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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>June 12, 2021</b></font></i></p>
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<b>G-7 Leaders Pose for Traditional 'Family' Photo as Summit Begins
in U.K.</b><br>
Jun 11, 2021<br>
Bloomberg Quicktake:<br>
Group of Seven leaders braved drizzly beachside weather on the
Cornish coast in southern England for a traditional “family” photo
at the start of their annual summit, before the meeting formally got
underway with a discussion on boosting the global economy after the
pandemic.<br>
<br>
This is the final G-7 for Angela Merkel after 16 years as German
Chancellor (she is stepping down after an election in September),
risking the prospect of next year’s gathering in Germany being a
male-only affair. She was first to walk out for the photo, standing
on the front right of the podium.<br>
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Host U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson stood smiling in the middle,
flanked by French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Joe
Biden.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_hgsOJkpDQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_hgsOJkpDQ</a><br>
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[Associated Press reports ]<br>
<b>Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is breaking up faster</b><br>
A critical Antarctic glacier is looking more vulnerable as satellite
images show the ice shelf that blocks it from collapsing into the
sea is breaking up much faster than before and spawning huge
icebergs, a new study says.<br>
<br>
The Pine Island Glacier’s ice shelf loss accelerated in 2017,
causing scientists to worry that with climate change the glacier’s
collapse could happen quicker than the many centuries predicted. The
floating ice shelf acts like a cork in a bottle for the fast-melting
glacier and prevents its much larger ice mass from flowing into the
ocean.<br>
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Between 2017 and 2020, there were three large breakup events,
creating icebergs more than 5 miles (8 kilometers) long and 22 miles
(36 kilometers) wide, which then split into lots of littler pieces,
Joughin said. There also were many smaller breakups.<br>
<br>
“It’s not at all inconceivable that the whole shelf could give way
and go within a few years,” Joughin said. “I’d say that’s a long
shot, but not a very long shot.”<br>
<br>
Joughin tracked two points on the main glacier and found they were
moving 12% faster toward the sea starting in 2017.<br>
<br>
“So that means 12% more ice from Pine Island going into the ocean
that wasn’t there before,” he said.<br>
<br>
The Pine Island Glacier, which is not on an island doesn’t have pine
trees, is one of two side-by-side glaciers in western Antarctica
that ice scientists worry most about losing on that continent. The
other is the Thwaites Glacier.<br>
<br>
Pine Island contains 180 trillion tons of ice — the equivalent of
1.6 feet (half a meter) of sea level rise — and is responsible for
about a quarter of the continent’s ice loss.<br>
<br>
“Pine Island and Thwaites are our biggest worry now because they are
falling apart and then the rest of West Antarctica will follow
according to nearly all models,” said University of California
Irvine ice scientist Isabella Velicogna, who wasn’t part of the
study.<br>
<br>
While ice loss is part of climate change, there was no unusual extra
warming in the region that triggered this acceleration, Joughin
said.<br>
<br>
“These science results continue to highlight the vulnerability of
Antarctica, a major reservoir for potential sea level rise,” said
Twila Moon, a National Snow and Ice Data scientist who wasn’t part
of the research. “Again and again, other research has confirmed how
Antarctica evolves in the future will depend on human greenhouse gas
emissions.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/wa-state-wire-oceans-climate-glaciers-climate-change-3644a4238d2fcbe48f4f47ddbeea16fa">https://apnews.com/article/wa-state-wire-oceans-climate-glaciers-climate-change-3644a4238d2fcbe48f4f47ddbeea16fa</a>
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[Wasington Post video]<br>
<b>This melting glacier was already the biggest source of sea level
rise. Then things got worse.</b><br>
West Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier is speeding up as its ice
shelf disintegrates, new research shows.<br>
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What’s happening now is much faster and less predictable, Joughin
said. It appears that the rapid slide of the glacier is creating
fractures in the ice shelf, which leads to more pieces breaking off,
or “calving.” Computer simulations and mathematical models support
the idea that this process is responsible for the glacier’s speed
up.<br>
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On the other hand, if the acceleration of the glacier continues to
create fractures, it could lead to a feedback loop that sends the
ice shelf into a spiral of decline.<br>
<br>
“It’s not at all inconceivable to say the rest of the ice shelf
could be gone in a decade,” Joughin said. “It’s a long shot. But
it’s not that big a long shot."<br>
<br>
But if ice shelves can shift quickly and decisively, so too can
humanity. Healing the ozone hole and taking swift action against
climate change will alter the conditions in Antarctica’s atmosphere
and oceans and help stabilize the continent’s glaciers.<br>
<br>
“The future is still open to change," Davies said — if people do
what is needed to change it.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/11/pine-island-ice-shelf-collapse/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/11/pine-island-ice-shelf-collapse/</a><br>
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[video from GBH Forum network ]<br>
<b>Prof. Paul A. Berkman: Struggles Over The Melting Arctic</b><br>
May 1, 2021<br>
GBH Forum Network<br>
Professor Paul Arthur Berkman is a science diplomat, applying,
training and refining informed decision making.<br>
<br>
U.S. President Donald Trump left many scratching their heads when it
was rumored that he was looking to purchase the large island nation
of Greenland from Denmark. While any potential deal seems highly
unlikely, the event shows the changing opinion within the U.S.
