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Like this tree in front of us has four needles at the very peak,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the needles, that tree and scores around it are dead. 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But that could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorne and his team of researchers modeled future climate conditions in the state and found that if we don’t significantly curb greenhouse gases, it’s likely that areas now dominated by conifer forests may not be able to sustain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll become more suitable for the chaparral,” Thorne said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means in a hotter, drier future we may permanently lose our conifers to chaparral. For firefighters, that would mean a shift in approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://i.imgur.com/JVCkGPP.gif\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This GIF depicts areas of pine forests from 1981 to 2099. Blue areas show suitable conditions for these forests to thrive. Red areas show unsuitable conditions triggered by climate change. (Source: UC Davis)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with chaparral, and as we see an increase in it, is that it burns very hot and very rapidly,” said Mike Mohler from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says chaparral fires grow fast and out of control. Since so many Southern Californians live near chaparral, he says these are the fires that often destroy homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent Sand Fire was a textbook example: It torched more than 40,000 acres, claimed one life and burned nearly 20 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler says fires in pine forests are hard to fight up close, because there are often few roads and lots of trees. Instead, crews make fire breaks and back-burn to take away fuel as the fire advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral fires, on the other hand, are easier to attack head-on with hoses and hand crews, but that puts firefighters in more danger, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://imgur.com/vXLadxr\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This GIF depicts areas of chaparral from 1981 to 2099. Blue areas show suitable conditions for chaparral. Red areas show unsuitable conditions because of climate change. (Source: UC Davis)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even as chaparral threatens to take over pine forests, chaparral itself is at risk of being replaced by an even more flammable plant community, according to Rick Halsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey runs the nonprofit Chaparral Institute, and he is full of facts on the benefits of this ever-present ecosystem. For instance, he says chaparral plants prevent erosion, help rainwater absorb deeper into soils and provide habitat for many animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey said most people, though, just see chaparral as a fire waiting to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so as a consequence they look at these areas as a place of fear and danger rather than an important part of California’s ecology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral systems actually need fire every couple of decades to help certain plants germinate and to weed out others. But he adds that too many fires in too short a time means even these plants can disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened on a hillside of the Del Dios Highlands Preserve in San Diego County where a fire struck in 1997 and another one hit 10 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Halsey researches the benefits of chaparral ecosystems and the threats facing these plant communities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Halsey researches the benefits of chaparral ecosystems and the threats facing these plant communities. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now the hillside is covered in non-native, weedy grasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point is there’s no shrubs, and they were here before. The frequency between the two fires eliminated the shrubs and allowed different species to come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey says the non-native grasses that are choking out the chaparral dry out easily and burn even faster than the native shrubs that were here before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasslands aren’t new to California, says Cal Fire’s Mohler, but they may be the most dangerous of all the plant types because of how quickly a fire can shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fire] can turn in a moment’s notice with just a minor wind shift, and come back against fire personnel, and cause massive burns,” Mohler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said firefighters have to be on high alert when dealing with grass fires, but luckily they respond well to attacks from above with water- and retardant-dropping planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler says firefighters and forest managers can work together to mitigate new fire risks from changing plant communities, but a lot of the changes expected from global warming can’t be stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others worry that as these effects strengthen, explosive fires will be the new normal for every ecosystem in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/forever-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forever Fire Season\u003c/a>, KPCC’s in-depth coverage of the new reality of year-round fire season in Southern California. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Southern California is home to some of the most diverse plant communities in the world, from coastal sage scrub and oak woodlands to conifer forests and inland chaparral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But where biologists see ecological niches, fire officials see fuel sources for wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many climate models predict that greenhouse gases will create a hotter, drier future for California over the next century. And that will likely amp up the potential for big blazes on these varying landscapes, creating new challenges for firefighters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One plant community already feeling the heat is the high-elevation pine woodlands in places like Mount Baldy, Idyllwild and Big Bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here we have a lot of Jeffrey pines and a lot of white firs,” Paris Krause pointed out on a recent hike through the piney peaks of the San Bernardino Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s a contract botanist with the U.S. Forest Service, hired to study the aftermath of 2015’s Lake Fire near Big Bear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066259\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Forest Service crew member and botanist Paris Krause drives through moderate and high-intensity burn areas one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Paris-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Forest Service crew member and botanist Paris Krause drives through moderate and high-intensity burn areas one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(Susanica Tam/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thanks to extremely dry conditions, that fire quickly spread across 48 miles, reducing entire hillsides of pines to charred trunks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a few needles left on trees. Like this tree in front of us has four needles at the very peak,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the needles, that tree and scores around it are dead. Krause said the fire was so intense it likely baked any seeds resting in the ground, making it hard for new trees to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That opens the door for another plant community to move in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right here this is a white thorn or a Ceanothus,” Krause says, pointing to a small green cluster of leaves. “And right over there, that is a baby Manzanita.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066264\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"New chaparral whitethorn (L) and manzanita (R) grow on the forest floor one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/NewPlants-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New chaparral whitethorn (L) and manzanita (R) grow on the forest floor one year after the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest on July 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(Susanica Tam/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These are both common chaparral species that are now thriving in the wake of the Lake Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s actually a pattern that is quite familiar to us in California,” said James Thorne, a researcher with UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says chaparral often comes into piney areas right after a fire, but it doesn’t typically stick around as new saplings grow through it. But that could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorne and his team of researchers modeled future climate conditions in the state and found that if we don’t significantly curb greenhouse gases, it’s likely that areas now dominated by conifer forests may not be able to sustain them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’ll become more suitable for the chaparral,” Thorne said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means in a hotter, drier future we may permanently lose our conifers to chaparral. For firefighters, that would mean a shift in approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://i.imgur.com/JVCkGPP.gif\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This GIF depicts areas of pine forests from 1981 to 2099. Blue areas show suitable conditions for these forests to thrive. Red areas show unsuitable conditions triggered by climate change. (Source: UC Davis)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem with chaparral, and as we see an increase in it, is that it burns very hot and very rapidly,” said Mike Mohler from Cal Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says chaparral fires grow fast and out of control. Since so many Southern Californians live near chaparral, he says these are the fires that often destroy homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent Sand Fire was a textbook example: It torched more than 40,000 acres, claimed one life and burned nearly 20 structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler says fires in pine forests are hard to fight up close, because there are often few roads and lots of trees. Instead, crews make fire breaks and back-burn to take away fuel as the fire advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral fires, on the other hand, are easier to attack head-on with hoses and hand crews, but that puts firefighters in more danger, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://imgur.com/vXLadxr\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This GIF depicts areas of chaparral from 1981 to 2099. Blue areas show suitable conditions for chaparral. Red areas show unsuitable conditions because of climate change. (Source: UC Davis)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, even as chaparral threatens to take over pine forests, chaparral itself is at risk of being replaced by an even more flammable plant community, according to Rick Halsey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey runs the nonprofit Chaparral Institute, and he is full of facts on the benefits of this ever-present ecosystem. For instance, he says chaparral plants prevent erosion, help rainwater absorb deeper into soils and provide habitat for many animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey said most people, though, just see chaparral as a fire waiting to happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so as a consequence they look at these areas as a place of fear and danger rather than an important part of California’s ecology,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaparral systems actually need fire every couple of decades to help certain plants germinate and to weed out others. But he adds that too many fires in too short a time means even these plants can disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened on a hillside of the Del Dios Highlands Preserve in San Diego County where a fire struck in 1997 and another one hit 10 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11066277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11066277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Halsey researches the benefits of chaparral ecosystems and the threats facing these plant communities.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Halsey-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Halsey researches the benefits of chaparral ecosystems and the threats facing these plant communities. \u003ccite>(Sanden Totten/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now the hillside is covered in non-native, weedy grasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point is there’s no shrubs, and they were here before. The frequency between the two fires eliminated the shrubs and allowed different species to come in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halsey says the non-native grasses that are choking out the chaparral dry out easily and burn even faster than the native shrubs that were here before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grasslands aren’t new to California, says Cal Fire’s Mohler, but they may be the most dangerous of all the plant types because of how quickly a fire can shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The fire] can turn in a moment’s notice with just a minor wind shift, and come back against fire personnel, and cause massive burns,” Mohler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said firefighters have to be on high alert when dealing with grass fires, but luckily they respond well to attacks from above with water- and retardant-dropping planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohler says firefighters and forest managers can work together to mitigate new fire risks from changing plant communities, but a lot of the changes expected from global warming can’t be stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others worry that as these effects strengthen, explosive fires will be the new normal for every ecosystem in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/topics/forever-fire-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forever Fire Season\u003c/a>, KPCC’s in-depth coverage of the new reality of year-round fire season in Southern California. 