Read This First, Heuristics (1), Glossary (A-H), Mini Lessons (4)
1. Short News Life, 2. South America Global Cascade Tipping Point, 2.1. Southern Pre Cascade 2.2. Cryosphere Toxic Melt, 3. Living Geography, 4. Strategic Heuristic, 5. Fish Tubes, 6. Just Visible, <ADDED >1. Lyme and Coocoo, >2. Disaster Ethnography Chernobyl, Illness Identity, >3. Science Gets lost with Fear Mongering and Conspiracy Theory, >4. It Is Still up for Legal Debate, >5. 12 Step Climate Anonymous, >6. Urban Climate Adaptation, >7. Climate Illiteracy, >8. Canadian Pharmaceuticals, >9. ASF, >10. Ebola. 190818-Vaccine. 190818-Polemic.
Other Topics: BioPolitics, Vaccine, Biosphere, Disaster, Humor, Climate Change, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Communication, One Health, Environmental Change, Human Factors, Social Dimensions, Narratives, Infectious Disease, Salmon, Biological Citizenship, Illness Identity, Mass Shooting, Glaciers, Permafrost, South America Biogeography, Ecogeography, GMO, Brazil, Bolsonaro, Amazon
-1. ∩ The Mass Shooting News Cycle Is Still Short Lived. Google searches about the El Paso shooting 190811-1 surged more than any other recent mass shooting – but the horror, outrage and interest toward the murder of innocent lives never seems to last long enough to provoke much change. Why it matters: Mass shootings have become more common, but fading public interest relieves pressure on lawmakers to address the underlying issues. Mass shootings are analogous to biosphere calamity events, but are not biocalamities. They are or parademic interest as they are indicative of how long people and/or media will sustain interest and possibly take corrective action. What is disheartening is that through biocalamities are existential threats to whole populations of humans they attract even less attention than the more dramatic mass casualty shooting events that tend to be concentrated in time and space. One would think pending extinction of the human species would generate more attention and concern, much less motivation to avoid it. How One Hospital Skewed the CDC’s Gun Injury Estimate, Trump Backed Ex Pitcher Curt Schilling Misleads Saying Self Defense Gun Use Stops 2.5 Million Crimes. [Strip]. What’s Behind the Dubious Claim That Psychiatric Drugs Fuel Mass Shootings, 190818-Vaccine-PDWN.
-1.1. The Religious Hunger of the Radical Right. Domestic right wing terrorists, like the man accused of the shooting last weekend in El Paso, are not so different from their radical Islamist counterparts across the globe — and not only in their tactics for spreading terror or in their internet based recruiting. Indeed, it is impossible to understand America’s resurgence of reactionary extremism without understanding it as a fundamentally religious phenomenon. Germany: Far Right Offenses Rise in 2019. Manifesto Calls on Fellow White Americans to Rise up and Maintain Status Quo. Christian Left Is Reviving in America, Appalled by Treatment of Migrants.
-2. South America’s Glaciers May Have a Bigger Problem Than Climate Change$. Massive layers of ice cover some of the continent’s rich copper deposits. Uncovering those minerals threatens to hasten their demise; Climate Change Forces Chile Ski Stations to Make Fake Snow. 190707-Polemic-1. Peru Cracks down on Illegal Gold Mining to Save Deforested Amazon Area, if it works, would stop a practice that releases harmful mercury as well as drives sex trafficking and child labor in mining camps. Combined these with Brazil’s health and environmental policies South America could easily become an epicenter of deceleration biocalamity before North America under THEPA: Bolsonaro: Brazil Doesn't Need Germany's Biodiversity Funds, Brazil Tribal Women Protest Bolsonaro's Genocidal Policies. The 'Lungs of the Planet' Are in Danger of Reaching a Tipping Point That Could Turn the Amazon Rainforest into a Savannah, Brazil Research Chief Says Sacked over Bolsonaro Deforestation Spat. Climate Change Threatens to Water down Cerrado’s Rich Biodiversity. 190728-Polemic-4.3. In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro's Government Is Gutting Environmental Agencies from the Inside, How Climate Change Is Threatening the Biodiversity of the Brazilian Savanna. Brazil's Bolsonaro Fires 'Militant' Head of Climate Change Action Group. Climate Change Denying Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Will Be Feted as ‘Person of the Year’ at a Gala at New York’s Natural History Museum, Bolsonaro to Skip New York Gala Amid Swelling Controversy$, Brazilian & American Businessmen Toast Bolsonaro, As Protesters Cry 'Fascista'. Brazil’s Bolsonaro Eyes New Body for Environmental Policy. Vatican Discussion about Amazon Conservation Raises Anger of Brazil's Right Wing Government. President Jair Bolsonaro appears to consider the topics to be discussed in the upcoming Synod, including climate change and indigenous peoples, to be part of a leftist agenda. Brazil’s New President Has Scientists Worried. Here’s Why may withdraw from the Paris agreement. In Climate Change Fight, Brazil Owes Nothing, New Minister Says. This greater impact with be atmospheric O2 levels -2- and on West Antarctica [Map], 190707-Polemic-1. Blank Page Book on Brazil's Bolsonaro Goes Viral with 190 blank pages on why he should be respected and trusted.
