond Technical Fixes: Climate Solutions and the Great Derangement. Climate change transformation of economies and everyday practices is urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and global agreements confront material and social political infrastructures that support the status quo.
-C. Is That News Really 'Fake,' or Is it Just Biased. Credibility depends on bias as well as honesty. In an era of concern over fake news, a new study finds that people draw a distinction between information sources that are dishonest and those that are biased. Strategic Storytelling: When Narratives Help Versus Hurt the Persuasive Power of Facts. This seems to contradict such narratives as diseased migrants -1.2A↑ invading the US and In Era of Conspiracy Theorists, Sandy Hook Families Are Having to Prove Their Children Lived and Their Children Died Listicle, -2-.
-2.1. Indonesia Returning Waste to US, Other Wealthy Nations, Malaysia 190602-6, 190616-5. Returning it does not solve the problem, but maybe it will no longer be one that can be ignored. This is likely to end up in the ocean. Plastic Has a Big Carbon Footprint, but That Isn't the Whole Story. The Relentless (and Growing) Problem of Plastic ‘Nurdle’ Pollution. How Rivers Became the Plastic Highway into the Oceans. Scientists on Madeira See New ‘Plasticrust’ Sea Pollution. 190623-1. Plastic↓↓.
-3. A big impact event as Baking Alaska: Record Heat Spurs Wildfires and Mass Mortality Events is only marginally of parademic interest, and even then more as something to watch to see what the impact on people, health and environment will be. At this time it will probably not be a major influence on (Trump) health and environment policy and action (THEPA -2A↑). PDWN interest would be more along the lines of 190707-2.1, AP Photos: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Inflicted Lasting Wounds, July 10, 1992 The Exxon Valdez Captain’s Conviction Is Overturned, [Photo]. Popular Article in The Independent Accurately Summarizes June Heat in Europe, -1.1↑. For the First Time Ever, Temperatures Reached 90 Degrees in Anchorage. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/temperatures-reached-90-degrees-anchorage-firs-180972575/Mandatory Evacuations Lifted for Upstart Wildfire near Talkeetna. [Map]. How the Climate Crisis Could Change Fire Season in Alaska and Strain Nationwide Resources$.
-3.1. The Anthropology of Climate Change and Glacier Retreat. Glacier loss impacts communities in many ways. Some impacts – such as a reduction in irrigation water or an increased threat of certain natural hazards – are directly measurable. Some of them are more cultural and therefore harder to measure: the sense that glaciers have an aesthetic or even spiritual value for many people, and can serve as a source of identity for mountain communities. These impacts are seen in different ways by different groups but they all stem directly from climate change. It's important to bring a human dimension to the study of climate change. It's people who caused climate change, people who suffer from climate change, and people who will fix climate change. Anthropologists bring an awareness of culture to these issues, which is important because people understand the world through their cultural lenses. Anthropologists also bring an awareness of social context. Though individuals make decisions and take actions, they do so in the context of the other people with whom they have certain shared ideas and relationships -1.3↑. Climate Change Speeding Glaciers into Cement, The Arctic Ocean's Sea Ice Hit Record Low Levels this June, 190707-Polemic-1.
-3.2. This is not for mass casualty from a biocalamity which may have contaminated/ infectious patients. There is likely to be a spread in time before they become a casualty which will allow them to expose others over space. Walking worried and actually ill people may overwhelm hospitals and contaminate it, others will hide or deny infection. Larger possibility of mass panic and people self isolating, hoarding, depleting stores. Seeking accurate, or at least believed, information will become intense -180513-1.1A↓. #Document Mass Casualty Trauma Triage: Paradigms and Pitfalls. Triage is not the same as patient assessment – it is an assignment of resources based on the initial patient assessment and consideration of available resources. Both of these variables may change over time, thus changing the triage priority. Healthcare providers make triage decisions every day -1.3, 3.1, 190714-Polemic-4.1A. 190310-3.1.
-4. Can We Feed 11 Billion People While Preventing the Spread of Infectious Disease. Within the next 80 years the increase in population, and the accompanying need to feed everyone, will give rise to human infectious disease, and creating a rise in global food demand – presenting an unavoidable challenge to food production and distribution. This situation is one the authors consider two of the most formidable ecological and public health challenges of the 21st century. Climate Change Is Affecting Crop Yields and Reducing Global Food Supplies. Climate Change Affects Grain Production in India; Rice Crop Significantly Declines. [Map]. The World's Population Is Nearing 8 Billion. That's Not Great News and just around the corner in 2024. Climate Change Surprise: it Is Helping Grow More Corn and Soybeans in the Upper Midwest. Scientists Are Genetically Engineering Plants to Fight Climate Change, Breeding Crops to Feed 10 Billion.
