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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>March 18, 2021</b></font></i> <br>
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[melting injust ice]<br>
<b>Texas Utility Commissioner Resigns After Leaked Call Pledging to
Help Banks Keep Blackout Profits</b><br>
Molly Taft<br>
March 17, 2021<br>
The last standing member of Texas’s Public Utility Commission handed
in his resignation on Tuesday following a report that he assured
out-of-state investors who made big profits from last month’s
blackouts that he was working to make sure they could keep their
money.<br>
<br>
Texas Monthly obtained a recording of a March 9 call between Arthur
D’Andrea, the only member of the state PUC who had not yet resigned
following the February crisis, and out-of-state energy investors.
(The call, naturally, was hosted by Bank of America Securities and
was not open to the public or press.) The blackouts caused dozens of
deaths, power outages for millions across the state, and an enormous
financial hole that means consumers will be facing inflated bills
for years to come.<br>
<br>
D’Andrea was part of the state body appointed by the governor that
is supposed to regulate the state’s grid operator. Theoretically,
he’s supposed to be part of a nonpartisan body that makes sure that
consumers pay fair prices for energy. But during the call, D’Andrea
took pains to make sure that out-of-state investors could feel safe
that they’d keep the money they earned during this time.<br>
<br>
“I apologize for the uncertainty,” D’Andrea told investors on the
call. <br>
One of the issues D’Andrea discussed on the call was the issue of
repricing energy in the state, and he came down on the side of
investors on the issue. The blackouts and freezing temperatures in
February drove prices for energy through the roof. To make matters
worse, the state’s grid operator, ERCOT, artificially inflated
prices during the crisis and overcharged energy companies some $16
billion during the blackouts. The Texas legislature is currently
debating a bill that would retroactively reprice energy from the
crisis and correct ERCOT’s overcharges...<br>
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“I took that first step to tip the scale as hard as I could in favor
of it being resolved…to provide some calming force,” D’Andrea said
on the call about repricing. “It’s a contentious political issue.
The best I can do is put the weight of the commission in favor of
not repricing.”<br>
<br>
His presence on this call carried extra weight; two of his fellow
commissioners have resigned in recent weeks following the crisis.
D’Andrea was only appointed chair of the PUC in March.<br>
<br>
“I went from being on a very hot seat to having one of the safest
jobs in Texas,” D’Andrea said to the investors. “I think it’s just
going to be me for a while.”<br>
<br>
Awhile, it turned out, was a week. Following the Texas Monthly
report, D’Andrea handed in his resignation on Tuesday evening. Seems
like big banks may have to find another utility champion to pull the
energy strings for them in Texas.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://earther.gizmodo.com/texas-utility-commissioner-resigns-after-leaked-call-pl-1846493798">https://earther.gizmodo.com/texas-utility-commissioner-resigns-after-leaked-call-pl-1846493798</a><br>
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[calculating future heat in equatorial zones]<br>
<b>Wet Bulb Temperature. Life or death?</b><br>
Mar 17, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Wet bulb temperature sounds almost comical, but the implications of
it's extremes could not be more serious. And as our planet's
atmosphere continues to warm, our tropical regions move ever closer
to posing that existential threat to billions of people.<br>
Video Transcripts available at our website<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justhaveathink.com">http://www.justhaveathink.com</a><br>
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<b>Earth Catastrophe Warning to the World: The 2021 Climate Change
Science: Parts 3 and 4</b><br>
Mar 17, 2021<br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
When I presented at COP25 (Conference of Parties 25th edition) in
Madrid, Spain I worked a lot with Peter Carter, Regina Valdez, Heidi
Brault, Charles Gregoire, and of course the amazing Stuart Scott.<br>
All of the videos that I filmed are of course on my blog
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://paulbeckwith.net">http://paulbeckwith.net</a> and on my YouTube channel Paul Beckwith.<br>
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Peter, of course, has his amazingly detailed website called Climate
Emergency Institute <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climateemergencyinstitute...">https://www.climateemergencyinstitute...</a> and
Stuart (with huge help from Heidi and Charles) has his called Facing
Future Earth <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facingfuture.earth/">https://www.facingfuture.earth/</a> while Regina does a
lot of great work with Climate Reality. <br>
<br>
In preparations for COP26 in Scotland or virtual, depending of the
course of the virus this year, the gang and I are putting out a
video a week under our new group name Climate Emergency Forum. <br>
<br>
In this first video of a four part series, I go through key points
