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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>March 4, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[Perhaps the courts can rule on this]<br>
<b>Youth activists appeal ruling that they can't sue government over
climate change</b><br>
BY REBECCA BEITSCH - 03/03/20 <br>
Attorneys for 21 youth climate activists are filing an appeal after
a judge ruled they cannot sue the federal government for failure to
act on climate change.<br>
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The activists sought a court order to force the government to phase
out the use of fossil fuels, but a panel of three judges in January
ruled such a decision was beyond the reach of the judicial branch. <br>
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Lawyers are now petitioning for a ruling from all 11 judges in the
9th Circuit, arguing that reversing an earlier district court
decision fails to ensure the youth activists' right to a trial. <br>
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"In overturning the district court, the majority fundamentally
changed the way our branches of our government operate, placing the
president and Congress beyond the reach of judicial oversight. If
this opinion stands, there will be no more constitutional checks and
balances on government conduct," Philip Gregory, a co-counsel for
the youth plaintiffs, argued. <br>
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In August, two of the three judges said they did not have the power
to push the government to address climate change. <br>
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"Reluctantly, we conclude that such relief is beyond our
constitutional power," 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Andrew
Hurwitz wrote for the majority. "Rather, the plaintiffs' impressive
case for redress must be presented to the political branches of
government."<br>
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But the decision from the court's majority sparked a powerful
dissent from Judge Josephine Staton, who said the climate change
issues raised in the suit were within the court's authority to
redress, and warned that "waiting is not an option."<br>
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"If plaintiffs' fears, backed by the government's own studies, prove
true, history will not judge us kindly," Staton wrote. "When the
seas envelop our coastal cities, fires and droughts haunt our
interiors, and storms ravage everything between, those remaining
will ask: Why did so many do so little?"<br>
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The case, Juliana v. United States, has been circulating through the
court system since 2015.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/485663-youth-activists-appeal-decision-halting-climate-change-lawsuit">https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/485663-youth-activists-appeal-decision-halting-climate-change-lawsuit</a><br>
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[a bit late, but welcomed]<br>
<b>Major science journal retracts study blaming climate change on
the sun</b><br>
A prominent scientific journal has retracted a study claiming that
climate change was due to solar cycles rather than human activity.<br>
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Last year, Scientific Reports came under fire for publishing a paper
that researchers said made elementary mistakes about how Earth moves
around the sun.<br>
<br>
Today the journal, published by Nature Research, which also has
Nature in its stable of titles, formally retracted the paper by a
team at UK universities and an institution in Azerbaijan.<br>
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The withdrawn study had argued that the average global 1C
temperature rise since the pre-industrial period was due not to
humanity's greenhouse gas emissions but to the distance between
Earth and the sun changing over time as the sun orbits the
barycentre, the solar system's centre of mass. In a statement today,
Scientific Reports said that was inaccurate...<br>
Read more:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236103-major-science-journal-retracts-study-blaming-climate-change-on-the-sun/#ixzz6FjeX0bP9">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236103-major-science-journal-retracts-study-blaming-climate-change-on-the-sun/#ixzz6FjeX0bP9</a><br>
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[common sense too]<br>
<b>Birth control and books can slow down climate change</b><br>
They're near the top of the list in a ranking of climate solutions<br>
<br>
Improving girls' access to education and reproductive health care is
one of the most promising ways to stop human-caused global warming,
according to a report published today that ranks solutions to
addressing the threat. Addressing health and education ranks second
among 76 solutions, sandwiched between reducing food waste and
eating more plant-rich diets, that, together, can limit global
warming to 2 degrees Celsius. The report, "The Drawdown Review," is
a follow-up to the 2017 New York Times bestselling book Drawdown.
Promoting girls' education contributed about as much to a
sustainable future as the gains from rooftop solar and solar farms
combined, that book found. So did family planning.<br>
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IT'S LIKE TAKING NEARLY 22,000 COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS OFFLINE<br>
Securing a quality education and reproductive health care access,
particularly for women and girls, can prevent more than 85 gigatons
of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from heating up the planet between
2020 and 2050, the new report says. That's like taking nearly 22,000
coal-fired power plants offline. The report was produced by
scientists and advocates at the nonprofit Project Drawdown, which
was created by Drawdown editor and environmentalist Paul Hawken.<br>
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There's a chain reaction when education levels rise: women gain
political and economic power. They also have more resources
available to help them choose when and how to start a family. When
that happens, fertility rates usually drop, the report points out.
People tend to marry and have children a little later and have fewer
children when they do. Researchers who put the report together
estimated the fall in per capita emissions when fewer people in the
world are using up energy for housing, food, waste, and
transportation (taking into account differences between wealthier
and less affluent nations).<br>
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To be clear, "in no way are we talking about population control,"
Crystal Chissell, a vice president at Project Drawdown, says. Trying
to control who gets to have children and who doesn't is part of a
violent racist and xenophobic history, including the forced
sterilization of Latinas in the US. Chissell makes clear that her
new report is talking about access to reproductive health care for
women who want it.<br>
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"IN NO WAY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT POPULATION CONTROL."<br>
There are 214 million women globally who want to avoid pregnancy but
don't have modern contraception, Chissell points out. (She cites
data from the reproductive health advocacy and research group
Guttmacher Institute.) Women who've been historically marginalized
often also face bigger barriers to getting an education and birth
control when they want it -- whether that's because of cost, stigma,
or policies.<br>
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<br>
That last barrier has posed more hurdles for advocates over the past
several years. President Donald Trump is responsible for dozens upon
dozens of environmental policy rollbacks -- including moves that
limit women's access to reproductive health care. He has pulled US
funding from the United Nations' sexual and reproductive health
agency, the biggest provider of contraception worldwide, for three
years in a row. Domestically, the Trump administration has also
attempted to give employers greater ability to deny insurance
coverage for birth control.<br>
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We're not saying that the burden is solely on women to advance the
solution [to climate change]," Chissell cautions. But the report
makes clear that the status of women and girls globally will be
crucial to how we shape the world that's to come.<br>
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THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS GLOBALLY WILL BE CRUCIAL TO HOW WE
SHAPE THE WORLD THAT'S TO COME<br>
Gender also plays a role when it comes to who faces the first and
worst ravages of climate change. Women make up a majority of the
world's poor, which can make them disproportionately vulnerable. In
the wake of disasters made worse by climate change, like hurricanes,
women also face an increased risk of sexual violence. Anything that
might help women gain some ground -- like, say, having the power and
resources to make healthy and informed decisions about their bodies,
lives, and families -- will be crucial to surviving on a planet
that's in crisis.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/3/21163135/education-reproductive-healthcare-climate-change-solution-drawdown">https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/3/21163135/education-reproductive-healthcare-climate-change-solution-drawdown</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
March 4, 2011 </b></font><br>
<p>At an event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Senator Scott Brown
(R-MA) is caught on video thanking billionaire climate-change
denier David H. Koch for a previous campaign contribution, and
asking Koch for a follow-up contribution.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/07/149006/scott-brown-david-koch-money/">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/07/149006/scott-brown-david-koch-money/</a><br>
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