Chinese cities find coronavirus in frozen food imports

看起来，2020年整个都毁掉了。所有流行的计划都泡汤，不知道明年会怎么样？

Bill Gates: Coronavirus pandemic will end 'for the rich world' by late 2021
www.cnet.com/news/bill-gates-says-coronavirus-pandemic-will-be-over-for-rich-world-by-late-2021/

Everyone is eager to know when the coronavirus crisis will be over, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has an idea. But his estimate varies based on whether you live in the developing world or in wealthier countries such as the United States.

"The innovation pipeline on scaling up diagnostics, on new therapeutics, on vaccines is actually quite impressive," Gates told Wired magazine in an interview published Friday. "And that makes me feel like, for the rich world, we should largely be able to end this thing by the end of 2021, and for the world at large by the end of 2022."

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Fauci believes normalcy will return by "the end of 2021" with coronavirus vaccine
www.axios.com/fauci-coronavirus-vaccine-end-of-2021-normal-f0bb2126-d304-498b-9951-f2b2989d0f8b.html

Anthony Fauci told PBS NewsHour on Thursday that he expects the U.S. could "be as good [as] back to normal as we possibly can" by the end of 2021 if a coronavirus vaccine becomes widely available.

The big picture: Fauci made clear that this would not mean the virus is eradicated, saying, "We can get it under good enough control that it is so low that it doesn't interfere with the kind of normal life that we want to get the economy back, to get employment back."

Still Essential, Grocery Workers Are Reporting a New Low in Morale
worldbestnews.info/still-essential-grocery-workers-are-reporting-a-new-low-in-morale/

Being that the grocery shops are among the many few service sectors that haven’t suffered mass closures and job loss, employees say that house owners and managers have the higher hand and are utilizing the specter of unemployment to strain decrease degree workers into harmful conditions, like working whereas unwell. Angel Manners, a union steward at a Meijer grocer in Kentucky, tells WaPo, “Managers are making selections on their very own, saying ‘You’ve got a cough however you’ll be okay. You don’t wish to say ‘no’ since you’ll lose your job.”

The tip of hazard pay has left workers — a few of whom are the only real breadwinners for his or her households, as unemployment ravages different industries — in dire straits. Moreover, they are saying that clients have develop into more and more impolite, with one employee telling WaPo, “They don’t even deal with us like people anymore.” Employees are even going through outright harassment and violence from patrons, a lot of them hoping to make a scene, who refuse to comply with retailer or state mandates and put on masks.

The Washington Publish studies that “the nation’s 2.7 million grocery employees make, on common, $13.20 an hour, or about $27,000 a yr” and that “at the least 130 U.S. grocery employees have died, and greater than 8,200 have examined constructive for COVID-19 since late March.”

extremely unusual weather this summer

'Nonstop continuous lightning' hits Bay Area, more storms in forecast
www.sfgate.com/weather/article/lightning-summer-San-Francisco-Bay-Area-thunder-15487464.php

People across the Bay Area woke to a wild mix of thunder, lightning, high winds and heavy rain early Sunday morning, as thunderstorms moved across the region before sunrise.

Dry lightning was in the forecast, but the thunderstorms were more severe and wet than expected and, at the end of a week marked by dry heat, the weather was a surprise for many. The weather was also unusual for California, which sees little storm activity in the summer months.

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Record-breaking heat wave fueling wildfires in the West
www.cbsnews.com/video/record-breaking-heat-wave-fueling-wildfires-in-the-west/#x

"华盛顿"还在争论地球气候是否已经变暖。有人就是不相信: 格陵兰岛的冰川正在以肉眼可见的速度变化着，......

应该不会影响到我们这一带。

前年北加山火，湾区烟雾弥漫，我们逃到中部海边。
现在新冠，受影响的地区真是无处可逃。

Thanks for your latese news. People all around the world suffer a lot in 2020. It is sad that some countries need to deal with the cornavirus pandemic in the meantime meeting with bad weather.
Many Global incidents happened such as Belarus president's succession、HongKong issues、“Apps Ban”、vicious competition surrounding Huawei and United State which distract people's attention in various things.
Our concern in global environment、women right、poor education rate in developing countries and so on is decreasing which may waste previous effort.
Perhaps what we should do is try our best to manage ourselves and discover more information behind the hot.
Come on!

Greenland's Ice Sheet Has Lost a Record Half-a-Trillion Tonnes in a Single Year
Greenland's massive ice sheet saw a record net loss of 532 billion tonnes last year, raising red flags about accelerating sea level rise, according to findings released Thursday.