on a subsection of Peter’s website called 2021 Climate Science World
Warning <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climateemergencyinstitute...">https://www.climateemergencyinstitute...</a> where an
initiative to warn key decision makers in governments and the United
Nations is ongoing.<br>
<br>
My main focus in this video series is to discuss in detail the main
points in Peter’s 90+ slide deck called 2021 Climate Science World
Warning <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://files.secure.website/wscfus/8...">https://files.secure.website/wscfus/8...</a> <br>
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Topics include:<br>
- Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction Acceleration<br>
- Cumulative atmospheric carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and
carbon dioxide equivalent are all tracking or exceeding the UN IPCC
worst case scenario <br>
- warming of the planets atmosphere, land, and oceans are all
setting new record limits as they inexorably rise at accelerating
rates<br>
- Arctic changes are the fastest on the planet and have huge risks
to our societies and global ecosystems<br>
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[from The Atlantic - weekly newsletter]<br>
<b>The Weekly Planet: Why a Climate-Denial Coalition May Be Cracking
Apart</b><br>
And the world’s largest polluter plans its next five years.<br>
ROBINSON MEYER<br>
MARCH 16, 2021<br>
Coal makes up about one in every three tons of freight carried on
American railroads.MATTHEW STAVER / THE NEW YORK TIMES / REDUX<br>
Every week, our lead climate reporter brings you the big ideas,
expert analysis, and vital guidance that will help you flourish on a
changing planet. Sign up to get The Weekly Planet, our guide to
living through climate change, in your inbox.<br>
<br>
Last week, China released the draft summary of its next five-year
plan, its comprehensive economic planning document for 2021 to 2025.
It’s an important document, a kind of “plan of plans” for the
country’s provinces and agencies. Given the influence that China
exerts over the planet’s climate—it emits 28 percent of the world’s
carbon pollution, nearly double the share of the United States—the
plan should command the attention of everyone who cares about the
climate.<br>
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But China is crucial to understand for anyone who cares about
climate change. The country is essential to global decarbonization.
It leads in the heavy industries that will be hardest to
decarbonize, pouring 60 percent of the world’s cement and forging
more than half of its steel. And its decisions reverberate around
the world. Last year, amid a diplomatic battle over the origins of
the coronavirus, China banned coal imports from Australia, sending
some of its mines into a doom spiral.<br>
<br>
Last September, Xi Jinping surprised the UN General Assembly by
unilaterally vowing that China would aim to reach net-zero carbon
pollution by 2060. The announcement reframed climate geopolitics;
the economic historian Adam Tooze asked if Xi had just saved the
world. It certainly reframed Asian climate politics. By the end of
October, Japan and South Korea had both pledged to reach net-zero by
2050. These initiatives by themselves set off a boom in green
investment that was accelerated by Joe Biden’s win.<br>
<br>
But then equilibrium reasserted itself. Tsinghua University released
an official study demonstrating that China could reach its 2060 goal
by staying on a glide path that could charitably be described as
moderate … and uncharitably termed lugubrious. That is, China could
continue to increase its carbon pollution through 2030, the
researchers said. Only then would it need to begin sharply cutting
pollution.<br>
<br>
The new five-year plan seems to match that logic. You can read
bright spots in it—such as its direction to build 18 new gigawatts
of nuclear energy, according to Myllyvirta—but mostly it shows a
holding pattern.<br>
<br>
You can understand this in a few ways. The first is that China’s
leaders are waiting to see what the Biden administration does. Xi
could have plans for a 2025 emissions peak, say, in his back pocket,
and he could unveil them at a future climate summit. The Biden
administration has said it will publish America’s new international
climate commitment by the end of April; it is also vying to pass a
climate-infrastructure bill in Congress.<br>
<br>
Another view is more cynical. The 2060 announcement—and the
lackadaisical commitments that have followed—have succeeded in
taking the heat off China without committing it to any near-term
action. It gets some running room in the grand game that its leaders
(and America’s leaders) see it as engaged in. And if the U.S. and
the European Union do sign on to a rapid program of decarbonization,
well, then China will benefit too. Chinese companies control at
least 60 percent of the global capacity for manufacturing solar
panels; the Chinese electric-vehicle market is the largest in the
world. Those firms will be happy to sell.<br>
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<b>A Crack in a Major Climate-Denial Coalition?</b><br>
If you read a lot of climate commentary, you may get the sense that
the fossil-fuel industry, working essentially as a rogue actor, is
singularly responsible for America’s lack of climate policy. This
isn’t necessarily … wrong, but it’s not exactly correct either.