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"content": "\u003cp>They aren't saying it's alien. But they are saying it's \"interesting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mountain View-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute\u003c/a> — the private organization that looks for signals of extraterrestrial life — has announced that it is investigating reports of an unusual radio signal picked up by Russian astronomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The signal was detected on a much wider bandwidth than the SETI Institute uses in its searches, and the strength of the received signal was \"weak,\" SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak \u003ca href=\"http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/a-seti-signal\">wrote in a blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was unusual, both in its design and its \"beam shape,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The signal \u003cem>might\u003c/em> be coming from a solar system called HD 164595, some 94 light-years away from us, Shostak wrote. It seems to be coming from that direction, at any rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That system has a star similar to ours. There's one known planet circling that star, about the size of Neptune and very close to the star. That planet doesn't seem like a good candidate for hosting life, but other planets might also be in the system, Shostak wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's no guarantee that the signal is, in fact, coming from the system. And even if it is, that doesn't mean it's definitely coming from intelligent life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Astronomer Nick Suntzeff \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/seti-has-observed-a-strong-signal-that-may-originate-from-a-sun-like-star/\">told Ars Technica\u003c/a> that there's a \"significant chance\" it could be military — that is, coming from covert satellite communications instead of beaming to us from HD 164595.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are \"natural sources\" that could conceivably cause a wide-band signal like the one detected, Shostak \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">told GeekWire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the astronomers who first detected the signal, in May 2015, didn't immediately alert the scientific community and ask for help confirming the signal. That suggests they were not persuaded this was extraterrestrial life reaching out, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Shostak wrote on SETI's site that it's \"not terribly promising\" that this is a message from alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11065885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May 2015. \u003ccite>(SAO RAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To put things in perspective, Eric Korpela, an astronomer at UC Berkeley who is a project scientist for the SETI@home project, notes that there are millions of \"potential signals\" that have been detected from space, and that this signal was detected only once out of 39 scans. \"I was unimpressed,\" he wrote \u003ca href=\"http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&id=80193\">on a SETI forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now is not the time for either delight or panic, depending on your feelings about encountering alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>time for more investigation, Shostak says. The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in California has been turned toward HD 164595 since Sunday evening, looking for a repeat of the signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://meti.org/optical-seti\">METI International\u003c/a> is also using a Panama-based observatory to investigate in that direction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">GeekWire reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might remember that in 1977, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/05/28/126510251/aliens-found-in-ohio-the-wow-signal\">astronomers detected the \"Wow\" signal\u003c/a>, an odd burst that might, possibly, have been sent by alien life-forms. But it has never been detected again, leaving scientists with little to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If things are different this time around and one of the arrays finds a repeat of the new signal, that would \"immediately spur\" follow-up research, Shostak writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, it has prompted speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, astronomers are cautioning that this might easily be a false alarm. But if the signal \u003cem>were \u003c/em>sent from alien life in the HD 164595 system, what would that mean? There are two primary options, Shostak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One scenario is that the life-forms sent a powerful signal in all directions — a \"here I am\" sent to the universe in general. To reach us at its current strength, that would mean the planet had access to 100 billion watts of energy, \"hundreds of times more energy than all the sunlight falling on Earth,\" Shostak wrote, indicating a very advanced alien society, with capabilities far beyond ours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alternately, the message could have been directed at us. That's a lower energy requirement — about equal to \"the total energy consumption of all mankind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in that case, they'd have to know we're here. The system is too far away to have picked up any TV or radar from humans on Earth, \"and it's hard to understand why anyone would want to target our solar system,\" Shostak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And even if it is, that doesn't mean it's definitely coming from intelligent life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Astronomer Nick Suntzeff \u003ca href=\"http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/seti-has-observed-a-strong-signal-that-may-originate-from-a-sun-like-star/\">told Ars Technica\u003c/a> that there's a \"significant chance\" it could be military — that is, coming from covert satellite communications instead of beaming to us from HD 164595.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are \"natural sources\" that could conceivably cause a wide-band signal like the one detected, Shostak \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">told GeekWire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even the astronomers who first detected the signal, in May 2015, didn't immediately alert the scientific community and ask for help confirming the signal. That suggests they were not persuaded this was extraterrestrial life reaching out, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Shostak wrote on SETI's site that it's \"not terribly promising\" that this is a message from alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11065885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11065885\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Ratan600-400x275.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Russian RATAN-600 radio telescope, which detected the signal in May 2015. \u003ccite>(SAO RAS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To put things in perspective, Eric Korpela, an astronomer at UC Berkeley who is a project scientist for the SETI@home project, notes that there are millions of \"potential signals\" that have been detected from space, and that this signal was detected only once out of 39 scans. \"I was unimpressed,\" he wrote \u003ca href=\"http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?nowrap=true&id=80193\">on a SETI forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now is not the time for either delight or panic, depending on your feelings about encountering alien life-forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it \u003cem>is \u003c/em>time for more investigation, Shostak says. The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array in California has been turned toward HD 164595 since Sunday evening, looking for a repeat of the signal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://meti.org/optical-seti\">METI International\u003c/a> is also using a Panama-based observatory to investigate in that direction, \u003ca href=\"http://www.geekwire.com/2016/signal-seti-interest-hd164595/\">GeekWire reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might remember that in 1977, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2010/05/28/126510251/aliens-found-in-ohio-the-wow-signal\">astronomers detected the \"Wow\" signal\u003c/a>, an odd burst that might, possibly, have been sent by alien life-forms. But it has never been detected again, leaving scientists with little to work with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If things are different this time around and one of the arrays finds a repeat of the new signal, that would \"immediately spur\" follow-up research, Shostak writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, it has prompted speculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, astronomers are cautioning that this might easily be a false alarm. But if the signal \u003cem>were \u003c/em>sent from alien life in the HD 164595 system, what would that mean? There are two primary options, Shostak says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One scenario is that the life-forms sent a powerful signal in all directions — a \"here I am\" sent to the universe in general. 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"content": "\u003cp>Traveling along the seafloor, 2,600 feet beneath the surface, a remotely operated vessel approaches a shipwreck that’s not been seen in 65 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swimming through the jellyfish and \u003ca href=\"http://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/Ctenophores.html\">ctenophore\u003c/a>-flecked waters, the ROV’s cameras focus on a ship, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cvl-22.com/\" target=\"_blank\">USS Independence\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. It’s encrusted with sea life -- nature quickly colonizes all in its domain -- yet many features are still intact on the deck of this World War II-era aircraft carrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Independence\u003c/em> was part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and in October 1944 was part of\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> the \u003ca href=\"http://www.public.navy.mil/surflant/cg55/Pages/Battle.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Battle of Leyte Gulf\u003c/a>, the largest naval battle in modern history. Fought to support the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese occupation, the battle was a decisive victory for the Allies against the Japanese Navy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, the ship was used as a target in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.atomicheritage.org/history/operation-crossroads\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Crossroads\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> to test the impacts of nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll. The U.S. Navy scuttled the heavily damaged carrier in 1951, not far from the Farallon Islands. It has been there ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/qZLNKc84YA4\">[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZLNKc84YA4&w=800&h=349]\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding and exploring \u003cem>Independence \u003c/em>was a joint project between the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oceanexplorationtrust.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Exploration Trust\u003c/a>, a Connecticut organization founded by famed underwater explorer Robert Ballard, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.navy.mil/local/navhist/\" target=\"_blank\">Naval History and Heritage Command\u003c/a>. The remotely operated vehicles \u003ca href=\"http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/subs/hercules/hercules.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Hercules\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nautiluslive.org/tech/rov-argus\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Argus\u003c/em>\u003c/a> were both \u003ca href=\"http://ojhstreasure.weebly.com/the-rovs.html\" target=\"_blank\">part of the Titanic exploration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this fresh look at \u003cem>Independence\u003c/em> has just been one part of the search for maritime artifacts along the Northern Californian coast this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early August, James Delgado, director of the NOAA's Maritime Heritage Program, stands on a bluff at \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=449\">Fort Ross Historic State Park\u003c/a>, about a three-hour drive north of San Francisco. It's an area that has long attracted people to the coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280107851\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For thousands of years this environment has nurtured people,\" says Delgado. \"Its rich offshore nutrients have made the marine mammals thrive, along with fish. And so, for the Kashia (band of Pomo) and their ancestors, they certainly have used these waters. The Russians came by sea and settled here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1800s, Russian settlers hunted marine mammals at Fort Ross, primarily selling otter pelts. By the middle of the century, though, otter populations crashed, and most Russians returned to their homeland. So, t\u003cspan class=\"s1\">he main industry became timber.