[✔️] July 16, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Tracking heat, Europe swelters, Water foods risks, Global gas disinformation, Inescapable predicament, Rupert Read book, capitalist force toward extinction, Storytelling, 1992 Al Gore

Sun Jul 16 09:14:48 EDT 2023

/*July*//*16 , 2023*/

/[  near future heat ] /
*Tracking Dangerous Heat in the U.S.*
By Matthew Bloch, Lazaro Gamio, Zach Levitt, Eleanor Lutz, Bea Malsky 
and John-Michael Murphy
July 15, 2023
Dangerous levels of heat are forecast in the South, West and Northeast 
on Saturday, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration.
About 83.9 million people — 25 percent of the population of the 
contiguous United States — live in the areas expected to have dangerous 
levels of heat.

The heat index is a measure of how hot it really feels outside, taking 
into account humidity along with temperature. The measurement is used to 
indicate when the level of heat is dangerous for the human body while in 
the shade. When out in the sun, a person could perceive that temperature 
as being higher by up to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (8.3 degrees Celsius).

Hundreds of people die from extreme heat in the United States every 
year. On hot days, the National Weather Service recommends that people 
drink fluids, stay in cooler rooms, keep out of the sun and check up on 
relatives and neighbors, especially older people and those who live alone.

How hot will it feel in your area?
Look up the coming week’s forecast for places across the country, and 
see the heat index forecast in or near your city or town.

Over the next week in New York, N.Y., the highest heat index forecast is 
91 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday. Compared with today, forecasts show 
that the heat index will be roughly the same over most of the following 
days.

Heat forecasts in major cities
During this weeklong period, 89 major cities are forecast, as of 
Saturday, to have dangerous levels of heat on one or more days.

Methodology
Maps on this page are as of 8:41 a.m. on July 15, 2023, using data from 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. All data shown are 
forecasts, including maps for the date of publication.

The highest forecast heat index is calculated using all available hourly 
forecasts for each day published by the NOAA. For some days further in 
the future, forecasts are published only every three or six hours. This 
means that the highest forecast heat index numbers are more accurate for 
the most recent maps.

Population calculations are based on census tract population centers 
from the U.S. Census Bureau. Tracts are determined to be at risk of 
dangerous heat if the population center of the tract is forecast to be 
exposed to a heat index of 103 degrees Fahrenheit or more.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/heat-wave-map-tracker.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/heat-wave-map-tracker.html?unlocked_article_code=e4RY_jVyzVxWwAH3M7tykp0NOgs_0yWQseaqgwruw0akNz8OOA9RjCHdHgn9dQUtachLVxQXoD6qoMmGIceUYD6_HI_XRB5hXYc4pjBD5fjS0l5_0pD1rP7h_R6r1OTp5B1aGuCQaU7sZho6D7cdnJj2-EHg_2CPXXKJkSjuOsq5nXaiUT2VVvvv9PEDH0FwEQ3JRMFuZYKemdAG1vmEEvUujOdM6zwmSuyPE0TOCwG-jG4CsyiPjBs7_HlzIZnfZIJhNtiamYSUAjA1GTYbq1qihh3ozrH0HdiSOiczEbyTN8Yvi7eQcezxhR8yejh5rQLCuyhKf8h5mOxlfAsqSjNoipI&smid=url-share

/[ DW news report - video 9 mins ]/
*Europe swelters under record temperatures in peak tourist season | DW News*
DW News
Jul 15, 2023  #Europe #Heatwaves #ClimateChange
A heat wave sweeping across Europe is prompting health warnings as 
millions of people endure sweltering temperatures.
Italy has issued red alerts in 16 cities with the country's weather 
centre warning of record heat especially in southern regions. Parts of 
Greece are forecast to hit highs of 44 degrees celsius, while France, 
Germany, Spain and Poland are also enduring extreme temperatures. 
Scientists say greenhouse gases and the El Niño weather pattern are 
raising global temperatures. Officials are urging people to drink a lot 
of water and stay indoors if possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOR-DWpg4uU

/[ global aquatic food discussion ]/
*Water Derived Food Feeding Billions of People Threatened by 
Anthropogenic Stressors**
*Paul Beckwith
Jul 15, 2023
Last video I discussed how Abrupt Climate System Change threatens 
terrestrial food supplies for billions of people.

In this video I chat about threats to the so-called “Blue Food” supply 
that currently feeds about 3.2 billion people. This term describes food 
sourced from aquatic sources, namely any and all freshwater and 
saltwater bodies of water, whether by catch or aqua-farmed.

