On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

1. Thwaites' Glacier is no more.

2. I'm not living in any of the affected houses. I've learned from my circles of family and friends, though, that basement window wells are...problematic as well during such rainfall.

3. Another side effect of recent rainfall here. One of the buildings affected houses a past employer of mine. I want to check in with them on Monday morning out of concern.

4. And yeah, we may have voted badly last year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/residents-councillors-flash-flood-1.6933278

If you live in Ottawa and care about climate issues, you may be interested in this organization:

https://www.ocaf-faco.ca/

What's your "most credibly sourced" maps for such concerns these days?

Yesterday, Ottawa-Gatineau experienced the third-warmest recorded November 6th in its known history.

https://twitter.com/YOW_Weather/status/1589322207007744000

Yikes!

A friend pointed out this article in The Daily Beast tonight.

Long story short, it's about concerns about political polarisation as an addictive force getting in the way of properly dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Climate Emergency.

I say that addiction is being actively encouraged and enforced by elements of the new fascist international in order to entrench their preferred people in power in dozens of nations across the planet. Solving either crisis properly means throwing away their current "advantages" against human civilization.

Anyway, it may be that the sabotage-by-addiction hasn't fully taken hold, not in the degree intended yet. Pointing to evidence of that...here's the Yale map the article talks about:

https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/

And I have a problem with this assertion by Thor Benson: "But those initiatives won’t go anywhere if the next president simply reverses them like the previous one did—and they will have no qualms with doing so if half the country gives their consent."

Half the country? (In this case, the United States.)

All the Wrong People need is 25-30 % of their country to actively go along and to keep at least half the total population from showing up for any side(s). That much, I'd already seen during the Stephen Harper years here in Canada. And the Republicans seem all too keen to keep taking advice from Harper in his current International Democrat Union chairmanship role.

(I do wonder what he really thinks of Trump: useful idiot, or someone more dangerous than planned?)

1. My parents took my siblings and I to visit Louisberg as part of our family road trip to Charlottetown and back in 1979. That was part of my introduction to the Mik'ma'ki provinces. I don't remember much about the fortress now, and that leaves me with a guiltier feeling than I might otherwise have upon reading this news.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/rising-sea-levels-threatening-300-year-old-french-fortress-in-nova-scotia

2. Yes, that was the same road trip that included my first visit to Parliament Hill, at my father's behest, to view the remains of John Diefenbaker in the Rotunda of the Centre Block. It's disturbing how I've only ever been inside the Centre Block to pay my respects to dead politicians: Diefenbaker, Trudeau the Elder and Jack Layton, thus far. It's a habit I'd like to break, preferably for far more joyous reasons.

3. Yes, I just referred to the provinces east of Québec as "the Mi'kma'ki provinces". It describes their relationship to each other geographically and politically regarding Indigenous presence there, and that label also correctly includes Newfoundland Island. (Newfoundland and Labrador are intersectional as different regions of that province fall into Mi'kmaq, Innu and Inuit traditional lands.)

More thoughts on other matters later.

Inspired by this tweet:

twitter.com/andrewfarago/status/1381730705424613382

Wondering what the Jabari in particular thought of hockey when they first learned of it.

And if Kilimanjaro is drying out nowadays because of climate derangement, then what's happening to the Jabari lands?

Not a happy thought there.

It's not fast enough, not yet. But it's more than we had this time last year, right?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/03/more-coal-power-generation-closed-than-opened-around-the-world-this-year-research-finds

Some of us have been discussing this proposal elsewhere, if memory serves:

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/north-sea-dam

No, it's not going to be a panacea. It won't cure ills, but it will slow down some of the worsening consequences whilst deferring them to other places. And it will exact costs in other ways. The British Isles, however their borders are redrawn in the decades ahead, will still lose cities, towns, villages, farms, businesses...as will continental Europe outside the dams now containing/shielding/distorting the North Sea. Building this NEED project will be a consequence that creates consequences.

Building it will require the European Union to go from a coalition of nations to being a nation. If it hasn't already gotten there by the time the decision to build is taken.

I had to be at work. So no global climate strike action for me.

I did go to see Jody Wilson-Raybould's talk with Paul Wells after work, though. Bought the book From Where I Stand. Hoping to read it sooner than later.

So that was my Friday September 20, 2019.

I need to go either mow a lawn (more pollution) or vacuum the house (not sure where the electricity for that's coming from).