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8/8/2013 10:12:15 AM

Hundreds flee, homes burn, 3 hurt in Calif. fire

A pickup truck is engulfed in flames as the Silver Fire roars through a residential area near Hwy 243 and Twin Pines Road between Banning and Idyllwild, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/The Press-Enterprise, Frank Bellino)
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BANNING, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that broke out in the inland mountains of Southern California has expanded exponentially, burning homes, forcing the evacuation of several small mountain communities and leaving three people injured.

About 1,500 people had evacuated as the wildfire of more than 9 square miles raged out of control in the San Jacinto Mountains near Banning, said Lucas Spelman, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Three were injured, including two firefighters taken to hospitals by ambulance and a burned civilian who was airlifted out, state fire officials said. They would give no further details on the injuries.

Fire officials said about a dozen structures were damaged or destroyed, but could not say how many were homes. Footage from TV news helicopters and photos from the scene showed several houses in flames.

They include the Twin Pines home of Dave Clark, whose parents were killed in a house fire in Riverside in April 2012 the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported. Prosecutors alleged Clark's sister Deborah Clark set the fire, and she was awaiting a mental-competency hearing to see if she was competent to stand trial for her parents' murder in a case that has received extensive local media coverage.

A photograph taken by the Desert Sun newspaper showed Clark talking on his cellphone with the home fully engulfed in flames behind him.

"He said he lost everything, he couldn't talk," brother Jeff Clark told the Press-Enterprise.

About 800 people evacuated the Silent Valley Club, a private RV resort, state fire spokesman Lucas Spelman said.

About 700 more were under evacuation order in the rural communities of Poppet Flats, Twin Pines, Edna Valley and Vista Grande, and evacuation centers were set up at high schools in Hemet and Banning. The communities are in the San Jacinto Mountains along Interstate 10 some 80 miles east of Los Angeles.

Margaret Runnels of Poppet Flats was at work when her house came under an evacuation order. She was in Banning waiting for her husband to collect pets and valuables from their house.

"I was hoping they would let me back up to get some personal items I knew my husband would forget like a jewelry box and stuff that means stuff," a crying Runnels told the Desert Sun. "You always tell yourself to prepare everything but you never take the stupid time to do it."

More than 500 firefighters, helped by five helicopters and five air tankers, were working to protect homes and get ahead of the flames. All but three helicopters were grounded after night fall but were set to return to the air Thursday morning.

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8/8/2013 10:20:15 AM

New reports reveal the dire picture humanity is painting for Earth’s climate



Click to see the slideshow: Greenland: A laboratory for global warming (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

NOAA's National Climate Data Center (NCDC) issued their 2012 State of the Climate report yesterday, putting 2012 in the top ten of the hottest years on record (and hottest year on record for the United States and Argentina). The report notes the continuing rise in temperatures over both land and ocean, with rising trends starting as far back as the mid-19th century, a rise in humidity levels over the past 40 years (consistent with what is expected as air temperatures rise), and record or near-record level rises in sea level and ocean heat content. It also noted declines in the climate as well, specifically with the depth and extent of the world's glaciers, with record or near-record lows in the temperature of the lower stratosphere (the layer of the atmosphere directly above where our weather happens), and record or near-record lows in the amount of sea ice observed, the depth and extent of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and the amount of snow cover seen.

According to two new climate reports, 2012 has been confirmed as one of the top 10 hottest years on record, globally, …


With this being a fairly technical report, the NCDC doesn't make any hard-line comments beyond the science, the observations and the trends seen, but Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D., the acting NOAA Administrator, said this in a statement:

"Many of the events that made 2012 such an interesting year are part of the long-term trends we see in a changing and varying climate — carbon levels are climbing, sea levels are rising, Arctic sea ice is melting, and our planet as a whole is becoming a warmer place. This annual report is well-researched, well-respected, and well-used; it is a superb example of the timely, actionable climate information that people need from NOAA to help prepare for extremes in our ever-changing environment."

At the same time, though, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) released their own report, titled Human-induced climate change requires urgent action. This is a fairly light-weight statement (2 pages, compared to the 258-page NCDC report), but it carries a heavy message:

"Human activities are changing Earth’s climate. At the global level, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases have increased sharply since the Industrial Revolution. Fossil fuel burning dominates this increase. Human-caused increases in greenhouse gases are responsible for most of the observed global average surface warming of roughly 0.8°C (1.5°F) over the past 140 years. Because natural processes cannot quickly remove some of these gases (notably carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere, our past, present, and future emissions will influence the climate system for millennia."