-4.1. How Much Do Climate Fluctuations Matter for Global Crop Yields. The El Niño Southern Oscillation has been responsible for widespread, simultaneous crop failures in recent history. This finding runs counter to a central pillar of the global agriculture system, which assumes that crop failures in geographically distant breadbasket regions such as the United States, China and Argentina are unrelated.
-5. Have updated the material and added slide 5 Microsphere and Geospheres to Mini Lesson Micro Biosphere. 190707-7. [Art].
-6. Source Evaluation and Information Reliability. Information provided by a source does not necessarily objectively represent the reality. Sources are classified in order of decreasing reliability from A to F. A specific piece of information itself is ranked in decreasing order from 1 to 6. Parademic adds G, the source is trusted by a individual and/or social group, and 7, the information is considered true and behavior will be as if the information is true. For PDWN information is not evaluated in terms of traditional source and validity, but in terms of in what context is it accepted and people can reasonably be expected to behave as if the information is true. The material posted in PDWN tends to be B2 – everyone makes mistakes (to include thinking they never make a mistake or are absolutely correct making it ) and new data may change perception and interpretation – or is G7 and/or intended for G7 audiences. 190714-Polemic-5.1.
-6.1. Chart of reliability and validity.
-7. If this happens it will be the 13th hurricane to hit the US since January 2017. Hopefully practice has lead to improvement. Louisiana May Get Hit by a Hurricane this Weekend. New Orleans Is Already Flooded, New Orleans May Face an Unprecedented Weather Situation This Weekend, New Orleans Faces a Never Before Seen Problem with Tropical Storm Barry. Trump Plan Could Divert Funding from Long Sought Louisiana Project to Build Border Wall. Mississippi River Will Rise to Top of Lowest New Orleans Levees as Possible Hurricane Nears. Floodwater in New Orleans like Toxic Stew, Experts Warn. Swimming in It, That's Crazy. Tropical Storm Barry Creeps Closer as Gulf Coast Prepares to Be Drenched. Barry Expected to Strengthen to Hurricane, actually that might be safer as it may move out of the area and watershed quickly, a tropical storm could linger and dump more water. The Climate Crisis Is Making Storms like Barry Worse, Climate Change Fills Storms with More Rain, Analysis Shows$, Why Are Extreme Rains Are Gaining Strength as the Climate Warms$ 2018. New Orleans' Levees Face a Hard Test as Storm Bears Down. Tropical Storm Barry Could Bring 2 Feet of Rain, Disastrous Flooding to Louisiana. What to watch for when the storm hits is if the forecasts happen or not. If there is flooding there will be those who will automatically contribute it to climate change, if it does not happen some will dismiss as alarmism. The ideal would be that there will be a society wide reevaluation of what is needed to protect urban and rural areas from flood, but that is unlikely.
-A. It’s Powerful: Tropical Storm Starts Lashing Louisiana. [Cartoon]. Barry Upgraded to Hurricane as it Approaches Louisiana Coast, Barry Makes Landfall; Weakens to Tropical Storm. As Storm Moved In, 1 Couple Moved up Their Wedding Ceremony. Mississippi River Won’t Be as High as Feared. [Chart]. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Donates 17,000 Meals from Cancelled New Orleans Convention to Storm Disaster Relief. Barry Drenches Gulf Coast, but Initially Spares New Orleans. Gulf Coast Keeps Guard up as Barry Continues Drenching. Hurricane Barry’s Rain and Floods Hammer Gulf Environment. A Weakened Tropical Depression Barry Creeps North, but Heavy Rain Remains a Concern. Louisiana Governor Grateful Storm Wasn’t Worse.
-B. ICE Suspends Immigration Enforcement in New Orleans Ahead of Barry (Context Listicle), suspect this is for the humanitarian reason to not prevent people from seeking shelter and protect their own agents, but people will probably suspect that this is to get them to seek shelter so they are more easily picked up; In an effort to prepare officers for upcoming nationwide raids on undocumented immigrants, ICE Sends Agents Home with Sacks of Flour to Practice What it like Detaining Real Baby.
-C. Are Hurricanes Blowing Climate Change Skepticism Away. Sen. Graham: Trump Should Look at Science, Admit Climate Change Is Real, Trump Ally Lindsey Graham Says President Should Admit Climate Change Is Real, It's Lindsey Graham Vs. Donald Trump on Climate Crisis. The Latest: Trump Approves Federal Declaration Due to Barry. As Barry Strengthens, FEMA Is Already Stretched Thin. Planning for the Past: Local Temporality and the Construction of Denial in Climate Change Adaptation. Climate Deniers Beware: a Tsunami of Public Opinion Is Coming to Wipe You out | Opinion, Environmental Groups Fight EPA's New FOIA Rule.
