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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>July 15, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[predicted - but not this soon]<br>
<b>Climate change: Amazon regions emit more carbon than they absorb</b><br>
By Matt McGrath - Environment correspondent<br>
Significant parts of the world's largest tropical forest have
started to emit more CO2 than they absorb.<br>
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The south-east is worst-affected, say scientists, with higher rates
of tree loss and an increasing number of fires...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57839364">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57839364</a><br>
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[Published in Journal Nature]<br>
<b>Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from
deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01026-5">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01026-5</a><br>
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[Podcast audio of audio clips]<br>
<b>The Heat Wave That Hit the Pacific Northwest</b><br>
The Daily<br>
The heat wave that hit the usually cool and rainy American Pacific
Northwest was a shock to many — Oregon and Washington were covered
by a blanket of heat in the triple digits.<br>
After the temperatures soared, a group of scientists quickly came
together to answer a crucial question: How much is climate change to
blame?<br>
Guest: Henry Fountain, a climate change reporter for The New York
Times; and Sergio Olmos, a freelancer for The Times.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000528839516">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000528839516</a><br>
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Places that are usually cool and often rainy, such as Oregon and
Washington, were covered by a blanket of heat in the triple digits —
an extreme heat that damaged infrastructure and claimed 193 lives.<br>
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After the temperatures soared, a group of scientists quickly came
together to answer a question that was on the minds of many: How
much is climate change to blame?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/podcasts/the-daily/heat-wave-climate-change-pacific-northwest.html#commentsContainer">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/podcasts/the-daily/heat-wave-climate-change-pacific-northwest.html#commentsContainer</a><br>
[the role of climate change = the role of CO2 = the role of
fossil fuel combustion = means it is human caused]<br>
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[Mal-adaptation]<br>
<b>U.S. Companies Say Climate Change Is a Problem—But Still Lobby
Against Solutions</b><br>
A new report from sustainability nonprofit Ceres finds that most
large companies aren’t putting lobbying muscle behind climate goals.<br>
While more than 80% of the largest U.S. companies have set emissions
reduction goals, less than half engaged with lawmakers to advocate
for science-based climate policies — and more than 20% have lobbied
against them, according to report released Tuesday by sustainability
nonprofit Ceres.<br>
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“Claiming credit for making operational climate change commitments
while undermining the necessary policy measures to achieve those
very commitments poses significant reputational and financial risks
to companies,” the report’s authors wrote.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-13/u-s-companies-say-climate-change-is-a-problem-but-still-lobby-against-solutions">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-13/u-s-companies-say-climate-change-is-a-problem-but-still-lobby-against-solutions</a><br>
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["I am shocked, SHOCKED!" to read or hear this article]<br>
<b>New report suggests corporate climate change pledges aren’t that
valuable</b><br>
Companies that say they want to stop climate change aren’t doing
enough<br>
By Justine Calma@justcalma Jul 13, 2021<br>
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Corporations and lawmakers alike will need to do much more to meet
the scale and urgency of the climate crisis. Scientists have found
that global greenhouse gas emissions need to drop to essentially
zero within a few decades to avoid a future on Earth to which life
will struggle to adapt. But proposals by the Biden administration to
overhaul US infrastructure and make the economy cleaner and greener
are stalling in Congress.<br>
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Some companies have flip-flopped on climate change over the past
several years, especially as political winds changed. Twelve of the
companies Ceres assessed have both lobbied for and against policies
aimed at stopping climate change. Take Ford: it previously supported
Trump’s efforts to weaken fuel efficiency standards. But it switched
sides to back California’s stricter standards in 2019 and then
announced plans to reach carbon neutrality — cutting down and
offsetting all of its emissions — by 2050.<br>
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Other companies are guilty of climate inaction by association,
according to the report. About three-quarters of S&P 100
companies are members of the US Chamber of Commerce, which Ceres
says “has long resisted the policies the nation needs to make its
economy more sustainable.” Apple is the only company Ceres assessed
that abandoned the chamber over its position on climate change.<br>
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Protesting inaction might be just what the US Chamber of Commerce
and companies need to make changes. It’s not just Apple. Companies
are facing more pressure from employees, consumers, and activist
shareholders who are concerned about the environment. Shareholders
have even recently pushed fossil fuel companies like Chevron and
Exxon to hasten efforts to work more sustainably. There are plenty
of ways to push for change, and every strategy will likely have to
play a role in saving the planet.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/13/22575651/corporate-climate-change-pledges-lobbying-report-s-p-100-index">https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/13/22575651/corporate-climate-change-pledges-lobbying-report-s-p-100-index</a>
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[good question]<br>
