[✔️] August 1, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Heat tally Phoenix 31 days, Congress learns of Big Oil deception, Noam Chomsky speaks, How much co2?, Rush Limbaugh misinforms

[Richard Pauli]

/*August  1*//*, 2023*/

/[ heat history a temporary tally ]/
*Phoenix’s record streak of temperatures above 110F ends after 31 days*
Reprieve expected to be brief, with the forecast calling for highs again 
above 110F for several days later in the week
Erum Salam and agencies - Mon 31 Jul 2023
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The streak was finally broken Monday, when the high topped out at 108F 
(42.2C), the National Weather Service reported.

But the reprieve was expected to be brief, with the forecast calling for 
highs again above 110F for several days later in the week. And National 
Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Hirsch said August could be even 
hotter than July.

Over 50 million Americans remain under a heat advisory in one of the 
hottest summers ever recorded, and a heatwave continues to affect vast 
parts of the country.

Nasa recently confirmed June was the hottest June ever.

The hot and dry weather in the south-west of the US has set off a wave 
of wildfires. California and Nevada are currently battling a major fire 
that is uncontrolled. Another out-of-control fire that originated in 
Washington state has spread into Canada, forcing residents in the town 
of Osoyoos, British Columbia, to evacuate.

Doctors in the south-west reported a rise in first-, second-, and 
third-degree contact-burn cases, some fatal, amid extreme heat conditions.
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Maricopa county, Arizona’s most populous and home to Phoenix, reported 
25 heat-related deaths this year as of 21 July, and hundreds more are 
under investigation. The county reported 425 heat-associated deaths in 
all of 2022, with more than half in July.

In Texas, San Antonio hit an all-time high of 117F in June.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/31/us-extereme-heat-alert-wildfires



/[  We are not surprised ]/
*Congressional Dems Request DOJ Investigation into Big Oil’s Climate 
Deception*
A new letter sent to the Attorney General highlights recent evidence, 
including internal Shell docs first reported by DeSmog.
ByDana Drugmand on Jul 26, 2023
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Just two weeks ago, during an online climate discussion, several members 
of Congress including Ocasio-Cortez, Whitehouse, and Sen. Bernie Sanders 
of Vermont, called on the Department of Justice to take legal action 
against Big Oil, with Sanders suggesting they pay the Attorney General a 
visit to make their request in person. He and other senators have 
previously written to the DOJ and President Joe Biden requesting an 
investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s climate deception.

Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, which 
advocates for holding climate polluters accountable, said in an emailed 
statement that this deception amounts to the most “consequential fraud 
committed against the American people” ever.

“Just as they did with the tobacco industry, the Department of Justice 
must exercise its unique power to hold the fossil fuel industry 
accountable and stop the lying,” Wiles said. “As long as Big Oil’s 
climate lies, both past and present, remain unchallenged by the DOJ, 
protecting the American public from the ravages of climate change will 
remain that much more difficult.”
https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/26/doj-investigation-big-oil-climate-deception-congressional-democrats/

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[ early in March ]
*Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change*
Newly discovered documents from the 1970s and early ’80s show that Shell 
knew more about the “greenhouse effect” than it let on in public.

Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir, and reviewed by DeSmog 
and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money, the 
documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly 
underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from 
the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

Even as the company’s awareness of the potentially devastating 
consequences of climate change grew, the documents show how Shell shaped 
a series of influential industry-backed publications that downplayed or 
omitted key risks; emphasized scientific uncertainties; and pushed for 
more fossil fuels, particularly coal...
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Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan Hüzeir, and reviewed by DeSmog 
and Dutch investigative journalism platform Follow The Money, the 
documents show how Shell was actively supporting research that clearly 
underscored the dangers posed by burning its fossil fuel products from 
the mid-1970s — years earlier than previously thought.

Even as the company’s awareness of the potentially devastating 
consequences of climate change grew, the documents show how Shell shaped 
a series of influential industry-backed publications that downplayed or 
omitted key risks; emphasized scientific uncertainties; and pushed for 
more fossil fuels, particularly coal.
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1973 Nov 19th WAES correspondence from Carroll Wilson to Frits Bottcher
See 
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23735750-1973-nov-19th-waes-correspondence-from-carroll-wilson-to-frits-bottcher#document/p1/a2235480/
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Shell’s internal interest in climate change continued to grow, leading 
to the drafting in 1986 of the internal “Greenhouse Effect” memo 
unearthed by Mommers, the Dutch journalist, which spelled out dire 
risks. Three years later, in 1989, Shell joined the Global Climate 
Coalition (GCC), a U.S.-based fossil fuel lobby group that pushed 
outright denial of climate science. As public concern over climate 
change intensified, Shell joined other prominent companies that quit the 
GCC in 1998 — but not before the lobby group had made extensive efforts 
to manipulate and undermine the work of the IPCC, the UN scientific 
body. Shell remained a member of the American Petroleum Institute, which 
ramped up its own climate misinformation campaign in the early 2000s.