-D. Storm Deaths Often Result from People Ignoring Too Familiar Emergency Warnings. So How Do Officials Combat Response Fatigue, or in this administration’s case, Hurricane aversion, as photo ops did not work out well, [Photo, Meme, Cover, Cartoon]. How Disaster Warnings Can Get Your Attention. Inland Flooding Passes Storm Surge as #1 Killer During Hurricanes. In Vulnerable La. Town , Some Flee Storm and Others Party it Up. As Barry Approaches, New Orleans Residents Debate Evacuation, Tropical Storm Barry Brings Familiar Question to Sinking Louisiana Island: Stay or Go, Not Scared: Bayou Residents Refuse to Flee Storm Barry. Hurricane Barry Slogs Toward Shore; Storm Surge Feared. Rescue Dogs Flown out of Louisiana Ahead of Barry to Avoid Euthanasia -2-.
-8. Linguistics are a frequent topic in PDWN, and no wonder at is both a means to code the biosphere so it can be communicated with others, but also reflects understanding of the biosphere. How Language and Climate Connect. While we’re losing biological diversity, we’re also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This is no coincidence. Climate Control + Language Control. Ecolinguistics. Linguistic Diversity + Biodiversity. Folk Taxonomies. The Unsuspecting Linguist.
-9. Stop Using Al Gore as an Excuse for Rejecting Science. There are a lot of bad reasons for rejecting the science of climate change (indeed, there are no good reasons), but some arguments are more well thought out than others. This is not going to be an article about one of those arguments. Rather, I am going to write a brief, cathartic rant about a particularly stupid argument that arises so frequently that it deserves to be its own internet law (much like a climate change version of Godwin’s law -2-, 190714-Vaccine-2.
-10. Globalists Versus Nationalists: Bridging the Divide Through Blue Marble Health. The concern is that these new nationalist trends could curtail or halt the expansions in global health that we have witnessed over the previous 2 decades. Ultimately, there is a fear that retreating from globalism might go hand in hand with abandoning the United Nations Global Goals for health and international development. Populis-t -m 190707-Vaccine-3, 190526-Vaccine-8.1, 190505-VCP-Global, 190428-VCP-2USA, 190331-VCP-Italy. One of the major tools of populists has been social media, but Are Social Media to Blame for a Decline in Vaccine Uptake
-11. Several of PDWNs topical areas that are also interconnected are covered in these two episodes: Forced migrations, sea level rise, measles outbreaks, anti vaccination, misinformation, international health done is a way that makes more sense to people than the PDWN stubs notes. Madam Secretary Season 5 Episode 16 The New Normal -2-, when a super typhoon threatens a small Pacific island, Elizabeth tries to relocate its population before the storm makes landfall, [Still]. S5 E17 The Common Defense -2-, while Elizabeth is away on a retreat thinking about her presidential campaign, her staff tries to secure an international agreement to protect citizens who have been displaced due to global warming. Also, the staff works to contain a measles outbreak that threatens the life of Daisy's daughter, [Still]. The show does have a brief scene that the way to counter misinformation is with facts, that is not true, as both episodes demonstrate. The topics are covered but in relatable ways, personal connections, simple but not overly simplified as they also show the challenges of getting people to do the things that are in their best interest.
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190707-Vaccine-2>1. Everyone Agrees this Superbug Is a Threat. Few Are Willing to Fund Research to Stop It. While concern about the superbug Candida auris has grown exponentially in recent years, funding for research to stop it has not. 190714-Vaccine-PDWN. A Deadly, Drug Resistant Fungus Has Swept the Globe. Here’s How it Spreads, the fungus spreads by shedding off of skin, which is an antivax faktoid on why to not vaccinate, 190707-Vaccine-3 St Jude, 190630-3.
-190707-3>2. Kentucky River Littered with Dead Fish in Wake of Jim Beam Warehouse Fire. The bourbon is expected to dissipate quickly once it reaches the Ohio River, a much larger body of water, the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet said. [Photo]. This is not the only location where there is a pending disaster from runoff and contaminated water: -2↑. Fecal Time Bomb Threatens Utah Backcountry. Intensifying Downpours Threatening America’s Biggest Estuary the old hydroelectric dam still producing power, but its days of effectively trapping sediment behind its walls are over. Behind the 94 foot high barrier lies a massive inventory of coal black muck – 200 million tons of pollutants picked up over decades from farmlands, industrial zones and towns; Experts Warn of 'Dead Zone' in Chesapeake Bay from Pollution. [Cartoon]. Fact Check: Trump Misleads on Tackling Lead in Drinking Water despite his boasts -2A↑ his administration is undercutting clean water initiatives through regulation rollbacks.