Since the modern era of climate politics began, in 1988, the
fossil-fuel industry has worked as a kind of political nexus, a
place where lots of different interests—steelmaking, automaking,
organized labor—come together to pursue the same goals.<br>
<br>
One of the best examples of this can be found in America’s
freight-railroad industry. There is nothing inherently noxious about
moving goods by rail. Shipping by rail is actually far more energy
efficient than shipping by truck. Yet for the past 30 years, the
country’s four largest freight-railroad companies have been among
the biggest opponents of climate policy in the United States.<br>
<br>
I wrote about their decades-long campaign in late 2019. These
railroads—BNSF Railway, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and
CSX—have joined or funded efforts to attack individual scientists,
cast doubt on research, and reject reports from major institutions,
such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.<br>
<br>
All four companies also for years belonged to the pro-coal lobbying
group America’s Power, which trafficked in open denial and called
climate change a “hypothesis” as late as 2014. Even as several
utilities fled America’s Power over its politics two years ago, the
railroads remained.<br>
<br>
Or they did, at least, for a little while, anyway. BNSF and Union
Pacific told me this month that they have finally left the group.
Their logos have also disappeared from the trade group’s website.<br>
<br>
CSX and Norfolk Southern remain members of America’s Power,
according to its website.<br>
<br>
At the same time, the American Association of Railroads, a trade
group that represents the freight-rail companies and also Amtrak,
has rebranded itself as a climate warrior. From a historical
perspective, this is pretty significant. The rail association helped
establish America’s Power in 2008, and for years it barely mentioned
“climate change” in its communications. Now it brags that “the
nation’s railroads want to be—and must be—a part of the solution to
climate change.”<br>
<br>
I’m not naive about what any of this means. The Biden administration
is contemplating a major infrastructure bill this year; the freight
railroads would love a cut of that ribeye. Worse, they’re not wrong
that freight rail probably needs to play a larger role in a
decarbonized America.<br>
<br>
Nor do I think it is the end of what some activists call “climate
delay,” the tiresome opposition and nitpicking of any climate
proposal. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that
the American Petroleum Institute, oil’s mouthpiece in Washington, is
close to endorsing a carbon tax … but even if it does, I don’t
expect that it will warm up to any other climate policy.<br>
<br>
At the core of railroads’ opposition to climate change was their
reliance on coal’s business. Coal makes up nearly one in three tons
of rail freight. Yet the coal industry is in free fall. During the
first half of 2020, coal generation dropped by 30 percent compared
with the year before; coal now generates only about a fifth of U.S.