government toward engagement with the Arctic region. Because of
climate change, large sheets of arctic ice are melting, exposing
vast stores of natural gas and oil. With Russia and China already
miles ahead with their Arctic strategies, can the U.S. catch up?<br>
<br>
In 2010, Berkman co-directed the first formal dialogue between NATO
and Russia regarding environmental security in the Arctic Ocean.
Most recently, he was awarded the Fulbright Arctic Chair 2021-2022
by the US Department of State with funding from the US Congress and
support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Professor
Berkman built international networks at Tufts University from
2015-2020 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He founded
the first Science Diplomacy Center in the world in an academic
institution, now directed through EvREsearch LTD, where he is the
Chief Executive Officer. In addition to coordinating the Arctic
Options/Pan-Arctic Options projects from 2013-2021, Professor
Berkman is a Faculty Associate with the Program on Negotiation (PON)
at the Harvard Law School and an Associate Director of Science
Diplomacy in the Harvard-MIT Public Disputes Program. He also works
as an Associated Fellow with the United Nations Institute for
Training and Research (UNITAR), developing global initiatives with
science diplomacy and its engine of informed decision making.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM_irWt0K9s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM_irWt0K9s</a><br>
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[Down-under dumb one]<br>
<b>Ignore, defend and pretend: Scott Morrison’s G7 climate strategy
is embarrassing</b><br>
Bill Hare<br>
Australia’s PM will be the odd man out on cutting emissions. His
peers will know this, despite the bluster he will put up<br>
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Morrison says he’ll argue that nobody has the right to tell
Australia to set targets and timetables to cut emissions, despite
the fact Australia agreed to do just that when it signed up to the
Paris agreement. And in Paris Australia agreed with everybody else
to upgrade its 2030 target with high ambition in 2020, a process now
deferred until Glasgow later this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This will be seen for what it is – in polite terms “free-riding”;
back at home in Australia we call it “bludging”.<br>
<br>
He’ll have to continue to ignore the Paris agreement-compatible 1.5C
energy scenarios, the latest being from the International Energy
Agency, that say the world has to phase out the use of coal at the
latest by 2040, and phase out gas by around 2050. The IEA has also
no new fossil fuel investments from this year if we are to meet the
1.5C limit. Yet Morrison’s government is pushing a gas-led recovery,
both domestically and internationally. The IEA net zero report shows
Australian LNG exports peaking in the mid-2020s and on the decline
by 2030 to low levels in the following decade or so. If Paris is
properly implemented, the gas and coal export industry is going to
just dry up.<br>
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In going to the G7 and railing against increased ambition on climate
change, Morrison is going against the tide of history and science
and will – wittingly or not – be seen as undermining an essential
global movement towards real lasting and ambitious action on climate
change. The US climate envoy, John Kerry, has said, and I very much
agree with him, that this is our last best moment to take sufficient
action to limit warming to 1.5C and the targets we adopt by 2030
will be determining.<br>
<p>To have Australia emerge at this moment in history as a nation so
obsessed with its internal climate wars that its leader will ride
into action at the G7 on behalf of coal and gas industries whose
time has come is more than embarrassing. He needs to read the
room.</p>
<p> Bill Hare, a physicist and climate scientist, is the managing
director of Climate Analytics</p>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/11/ignore-defend-and-pretend-scott-morrisons-g7-climate-strategy-is-embarrassing">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/11/ignore-defend-and-pretend-scott-morrisons-g7-climate-strategy-is-embarrassing</a><br>
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[important heroic actions of harvest and delivery]<br>
<b>Talking Shop: Solutions Journalism</b><br>
May 24, 2021<br>
Covering Climate Now<br>
<br>
CCNow partnered with Solutions Journalism Network (SJN) to break
down the process and impact of storytelling that investigates
solutions with just as much rigor as issues. Joining us as panelists
were: <br>
- Fara Warner, Initiative Manager, Solutions Journalism Network <br>
- Vania Andre, Board Chair and Publisher, The Haitian Times<br>
- Doug Fraser, Environmental Reporter, Cape Cod Times and Member of
