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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. For 60 years we have been getting adequate signals from the environment that we needed to cease burning fossil fuels. We ignored them. The article is an extract from Alice Bell’s Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the
Climate Crisis. </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. A new model forecasts the impact of storms and sea level rise on beaches over both short and long time scales.
</span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2021-07-accurately-coasts-impacted-storms-sea-level.html"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://phys.org/news/2021-07-accurately-coasts-impacted-storms-sea-level.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. The First Dog on the Moon finds a metaphor in the Gulf of Mexico catching fire.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/07/the-ocean-is-on-fire-humans-have-finally-done-it">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">4. The heat wave in the Pacific Northwest was unexpected and would have been “impossible” except for our fossil fuels problem. If heating reaches 2C we may expect such an event in that region every 5-10 years. We are in “uncharted
territory.” <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/pacific-north-west-heatwave-shows-climate-is-heading-into-uncharted-territory?utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20carbonbrief%20%28The%20Carbon%20Brief%29&utm_content=20210708&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner">
https://www.carbonbrief.org/pacific-north-west-heatwave-shows-climate-is-heading-into-uncharted-territory?utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20carbonbrief%20%28The%20Carbon%20Brief%29&utm_content=20210708&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. High heat and high humidity combine to create condit8ions under which we can no longer cool ourselves by sweating. We may expect people to flee from such regions if they can.
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ynm5/scientists-studying-temperature-at-which-humans-spontaneously-die-with-increasing-urgency?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=210707">
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ynm5/scientists-studying-temperature-at-which-humans-spontaneously-die-with-increasing-urgency?utm_source=email&utm_medium=editorial&utm_content=news&utm_campaign=210707</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Wikipedia on wet-bulb temperatures. See especially the section on wet-bulb temperature and health.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">6. Over the last thirty years the US West has suffered hotter summer days and the East, hotter nights. The difference arises from regional humidity,
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2021-07-summer-swelter-trend-west-hotter-1.html">https://phys.org/news/2021-07-summer-swelter-trend-west-hotter-1.html</a><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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