electricity. The financial industry is also fleeing coal. Just this
week, Citi announced it would no longer fund any company with plans
to expand thermal coal operations after 2021—and even more
important, the huge insurance firm Swiss Re said that it would stop
insuring coal plants by 2040. Freight railroads will need to find
new customers, which means finding new political allies. They will
look on the left if need be.<br>
<br>
3 More Things<br>
<blockquote>1. Deb Haaland was confirmed as the U.S. Secretary of
the Interior, meaning that she will oversee crucial decisions
about whether fossil fuels can be drilled from federal land over
the next few years. A member of the Laguna Pueblo, she is the
first Indigenous Cabinet secretary in American history. (Have I
recommended Julian Noisecat’s story about the nomination yet? If
not, go read it!)<br>
<br>
2. Something I’ve tried to suggest in my coverage of Biden’s
stimulus bill is that it represents a break with past ideas not
only about how to fight economic downturns, but also about how the
economy works. The economist J. W. Mason explains eight of those
new ideas in a new blog post. He also describes how many of those
ideas aren’t reflected in college macroeconomics courses yet. I
really recommend it to people who are interested in the ideas
shaping American policy right now—this stuff matters for climate
policy, because it will shape how Democratic lawmakers shape a
climate bill.<br>
<br>
3. Something weird is happening in the electric-vehicle industry:
Until recently, every public EV company was doing pretty well. At
the end of January, the value of the eight largest electric-car
makers stood at $1 trillion, nearly equal to the value of the
traditional automaking sector, even though EV makers sell vastly
fewer cars.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/a-crack-in-a-major-climate-denial-coalition/618301/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/03/a-crack-in-a-major-climate-denial-coalition/618301/</a><br>
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<b>How well does the media cover the climate movement?</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/climate-activists-fridays-for-future.php">https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/climate-activists-fridays-for-future.php</a><br>
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[believe in the law]<br>
<b>5 climate liability lawyers to watch</b><br>
Maxine Joselow, E&E News - March 16, 2021<br>
<br>
In courtrooms across the country, a battle is heating up over
whether fossil fuel firms should be held financially responsible for
the local impacts of climate change.<br>
<br>
Since 2017, five states and more than a dozen municipalities have
sued oil and gas supermajors over their contribution to — and
alleged deception about — the catastrophic effects of global
warming.<br>
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Lawyers for the challengers have raised a combination of consumer
protection and anti-fraud claims to argue that Big Oil should cover
the costs of addressing floods, wildfires, sea-level rise and other
disasters fueled by rising greenhouse gas emissions.<br>
<br>
Attorneys for the oil and gas industry have pushed back, arguing
that the lawsuits are meritless and the wrong way to combat climate
change. The industry attorneys have repeatedly tried to remove the
cases to federal court, where they might have a greater chance of
failing.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, big law firms that represent oil and gas companies have
faced pressure from climate activists to drop their fossil fuel
industry clientele.<br>
<br>
"I totally understand the premise that everyone deserves
representation. But that doesn't mean fossil fuel companies deserve
'get out of jail free' cards when they pollute communities —
especially communities of color — and continue to exacerbate the
climate crisis," said Liz Jacob, a student at Yale Law School and a
member of Law Students for Climate Accountability, which last year
graded the top U.S. law firms based on their oil and gas industry
transactions, litigation and lobbying.<br>
<br>
Ted Boutrous, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher LLP who has defended Chevron Corp. in several climate
liability cases, pushed back on that sentiment.<br>
<br>
"We all are dependent on oil and gas products for our modern
society. So to say someone shouldn't represent a great company like
Chevron really makes no sense," Boutrous said. "It's very
shortsighted. It's really not how the legal profession is
structured."<br>
<br>
Here are five of the top attorneys to watch in the ongoing climate
liability brawls nationwide.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>Vic Sher</b><br>
Sher is a partner and co-founder at Sher Edling LLP, a San
Francisco-based law firm that has represented a slew of states and
municipalities seeking to hold fossil fuel firms accountable for
their role in causing climate change<br>
<br>
The firm's clients include the governments of San Francisco;
Washington, D.C.; Charleston, S.C.; Delaware; Minnesota; and Rhode
Island.<br>
<br>
Earlier this year, Sher participated in Supreme Court oral arguments
in a narrow procedural case stemming from Baltimore's climate
liability lawsuit (Greenwire, Jan. 19).<br>
<br>
In response to a question from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Sher said he
believes the case belongs in state court because the "conduct
complained of is fraud, deception, denial and disinformation, and
... those are traditional state foci."<br>
<br>
A graduate of Oberlin College and Stanford Law School, Sher served
as president of Earthjustice from 1994 to 1997, when the
organization was still known as the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund.<br>
<br>
In 2003, he co-founded the San Francisco-based firm Sher Leff LLP,
where he represented public water suppliers in lawsuits alleging
that manufacturers of toxic chemicals had polluted drinking water
sources.<br>
<br>
He later served as New York City's lead trial counsel in City of New
York v. Exxon Mobil Corp., a 2009 case over chemical contamination
that resulted in a verdict awarding $104.7 million to the city.<br>
<br>
"Our team is proud to support public counsel who are bringing these
cases to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the climate
change impacts on their communities and the costs of adapting to a
warming world," Sher said in an emailed statement to E&E News.<br>
<br>
"The enormous (and growing) expenses state and local governments now
face are a direct result of defendants' deception about climate
change and the role their products play in causing it," he added.
