From Frost to 80s in 5 Days - Tropical Storm Julia Stalks Southeast Coast
62 F. high in St. Cloud Tuesday. 72 F. average high on September 13. 76 F. high on September 13, 2015.
September 24, 2099: The next total solar eclipse will take place over Minnesota. It will be visible in the Twin Cites, depending on the weather. September 14, 1964: The earliest official measurable snowfall occurs in Minnesota with 0.3 inches at International Falls. September 14, 1852: Early frost hits Ft. Snelling and ends the growing season.
Frost Advisory Up North But 80s Return Next Week
Hennepin
County has a new "mesonet" that reports current weather every MINUTE,
August was the warmest in 136 years of modern record keeping according
to NASA, and it's a very good idea to keep your seat belt fastened on
future flights. Additional warming 6-7 miles above the ground is
whipping up more wind shear; abrupt shifts in wind speed and direction -
resulting in more clear air turbulence, and more injuries. Details in
today's weather blog below (which is still free, after all these years!)
Here's
a sign of the times: a Frost Advisory is posted for the Brainerd Lakes.
Not much of a shock, considering the sun is as high in the sky as it
was in late March. The metro remains frost-free with brilliant sunshine
today, before the next sloppy front drags a band of heavy showers into
town late Thursday and Friday. A few models print out more than 1 inch of rain, which wouldn't surprise me with the soggy year we're having.
A stray shower may pop Saturday; Sunday
still looks like the sunnier, nicer day of the weekend. ECMWF guidance
hints at 70s and some 80s next week. Summer isn't nearly over yet.
Not Buying It (Yet).
NOAA's 4km NAM model prints out over 2" of rain for the immediate MSP
metro by 2pm Friday afternoon. We've been stuck in a very wet rut so
nothing would surprise me at this point.
Dry, Comfortable Wednesday - Next Jolt of Moisture Late Thursday.
NAM model guidance shows showers and embedded T-storms surging north
Thursday afternoon and evening with locally heavy rain possible. 60-hour
Future Radar product: NOAA and AerisWeather.
Best of the 80s.
Like satellite radio, Mother Nature transports you back to the 80s next
week as another puff of July returns to Minnesota. With relatively high
dew points it could make for a few uncomfortable days in area schools.
MSP meteogram with ECMWF data: WeatherBell.
Tropical Storm Julia.
With sustained winds of 40 mph Julia is a minimal tropical storm. The
greatest risk is not wind or even storm surge but excessive rains along
the Georgia and Carolina coast over the next 72+ hours. Satellite image:
U.S. Naval Research Lab.
Another Very Slow-Moving System.
Although odds don't favor another extreme, Louisiana-like flood event
with 20-30" rainfall amounts, some 10" amounts are possible by Thursday
or Friday, mainly eastern Georgia and South Carolina. Here are the
latest threats outlined by NOAA NHC:
WIND: Tropical-storm-force winds are already occuring within the
tropical storm warning area.
RAINFALL: Julia is expected to produce 3 to 6 inches of rain near
the northeast Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina coastlines
through Friday afternoon. Isolated totals of 10 inches are possible.
This rainfall could lead to flash flooding. Flooding may be further
compounded with persistent strong onshore flow reducing river and
stream discharges.
TORNADOES: An isolated tornado or two will be possible tonight
through Wednesday morning across parts of northeastern Florida and
southeastern Georgia.
Greatest Risk: Flash Flooding.
Models suggest that the greatest potential for river and urban flooding
will come from Jacksonville to Savannah, Hilton Head and Charleston -
the 5-8" bulleye hugs coastal communities in the coming days. Map:
WeatherBell.
Data Is Better When It's Hyper-Local. Kudos to Hennepin West Mesonet
for a denser grid of data and some great visualizations. Unlike current
airport observations that update hourly, these observations update
every MINUTE. Check it out!
Visualizing The Warmest August in 136 Years. Here's an excerpt of a Facebook post at NASA Earth: "August
2016 was the warmest August in 136 years of modern record-keeping,
according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Although the seasonal
temperature cycle typically peaks in July, August 2016 wound up tied
with July 2016 for the warmest month ever recorded. August 2016’s
temperature was 0.16 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous warmest
August (2014). The month also was 0.98 degrees Celsius warmer than the
mean August temperature from 1951-1980. "Monthly rankings, which vary by
only a few hundredths of a degree, are inherently fragile," said GISS
Director Gavin Schmidt. "We stress that the long-term trends are the
most important for understanding the ongoing changes that are affecting
our planet." Those long-term trends are apparent in the plot of
temperature anomalies above..."
