Ya Got Trouble

PRESENTED BY TIME TO FACE THE MUSIC MAN

There is just one place that can light my face…

…but thousands of residents Gary, Indiana are still in darkness, nearly two weeks after a swath of fossil-fueled derechos dumped nearly a foot of rain and toppled trees in this this majority-Black city.

"It’s literally like Gotham City out here,” one resident said. “All we can do is pray,” noted another.

Trouble trouble trouble trouble…

Illinois has become ground zero for fossil-fueled tornadoes this year, with 207 so far, threatening Texas’s all-time record.

Over 100,000 households in the majority-Black city of Memphis lost power after fossil-fueled storms swept through the city on Saturday; 25,000 customers remain without power today.

Burning Man is getting a bit too literal with its name, as much of Reno, Nevada is under evacuation thanks to the fossil-fueled Hawk Fire overlooking the city. Thousands of participants are already heading to the nearby (in Nevada terms) Black Rock Desert to begin building their temporary utopian camp-city. The techno-anarcho-festival will proceed apace, officially opening next week.

A fossil-fueled tornado tore through the village of Pomas in southwestern France yesterday, destroying hundreds of homes and injuring dozens of people.

The sea is coming for San Diego, writes Michael Smolens, as mayor Todd Gloria pleads with residents to prepare.

Drought is

Meanwhile, Trump’s wealth increased by as much as $15.5 million thanks to his holdings in oil and gas stocks juiced by his catastrophic Iran war. Big Oil companies have raked in more than $125 billion in windfall profits this year.

The Trump Department of Interior is forcing out dozens of its most senior career staff, giving them two weeks to accept involuntary reassignments or leave, Eric Katz and Anna Kramer report. Geologist Dave Applegate, the US Geological Survey Chief Scientist and recent USGS Director, was reassigned to Interior headquarters. Cynthia Martinez, a wildlife biologist who until this week was the longtime director of the National Wildlife Refuge System, was reassigned to the USGS Natural Hazards Mission Area, which monitors earthquakes and volcanoes.

“Londoners are facing historic levels of subsidence risk after five successive heat waves dried out the clay soil on which much of the city is built.”

“About four in 10 Americans, 38%, say their town or city has been affected by damage from extreme weather in the past year.”

Scientists have quantified how Big Oil’s climate pollution is causing the American West to dry up and get hotter, which increases demand for irrigation, causing the region to desertify even faster. “That carbon-major pollution has drained the West of trillions of gallons of water, about the full capacity of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S., the study found.”

“The world’s oceans simmered to their hottest temperatures on record over the weekend and are likely to warm even further in the next few months,” reports Seth Borenstein. Dr. Boris Worm tells him: “The ocean is not supposed to do this.”

Climate Action:

• Next Monday, August 31, Michigan 7th candidate Will Lawrence is in Washington, D.C. for a climate-hawk house party.

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