This new AGU statement is an update from their release in February 2012, where they had said that the evidence for our impact on the climate was strong, but this update makes it much more clear.

"AGU has a responsibility to help policy makers and the public understand the impacts our science can have on public health and safety, economic stability and growth, and national security," Gerald North, the chair of the AGU Climate Change Position Statement Review Panel, said in a statement. "Because our understanding of climate change and its impacts on the world around us has advanced so significantly in the last few years, it was vitally important that AGU update its position statement. The new statement is more reflective of the current state of scientific knowledge. It also calls greater attention to the specific societal impacts we face and actions that can diminish the threat."

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There are, and will still be, arguments against these statements.

There are claims that global warming and climate change have stopped since 1998. That's wrong. The original article that claimed that was thoroughly debunked by the very office that issued the information that article tried to use. There have been variations over the past 15 years or so, due to things like the shifting El Nino/La Nina patterns in the Pacific Ocean and suppression due to ash from volcanic eruptions, but these have only slowed the rise in temperatures. The rising trend is still there, and if you remove the influences of these effects, that is quite clear.

Any talk of the so-called 'Climate-Gate' scandal is way out-of-date, as that non-scandal has turned out to befilled with non-truths.

There are claims that the climate change we're seeing is due to the Sun. That is also wrong. The amount of energy we've been receiving from the Sun has declined, ever-so-slightly, since 1979. Also, if global warming was due to the Sun, all layers of the atmosphere would see an increase in temperature. While temperatures in the troposphere (the lowest level of the atmosphere) are increasing, we are seeing a marked decrease in the temperature of the lower stratosphere (the layer directly above the troposphere).

Some respond to the claim about the record loss of Arctic sea ice by mentioning the record-setting extend of sea ice around Antarctica at roughly the same time. However the record high in sea ice extent near the south pole, which occurred during their winter, is due to immense amounts of fresh water pouring into the ocean there as it melts off the Antarctic ice sheets. In the Arctic, at least for the moment, we still have at least some sea ice left, even at the peak of the summer melt. In the Antarctic, all sea ice completely melts away during their summer peak, so it results in a net loss of ice from the south pole.

On the other side, there are some that have been saying it's too late. It's too expensive to do anything, and anything we could do wouldn't have much of an effect anyway. We've already had remarkable successes in other environmental campaigns, though, in reducing acid rain, ozone depletion and air pollution. We did it by coming together, recognizing what we're seeing and the dire effects if we ignore the problem, and doing something about it. It's not going to be easy to fix the problems we have now, but they couldn't be more important for our future, and they may even undo the successes we've had.

Climate change threatens to disrupt our ability to feed ourselves. It threatens our supply of drinking water. Itspreads infectious diseases. It is even being linked to increased violence and conflict. It might be difficult and expensive to fix climate change, but the amount of work and the cost we'll pay to fix it now is tiny compared to the hardships and expenses that we are expected to endure if we do nothing.

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8/8/2013 10:27:32 AM

Scientists plan controversial lab-made bird flu

FILE - This April 8, 2013 file photo shows a worker cleaning empty cages used for transporting chickens, to prevent an outbreak of H7N9 infections at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong. Scientists who sparked an outcry by creating easier-to-spread versions of the bird flu want to try such experiments again using a worrisome new strain. Since it broke out in China in March, the H7N9 bird flu has infected more than 130 people and killed 43. Leading flu researchers say that genetically engineering this virus in the lab could help track whether it’s changing in the wild to become a bigger threat. They announced the pending plans Wednesday in letters to the journals Science and Nature. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists who sparked an outcry by creating easier-to-spread versions of the bird flu for research purposes want to try such experiments again using a worrisome new strain. This time around, the U.S. government is promising extra scrutiny of such high-stakes research up front.

Since it broke out in China in March, the H7N9 bird flu has infected more than 130 people and killed 43. Some of the world's leading flu researchers argue that genetically altering that virus in high-security labs is key to studying how it might mutate in the wild to become a bigger threat to people, maybe even the next pandemic.

"We cannot prevent epidemics or pandemics, but we can accumulate critical knowledge ahead of time" to help countries better prepare and respond, Ron Fouchier of Erasmus University in the Netherlands told The Associated Press.

In letters published Wednesday in the journals Science and Nature, Fouchier and colleagues from a dozen research centers in the U.S., Hong Kong and Britain outlined plans for what's called gain-of-function research — creating potentially stronger strains, including ones that might spread easily through the air between lab animals. They say the work could highlight the most important mutations for public health officials to watch for as they monitor the virus' natural spread or determine how to manufacture vaccines.