Despite Shell’s initially high expectations for coal, by 1999, the 
company had decided to abandon the business, and put its mines up for 
sale. Shell’s then chairman Cor Herkströter said the decision reflected 
the company’s desire to embrace “decarbonisation.”

Though coal fell by the wayside, other fossil fuels did not, and Shell’s 
dependence on oil and gas has increasingly been the subject of legal 
action. In May 2021, a Dutch court ruled that the company must slash its 
emissions by 45 percent by 2030, compared to 2019 figures after a case 
brought by environmental organisation Milieudefensie. Shell has appealed 
the verdict, arguing that it effectively holds Shell accountable for a 
wider global issue — reducing consumer demand for fossil fuels — 
something the company says it cannot do alone.

Meanwhile, environmental law organization ClientEarth launched legal 
proceedings in London last month to sue Shell’s directors for failing to 
properly prepare the company to achieve its goal of reaching net zero 
emissions by 2050. Shell said in response that it was delivering on the 
commitment, including by adopting an industry-leading target to halve 
emissions from its global operations by 2030, and transforming its 
business to provide more low-carbon energy for customers.

Fifty years after Shell staff had publicly pushed back against the 
warnings of mounting environmental pressures in The Limits To Growth, 
the company is still prospecting for new reserves of oil and gas. /
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https://www.desmog.com/2023/03/31/lost-decade-how-shell-downplayed-early-warnings-over-climate-change//
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/[Noam Chomsky solves all problems -- 20 min video  ]/
*Noam Chomsky on how to stop planetary destruction and move past capitalism*
The Breach
Jul 4, 2023
The force pushing humanity towards destructive wars and climate 
catastrophe is “very simple,” Noam Chomsky says. It’s “the word we’re 
not allowed to think about called: capitalism.”

In this interview with The Breach’s publisher Dru Oja Jay, Chomsky 
explains why our current period of capitalism is particularly harsh. He 
also lays out why co-ops are the basis for collective movements and says 
that organized, active groups of workers can make gains against the system.

“It’s difficult, of course, class war is not easy.”

The Breach’s full interview with Chomsky also covers NATO, the war in 
Ukraine, why capitalism is a “suicide pact” and what type of organizing 
can create a better world. Read it here: 
https://breachmedia.ca/noam-chomsky-on-canadian-war-criminals-and-a-world-after-capitalism/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykUpA63AmDY/
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///[ How much CO2 do we breath from our atmosphere now? ]/
*Atmospheric CO2 Latest  Daily CO2  Jul. 29, 2023    423.17 ppm*
https://www.co2.earth/

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/[  Question to NASA: how much can we increase CO2 levels ?   Compare 
with NASA crew in peak physical condition  ]/
NASA/TM—20205011433
*Characterization of How CO2 Level May Impact Crew Performance Related 
to the HSIA Risk*
Bettina L. Beard
NASA Ames Research Center

    "available evidence suggests that elevated CO2 could affect the
    cognitive processes of detection, diagnosis and recovery used in
    anomaly response. Without mature technology to aid the crew,
    elevated CO2 could exacerbate the risk that crew may not be able to
    independently respond to these events."

https://hsi.arc.nasa.gov/publications/NASA_TM20205011433.pdf

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/[  How astronauts breath at various CO2 levels ]/
*Carbon Dioxide on Earth and on the ISS*
*How is carbon dioxide controlled on board the ISS?*
Almost all of the CO2 on board the ISS is produced by the astronauts’ 
breathing. Carbon dioxide levels are monitored and controlled on the ISS 
by the Atmosphere Revitalization (AR) subsystem of the Environmental 
Control and Life Support System (ECLSS). NASA has set the maximum 
allowable 24-hour average CO2 on board the ISS at 5 250 ppm (4.0 mmHg).

There are a number of sensors at different places inside the ISS that 
monitor CO2 levels. To remove CO2 from the station’s atmosphere, air is 
blown over a bed of rocks called zeolites. Water and CO2 stick to the 
zeolites, but everything else passes through. The water is recovered for 
recycling, but the CO2 is blown out of the station. This means that a 
small amount of the station’s air is lost every day.