-‡. Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Coal in US for First Time [Chart], Trump EPA Rolls Back Obama Rule on Coal Fired Power Plants, Trump Administration’s Replacement to Clean Power Plan Sends U.S. in the Wrong Direction on Climate Change, Trump Administration Weakens Climate Plan to Help Coal Plants Stay Open, EPA Science Said Trump’s Coal Rule Would Kill 1,400. So the EPA Ditched Science. Trump Energy Officials Label Natural Gas Freedom Gas, The Department of Energy Is Now Calling Fossil Fuels “Molecules of Freedom” and “Freedom Gas”. More Natural Gas Isn’t a Middle Ground – It’s a Climate Disaster. Trump Administration Appeals Ruling That Blocked Offshore Arctic Drilling. Trump, Climate Change, and Our Orwellian Future. We Asked Kenyan Students about Climate Change. They Didn’t Know Much. Energy Secretary Says US Can Make Oil, Gas, Coal Cleaner. Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than Ever [Chart]. Texas Coal Plant Owner: Coal Is on its Way Out. Many Appalachian Residents Don't Believe Climate Change Is Real or Caused by Humans. But Why, Coal Left Appalachia Devastated. Now It’s Doing the Same to Wyoming. Boston College launches Global Observatory on Pollution and Health to track efforts to control pollution and prevent pollution related diseases that account for an estimated 9 million deaths worldwide each year,
-190630-2.2‡>3. <ADDED 190707>1. Stricken Russian Nuke Sub Crew Prevented Planetary Catastrophe -2- -3-, a top naval officer said at their funeral, praising the heroism of the men, who died as they battled to stop the fire from spreading in the submersible. “With their lives, they saved the lives of their colleagues, saved the vessel and prevented a planetary catastrophe”. A Kremlin spokesman wasn’t aware of the comments but said there was no indication the incident posed a broader threat. “As for the reactor, there are no problems with that”. This is a different incident but illustrated that nuclear waste and accidents are bradyoccult, that they don’t really end but are controlled and contained for a time, but may be a greater biocalamity later, Radiation Levels of Sunken Russian Nuclear Submarine 100,000 Times Higher Than Normal. Chernobyl Nuclear Site to Become Official Tourist Attraction <ADDED 190616-190519-6>5. Zombie Movies, Disaster Tourism, and Broken Lives, Chernobyl and the Dangerous Ground of Dark Tourism. Disaster Tourism, Disaster Tourism: Why Tragedy Draws Tourists 2017, Post Disaster Tourism: Towards a Tourism of Transition 2016, 8 Disaster Tourism Sites 2013, The History of Disaster Tourism. Disasters and Disaster Tourism: The Role of the Media$. Toxic Lake in Russia’s Siberia Becomes Selfie Sensation. Chernobyl Reactor Encased in Giant Metal Dome That Will Last a Century and Withstand a Tornado as Ukraine Inaugurates Structure, to protect the entire planet and humanity from radioactive contamination. We will create a green corridor for tourists, Chernobyl is a unique place on the planet where nature [has been] reborn after a huge man-made disaster. We have to show this place to the world: to scientists, ecologists, historians [and] tourists.
-190602-3.2>4. <ADDED 190707>7. How Scary Is ‘Crawl’. The Killer Alligator Movie Won’t Ease Your Climate Change Fears. [Poster -2-, Cartoon -2- -3- -4- -5- -6-]. Alligator Attacks Rare in Florida, but Nuisance Gator Numbers on the Rise, Alligator Attacks Are Rising, Forte Meade Man May Be the Latest Victim.
-A. Trump, Homeland Security Chief Deny Reports of Inhumane Conditions at Facilities Holding Immigrant Youth Listicle. Amid Immigration Raids, Undocumented Residents Fear Seeking Care at Hospitals. Cities and Immigrants Drove Census Controversy – 100 Years Ago. It’s Not So Bad, Mike Pence Reports on Conditions of Detainment Center While Hazmat Suit Disinfected, Mike Pence Assures Detained Children That They Will Have Safe, Sanitary Conditions in Heaven. Police: 69 Year Old Man Dies after Attacking Migrant Jail, Friend Says Man Wanted to Provoke Deadly Fight, and there is interest in the reported manifesto, probably to see if it can be cherry picked and spun to be used to support a political interpretation.