"We look forward to getting past their procedural delays so that the
state and local governments we represent can have their day in court
to pursue justice and accountability."<br>
<br>
<b>Theodore Wells</b><br>
Wells is a partner and co-chair of the litigation department at the
New York City-based law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison LLP.<br>
<br>
He's known for successfully defending Exxon Mobil in a lawsuit
brought by former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D)
alleging that the oil company misled investors about the true costs
of climate change.<br>
<br>
New York's complaint contended that the oil supermajor had used two
sets of "proxy costs" to represent the financial risks posed by
global warming — one for internal decisionmaking and another for
public documents.<br>
<br>
During a three-week trial, Wells countered that the company had
established a "robust system" for managing climate risks, adding
that Schneiderman brought the suit for political reasons.<br>
<br>
Justice Barry Ostrager of the New York Supreme Court ultimately
ruled that New York had failed to show that Exxon had violated state
law (Greenwire, Dec. 10, 2019).<br>
<br>
Ostrager "expressly stated that the court found each of Exxon
Mobil's witnesses who testified to have been honest and truthful and
that they did not violate any securities laws," Wells said in an
emailed statement to E&E News.<br>
<br>
"The case is a landmark decision in that it is the only climate
change securities fraud case to ever be charged by a regulator and
go to verdict on the merits and is a complete vindication of the
defendant's conduct," he added.<br>
<br>
Wells studied at the College of the Holy Cross, Harvard Law School
and Harvard Business School. He previously served, on a pro bono
basis, as general counsel to the New Jersey NAACP and the New Jersey
Democratic Party, according to his bio.<br>
<br>
<b>Maura Healey</b><br>
Healey was elected attorney general of Massachusetts in 2014,
becoming the first openly gay attorney general in the United States.<br>
<br>
After a three-year investigation, Healey sued Exxon in 2019,
alleging that the company had systematically misled consumers and
investors about the risks of climate change — both to Massachusetts
and to its business.<br>
<br>
The attorney general, a Democrat, amended her complaint last summer,
adding claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic and narrowing the
allegations of investor fraud (Climatewire, June 8, 2020).<br>
<br>
"We brought this case against Exxon to put an end to decades of
deception and lies. We are challenging the company's ongoing
campaign to mislead both consumers and investors about the climate
dangers caused by its fossil fuel products and the risk climate
change poses to the company's value," Healey said in an emailed
statement to E&E News.<br>
<br>
"Our goals are simple: to stop Exxon from engaging in this illegal
deception of Massachusetts consumers and investors and to hold it
accountable for its misconduct," she added.<br>
<br>
A state judge last week held a hearing on Exxon's two motions to
dismiss the case. One motion seeks to scrap the suit under the
Massachusetts anti-SLAPP (strategic litigation against public
participation) law.<br>
<br>
After graduating from Harvard College, where she was co-captain of
the women's basketball team, Healey spent two years playing as a
starting point guard for a professional basketball team in Austria.
