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<font size="+1"><i>July 2, 2017</i></font><b><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/29/iran-city-soars-to-record-of-129-degrees-near-hottest-ever-reliably-measured-on-earth/">Iranian
city soars to record 129 degrees: Near hottest on Earth in
modern measurements</a></b><br>
By Jason Samenow (The Washington Post) – A city in southwest Iran
posted the country’s hottest temperature ever recorded Thursday
afternoon, and may have tied the world record for the most extreme
high temperature.<br>
tienne Kapikian, a forecaster at French meteorological agency
MeteoFrance, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/EKMeteo/status/880464412611661824">posted
to Twitter</a> that the city of Ahvaz soared to “53.7°C” (128.7
degrees Fahrenheit). Kapikian said the temperature is a “new
absolute national record of reliable Iranian heat” and that it was
the hottest temperature ever recorded in June over mainland Asia.
Iran’s previous hottest temperature was 127.4.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/OIAW/2017/06/29/DailyHistory.html">Weather
Underground’s website indicates</a> the temperature in Ahvaz
climbed even higher, hitting 129.2 degrees at both 4:51 and 5 p.m.
local time.<br>
If that 129.2 degrees reading is accurate, it would arguably tie the
hottest temperature ever measured on Earth in modern times. […]<br>
The excessively hot air over Ahvaz, a city of 1.1 million people,
felt even more stifling due to high humidity. As the temperature
climbed into the high 120s, the dew point, a measure of humidity,
peaked in the low 70s; a high level for the desert location (due to
moist air flow from the Persian Gulf, to the south). The heat index
— a measure of how hot it feels factoring in the humidity — exceeded
140 degrees. This combination of heat and humidity was so extreme
that it was beyond levels the heat index was designed to compute.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/26/climate-change-could-soon-push-persian-gulf-temperatures-to-lethal-extremes-report-warns/">A
study published in the journal Nature Climate Change in 2015</a>
cautioned that by the end of the century, due to climate change,
temperatures in the Middle East may become too hot for human
survival.<br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/06/iran-city-soars-to-record-129-degrees.html">http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/06/iran-city-soars-to-record-129-degrees.html</a></font><br>
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</b><b> </b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/06/29/germany-massively-weakened-draft-g20-climate-action-plan-appease-trump/">Germany
'massively weakened' draft G20 climate plan to appease Trump</a></b><br>
German chancellor<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatechangenews.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6316d25f7b68919349e54a251&id=9fb5791282&e=5d555e0c1b">
Angela Merkel has said</a> she will go to the floor with Trump
over climate change at next week's G20 meeting in Hamburg <i>(July
7-8th)</i>. <br>
But documents exclusively leaked to Climate Home show <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatechangenews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6316d25f7b68919349e54a251&id=6f334eb207&e=5d555e0c1b">just
how far Germany was prepared to bend </a>in the months before
president Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw the US
from the Paris Agreement, in order to keep him on board.<br>
Ahead of the summit, the German hosts have been working on a climate
action plan, Arthur Neslen reports. But between March and May, they
gutted the draft of ambitious language and opened the door for some
fossil fuels, possibly even some coal projects, to be treated as
"clean" energy.<br>
Since their diplomatic efforts failed, it remains to be seen whether
Germany will stick with the watered-down report, produce a stronger
version to be agreed by the G19 (without the US) or abandon the
initiative altogether....<br>
Climate Home has seen two versions, drafted in March and May of this
year. The latter shows the degree to which the German presidency has
bent to the will of the Trump White House.<br>
Several elements that have been removed in the May draft are:<br>
- A 2025 deadline for the end of fossil fuel subsidies<br>
- References to the risk of "stranded assets"<br>
- A call for "the alignment of public expenditure and infrastructure
planning with the goals of the Paris Agreement"<br>
- A push for carbon pricing<br>
- A commitment to publish mid-century decarbonisation blueprints by
next year<br>
- A pledge to develop a "profound" climate plan for multilateral
development banks<br>
- Seven references to the UN's 2018 review of nationally-determined
contributions<br>
- 11 references to the 2050 mid-century pathway for net zero
emission<br>
- 16 mentions of infrastructure decarbonisation<br>
"The US massively weakened the language in the energy part of the
action plan," one source with knowledge of the negotiations said.