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062465\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-800x1075.jpg\" alt=\"A map of shipwrecks and doghole ports in Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1075\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11062465\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-800x1075.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-400x537.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-1180x1585.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-960x1290.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of shipwrecks and doghole ports in Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries. \u003ccite>(Robert Schwemmer, NOAA ONMS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know if the average person realizes what an active area this was back in the 19th century and turn of the century,\" says Deborah Marx, a maritime archaeologist with NOAA. \"Schooners were traveling up and down the coast, shipping this lumber, mainly to San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma and Mendocino redwood ended up around the globe, attractive because it is so resistant to rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was moved onto larger vessels and shipped all over the world,\" says Marx. \"They shipped it to Hong Kong, China, Australia, South America. And so our lumber industry here really fueled the development of lots of these countries. It was essential for the building of the railroads. You wanted a very durable hardwood that would last especially in the hot humid conditions, in places like South America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support that industry, tiny ports known as \"doghole ports\" (so named because a dog could barely turn around in them) popped up along the coast: Duncans Mills, Timber Cove and Salt Point Landing are a few of the places still known today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the ports, loggers and mariners set up elaborate timber chutes to transfer cargo from the shore directly to the deck of a ship anchored near the coast at a mooring. It was easy for things to go wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" size=\"large\" ids=\"11062459,11062461\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're anchored in and a storm comes up, then you're going to get pushed into the rocks. And in that way a lot of these ships were lost,\" says Delgado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Archaeologists searched the national archive, old news clippings and historical accounts to find sites of shipwrecks along the coast. Their underwater and land survey of ports this month searched for both old shipwrecks and old port infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divers searched the waters at four ports: Fort Ross, Gerstle Cove, Fisk Mill Cove and Duncan's Landing. They found old port infrastructure at Fort Ross and Gerstle, visited the remains of the steamship \u003ci>Pomona, \u003c/i>which sank in 1908 near Fort Ross and made exploratory dives to locate the schooner \u003ci>J. Eppinger\u003c/i>, bark \u003ci>Windermere\u003c/i> and steamship \u003ci>Whitelaw\u003c/i>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Traveling along the seafloor, 2,600 feet beneath the surface, a remotely operated vessel approaches a shipwreck that’s not been seen in 65 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swimming through the jellyfish and \u003ca href=\"http://faculty.washington.edu/cemills/Ctenophores.html\">ctenophore\u003c/a>-flecked waters, the ROV’s cameras focus on a ship, the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cvl-22.com/\" target=\"_blank\">USS Independence\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. It’s encrusted with sea life -- nature quickly colonizes all in its domain -- yet many features are still intact on the deck of this World War II-era aircraft carrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Independence\u003c/em> was part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and in October 1944 was part of\u003cspan class=\"s1\"> the \u003ca href=\"http://www.public.navy.mil/surflant/cg55/Pages/Battle.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Battle of Leyte Gulf\u003c/a>, the largest naval battle in modern history. Fought to support the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese occupation, the battle was a decisive victory for the Allies against the Japanese Navy.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, the ship was used as a target in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.atomicheritage.org/history/operation-crossroads\" target=\"_blank\">Operation Crossroads\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> to test the impacts of nuclear weapons at Bikini Atoll. The U.S. Navy scuttled the heavily damaged carrier in 1951, not far from the Farallon Islands. It has been there ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/qZLNKc84YA4\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qZLNKc84YA4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qZLNKc84YA4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding and exploring \u003cem>Independence \u003c/em>was a joint project between the \u003ca href=\"http://www.oceanexplorationtrust.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Exploration Trust\u003c/a>, a Connecticut organization founded by famed underwater explorer Robert Ballard, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.navy.mil/local/navhist/\" target=\"_blank\">Naval History and Heritage Command\u003c/a>. The remotely operated vehicles \u003ca href=\"http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/subs/hercules/hercules.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Hercules\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nautiluslive.org/tech/rov-argus\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Argus\u003c/em>\u003c/a> were both \u003ca href=\"http://ojhstreasure.weebly.com/the-rovs.html\" target=\"_blank\">part of the Titanic exploration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this fresh look at \u003cem>Independence\u003c/em> has just been one part of the search for maritime artifacts along the Northern Californian coast this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early August, James Delgado, director of the NOAA's Maritime Heritage Program, stands on a bluff at \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=449\">Fort Ross Historic State Park\u003c/a>, about a three-hour drive north of San Francisco. It's an area that has long attracted people to the coastline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280107851&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280107851'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For thousands of years this environment has nurtured people,\" says Delgado. \"Its rich offshore nutrients have made the marine mammals thrive, along with fish. And so, for the Kashia (band of Pomo) and their ancestors, they certainly have used these waters. The Russians came by sea and settled here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1800s, Russian settlers hunted marine mammals at Fort Ross, primarily selling otter pelts. By the middle of the century, though, otter populations crashed, and most Russians returned to their homeland. So, t\u003cspan class=\"s1\">he main industry became timber.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11062465\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-800x1075.jpg\" alt=\"A map of shipwrecks and doghole ports in Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1075\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11062465\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-800x1075.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-400x537.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-1180x1585.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Poster-960x1290.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of shipwrecks and doghole ports in Cordell Bank and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuaries. \u003ccite>(Robert Schwemmer, NOAA ONMS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know if the average person realizes what an active area this was back in the 19th century and turn of the century,\" says Deborah Marx, a maritime archaeologist with NOAA. \"Schooners were traveling up and down the coast, shipping this lumber, mainly to San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma and Mendocino redwood ended up around the globe, attractive because it is so resistant to rot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was moved onto larger vessels and shipped all over the world,\" says Marx. \"They shipped it to Hong Kong, China, Australia, South America. And so our lumber industry here really fueled the development of lots of these countries. It was essential for the building of the railroads. You wanted a very durable hardwood that would last especially in the hot humid conditions, in places like South America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To support that industry, tiny ports known as \"doghole ports\" (so named because a dog could barely turn around in them) popped up along the coast: Duncans Mills, Timber Cove and Salt Point Landing are a few of the places still known today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the ports, loggers and mariners set up elaborate timber chutes to transfer cargo from the shore directly to the deck of a ship anchored near the coast at a mooring. It was easy for things to go wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>LOWER LAKE, Lake County -- We hear a lot about “resilience” these days -- in the face of climate change, social injustice and, of course, it’s the common currency of official post-disaster sound bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a resilient community,\" declared Mark Ghilarducci, the head of California’s Office of Emergency Services, last week, after he'd surveyed the streets of Lower Lake, a tiny town in Lake County savaged by the recent \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/14/clayton-fire-update-lake-county/\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>. \"And collectively, we’re gonna work together to make it as good as it ever was in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resiliency bite seems like low-hanging fruit for an official surrounded by reporters — until you actually meet some of the people who embody this resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280100933\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met the Skidmore family, fire crews were still hosing down hot spots on what remained of their property on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to Lower Lake!” was the first thing Michael Skidmore said to me. \"You’re about a week late. It was much nicer last week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His sense of humor wasn’t the only thing intact. Surrounded by gray ruins after the Clayton Fire \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">swept through his town\u003c/a> of about 1,300 people, his 4 Starr Auto Repair shop somehow remained standing with what looked like minor damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But up in back, the family home was simply gone, with little left among the ashes to even indicate \"home:\" the remains of a water heater, some metal chair frames and the skeleton of a pickup truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut.jpg\" alt=\"All that remained of the Skidmores' home and eight rental cabins after the Clayton Fire in mid-August.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that remained of the Skidmores' home and eight rental cabins after the Clayton Fire in mid-August. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also gone: eight cabins they rented out to other Lower Lake residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We worked really hard for five years to restore those cabins,\" reflected Michael’s wife, Starr. \"They were white with blue trim to match the shop and white picket fences around each one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve been here for about 100 years,\" added Michael. \"But dry cedar, boy howdy. I was running out the front door and these were popping into flames. It was scary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door, both the home and business were a total loss. Formerly the local VW shop, the property was littered with the charred husks of cars, many trailing solidified silver puddles of melted aluminum wheels and engine blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667.jpg\" alt='The Clayton Fire was so intense in Lower Lake, firefighters say they had to \"cut and run\" from some locations.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Clayton Fire was so intense in Lower Lake, firefighters say they had to \"cut and run\" from some locations. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hours earlier, I had seen some firefighters sifting through the ashes next door. Joe Morrison and his Sonoma County team were among those who tried to save this block of Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This happened super-fast,\" said Morrison. \"We did our best to make a stand here and then, the heat was so intense, so fast -- we had to cut and run.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking around, Michael estimated that perhaps 70 percent of Lower Lake's commercial core was lost. Two doors down, even the local Habitat for Humanity office was gutted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody was trying to assure us that, no, it would not get down into Lower Lake,\" recalled the Skidmores' granddaughter, Grace, who lives with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were gonna take control of it and the next thing you know, there’s a tree in the back that burst into flame, dropped on the ground and the fire was coming down the hill at us and we were running out of there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060949\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679.jpg\" alt=\"Even the local Habitat for Humanity office was destroyed when the Clayton Fire swept through Lower Lake, in Lake County.\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even the local Habitat for Humanity office was destroyed when the Clayton Fire swept through Lower Lake, in Lake County. