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<font size="+1"><i>July 2, 2018</i></font><br>
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[DALLAS heat forcast]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2018/07/01/nbc5-forecast-hottest-weather-far-summer">NBC5
Forecast: Hottest weather so far this summ</a></b>er<br>
While scattered thunderstorms did pop up Sunday afternoon, they all
stayed north and west of DFW, and will dissipate by sundown. But
there was no rain in the Metroplex, where DFW Airport hit 101, the
hottest day so far this summer. DFW will remain hot and steamy the
next few days with temperatures topping out at or above 100 both
Monday and Tuesday.<br>
There could be some scattered showers or thunderstorms moving into
the area again for the 4th of July. At this time, it appears the
best chance of rain will be south and east of DFW, and local
fireworks displays should go off unscathed.<br>
As easterly flow continues, low chances for isolated storms will
continue through the following weekend...<br>
MONDAY: Mostly sunny and hot. High: 101. Wind: S 10 mph.<br>
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny and hot. Low: 79. High: 101. Wind: S 10 mph.<br>
WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy and warm, with a 30% chance for scattered
showers or thunderstorms. Low: 79. High: 94. Wind: SE 10 mph.<br>
THURSDAY: Partly cloudy and warm. Low: 77. High: 95. Wind: E 10 mph.<br>
FRIDAY: Partly cloudy and warm, with a 20% chance for scattered
thunderstorms. Low: 76. High: 94. Wind: E 5-10 mph.<br>
SATURDAY: Partly cloudy and warm, with a 20% chance for scattered
thunderstorms. Low: 77. High: 94. Wind: SE 5-10 mph.<br>
SUNDAY: Partly cloudy and warm, with a 20% chance for scattered
thunderstorms. Low: 77. High: 95. Wind: SE 10 mph.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2018/07/01/nbc5-forecast-hottest-weather-far-summer">https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2018/07/01/nbc5-forecast-hottest-weather-far-summer</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Highest risk in the heat of the night]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wcvb.com/article/heat-wave-ahead-for-weekend/21932969?src=app">Heat
wave in Boston; Multiple days over 90 degrees expected</a></b><br>
High heat expected to last through July Fourth holiday<br>
NEEDHAM, Mass. <br>
It's official. Boston is in a heat wave.<br>
Sunday marked the third day Boston hit 90 degrees or more, making it
an official heat wave for the city.<br>
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh declared a heat emergency for the city of
Boston and ordered the activation of Boston Centers for Youth and
Families cooling centers which allows anyone to swim in one of the
city's 17 pools, or cool off inside with air conditioning at a
cooling center.<br>
For area's west of the city, it could feel as hot as 108 degrees on
Sunday. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wcvb.com/article/heat-wave-ahead-for-weekend/21932969?src=app">http://www.wcvb.com/article/heat-wave-ahead-for-weekend/21932969?src=app</a></font><br>
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<br>
[aka collusion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/emails-reveal-close-rapport-between-top-epa-officials-those-they-regulate/2018/07/01/6c5a62b6-7642-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.f156e93c772c">Emails
reveal close rapport between top EPA officials, those they
regulate</a></b><br>
By Juliet Eilperin<br>
On the morning of April 1, 2017, Environmental Protection Agency
appointee Mandy Gunasekara welcomed to her office a team of
lobbyists representing the makers of portable generators.<br>
For months, the Portable Generators Manufacturers' Association had
been trying to block federal regulations aimed at making its product
less dangerous. The machines - which are used by many Americans
during power outages after severe storms - emit more carbon monoxide
than cars and cause about 70 accidental deaths a year.<br>
Just before President Barack Obama left office, the Consumer Product
Safety Commission had voted to force the industry to make generators
that emit lower levels of the poisonous gas. Now industry lobbyists
were warning Gunasekara of "a potential turf battle . . . brewing"
between the commission and the EPA, which traditionally regulates
air emissions from engines.<br>
Less than six weeks later, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt sent a
letter informing Ann Marie Buerkle, the commission's acting chair,
that his agency had primary jurisdiction over the issue. Just over
three months later, Buerkle delayed regulations that had been almost
15 years in the making and opted instead for voluntary standards.<br>
The communication between the lobbyists and one of Pruitt's top
policy aides - detailed in emails the agency provided to Democratic
Sens. Bill Nelson (Fla.) and Thomas R. Carper (Del.) - open a window
on the often close relationship between the EPA's political
appointees and those they regulate. Littered among tens of thousands
of emails that have surfaced in recent weeks, largely through a
public records lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club, are dozens of
requests for regulatory relief by industry players. Many have been
granted.<br>
In March 2017, for example, a lobbyist for Waste Management, one of
the nation's largest trash companies, wrote to two top EPA
appointees seeking reconsideration of "two climate-related rules"
affecting business. (Another lobbyist "sings your praises," she told
the pair.) The EPA subsequently delayed a rule targeting methane
emissions from landfills until at least 2020.<br>
- - - - <br>
On some occasions, top EPA officials pushed back on the idea that
they would automatically grant industry's requests: In a sharply
worded Aug. 21 email, Dravis told a lobbyist from ConocoPhillips
that "no one committed" to relaxing a rule on small incinerators at
the oil and gas company's request. Career staff, she added, had
raised concerns about the move.<br>