"It pushed for references to so-called 'clean' fossil fuels and made
it less explicit that the energy transition has to be built on
energy efficiency and renewables."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/06/29/germany-massively-weakened-draft-g20-climate-action-plan-appease-trump/">http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/06/29/germany-massively-weakened-draft-g20-climate-action-plan-appease-trump/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.curbed.com/2017/6/30/15894570/extreme-heat-climate-change-cities-nrdc">'Killer
heat' due to climate change may spike in U.S. cities, says study</a></b><br>
Thousands of Americans will die each summer if emissions go
unchecked, according to the NRDC<br>
The record-breaking heat wave that gripped Southwest U.S. last week
was particularly relentless—temperatures in Phoenix topped 115
degrees Fahrenheit for five days in a row. The extreme heat was not
just uncomfortable or inconvenient, it quickly transformed the city
into a deadly landscape: Hospitals reported treating people for
third-degree burns and severe dehydration as temperatures hovered in
the triple digits well into the night. A total of 12 people died
from heat last week just in Phoenix.<br>
The most worrying thing about the unusually high temperatures that
sizzled the Southwest last week was that they're not all that
unusual anymore. A new study by the Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC) shows the direct correlation between climate change,
extreme heat, and summertime deaths. Heat-proofing cities and
curbing emissions by adhering to the Paris agreement, it argues,
could help the U.S. save thousands of lives in the near future.<br>
"This report carries a dire warning: Reneging on our climate
commitments could cause tens of thousands of Americans to die," says
Juanita Constible, special projects director in NRDC's Climate &
Clean Air program. "If carbon pollution isn't reined in, climate
change will continue superheating summer with terrible consequences
for public health in some of our biggest cities."<br>
The study looks at the number of deaths on "dangerous summer days"
in 45 U.S. cities with a population of one million or more. If
climate change goes unchecked, about 150 Americans will die daily
each summer due to extreme heat by 2040, with about 29,850
summertime deaths each year by the end of the century. That's double
the number of homicides the U.S. experiences annually today....<br>
...Cities can combat extreme heat by rolling out simple, effective
solutions, according to the NRDC report: Planting more trees,
painting roofs white, using alternatives to asphalt, building
structures that don't act like giant magnifying glasses. But since
the fastest-growing contributor to climate change is transportation,
this is where the decrease in emissions really needs to occur. And
of course, more hot days means more people running their air
conditioners, putting more stress on an already overtaxed grid
(which is likely running on fossil fuels that make climate change
worse), so any switch to renewable energy generation helps.<br>
If all 331 U.S. mayors who have pledged to uphold the Paris accord
follow through with their climate commitments, it will not only make
their neighborhoods more livable but also avoid needless deaths.
Cooling cities could mean saving lives.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.curbed.com/2017/6/30/15894570/extreme-heat-climate-change-cities-nrdc">https://www.curbed.com/2017/6/30/15894570/extreme-heat-climate-change-cities-nrdc</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/audio/2017/jun/26/timothy-morton-anthropocene-philosopher-podcast">'A
reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the
Anthropocene - podcast</a></b><br>
Timothy Morton wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs,
from the fantasy that we can control the planet to the notion that
we are 'above' other beings. His ideas might sound weird, but
they're catching on<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/audio/2017/jun/26/timothy-morton-anthropocene-philosopher-podcast">https://www.theguardian.com/world/audio/2017/jun/26/timothy-morton-anthropocene-philosopher-podcast</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/15/timothy-morton-anthropocene-philosopher">Read
the text version here</a></b><br>
A reckoning for our species': the philosopher prophet of the
Anthropocene<br>
Timothy Morton wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs,
from the fantasy that we can control the planet to the notion that
we are 'above' other beings. His ideas might sound weird, but
they're catching on. By Alex Blasdel..<br>
<blockquote>Part of what makes Morton popular are his attacks on
settled ways of thinking. His most frequently cited book, Ecology
Without Nature, says we need to scrap the whole concept of
"nature". He argues that a distinctive feature of our world is the
presence of ginormous things he calls "hyperobjects" - such as
global warming or the internet - that we tend to think of as
abstract ideas because we can't get our heads around them, but
that are nevertheless as real as hammers. He believes all beings
are interdependent, and speculates that everything in the universe
has a kind of consciousness, from algae and boulders to knives and
forks. He asserts that human beings are cyborgs of a kind, since
we are made up of all sorts of non-human components; he likes to
point out that the very stuff that supposedly makes us us - our
DNA - contains a significant amount of genetic material from
viruses. He says that we're already ruled by a primitive
artificial intelligence: industrial capitalism. At the same time,
he believes that there are some "weird experiential chemicals" in
consumerism that will help humanity prevent a full-blown
ecological crisis...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/15/timothy-morton-anthropocene-philosopher">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/15/timothy-morton-anthropocene-philosopher</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/hydrogen-fuel-reaches-lift-off/">Hydrogen
fuel reaches lift-off</a></b><br>
Using surplus electricity from renewables to make hydrogen fuel is
starting a new era for all forms of heavy transport.<br>
LONDON, 1 July, 2017 - Trucks, trains and ships using hydrogen fuel
cells for propulsion are no longer just theoretically possible: they
have reached the trial stage.<br>
Decades of work on refining the technology have coincided with the
need to store surplus energy from solar and wind farms when supply
exceeds demand.<br>
And making and storing hydrogen from surplus renewable energy that
can then be used as fuel for vehicles is good economic sense,
according to the Norwegian research group SINTEF. <br>
Fuel cells are much lighter than batteries and with hydrogen fuel
they provide a better method of propulsion for all sorts of freight
and passenger transport. The only residue of burning hydrogen is
water, so there is no pollution.<br>
Top-secret research and development has been going on since 1980 at
SINTEF in an attempt to make fuel cells competitive with the
internal combustion engine for transport. The technology is already
used in some niche markets, but it is now expected to become
mainstream, according to Steffen Møller-Holst, vice-president for
marketing at SINTEF.<br>
SINTEF's enthusiasm for hydrogen is yet another example of what can
be achieved by a judicious mix of ingenuity and the prospect of
unchecked climate change. <font color="#666666"><font size="-1">-</font></font>
Climate News Network<br>
<font size="-2" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/hydrogen-fuel-reaches-lift-off/">http://climatenewsnetwork.net/hydrogen-fuel-reaches-lift-off/</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060705111127/http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008597"><font
size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History July 2, 2006 - from
D.R. Tucker</b></font></a><br>
<font size="+1">July 2, 2006: Notorious climate denier Dick Lindzen
whines, moans, kvetches and complains about "An Inconvenient
Truth" in a piece for the Wall Street Journal's
OpinionJournal.com. <br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060705111127/http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008597">http://web.archive.org/web/20060705111127/http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008597</a>
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