La Nina Washed Out By Powerful Warm Signal. More context from HotWhopper: "You
can see the global mean temperature trend by month in the chart below,
for the strongest El Niño years since 1950, which were followed by a La
Nina. I've included the 2015/16 period for comparison. NOAA has taken
off the La Nina watch. The BoM ENSO update is due out later today. Not
counting 2015/16, of the seven very strong, strong and strong to
moderate El Ninos since 1950, there were only three that were followed
by a La Nina. The chart spans a three year period. That is, for the
2015-16 El Niño and subsequent, it goes from January 2015 to December
2017..." Fasten Your Seat Belt - Turbulence Is On The Rise. I had no idea, but yes, it's probably a good idea to leave your seat belt fastened (all the time). Here's an excerpt at The Guardian: "...Williams
said that at heights of around 10 to 12km (6-7 miles), a typical
cruising altitude for a modern passenger jet plane, temperature changes
caused by increased amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have the
effect of making different layers of airflow move at increased speeds
relative to each other. When this unstable airflow produces clear-air
turbulence – and there are no visual clues to give a pilot warning of
what lies ahead – then the aircraft is thrown about with considerable
force. “If the effect is severe, it will overcome the force of gravity
and fling people out of their seats. Turbulence of this severity is
being encountered by planes thousands of times a year now,” Williams
added. In the United States alone, it is estimated that the damage,
delays and disruption from turbulence already cost more than $500m
(£374m) a year..."
File credit: Shutterstock.
I-Team: Can Cuomo's $23 Million Weather Detection System Predict The Next Sandy? Short answer is probably not - but flash flooding and large extremes of rain, snow and wind? Yes. Here's an excerpt from NBC New York: "After
a series of devastating hurricanes, coastal storms and blizzards, Gov.
Cuomo promised to install a network of weather stations that will give
New Yorkers early warning when disaster is about to strike. The $23
million network, called a "mesonet," will consist of 125 weather
observation towers strategically installed across the state. The system
is already partially up and running, but it is not clear the network can predict approaching storms any better than the National Weather Service already does..."
NOAA: Expect More Extreme Floods In The Future. Gizmodo has details: "Extreme, catastrophic flood events like the one that swamped Louisiana last month are becoming more likely because of climate change, according to a hot-off-the-press analysis
by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The
study found that the record rainfall responsible for last month's epic
floods-the worst natural disaster to hit the United States since superstorm Sandy-was
made at least 40 percent more likely by global warming. The researchers
arrived at that conclusion by applying a new but increasingly popular
statistical approach called "weather attribution." Details of the analysis, which is currently under peer review, can be found in the open-access journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences..."
File photo credit: Associated Press.
How Vague Historical Writings Help Scientists Predict Floods. Eos has a fascinating story; here's the intro: "When
scientists assess environmental risk in any particular geographical
region, they need as many data as possible relating to the area’s past.
Often, though, those data are limited by the existence of scientific
instruments: Precise measurements only go back so far in history. When
scientists predict the likelihood and severity of future flooding in
particular, historical data are often limited to imprecise written
descriptions of past flood events. In a new paper, Salinas et al.
built a framework to incorporate historical records written before the
advent of scientific instrumentation into the estimation of flood
probabilities. There are many different types of historical flood
records, all of them with differing degrees of imprecision..."
Image credit: "Flooding
in Vienna after an ice dam failed on the Danube River in March 1830,
captured here in a watercolor painting by Eduard Gurk (Roßau,
Schmidgasse am 2 März 1830)." Credit: Eduard Gurk.
FEMA's Flood Maps Protect Banks and Mortgages; People, Not So Much. Village Voice has the story; here's a snippet: "...FEMA
flood zone maps are essentially a matter of the past," says Klaus
Jacob, a climate disaster expert at Columbia University. "[The agency
was] never asked by Congress to look forward." After the Great
Mississippi Flood of 1927 — the most destructive in U.S. history, in
which more than 640,000 people were displaced by thirty-foot floodwaters
— private insurance companies stopped selling flood insurance for forty
years..."