-2.1. The Southern Hemisphere as a whole is looking more significant in terms of global environmental change. This importance was probably missed due to the combination of remoteness, Northern Hemisphere centricity, news scarcity, lower human population, and less land surface. Australia Pushes Pacific Islands to Drop Calls for Stronger Climate Action, Can Scott Morrison Deliver on Climate Change in Tuvalu – or Is His Pacific ‘Step Up’ Doomed, Australia to Help Pacific Neighbors Adapt to Climate Change, Imperiled by Climate Change, Pacific Nations Chide Australia, Our People Are Dying: Australia’s Climate Confrontation in the Pacific. Colombia Confirms That Dreaded Fungus Has Hit its Banana Plantations. Inside the Political Deadlock of Establishing Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean. Polar Warning: Even Antarctica’s Coldest Region Is Starting to Melt. [Maps]. The circumpolar cold water circulating around Antarctic cools the oceans. If it puts warmer water and CO2 into all of the now warmer oceans (with higher sea levels) thermohaline circulation <ADDED 190728-190609-7>5 will climb rapidly. BTW air can carry more microbes when it has higher water vapor, some of which will be part of evaporation from oceans, Aeroplankton: The Life in the Air We Breathe.
-2.2. Toxic Chemicals Are Being Freed from Melting Glaciers 2017. Plastic Particles Falling out of Sky with Snow in Arctic, 'Punch in the Gut' as Scientists Find Micro Plastic in Arctic Ice. Cryosphere melt is more of a biothreat than sea level rise. It has all the bad effects as sea level rise, and more, and also causes sea level rise. Its another biocalamity in acceleration and its tipping point will probably be before all the ice is gone. >>Permafrost in Canadian Arctic Thawing 70 Years Earlier than Predicted, 190623-Polemic-5.1B, 190505-7, Permafrost Collapse Is Accelerating Carbon Release, 181209-1‡, 180513-1.1B, ##↓↓.
-2.3. Trump Has Asked Aides If It's Possible to Buy Greenland, <ADDED 190804-190728-3>1A. There are legitimate, albeit weak, national security reasons for this but suspect there are other reasons. Possible sees a real estate deal for a future warmer world that Trump can get someone else to buy and then be sold for profit Trump Likens Buying Greenland to a Large Real Estate Deal. It may also be that that if the US owns Greenland that the US can stop or hide (build a wall around perhaps) its melting, which is getting more difficult to deny as clearly being connecting to a warming atmosphere and rising sea levels. Trump may also reason that there is also fossil fuel resources in Greenland [Map] that can be taken advantage out without pesky liberal environmentalists and US law. Trump Shows Interest in Buying Greenland, but Denmark Won't Sell. 5 Questions about Donald Trump's Interest in Buying Greenland, Answered. China Is Eyeing Greenland and the U.S. Is Taking Note. 190818-Polemic-PDWN.
-3. Biogeography vs Ecogeography - What's the Difference. Biogeography is the study of the geographical distribution of living things while ecogeography is the study of environmental effects on the distribution and adaptation of living things. [Map -2-, -3-]. Bergmann's Rule. A Reassessment of Bergmann's Rule in Modern Humans, which BTW on a warming planet would mean that overweight, tall light skinned humans, with genetic separation from selection pressures for tropical dieases, [Photo 6'2, 235] (i.e. less probability to have genetic resistence),and trend to refuse to be immunized via vaccines, are less likely to survive, 190818-Vaccine-3, Cases of West Nile Virus Popping up Across the Country, Mosquito Borne Illness Deadlier Than West Nile Virus Confirmed In New Jersey, More Mosquito Samples Test Positive for EEE, West Nile Virus. New Series: Spatial Inequality, Infectious Diseases and Disease Control.