She returned to the United States to attend Northeastern University
School of Law in 1998.<br>
<br>
<b>Ted Boutrous</b><br>
Boutrous is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher LLP and global co-chair of the firm's litigation
group.<br>
<br>
He has represented Chevron and other industry defendants in a number
of climate liability cases, including in a pair of lawsuits brought
by the California cities of San Francisco and Oakland against five
fossil fuel firms.<br>
<br>
In 2018, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California held an unusual five-hour hearing in
the cases that was billed as a tutorial on climate science.<br>
<br>
Boutrous told Alsup, who was appointed by former President Clinton,
that the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change hadn't
singled out oil companies as solely responsible for global warming.<br>
<br>
"The IPCC does not say it's the extraction and production of oil
that is driving these emissions. It's economic activity that creates
the demand for energy, and that leads to emissions," Boutrous said
at the hearing (Climatewire, March 22, 2018).<br>
<br>
In a phone interview, Boutrous said he believes the climate
liability cases are "counterproductive" because global warming is
best addressed by the executive and legislative branches of
government, rather than the courts.<br>
<br>
"From a personal perspective, I really do believe that we need big
solutions and big efforts like this to combat climate change," he
said. "Civil litigation like this is not the answer."<br>
<br>
Boutrous said it was an "easy call" for him to accept Chevron as a
client, despite pressure from groups like Students for Climate
Accountability.<br>
<br>
"There are some cases I don't want to work on and some potential
clients I decline," he said. "But this is an area where it's an
important area of policy, and it's a great American company that is
litigating issues that I think we are absolutely on the right side
of from a civil justice perspective."<br>
<br>
A graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law, Boutrous
has received several awards for his work representing journalists
and media outlets in First Amendment cases. The National Law Journal
named him a 2020 First Amendment rights "Trailblazer" for his work
successfully restoring the White House press passes of CNN reporters
Jim Acosta and Brian Karem under former President Trump.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>Dana Moore</b><br>
Moore is the first chief equity officer for the city of Baltimore.<br>
<br>
In her previous role as acting city solicitor, Moore helped oversee
Baltimore's 2018 lawsuit against 26 fossil fuel firms over their
role in causing climate impacts such as extreme heat and flooding.<br>
<br>
When the Supreme Court said it would hear the case last year, it
only agreed to consider the narrow technical question of whether
federal appeals courts can review the entire scope of remand orders
that send climate cases like Baltimore's back to the state courts
where they were originally filed.<br>
<br>
"The Court has decided to review a narrow technical issue that has
no bearing on the substance of Baltimore's suit to hold these
defendants accountable for the climate change harms and costs they
are imposing on our taxpayers," Moore said in a statement at the
time.<br>
<br>
"In public, defendants criticize our case as without merit. But in
court, they do everything they can to delay proceedings and avoid a
public trial on the facts," she added. "Their days of having it both
ways are ending. Accountability is coming."<br>
<br>
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott appointed Moore as chief equity
officer in December 2020. The Cabinet-level position entails leading
a new Office of Equity and Civil Rights. A spokesperson for the
Baltimore mayor's office didn't respond to a request for comment.<br>
<br>
A graduate of Bates College and Washington and Lee University School
of Law, Moore was previously the first woman to be acting city
solicitor. She has also served on Baltimore's Board of Ethics and
Planning Commission.<br>
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[Dr Jennifer Atkinson podcast]<br>
<b>Episode 4: Coping with Climate Despair in Four Steps</b><br>
With the urgency of our climate crisis increasing by the day, many
scientists and climate leaders are calling for global action on the
scale of World-War II mobilization: a swift and comprehensive
overhaul of our existing consumer economy and the energy systems
driving us off a cliff. And yet as the planetary fires close in,
many people remain paralyzed by fear, hopelessness or cynicism. <br>
<br>
Luckily, there are steps we can all take to overcome despair and
start contributing to solutions. This episode outlines 4 basic
strategies to beat the climate blues and become an agent of change.
<br>
<br>
"Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly,
now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.”<br>
- The Talmud<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/facing-it">https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/facing-it</a><br>
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[New Music News NME]<br>
<b>Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja is “livid” over live industry’s
response to climate change</b><br>
"Now is the time for action – no more pledges"<br>
Massive Attack‘s Robert Del Naja has criticised the live music
industry’s response to climate change, saying “one band not touring
doesn’t change a thing”.<br>
<br>
The artist – aka 3D – said he was “pretty livid” over the industry
not meeting pledges to reduce its carbon footprint, highlighting
Coldplay’s decision to stop touring until they could make it
“environmentally friendly as possible”.<br>
<br>
“I understand their frustration. It’s frustration all bands have
been feeling for a long time,” he told the Digital, Culture, Media
and Sport Committee (DCMS) today (March 16) as part of its ongoing
investigation into the future of UK music festivals.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/massive-attacks-robert-del-naja-is-livid-over-live-industrys-response-to-climate-change-2901848">https://www.nme.com/news/music/massive-attacks-robert-del-naja-is-livid-over-live-industrys-response-to-climate-change-2901848</a><br>
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<br>
[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
March 18, 2013 </b></font><br>
<p>USA Today reports: "Could the USA deal with a Hurricane Katrina
every two years? Such a scenario is possible by the end of the
century due to climate change, according to a study published
Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/03/18/storm-surge-hurricane-climate-change-global-warming/1997113/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/03/18/storm-surge-hurricane-climate-change-global-warming/1997113/</a>
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