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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>May 11, 2021</b></font></i> <br>
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[Associated Press]<br>
<b>California declares drought emergency across vast swath of state</b><br>
Majority of counties now under emergency declaration as California
faces extensive dry spell and dwindling water supply<br>
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The declaration, expanded by Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday, now
includes 41 of 58 counties, covering 30% of California’s nearly 40
million people. The US drought monitor shows most of the state and
the American west is in extensive drought just a few years after
California emerged from a punishing multiyear dry spell.<br>
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Officials fear an extraordinary dry spring presages a wildfire
season like last year, when flames burned a record 6,562 sq
mi(16,996 sq km).<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/10/california-declares-drought-emergency-across-vast-swath-of-state">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/10/california-declares-drought-emergency-across-vast-swath-of-state</a><br>
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["Allez on y va"] - [Come let's go]<br>
<b>Thousands march in France demanding real action on climate change</b><br>
The nationwide protests come after the lower house of parliament
this week approved a climate bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas
emissions that environment activists say doesn’t go far or fast
enough.<br>
“As it stands, the (proposed) law is a climatic and social failure,”
said a group of climate campaigners, “Ensemble pour le climat”
(“Together for climate”).<br>
Greenpeace France denounced “the government’s refusal to take action
for climate.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210509-thousands-to-march-in-france-demanding-real-action-on-climate-change">https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210509-thousands-to-march-in-france-demanding-real-action-on-climate-change</a><br>
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[view the data]<br>
<b>Warming is clearly visible in new US ‘climate normal’ datasets</b><br>
May 7, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/warming-is-clearly-visible-in-new-us-climate-normal-datasets-159684">https://theconversation.com/warming-is-clearly-visible-in-new-us-climate-normal-datasets-159684</a><br>
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[here is the report]<br>
<b>NOAA Delivers New U.S. Climate Normals</b><br>
Decadal update from NCEI gives forecasters and public latest
averages for 1991–2020<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/noaa-delivers-new-us-climate-normals">https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/noaa-delivers-new-us-climate-normals</a><br>
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[The emotions of uncovering climate grief]<br>
MAY 10, 2021 <br>
<b>Good Grief In A Time Of Unraveling</b><br>
LaUra had a great time sitting down with Carolyn Baker to chat about
the importance of grief in times of The Great Unraveling.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/good-grief-in-of-51102122">https://www.patreon.com/posts/good-grief-in-of-51102122</a><br>
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[DeSmogBlog is one of the best information sources]<br>
<b>DeSmog Wins Best Specialist News Site</b><br>
DeSmog’s reporting recognised at The Drum Online Media Awards 2021.<br>
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The prize is recognition for all of the DeSmog team’s hard work over
the past 12 months, bringing you groundbreaking investigations on
the crossover between climate science denial and COVID denial,
pesticide companies’ greenwash, and transport groups’ lobbying
against clean air regulation, as well as for investigating over more
than a year a radioactive fracking waste disposal site in Texas,
obtaining exclusive documents alleging ExxonMobil’s overvaluation of
its assets, and unpacking the legacy of white supremacy in the
fossil fuel industry...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/05/10/desmog-wins-best-specialist-news-site/">https://www.desmog.com/2021/05/10/desmog-wins-best-specialist-news-site/</a><br>
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[AP]<br>
<b>New White House panel aims to separate science, politics</b><br>
By SETH BORENSTEIN<br>
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to the turn the page on the Trump years, the
Biden White House is launching an effort to unearth past problems
with the politicization of science within government and to tighten
scientific integrity rules for the future.<br>
A new 46-person federal scientific integrity task force with members
from more than two dozen government agencies will meet for the first
time on Friday. Its mission is to look back through 2009 for areas
where partisanship interfered with what were supposed to be
decisions based on evidence and research and to come up with ways to
keep politics out of government science in the future...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-climate-change-science-government-and-politics-bad9d7a8eb726a842187ca156ad8b799">https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-climate-change-science-government-and-politics-bad9d7a8eb726a842187ca156ad8b799</a><br>
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["We have met the entrée, and he is us." movie- Soylent Green]<br>
<b>Climate change, chaos, and cannibalism</b><br>
Forty eight years ago, a sci-fi thriller predicted a future with all
three—in the year 2022.<br>
In the 70s an often-forgotten film predicted climate change, chaos,
and cannibalism in America's not-so-distant future.<br>
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Well, we're underachieving on the cannibalism, but if you count the
coronavirus as "chaos," we're doing fine on the other two.<br>
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Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston, premiered nationwide on May
9, 1973, to mixed reviews. In a year when The Exorcist and The Sting
lapped the field, its box office take did not make the top 25 films.<br>
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Set in a hungry, desperate New York City beset by pollution,
overpopulation, and a climate where the temperature stays above a
humid 90° F, life is so awful that euthanasia is not only legal,
it's often welcomed.<br>
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The year of this future hellscape? 2022...<br>
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The movie may have sounded ominous warnings about climate change on
filthy Manhattan streets, but it also depicted young women as
"furniture" at the disposal of the rich.<br>
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Clean air and water, overconsumption, resource exhaustion and other
21st century themes abound in this clumsy, dated film.<br>
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Oh, and did Mr. Heston ever figure out the secret to Soylent Green's
high-protein success? To paraphrase the 20th Century swamp
philosopher Pogo, "We have met the entrée, and he is us."<br>
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Yes, as Heston shrieks at movie's end, "Soylent Green is people!"<br>
<br>
Or, as modern-day talkshow guests are so fond of saying, "Thanks for
having me."...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ehn.org/climate-change-chaos-and-cannibalism-2652916331.html">https://www.ehn.org/climate-change-chaos-and-cannibalism-2652916331.html</a><br>
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[Paid video content, but not paid to me]<br>
<b>The Water Crisis | National Geographic</b><br>
May 5, 2021<br>
National Geographic<br>
Actor, Adrian Grenier, and National Geographic Explorer, Shannon
Switzer<br>
Swanson, explore the growing problem of water scarcity in the US.
Are we<br>
running out of water? Shannon heads to the Colorado River to uncover<br>
solutions for the problems facing the region, while Adrian
challenges<br>
himself to reduce his water use at home by an ambitious thirty
percent. Will<br>
he succeed? Paid Content for Finish.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VyfN30XzDM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VyfN30XzDM</a>
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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 May
11, 2014 </b></font><br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
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"In the New Mexico of the 1950s, the two brothers grew up steeped in
the beauty of the landscape, the economics of energy and the power
of science. They skied, fly-fished, explored on the family’s
50,000-acre sheep ranch, watched oil towns go boom and bust, and
talked of the nuclear weapons up the road at Los Alamos.<br>
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"Today the work of Robert and William Nordhaus is profoundly shaping
how the United States and other nations take on global warming.<br>
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"Bill Nordhaus, 72, a Yale economist who is seen as a leading
contender for a Nobel Prize, came up with the idea of a carbon tax
and effectively invented the economics of climate change. Bob, 77, a
prominent Washington energy lawyer, wrote an obscure provision in
the Clean Air Act of 1970 that is now the legal basis for a landmark
climate change regulation, to be unveiled by the White House next
month, that could close hundreds of coal-fired power plants and
define President Obama’s environmental legacy."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nyti.ms/1jM33Gv">http://nyti.ms/1jM33Gv</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/us/brothers-work-different-angles-in-taking-on-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/us/brothers-work-different-angles-in-taking-on-climate-change.html</a><br>
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