<b>Is There No Way Out of the Climate Crisis?</b><br>
There isn’t without global action against fossil fuel companies.<br>
By Rebecca Gordon - - JULY 13, 2021<br>
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It’s impossible to overstate the urgency of the moment. And yet, as
a species, we’re acting like the children of indulgent parents who
provide multiple “last chances” to behave. Now, nature has run out
of patience and we’re running out of chances. So much must be done
globally, especially to control the giant fossil-fuel companies. We
can only hope that real action will emerge from November’s
international climate conference. And here in the U.S., unless
congressional Democrats succeed in ramming through major action to
stop climate change before the 2022 midterms, we’ll have lost one
more last, best chance for survival.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-crisis-fires/">https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-crisis-fires/</a><br>
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[UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021]<br>
<b>Glasgow was chosen by the UK to host COP26 due to its experience,
commitment to sustainability and world-class facilities.</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ukcop26.org/">https://ukcop26.org/</a><br>
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[Analysis from Foreign Policy]<br>
<b>The American West’s Climate Hellscape Is Just a Preview</b><br>
Droughts, heat waves, and floods are the new normal—unless
policymakers get serious.<br>
By Christina Lu - - JULY 12, 2021<br>
For the past few weeks, the American West has been confronting a
hellish climate nightmare of scorching heat waves, a severe drought,
and raging wildfires.<br>
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And it’s not just the West—or even the United States. In typically
chilly Siberia, ground temperatures reached a blistering 118 degrees
Fahrenheit. The Middle East has been gripped by a searing heat wave
and a drought that has especially hammered Syria. In late June, a
small Canadian village was almost completely consumed by wildfire.
China is also bracing for another year of extreme weather, including
torrential rains and flash floods, as well as heat waves. <br>
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While extreme, these current conditions aren’t entirely surprising.
Scientists have long warned of the dangers of climate change, though
the West’s current drought—which is more intense and expansive than
in previous years—is a worrisome sign of what’s to come. Without
substantial policy responses, these climate extremes could continue
to plunge communities into crisis—and fundamentally change society.
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“It’s really a wake-up call to us that climate change is here and
it’s getting worse, and we’re not prepared,” said Peter Gleick,
co-founder of the Pacific Institute.<br>
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Although high temperatures and droughts aren’t unusual in the
American West, climate change—which is fueled by human activity—has
made them more intense and frequent. In a recent study, a team of
climate researchers found that the scale and severity of June’s
record heat wave would have been “virtually impossible” without
climate change. <br>
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“There is a detectable human fingerprint on essentially all
unprecedented extreme heat waves,” said Daniel Swain, a climate
scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. <br>
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And its impact has been deadly. Extreme heat kills, especially among
the elderly and in places ill-equipped to handle it—and with the
intensity of this year’s heat wave, it already has. When record heat
struck Washington and Oregon in late June, it took the lives of an
estimated 90 people; in British Columbia, it claimed the lives of
hundreds more. <br>
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Throughout the West, the drought has also threatened communities
through more indirect channels, such as the water supply. In June,
officials warned that Lake Oroville, California’s second-largest
reservoir, was being depleted so quickly that it might have to close
for the first time ever—a closure that could affect the electricity
for 800,000 homes. Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir, which
helps power the gigantic Hoover Dam, also reached historic lows,
further stoking concerns about the supply of water and electricity
for many states in the West. <br>
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On top of a stressed water supply, the heat has also strained power
grids and prompted blackouts. “We’re seeing shutdowns just at the
moment when people need power the most,” said Alice Hill, a senior
fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign
Relations. The impacts aren’t limited to energy, either. “Once the
power grid goes, the health sector is affected, the transportation
sector, communications, financial sector—all of them bear costs when
we lose our access to power,” she said.<br>
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As the drought deepens, its environmental impact could be
particularly dire. Ecosystems often can’t adapt to changing climates
as rapidly as humans can, and states like California are already
home to a number of endangered fish species. On the coast of Canada,
an estimated 1 billion sea creatures were killed in June’s heat
wave. <br>
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“During severe droughts, those ecosystems really suffer the most,”
Gleick said. “We’re worried about endangered species going extinct;
we’re worried about ecosystems drying up.” <br>
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When temperatures soared in late June, U.S. President Joe Biden
pledged $37 million to support wildfire mitigation projects in one
hard-hit California county and promised to raise the wage of federal
firefighters to $15 an hour. Earlier, in May, the government also
announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency would double
the funding available for states to brace for extreme weather
disasters.<br>
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But in Washington, Democrats have long faced political hurdles to
combating climate change, particularly from Republicans. Former U.S.
