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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>June 11, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[many days of high heat breathing bites the nose and lungs]<br>
<b>Record heat forecast to bake Southwest next week, amid worsening
drought</b><br>
Las Vegas, Phoenix and Salt Lake City face a long duration,
punishing heat wave.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/10/record-heat-wave-southwest/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/10/record-heat-wave-southwest/</a><br>
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[early fire season]<br>
<b>California drought has moved up 2021 wildfire season far ahead of
schedule, PG&E warns</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article252007268.html">https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article252007268.html</a><br>
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[OK this might change things]<br>
<b>Experts warn of urban dangers ahead of wildfire season</b><br>
by Lincoln Graves, KATU Staff, June 9th 2021<br>
PORTLAND, Ore. — Firefighters across Oregon have already begun
fighting fires in the 2021 wildfire season. But with months more to
go, experts are warning people in urban areas not to let their guard
down.<br>
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"We've been doing a lot of site visits for people who are wanting to
know, are their homes safe or are they in danger?" said Tammy Owen,
a public information officer with Clackamas Fire District #1.<br>
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Owen says memories of last year's Riverside Fire, which caused mass
evacuations in Clackamas County, have convinced some people that
wildfires can occur in urban areas.<br>
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The Almeda Fire burned through the towns of Phoenix and Talent in
September of 2020, destroying large sections of town. That fire
didn't start or burn in any forested areas and instead torched
residential areas.<br>
"One of the things that people get is the misconception in wildland
fires is the wall of fire that burns through evenly burning things,"
said Pat McAbery a firefighter with Gresham Fire. "What it really is
most of the time is the embers that are jumping ahead and catching
in little places."<br>
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Gresham firefighter recalls horror of battling Almeda Fire in
southern Oregon<br>
"When you just see where a town used to be and now it's not anymore,
it really gives you a little awe from Mother Nature's ability to
say, I'm going to do this my way and you're not going to have much
of an impact on it."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://katu.com/news/local/experts-warn-of-urban-dangers-ahead-of-wildfire-season">https://katu.com/news/local/experts-warn-of-urban-dangers-ahead-of-wildfire-season</a><br>
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[YouTube video pondering individual action]<br>
<b>What YOU can do about climate change.</b><br>
Feb 14, 2020<br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at
what you can do about climate change using individual, personal, and
collective actions. This video, however, is not a simple list of the
best things a person can do to change their lifestyle and shrink
their carbon footprint, instead I start by looking at the way in
which we’ve globally become fixated on individual solutions to
climate change. We envision ourselves more as consumers than as
citizens. As a result carbon footprint related actions like flying
less, zero waste, and recycling are prioritized over voting,
protesting, and system change. This video is all about doing both
personal things to lower your carbon footprint like driving less,
but simultaneously acting collectively to create a system in which
having a small carbon footprint is feasible for everyone. Structural
change and individual change are both necessary to stop climate
change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSgXcFdHxFI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSgXcFdHxFI</a><br>
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<b>Gore pressed Biden to stick with climate plans as liberals fear
White House is softening its agenda</b><br>
The president and former vice president had a private phone call
amid concerns the White House might strip climate measures from the
infrastructure deal.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/10/climate-biden-gore-infrastructure/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/10/climate-biden-gore-infrastructure/</a><br>
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[OK. will do]<br>
<b>Climate and nature crises: solve both or solve neither, say
experts</b><br>
Restoring nature boosts biodiversity and ecosystems that can rapidly
and cheaply absorb carbon emissions<br>
10 Jun 2021<br>
Humanity must solve the climate and nature crises together or solve
neither, according to a report from 50 of the world’s leading
scientists.<br>
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Global heating and the destruction of wildlife is wreaking
increasing damage on the natural world, which humanity depends on
for food, water and clean air. Many of the human activities causing
the crises are the same and the scientists said increased use of
nature as a solution was vital...<br>
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The UK environment minister, Zac Goldsmith, said: “This is an
absolutely critical year for nature and climate. With the UN
biodiversity [and climate summits], we have an opportunity and
responsibility to put the world on a path to recovery. This hugely
valuable report makes it clear that addressing biodiversity loss and
climate change together offers our best chance of doing so.”<br>
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[Gizmodo]<br>
<b>Landmark Report Links Earth’s 2 Biggest Existential Threats for
the First Time</b><br>
Fifty top scientists warn climate change and biodiversity loss are
one and the same, and world leaders need to start addressing them in
tandem.<br>
Mass extinction and the climate emergency each pose an existential
threat to life as we know it. A new landmark report shows they must
be tackled in tandem to give nature—and by extension, us—the best
shot at survival.<br>
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The report, released on Thursday morning, was compiled by 50 top
climate and extinction experts for the Intergovernmental
Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Thursday morning.
