[✔️] April 11, 2024 Global Warming News | Go to Minnesota, Swiss pensioners.., Big oil captures, WAPO tips, Big Oil pays, 2010 Krugman

[Richard Pauli]

/*April *//*11, 2024*/

/[ In our North American future, where can we go?   Answer, Minnesota! ]/
*Minnesota 2C Climate Outlook: NCA5 Update*
American
Apr 11, 2024
Minnesota has an interestingly varied climate outlook, with regions of 
high change and regions of wonderful stability.  Let's walk through the 
state, we'll identify challenges and opportunities for the distinct 
regions forming up in this state-level outlook.
      Here's a link to the NCA5
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vSXKYR_yak/
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/[ DW news explains why this is a very big deal]/
*Swiss pensioners win climate victory in Strasbourg | DW News*
DW News
Apr 9, 2024  #humanrights #climatechange #echr
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Swiss 
pensioners that their government's failure to act on climate change 
violated their human rights.  It's the first time the court has accepted 
such an argument and opens the door to more legal challenges. But it 
wasn't all wins for activists -- the judges in Strasbourg threw out a 
similar case brought by young Portuguese climate campaigners on 
procedural grounds.  Another case brought by a French former mayor was 
also ruled inadmissible. We spoke to DW Correspondent Bernd Riegert in 
Strasbourg and to our Senior Climate Reporter Louise Osborne in Berlin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y8mmXS4H8I


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//[ WaPo learning in YouTube ]/
*WATCH LIVE: This is Climate: Tipping Points Summit*
Washington Post Live
Started streaming 52 minutes ago
Humanity is entering a new climate era. The peril and promise of 
record-breaking temperatures, unprecedented investments in clean energy 
and a growing public recognition of the effects of global warming are 
shaping the future of the planet. On Thursday, April 11, join Washington 
Post Live for a compelling and high-powered summit with policymakers, 
innovators and civic leaders examining the tipping points at this 
critical moment.

Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, 
featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business 
leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing 
issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From 
one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, 
Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage. 
Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ekQpuqjMc

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/[ disturbing danger ]/
*Big Oil is quietly paying state legal officials to kill climate litigation*
Honolulu's climate lawsuit is an existential threat to Big Oil. So 
they’re buying Republican attorneys general to defend them in court.
ARIELLE SAMUELSON AND EMILY ATKIN
APR 11, 2024
At the Society of Environmental Journalists conference this year, we 
heard about a promising legal case that experts believe actually has a 
real shot at holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate 
change.

City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP is the first climate liability 
lawsuit against fossil fuel companies to be greenlit for trial, expected 
later this year. In it, Honolulu accuses several oil and gas giants of 
misleading its citizens about the environmental consequences of fossil 
fuels for decades, and seeks financial compensation for past, present, 
and future damages to the region.

As a trial comes closer, however, we learned that the lawsuit is facing 
more and more serious obstacles. Most notably, last week, a plethora of 
fossil fuel-funded groups–including the American Petroleum 
Institute–filed petitions asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and 
stop the trial from moving forward.

In addition, a whopping 20 Republican state attorneys general also filed 
a petition asking the Supreme Court to do the same. So it’s not just 
industry groups: nearly half of the country’s chief legal officers are 
asking the nation’s top court to intervene in a local government’s 
climate lawsuit.
*RAGA: A legal group fueled by oil and gas*
To understand how these 20 state attorneys general are connected to the 
fossil fuel industry, you first must understand The Republican Attorneys 
General Association, known as RAGA.

“RAGA is a pay to play group,” says Lisa Graves, the executive director 
of the watchdog group True North Research. “It was created to allow 
industries to wash money into RAGA, which RAGA then uses to fuel the 
election campaigns and ambitions of AGs.”...
Among RAGA’s donors are Koch Industries, Exxon, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, 
the American Petroleum Institute, and American Fuel and Petrochemical 
Manufacturers (AFPM)—and these donors have pushed AGs to adopt an 
aggressive anti-climate strategy...
*RAGA’s goal: industry capture of the U.S. legal system*
In 2021, 20 AGs sued the EPA to block its power plant emissions rules, 
which Thompson specifically called out in the panel. West Virginia v. 
EPA ultimately went to the Supreme Court, whose ruling significantly 
decreased the EPA’s authority to regulate emissions.
That network of industry influence has purchased the current 
anti-regulatory legal environment—and RAGA plays an essential role. 
"These AGs are willing to let the planet burn as they continue to take 
funding through RAGA from this industry," Graves said...

Former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Michael Wilson went one step further 
in describing the effect of RAGA in fighting climate change.

“The AGs are violating their public duty to protect the future of their 
citizenry,” he said. “This partisan political use of the rule of law is 
what has caused the judicial branch of government to descend to its 
lowest level of public approval in recorded history.”
https://heated.world/p/big-oil-is-quietly-paying-state-legal

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/[ Washington Post sponsors talking heads ]
/*WATCH LIVE: This is Climate: Tipping Points Summit*
Washington Post Live
Started streaming 4-11-24
Humanity is entering a new climate era. The peril and promise of 
record-breaking temperatures, unprecedented investments in clean energy 
and a growing public recognition of the effects of global warming are 
shaping the future of the planet. On Thursday, April 11, join Washington 
Post Live for a compelling and high-powered summit with policymakers, 
innovators and civic leaders examining the tipping points at this 
critical moment.

Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, 
featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business 
leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing 
issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From 
one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, 
Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage. 
Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

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/[The news archive - Krugman observation ]/
/*April 11, 2010 */

April 11, 2010: In the New York Times Magazine, Paul Krugman observes:

"If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless 
campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to 
do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse 
gases. If we continue with business as usual, they say, we are facing a 
rise in global temperatures that will be little short of apocalyptic. 
And to avoid that apocalypse, we have to wean our economy from the use 
of fossil fuels, coal above all.

"But is it possible to make drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions 
without destroying our economy?

"Like the debate over climate change itself, the debate over climate 
economics looks very different from the inside than it often does in 
popular media. The casual reader might have the impression that there 
are real doubts about whether emissions can be reduced without 
inflicting severe damage on the economy. In fact, once you filter out 
the noise generated by special-interest groups, you discover that there 
is widespread agreement among environmental economists that a 
market-based program to deal with the threat of climate change — one 
that limits carbon emissions by putting a price on them — can achieve 
large results at modest, though not trivial, cost."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.jU0.8b4R.mFQoKbEcfL5W&smid=url-share



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