That is equivalent to an additional 3 million tonnes of water streaming into global oceans every day, or six Olympic pools every second.

Crumbling glaciers and torrents of melt-water slicing through Greenland's two-to-three-kilometre thick ice block were the single biggest source of global sea level rise in 2019, accounted for 40 percent of the total, or 1.5 millimetres, researchers reported in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

Last year's loss of mass was at least 15 percent above the previous record in 2012, but even more alarming are the long-term trends, they said.

"2019 and the four other record-loss years have all occurred in the last decade," lead author Ingo Sasgen, a glaciologist at the Helmholtze Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, told AFP.

If all of Greenland's ice sheet were to melt, it would lift global oceans by seven metres (23 feet).

Even a more modest rise of a couple of metres would redraw the world's coastlines and render land occupied today by hundreds of millions of people uninhabitable.

Until 2000, Greenland's ice sheet - covering an area three times the size of France - generally accumulated as much mass as it shed.

Runoff, in other words, was compensated by fresh snowfall.

But over the last two decades ago, the gathering pace of global warming has upended this balance.

The gap is widening at both ends, according to the study, which draws from nearly 20 years of satellite data.

Changing weather patterns - also a consequence of climate change - has resulted in less cloud cover, and thus less snow. These high pressure systems have also resulted in more, and warmer, sunny days, accelerating the loss of mass.

Climate system 'tipping point'

In 2019, the ice sheet lost a total of 1.13 trillion tonnes, about 45 percent from glaciers sliding into the sea, and 55 percent from melted ice, said Sasgen. It gained about 600 billion tonnes through precipitation.

A study in the same journal last week concluded that the Greenland's ice sheet has passed a "tipping point", and is now doomed to disintegrate, though on what time scale is unknown.

Sasgen says it is too soon to know if we have reached a point of no return, but agrees that the ice sheet is likely to continue losing mass, even in colder years.

"But that doesn't mean that trying to limit warming doesn't matter," he added.

"Every decimal degree you save in terms of warming will save a certain amount of sea level rise - both in magnitude and speed."

Experts not involved in the research were not surprised by the findings, but expressed concern nonetheless.

"The ice sheet has lost ice every year for the last 20 years," said Twila Moon, a research scientists at the University of Colorado.

"If everyone's alarm bells were not already ringing, they must be now."

Stuart Cunningham, an oceanographer from the Scottish Association for Marine Science, warned about the potential impact on the North Atlantic circulation, a current that keeps northwestern Europe five to ten degrees Celsius warmer that similar latitudes elsewhere on the globe.

"Climate models show this circulation can be switched off by adding fresh water to the North Atlantic," he said, noting this happened during the end of the last ice age.

"This tipping point in the climate system is one of the potential disasters facing us."

From 1992 to 2018, Greenland lost about four trillion tonnes of mass, causing the mean sea level to rise by 11 millimetres, according to a December 2019 study in Nature.



© Agence France-Presse

回边君，我这几年年年担心山火。
昨天风把烟暂时吹走。于是，开窗，走路，看星星。感觉真好，幸福如此简单。
今早窗外灰蒙蒙的，一天闷在家里。莎翁言，"The world is a prison".
想搬去Oregon，只是想想而已。

过去每年加州都有山火、但是现在过火面积越来越大，持续时间越来越长，这对我们电视机前的观众来说也是一种考验。看看那些居民回到废墟前的神情，我都不敢想象如果这事发生在我的身上会怎么样。一般来说，具有apathy的人会活得比较轻松一些。但是一个集体，一个社会，一个国家，我觉得更需要empathy。这同样适用南方和东部的飓风。

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Residents craving blue skies and clean air, might have to head east and cross state lines. That’s exactly what some desperate families in the Bay Area did Friday, boarded a plane to give their lungs a break.

At the Oakland International Airport, the sky was so thick with smoke, you could hear planes take off, but you just couldn't see them. Inside those planes – many passengers feeling grateful that they’re heading somewhere where they can be outside and breathe easily.

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Risking my neck to get on a plane?   No, air travel doesn't sound safe to me.
If I could teleport myself to Alaska........

已经十二月了，仍然温暖如春，只下过两次毛毛雨。雨季无雨，明年火灾难免。



Humanity is waging war on nature, says UN secretary general

Guterres said: “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back – and it is already doing so with growing force and fury. Biodiversity is collapsing. One million species are at risk of extinction. Ecosystems are disappearing before our eyes … Human activities are at the root of our descent toward chaos. But that means human action can help to solve it.”

全球气候变暖情况实在让人担忧！