[✔️] September 3, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Burning Man death in mud, rains, flood, Las Vegas floods, Massachusetts Governor showdown, Texas wants textbooks include climate change. 2008 "Drill Baby Drill"

Sun Sep 3 10:30:42 EDT 2023

/*September *//*3, 2023*/

/[ Associated Press ]/
*Death under investigation at Burning Man as flooding strands thousands 
at Nevada festival site*

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in Nevada were investigating a death at 
the site of the Burning Man festival where thousands of attendees 
remained stranded Saturday night as flooding from storms swept through 
the Nevada desert.

Organizers closed vehicular access to the counterculture festival and 
attendees trudged through mud, many barefoot or wearing plastic bags on 
their feet. The revelers were urged to shelter in place and conserve 
food, water and other supplies.

The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said the death happened during the 
event but offered few details as the investigation continued, including 
the identity of the deceased person or the suspected cause of death, 
KNSD-TV reported...
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More than one-half inch of rain is believed to have fallen on Friday at 
the festival site, located about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of 
Reno, the National Weather Service in Reno said. At least another 
quarter of an inch of rain is expected Sunday.

The Reno Gazette Journal reported organizers started rationing ice sales 
and that all vehicle traffic at the sprawling festival grounds had been 
stopped, leaving portable toilets unable to be serviced.

Officials said late Saturday the entrance to the event remained closed, 
and it wasn’t immediately known when celebrants could leave the grounds. 
No driving is allowed except for emergency vehicles and organizers said 
they didn’t have a time yet when the roads would “be dry enough for RVs 
or vehicles to navigate safely.” But if weather conditions improve, they 
were hopeful vehicles could depart by late Monday.
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Many people played beer pong, danced and splashed in standing water, the 
Gazette Journal said. Mike Jed, a festivalgoer, and fellow campers made 
a bucket toilet so people didn’t have to trudge as often through the mud 
to reach the portable toilets.

“If it really turns into a disaster, well, no one is going to have 
sympathy for us,” Jed said. “I mean, it’s Burning Man.”

https://apnews.com/article/burning-man-festival-flooding-entrance-closed-d6cd88ee009c6e1f6d2d92739ec1ca18

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/[ video BBC news reporter on location ]/
*Burning Man: Police investigating death during heavy rain*
By David Willis & Kathryn Armstrong
BBC News, Burning Man in Nevada & London
An investigation has been launched into the death of a person during 
torrential rain at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada.

Thousands of people remain stranded at the event after the bad weather 
turned the ground to deep, slippery mud.

Revellers have been told to take shelter and conserve their food, while 
roads in and out of the event are closed as vehicles can barely move.

Burning Man is held in the Black Rock Desert, which is usually dry and 
dusty.
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The unusual rainstorms came towards the end of the nine-day festival, 
when the biggest crowds arrive to see the grand finale - the burning of 
the giant wooden man.

The worst of the rain has now passed, according to BBC Weather, but 
there is still a risk of some further showers and thunderstorms.

It could be several days before the ground dries up enough for people to 
leave and for this reason, they have been told to conserve their food, 
water and fuel.

The festival's toilets are also out of use, revellers say, because the 
service vehicles cannot drive on the mud to empty them.

According to the sheriff's office, some people who had tried to drive 
out of the festival had instead made the muddy ground even worse.

Festival-goers told the BBC they watched on as some people tried to 
drive away - but they quickly became bogged in the thick clay-like mud.

More than 70,000 people had arrived at the site before it was closed on 
Saturday but the exact number of those still there is unclear.

Some have managed to leave the site, however, American DJ Diplo wrote on 
X, formerly Twitter, that he and comedian Chris Rock walked 5 miles 
(8km) to a road, where they were given a lift by fans.

Others have also had to rely on strangers.

Ashley Smith, who lives in London, told the BBC that he and his friends 
left a lot of their gear behind and walked to the road, where they 
managed to hitchhike to San Francisco. The whole journey took 14 hours.

The event's organisers have arranged for buses to pick people up from 
the road and take them to the city of Reno, more than 100 miles away.

A woman walks through mud using a bin bag at Burning Man in Nevada
Image caption,
Some revellers are using plastic bags to protect their shoes from the 
squelchy mud
Photos show tents partially submerged in muddy flood water.

Milia Nirshberg, 12, who is at the festival with her father for the 
second year running, told the BBC that they had let friends stay in 
their campervan, and were also allowing people to use the van's toilet.

"The people in the tents are having a hard time because it's flooding. 
Since we're in a campervan we're trying to invite people to come stay 
with us because they don't have food or water," she said.

Burning Man is one of America's most well-known arts and culture events. 
Visitors create a temporary city in the middle of the desert, and are 
expected to be largely self-sufficient while they are there.

