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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>July 8, 2021</b></font></i></p>
<font size="+1">[What next]</font><br>
<font size="+1"><b>California braces for dangerously high
temperatures in new heatwave</b><br>
Temperatures could reach 115F in the Central Valley and 120F in
desert areas like Palm Springs<br>
</font><font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/07/california-heatwave-high-temperatures-inland-central-valley">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/07/california-heatwave-high-temperatures-inland-central-valley</a></font>
<p><font size="+1">- -</font></p>
<font size="+1">[Fire is next]</font><br>
<font size="+1"><b>Wildfires threaten all of the West — and one
group more than others</b><br>
That threat to Latinos has grown in the past decade, and they are
twice as likely to live in areas most threatened by wildfires
relative to the overall U.S. population.<br>
</font><font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/06/wildfires-latino-threat-498273">https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/06/wildfires-latino-threat-498273</a></font>
<p><font size="+1">- -</font></p>
<font size="+1">[follow the data]</font><br>
<font size="+1"><b>Pace of California wildfires so far this year
greatly exceeds disastrous 2020 numbers</b><br>
</font><font size="+1">Associated Press - Jul 7, 2021 <br>
The number of wildfires and amount of land burned in parched
California so far this year greatly exceed totals for the same
period in the disastrous wildfire year of 2020.<br>
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Between Jan. 1 and July 4, there were 4,599 fires that scorched
114.8 square miles, according to the California Department of
Forestry and Fire Protection.<br>
In the same time frame last year, there were 3,847 fires that
blackened 48.6 square miles.<br>
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<font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ktla.com/news/california/pace-of-california-wildfires-so-far-this-year-far-exceed-disastrous-2020-numbers/">https://ktla.com/news/california/pace-of-california-wildfires-so-far-this-year-far-exceed-disastrous-2020-numbers/</a><br>
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<font size="+1">[We felt it]</font><br>
<font size="+1"><b>North America endured hottest June on record</b><br>
Satellite data shows temperature peaks are lasting longer and
rising higher</font><br>
<font size="+1">- -</font><br>
<font size="+1">The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change
Service also revealed that June temperatures in North America were
1.2C higher than the average from 1991 to 2020, which is more than
2C above pre-industrial levels...<br>
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This is the 12th consecutive year of above-average June
temperatures in the region, and the greatest increase recorded
until now...<br>
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</font><font size="+1">Meteorologists said these anomalies were made
more possible by the broader pattern of warming, which was caused
by human emissions.<br>
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“Natural variability and a warming trend make a freakish event
even more freakish,” said Carlo Buontempo, the director of the
Copernicus Climate Change Service. “Because the climate is
generally warming and so even in Niña year we see very high
temperatures.”<br>
</font><font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/07/north-america-endured-hottest-june-on-record">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/07/north-america-endured-hottest-june-on-record</a><br>
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<font size="+1">[cooking by the sun]</font><br>
<font size="+1"><b>An Estimated 1 Billion Sea Creatures Cooked to
Death in the Pacific Northwest Heat Wave</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">“A mussel on the shore in some ways is like a
toddler left in a car on a hot day."</font><br>
<font size="+1">Molly Taft - July 7, 2021</font><br>
<font size="+1">There’s bad news for crustacean lovers. Some
researchers are estimating that more than 1 billion sea
creatures—including clams, mussels, barnacles, and
snails—basically cooked to death during the record Pacific
Northwest heat wave...</font><br>
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<font size="+1">Chris Harley, a marine biologist at the University
of British Columbia, told the CBC that he was “pretty stunned”
walking along Vancouver’s Kitsilano Beach late last month, where
was able to smell the mass death and see endless amounts of
mussels cracked open with meat inside—which indicates they had
recently died....</font><br>
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<font size="+1">The incredibly hot temperatures in Vancouver and
some poor timing with the tides seem to have combined to create an
incredibly sad situation for the region’s crustaceans. During the
heatwave in late June, when temperatures reached 104 degrees
Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) in Vancouver, Harley’s lab
recorded temperatures up to 122 degrees F (50 degrees Celsius)
along the shoreline using a thermal imaging camera. Crustaceans
like mussels and clams were then exposed to these crazy high
temperatures for more than six hours when the tide went out....</font><br>
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<font size="+1">“A mussel on the shore in some ways is like a
toddler left in a car on a hot day,” Harley told the CBC. “They
are stuck there until the parent comes back, or in this case, the
tide comes back in, and there’s very little they can do. They’re
at the mercy of the environment. And on Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
during the heat wave, it just got so hot that the mussels, there
was nothing they could do.”...</font><br>
<font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/an-estimated-1-billion-sea-creatures-cooked-to-death-in-1847244037">https://gizmodo.com/an-estimated-1-billion-sea-creatures-cooked-to-death-in-1847244037</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1">[3 min video from Peter Sinclair]</font><br>
<font size="+1"><b>Analysts dissect historic Pacific Northwest ‘heat
dome’</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">Jul 6, 2021</font><br>
<font size="+1">YaleClimateConnections</font><br>
<font size="+1">Record-breaking consecutive 100-degree-plus days
left the region staggering: Experts explain the phenomenon and
prospects for more of the same in coming years.</font><br>
<font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkOlUZr1tNY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkOlUZr1tNY</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1">more at --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/07/analysts-dissect-historic-pacific-northwest-heat-dome/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/07/analysts-dissect-historic-pacific-northwest-heat-dome/</a></font><br>
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[war of opinion manipulation]<br>
<b>Exxon Exposed: Greenpeace Tricks Top Lobbyists into Naming
Senators They Use to Block Climate Action</b><br>
video and transcript
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/6/exxon_blocks_congressional_action_climate">https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/6/exxon_blocks_congressional_action_climate</a><br>
<blockquote>Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, the chair of the
House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, has announced
plans to ask the CEOs of Exxon and other fossil fuel companies to
testify before the committee about their role in blocking
congressional action to address the climate emergency. Khanna made
the request after Greenpeace UK released a video of two lobbyists
discussing Exxon’s secretive efforts to fight climate initiatives
in Washington, revealing how the oil giant supported a carbon tax
to appear proactive about climate change while privately
acknowledging that such a tax has no chance of being passed. We
feature the complete video and speak to one of the activists
involved with it. “The reality is that almost nothing has changed
in the Exxon playbook,” says Charlie Kronick, senior climate
adviser at Greenpeace UK. “This has been going on for decades.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/6/exxon_blocks_congressional_action_climate">https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/6/exxon_blocks_congressional_action_climate</a><br>
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[Why not?]<br>
<b>Volts podcast: treating fossil fuels like nuclear weapons, with
Tzeporah Berman</b><br>
A conversation about the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.<br>
David Roberts<br>
For as long as I've been covering climate change, it's been
conventional wisdom among economists — and the kind of people who
aspire to please economists — that the proper focus of climate
policy is on demand. We must reduce demand for fossil fuels, the
argument goes, otherwise any supply we shut down will just pop up
somewhere else.<br>
<br>
Activists have always disagreed with this logic. For many of them,
the fight against climate change is a fight for places — specific
places, with histories, peoples, and ecosystems — and every fossil
fuel project is, in some way or another, an assault on a place. Over
the last decade, more economists and policy wonks have come around
to their way of thinking, questioning both the economics and the
sociology of the demand-focused conventional wisdom. As things stand
now, wealthy fossil fuel–producing countries are making grand
emission reduction commitments while continuing to ramp up
production. All that fossil fuel has to go somewhere. It creates its
own set of commitments and investments, its own momentum.<br>
<br>
My guest today, Canadian activist Tzeporah Berman, has been fighting
for places since grunge and flannel were big. There is no way to do
her resume justice in a short intro, or else I would never get to