A recent peer-reviewed scientific paper finds that up to 90% of the Blue 
Food sources are being stressed by Anthropogenic impacts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpdxTAK6ljA

/[ physical skirmishes on the disinformation battleground ]/
*Organizers of Global Gas Conference ‘Refuse’ Entry to DeSmog Reporter*
Executives discussing plans to export 14 million tons of gas per year 
from the west coast of Canada at LNG2023 didn’t want our reporter there 
to cover it.
By Brendan DeMelleon     Jul 10, 2023

Geoff Dembicki, an investigative climate reporter for DeSmog whose work 
has informed inquires in the Canadian Senate and earned high praise from 
outlets including the Washington Post was “denied” entry to a major 
global gas conference taking place in Vancouver this week.

“The manager has exercised his right to refuse the registration 
application and you will not be able to participate in LNG2023,” reads 
an email from conference organizers to DeSmog contributor Dembicki, who 
is author of “The Petroleum Papers,” which was last year shortlisted for 
the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Non-Fiction and named a best 
book of 2022 by the Post.

“I traveled to Vancouver to cover this event, only to learn after 
arriving that my registration was rejected,” said Dembicki.

He found this highly unusual. “I’ve covered dozens of energy and climate 
change conferences around the world, including the 2015 Paris climate 
talks, and this is the first one I’ve ever been denied entry to,” he 
said. “I suspect the organizers don’t like the investigations DeSmog has 
been doing about the gas industry.”

LNG2023 describes itself as “the largest global LNG industry 
conference,” operating for 54 years. One of the major focuses this year 
will be growing Canada’s west coast gas export industry. An opening day 
“leadership dialogue” featured Jason Klein, CEO of the $40 billion joint 
venture LNG Canada, which aims to export 14 million tons per year of gas 
to global markets.

Not only is this project one of the largest private investments in 
Canadian history, it also has large implications for Indigenous 
sovereignty and the global climate. The gas is supplied by the Coastal 
GasLink Pipeline, whose builder TC Energy obtained a court injunction 
that has resulted in multiple armed raids on Wet’suwet’en First Nation 
protest camps by RCMP officers.

When operational, LNG Canada could produce carbon emissions equivalent 
to adding 800,000 internal combustion vehicles to roads in a year...
- -
Over the past year, DeSmog has covered this project extensively, as well 
as industry efforts to counter and neutralize Indigenous opposition to 
oil and gas expansion.

We obtained industry documents revealing how a conservative think tank 
called the Macdonald-Laurier Institute worked to create “a shield 
against opponents” of natural resource projects with grant support from 
a U.S. rightwing organization called the Atlas Network.

We reported from a conference in B.C. where a former senior provincial 
bureaucrat called pro-industry First Nations “the magic sauce” for 
getting new gas projects built.

We revealed how major oil and gas producers such as Cenovus and CNRL are 
quietly funding First Nations organizations fighting against federal 
climate policies, while another pro-gas group that calls emissions 
targets “pie in the sky” got $1.2 million from the B.C. government...
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“It’s a shame that the public won’t be able to learn what the industry 
is planning, given the gigantic impact fossil fuel expansion is having 
on British Columbia waterways, Indigenous sovereignty and the global 
climate,” Dembicki said.
https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/10/lng2023-organizers-deny-entry-journalist-geoff-dembicki/

/[ video discussion of big issue of ecological overshoot ]/
*Our Inescapable Predicament - Facing Reality*
Facing Future
Jul 13, 2023  #ClimateChange #RupertRead #MichaelDowd
Industrial civilization has overshot the capacity of our planet to 
sustain it, putting us in an inescapable predicament. #RupertRead, 
#MichaelDowd and Dale Walkonen seek to answer the questions of how we 
can face reality and still live full, useful lives, taking compassionate 
and effective action, without doing more damage to our planet.

For more conversations with Michael Dowd:
https://postdoom.com/conversations/
Canadian Club of Rome, May 2023 Presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=433oiO0Cw3I

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/[ variable cost book ]/
*Do you want to know the truth? The surprising rewards of climate honesty*
by Rupert Read

    "In this humble, sincere and quick-witted book, Rupert Read invites
    us to find courage, stop being afraid of fear, and trust people
    without infantilizing them. It's time to get serious about mass
    mobilisation as Rupert does with compassion, love, rage and
    authenticity."
       - Pablo Servigne & Raphael Stevens, authors of How everything can
    collapse and Another end of the world is possible.

    "This is a book for everyone – a deeply invitational book, not
    offering certainty but glimmerings of what we can hope may be
    possible. Whoever you may be, I hope you will read it and find it
    speaks to you.”
       - Prof. Cora Diamond, author, The realistic spirit.

As climate breakdown begins, the question each of us must ask is: Do I 
really want to know the truth? Am I willing to face it?