"We have come here knowing this is a place where we bring everything we 
need to survive," said Burning Man in a statement. "It is because of 
this that we are all well-prepared for a weather event like this."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66700006

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[ Related -- the same sky-river of rain ]
*Las Vegas is Sinking Again! Flash flooding in the streets and casinos 
of Las Vegas Strip, Nevada*
Wild WeatherUS
Sep 2, 2023  LAS VEGAS STRIP
Fast-moving thunderstorms swept across the Las Vegas valley on Friday, 
causing flash flooding along parts of the Las Vegas Strip as the region 
braced for more rain into Saturday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV3JW1K5S_Y

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/[ Massachusetts political gathering dueling hysterics shows how 
rational discourse is difficult ]/*
"I Don't Mind If You Die": Wealthy Donors Freak Out At Climate Defiance 
Protesters
*The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
Aug 31, 2023  U.S. News & Events
A group of ten climate activists from Climate Defiance, a youth-led 
disruptive action organization, disrupted a private fundraiser for Gov. 
Maura Healey in Nantucket, urging her to halt the construction of new 
fossil fuel projects across Massachusetts. Similar to Extinction 
Rebellion's demands, the activists heckled Healey during the event, 
asking if she would commit to stopping fossil fuel projects. Although 
Healey didn't directly respond to the question, she spoke about her 
lawsuit against ExxonMobil for misleading investors about climate change 
risks. The activists unfurled banners reading "end fossil fuels" and 
"business as usual is a climate disaster," prompting heated exchanges 
with fundraiser attendees before leaving peacefully as Nantucket police 
officers arrived.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDAGPAGT8Y*
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/[ This will be a very interesting information battle   ]/
*Texas eighth graders will soon be required to learn about climate 
change. But not without a showdown over textbooks.*
Texas is one of the few states that don’t already require eighth graders 
to be taught about climate change. That’ll change next fall.
BY ERIN DOUGLAS
AUG. 29, 2023
Starting next year, Texas will require that eighth graders learn about 
climate change as part of a science curriculum overhaul approved two 
years ago.

But which textbooks they’ll use to learn about it will largely depend on 
the state board charged with setting curriculum standards, and questions 
during a Tuesday meeting to hear testimony on the proposed teaching 
materials showed that the 15-member body — which has taken a rightward 
turn since 2021 — could make its decision along partisan lines.

One Republican member of the State Board of Education asked whether 
students ought to learn about the benefits of burning fossil fuels. 
Meanwhile, Democrats advocated for texts that emphasized the scientific 
consensus on climate change.
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The board’s decision could impact how science is taught in Texas 
classrooms for years. And while school districts aren’t required to use 
board-approved textbooks, many do so for the assurance that those 
materials meet the state’s standards.

At least one Republican board member, Will Hickman, who represents 
Houston, indicated that he’d advocate for instructional materials that 
do not include climate change solutions in science courses. He argued 
those solutions would be a better fit in social studies.
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Another Republican SBOE member, Pat Hardy, who represents Tarrant and 
Parker counties and parts of Dallas County, has previously said she 
wants children to learn about the good fossil fuels have done for human 
society, such as helping the Texas economy grow. Texas is the nation’s 
largest oil and gas producing state.
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“We absolutely should say humans do impact climate change,” said Marisa 
Perez-Diaz, a Democrat who represents San Antonio on the board, in an 
interview with The Texas Tribune. “It doesn’t have to be political — it 
is just fact. But I think because sometimes we get into these 
culture-war conversations, it blurs what should and shouldn’t go into 
the standards.”
Although all the textbooks that have been submitted for approval explain 
that climate change is happening and “can” be due to human activity, not 
all of them explicitly say that human activities are the primary reason 
or include information on how to mitigate climate change. In other 
words, some of the textbooks don’t say that humans will need to quickly 
and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions, largely by phasing out 
fossil fuels, to avoid the most devastating impacts of climate change, 
as international climate scientists have long warned.
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“Climate change might be politically controversial, but the scientific 
consensus is clear,” said Carisa Lopez, a senior political director for 
Texas Freedom Network, during a Tuesday press conference. “It’s past 
time for the board to be clear about textbooks: that textbooks in public 
schools should teach the truth.”
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One 11th-grade student who testified during the Tuesday meeting, 
Marygrace Beinke, said none of her teachers have ever told her that 
climate change is a hoax or that evolution isn’t real. She emphasized to 
the board that all students in Texas should be given the opportunity to 
learn about those topics, which she said have reinforced her faith in God.

“I’ve never felt closer to God as when I’ve been learning about how 
fragile, beautiful and complex our Earth is,” Beinke told the board.
Geoff Carlisle, who taught eighth-grade science at a KIPP school in 
Austin for a decade, said in an interview with the Tribune that like 
Beinke’s teachers, he taught his students about climate change, even 
though it was not required by the state’s standards. Carlisle 
incorporated information about climate science into his own lesson plans 
— something he said most teachers in Texas don’t likely have the time or 
resources to do.

He said many of his students understood that climate change was 
happening and that it might have something to do with burning fossil 
fuels, but they could not explain the greenhouse gas effect or what role 
burning fossil fuels had in it. He wants the state to go further and 
require climate science to be taught at all levels. Other states, such 
as New Jersey, have such standards.
“When I think about the alarming emergency that our students are going 
to face or are facing, it’s unethical to not be talking about this in 
all grade levels,” Carlisle said. “Our students deserve the right to 
understand what’s happening.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/29/texas-climate-change-textbooks/

/[The news archive - looking back at origins of "Drill Baby, Drill!"   ( 
not drool baby, drool ) ]/
/*September 3, 2008 */
September 3, 2008: In his address to the Republican National Convention 
in St. Paul, Minnesota, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael 
Steele blows off concerns about climate change by proclaiming: "Drill, 
baby, drill!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdSsOnVWhic

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