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, they were back, with the ruins still smoking, and Grace was looking for her three cats with a 15-year-old's optimism that no one wanted to dash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not gonna cry,\" said Michael, tapping a seemingly bottomless reservoir of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" he insisted. \"Gotta move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn't mean that literally. For this family, “moving on” means staying put. It wasn’t even up for discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve got my job and I’m gonna keep working,\" Michael vowed, \"but ... where’s my customer base, you know? They’re ashes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">Scenes From Lake County After the Clayton Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FireAside.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And then, doubling down on his resolve: \"I gotta rebuild, and the funds gotta come from somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will be challenging; the Skidmores say the insurance on the home and cabins might have lapsed. The shop survived, but it’s all they’ve got now. Michael said the shorts and brown tank top he had on were all that remained of his wardrobe. To even ask people like this where they get their pluck is to trivialize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey, it’s gonna take a lot of polishing to get that silver lining out of this — but it’s in there somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He found a thread: the nearby Wal-Mart was about to reopen, which meant he could buy some new clothes. It’s not hard to see where Grace, who has been raised by her grandparents since the age of 3, gets her buoyancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is just gonna bring Lower Lake closer together,\" she insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, we were already pretty close from the Rocky Fire and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-what-happened-fire-20150920-story.html\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> [last year], but this is just another step to closeness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of a week after the fire, no cats had turned up. The three were still looking for long-term housing. But Grace was already readying her audition for the school play. And Starr, who appears on the brink of tears much of the time, said, “God’s got this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/16/clayton-fire-how-to-help/\">How to help\u003c/a> victims of the Clayton Fire in Lake County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>LOWER LAKE, Lake County -- We hear a lot about “resilience” these days -- in the face of climate change, social injustice and, of course, it’s the common currency of official post-disaster sound bites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a resilient community,\" declared Mark Ghilarducci, the head of California’s Office of Emergency Services, last week, after he'd surveyed the streets of Lower Lake, a tiny town in Lake County savaged by the recent \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/14/clayton-fire-update-lake-county/\">Clayton Fire\u003c/a>. \"And collectively, we’re gonna work together to make it as good as it ever was in the past.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resiliency bite seems like low-hanging fruit for an official surrounded by reporters — until you actually meet some of the people who embody this resilience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280100933&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280100933'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I met the Skidmore family, fire crews were still hosing down hot spots on what remained of their property on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Welcome to Lower Lake!” was the first thing Michael Skidmore said to me. \"You’re about a week late. It was much nicer last week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His sense of humor wasn’t the only thing intact. Surrounded by gray ruins after the Clayton Fire \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">swept through his town\u003c/a> of about 1,300 people, his 4 Starr Auto Repair shop somehow remained standing with what looked like minor damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But up in back, the family home was simply gone, with little left among the ashes to even indicate \"home:\" the remains of a water heater, some metal chair frames and the skeleton of a pickup truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060865\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut.jpg\" alt=\"All that remained of the Skidmores' home and eight rental cabins after the Clayton Fire in mid-August.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20770_160816_ClaytonFire_bhs27-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All that remained of the Skidmores' home and eight rental cabins after the Clayton Fire in mid-August. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Also gone: eight cabins they rented out to other Lower Lake residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We worked really hard for five years to restore those cabins,\" reflected Michael’s wife, Starr. \"They were white with blue trim to match the shop and white picket fences around each one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve been here for about 100 years,\" added Michael. \"But dry cedar, boy howdy. I was running out the front door and these were popping into flames. It was scary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door, both the home and business were a total loss. Formerly the local VW shop, the property was littered with the charred husks of cars, many trailing solidified silver puddles of melted aluminum wheels and engine blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060957\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060957\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667.jpg\" alt='The Clayton Fire was so intense in Lower Lake, firefighters say they had to \"cut and run\" from some locations.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5667-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Clayton Fire was so intense in Lower Lake, firefighters say they had to \"cut and run\" from some locations. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hours earlier, I had seen some firefighters sifting through the ashes next door. Joe Morrison and his Sonoma County team were among those who tried to save this block of Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This happened super-fast,\" said Morrison. \"We did our best to make a stand here and then, the heat was so intense, so fast -- we had to cut and run.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking around, Michael estimated that perhaps 70 percent of Lower Lake's commercial core was lost. Two doors down, even the local Habitat for Humanity office was gutted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody was trying to assure us that, no, it would not get down into Lower Lake,\" recalled the Skidmores' granddaughter, Grace, who lives with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were gonna take control of it and the next thing you know, there’s a tree in the back that burst into flame, dropped on the ground and the fire was coming down the hill at us and we were running out of there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11060949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3264px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11060949\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679.jpg\" alt=\"Even the local Habitat for Humanity office was destroyed when the Clayton Fire swept through Lower Lake, in Lake County.\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679.jpg 3264w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_5679-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even the local Habitat for Humanity office was destroyed when the Clayton Fire swept through Lower Lake, in Lake County. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, they were back, with the ruins still smoking, and Grace was looking for her three cats with a 15-year-old's optimism that no one wanted to dash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not gonna cry,\" said Michael, tapping a seemingly bottomless reservoir of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" he insisted. \"Gotta move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn't mean that literally. For this family, “moving on” means staying put. It wasn’t even up for discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve got my job and I’m gonna keep working,\" Michael vowed, \"but ... where’s my customer base, you know? They’re ashes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">Scenes From Lake County After the Clayton Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/17/scenes-from-lake-county-after-the-clayton-fire/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/FireAside.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And then, doubling down on his resolve: \"I gotta rebuild, and the funds gotta come from somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That will be challenging; the Skidmores say the insurance on the home and cabins might have lapsed. The shop survived, but it’s all they’ve got now. Michael said the shorts and brown tank top he had on were all that remained of his wardrobe. To even ask people like this where they get their pluck is to trivialize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey, it’s gonna take a lot of polishing to get that silver lining out of this — but it’s in there somewhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He found a thread: the nearby Wal-Mart was about to reopen, which meant he could buy some new clothes. It’s not hard to see where Grace, who has been raised by her grandparents since the age of 3, gets her buoyancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is just gonna bring Lower Lake closer together,\" she insisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, we were already pretty close from the Rocky Fire and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-what-happened-fire-20150920-story.html\">Valley Fire\u003c/a> [last year], but this is just another step to closeness.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of a week after the fire, no cats had turned up. The three were still looking for long-term housing. But Grace was already readying her audition for the school play. And Starr, who appears on the brink of tears much of the time, said, “God’s got this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/16/clayton-fire-how-to-help/\">How to help\u003c/a> victims of the Clayton Fire in Lake County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Following more than a year of legislative toing and froing, California’s leaders agreed this week on how ambitious the state will be in the fight against climate change after 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Short answer: very.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A progressive culture and Silicon Valley-style innovation a decade ago thrust California toward the head of the worldwide pack when it comes to shifting away from polluting fossil fuels in favor of cleaner alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the state Assembly and Senate ensured the state’s leadership will be strengthened when lawmakers approved two key bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation will require Californian agencies take steps needed to reduce greenhouse gas pollution by 40 percent in 2030, compared with 1990 levels. Gov. Jerry Brown plans to sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How do California’s Goals Stack Up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s new climate goals are far more ambitious than those of the U.S. overall, and they’re in line with ambitions in Europe, which is a world leader on climate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the European Union and California are shooting for 40 percent pollution reductions in 2030 compared with 1990 levels. The Europeans got off to an earlier start, setting a more ambitious target for 2020 than California. That means California will have to work harder to reach its goals for 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is exactly the right goal for California,” said \u003ca href=\"http://energyinnovation.org/team-member/chris-busch/\">Chris Busch\u003c/a>, director of research at Energy Innovation, a policy think tank in California. “It’s strong but undeniably achievable and beneficial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are any countries or states more ambitious than California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as California is the star of climate action in the U.S., the European Union has its own big shot — Germany. Germany aims to reduce its climate impacts by 40 percent by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, which is something California and the EU aim to achieve a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, per person, Californians and Germans continue to be heavier polluters than most Europeans, releasing the equivalent of about \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/newsrel/newsrelease.php?id=740\">12 tons each\u003c/a> of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in 2013. 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That means California will have to work harder to reach its goals for 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is exactly the right goal for California,” said \u003ca href=\"http://energyinnovation.org/team-member/chris-busch/\">Chris Busch\u003c/a>, director of research at Energy Innovation, a policy think tank in California. “It’s strong but undeniably achievable and beneficial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are any countries or states more ambitious than California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as California is the star of climate action in the U.S., the European Union has its own big shot — Germany. Germany aims to reduce its climate impacts by 40 percent by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, which is something California and the EU aim to achieve a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, per person, Californians and Germans continue to be heavier polluters than most Europeans, releasing the equivalent of about \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/newsrel/newsrelease.php?id=740\">12 tons each\u003c/a> of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in 2013. 