In this book Rupert Read argues compellingly that truthfulness on 
climate has surprising rewards: we get to live authentically, win or 
lose; to be with each other rather than stuck in individualised silos of 
anxiety; and, most important of all, to turn the difficult emotions 
which climate-honesty generates into energy. In a series of provocative 
and stimulating chapters, Read shows how truth is a mighty power that 
can mobilise untold millions.

Read tackles in particular ‘the 1.5 delusion’ – the belief that it’s 
still practically possible for humanity to remain in the ‘safe’ space 
below 1.5°C of global over-heat. He suggests abandoning this fantasy 
makes visible the terrible injustice being perpetrated upon the global 
South and on our children, and that radical truth-telling will liberate 
us to transformatively adapt to our future on a changed planet.

This book is for anyone and everyone who cares.

    “Don’t read this book if you want to remain stuck in any kind of
    denial!”
       - Chris Packham, BBC broadcaster.

https://249897.e-junkie.com/product/1756224/Do-you-want-to-know-the-truth3F-The-surprising-rewards-of-climate-honesty

/[explained nicely ]/
*The Catastrophe No One Talks About*
Our Changing Climate
Jun 30, 2023  #socialism #extinction #biodiversity
- -
In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at the looming threat 
of species extinction and biodiversity collapse. Specifically, I uncover 
the extent of the sixth mass extinction. What it is and how bad it's 
happening. Then, I work through the key drivers of the acceleration of 
species die-offs across the planet. I look at how climate change and 
land use change (read: deforestation) have destructive consequences for 
the biodiversity climate. Finally, the video dives into the capitalist 
forces driving this mass extinction event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RreXcPsTqkk

/[ Sunday considerations from Epicopal News Service  ]/
*Storytelling underpins church’s response to climate change, leaders say 
at the close of ‘It’s All About Love’*
BY SHIREEN KORKZAN
Posted July 12, 2023
House of Deputies president Julia Ayala Harris preaches the sermon at 
the concluding service July 12 at the It’s All About Love revival in 
Baltimore, Maryland, as seen in a video on Facebook.

[Episcopal News Service — Baltimore, Maryland] On the final day of the 
It’s All About Love festival, House of Deputies President Julia Ayala 
Harris described the July 9-12 gathering as an opportunity to reflect on 
stories – both personal and churchwide – and to begin to reframe what 
those stories tell Episcopalians about the fight for climate justice, 
racial reconciliation and evangelism.

The festival, she noted, followed on the heels of last week’s Episcopal 
Youth Event, which also took place in Maryland. EYE is an event for 
teenagers, who, she said, didn’t need any explanation when invited to 
take part in a healing service, because of the trauma so many 
experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“They watched racial and social injustice on their screens on their 
social media,” Ayala Harris said on July 12. “They watched the decline 
of democracy before their eyes. They saw their friends be victims of 
transphobia and racism. They’ve witnessed the climate crisis and war.”

This week, hundreds of Episcopalians from the church’s nine provinces 
came together for learning, fellowship and worship at It’s All About 
Love: A Festival for the Jesus Movement, held at the Baltimore 
Convention Center and Hilton Hotel. The festival featured more than 90 
unique presentations, workshops and plenaries organized around 
evangelism, racial reconciliation and creation care.

On July 11, participants learned about a new story-driven tool to help 
Episcopalians learn about creation care. Authors and developers 
described The Episcopal Church’s upcoming Love God, Love God’s World 
film-based creation care curriculum, which is scheduled to launch around 
Oct. 4, the feast day of St. Francis, the patron saint of ecology.

“We’re able to have difficult conversations pretty well especially when 
we have a common narrative that we can all engage and learn around and 
share around that might not just belong to one of us,” the Rev. 
Stephanie Spellers, canon to the presiding bishop for evangelism, 
reconciliation and creation care, told those gathered.

The curriculum is modeled on Sacred Ground, a 10-part film-based 
discussion that initially was developed as a resource primarily for 
white Episcopalians to learn about the history of racism in the United 
States and how that racism continues to manifest itself today in 
American social interactions and institutions, including churches.

Some 10,000 Episcopalians enrolled in Sacred Ground. Small group 
discussions, a significant time commitment, narrative storytelling and 
sharing one’s personal stories have been proven to lead to 
transformation, Spellers said.

The Rev. Melanie Mullen, director of reconciliation, justice and 
creation care for The Episcopal Church, told Episcopal News Service that 
Love God, Love God’s World curriculum will hopefully be “a 
transformational formation opportunity that will help educate people’s 
hearts and heads around creation care.”

The curriculum will include nine sessions and is intended for adults. 
More information can be found on the Love God, Love God’s World website.

Arun Sharma, a recent graduate of the Oregon Episcopal School in 
Portland, speaks to a July 11 plenary at the It’s All About Love 
Festival, as seen in a video on Facebook.