-B. Smithsonian Museum Considers Collecting Drawings Made by Detained Migrant Children. PDWN suggests that collecting from all children about the wall, fear of deportation, seeing non white friends persecuted would give a fuller picture on this latest war of eugenics -1.2A↑ to keep America pure. | Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust. Artwork: Works were made at the behest of Nazi overlords or initiated by relief agencies in internment camps or by Jewish functionaries in the ghettos. Many were secretly done in concentration camps. The resultant artworks reflect the Jews’ life experiences and are infused with despair, anger, or more rarely, hope. Hidden Children: Expressions. Hidden Children In France During the Holocaust. Art and the Holocaust. Holocaust Art of the Ghettos and Camps. Children's Art of the Holocaust.
-181209-4>5. Malaria Surges Back in Crisis Hit Venezuela. Colombian Hospitals Overwhelmed with Venezuelans, a few aid organizations are trying to help as cases of measles, tuberculosis and malaria rise. As Venezuela's Healthcare Collapses, Pregnant Women, Girls Bear Brunt of Crisis. <ADDED 190707>11. U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela Risk Contributing to Potential Famine$ -2- -3-. 190714-Polemic-3.1.
-181118-VCP-China>6. <ADDED 190707>13. On a Tiny, Isolated Island, USDA Scientists Race to Prep for the Pork-pocalypse. Plum island has also been subject of conspiracy theories, Lyme Disease on Plum Island: Fringe Conspiracy Theory or Government Cover up -2- -3- -4- -5- -6-, Plumbing the Mysteries of Plum Island which could support a belief about ASF being a bioweapon. China Reports African Swine Fever Outbreak in Hubei Province. Cargill Shuts Animal Feed Mills in China as Fatal Hog Disease Spreads. China Vows to Tackle Dead Pig Scam amid Swine Fever Epidemic, criminal gangs in China are faking outbreaks of African swine fever on farms free of the disease and forcing farmers to sell their healthy pigs at sharply lower prices, 190714-Polemic-5.5.
-190609-7>7. <ADDED 190707>6. India’s Worsening Drought Is Forcing Doctors to Buy Water for Surgery, its third largest city are now almost completely dependent on a fleet of privately owned tankers. Water Express Delivers Emergency Supplies to Drought Hit Indian City. | Western States Buy Time with a 7 Year Colorado River Drought Plan, but Face a Hotter, Drier Future. Droughts Caused Permanent Loss to Major California Groundwater Source. US Congress Approves Colorado River Drought Plan. Drought Is Not Just about Water. It Affects Air Pollution, Too$.<ADDED 190317-190310-1>1.
-190421-4>8. A Brief History of Smokey Bear, the Forest Service’s Legendary Mascot, how the beloved figure has become a lightning rod in a heated environmental debate. [Icon, Meme 181202-VCP-Finland].
-190407-6>9. <ADDED 190414>1. Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin Have the Same Problem with Wind Power: How Many Birds Die. Russia's Putin Says Wind Power Harmful to Birds and Worms. Putin Mocks Green Push During Speech in Russia’s Most Polluted Region -2B↑. Trump: Wind Power Kills All Your Birds 2016. Wind Farm Opposed by Trump Opens near His Golf Course in Scotland, the wind farm will ruin the view from his property and be terrible for tourism, wait, wasn’t he president in 2018 and not involved in his business interests.
-180513-1.1>10. <ADDED 190707>15. Declare Ebola Outbreak in DRC an Emergency, Says UK’s Rory Stewart, a bit disingenuous for a Brexit supporter to say -1.3↑ especially as part of Brexit electoral slogan was it was unfair of Britain to pay for health needs outside of Britain. As Ebola Rages On, DRC Sees More Displaced People, <ADDED 190630>8. Ebola Responders Call for a 'Reset' in the Response. What Does That Mean. Optimistic That the Epidemic Will Be Defeated, David Gressly Calls to Think of the Post Disease Period. To Contain Ebola, the United States must Fulfil its Promise to the World Health Organization$. Behind the Scenes in the Ebola Response: The Call Centre Manager. Mayor of Butembo Welcomes Decline in Population Resistance to teams responding to Ebola. What Is it like Responding to the Ongoing Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Deploying to Emergencies. Congo Confirms 1st Ebola Case in City of Goma. 190714-Polemic-3.2 -5.3. 190714-Vaccine-1.
-A. The Politics of Ebola Updates. No government likes a disease outbreak, least of all one that draws international attention. The US and Canada (and other countries) are currently embarrassed by resurgent measles, and governments fear embarrassment more than any mere plague. -3.2↑.
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