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The idea is that it changes your brain state, and maybe makes you more creative or stimulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Walsh, who works in marketing, sometimes uses tDCS, and he compared the buzz he got with eating a bar of dark chocolate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I approach it from a kind of kick in the pants kind of way,” Walsh says, “like I am really stuck on this creative problem and then zzzz, and let’s see what happens. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Walsh also mixes a bunch of biohacking techniques into his life. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tesla Motors moved a step closer in its bid to buy SolarCity after federal regulators said the $2.6 billion deal doesn't present antitrust concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla announced plans to purchase the solar panel installer earlier this month, and Reuters says the Federal Trade Commission quickly signed off \"because the merging companies have few or no overlaps.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR's Jeff Brady has more on the deal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Tesla is pursing the acquisition because on top of building cars, the company says it wants to produce the renewable energy that could power them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The deal comes as rooftop solar companies face pressure from competition and a changing regulatory landscape. Utility regulators across the country have begun reducing the subsidies designed to encourage new solar panel installations.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blog.solarcity.com/tesla-and-solarcity-to-combine/\">SolarCity agreed to the deal\u003c/a> amid decreased expectations of growth for the company. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-08-09/solarcity-earnings-the-ultimate-tesla-takeover-pitch\">As Bloomberg Gadfly\u003c/a> columnist Liam Denning wrote shortly after:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"SolarCity's cash balance at the end of June was less than a third the level of a year earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SolarCity blamed the rapid burn in the second quarter in part on Tesla's initial takeover announcement, saying it complicated getting some financing in the door by the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But that takeover offer is a lifeline, albeit a qualified one. Until Tesla made its announcement, SolarCity's stock had joined its peers in a downhill run this year.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In January, Brady reported that the company would \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/01/13/462883585/solar-firms-stop-selling-panels-in-nevada-to-protest-state-rule-change\">cut more than 500 jobs\u003c/a> after Nevada regulators \"increased a fee for solar customers and reduced how much utilities pay for excess power sold back to the grid.\" And just this week, SolarCity announced layoffs for 108 employees at two of its California offices in anticipation of the Tesla deal, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_30280720/solarcity-lay-off-108-workers-san-mateo-san\">the Mercury News\u003c/a> reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report came a day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who is SolarCity's chairman, its largest shareholder and a cousin of founders Lyndon and Peter Rive — announced his plan to \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/us-solarcity-debt-idUSKCN10Y2G6\">purchase $65 million in bonds\u003c/a> from SolarCity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>To fully understand the warming of the planet that is being driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, scientists need to examine the history of climate changes on Earth. Hampering this effort is the fact that direct measurements of temperature and other climate data only go back to about the late 19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by using records kept by the Earth itself, that history can be extended back hundreds or even thousands of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a group of researchers has knitted together such natural records — found, for example, in coral reefs, ice sheets and caves. They used those records to trace the thread of human-driven warming back to what they say is its beginning, nearly 200 years ago, when the coal-burning that took off with the Industrial Revolution was still revving up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the impact then on temperatures was small, it is measurable in certain regions, the researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some climate scientists not involved in the research quibble with just how much of that early signal can actually be attributed to greenhouse gases. However, there is broad agreement that the study reinforces the importance of the starting point that is used when evaluating how much the Earth has already warmed and how close we are to breaching international climate goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_944019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-944019\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/8_24_16_Andrea_CC_icecore_400_533_s_c1_c_c.jpg\" alt=\"An ice core still sits inside a drill.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ice core still sits inside a drill. \u003ccite>(Nerilie Abram )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This early warming does mean that our instrumental records (which typically only begin in the 1880s) don’t allow us to see the picture of how humans have changed the climate,” study co-author Nerilie Abram, a paleoclimatologist at Australian National University, said in an email. “So when we are talking about targets of trying to limit climate warming to less than 1.5˚C, we are actually closer to that limit than what we would calculate from instrumental records alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What Is Pre-Industrial?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When international negotiators forged an agreement last year on limiting temperature rise this century, they settled on a threshold of 2˚C from pre-industrial times (with some talk of tightening that limit to 1.5˚C). 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The study authors worked with a consortium that has brought together records from different sources from spots all over the world and worked to put them together into a coherent picture of past climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The record includes new reconstructions of sea surface temperatures, something often left out of such projects because of the difficulty of obtaining ocean records, Abram said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reconstruction allowed the group to examine global and regional temperature records going back 500 years. With that extended record, they picked the period 1622 to 1799 as their preindustrial era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That period is “definitely before we really started burning any significant amount of fossil fuels,” NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The early warming is a small but detectable signal that can be explained by the small increases in greenhouse gases that were already happening in the mid 19th century.’\u003ccite>Nerilie Abram, Australian National University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Using statistical analyses, the team picked out a small, but measureable, increase in temperatures as early as the 1830s for some regions, including the tropical oceans, as well as the Northern Hemisphere more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings are “further evidence that the climate has already changed significantly since the pre-industrial period,” Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in England, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Regional Differences\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These changes wouldn’t have been noticeable to people at the time. It was only in the 20th century that warming pushed the climate outside of what would be seen from natural variations. That natural variability also explains why the warming signal emerged first in the tropics — year-to-year variability in that region is very low, which means the signal is easier to tease out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that the rate of warming of the tropical oceans was about the same as that of the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. 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At first they suspected that the initial warming was actually the climate rebounding from the cooling impact of two major volcanic eruptions in the early 1800s, and that greenhouse warming took over later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But by testing our methods, and by looking at when warming develops in climate model simulations where only greenhouse gases are changed, we were able to show that the early warming is a small but detectable signal that can be explained by the small increases in greenhouse gases that were already happening in the mid 19th century,” Abram said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Mann, a Penn State climatologist, who put together the famous “Hockey Stick” climate reconstruction, still thinks that more of that early warming is due to the rebound from volcanic cooling and that a more rigorous analysis is needed to tease out just how much warming can be attributed to greenhouse gas-driven warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_944020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-944020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-800x554.jpg\" alt='The so-called \"hockey stick\" graph, which shows temperatures both from the instrumental record (in red) and paleoclimate data.' width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-400x277.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-768x532.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-960x665.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The so-called “hockey stick” graph, which shows temperatures both from the instrumental record (in red) and paleoclimate data. \u003ccite>(IPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In particular, Mann takes issue with a statement in the study that their findings indicate the Earth’s temperature may respond faster to changes in greenhouse gases levels than previously thought, which he says is “a really basic error in interpretation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mann does agree, however, that warming goes back further than instrumental records can show and that today’s temperature rise should be compared to an earlier baseline than it currently is, or we risk underestimating warming. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To fully understand the warming of the planet that is being driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, scientists need to examine the history of climate changes on Earth. Hampering this effort is the fact that direct measurements of temperature and other climate data only go back to about the late 19th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by using records kept by the Earth itself, that history can be extended back hundreds or even thousands of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a group of researchers has knitted together such natural records — found, for example, in coral reefs, ice sheets and caves. They used those records to trace the thread of human-driven warming back to what they say is its beginning, nearly 200 years ago, when the coal-burning that took off with the Industrial Revolution was still revving up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the impact then on temperatures was small, it is measurable in certain regions, the researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some climate scientists not involved in the research quibble with just how much of that early signal can actually be attributed to greenhouse gases. However, there is broad agreement that the study reinforces the importance of the starting point that is used when evaluating how much the Earth has already warmed and how close we are to breaching international climate goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_944019\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-944019\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/8_24_16_Andrea_CC_icecore_400_533_s_c1_c_c.jpg\" alt=\"An ice core still sits inside a drill.\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ice core still sits inside a drill. \u003ccite>(Nerilie Abram )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This early warming does mean that our instrumental records (which typically only begin in the 1880s) don’t allow us to see the picture of how humans have changed the climate,” study co-author Nerilie Abram, a paleoclimatologist at Australian National University, said in an email. “So when we are talking about targets of trying to limit climate warming to less than 1.5˚C, we are actually closer to that limit than what we would calculate from instrumental records alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>What Is Pre-Industrial?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When international negotiators forged an agreement last year on limiting temperature rise this century, they settled on a threshold of 2˚C from pre-industrial times (with some talk of tightening that limit to 1.5˚C). But exactly what period is picked to represent the pre-industrial era is key. Comparing temperatures today to the beginning of the instrumental record is problematic because at best that record goes back only to the 1880s, when some warming had likely already occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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With that extended record, they picked the period 1622 to 1799 as their preindustrial era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That period is “definitely before we really started burning any significant amount of fossil fuels,” NASA climate scientist Kate Marvel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The early warming is a small but detectable signal that can be explained by the small increases in greenhouse gases that were already happening in the mid 19th century.’