[✔️] June 21, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*June  21, 2022*/

/[  Europe ]
/*Record-breaking heatwave scorches Europe as climate change fears 
intensify*
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/06/20/record-breaking-heatwave-scorches-europe-as-climate-change-fears-intensify/
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/[  WAPO report]
/*Biden team sees climate ‘emergency,’ but powers are limited*
“In the end, this is an emergency," the president’s top domestic climate 
adviser said

With his climate legislation stalled and a Supreme Court case 
threatening his ability to regulate carbon, President Biden has been 
leaning more heavily than ever on his own authority to tackle climate 
change and address what he has called an “existential threat.”
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Collin Rees, a campaigner at Oil Change U.S., said Biden’s recent use of 
the Defense Production Act is a “step in the right direction,” but he 
would like to see Biden formally declare climate change as a national 
emergency.

“The president and the executive branch have tremendous power,” he said. 
“To date we have not seen the president use that power. That has been a 
big mistake.”

Declaring climate change an emergency, Rees said, would allow Biden to 
tap additional powers, such as placing a moratorium on oil exports.

For her part, McCarthy said Biden turned to the national defense law 
because the need for clean energy is so urgent. “In the end,” she said, 
“this is an emergency.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/06/20/biden-team-sees-climate-emergency-powers-are-limited//
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/[ NYTimes ]/
*Republican Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a 
Crucial Moment*
A Supreme Court environmental case being decided this month is the 
product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys 
general and conservative allies.
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The case, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, is the 
product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys 
general, conservative legal activists and their funders, several with 
ties to the oil and coal industries, to use the judicial system to 
rewrite environmental law, weakening the executive branch’s ability to 
tackle global warming...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/climate/supreme-court-climate-epa.html/
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[ France ]
*'Marker of climate change': Europe swelters in record-breaking June 
heatwave*
The French southwestern town of Biarritz, one of the country's most 
sought-after seaside resorts, saw its highest all time temperature 
Saturday of 41 degrees, state forecaster Meteo France said...
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"As a result of climate change, heatwaves are starting earlier," said 
Clare Nullis, a spokeswoman for the World Meteorological Organization in 
Geneva.

"What we're witnessing today is unfortunately a foretaste of the future" 
if concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to rise 
and push global warming towards 2 degrees C from pre-industrial levels, 
she added...

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220618-marker-of-climate-change-europe-swelters-in-record-breaking-june-heatwave/
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/[ CNN video interview with Robert Reich ]/
*Why Biden Must Take On Big Oil - Robert Reich on CNN with Jim Acosta*
June 20, 2022  Big Oil continues to rake in record profits while 
Americans are being forced to spend more and more at the pump: enough is 
enough. When the Biden Administration meets with oil executives, he must 
make clear that he's putting people ahead of profits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vt1maotAGE

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/[ n/ew ]
*New Brand of Activist Takes Aim at Ukraine War and Climate Crisis, 
Together*
Led by young women from Eastern Europe, they are cornering Europe’s 
leaders and pressing them for a total energy embargo on Russia — to end 
the fighting and to save the planet.
  Jeffrey Gettleman - - June 20, 2022
BRUSSELS — Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, had just finished a 
speech at a major conference on Europe.

While he lingered onstage, soaking up adulation and taking pictures with 
fans, little did he know that two young women in the back of the room 
were eying him closely.

“There are no metal barriers,” Dominika Lasota whispered. “Now’s our 
chance.”

She and her activist comrade, Wiktoria Jedroszkowiak, stood up fast. 
They clicked on a camera. They marched right up to Mr. Macron, who 
greeted them with a charming smile, apparently thinking all they wanted 
was a selfie.

But then they blasted him with questions about a controversial new 
pipeline in Uganda (which the French oil company Total is helping build) 
and the war in Ukraine.

“My point is …” Mr. Macron tried to say.

“I know what your point is,” Ms. Lasota, 20, said, cutting him off. “But 
we are living in a climate crisis, and you must stop it.”

Ms. Jedroszkowiak, also 20, then jumped in, saying, “You can stop the 
war in Ukraine by stopping buying fossil fuels from Russia.”

“Yeah,” Mr. Macron mumbled, before being broadsided by a bunch of other 
questions...
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“These things are connected,” Ms. Thunberg said. “More and more fossil 
fuel expansion means more power to autocrats. This enables them to start 
wars like the one in Ukraine.”