The announcement is an attempt to head off the kind of international controversy that erupted in 2011 when Fouchier and Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, created easier-to-spread strains of another deadly kind of bird flu, the better-known H5N1. The concerns: How to guard against laboratory accidents with the man-made strains, and whether publishing findings from the research could offer a blueprint for would-be bioterrorists. The H5N1 work eventually was published.

Now the researchers aim to explain to the public ahead of time why they want to do more of this scary-sounding research, and how they'll manage the risks.

The Obama administration already had tightened oversight of research involving dangerous germs. Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced an extra step: In addition to scientific review, researchers who propose creating easier-to-spread strains of the new H7N9 will have to pass a special review by a panel of experts who will weigh the risks and potential benefits of the work.

"There are strong arguments to do the science," but it has to be done properly or not at all, said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, which will refer such projects to the special HHS panel.

"It's not a rubber stamp," Fauci said. "If the risk is felt to be too high by this outside review, they will recommend it won't be done and we won't fund it."

The extra oversight is for federally funded researchers; there is no way to know what privately funded research may be in the works.

The steps don't satisfy critics.

The findings from the earlier man-made H5N1 strains haven't changed how health authorities are monitoring that virus in the wild, said University of Minnesota professor Michael Osterholm, who was on the federal advisory board that first sounded the alarm over the issue. Nor is there scientific evidence that the mutations that seem most dangerous in the lab really could predict an impending pandemic.

"H5N1 surveillance is as haphazard today as it was two years ago," said Osterholm, who said Wednesday's announcement overstated the potential benefits of such research and minimized the risks. "Should we do the work if it's not actually going to make a difference?"

Scientists have anxiously monitored bird flu for years, but so far the deadliest strains of concern only occasionally sicken people, mostly after close contact with infected poultry. The H5N1 strain has sickened more than 600 people and caused 377 deaths, mostly in Asia, since the late 1990s.

Infections by its newly emerged cousin, the H7N9 virus, appear to have stalled since Chinese authorities cracked down on live animal markets. But scientists fear the virus will re-emerge in the winter, when influenza is most active. Chinese scientists announced this week that two of the earlier deaths included a woman who apparently caught the virus while caring for her ill father, the strongest evidence yet that it occasionally can spread among people.

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8/8/2013 10:33:54 AM

'Hunger Games' Summer Camp for Kids Raises Concerns, Obviously

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Kids in Florida channeled "Hunger Games" competition at camp. Photo:Tampa Bay TimesA “Hunger Games” day camp for tweens and teens in Largo, Florida is being lambasted for what critics say is a disturbing, too-violent theme, as it’s based on the best-selling trilogy about a dystopian competition to kill in order to survive.

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But the camp, run by the private Country Day School, is crying foul, particularly about a story in the Tampa Bay Times, which first described the camp last week.

The article captured campers getting all-too-eagerly into the theme, casually telling each other, “I will probably kill you first” and “I might stab you” before a "Hunger Games" final tournament, for which kids created posters with phrases like "Losing means certain death.” It ended with a crying 11-year-old boy claiming that he’d been maliciously stepped on.

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By Tuesday, the clearly flummoxed camp had posted a defense on its website. “As a school, we believe editors chose to eliminate all of the wonderful coverage of the camp and then elected to lead the reader to believe that the focus was on violence,” it read in part. “This misrepresentation and the suggestion that a child was hurt while in our care could not be further from the truth.”

Kids got to connect with their inner Katniss (as portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence). Photo: LionsgateThe post explained the thinking behind its controversial camp idea.

"With our oldest students, we would be remiss as a school if we neglected to address violent themes or ignored popular adolescent fiction, such as 'The Hunger Games' trilogy or the Harry Potter series,” it noted. And so, “after careful consideration, we decided to offer a camp for middle school students centered on 'The Hunger Games' in response to adolescent interest in the popular book trilogy.…Activities creatively integrated the academic subjects of physics, engineering, art, and theater. Campers navigated through outdoor courses and had fun playing tug-of-war in the mud!”

But Susan Toler, a clinical psychologist specializing in children's issues and an assistant dean at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, told the Times that she found the camp idea "unthinkable,” as it softens the idea of violence. "When they start thinking and owning and adopting and assuming the roles, it becomes closer to them," Toler explained. "The violence becomes less egregious."