Gannett/USA Today National Climate Change Team. <br>
Mark Hertsgaard, CCNow’s executive director and the environment
correspondent for The Nation, served as moderator.<br>
<br>
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are exposed to stories that help them understand problems and
challenges, and stories that show potential ways to respond. They
help reporters, producers, and editors bring the same attention and
rigor to stories about responses to problems as they do to the
problems themselves.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBIVuziGfsM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBIVuziGfsM</a><br>
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[video interview about radical actions at the G7 Summit]<br>
<b>Sky News | Tim Crosland | G7 Summit, Cornwall | 11 June 2021 |
Extinction Rebellion UK</b><br>
Jun 11, 2021<br>
Extinction Rebellion<br>
Extinction Rebellion spokesperson Tim Crosland is interviewed by
Adam Boulton on Sky News 11 June 2021 (1430)<br>
<br>
Help XR mobilise and donate: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://extinctionrebellion.uk/donate/">https://extinctionrebellion.uk/donate/</a><br>
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International: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rebellion.global/">https://rebellion.global/</a><br>
Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR">https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR</a> <br>
Facebook: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/XRebellionUK/">https://www.facebook.com/XRebellionUK/</a><br>
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1. Tell The Truth <br>
2. Act Now <br>
3. Beyond Politics<br>
<br>
World Map of Extinction Rebellion Groups:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rebellion.global/branches/">https://rebellion.global/branches/</a><br>
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#extinctionrebellion<br>
#climatechange<br>
#globalwarming<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk5at1n3NtA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk5at1n3NtA</a><br>
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[Everyone in Kansas City knows it's true]<br>
<b>It’s not your imagination. Kansas City temperatures are hotter
than they used to be</b><br>
Kansas City Wheeler Downtown Airport: The annual average temperature
increased .2 of a degree from 56.7 to 56.9 degrees. The annual
maximum temperature increased .3 of a degree from 66 to 66.3
degrees. The annual minimum temperature remained unchanged at 47.5
degrees.<br>
<br>
The annual average precipitation decreased .93 of an inch from 39.06
to 38.13 inches.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/your-kcq/article251969973.html">https://www.kansascity.com/news/your-kcq/article251969973.html</a><br>
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[video - there's already a fee being paid, not in money, in
consequences]<br>
<b>Carbon Fees, Putting a Price on Pollution</b><br>
Jun 10, 2021<br>
Facing Future<br>
#CarbonFees put a price on pollution. Sign the petition to President
Biden asking him to initiate these fees at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facingfuture.earth/">https://www.facingfuture.earth/</a> Why do we allow the air, the
rivers, the land and the oceans to be used as sewers? Because it's
free. No one is charged for the greenhouse gases that are emited by
our industrial society. Instead, we all pay the price as our
health, and the entire ecosystem of the Earth deteriorates. The
cost in terms of these "externalities" is staggering. <br>
When California put a price on the return of beverage containers,
it resulted in an 85% return rate. 360 billion bottles and cans have
been recycled. Now #BillShireman, the architect of that first
#BottleBIll wants to put a price on pollution. #EarthX, which he
co-founded with Trammel Crow, has brought over 2 million people from
the left and the right to vote for politicians who will put real
solutions to the climate crisis on the table, recognizing that we
are all "In This Together".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDdnL5Hl_XI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDdnL5Hl_XI</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming June
12, 1992<br>
</b></font><br>
At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 154 countries, including the United States,
sign the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change aimed at
preventing further global warming. The next day, in a somewhat
contentious press conference, US President George H. W. Bush
discusses the conference and defends his administration's
environmental record. <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/26576-1">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/26576-1</a><br>
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