Map credit: maps.nyc.gov/resiliency / Map by Joe Lertola/Bryan Christie Design.
Birds Inside the Eye of Hurricane Hermine and 13 Other Weird Things That Have Shown Up on Radar. Here's a clip from The Weather Channel: "As
Hurricane Hermine made landfall along Florida's Gulf coast, radar
detected an interesting phenomenon: birds trapped flying inside the calm
eye of Hermine. The birds were detected using differential reflectivity
from NOAA's Dual-Polarization radar.
This particular radar feature can be used to detect non-meteorological
radar echoes such as birds and insects, in addition to its normal
precipitation detection function. We've seen this occur one other time
in recent years during another U.S. hurricane landfall. Birds were detected on radar in the eye of Arthur as it moved near the coast of North Carolina in 2014..."
Image credit: "Base
reflectivity (left) and Differential reflectivity (right) radar images
of Hermine at 10:38 p.m. EDT on Sept. 1. The red shaded area on the
image to the right shows the birds swirling inside Hermine's eye just
before landfall."
Atlantic Hurricane Season Is Seeing More Major Storms. If they don't strike the USA are they still "major". Yep. Here's an excerpt from Climate Central: "...The
incidence of major hurricanes has essentially doubled across the
Atlantic basin since 1970, potentially linked to rising sea surface
temperatures there. It just happens that fewer of those storms hit the
U.S. Of course, in the decade since Wilma struck, plenty of other storms
have had a major impact. Hurricane Ike and Superstorm Sandy were among
the costliest storms on record, but neither was technically categorized a
major hurricane. And Hurricane Hermine, though only a Category 1 when
it recently hit Florida, caused significant damage. It also ended the
state’s nearly 11-year streak without any hurricane making landfall. In
addition to the rise in major hurricanes in the Atlantic basin, the
average number of named hurricanes each year has increased to about
seven storms from five storms, though the exact reasons for this rise
are still the subject of research..."
Atlantic Basin Hurricanes Strengthening - In Spite of Few Direct U.S. Strikes Last Decade. Climate Signals has more perspective on what we know, and what we don't know: "...There
has been a substantial increase in virtually every measure of hurricane
activity in the Atlantic since the 1970s, including measures of
intensity, frequency, and duration as well as the number of strongest
(Category 4 and 5) storms.[3][4]
Global warming also concentrates rainfall into extreme events. A warmer
atmosphere holds more water vapor, and dumps more precipitation when it
does rain, much like a larger bucket holds and dumps more water.
Significant evidence indicates that these increases are linked to higher
sea surface temperatures in the region through which Atlantic
hurricanes form and move.[5][6][7] However,
this is an area of continuing study as numerous factors determine
hurricane intensity and frequency, and global warming may be affecting
these factors in conflicting ways..."
Indians Are Rioting Over Water. Is This a Glimpse Into The Future? In all probability, yes. The battle for clean, reliable, freshwater supplies is just beginning. Here's an excerpt at The Washington Post: "...Disputes
over control of water supplies are not uncommon around the world.
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have quarreled for years over dams and other
water-control measures along the Nile. In the United States, the
Colorado River is at the center of a tug-of-war between the needs of
agriculture and growing cities. India is now the latest flash point in
water-use battles, which some experts believe could become more acute
worldwide as climate change boosts temperatures and influences weather
patterns..."
Image credit: "The
Indian city of Bengaluru, in Karnataka state, is under curfew after
violent protests broke out in the area over the sharing of river water
with neighboring Tamil Nadu state." (Reuters)
How The Sugar Industry Shifted Blame To Fat.
When data, facts and evidence don't go your way hire psuedo-experts to
spin the truth and keep the discussion going, right? Here's an excerpt
at The New York Times: "The
sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link
between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit
instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar
industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the
University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine,
suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and
heart disease — including many of today’s dietary recommendations — may
have been largely shaped by the sugar industry. “They were able to
derail the discussion about sugar for decades,” said Stanton Glantz, a
professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the new JAMA paper..." (Photo credit: iStock).