Even camp counselors were taken aback by how much the kids were getting into the theme, according to the story. It apparently prompted them to soften the ways they approached some of the camp activities.

“On Wednesday morning, the camp's head counselor, Lindsey Gillette, told the campers there would be a rule change to Friday's 'Hunger Games' tournament,” the Times story reported. “Instead of ‘killing’ each other by taking flags, the campers would instead ‘collect lives.’ Whoever had the most flags would win.” That’s because, the story continued, “Privately, she said the violence the kids had expressed was off-putting.”

A camper prepares for "battle." Photo: Tampa Bay TimesThe one-week camp, open to 26 kids in grades six through nine, is just one of the school's seven-day themed sessions offered to kids this summer. Themes range from Cartooning Art and Top Chef to Mad Science and Kayak Camp, and prices range from $100 to $500 for the week. A spokesperson for the camp did not immediately respond to Yahoo! Shine’s request for specific "Hunger Games" camp information.

Bloggers and news outlets around the country have been quick to pick up the Tampa Bay Times story on the unique camp session, though. Vanity Fair called it “frightening but not altogether surprising news from Florida,” and Relevant also declared it “frightening." Meanwhile, readers took to Twitter to voice their concerns about the camp. Critics there called it “a horrifying idea,” a “terrible idea” and “absolutely crazy,” among other choice descriptors.

The Mary Sue, meanwhile, had a more balanced take on things. “I never pushed anyone to the ground and stepped on them, but then the only time I went to summer camp I made a concerted effort to stay inside and read the whole time,” wrote blogger Rebecca Pahle. “So I’m going to say this camp looks disturbing but also kind of fun, you know, if you’re into running around and doing sports during the summer. Ugh. Exercise.”

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8/8/2013 10:41:41 AM

As al-Qaida grows, leaders remain a global threat

A Jordanian military vehicle drives around the U.S. embassy in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, one of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa ordered closed following terror threats. Far from being on the brink of breakdown, al-Qaida’s core leadership remains a potent threat _ and one that experts say has encouraged the terror network’s spread into more countries today than it was immediately after 9/11. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Far from being on the brink of collapse, al-Qaida's core leadership remains a potent threat — and one that experts say has encouraged the terror network's spread into more countries today than it was operating in immediately after 9/11.

President Barack Obama, who ordered the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, has described al-Qaida's headquarters as "a shadow of its former self" and his spokesman Jay Carney has called it "severely diminished" and "decimated." The bravado, however, didn't match the Obama administration's action this week.

Nineteen U.S. diplomatic outposts stretching across the Eastern Hemisphere remain closed, and nonessential personnel have been evacuated from the U.S. Embassy in Yemen after intelligence officials said they had intercepted a recent message from al-Qaida's top leader about plans for a major terror attack.

The new communique came from bin Laden's replacement, Ayman al-Zawahri, who as early as December 2001 announced plans to decentralize the network and scatter its affiliates across the globe as a way of ensuring its survival.

Now, major al-Qaida hubs are thriving along the Iraqi-Syrian border, in North Africa and, in the most serious risk to the U.S., in Yemen.

The regional hubs may not take direct orders from al-Zawahri, and terror experts say they rarely coordinate operations with each other or share funding and fighters. But they have promoted al-Qaida's mission far beyond what its reach was a dozen years ago and, in turn, created an enduring legacy for its core leaders.

"Even while the core al-Qaida group may be in decline, al-Qaida-ism, the movement's ideology, continues to resonate and attract new adherents," Bruce Hoffman, director of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, wrote in a research paper earlier this year.

Bin Laden's death, Hoffman wrote, "left behind a resilient movement that, although seriously weakened, has been expanding and consolidating its control in new and far-flung locales."

On Wednesday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. has focused on al-Qaida's affiliates, including the one based in Yemen, after targeting the terror network's top leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"We're not naive about the challenges we're facing," Psaki said. "We do think a threat still remains."

"We're intensifying our effort on affiliates," she said. "That's part of what our focus is. And, yes, we've had some successes."

Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian whose location is unknown, issues messages to followers every few months that are posted and circulated on jihadi websites. His latest, posted July 30, lashed out at Obama for the continued U.S. detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and for launching deadly drone attacks in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and other Muslim countries.

"You fought us for 13 years. ... Did we soften or toughen up? Did we back out or advance? Did we withdraw or spread out?" al-Zawahri asked Obama in his July 30 message, according to a transcript of his letter that was translated from Arabic by SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist websites.