None of these activists were satisfied with the European Union’s recent 
moves to embargo Russian coal and most Russian oil by the end of the 
year — they want a total embargo on all Russian energy right now, which 
they say would starve Russia of billions of dollars and shut down its 
war machine in eight weeks.
It is an enormous demand with far-reaching consequences that few 
European politicians dare publicly raise, let alone embrace. Many people 
the world over believe it is simply not possible to just switch off from 
fossil fuels. Eighty percent of global energy still comes from them. And 
Europe is closely tied to Russian fossil fuels in particular, especially 
natural gas.
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‘Chaos on the Table’
The next morning, the day of the big event at Schuman Square, 
Greenpeace’s front door kept banging open. Young activists brushed past 
each other, hauling sunflowers, signs and megaphones.

“I’m really excited about all the chaos on the table,” said Pavel 
Rysula, 17, from Prague. He was one of the few young male activists at 
the meetings...
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“Em-bar-go! Em-bar-go!” they chanted.

The next day, the E.U. leaders did not touch the issue of Russian gas 
but agreed to embargo about 80 percent of Russian oil. The activists 
took it as a mixed success.

“Catastrophe was avoided,” Ms. Lasota said. “But to celebrate this as a 
major achievement, that’s ridiculous.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/world/asia/ukraine-war-climate-crisis-activists-protests.html

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/[  salt, salt, salt...Salt Lake City opinion ]/
*E. Thomas Nelson: The immediate financial impacts of a shriveled-up 
Great Salt Lake*
This harkens back to lessons that should have been learned years ago 
with California’s Owens Lake. As the population of Los Angeles rapidly 
grew in the early 1900s, the decision was made to syphon water from 
nearby Owens Lake. Once dried up, this resulted in toxic dust storms, a 
mass migration of nearby residents and an ongoing financial nightmare 
for the state of California that continues to this day. Owens Lake is 
now the largest source of toxic dust pollution in the United States.
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Might it be time to change what’s being grown and use less agricultural 
water? Or alter our diets? How much of that farming water is wasted on 
in efficient systems? Is it time to upgrade our farming technology?

Normally I’d say there’s no chance of any of any positive change 
happening. The status quo is to say it’s a beautiful June day, I don’t 
see any toxic dust, ergo everything is fine and we should keep doing 
what we’re doing. However, considering the very immediate financial 
impacts of a shriveled up lake, maybe there’s a glimmer of hope this time.

But let’s not hold our breath. On the other hand, maybe we should, as a 
means of preparing for the waves of toxic dust headed our way.
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/06/20/e-thomas-nelson-immediate/
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/[ RollingStone article]/
*Planet Hunger: Inside the Global Food Crisis*
Putin — and greedy CEOs — are already putting 20 million people on the 
brink of starvation. If we don’t make big changes now, we will face mass 
food shortages
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ukraine-food-crisis-1367826/



/[a brief CBS cartoon video shows where fossil fuel comes from - and how 
much we burn ]/
*"Meet the Fossils": Ancient life that powers our world*
When we burn fossil fuels to power our homes and cars, we're burning the 
remains of ancient life – plants and animals that were transformed over 
millions of years into coal or oil. And we are using up that resource at 
a rapid rate. Writer and narrator Robert Krulwich explains how in this 
"CBS Sunday Morning" video essay, based on the work of Aatish Bhatia. 
Animation directed and designed by Nate Milton. Music by Buck St. Thomas.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/meet-the-fossils-ancient-life-that-powers-our-world/ 




/[ On the future of climate activism -- deciding the dollar is more 
powerful than the ballot ]/
*Activists say they must up the ante as world edges closer to climate 
disaster*
With less than 10 years left to avert climate catastrophe, campaigners 
Kumi Naidoo and Luisa Neubauer say activists need to ramp up civil 
disobedience
To hear more of what Kumi Naidoo and Luisa Neubauer had to say, check 
out the On the Green Fence Podcast.

    *Has climate activism failed?*
    Global CO2 emissions continue to rise despite the urgent need to
    decarbonize. What does this failure to tackle climate change mean
    for climate activism? Is radicalization the next step?
    https://www.dw.com/en/has-climate-activism-failed/av-62142225?maca=en-podcast_on_the_green_fence-30407-xml-mrss

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/has-climate-activism-failed/id1474805073?i=1000566776861 