\u003ccite>Nerilie Abram, Australian National University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Using statistical analyses, the team picked out a small, but measureable, increase in temperatures as early as the 1830s for some regions, including the tropical oceans, as well as the Northern Hemisphere more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings are “further evidence that the climate has already changed significantly since the pre-industrial period,” Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist at the University of Reading in England, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Regional Differences\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>These changes wouldn’t have been noticeable to people at the time. It was only in the 20th century that warming pushed the climate outside of what would be seen from natural variations. That natural variability also explains why the warming signal emerged first in the tropics — year-to-year variability in that region is very low, which means the signal is easier to tease out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also found that the rate of warming of the tropical oceans was about the same as that of the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. Unsurprisingly, the Arctic showed the highest rate of warming.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warming in the Southern Hemisphere, however, was delayed compared to the Northern Hemisphere in the reconstruction, though the researchers aren’t sure why, particularly as climate models don’t show that delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some possible explanations include a higher variability of the Southern Hemisphere climate, as well as some unappreciated aspects of how sea ice might regulate the climate. There is also a relative dearth of data compared to the Northern Hemisphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More specifically, a clear warming signal has yet to emerge for Antarctica, which could be because the continent is somewhat isolated from broader climate changes by both atmospheric and oceanic currents that encircle it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Antarctica sort of does its own thing,” study co-author Nicholas McKay, a climatologist at Northern Arizona University, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Baseline Matters\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The researchers were surprised that they found such an early onset of warming, both Abram and McKay said. At first they suspected that the initial warming was actually the climate rebounding from the cooling impact of two major volcanic eruptions in the early 1800s, and that greenhouse warming took over later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But by testing our methods, and by looking at when warming develops in climate model simulations where only greenhouse gases are changed, we were able to show that the early warming is a small but detectable signal that can be explained by the small increases in greenhouse gases that were already happening in the mid 19th century,” Abram said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Mann, a Penn State climatologist, who put together the famous “Hockey Stick” climate reconstruction, still thinks that more of that early warming is due to the rebound from volcanic cooling and that a more rigorous analysis is needed to tease out just how much warming can be attributed to greenhouse gas-driven warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_944020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-944020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-800x554.jpg\" alt='The so-called \"hockey stick\" graph, which shows temperatures both from the instrumental record (in red) and paleoclimate data.' width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-400x277.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-768x532.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c-960x665.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/CC-hockeystickcurve_1050_727_s_c1_c_c.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The so-called “hockey stick” graph, which shows temperatures both from the instrumental record (in red) and paleoclimate data. \u003ccite>(IPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In particular, Mann takes issue with a statement in the study that their findings indicate the Earth’s temperature may respond faster to changes in greenhouse gases levels than previously thought, which he says is “a really basic error in interpretation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mann does agree, however, that warming goes back further than instrumental records can show and that today’s temperature rise should be compared to an earlier baseline than it currently is, or we risk underestimating warming. 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"content": "\u003cp>Summertime is primetime for national parks. As snow melts, wildflowers bloom and waterfalls roar, generations of visitors have flocked to the natural wonders that dot the American landscape (to say nothing of all the amazing cultural sites the National Park Service protects).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Park Service was created a century ago — August 25, 1916 to be exact — to keep an eye on the growing treasure trove of national parks. It’s been a good century as more and more land has been set aside and annual visitors now number more than 300 million, but it’s also not been without challenges. Chief among them is \u003ca href=\"http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/director/\">climate change\u003c/a>, which will drastically \u003ca href=\"http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/quiz/\">alter national park landscapes\u003c/a> in the coming decades including cranking up the \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/100-years-of-warming-at-the-national-parks\">heat\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Joshua Tree National Park in southern California will face the greatest geographical climate shift, with temperatures more like Abu Dhabi by 2100.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As part of Climate Central’s ongoing \u003ca href=\"http://statesatrisk.org/\">States at Risk\u003c/a> project, we analyzed just how much hotter parks are projected to get later this century. We looked at the future summer temperatures in all the parks in the Lower 48 states except Dry Tortugas National Park (sorry, Fort Jefferson lovers!) assuming greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results could make you sweat. Parks are projected to have summers that are 8-12°F hotter by 2100. That means currently cool mountainous parks could be as hot as the plains. Parks in the Southeast, already a pretty hot place, will face even more extreme temperatures with a climate more like southern Texas. And otherworldly Joshua Tree National Park in southern California will face the greatest geographical climate shift, with temperatures more like Abu Dhabi by 2100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also analyzed how many more days with extreme heat the parks could face. \u003ca href=\"http://wxshift.com/climate-change/climate-indicators/extreme-heat\">Extreme heat\u003c/a> is a hallmark of global warming, and its impact will be most arresting in the national parks where people go, by design, to be outside in the summer. Like the rest of the country, parks are going to be seeing more dangerously hot days above 90°F, 95°F, and 100°F.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2100, the glaciers of Montana’s Glacier National Park \u003ca href=\"http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/glacier/\">will be long gone\u003c/a> and rising temperatures will be one of the big reasons why. Visitors will not only have to contend with an ice-free landscape, but also hotter temperatures. Today the park sees an average of only one 90°F day each year. It could see 27 days with temperatures above 90°F by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite National Park, high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, currently sees about two weeks of 90°F weather every year. By 2050, it could see nearly a month of those temperatures, and by 2100 it could get nearly 50 such days each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Great Smoky Mountains, currently the most-visited National Park, could go from fewer than 10 days above 90°F each year, on average now, to three months with those scorching temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In numerous other parks, the number of days above 100°F is projected to skyrocket. Big Bend National Park in Texas could see more than 110 days above 100°F each year, on average. And Great Basin National Park in Nevada, which currently doesn’t have any days above 100°F in a typical year, could see a month of those temperatures each year by 2100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s likely that parks on the more extreme end of the temperature scale will see a drop in summer visitation, but more visitors are \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/national-parks-warm-temps-19123\">likely to show up in fall\u003c/a> and spring when it won’t be fry-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk hot. That may stretch park resources thin as most parks are set up to handle summer crowds and quieter shoulder seasons. How parks deal with the change in visitation season is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And all this is to say nothing about the impacts extreme heat will have on the natural resources around which we created national parks in the first place. Joshua Tree could become too hot for its namesake trees and there’s evidence that extreme summer days could create more rockfalls in Yosemite, which could change the face of the stunning valley at the center of the park. \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/western-wildfires-climate-change-20475\">Wildfire risk\u003c/a> will also skyrocket across the West and could make summer park vacations not only more hot but \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/wildfires-national-park-service-birthday-19371\">more smoky\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are just the most visible changes. Whole ecosystems are likely to be disrupted and there are consequences scientists probably haven’t even uncovered yet (those are the ones that \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/gradual-climate-changes-could-cause-sudden-impacts-16792\">could be the worst\u003c/a> since we’ll be least prepared).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the daunting situation facing the National Park Service in its second century, there are signs it’s up for the challenge. It’s already addressing climate change from \u003ca href=\"http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/new-york-parks-sea-level-rise/\">the coast\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/glacier/\">high mountains\u003c/a> and has an \u003ca href=\"http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/overview/\">A-Team team of experts\u003c/a> to help parks answer the gnarly questions they face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no denying that national parks will look a lot different by the end of the century, but that won’t make them any less a part of the fabric of American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/\">Climate Central\u003c/a> \u003cem>is an independent organization that researches and reports on climate change.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Analysis by James Bronzan and Alyson Kenward, PhD.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Methodology:\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Future temperatures for 47 National Parks were calculated based on the median of 29 spatially downscaled climate models (CMIP5) at 1/8 degree scale, then averaged within park boundaries. National parks in Alaska and Hawaii, along with Dry Tortugas National Park, were excluded because projections at this resolution were unavailable. Temperatures for 2050 are based on the 20-year average of 2041-2060 and for 2100 are based on the period 2080-2099. Projected temperatures assume that greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rate (RCP8.5). The interactive map features the average summer daily high temperature (June-August), while days over 90\u003csup>o\u003c/sup>F, 95\u003csup>o\u003c/sup>F, and 100\u003csup>o\u003c/sup>F were counted annually. The current period values for parks and climate divisions are based on the 1991-2010 average calculated using a gridded observational dataset by Ed Maurer of Santa Clara University. \u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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By 2050, it could see nearly a month of those temperatures, and by 2100 it could get nearly 50 such days each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the Great Smoky Mountains, currently the most-visited National Park, could go from fewer than 10 days above 90°F each year, on average now, to three months with those scorching temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In numerous other parks, the number of days above 100°F is projected to skyrocket. Big Bend National Park in Texas could see more than 110 days above 100°F each year, on average. And Great Basin National Park in Nevada, which currently doesn’t have any days above 100°F in a typical year, could see a month of those temperatures each year by 2100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s likely that parks on the more extreme end of the temperature scale will see a drop in summer visitation, but more visitors are \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/national-parks-warm-temps-19123\">likely to show up in fall\u003c/a> and spring when it won’t be fry-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk hot. That may stretch park resources thin as most parks are set up to handle summer crowds and quieter shoulder seasons. How parks deal with the change in visitation season is an open question.