He continued, "I call on every Muslim in every spot on Earth to seek with all that he can to stop the crimes of America and its allies against the Muslims — in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Mali, and everywhere."

Three days later, the State Department announced the temporary closing of U.S. embassies and diplomatic outposts across the Mideast, Africa and Asia — although not in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel or Mali. Officials this week said the closures were prompted by an unspecified threat to U.S. and Western interests in a message from al-Zawahri to his top lieutenant in Yemen, where al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is based.

AQAP, as the terror network's regional hub is known, is led by Nasser al-Wahishi, who for years was close to al-Zawahri and bin Laden, and is one of al-Qaida's few remaining core leaders, said SITE director Rita Katz.

Intelligence officials say AQAP has for years announced its intent to attack the U.S., and is widely considered the biggest threat to the West of the al-Qaida affiliates. The group is linked to the botched Christmas Day 2009 bombing of an airliner bound for Detroit and explosives-laden parcels intercepted aboard cargo flights a year later.

Katz said AQAP may serve as the future al-Qaida headquarters, given that al-Zawahri and other core leaders pay attention to al-Wahishi. But she warned, "There will be a new leader in the future, and I doubt it will stay the same."

For the most part, al-Qaida's regional power centers have formed in places undergoing political upheaval, where security forces are too distracted by internal war or strife to clamp down on extremists.

The civil war in Syria, now in its third year, has given al-Qaida a huge boost and an opportunity to seize land that the Sunni-based network has long yearned to control. Having a leadership role in Syria would be a victory for al-Qaida given the country's prominence in Muslim scripture, its proximity to other Arab states and the network's hatred toward Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, who include Syrian President Bashar Assad.

More than 100,000 people have died in the Syrian war, which largely pits Sunni opposition forces and rebels against Assad's Alawite regime, and has drawn fighters linked to al-Qaida. Many have come from neighboring Iraq, which itself is reeling from political instability.

Violence has risen steadily since the American military left Iraq in December 2011, fueled in part by Syrian cross-border militant traffic but also because of Baghdad's inability to curb attacks.

July was the deadliest month in Iraq in years, with attacks killing more than 1,000 people and wounding at least 2,300, according to U.N. data. And coordinated jailbreaks at two high-security Iraqi prisons last month set free hundreds of inmates, including al-Qaida extremists. Iraq's branch of al-Qaida, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, claimed responsibility for the raids that it said were planned for months.

Kenneth Pollack, who oversaw Persian Gulf issues while on the White House National Security Council during the Clinton administration, said al-Qaida is poised to gain from instability across the Mideast — in part by using Iraq as a regional hub.

"Al-Qaida in Iraq is back. They were dead in 2010, dead as doornails, and now they are huge in Iraq," Pollack said. "They have operations in Syria and they are a real movement in Syria."

But the al-Qaida fighters in Iraq and Syria have shown little interest in attacking Americans beyond the region, Pollack said, and neither have most of those in northern Africa. There, in a region that spans across the Sahel and stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to Somalia, a spread of militants are calling themselves al-Qaida in Islamic Maghreb.

AQIM is rooted in Algeria and affiliated with al-Zawahri, who in April warned French troops fighting extremists in Mali that they would face "the same fate America met in Iraq and Afghanistan" as long as they stayed. But there's no evidence the North African groups receive direct orders from al-Zawahri, and most are as motivated by asserting local authority through criminal activity as by anti-Western ideology.

It's believed that AQIM was linked to some of the militants behind last year's attack on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. And AQIM is suspected of driving overloaded trucks of rifles, mortars and other weapons from Libya to Mali and Niger to arm allies there.

Al-Zawahri also urged Muslims to join Somali militants in a message last November. The Somali-based militant group al-Shabab is loosely linked to al-Qaida, but some of its members have plotted attacks against the United States, where large pockets of Somalis have moved to escape famine and war over the last 20 years.

An inevitable part of al-Qaida's growth is its new regional leadership — few of whom fought with bin Laden or have ever worked with al-Zawahri, Katz said. They may not all be driven by the same anti-American or anti-Western fervors that motivated bin Laden, but that makes them no less a global threat as the disparate groups mature.

"In the past, people wanted to go to Afghanistan; it was the dream of every possible jihadi on the front to go to Afghanistan to fight in al-Qaida training camps," Katz said. "You don't see that anymore. No one cares about what's happening in Afghanistan.

"If anyone wants to go anywhere today it is, of course, Syria," she said. "Going to Yemen is always a good thing for them; going to Somalia is less than it used to be, but it's still another possibility. Things change all the time."

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