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/[ Clips from the Nation article.. very important  ] /
*“Handshake Activism” Won’t Defuse the Climate Emergency*
We need to mobilize many more people from all walks of life, say climate 
activists Kumi Naidoo and Luisa Neubauer.
By Bill McKibben -- JUNE 17, 2022
If a historian were charting the climate movement, she’d probably set 
its high-water mark so far at September of 2019, when something like 7 
million people, most of them young, took to the streets of thousands of 
cities around the world...
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I was watching from the wings of a stage set up on New York’s Battery, 
where Greta Thunberg—whose school strike had helped spur this massive 
wave of climate action—summed up the situation for a quarter million 
people flooding the streets of lower Manhattan: “If you belong to that 
small group of people who feel threatened by us, we have some very bad 
news for you, because this is only the beginning. Change is coming 
whether they like it or not.”...
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That groundswell yielded many commitments: One company after another 
vowed to go “net zero,” for instance. But the intervening 30 months have 
been tough. First, the pandemic chased organizers off the streets and on 
to Zoom, which put a brake on movement momentum: By the time nations 
reached Glasgow last autumn, Thunberg was accurately describing their 
offerings as “blah, blah, blah.” And now the Ukraine war, and with it 
spiking gas prices, has diverted attention and set up a complicated 
(though by no means entirely bad) dynamic for clean energy campaigners...
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“At the beginning of the war,” said Neubauer, “lots of people thought, 
‘Well, now it’s all on the table. We will ramp up for renewables. We 
will ramp up fossil-free energy, because it’s clear that to like 
renewables you don’t have to be a climate activist or eco-nerd. It’s 
enough to kind of mildly dislike Putin and mildly like democracies and 
freedom and safety.” But as the conflict has continued, “I think now 
we’re seeing almost a fossil fuel backlash in places like Germany,” 
Neubauer said. “The fossil expansion [is] really happening. There’s new 
drilling happening in the North Sea coast.”

The ability of the fossil fuel industry to constantly regroup, says 
Naidoo, is a reminder that “the system is performing exactly how the 
system was designed to perform. It was to benefit a handful of people at 
the top: Give the people at the middle a little bit more so that they 
will feel that they have a vested interest to defend that system.” For 
years, he added, “we used to say things like, the economic system is 
broken; the energy system is broken; the agricultural system is spoken. 
But, quite frankly, after more than four decades of activism, I must 
humbly say that I read it wrong, that actually the system was not broken 
at all.”...
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“The mistake my generation of activists made was that we mistook access 
for influence,” said Naidoo. “We got access [that] allowed some 
government official or minister or CEO of a big company to tick off a 
box saying ‘civil society consulted.’ And, quite honestly, it also meant 
that, for many of us who were engaging in those interactions…[we could] 
claim easy victories.”

Neither Naidoo nor Neubauer, obviously, claimed to have a foolproof 
formula for going forward, but both had ideas. Too many governments, 
they pointed out, have grown authoritarian, limiting the space for 
protest. “We are seeing that there is deliberate strategy into not just 
repressing but oppressing,” said Neubauer. It ranges from the 
heavy-handed (the Indian government jailing her youth climate colleague 
Disha Ravi for activism) to more subtle: Germany’s new (and 
theoretically small-g green) premier, Olof Scholz, apparently comparing 
climate protesters to Nazis. In the face of such political backsliding, 
they each reminded campaigners to also focus some of their firepower on 
the financial system.

“There are very few accelerated change strategies that are available to 
us,” said Naidoo. “Really very few. One of them is going extremely hard, 
extremely purposefully, exceedingly strategically against all forms of 
finance.” The fossil fuel divestment movement—now at $40 trillion 
committed by pension funds and university endowments—is “going great,” 
he said, but it “can be turbocharged and do much better.” The ability of 
banks and financial institutions to resist public opinion may be 
“fragile,” said Neubauer, citing recent successes in scaring banks and 
insurers away from the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline project.
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So how do we instead work that system to get change on the scale science 
demands and justice requires? As Naidoo put it, this “has to be a time 
of extreme honesty, extreme courage, extreme boldness. If activism is 
saying, ‘It cannot be business as usual, it cannot be government as 
usual,’ then surely we must be saying to ourselves, ‘It cannot be 
activism as usual.’”
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According to Neubauer, that expanded environmentalism needs to include 
people sometimes thought of as adversaries. Often, she said, she’ll be 
asked if it’s fair to cost coal miners their jobs to preserve a livable 
climate. “And I say, ‘Is it fair for a car [worker at] VW or a 
constructor of pipelines, or someone working in a coal mine…to work all 
day, every day, to pay the bill at the end of the month, knowing that 
means working against the security of the future, of the children. Is it 
fair to put people [in] that place?”