the podcast, but here are some highlights.<br>
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In the 1990s, she fought clear-cutting projects with blockades and
civil disobedience. In 2000, she co-founded ForestEthics, which uses
clever communications campaigns to shame companies into using less
old-growth wood...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-treating-fossil-fuels">https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-treating-fossil-fuels</a><br>
The IPCC is clear: there are already enough fossil fuels in known
reserves to blow the world past its 1.5°C temperature limit. Yet
fossil fuel production continues to increase.<br>
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Fossil fuels have become a threat to all of humanity, as nuclear
weapons are, and just as with nuclear weapons, Berman believes we
need a global agreement to cap their growth and ramp them down. The
Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty is meant to be a template for
such an agreement.<br>
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Though the treaty is relatively new, it has already been signed by
nine cities and subnational governments, more than 480
organizations, and over 12,000 individuals, including a wide array
of academics, researchers, and scientists.<br>
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I called Berman to hear more about the need to address fossil fuel
supply, the motivations behind the treaty, and where it might go in
the future.<br>
listen at --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-treating-fossil-fuels">https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-treating-fossil-fuels</a><br>
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[new data]<br>
<b>Extreme temperatures kill 5 million people a year with
heat-related deaths rising, study finds</b><br>
More people died of cold than heat in past 20 years but climate
change is shifting the balance<br>
Donna Lu and Lisa Cox -- 7 Jul 2021<br>
More than 5 million people die each year globally because of
excessively hot or cold conditions, a 20-year study has found – and
heat-related deaths are on the rise.<br>
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The study involving dozens of scientists around the world found that
9.4% of global deaths each year are attributable to heat or cold
exposure, equivalent to 74 extra deaths per 100,000 people.<br>
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It’s prompted calls for better housing insulation and more
solar-powered air conditioning, as well as warnings that climate
change will increase temperature-linked deaths in the future.<br>
<br>
Researchers analysed mortality and weather data from 750 locations
in 43 countries between 2000 and 2019, and found the average daily
temperature in these locations increased by 0.26C per decade.<br>
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The study found more people had died of cold than heat over the
two-decade period. But heat-related deaths were increasing, while
cold-linked deaths were dropping.<br>
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The findings come as a separate analysis by the Global Climate and
Health Alliance ranked Australia equal last out of 66 countries for
efforts to include human health concerns in their climate
commitments.<br>
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Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Norway and Iceland all received a
score of zero out of 15 on the report card as countries that failed
to even mention human health in their nationally determined
contributions.<br>
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The organisation also examined what countries were doing to
strengthen their health systems for the burdens caused by the
climate crisis, how much extra funding these policies received, and
to what extent countries acknowledged that reaching net zero
emissions would have co-benefits for human health.<br>
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The European Union was also near the bottom, with a score of one out
of 15, while the US and the UK received scores of 6 and 7
respectively. Costa Rica was ranked highest, scoring 13 out of 15.<br>
<br>
In May, more than 60 health groups, including the Australian Medical
Association and Hesta Super Fund, called on the Morrison government
to prioritise health in Australia’s climate goals under the Paris
agreement.<br>
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“This scorecard shows that Australia is again at the bottom of the
pack when it comes to taking the health effects of climate change
seriously,” said Fiona Armstrong, the executive director of
Australia’s Climate and Health Alliance.<br>
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“The prime minister must both act to reduce emissions, and
prioritise health in our international climate commitments before