-4. An Integrated Strategic Disaster Management Model for Administration. Have expressed that the phased disaster model is not a good one for biocalamities, and in fact could be exactly what should not be done. This provides some additional levels that may eventually be more applicable and left of outbreak. There are processes that disrupt strategy in biocalamities: 1) Time pressure; 2) Control issues; 3) Threat level concern; 4) Response constraints and 5) Parademic Human factors. Strategic managing of disasters is comprised of: 1) Goal formulation; 2) Environmental analysis; 3) Strategy formulation; 4) Strategy implementation; 5) Strategy evaluation and 6) Strategic control.
-5. Problem: marine mammals need to eat, the fish and other nutrients are block from the ocean, but without the water Washington Wheat Farmers Could Be Toast If Dams Are Removed to Help Hungry Orcas. Potential solution: The Fish Tube Is More than a Meme. It Could Help Save Ecosystems, More than a Viral Sensation, the Salmon Cannon Could Bring the Species Back to the Upper Columbia after 90 Years, This is Whooshh Innovations. This however could be all moot in a few years, The World's Aging Dams Are Not Built for Ever More Extreme Weather, The Water Is So Hot in Alaska It's Killing Large Numbers of Salmon. | Beavers on the Coast Are Helping Salmon Bounce Back.
-6. PDWN refers to this as a liminal threshold, the imaginary line when a biocalamity becomes noticeable to general human perception to affect interpretation, and have noticeable impacts that are no longer dismissed. Weber’s Law -2- is the Law of Just Noticeable Differences. It deals with the minimum difference in a stimulus necessary to notice. While clearly established, and there are many hypotheses to explain the phenomenon, there has never been a way to test which hypothesis is correct. Hypotheses are a dime a dozen – what is valuable is a hypothesis that can be tested, especially if it can be tested in an objective and practical way, and one that will distinguish it from all the other hypotheses. This however is not directly applicable to parademic. It deals strictly with perception, the ability to sense. There is a second aspect of interpretation, to include a perception with making a choice or decision and determination if it is a threat or not, Millions of Times Later, 97 Percent Climate Consensus Still Faces Denial.
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-190728-6>1. Chronic Lyme Disease Shows Limits of Modern Medicine. 5 Things To Know About Lyme Disease. Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts.
-190630-2.2‡>2. <ADDED 190811>3. #Book Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl [Cover] -2-. On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, using anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. What happens to politics when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life. What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters. The event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a biological citizenship -2- -3- -4- in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. 180218-4 Chapter 8, Life Exposed section. 190818-Polemic-Russia.
-A. Illness Identity: Capturing the Influence of Illness on the Person’s Sense of Self. 1) Engulfment: Health and/or Environment dominates identity and self definition. 2) Rejection: Health/ Environment is dismissed as part of identity and is seen as a threat or as unacceptable to the self. This often results in suboptimal health/ environment management and adherence to corrective action. 3) Acceptance of health and environment as part of identity along with other self defining identity assets. 4) Enrichment when state of health and environment changes beliefs, values, goals and world view (narrative), enabling growth as a person.
-190630-6>3. <ADDED 190811>2A. Tyranny of the Minority. The tyranny of the minority refers to the power wielded by a highly motivated, unbending minority that projects outsized influence. It is an increasingly common description of our public affairs, fueled in part by the ease in using and the scope of the megaphone and soapbox we call the Internet. It is beholding to no one political or cultural philosophy. The EPA has consistently determined in its mandated 15 year reviews that glyphosate is not a carcinogen. That is three reviews across multiple administrations. The last toxicology review was substantially completed while President Obama was in office. In February 2018, California was ordered to stop labeling glyphosate as a carcinogen and as of this date has not appealed that ruling. The EPA has now gone ahead and is requiring that all such labels be removed from glyphosate. The EPA Grows a Pair and Takes a Stand on Glyphosate. On Glyphosate, Who Do You Trust: UCSF or Everybody Else. | Top 10 Pro GMO (or Anti Anti GMO) Memes on the Internet. Again PDWN reports what is believed, it doesn’t attest if the belief is fact or not. In this case there is an a priori belief that Trump’s EPA makes all decisions based on short term business profit. There does appear to be massive evidence that this is the case*‡, but it is very likely that vague many’s and absolute all’s are not always correct, and habitual liars may sometimes not be faking, No, Nurses in Photo with Trump at Dayton Hospital Were Not Paid Actors.