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And all this is to say nothing about the impacts extreme heat will have on the natural resources around which we created national parks in the first place. Joshua Tree could become too hot for its namesake trees and there’s evidence that extreme summer days could create more rockfalls in Yosemite, which could change the face of the stunning valley at the center of the park. \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/western-wildfires-climate-change-20475\">Wildfire risk\u003c/a> will also skyrocket across the West and could make summer park vacations not only more hot but \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/wildfires-national-park-service-birthday-19371\">more smoky\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are just the most visible changes. Whole ecosystems are likely to be disrupted and there are consequences scientists probably haven’t even uncovered yet (those are the ones that \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/gradual-climate-changes-could-cause-sudden-impacts-16792\">could be the worst\u003c/a> since we’ll be least prepared).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the daunting situation facing the National Park Service in its second century, there are signs it’s up for the challenge. It’s already addressing climate change from \u003ca href=\"http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/new-york-parks-sea-level-rise/\">the coast\u003c/a> to the \u003ca href=\"http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/glacier/\">high mountains\u003c/a> and has an \u003ca href=\"http://reports.climatecentral.org/nps/overview/\">A-Team team of experts\u003c/a> to help parks answer the gnarly questions they face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no denying that national parks will look a lot different by the end of the century, but that won’t make them any less a part of the fabric of American identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/\">Climate Central\u003c/a> \u003cem>is an independent organization that researches and reports on climate change.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Analysis by James Bronzan and Alyson Kenward, PhD.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Methodology:\u003c/strong>\u003cem> Future temperatures for 47 National Parks were calculated based on the median of 29 spatially downscaled climate models (CMIP5) at 1/8 degree scale, then averaged within park boundaries. National parks in Alaska and Hawaii, along with Dry Tortugas National Park, were excluded because projections at this resolution were unavailable. Temperatures for 2050 are based on the 20-year average of 2041-2060 and for 2100 are based on the period 2080-2099. Projected temperatures assume that greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rate (RCP8.5). The interactive map features the average summer daily high temperature (June-August), while days over 90\u003csup>o\u003c/sup>F, 95\u003csup>o\u003c/sup>F, and 100\u003csup>o\u003c/sup>F were counted annually. The current period values for parks and climate divisions are based on the 1991-2010 average calculated using a gridded observational dataset by Ed Maurer of Santa Clara University. \u003c/em>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nootropics are trending right now in Silicon Valley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A crop of new companies are selling these so-called productivity pills to “biohackers” looking to get an edge in work and life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you don’t consider yourself a biohacker or have never even heard the word before, chances are you already take a nootropic. Caffeine. That’s right. Your cup of coffee or tea isn’t just a hot beverage you drink because it tastes nice. It’s a vehicle for a productivity-increasing, brain-boosting substance some are now calling a nootropic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “nootropic” was coined in 1972 by a Romanian scientist. It refers to substances thought to improve cognitive function, like caffeine. But the term also includes things you probably haven’t heard of, like piracetam, a substance concocted in a lab, and Rhodiola rosea, an herb used in traditional Chinese medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/253567649″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”250″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a little-used piece of scientific jargon, the word “nootropic” has become a big-time marketing term. Companies are using it to sell all kinds of substances. There are claims of raised IQs and increased amounts of productive hours. Venture capitalist firms like \u003ca href=\"https://nootrobox.com/blog/2-million-financing-round-led-by-andreessen-horowitz/\">Andreessen Horowitz\u003c/a> are funding nootropics ventures. And business analysts are \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemontgomery/2016/01/19/better-strongerfaster-why-nootropics-will-be-big-business-in-2016/#17bd2d3976cd\">predicting the industry\u003c/a> is going to skyrocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An avid internet subculture lies at the root of the movement. Nootropic users have a lively\u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/\"> subreddit\u003c/a> with around 75,000 readers. And to get advice you can watch any number of self-proclaimed experts on outlets like YouTube. Many, like this guy Steve Cronin, are psyched about nootropics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/RxzloVYcA1I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cronin lists all kinds of substances, including drugs like Adderall and Modafinil, which is prescribed for people suffering from sleep disorders. But for most nootropics you don’t need a prescription. You can buy the supplements online from a growing number of nootropic startups. Many have been founded by aspiring tech entrepreneurs like Eric Matzner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matzner has a company based in San Francisco called Nootroo that sells two pills — one gold, one silver. They both have caffeine, along with less-known substances like Noopept. KQED Future of You spoke with Matzner about his products and what’s in them for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/03/31/silicon-valleys-quest-for-mental-super-powers-in-a-pill/\">this story\u003c/a> on the science behind nootropics. Matzner is proud of his formulas. He wears one of each pill in a necklace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059399\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059399\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Matzner wants more people to take a daily nootropic pill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-1920x1434.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Matzner, founder of Nootroo, wants more people to take a daily nootropic pill. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Research Purposes Only\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matzner encourages people to take his pills daily, but he says they are not dietary supplements. On the pill bottles, it says they are “for use in neuroscience research only.” Matzner says that’s to protect himself legally because there is not an FDA “category for substances that enhance the brains of healthy people.” The nootropics pills are not tested and reviewed by the FDA, and they wouldn’t be even if he sold them as supplements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA doesn’t regulate supplements the same way it does drugs. Back in the ’90s the supplement industry fought off moves for closer oversight. They ran TV ads like the one below. It shows a SWAT team breaking into a man’s house to arrest him and take away his vitamins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Spoiler alert: The man in the house is Mel Gibson. He delivers a line that became famous in the battle to deregulate supplements.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/FLGNm8_y6yU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, if a substance is generally recognized as safe, or GRAS, it’s relatively easy for a company to start selling it, says UC Berkeley nutritional scientist Marc Hellerstein. He thinks the brain-boosting benefits of most nootropics are totally unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you got to do is make a claim, read a few rat studies, and you can market stuff on shelves and make a lot of money,” Hellerstein says. “There is almost never a proper study that anyone in real medicine would accept as showing efficacy or benefit in human beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just for Biohackers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the nootropics community would dispute the assessment that there’s no science behind their supplements. They arm themselves with studies and anecdotal evidence about the substances they take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fledgling nootropics companies are spurring the charge for legitimization. One San Francisco company called Nootrobox says it’s planning to do some testing on its products with a university in Europe. It’s part of the company’s push to make its products mainstream and reach more customers outside Silicon Valley’s biohacking community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nootrobox doesn’t just make and sell pills. It now has consumer-friendly chewable cubes with a familiar coffee taste. They’ve got three flavors: latte, mocha and drip. Geoff Woo, one of Nootrobox’s co-founders, says he hopes the cubes will one day be on sale near the cash registers at convenience stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woo and his co-founder, Michael Brandt, are both Stanford computer science grads. They have a few million dollars in venture funding and grand ambitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandt says the company wants to rebrand work as something fun. Nootropics, Brandt says, can help people feel good on the job and make the daily grind more fulfilling and less grinding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if you actually flip the frame and think about work being incredible and you’re writing the next great American novel or you’re designing some app,” Brandt says, “then it’s very fun. You want to dig in more to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most workers aren’t writing the next great American novel or developing world-changing apps. They’re working to earn a living. Still, Brandt thinks his company can help make work fun and that everyday folks will add nootropics to their vocabulary and daily routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beyond Nootropics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Nootrobox and Nootroo draw many of their customers from Silicon Valley’s community of biohackers. This is a group of people that does far more than pop nootropics to achieve maximum productivity. Take the case of Dan Wiggins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Wiggins has done far more than drink coffee to try and increase his productivity levels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-400x536.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Wiggins has done far more than drink coffee to try and increase his productivity levels. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Wiggins at a weekly meetup of biohackers at a cafe in San Francisco. They come to trade tips and find solidarity as they try to hack their bodies. Many are fasting, which they say helps improves focus. Others, like Stephanie Haughey, are taking dozens of daily supplements — between 50 or 60 a day in her case. That’s known as a “stack” in biohacker lingo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biohacking has a range of definitions and includes a variety of activities. There is a more extreme wing where people are actually trying to augment their body with hardware. Some have implanted magnets and LED lights under their skin, and these will probably be some of the first images to pop up if you type biohacking into a search engine. Be prepared for glowing human body parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiggins and the other self-described biohackers at this breakfast are not implanting hardware so they can glow in the dark or whatever it is that people want to do with magnets under their skin. No, people like Wiggins are trying to become more effective, especially at work. For Wiggins, the impetus to optimize came from the hypercompetitive tech startup world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It started about nine months ago when I was working on my own startup,” says Wiggins. “I was trying to figure out how do I get 10, 12, 14, 16 hours of productivity per day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How it Begins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiggins started with some measures that might seem familiar to anyone wanting to make a life change. First he altered his diet, exercise and sleep routines. Then he began taking supplements and experimented with prescription drugs like Adderall and Modafinil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modafinil, by the way, has become a hot drug in the tech world. There’s a whole subsection of the nootropics subreddit where people share questions and experiences about this drug. See in the photo below. Also, notice the pill-shaped “i” in the nootropics subreddit title — it’s a little testament to the group’s interest in capsulated compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11058122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 547px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11058122\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-2.51.09-PM.png\" alt=\"Directions for posting on the nootropics Subreddit\" width=\"547\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-2.51.09-PM.png 547w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-2.51.09-PM-400x253.