And while the vast majority of the emails focused on industry
concerns, Pruitt aides also tried to reach out to environmentalists,
including Natural Resources Defense Council attorney John Walke and
Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp.<br>
Walke, however, was unimpressed. "Scott Pruitt is at EPA only to
serve the interests of polluting industries," he said when asked
about the overture. "A few token meetings with environmental groups
cannot hide his destructive agenda.''<br>
- - - - -<br>
Despite aggressive public-information campaigns by federal and local
officials on that point, carbon monoxide poisoning incidents remain
a serious problem. The Florida Poison Information Center Network
recorded 509 patients last year, compared with 327 in 2016 and 276
in 2015.<br>
After Hurricane Irma, Nelson said in a statement, "at least 12
people died and many more were injured by carbon monoxide poisoning
from portable generators in Florida."<br>
Nelson went on to accuse Buerkle and Pruitt of colluding "with
industry and outside lobbyists to actually kill mandatory safety
standards. It's one of the worst examples of the fox guarding the
henhouse I have seen, and it's just shameful."<br>
<font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/emails-reveal-close-rapport-between-top-epa-officials-those-they-regulate/2018/07/01/6c5a62b6-7642-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.f156e93c772c">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/emails-reveal-close-rapport-between-top-epa-officials-those-they-regulate/2018/07/01/6c5a62b6-7642-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?utm_term=.f156e93c772c</a></font><br>
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<br>
[City scenarios]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sdg.iisd.org/news/c40-uccrn-and-partners-quantify-sound-alarm-on-climate-threats-to-urban-residents/">C40,
UCCRN and Partners Quantify, Sound Alarm on Climate Threats to
Urban Residents</a></b><br>
19 June 2018: Cities and partners have issued a joint technical
report, highlighting data analyses and case studies developed by the
Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN). It calls attention to
urbanization trends, particularly in Asia and Africa, and
illustrates the breadth and magnitude of climate change impacts on
cities.<br>
The first global-scale assessment of its kind, the report titled,
'The Future We Don't Want: How Climate Change Could Impact the
World's Greatest Cities,' reviews both direct and indirect climate
change impacts across six themes: 1) heat extremes; 2) heat extremes
and poverty; 3) water availability; 4) food security; 5) sea level
rise and coastal flooding; and 6) sea level rise and energy systems.
The report notes that cities will most commonly encounter and have
to manage risks in these areas.<br>
The analysis compares numbers of people who currently face threats
in each area to those estimated in the 2050s. It shows that by
mid-century, climate change could pose an existential threat to
people in cities around the world, noting that global average
temperatures are already 1C higher than preindustrial levels...<br>
- - - - -<br>
Key findings estimate that by 2050, over 1.6 billion urban dwellers
in 970 cities will regularly experience heat extremes, a 700%
increase compared to today. At the same time, the report finds that
up to 650 million people across 500 cities will be at risk of water
shortages. It notes that these impacts will disproportionately
impact poor residents. The publication warns that rising sea levels
threaten not only the 800 million people living in 570 cities, but
also their power supplies. The report estimates that power plants
capable of generating nearly 183,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity,
enough energy to power nearly 90% of homes in the US, will be
vulnerable by 2050.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://sdg.iisd.org/news/c40-uccrn-and-partners-quantify-sound-alarm-on-climate-threats-to-urban-residents/">http://sdg.iisd.org/news/c40-uccrn-and-partners-quantify-sound-alarm-on-climate-threats-to-urban-residents/</a></font><br>
- - - <br>
[The full report]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://c40-production-images.s3.amazonaws.com/other_uploads/images/1789_Future_We_Don%27t_Want_Report_1.4_hi-res_120618.original.pdf">THE
FUTURE WE DON'T WANT</a></b><br>
How Climate Change Could Impact the World's Greatest Cities<br>
Summary:<br>
<blockquote>By the 2050s,<br>
1. Over 1.6 billion people, living in more than 970 cities, will
face sustained extreme heat conditions<br>
of over 35C (95F) for 3 consecutive months.<br>
2. Nearly 215 million highly vulnerable people, living in poverty
in more than 230 cities, will face sustained<br>
extreme heat conditions over 35C (95F) for 3 consecutive months.<br>
3. Over 650 million people, living in more than 500 cities, may
face at least a 10 percent decline in<br>
freshwater availability from streamflow.<br>
4. Over 2.5 billion people, living in more that 1,600 cities, may
face at least a 10 percent decline in<br>
national yields of major crops.<br>
5. Over 800 million people, living in more than 570 coastal
cities, will be at risk of coastal flooding from at<br>
least 0.5 metres of sea level rise.<br>
6. Over 450 million people will be living in more than 230 cities,<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://c40-production-images.s3.amazonaws.com/other_uploads/images/1789_Future_We_Don%27t_Want_Report_1.4_hi-res_120618.original.pdf">https://c40-production-images.s3.amazonaws.com/other_uploads/images/1789_Future_We_Don't_Want_Report_1.4_hi-res_120618.original.pdf</a></font><br>
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<br>
[time to stockpile wild rice]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062018/enbridge-tar-sands-oil-pipeline-minnesota-tribes-wetlands-watershed-route-approval">Controversial
Enbridge Line 3 Oil Pipeline Approved in Minnesota Wild Rice
Region</a></b><br>
The new pipeline, opposed by Native American tribes, would increase
