[TheClimate.Vote] October 24, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Sat Oct 24 11:16:44 EDT 2020

/*October 24, 2020*/

[public trust doctrine]
***Oregon Supreme Court rules against youth plaintiffs in climate change 
lawsuit*
The Oregon Supreme Court ruled against two young plaintiffs this week in 
a lawsuit that alleged the state has failed to address the mounting 
threats posed by climate change.

Ollie Chernaik and Kelsey Juliana, both of Lane County, filed the case 
in 2011 when they were minors. The lawsuit, which names Gov. Kate Brown 
as the defendant, claims the state has failed to protect vital resources 
from the impacts of climate change. Juliana is also the lead plaintiff 
in a similar case against the federal government.
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The case hinges on the court's interpretation of an idea known as the 
public trust doctrine, which dates back to the Byzantine Empire. The 
doctrine was originally crafted to protect resources that are of public 
benefit. In the Byzantine case, that meant the seashore up to the high 
tide line, which was protected from private ownership. It was later 
adopted as common law in the United States and reaffirmed by a number of 
U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to the 1800s.

Courtney Johnson, who represents Chernaik and Juliana, argued that the 
state has a duty to protect resources that fall under the public trust 
doctrine. Those resources include "the state's atmosphere as well as the 
water, land, fishery and wildlife resources from the impacts of climate 
change," according to the lawsuit...
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"How best to address climate change is a daunting question with which 
the legislative and executive branches of our state government must 
grapple," Walters wrote. "But that does not relieve our branch of its 
obligation to determine what the law requires."
https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/10/oregon-supreme-court-rules-against-youth-plaintiffs-in-climate-change-lawsuit.html

[Spoken word video]
*Donald Trump vs Joe Biden: Is 2020 a Climate Change Election?*
Oct 23, 2020
Our Changing Climate
With the final Donald Trump vs Joe Biden presidential debate wrapped up 
and the 2020 election drawing near, this Our Changing Climate 
environmental video essay video looks at what's at stake for climate 
change when the choice is between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Joe 
Biden's climate change plan is a surprisingly progressive agenda. 
Climate justice and climate mitigation are headliners of Joe Biden's 
climate plan, and the Green New Deal is even mentioned in Biden's 
climate plan. Compared to Joe Biden, Donald Trump has no climate plan, 
and a Donald Trump presidency could spell climate change disaster. The 
Trump White House has spent the last year dismantling countless pieces 
of environmental and climate change legislation. Unfortunately U.S. 
election system really only provides two choices: Donald Trump vs Joe 
Biden. And in this 2020 election, where climate change is a crucial 
issue, voting for Joe Biden is the better vote for climate action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhaALofF0EI

[Washington Post]
*The undeniable link between weather disasters and climate change*
The events of this year are yet another sign of how incremental 
increases in temperature can lead to exponentially worse natural 
disasters, experts say. The global average temperature has increased a 
little more than 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 
preindustrial era, a number that may seem small. But research shows that 
human-caused warming has already doubled the amount of western forest 
burned since 1984. This year is California's worst fire season on 
record, with five of California's six biggest recorded wildfires, 
including the state's first million-acre "gigafire" since 1932.

"It's really been a shocking escalation," said Daniel Swain, a climate 
scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles.

But that nonlinear relationship between rising temperatures and 
escalating impacts does have a silver lining, Swain said. If natural 
disasters become exponentially worse with every degree of warming, the 
future will become exponentially safer with every degree of warming 
humanity manages to avert.

"It means there is no point in the future at which it becomes pointless 
or hopeless to take action," Swain said. "From here forward, everything 
we do is important."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/10/22/climate-curious-disasters-climate-change/

[opinion on US military and global warming]
*The true cost of the military-industrial complex.*
Dec 6, 2019
Our Changing Climate
In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at the 
environmental and social cost of the military and militarism. I narrow 
in on the United States military-industrial complex because it is by far 
the biggest military machine in the world. I look at how the military 
and the military-industrial complex is a massive polluter in terms of 
both emissions and chemical waste. In addition, the video looks at 
whether or not these environmental and monetary burdens caused by the 
military-industrial complex are justified. Have the multitude of wars 
the United States has wage been just, or are they manifestations of 
imperialism. Ultimately, the video connects environmental destruction 
with military imperialism and concludes that demilitarization is the 
only truly effective answer to the carbon footprint of the military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMozyspFuBM

[Early this month on CBS 60 Minutes interview with Michael Mann]
*The climate science behind this year's wildfires and powerful storms*
Is climate change reversible? Scott Pelley speaks with the "father of 
climate science" and others for an answer.
2020 Oct 04
CORRESPONDENT - Scott Pelley
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/western-wilfires-record-temperatures-california-60-minutes-2020-10-04/ 

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - October24, 1992 *

President George H. W. Bush signs the Energy Policy Act of 1992 into 
law;  the legislation is intended to boost the development of renewable 
power in the United States.

http://articles.latimes.com/1992-10-25/news/mn-1128_1_energy-bill

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