New York Named America's Most Sustainable City. NBC New York has details: "New
York is the most sustainable city in the United States, according to a
design and consulting firm that said the city's friendliness to profits
and environmental protection offset stiff housing costs. Arcadis
released its Sustainable Cities Index on Monday, ranking 100 cities
worldwide on their commitment to the pillars of "People," "Planet" and
"Profit."
Photo credit: "Fireworks
illuminate the Lower Manhattan skyline along the East River in this
view from Brooklyn Bridge Park, Monday, July 4, 2016, in New York." (AP Photo/Kathy Willens).
23 States To Rely on Geothermal, Solar or Wind Power as a Primary Source of Electric Generation in 2016. Here's a clip from Renewable Energy World that made me do a double-take: "...Iowa
may become the first state to generate a majority of its power from
wind. Iowa wind was 31.3 percent of the state’s electric generation in
2015 and 40 percent through the first half of 2016. Meanwhile,
coal-fired power in Iowa declined significantly through the first half
of 2016 and was 41.6 percent of electric generation during that time.
With Mid-American Energy planning another 2 GW of wind by the end of the
decade, Iowa could generate over half its energy from wind by 2020.
Kansas is also getting closer to catching coal for number one in that
state..."
The Battle Between Tesla and Your Neighborhood Car Dealership. Inevitable disruptions strikes again. Here's a clip from The Washington Post: "...Now,
legacy auto manufacturers, including Arbogast’s supplier, General
Motors, are moving toward a future of sales directly from carmaker to
driver, industry analysts say. That has triggered a standoff involving
dealers, manufacturers and Tesla over the future of car sales, the role
of the Internet and whether it is legal to sell a car — often the
second-largest purchase in the lifetime of an average American — online.
If other carmakers followed Tesla, “essentially, it would put us out of
business,” Arbogast said..."
The New Karma Revero Is Not Just A $130,000 Tesla Wannabe. Bloomberg has more details: "...Yes, unlike the pure-electric plug-in Tesla Model S and Model X SUV,
which are excellent vehicles, the Revero uses electricity, gas and
solar power to run. “It will be the first car sold in the U.S. powered
by electricity, gas and solar,” company execs repeated like a mantra in
press materials and statements. In fact this new Karma Revero straddles
the Old World (engaged analog driving) and New World (alt-fuel energy
and auto-drive), rather than forcing any sort of new electric
revolution. It’s not just a big computer on wheels was the message at
the debut..."
Photo credit: "The Karma Revero costs $130,000. Production has not yet started." Source: Karma Automotive.
How Do We Get Off Fossil Fuels When We've Always Feared Change?
How do we (or our kids) learn to embrace change and disruption,
building it into their products, services and careers? We're not as open
to change as we might like to think, according to an article at Grist: "...The
predictable slobbering over each new Apple gadget proves we’re
infatuated with technology, right? Not according to Calestous Juma, a
professor of international development at Harvard. In his new book, Innovation and its Enemies,
Juma argues that our infatuation is limited to new versions of
established technologies, and that people generally oppose anything that
feels too new. We may be addicted to our media-consumption devices now,
but even the birth of mass media was met with staggering resistance.
People scoffed at it as a low-brow corruption of the literary arts and
rulers banned it in several places..."
Stunning Satellite Imagery in New Book That Offers Unique Perspectives of Earth. I might just have to pick up a copy of "Overview", reviewed at Lonely Planet: "...A
new book entitled Overview: A New Perspective of Earth shows amazing
aerial photos of the planet taken from satellites. The artist Benjamin
Grant in compiling the book sought to mimic ‘the overview effect’ a
phrase coined in the 1980s that derived from astronauts that have gazed upon the earth from space.
They said that viewing the world from such a distance creates an
understanding of life, and an awareness of the impact we have on our
planet and the desire to protect it..."
Image credit: "Sun
Lakes, Arizona in USA. A planned community with a population of
approximately 14,000 residents, most of whom are senior citizens." Image by Overview.