During the morning plenary on July 11, 18-year-old Arun Sharma said he’s 
“already learned the power of the pulpit” to engage in conversation with 
communities and offer hope.

“You are all leaders in your congregations, in your communities and in 
your dioceses. That’s why you’re all here today, because when you speak, 
people will listen,” Sharma, a recent graduate of the Oregon Episcopal 
School in Portland, said during a session focused on “Young Voices for 
Creation Care.” “With our combined wisdom, knowledge and urgency, trying 
to accelerate the energy transition and fight climate change, we can be 
responsible stewards of our planet. … We can put ourselves at the 
forefront of this fight and we can do it now.”

Sharma spoke along with two other young adults, Adrienne Elliott, 
program coordinator of multicultural ministries and community in the 
Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, and Phoebe Chatfield, program associate 
for creation care and justice for The Episcopal Church. All three 
speakers addressed creation care and climate advocacy from a young adult 
leadership lens.

“Young people cannot do this work alone. … This work of justice and 
creation care must be intergenerational work,” Chatfield said. “We need 
one another, and that includes people of all ages.”

The creation care theme carried through the day’s workshops, including 
one discussing available worship resources, presented by the Rev. Ellis 
Clifton, a member of the Task Force Care of Creation and Environmental 
Racism. Another, titled “Preaching about Climate Change,” was presented 
by the Rev. Leah Schade, associate professor of preaching and worship at 
Lexington Theological Seminary.

And “Good News of Creation Care Through a Global Lens: Global 
Partnerships and the Anglican Communion” featured a discussion between 
the Rev. David Copley, the church’s director of global partnerships and 
mission personnel,  Archbishop Julio Murray, primate of the Anglican 
Church in Central America, and Lynnaia Main, the church’s representative 
to the United Nations.

Climate change and associated natural disasters are impacting people 
worldwide. While speakers addressed the church’s response to climate 
change during It’s All About Love, wildfires continued to burn in 
Canada, and communities in Vermont remained flooded after days of heavy 
rainfall.

A day earlier, an eco-grief prayer space opened to provide a quiet, 
contemplative place for prayer and one-on-one conversations. And on July 
11 a prayer service was offered for anyone experiencing anxiety, loss or 
sadness related to the climate crisis impacting Earth and its inhabitants.

Though the church’s role in providing a sense of hope was made clear, it 
was also clear that the climate crisis is real and the time to act is 
now. The 2022 General Convention, which also met in Baltimore, called 
the church to net carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030.

Largely through power purchase agreements, the Diocese of San Joaquin, 
located in California’s Central Valley, will have transferred 95% of its 
operations to renewable energy by 2024, said the Rt. Rev. David Rice, 
the diocese’s bishop, during a panel discussion on renewable energy and 
the church.

As the climate crisis unfolds, however, how humans respond to the 
fallout is yet unseen.

In the afternoon, the Rev. Richard Acosta Rodríguez, an Episcopal priest 
in the Diocese of Colombia, offered a workshop on Latin American 
eco-theology, in which he used Scripture to make the case that global 
warming is both an environmental and a social crisis because the people 
living in the poorest countries are most likely to suffer from it as 
they continue to lose their homes to climate change.

“If we want to find the experience of God, we need to look at the 
different realities of the poor and of the animals,” Acosta Rodríguez 
said. “Yes, climate change is a theological problem.”

-Shireen Korkzan is a reporter and assistant editor for Episcopal News 
Service. She can be reached at skorkzan at episcopalchurch.org. Melodie 
Woerman, an ENS freelancer, contributed  to this story.

https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2023/07/12/storytelling-underpins-churchs-response-to-climate-change-leaders-say-at-the-close-of-its-all-about-love/

/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*July 16, 1992 */
July 16, 1992: At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Senator and 
Vice-Presidential nominee Al Gore notes:

      “I've spent much of my career working to protect the environment,
    not only because it is vital to the future of my State of Tennessee,
    our country and our earth, but because I believe there is a
    fundamental link between our current relationship to the earth and
    the attitudes that stand in the way of human progress. For
    generations we have believed that we could abuse the earth because
    we were somehow not really connected to it, but now we must face the
    truth. The task of saving the earth's environment must and will
    become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

    “And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the
    earth has led to the ecological crisis, so the equally false
    assumption that we are not connected to each other has led to our
    social crisis.”

    He also declares that President George H. W. Bush and Vice President
    Dan Quayle  “embarrassed our nation when the whole world was asking
    for American leadership in confronting the environmental crisis. It
    is time for them to go.”

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/27161-1

http://www.speeches-usa.com/Transcripts/al_gore-1992dnc.htm

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