the flow of Canadian tar sands crude oil, a contributor to climate
change.<br>
Phil McKenna<br>
BY PHIL MCKENNA<br>
In a unanimous decision, state regulators in Minnesota approved a
controversial new pipeline that will increase the flow of tar sands
crude oil from Canada to refineries in the United States.<br>
The long-anticipated ruling is a victory for Canadian pipeline owner
Enbridge and a significant blow to environmental and Native American
advocates who opposed the pipeline through northern Minnesota in a
region rich in wetlands and wild rice lakes...<br>
While the Enbridge route would skirt the reservations, it would
still pass through areas where tribal members harvest wild rice...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062018/enbridge-tar-sands-oil-pipeline-minnesota-tribes-wetlands-watershed-route-approval">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062018/enbridge-tar-sands-oil-pipeline-minnesota-tribes-wetlands-watershed-route-approval</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Opinion ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/opinion/political-parties-climate.htm">Why
Are So Many Political Parties Blowing Up? (Part 1)</a></b><br>
By Thomas L. Friedman<br>
Jun 26 2018<br>
The U.S. Democrats are fractured between a Bernie Sanders
quasi-socialist wing and a center-left wing, but are glued together
for now - thank goodness - by the overriding need to defeat Trump.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel took four months to form a barely
coherent governing coalition, after her ruling party got hammered in
the last election - and that fragile coalition may soon implode over
immigration tensions. And French President Emmanuel Macron leads a
centrist party that did not exist three years ago.<br>
As Quartz noted, the French Socialist Party "went from running the
country to receiving just 6 percent of the vote in the first round
of presidential elections last year." In the Netherlands, the Labor
Party has been decimated, going from 25 percent of the vote in 2012,
and governing in a coalition, to just 6 percent in last year's
general election.<br>
What's going on? My short answer: climate change - but not just the
one you think. We're actually going through three climate changes at
once, and together they are reshaping the ecosystems of work,
learning, geopolitics, ethics and community in ways that parties
built on our old left-right binary choices can no longer easily
contain.<br>
How so? We're going through a change in the climate of the climate:
We're going from later to now. When I was growing up in Minnesota,
later was when I could clean that lake, save that forest or rescue
that endangered owl. Today later is officially over. Later will now
be too late, so whatever you're going to save, save it now. That's a
climate change...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/opinion/political-parties-climate.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/opinion/political-parties-climate.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[from the authoritative source]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/06/30-years-after-hansens-testimony/">30
years after Hansen's testimony</a></b><br>
Filed under: Climate modelling Climate Science Greenhouse gases -
gavin @ 21 June 2018<br>
<blockquote>"The greenhouse effect is here." <br>
– Jim Hansen, 23rd June 1988, Senate Testimony<br>
</blockquote>
The first transient climate projections using GCMs are 30 years old
this year, and they have stood up remarkably well.<br>
We've looked at the skill in the Hansen et al (1988) (pdf)
simulations before (back in 2008), and we said at the time that the
simulations were skillful and that differences from observations
would be clearer with a decade or two's more data. Well, another
decade has passed!<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/06/30-years-after-hansens-testimony/">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2018/06/30-years-after-hansens-testimony/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate Fiction list 200 titles]<br>
Listopia<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/36205.Cli_Fi_Climate_Change_Fiction">Cli-Fi:
Climate Change Fiction</a></b><br>
This list collects fiction books that deal with climate change.
Examples are Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" or "The Aviator" by
Gareth Renowden. More recently, Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight
Behavior" and Nathaniel Rich's "Odds Against Tomorrow" have achieved
the status of best-selling cli-fi novels, demonstrating the
differences between cli-fi and science fiction: cli-fi is more
literary and more centered on human psychology...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/36205.Cli_Fi_Climate_Change_Fiction">https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/36205.Cli_Fi_Climate_Change_Fiction</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - July 2, 2007 - from
D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 2, 2007: Chris Mooney's book "Storm World: Hurricanes,
Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming" is released.<br>
<blockquote>Storm World contains a fair amount of history as well as
a fair amount of technical discussion of hurricane science, and
what surprised me the most was the fact that, apparently, we still
aren't entirely sure about what causes hurricanes in the first
place. We aren't completely clueless, of course, but there's still
an awful lot we don't know. I guess I had always vaguely assumed
that we had long since figured out the fundamental dynamics, given
the years of hurricane flights and satellite photos and so forth
that we've collected. But no. And needless to say, without that
it's hard to say for sure what effect a warmer ocean will have on
hurricane frequency and intensity. It's probably not a good
effect, but it's still genuinely an open question.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_07/011679.php">http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_07/011679.php</a>
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