It’s the first-ever joint collaboration between these two bodies,
both of which have released seminal reports in recent years on the
climate crisis and the collapse of nature. Their collaboration shows
the urgency of these issues as truly catastrophic impacts loom...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/landmark-report-links-earth-s-2-biggest-existential-thr-1847067725">https://gizmodo.com/landmark-report-links-earth-s-2-biggest-existential-thr-1847067725</a><br>
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[Associated Press]<br>
<b>UN: Don’t forget to save species while fixing global warming</b><br>
By SETH BORENSTEIN and CHRISTINA LARSON<br>
To save the planet, the world needs to tackle the crises of climate
change and species loss together, taking measures that fix both and
not just one, United Nations scientists said.<br>
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A joint report Thursday by separate U.N. scientific bodies that look
at climate change and biodiversity loss found there are ways to
simultaneously attack the two global problems, but some fixes to
warming could accelerate extinctions of plants and animals.<br>
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For example, measures such as expansion of bioenergy crops like
corn, or efforts to pull carbon dioxide from the air and bury it,
could use so much land — twice the size of India — that the impact
would be “fairly catastrophic on biodiversity,” said co-author and
biologist Almut Arneth at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in
Germany...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-climate-climate-change-science-environment-and-nature-105743c9fb98132d09ee523fab0a96d7">https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-climate-climate-change-science-environment-and-nature-105743c9fb98132d09ee523fab0a96d7</a><br>
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[video discusses climate justice - linking vaccines to climate
co-operation]<br>
<b>Press Briefing -- G7 Summit: Rich Countries and Their Climate
Promises</b><br>
Jun 10, 2021<br>
Covering Climate Now<br>
Ahead of the G7 summit, CCNow invited two distinguished experts to
brief journalists:<br>
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– Saleemul Huq is the director of the International Centre for
Climate Change and Development in Dhaka and a professor at the
Independent University Bangladesh; he helped train diplomats from
the global South who inserted the 1.5 C goal in the Paris Agreement.<br>
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– Rachel Kyte is the dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University
in Boston; she was the World Bank Group’s special envoy to the Paris
Agreement negotiations and later a special representative of the UN
Secretary General. <br>
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The event was moderated by Mark Hertsgaard, the executive director
of Covering Climate Now.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1_rjl4H4s0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1_rjl4H4s0</a><br>
[starts 8 mins in - Anti-US rant - 37:20 Loss and Damage
discussion 52:30]<br>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/h1_rjl4H4s0?t=2219">https://youtu.be/h1_rjl4H4s0?t=2219</a> "We know about your politics"]<br>
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[Extinction Rebellion over 2 hour video]<br>
<b>Advice to Young People as they face Annihilation | Roger Hallam |
2021</b>Advice to Young People as they face Annihilation | Roger
Hallam | 2021<br>
Jun 9, 2021<br>
Extinction Rebellion<br>
<blockquote>00:00 Introduction<br>
22:50 The Real World<br>
51:38 The Liberal Left<br>
1:06:36 The Radical Left<br>
1:22:45 Action<br>
1:41:15 Organisation<br>
1:59:20 Wisdom and Balance<br>
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“In a very cynical way, it’s a triumph for science because at last
we have stabilized something – namely the estimates for the carrying
capacity of the planet, namely below one billion people” - Professor
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, New York Times, (March 2009).<br>
<br>
This was predicted by Schellnhuber, one of Europe’s most eminent
scientists, then director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate
Impact Research in Germany, on the premise that if the build-up of
greenhouse gases and its consequences were to push global
temperatures 9°F higher than those of March 2009.<br>
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Current world population: 7.9 billion.<br>
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One of the main reasons why youth are so demoralised about their
future is that older people lie to them, and young people know this.
Older people lie to them about the climate crisis – that is it not
as bad as it actually is – that 1.5°C is still attainable. Unless we
come up with some miracle technology, it is not. Worse still, older
people lie to them about what it takes to make real political
change. Going on a march and standing outside schools doesn’t even
reach the foothills of effectiveness. Only mass non-violent civil
resistance (thousands of youth blocking ‘business as usual’ and
getting arrested and going to prison) is in the ball park of
creating the massive change that everyone knows is now necessary.<br>
The following quote is the founding ethical basis of Extinction
Rebellion and Burning Pink, <br>
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“To love truth for its own sake is the principal part of perfection
in this world and the seed-plot of all other virtues” - John Locke<br>
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The basis of respect to another person is to be truthful with them,
even when that truth feels unbearable. Roger Hallam shows this
respect in this video. Young people face annihilation, which means
the collapse of their societies into an endless hell of rape,
slaughter and starvation, unless they enter into non-violent civil
resistance against the carbon addicted political regimes which are
taking them to their death. This is the way it is.<br>
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If this video has interested you, check out international youth
organisation Last Generation. Last Generation calls for non-violent
REVOLUTION. <br>
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“Our Generation is forced to do this - we have no choice. We have a
duty thrust upon us when the government is guilty of treason. Our
demand of Binding Citizen's assemblies is our path to life,
democracy and justice for all."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au33QX9I-Mg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnpOnO71wno</a>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming June
11, 2001</b></font><br>
June 11, 2001: In a Rose Garden speech on climate change, President
George W. Bush repeatedly attacks the Kyoto Protocol.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/GlobalClimateChang">http://c-spanvideo.org/program/GlobalClimateChang</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010611-2.html">http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010611-2.html</a>
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