-*‡. 22 States Sue Trump over Repeal of Obama Era Power Plant Rules, 22 States Sue Trump Over EPA Rule Rollback. Lawsuits Pile Up Over Trump’s Coal Power Plant Emissions Rule. EPA Reverses Approval for 'Cyanide Bombs' Used to Kill Wildlife. Democratic AGs Push Back on EPA Plan to Limit Review of Pesticide Impacts on Endangered Species. Trump Directive Ended Review of Ethanol Requirements. Environmentalists Renew Bid to Overturn EPA Policy Barring Scientists from Advisory Panels. Note: These are the one’s collected this week. Each week averages about the same number of articles.
-190623-1>4. A Federal Judge in D.C. Hit 'Reply All,' and Now There's a Formal Question about His Decorum. An exchange about a climate change seminar for judges set off the controversy. A colleague, who questioned the judge's ethics and climate change science, urged the judge to stick to his lane on what "you are being paid to do", adding that "the jurisdiction assigned to you does not include saving the planet". U.S. Climate Change Litigation in the Age of Trump: Year Two. | A New Species of Leech Is Discovered Near Washington, DC, is not a surprise, and I am pretty sure this did not mean the judge. <ADDED 190707-190505-3>8.
-190623-6.1>5. <ADDED 190728>4. The Alcoholics Anonymous Approach Meets Climate Change. Wildfires are ravaging California. Heatwaves sweep through the U.S. and Europe. Extreme storms erupt with increasing frequency. As the climate crisis deepens, psychological coping mechanisms for the loss of once familiar weather patterns are emerging – accompanied by terms like “eco anxiety” and “solastalgia”. And for people who’ve made climate change their career, from biologists to grassroots organizers, Schmidt knows firsthand that it’s easy to feel defeated. Just as aid workers or psychotherapists are encouraged to seek therapy to prevent personal roadblocks from impeding their practice, Good Grief invites participants to metabolize “collective grief” to build resilience. Poll Finds Climate Change Top Issue for Early State Democratic Voters.
-190602-3.2>6. <ADDED 190811>5. Exhibition Addressing Climate Change Opens at Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Solar Guerrilla: Constructive Responses to Climate Change; Between climate fiction (cli fi) and social uprisings, between planning sponge cities and solar trees, as extreme climate changes become global urgent issues, Capitalism’s destructive environmental effects become clearer. The exhibition deals with the City as a tool for change; it presents study cases from such cities as Chicago, Masdar City, Hong Kong, London, Copenhagen, Shanghai, Tel Aviv and New York.
-190224-1‡>7. <ADDED 190602> 8A. Climate Lessons, a blog sharing information about materials presented to children on climate, highlighting those intended to frighten or mislead, and those which seek to inform and inspire rather than to recruit, even the very young, for an ill founded political campaign around the threat of CAGW. A campaign which is irresponsible, destructive, divisive, and degrading. Pundits like Al Gore, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye “the Science Guy” then further exaggerate what is reported. Next, public school teachers repeat all of the misinformation to their students, relying on textbooks written by poorly informed authors, many with only a superficial knowledge of science. Alarmist theories are presented as fact. Is it any wonder our young people grow up believing humans are destroying the Earth. The Pillars of Climate Change Denial 2012, attacks on the teaching of climate change tend to use certain rhetorical tropes, themes repeated again and again, 190714-1.3B.
-‡. This Red Oak Tree Has its Own Twitter and it Shares Insight about Climate Change. Can't Take the Heat. Get out and Teach Kids about Climate Change. Inslee Rolls out Education Plan with Emphasis on Climate Change. Betsy DeVos: Education 'Has Not Been at the Top' of Trump Priorities [Cartoon]. Climate Change De Education in the Public School System. Upholding Scientific Integrity at Federal Agencies. Trump Weakens Endangered Species Protections, Making It Harder to Consider Effects of Climate Change. This Viral Photo of Ice Melting in a Cup Misrepresents Icebergs and Sea Level Rise. Study Examines How Media Around the World Frame Climate Change News. Fox and Friends: Climate Change Is the Left’s Religion – It’s How They Control Your Life. Erasing Climate Change from Federal Agencies Won't Make it Go Away, 190728-5.1A. Hackers’ Latest Target: School Districts. How Preschools Can Do More to Support Children Living with HIV <ADDED 190811-190210-1.1>8, so what does climate education have to do with treatment of HIV students in school, denial perhaps, wanting to hide a problem rather than dealing with it to help all involved. Americans Still (Mostly) Trust Scientists and Doctors, but There Are Some Troubling Warning Signs. Impact of Climate Change on Human Health [Chart]. Windows into Science: Scientific Conferences: Many people seem to think that scientists go around constantly agreeing with each other and blindly following the “dogma” of their fields. Nothing could be further from the truth. Scientists are extremely argumentative and critical, and when we read papers or watch talks, we carefully evaluate the methods and results rather than blindly accepting them. Conferences are a great place to see this on display in real time. White House Mulled Ways to Block Migrant Children from Schools, and which group will be the next denied access to education, health care, wealth opportunities.
