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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>June 25, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[PBS news discovers global warming - stark video]<br>
<b>A leaked UN report warns 'worst is yet to come' on climate
change. Here's how you can help</b><br>
Jun 23, 2021<br>
PBS NewsHour<br>
2.65M subscribers<br>
A leaked draft report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change paints the starkest picture yet of the
accelerating danger caused by human use of coal, oil, and gas. It
warns of coming unlivable heat waves, widespread hunger and drought,
rising sea levels and extinction. To understand the report's
warnings, William Brangham turns to atmospheric scientist Katharine
Hayoe.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcoyIjreBDg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcoyIjreBDg</a><br>
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[Heatwave!]<br>
<b>Dangerous Heat Risk! National Weather Service</b><br>
A dangerous heatwave with record breaking and triple digit
temperatures is expected this weekend into next week over the
Northwest U.S. Excessive Heat Watches and Warnings have been issued.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.weather.gov/pdt/">https://www.weather.gov/pdt/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.weather.gov/">https://www.weather.gov/</a><br>
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[prepared but not ready]<br>
<b>Weather Service warns of ‘dangerous’ and ‘historic’ heat wave in
Pacific Northwest</b><br>
Seattle, Portland and Spokane could see temperatures near and above
100 degrees Sunday into early next week.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/22/heat-wave-pacific-northwest-historic/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/06/22/heat-wave-pacific-northwest-historic/</a><br>
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[Heatwave Russia]<br>
<b>120-year record in jeopardy as Moscow sizzles under rare,
historic heat wave</b><br>
By Maura Kelly, AccuWeather meteorologist...<br>
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On Tuesday, parts of Moscow reached 94.5 degrees F (34.7 degrees C),
according to an official reading by the Russian weather service
Roshydromet, which ties the all-time June record set in 1901.<br>
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Preliminary temperature reports show the Russian capital reached 95
F (35 C) on Wednesday, which may break the record high temperature
for June.<br>
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"The rare heat wave is forecast to continue through Sunday," said
AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tyler Roys, adding that on average
Moscow records about only one 90 degree F (32 degree C) or above
reading every four years, with no days above 95 F (35 C)...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/historic-heat-wave-bakes-moscow-russia-eastern-europe/967573">https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/historic-heat-wave-bakes-moscow-russia-eastern-europe/967573</a><br>
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[Dr James Hansen]<br>
<b>Global Problems Require a Global Solution</b><br>
James Hansen - 24 June 2021<br>
Fareed Zakaria attracts high level guests to his program because of
its reach and objectivity. He lets his guests have the last word on
their topic. Yet Zakaria’s interpretations of issues of the day –
which he labels as “his take” – stand out as especially penetrating
and insightful.<br>
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On Sunday this week Zakaria ended his program with a concise
description of an effective approach to address climate change – in
just a few minutes he described how carbon fee-and-dividend could be
made near-global. I won’t try to summarize his take – it’s
impossible to match his clarity and brevity, which includes great
illustrations.<br>
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In contrast to carbon fee-and-dividend, most governments prefer the
“red-tape” approach: increased government regulations with the
government picking technology winners and losers. <br>
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Governments have followed the red tape approach for three decades,
ever since the Framework Convention on Climate Change was approved
by almost all nations in 1992. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol and the 2015
Paris Agreement are designed to allow all nations to follow the red
tape approach within their countries. As a result, global carbon
emissions have continued to rise.<br>
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The red tape approach cannot work because it ignores economics. It
lets the fossil fuel industry continue to use the atmosphere –
somewhere – as a free dumping ground for carbon waste. Fossil fuels
might be regulated away in some nations, but the fuels will be
burned elsewhere.<br>
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Fossil fuels are amazingly effective in raising living standards;
one gallon (3.7 liters) of gasoline (petrol) contains the work
equivalent of 400 hours of labor by a healthy adult. That
beneficial property of fossil fuels – we now realize – carries with
it an existential threat. <br>
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Continued carbon emissions will make low latitudes of Earth
uncomfortable if not uninhabitable. Coastal cities worldwide will
begin to go underwater during the lifetime of today’s young people.
Emigration pressures from low latitudes and coastal regions may make
the planet ungovernable, and autocratic governments will be more
likely to gain and retain power.<br>
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For a time, I thought governments did not understand the climate and
energy problem. But when I visited a dozen countries in 2007-2009 –
as discussed in Storms of My Grandchildren – I saw the power of
special interests. The fossil fuel industry liked the red-tape
approach. They were happy to see governments set long-term emission
targets and adopt emission trading schemes, which reduce some
national emissions but allow global emissions to remain high or even
rise.<br>
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Barack Obama’s election in 2008 was promising; he spoke of a “planet
in peril” in the campaign. – but his team concluded that they “could
not get one vote” is the U.S. Senate for carbon fee-and-dividend.
They went with the red-tape approach, as described in the drafts of
chapters 42 and 44 of Sophie’s Planet, and global emissions
continued to rise.<br>
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The story may yet have a happy ending, thanks largely to the insight
and dedication of Marshall Saunders, as described in those two
chapters. Saunders formed Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) to advocate
for carbon fee-and-dividend. CCL now has several hundred thousand
members in the United States and it has spread to other nations
(Fig. 2).<br>
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This year we should learn whether governments are at last serious
about addressing global warming. President Biden has the authority
to collect a carbon fee from the small number of ultimate sources
(domestic mines and ports of entry): the Supreme Court ruled, in
Massachusetts versus EPA, that CO2 is a pollutant. EPA can impose a
fee on pollutants, as my attorney Dan Galpern and I described in a
recent op-ed. Please consider joining and signing our petition.<br>
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The danger is that President Biden will cave in to pressure from his
left flank and instead push for a “green new deal” that advocates
estimate would cost trillions of dollars. The proposal seems to be
a red-tape approach, with government picking winners and losers.<br>
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Realism implies that the green new deal is not going to happen as
proposed. It will be tragic if advocates for climate justice insist
on that approach. The alternative – carbon fee-and-dividend – in
fact promotes social justice, as Dan Miller and I explained in an
op-ed and testimony to Congress. Fee-and-dividend is
anti-regressive (i.e., progressive): wealthy people lose money
because of their large carbon footprint, but most low-income and
middle-income people come out ahead, with their dividend exceeding
increased costs caused by the carbon fee.<br>
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A global problem requires a global solution. China and the U.S. are
the two biggest economies and the biggest polluters. If they agree
on a rising carbon fee, the climate problem can be solved.<br>
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I am optimistic that cooperation is possible. Friends, colleagues
and former students in China assure us that the Chinese government
realizes that we are all in the same boat and need to cooperate.
The question is whether that cooperation will be achieved soon
enough.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2020/20200731_StudentLeadership.pdf">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2020/20200731_StudentLeadership.pdf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://csas.earth.columbia.edu/">https://csas.earth.columbia.edu/</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
25, 2008</b></font><br>
<p>The New York Times reports: "The [George W. Bush] White House in
December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s
conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be
controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message
containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A.
officials said last week."<br>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25epa.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25epa.html</a>
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href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/06/26/174068/epa-email-denial/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/06/26/174068/epa-email-denial/</a>
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