[✔️] June 14, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Montana trial, Gen Z v corporations, Beckwith on Canadian smoke, Serious apocalyptic studies, ALLFED, Bush burns greens in 2001

[Richard Pauli]

/*June*//*14, 2023*/

/[  Yesterday was their 2nd day,  more to come ]
/*The first-ever constitutional climate trial in the U.S. - led by 
Montana youth *
*https://fishercourtreporting.zoom.us/j/89337437466*
*WATCH TRIAL *LIVE* ONLINE! THIS LINK IS LIVE 6/12-6/16 AND 6/19-6/23, 
9AM-5PM MT*
*The Live connection 
*https://fishercourtreporting.zoom.us/j/89337437466#success/
/https://www.youthvgov.org/held-v-montana

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/[ Associated Press and Fortune magazine bring best analysis of their 
strategy ]/
*Gen Z climate activists from 5 to 22 years old are suing Montana for 
‘choosing corporations over the needs of their citizens’*
BYMATTHEW BROWN, AMY BETH HANSON AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
June 12, 2023
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Experts for the state are expected to downplay the impacts of climate 
change and what one of them described as Montana’s “miniscule” 
contributions to global greenhouse gas emissions.

Lawyers for Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, a Republican, tried 
repeatedly to get the case thrown out over procedural issues. In a June 
6 ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected the latest attempt to dismiss 
it, saying justices were not inclined to intervene just days before the 
start of a trial that has been “literally years in the making.”

One reason the case may have made it so far in Montana, when dozens of 
similar cases elsewhere have been rejected, is the state’s unusually 
protective 1972 Constitution, which requires officials to maintain a 
“clean and healthful environment.” Only a few other states, including 
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York, have similar environmental 
protections in their constitutions.

In prior rulings, State District Judge Judge Kathy Seeley significantly 
narrowed the scope of the case. Even if the plaintiffs prevail, Seeley 
has said she would not order officials to formulate a new approach to 
address climate change.

Instead, the judge could issue what’s called a “declaratory judgment” 
saying officials violated the state Constitution. That would set a new 
legal precedent of courts weighing in on cases typically left to the 
government’s legislative and executive branches, environmental law 
expert Jim Huffman said.

Still, such a ruling would have no direct impact on industry, said 
Huffman, dean emeritus at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon...
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A key question for the trial will be how forcefully the state contests 
established science on human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, said 
Jonathan Adler, environmental law professor at Case Western Reserve 
University in Cleveland. If the state doesn’t deny that science, the 
trial will deal with the question of whether courts can tell governments 
to address climate change.

“I’m skeptical about that,” Adler said. “It really pushes the boundaries 
of what courts are capable of and effective at addressing.”..
https://fortune.com/2023/06/12/montana-gen-z-climate-activists-sue-state-declaratory-judgment/



/[ Beckwith on Canadian smoke ]/
*Cascading Feedbacks and the Science Behind the Dystopian Orange Skies 
in NYC*
Paul Beckwith
Jun 8, 2023
Air quality in Ottawa was excellent today. The Air Quality Index (AQI) 
was 14, with PM2.5 count at 3 microgram per cubic meter.

Yesterday the AQI was over 500 in Ottawa, with PM2.5 (Particulate Matter 
2.5 micron and smaller) reaching a peak of 511 microgram per cubic meter 
overnight (air quality worsens at night since it’s colder). Thus, 
yesterday PM2.5 levels were extremely hazardous, and 170 times worse 
than todays normal levels. Two days ago the level was 270 micrograms per 
cubic meter, also very bad.

A low pressure region off the eastern coast drew the air in a 
counterclockwise direction, picking up the smoke from 150 wildfires in 
Quebec (110 out of control) and sending it southward hitting Ottawa and 
then moving on to the USA.

As this horrible, smoggy, yellowish orangish dystopian air moved 
southeasterly it hit much of the eastern USA, including the major cities 
New York City, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, etc. causing record 
levels of air pollution.

Interestingly, the atmosphere seemed to channel the wildfire smoke into 
narrower corridors in the atmosphere over NYC, since the density of the 
smoke and the opacity of the air (orange tinge) seemed extra dystopian 
in NYC compared to that in Ottawa nearer the source of the wildfires.