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Directions for posting on the nootropics Subreddit \u003ccite>(Screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biohacking can be a slippery slope. Just ask Dan Walsh. He works in marketing and started taking some nootropics in the morning a few years ago. “Then a heart rate monitor got involved,” Walsh says, “then different supplements started slipping in, and before you know it I was electrocuting myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He means that literally. He hooks up electrodes to his head and shocks his brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we are not talking electroshock therapy here. It’s just a tiny 9-volt battery, very subtle. This is a thing. You can buy kits online to do it. Walsh says the kick is the same as eating a whole bar of dark chocolate. Although you aren’t eating chocolate. You’re jolting your brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I approach it from a kind of kick in the pants kind of way,” Walsh says, “like I am really stuck on this creative problem and then zzzz, and let’s see what happens. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Help With Hacking\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For extra help sorting out their different body hacks, some go to doctors like Vinh Ngo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059401\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059401\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Vinh Ngo helps patients get prescription drugs to try and increase their productivity. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-400x536.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Vinh Ngo helps patients get prescription drugs to try and increase their productivity. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biohackers come to Ngo’s San Francisco office looking for an edge — an edge most doctors won’t give. “They’re coming in asking like, ‘Hey I am a CEO of this company, I sleep like 4 hours or less,’ ” Ngo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngo helps them get prescription drugs like Adderall and Albuterol, which is used for asthma. Ngo has some patients sign waivers acknowledging their behavior could be dangerous. Sometimes people lie to him to get drugs they think will make them more productive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I’ll be like, ‘Look, you can be honest with me,’ ” Ngo says. “You can say, ‘I’m here to get ‘X’ drug and I’m doing it for this purpose.’ Then I can say, ‘OK, I’ve worked with people like this. Let’s do this safely.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Next-Generation Coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people who take nootropics aren’t going this far. Many, like Dawn Currin, just wanted to be a little more productive and feel a bit better at work. She’s a 33-year-old business analyst for an IT company in Washington, D.C. She doesn’t consider herself a biohacker, but she does takes nootropics every day. She thinks of them as her generation’s coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went as far as we could with caffeine,” Currin says. “Everyone was getting tired of Red Bull. And we started drinking yerba mate. And someone was like, ‘Hey, nootropics. Let’s check what that’s all about.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the kind of insatiable quest for productivity-inducing substances that new nootropics companies are banking on. If all goes their way, in a not too distant future we’ll all be waking up in the morning and popping a few pills before we head off to work.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Many, like this guy Steve Cronin, are psyched about nootropics.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/RxzloVYcA1I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/RxzloVYcA1I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Cronin lists all kinds of substances, including drugs like Adderall and Modafinil, which is prescribed for people suffering from sleep disorders. But for most nootropics you don’t need a prescription. You can buy the supplements online from a growing number of nootropic startups. Many have been founded by aspiring tech entrepreneurs like Eric Matzner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matzner has a company based in San Francisco called Nootroo that sells two pills — one gold, one silver. They both have caffeine, along with less-known substances like Noopept. KQED Future of You spoke with Matzner about his products and what’s in them for \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/03/31/silicon-valleys-quest-for-mental-super-powers-in-a-pill/\">this story\u003c/a> on the science behind nootropics. Matzner is proud of his formulas. He wears one of each pill in a necklace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059399\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059399\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Matzner wants more people to take a daily nootropic pill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-400x299.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-1920x1434.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Matzner-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Matzner, founder of Nootroo, wants more people to take a daily nootropic pill. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Research Purposes Only\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matzner encourages people to take his pills daily, but he says they are not dietary supplements. On the pill bottles, it says they are “for use in neuroscience research only.” Matzner says that’s to protect himself legally because there is not an FDA “category for substances that enhance the brains of healthy people.” The nootropics pills are not tested and reviewed by the FDA, and they wouldn’t be even if he sold them as supplements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA doesn’t regulate supplements the same way it does drugs. Back in the ’90s the supplement industry fought off moves for closer oversight. They ran TV ads like the one below. It shows a SWAT team breaking into a man’s house to arrest him and take away his vitamins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Spoiler alert: The man in the house is Mel Gibson. 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He thinks the brain-boosting benefits of most nootropics are totally unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you got to do is make a claim, read a few rat studies, and you can market stuff on shelves and make a lot of money,” Hellerstein says. “There is almost never a proper study that anyone in real medicine would accept as showing efficacy or benefit in human beings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just for Biohackers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many in the nootropics community would dispute the assessment that there’s no science behind their supplements. They arm themselves with studies and anecdotal evidence about the substances they take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fledgling nootropics companies are spurring the charge for legitimization. One San Francisco company called Nootrobox says it’s planning to do some testing on its products with a university in Europe. It’s part of the company’s push to make its products mainstream and reach more customers outside Silicon Valley’s biohacking community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nootrobox doesn’t just make and sell pills. It now has consumer-friendly chewable cubes with a familiar coffee taste. They’ve got three flavors: latte, mocha and drip. Geoff Woo, one of Nootrobox’s co-founders, says he hopes the cubes will one day be on sale near the cash registers at convenience stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woo and his co-founder, Michael Brandt, are both Stanford computer science grads. They have a few million dollars in venture funding and grand ambitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandt says the company wants to rebrand work as something fun. Nootropics, Brandt says, can help people feel good on the job and make the daily grind more fulfilling and less grinding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if you actually flip the frame and think about work being incredible and you’re writing the next great American novel or you’re designing some app,” Brandt says, “then it’s very fun. You want to dig in more to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most workers aren’t writing the next great American novel or developing world-changing apps. They’re working to earn a living. Still, Brandt thinks his company can help make work fun and that everyday folks will add nootropics to their vocabulary and daily routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Beyond Nootropics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies like Nootrobox and Nootroo draw many of their customers from Silicon Valley’s community of biohackers. This is a group of people that does far more than pop nootropics to achieve maximum productivity. Take the case of Dan Wiggins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059400\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Wiggins has done far more than drink coffee to try and increase his productivity levels.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-400x536.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0559.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Wiggins has done far more than drink coffee to try and increase his productivity levels. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Wiggins at a weekly meetup of biohackers at a cafe in San Francisco. They come to trade tips and find solidarity as they try to hack their bodies. Many are fasting, which they say helps improves focus. Others, like Stephanie Haughey, are taking dozens of daily supplements — between 50 or 60 a day in her case. That’s known as a “stack” in biohacker lingo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biohacking has a range of definitions and includes a variety of activities. There is a more extreme wing where people are actually trying to augment their body with hardware. Some have implanted magnets and LED lights under their skin, and these will probably be some of the first images to pop up if you type biohacking into a search engine. Be prepared for glowing human body parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiggins and the other self-described biohackers at this breakfast are not implanting hardware so they can glow in the dark or whatever it is that people want to do with magnets under their skin. No, people like Wiggins are trying to become more effective, especially at work. For Wiggins, the impetus to optimize came from the hypercompetitive tech startup world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It started about nine months ago when I was working on my own startup,” says Wiggins. “I was trying to figure out how do I get 10, 12, 14, 16 hours of productivity per day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How it Begins\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiggins started with some measures that might seem familiar to anyone wanting to make a life change. First he altered his diet, exercise and sleep routines. Then he began taking supplements and experimented with prescription drugs like Adderall and Modafinil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modafinil, by the way, has become a hot drug in the tech world. There’s a whole subsection of the nootropics subreddit where people share questions and experiences about this drug. See in the photo below. Also, notice the pill-shaped “i” in the nootropics subreddit title — it’s a little testament to the group’s interest in capsulated compounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11058122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 547px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11058122\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-2.51.09-PM.png\" alt=\"Directions for posting on the nootropics Subreddit\" width=\"547\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-2.51.09-PM.png 547w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-22-at-2.51.09-PM-400x253.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Directions for posting on the nootropics Subreddit \u003ccite>(Screenshot)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biohacking can be a slippery slope. Just ask Dan Walsh. He works in marketing and started taking some nootropics in the morning a few years ago. “Then a heart rate monitor got involved,” Walsh says, “then different supplements started slipping in, and before you know it I was electrocuting myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He means that literally. He hooks up electrodes to his head and shocks his brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now we are not talking electroshock therapy here. It’s just a tiny 9-volt battery, very subtle. This is a thing. You can buy kits online to do it. Walsh says the kick is the same as eating a whole bar of dark chocolate. Although you aren’t eating chocolate. You’re jolting your brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I approach it from a kind of kick in the pants kind of way,” Walsh says, “like I am really stuck on this creative problem and then zzzz, and let’s see what happens. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Help With Hacking\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For extra help sorting out their different body hacks, some go to doctors like Vinh Ngo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11059401\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11059401\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Vinh Ngo helps patients get prescription drugs to try and increase their productivity. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-400x536.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_0380.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Vinh Ngo helps patients get prescription drugs to try and increase their productivity. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biohackers come to Ngo’s San Francisco office looking for an edge — an edge most doctors won’t give. “They’re coming in asking like, ‘Hey I am a CEO of this company, I sleep like 4 hours or less,’ ” Ngo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngo helps them get prescription drugs like Adderall and Albuterol, which is used for asthma. 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