Meet New Glenn, The Blue Origin Rocket That May Someday Take You To Space. Sign me up! Details via The New York Times: "Blue Origin, the secretive space company created by Jeffrey P. Bezos,
offered a look at its newest rocket design on Monday — and, by
extension, its ambitions to make space travel more frequent and
inexpensive. Both the rocket and the ambitions appear to be big. The
rockets, named New Glenn after John Glenn, the first American to orbit
the Earth, are almost as large as the Saturn V rocket that NASA used
from 1966 to 1973, before rockets started being built smaller. The
two-stage version that could venture to low-Earth orbit will be 270 feet
tall, and the three-stage version, which could fly outside Earth’s
orbit, will be 313 feet tall..."
Image credit: "The
rockets, named New Glenn after John Glenn, the first American to orbit
the Earth, are almost as large as the Saturn V rocket that NASA used
from 1966 to 1973." Credit Blue Origin.
How Nevada Became The Only State Where You Can Vote For "None of the Above". Another strange (but true!) story at Atlas Obscura: "Sometimes
voting feels like a very tough SAT question: none of the choices seem
right. What to do when you can't put your heart into any of those empty
bubbles? In most states, voters are forced to register dissatisfaction
with what's on offer by writing someone in, going for a protest
candidate, or simply staying home. In Nevada, though, malcontents have
another option: they can cast an official vote for no one. The "None
of These Candidates" option has appeared on statewide Nevada ballots
since 1975, when it was introduced as a convoluted get-out-the-vote
tactic..."
SUNDAY: Sunnier, milder - a nicer day. Winds: S 10-20. Wake-up: 53. High: 77
MONDAY: Plenty of sun, hints of July. Winds: S 10-20. Wake-up: 62. High: 83
TUESDAY: Lukewarm sun, hard to concentrate. Winds: NW 8-13. Wake-up: 64. High: 80
Climate Stories...
Donald Trump's Newest Adviser Says Global Warming is a Huge Threat to National Security. Details via Mother Jones: "Former
CIA Director R. James Woolsey has signed on as a senior adviser to
Donald Trump—even though the two men's views are oceans apart on an
issue very close to Woolsey's heart: climate change. For years, the
former CIA director has been an advocate for cleaner energy and has
called for addressing global warming from a national security
perspective. He argues
that our current energy sources put us at "the whims of OPEC's despots"
and make us more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. He wants the United
States to shift from its reliance on coal and oil to renewables and natural gas..."
Photo credit: Evan Vucci/AP.
See The Giant Crack That Could Collapse Part of an Antarctic Ice Shelf. Here's an excerpt of a worrisome post at TIME: "A
large crack in an Antarctic ice shelf has grown by 13 miles in the past
six months, threatening to detach an area of ice larger than Delaware. Images
of the Larsen C shelf captured by NASA’s Terra satellite show a fault
line that now stretches 80 miles in length, according to a report from
the U.S. space agency. A portion of the ice shelf—the continent’s fourth
largest—could disconnect Scientists are working to understand the
immediate changes that created the giant crack—and have led it to grow
so quickly. Project MIDAS,
a U.K. group dedicated to studying the Larsen C shelf, notes that a
warming climate has changed the structure of the ice, threatening the
possibility of collapse..."
Image credit: Jesse Allen—NASA Earth Observatory images. "The
rift is visible on the left in these images taken by the Multi-angle
Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) on NASA’s Terra satellite on Aug. 22,
2016, The ice shelf comprises the left half of the image, and thinner
sea ice appears on the right."
Wheat, One Of The World's Most Important Crops, Is Being Threatened by Climate Change. Here's an excerpt at The Washington Post: "One
of the biggest concerns about climate change is the effect it will have
on agriculture. Many studies have suggested that rising temperatures
could be harmful to farms around the world, although there’s plenty of
uncertainty about how bad things will get and which food supplies we
should worry about most. Now, a new study published Monday in Nature Climate Changereiterates
concerns that wheat — the most significant single crop in terms of
human consumption — might be in big trouble. After comparing multiple
studies used to predict the future of global crop production,
researchers have found that they all agree on one point: rising
temperatures are going to be really bad for wheat production..."
Climate Change Risk Is, Believe It Or Not, A Major Risk To Your Investments. So says Jesse Moore at Seeking Alpha: "...While
I don't believe that fossil fuels are going away anytime soon, and I am
a big proponent of natural gas, I also think that the carbon risk
priced into the market is barely visible. Investors need to take a
serious eye to the long-term political and economic risks and consider
deleveraging to fossil fuels, whether they believe it is a problem or
not. Every company on the market has some carbon footprint, and while
investing in green technology has historically been a poor performing
asset class, investing in green companies in a diversity of sectors has
not."