In this video, I focus on the science of how climate change caused this 
dystopian event. I also discuss how vast regions of northern Canada, 
across the breath of the country, have had record high temperatures 
throughout May, with exceptionally minimal rainfall. A year ago a 
powerful derecho (straight line winds) levelled many trees and branches, 
and this dead wood provided perfect fuel for these fires.

Remember the ice storm that Ontario and Quebec had in early May? This 
caused 1.2 million Quebecers to lose power, mostly from falling branches 
and trees laden with ice. With the record spring heat and lack of 
rainfall since then, these dead branches and trees act as perfect fuel 
for creating record setting wildfires.

This is yet another example of cumulative bad stuff leading to cascading 
severe events in our climate casino.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8j4YuLwS0



/[ Serious Apocalyptic studies - "Prevention does not always work" 
mentions Edward Munch and The Scream - but really it's food that is the 
"pinch point" for many catastrophes ]/
*Florian Ulrich Jehn: Practical Approaches to Allow Your Society to 
Survive the End-Times*
Centre for Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Studies
June 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/@CAPASHeidelberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBjsdRJ27w

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/[ research, resilience and response ]/
*ALLFED *
"Feeding everyone no matter what"
https://allfed.info/



/[ Book about how fire defines our era , from the pen of a fire scholar ]/
*The Pyrocene**
**How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next*
by Stephen J. Pyne (Author)
August 2022
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780520391635
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520391635/the-pyrocene



/[The news archive - looking back at how Bush's greens quickly died ]/
/*June 14, 2001*/
June 14, 2001: In his nationally syndicated column, Robert Novak writes:

    "For weeks, a contingent of greens inside the administration has
    been pressing the president to look more and more like Al Gore. Bush
    has been forced to fight his own advisers in order to maintain his
    rejection of the Kyoto treaty and his call for more science to
    determine the true causes of climate change.

    "The last such encounter was over substantial government spending to
    combat global warming, proposed in his [June 11] speech. According
    to administration sources, Deputy National Security Adviser Gary
    Edson inserted the money figures on his own initiative. A veteran of
    the Reagan and first Bush administrations, Edson, under the new
    president, has established himself as a formidable bureaucratic
    infighter and a leading proponent of a forward position on global
    warming.

    "His ally has been John Bridgeland, deputy domestic policy adviser
    in the White House, who has coordinated the task force on global
    warming. In private meetings, Bridgeland has argued that giant
    industrial concerns are enthusiastic about plans to voluntarily
    reduce carbon dioxide emissions in tacit fulfillment of the Kyoto
    accord.

    "Edson and Bridgeland are not alone as middle-level staffers
    confronting solid opposition from on high. Environmental Protection
    Administrator Christie Whitman has pressed for control of CO2
    emissions from her first day in office, and she is supported by
    Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill (called 'Mr. Global Warming' by
    dismissive congressional conservatives) and Bridgeland's boss,
    domestic policy chief Josh Bolten.

    "Behind closed doors of the task force, they urged Bush to embrace
    the global warmers and come out for caps on CO2 emissions. An e-mail
    floating around the capital last week listed a proposed schedule
    that would finally eliminate these emissions by the year 2050. White
    House aides, with some passion, denounced this report as a fantasy.
    However, other administration officials contend that at one point, a
    draft of the president's speech did call for voluntary CO2 emission
    controls as the message he would carry to Europe.

    "The Bush greens ultimately failed. In task force meetings so
    restricted that the senior staffers of Cabinet members were not
    permitted to attend, the CO2 caps were removed after considerable
    debate. That retained the president's renouncing of the Kyoto
    accord, contending that its emission targets are 'arbitrary and not
    based on science.'"

    In his 2003 book "The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George
    W. Bush," former Bush administration speechwriter David Frum notes
    that "bureaucratic rivals" of Edson and Bridgeland leaked the story
    of their defeat to Novak out of spite.

http://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/Novak-President-not-giving-in-to-his-greens-2025433.php


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