A potent weapon, she added, could be older people increasingly joining 
the movement through groups like Third Act. “Open the space for people 
who are looking back on their lives and wonder what I’m leaving to my 
children, my grandchildren—I think there’s so much to gain from that.” 
People “need to talk to the children and their grandchildren,” she 
added. “Because we need to stop this tendency for each generation to 
lose each other. You know, children move out, and they forget what their 
parents taught them, and they start their own life.” Intergenerational 
conversations could be a “superpower,” she said.

“We have to create multiple ways that people can participate,” said 
Naidoo, not just “how those of us, sitting in full-time civil society 
jobs, imagine it to be. We have to be thinking about where people are 
and how people can be enabled to participate and enter [the movement]. 
Only when we have sufficient numbers, substantially larger than we are 
able to mobilize at this moment, will our political and business leaders 
eventually be pushed to the urgency that the situation calls for.”

Art and music—even gaming platforms—are one way in, he said. “One of the 
things that is most missing at the moment is…imagination. We’ve got to 
get people to imagine that it is within our grasp to turn this thing 
around,” said Naidoo. “True, the window of opportunity is small and it’s 
closing fast, but let’s be very clear: This moment of history that we 
find ourselves in is one where we have to say that pessimism is a luxury 
that we simply cannot afford, and that whatever the pessimism of our 
analysis might be at different moments, we can overcome that pessimism 
best by the optimism of our creativity, of our energy, and of our 
actions that seek to make change—even if we don’t win the struggle 
immediately the next day.”

Speed is the crucial question, since unlike most political questions 
climate change comes with a time limit. “It’s very clear the transitions 
are happening,” says Neubauer. “We will decarbonize. We will get out of 
fossil fuels. The question is just when? I mean, fast enough? And will 
it be just enough? These are the things we have to turn around—now.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/naidoo-neubauer-climate-activism/

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/[ Third Act offers some activism for any age ]/
*BUG THE BANKS
*Here’s the problem: Despite the climate crisis, our biggest banks are 
huge funders of coal and gas and oil companies. In the years since the 
Paris climate accords, they have given more than three trillion dollars 
in loans to these companies, even as scientists have told us we must 
stop the expansion of this industry.*
*https://thirdact.org/what-we-do/bug-the-banks//
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*PROTECT THE VOTE*
When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, it signaled that 
America was serious about protecting our democracy. It outlawed the 
discriminatory practices rampant in many states preventing African 
Americans from casting their ballots, and is among the most important 
pieces of legislation passed in our lifetimes.
https://thirdact.org/what-we-do/protect-the-vote/



/[ Daily Disaster news channel ]/
*The flood destroyed thousands of buildings and cars in Guangdong, China*
Jun 19, 2022  Natural disasters 19 June, 2022. The flood destroyed 
thousands of buildings and cars in Guangdong, China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGZNz1yToQ

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/[ plenty every day ]/
*People run away from the water! Record flood continues the devastation 
in Assam, India*
Jun 20, 2022  Natural disaster 20 June 2022. People run away from the 
water! Record flood continues the devastation in Assam, India

Assam's State Disaster Management Authority said in the last 24 hours, 
33 districts reported floods in the state that affected over 4 million 
people.

Eight people were missing in the state of Assam which faced floods and 
landslides for eight days, the officials said.

"About 4 million people were impacted, out of which 186,000 people took 
shelter in 740 relief camps"

Residents of the villages of the state, said that flood water hit houses 
and a lot of roads were underwater.

Naturals hazards in 2021 have become more frequent. We do not know what 
awaits us in 2021. How global warming and climate change will affect our 
Earth. Watch the most current news about natural disasters on our channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J3jGLEz0HE



/[The news archive - looking back at how successful has been 
disinformation and opinion manipulation ]/
/*June  21, 2011*/
June 21, 2011: NPR reports:

    "The American public is less likely to believe in global warming
    than it was just five years ago. Yet, paradoxically, scientists are
    more confident than ever that climate change is real and caused
    largely by human activities.

    "Something a bit strange is happening with public opinion and
    climate change.

    "Anthony Leiserowitz, who directs the Yale University Project on
    Climate Change Communication, delved into this in a recent poll. He
    not only asked citizens what they thought of climate change, he also
    asked them to estimate how climate scientists feel about global warming.

    "'Only 13 percent of Americans got the correct answer, which is that
    in fact about 97 percent of American scientists say that climate
    change is happening, and about a third of Americans just simply say
    they don't know,' he said.

    "Most Americans are unaware that the National Academy of Sciences,
    known for its cautious and even-handed reviews of the state of
    science, is firmly on board with climate change. It has been for years."

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/21/137309964/climate-change-public-skeptical-scientists-sure


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