Air circulation is an important part of controlling CO2 on the station. 
Because air does not circulate in microgravity the way it does on Earth, 
pockets of CO2 can build up in parts of the ISS. This build-up can be 
hazardous to astronauts. For instance, a bubble of CO2 could form around 
an astronaut’s head as he or she is sleeping. This would lead to a lack 
of oxygen.

Astronauts always make sure they have fans blowing on their faces when 
they sleep. There are fans all over the ISS that are always moving air, 
but they can’t completely stop the pockets of CO2 from forming.

Research on board the ISS shows that astronauts are more sensitive to 
CO2 levels in space than they are on Earth. High CO2 levels can give 
astronauts headaches, make them dizzy, increase their blood pressure, 
and make them tired. When they are doing complicated tasks, astronauts 
also make more mistakes and take longer when they have been exposed to 
high levels of CO2. Because of this, researchers are doing a lot of work 
to figure out how to monitor and lower CO2 levels on spacecraft like the 
ISS...
https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounders/carbon-dioxide-on-earth-and-on-iss



/[The news archive - looking back at the beginning of a misinformation 
campaign ]/
/*August  1, 1988*/
August 1, 1988: Sacramento, California-based right-wing talk radio host 
Rush Limbaugh begins his nationally syndicated program; over the next 
three decades, Limbaugh aggressively promotes the notion that climate 
science is a "hoax."
PROPAGANDA MAY 2007 ISSUE
*Rush to Judgment*
Attacking environmentalists as hippie-dip “wackos” who care more about 
spotted owls than people and use polar bears for propaganda, Rush 
Limbaugh has blinded millions of Americans to the climate crisis.
BY JAMES WOLCOTT

APRIL 10, 2007
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    Limbaugh will shrug off this report as he has shrugged off the
    others. If he could set his shrug to music, he could become king of
    the mambo beat. Valiant efforts have been made to correct the
    mistakes, half-truths, exaggerations, and confusions that Limbaugh
    coughs up like furballs during his preachings. In 1994 the
    Environmental Defense Fund issued a rebuttal to The Way Things Ought
    to Be and See, I Told You So titled “The Way Things Really Are:
    Debunking Rush Limbaugh on the Environment.” Where Limbaugh claimed
    that ozone depletion was being hyped by “prophets of doom,” the
    E.D.F. report stated, “Substantially reduced levels of ozone have
    been measured over most of the globe.” Where Limbaugh cited a Gallup
    poll finding that 53 percent of scientists engaged in global-climate
    research don’t believe that global warming has occurred, the E.D.F.
    discovered the numbers had been garbled. E.D.F.: “Nowhere in the
    actual poll results are there figures that resemble those cited by …
    Limbaugh. Instead, the Gallup poll found that a substantial majority
    of the scientists polled, 66 percent, believed that human-induced
    global warming was already occurring.” In 1995, Fairness & Accuracy
    in Reporting—fair—brought out a paperback called The Way Things
    Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error, wrestling with such oft
    repeated Rushisms as his screwy notion that even if the polar ice
    caps did melt there’d be no rise in ocean levels, and his
    eye-opening discovery that there were more acres of forestland in
    America in 1993 than when Columbus discovered the New World, in 1492
    (wrong). In 1996, Al Franken swung for the fences with his lyrical
    study Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, having fun with Limbaugh’s
    fictional fact-checker, Waylon, who’s often baffled himself by the
    bizarre stuff emanating from Rush’s mouth. (“Al: Okay, let’s jump
    right in. First of all, back in 1991, Rush claimed that Styrofoam
    was biodegradable and paper wasn’t. Waylon: Right. I remember that.
    That is … uh … that’s totally wrong.”) Anyone can make mistakes, and
    anyone doing a three-hour broadcast five times a week is likely to
    make lots of them, but Limbaugh’s mistakes all lean in the same
    direction and leave the impression that they’re intended to
    obfuscate and make fact-checking as time-consuming, painstaking, and
    futile as picking shrapnel out of the wall or mopping up after Ann
    Coulter. Goebbels propagated the theory and practice of the Big Lie,
    in which constant thumping reiteration wears down rational
    resistance and fuses heartbeat and drumbeat. Postmodern
    conservatives prefer to let little lies proliferate and take on a
    viral life of their own that becomes impossible to arrest...

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/wolcott200705


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