-190210-1.1>8. <ADDED 190804>4A. Canadians Are Hopping Mad about Trump’s Drug Importation Plan. Some of Them Are Trying to Stop It. Canadian Government Takes U.S. and Switzerland Off Drug Pricing Comparison List, Pushes for More Transparency, Factbox: Details of Canada's Biggest Drug Pricing Overhaul in Decades. Looking for Cheaper Meds from Canada. Not So Fast. Canadian Shelves Would Run Dry If U.S. Imports Drugs. [Meme -2- -3-].
-181118-VCP-China>9. <ADDED 190519>7. Serbia Reports Suspected African Swine Fever Cases in Backyard Pigs, Serbia Reports Suspected African Swine Fever Cases, Neighbours Ban Imports. Swine Fever Is Killing Vast Numbers of Pigs in China, China Says Pig Herd Shrinks by 32% in July amid Swine Fever Outbreak, China Cuts 2019/20 Corn Use Forecast by 2 Million Tonnes Due to African Swine Fever. Myanmar Reports Confirmed African Swine Fever, Thailand to Ban Pig Imports from Myanmar over African Swine Fever.
-180513-1.1>10. <ADDED 190811>10. Ebola Could Be Curable, Clinical Trial in the Congo Shows for the First Time. The preliminary results of a clinical trial using drugs to treat Ebola have been promising enough to stop the trial and prioritize their use instead. The drugs were most effective when used as treatments for patients with low levels of Ebola in the bloodstream. Early Study Results Suggest 2 Ebola Treatments Saving Lives, 2 Experimental Ebola Drugs Show Positive Results, Will Undoubtedly Save Lives. Though not a vaccine to prevent Ebola people may prefer to wait until the have Ebola to be treated. A question about vaccine prevention is that since it does not have a tangible result is there is not illness it could be considered fake 190818-Vaccine. What Hope Looks Like. | The Ebola Effect: The Economic Impacts of a Public Health Crisis, Pandemic Bonds: Designed to Fail in Ebola$. Dr. Muyembe: If All Goes Well, in Three or Four Months, We Will Not Talk about Ebola Any More, a much better statement than “Ebola will end in 3 to 4 months” <ADDED 190811>10, as this gives an out that things have to go well. At the Great Barrier Goma, Access Controls on Rwandan Territory Are Harsher, Burundi Launches Ebola Vaccination Campaign for Health and Front Line Workers, Nigeria Issues Ebola Alert to Airlines; In the Fight Against Ebola in Congo, Rwanda Looks like Wakanda. Number of Children Orphaned or Left Unaccompanied by Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Rising Fast. Reassured of Bail or under House Arrest of Colleagues, Butembo Doctors Suspend Strike Slogan, <ADDED 190811>10. The Guardian View on Ebola in the DRC: Help Needed – and Dialogue Too. Modern Science Has Delivered the World Powerful Tools to Defeat Ebola. It Is Not Enough. 190818-Vaccine-PDWN. A Body Bag and Gloves That Help Dignified Burial and Secure Deaths, Discovered after Use in a River in Kanyabayonga, appears that someone disinterred an Ebola corpse. Ebola Outbreak Spreads to 3rd Province in Eastern Congo, Friday Thoughts on the Mobility of Ebola Cases. Ebola Response Agents Unpaid since April. Tshisekedi Has Taken over the DRC’s Ebola Response. How He Can Make a Difference. The Church Renews its Commitment Against Ebola. False, Rwanda Has Not 'Officially Closed' its Borders with Goma. The Ebola Effect: the Economic Impacts of a Public Health Crisis. Expert Says Nigeria Capable of Handling Ebola Case.
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