President Donald Trump famously called climate change a hoax and
withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord; more
recently, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson dismissed the climate crisis
as “bullshit.” These divides are also reflected more broadly in each
parties’ base: Almost half of Democrats say addressing climate
change is a top personal concern, compared to just 10 percent of
Republicans, according to the Pew Research Center. <br>
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In June, a group of Republicans formed the Conservative Climate
Caucus to address climate change—but the group has refused to
endorse specific policies, and its leader, Rep. John Curtis, has
said that climate change should not be called a “crisis.” And while
a separate bipartisan infrastructure bill for $579 billion—which
activists hoped would focus on combating climate change—earmarked
$47 billion for climate resilience, it excluded Biden’s key
measures, including a clean electricity standard, just when the
havoc currently being caused by climate change was made most clear.
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“The truth is, we’re playing catch-up,” Biden said in June. “This is
an area that’s been under-resourced.”<br>
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The current government response is “nowhere near the levels that are
required to adequately prepare the United States for the climate
risks it currently faces, much less those in the future,” said Hill,
who noted that Washington has so far incorrectly focused its efforts
on post-disaster recovery efforts, not preemptive risk reduction.
Biden also has yet to adopt a national adaptation strategy, the
Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow said, even though most
developed countries have one and creating such a plan is critical to
addressing key risks. <br>
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“We’ve built our entire civilization on the assumption that climate
is relatively stable,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at
Texas Tech University. “So it’s as if we’ve been driving into the
future looking in the rearview mirror.”<br>
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Others reach for similar metaphors to describe the shrinking window
of opportunity to enact policies to reduce the emission of
greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Even as the once-future
impacts of climate change hit home, Republicans in several states
are redoubling efforts to force the use of fossil fuels and further
jack up harmful emissions. And in China, government warnings of
extreme weather still don’t even mention the role of climate change.<br>
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“Climate change is not self-perpetuating; we’re perpetuating it
through the choices that we continue to make,” said Swain, the
climate scientist, who compared the current climate crisis to a
runaway truck. It’s not that the truck’s brakes are bad—the world
just isn’t using them, he said. <br>
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“We still are in control,” said Swain. “We’re just making some
pretty bad decisions about what we do with that control that we have
over the climate system.”<br>
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But unless policymakers at all levels start pumping the brakes, the
extreme climate conditions that the world is enduring now will only
intensify, as will its consequences. Critical infrastructure will
likely continue to buckle under the scalding heat. Ecosystems will
suffer, and some species may go extinct. Many more people will
likely die. <br>
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What we’re seeing now is “a harbinger of what’s coming,” Gleick
said. “We need to wake up. We need to realize that the consequences
of a warming planet are going to be bad for everyone—and they’re
going to get worse.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/12/american-west-heatwave-drought-climate-change/">https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/12/american-west-heatwave-drought-climate-change/</a>
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[radical discussion video ]<br>
<b>Society IS COLLAPSING: Prepare For OFF-GRID Living!</b><br>
Jul 13, 2021<br>
Russell Brand<br>
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I spoke to Bradley Garrett author of Bunker: Building for the End
Times on my #UnderTheSkin podcast this week. Here he talks about his
time with Doomsday Preppers and reveals how they think, what kind of
person they are and why they're preparing to live off-grid!<br>
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You can listen to the rest of this audio podcast on Luminary on
Apple Podcasts here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://apple.co/russell">http://apple.co/russell</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ifB5jHCI8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ifB5jHCI8</a><br>
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<p> [fun things to know and tell - from Laurie the Librarian]<br>
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<p><b>How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were Born?</b><br>
As the world warms because of human-induced climate change, most
of us can expect to see more days when temperatures hit 90 degrees
Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) or higher. See how your hometown
has changed so far and how much hotter it may get.</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html?referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html?referringSource=articleShare</a></p>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming July
15, 1976</b></font><br>
<br>
July 15, 1976: At the Democratic National Convention, presidential
nominee Jimmy Carter states, "We can have an America that has
reconciled its economic needs with its desire for an environment
that we can pass on with pride to the next generation."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Car">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Car</a>
(34:46--34:58) <br>
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