Climate Letter #1229

An explanation of how wildfires turn into tornadoes (LA Times).  This last one was unusual because it happened in a populated area and was probably the strongest in California history.

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Pakistan has more glaciers than any other country outside the polar region—7200—and they are melting fast.  This story is about the problems caused by meltwater that has been dammed up into lakes by ice and then the ice dams break (Thomson Reuters Foundation).  Interestingly, the lower regions of Pakistan include plains and desert areas that are among the very hottest places on the planet in the summer.
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Tim Radford has put together a good summary of several recent articles about how human mortality rates are being affected by heatwaves, which are likely to keep growing in frequency, duration and intensity.
–This link in the story includes reference and mapping to all of the locations that will be most affected:
–From BBC, an update on the current European heatwave:
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Reviews of the New York Times magazine story about the failure to stop climate change back in the 1980s have been coming in, many of them quite critical.  The article itself  is very lengthy and full of historical detail.  The reviews are more focused on what truly characterizes the underlying reasons for the failure, which has maximum interest because of its relevance to the current status of the same ongoing drama.  Here are links to two of the reviews which take two different approaches to what was not said in the Times story but probably should have been.  (Both of these writers, incidentally, are politically liberal, but so is the New York Times.)  They will give you a lot to think about.
From Naomi Klein, a big-picture historian who has never been friendly toward capitalism:
Some extra comment:  I think Romm and Klein both make good points but are both wrong to the extent that they want to let human nature off the hook.  Human nature includes a latent desire to “get ahead,” which in many situations is either dormant or suppressed.  Modern industrial civilization offers means and opportunities for almost everyone to get ahead, and has thus succeeded in awakening that deep desire among people all over the world, who are in fact rapidly giving up the remains of their ancient civilizations in order to pursue new goals.  Think China.  Think India.  O course the poorest people want to get ahead, but so do those who are a bit more comfortable, and those who are yet more so, and so on and so on, including many of those at the very top who have more than achieved every conceivable goal.  What we have learned from this new historical development is that this desire to get ahead, once awakened, never wants to die for any reason or circumstance.  That side of human nature is just being revealed in full.  We have also learned, very recently, that those who are closest to the top have gained some leverage in the process of getting ahead, with great success, and can’t seem to hold back the desire to multiply their wealth still more, perhaps also because of some strange quirk of human nature, but that is a different story.
Carl

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