Why I Canoed 1,200 Miles To The Arctic Circle to Report on Climate Change. Motherboard has the story: "...I
went to listen to the local people, to hear the concerns most important
to them. I ended up learning about disrupted hunting patterns and
disappearing caribou, fibre-optic lines and road construction, oil
drilling and pipelines, and in-ground cold storage shelters that no
longer stay cold, among other things. Because this was no see-the-glaciers-before-they’re-gone kind of trip. It’s already too late for that: the river water is warmer, the ice retreats faster, the forest fires spread further, the permafrost dwindles.
Only by getting out on the land do you learn about the unexpected,
hard-to-predict, second order effects of climate change. For example,
warmer winters mean big, fat bears..." (Photo credit: Brian Castner).
Louisiana Flood Costs Nearly Double Some Estimates Thanks to Climate Change, 80% Uninsured. Welcome
to an emerging world of insurance haves and have-nots; those with the
least are living in areas increasingly threatened by rising seas and
rising rivers, many without the means to pay when their communities get
wiped out with increasing frequency and ferocity. Here's an excerpt at Money.Mic: "A series of storms battered the gulf coast in August, particularly in Louisiana and Mississippi, in what was the worst natural disaster
to hit the United States since Hurricane Sandy. Now that the flooding
has finally receded, watchdogs have gotten a better grip on the extent
of the damage. Some 110,000 homes and 100,000 vehicles were damaged or
destroyed in the flooding, with a total cost projected to be between $10
billion and $15 billion, according to a Friday report from the insurer Aon..."
Photo credit: "Rain fell for seven days in the worst natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy." Source: Max Becherer/AP.
Welcome to Carlisle, the British City with a Climate Change Bulls-Eye. Here are a couple of excerpts from a New York Times article: "After this ancient fortress city was hit by a crippling flood in 2005, its residents could take some comfort in the fact that it was the kind of deluge that was supposed to happen about once every 200 years. But it happened again four years later. And again last winter, when Storm Desmond brought record-breaking downpours that turned roads into rivers, fields into lakes, living rooms into ponds...In many places, the threat of climate change
can still feel distant, even theoretical. But not here, a city of about
74,000 in the far northwest corner of England, where one of its rivers
swelled to about 30 times its normal volume last year..."
Photo credit: "Carlisle’s city center flooded in December 2015. About 2,000 houses and 500 businesses were damaged or destroyed." Credit Andrew Yates/Reuters.
A Conservative Republican Tackles Climate Change.
Rep. Bob Inglis (a friend and mentor) is fighting a lonely battle, but
he is on the right side of science, and history. Here's an excerpt of an
interview with Rep. Inglis at The Charlotte Observer: "...We’re
essentially calling on conservatives to step forward with
free-enterprise solutions to climate. Rather than regulating down the
amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we simply have the
government put a price on emissions. That price signal would be sensed
throughout the economy, with the result that hundreds of millions of
consumers would pursue their own self interest. They would be seeking
cleaner fuels because it would be in their economic interest to do so.
It’s something that conservative economists have talked about for quite
a while, the idea of not regulating but attaching all the costs and
revealing all the hidden costs of a product so the market can judge that
product..."
Photo credit: "Rising
sea levels, which scientists attribute to climate change, threaten
homes along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, such as these in Nags Head in
2010." JOHN D. SIMMONS.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article100920617.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article100920617.html#storylink=cpy
The Business Case To Mobilize Against Climate Change: Jobs and Innovation. Co.Exist has an article that resonated; here's an excerpt: "...By
pursuing innovation, generating jobs, and doing our part, industry can
help lead a climate mobilization effort with the same spirit and fervor
that lifted the United States out of the Great Depression and defeated
one of the most dangerous fascist regimes in history. A cover article in
the New Republic recently made the case for viewing climate change as a global enemy—and
the analogy delivers important parallels for the role of business,
industry, and innovation. The idea that necessity is the mother of
invention, and America’s uncompromising resolve for victory in World War
II generated inventions that continue to enhance our lives today..."
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