COP26 to protect our health.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/extreme-temperatures-kill-5-million-people-a-year-with-heat-related-deaths-rising-study-finds">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/extreme-temperatures-kill-5-million-people-a-year-with-heat-related-deaths-rising-study-finds</a><br>
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[Sarcastic report about a new army on the disinformation
battleground]<br>
<b>Good News, Oil Companies! Fox Is Launching a Weather Channel</b><br>
Fox Weather will reportedly be launching later this year. Sorry,
what?<br>
Molly Taft - July 6, 2021<br>
We’ve reached the final boss level of climate irony. The New York
Times reported Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch, the media tycoon whose
News Corp. owns Fox News, plans to launch a full-time channel
focused on the weather called Fox Weather.<br>
<br>
Apparently, viewers are hungry for weather content—the Weather
Channel’s viewership was up 7% in the first half of this year, while
viewership fell for big cable networks. And looking at the historic
heat waves gripping much of the country this summer—caused partially
by stalled climate action aided by Fox News working in tandem with
oil companies and the Republican Party to spread climate
misinformation—it’s not hard to see why.<br>
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The irony of Fox creating a weather channel, of all things, is as
deep as the rapidly heating ocean and as wide as our swiftly
overheating country. As much of the rest of the world ponders how to
dig ourselves out of this mess we’ve made, Fox News is still
clinging desperately to denial. Last month, star Tucker Carlson used
his show to allege that climate activists want to “experiment to
make children smaller” to fix global warming (spoiler alert: that
is, uh, not true), while in May, climate denier Steve Koonin was
invited to not one, but two Fox News programs to promote his book
claiming that other scientists are getting too worked up about this
global warming thing. Even the supposedly nonpartisan evening news
show hosted by Brett Baier has a distinct denier slant: A Media
Matters analysis of Baier’s climate coverage from 2009 to 2021 found
that a whopping 88% of it ran the gamut from misleading to promoting
bad-faith narratives to flat-out lies.<br>
“It’s not just the bigger climate denial,” said Allison Fisher, the
director of the climate and energy program at Media Matters. Fox
News, Fisher said, “specifically use[s] weather to push climate
denial. That is a long-worn tactic of Fox News, even before Trump
was tweeting out, like, ‘where’s your global warming now?’ during a
snowstorm. That’s a very classic Fox move.”<br>
<br>
Fisher pointed out that as recently as this year, Fox News
contributors used an April cold snap to claim climate change was a
hoax. “They’re emphatic about dismissing the relationship between
climate change and weather, whether it’s during a megastorm or the
wildfires last year or the record-shattering heat this week, and
then also mocking the idea of global warming during moments of
abnormally cold weather,” she said. “They’re the ones who have made
weather political.”<br>
According to the Times, Fox is dipping a toe into this space because
it’s so profitable; it quotes a TV executive saying that “climate
change and the environment will be the story of the next decade,”
while a spokesperson for Fox told the Times the network will offer
“in-depth reporting surrounding all weather conditions, and we are
excited to showcase to viewers what a full-service comprehensive
weather platform can deliver beginning this fall.” Some of Fox’s
future competitors making hay out of the climate crisis could goad
the network into figuring out ways to cover it: The Weather Channel,
the Times reported, has a whole host of climate change programming
planned, including a show about miners looking for minerals in
Greenland exposed by newly melted ice (sorry, what?).<br>
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But Fisher sees a darker possibility for the new weather service.<br>
“It’s the content they’re producing that’s going to get amplified,”
she said. “If they bring on a denier like Marc Morano, if he starts
to get a platform there—that content is going to go on his website,
it’s going to go into other right-wing media infosphere, it’s going
to bounce back on Fox, it’s going to go on social media, and they’re
going to push that out in moments when everybody else is saying,
‘this is climate change’–they’re going to be able to tell this
right-wing media bubble, it’s not.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/climate-supervillain-creating-new-tv-channel-to-report-1847236993">https://gizmodo.com/climate-supervillain-creating-new-tv-channel-to-report-1847236993</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 July
8, 2010</b></font><br>
July 8, 2010: CNN reports on the exoneration of Michael Mann and
other climate scientists who had been falsely accused of fraud in
2009.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/AMbZxVCUT-I">http://youtu.be/AMbZxVCUT-I</a><br>
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