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<p> <font size="+2"><i><b>January 7, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ brief video images -- weathers that have happened, can happen
again, and more often]</i><br>
<b>California Atmospheric River hype video</b><br>
Pacific Northwest Weather Watch<br>
7,478 views Jan 6, 2023<br>
California rain hype video<br>
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<i>[ The Guardian has some conjectures ]</i><br>
<b>Why 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation</b><br>
Judgments across public and private sector expected to throw light
on worst perpetrators and force action<br>
Isabella Kaminski<br>
Wed 4 Jan 2023 <br>
Over the past 12 months, courts from Indonesia to Australia have
made groundbreaking rulings that blocked polluting power plants and
denounced the human rights violations of the climate crisis. But
2023 could be even more important, with hearings and judgments
across the world poised to throw light on the worst perpetrators,
give victims a voice and force recalcitrant governments and
companies into action.<br>
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Although the bulk of climate lawsuits have been filed in the US,
most have been thrown out of court or bogged down in procedural
arguments. This year will, however, finally see a case go to trial
when a group of children and young people between the ages of five
and 21 square off against the state of Montana.<br>
<br>
Over two weeks in June, they will argue that the US state is failing
to protect their constitutional rights, including the right to a
healthy and clean environment, by supporting an energy system driven
by fossil fuels. They will also say climate breakdown is degrading
vital resources such as rivers, lakes, fish and wildlife which are
held in trust for the public.<br>
<br>
“Never before has a climate change trial of this magnitude
happened,” says Andrea Rodgers, senior litigation attorney with Our
Children’s Trust, which is behind the case. “The court will be
deciding the constitutionality of an energy policy that promotes
fossil fuels, as well as a state law that allows agencies to ignore
the impacts of climate change in their decision-making.”<br>
<br>
She said the trial would be watched around the world and “is set to
influence the trajectory of climate change litigation going
forward”.<br>
<br>
Other cases against US states could also be given permission to go
to trial.<br>
<br>
In Canada, a ruling is expected this year in the country’s first
climate lawsuit to have had its day in court. Seven young people,
fronted by now-15-year-old Sophia Mathur, made history last autumn
when they challenged the Ontario government’s rollback of its 2030
greenhouse gas emissions reduction target.<br>
<br>
And in Mexico, young people have led several important court cases
challenging the slow pace of the country’s clean energy system. The
supreme court is due to decide whether they are allowed to seek
justice in at least one case.<br>
<br>
In South Africa – already a hotspot for climate litigation – there
could be decisions in several important cases. One, a constitutional
challenge to the country’s plan to build new coal-fired power
stations during the climate crisis, was heard in November and a
ruling is expected soon.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, the Australian crucible of successful climate litigation
will hear a class action case in June led by Torres Strait islanders
Pabai Pabai and Guy Paul Kabai, who argue the state should slash its
emissions to save their islands from rising sea levels and other
devastating climate impacts...<br>
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Whatever happens in those cases, expect to see many more lawsuits
filed this year, as well as more creative uses of the law. These
will be filed against governments of all levels, based on the most
cutting-edge science, as well as against companies.<br>
The financial sector, in particular, is likely to be a big target,
and there will be continuing waves of related litigation targeting
plastics and biodiversity loss. This year is “shaping up to be a
really important year for climate litigation”, says Mead.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/04/why-2023-will-be-a-watershed-year-for-climate-litigation">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/04/why-2023-will-be-a-watershed-year-for-climate-litigation</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.the-wave.net/climate-litigation-watershed-year/">https://www.the-wave.net/climate-litigation-watershed-year/</a><br>
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[<i> not blame, responsibility ]</i><br>
<b>Accountability Is The Most Important Climate Solution</b><br>
JAN 2, 2023 <br>
<p>
In December 2022, the House Oversight Committee published a second
round of documents received in response to subpoenas issued as
part of its investigation into climate disinformation. You can
read my analysis of those documents—both batches, all 1500-ish
pages of them—over at The Intercept, but I want to draw your
attention today to the investigation itself and what it tells us
about the need for climate accountability.</p>
House Oversight Committee chair Rep Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and chair
of the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on the Environment Ro
Khanna (D-CA) opened their investigation into the fossil fuel
industry's disinformation on the climate crisis in September 2021.
They requested various documents, and asked that the CEOs of five
top oil companies, as well as the American Petroleum Institute and
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, testify before the Committee. The
following month, at an Oversight Committee Hearing, some of those
executives did indeed testify, but none had complied fully with the
Committee's request for documents, so Rep Maloney announced at that
hearing that she would subpoena the withheld documents. Since the
start of the investigation the Committee has received around a
million documents, but has not had the staff resources to comb
through them all or to redact and publish all of the documents that
seem important for both policymakers and the public to be aware of.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.drilledpodcast.com/accountability-is-a-climate-solution/">https://www.drilledpodcast.com/accountability-is-a-climate-solution/</a><br>
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<i>[ Read the documents - link below to archives ]</i><br>
<b>Subpoenaed Fossil Fuel Documents Reveal an Industry Stuck in the
Past</b><br>
The industry is still running the same five-step plan, to the same
end: preserving power, subsidies, and social license.<br>
Amy Westervelt<br>
December 24 2022,<br>
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As part of its investigation into climate disinformation, the House
Oversight Committee subpoenaed documents in November 2021 from four
of the world’s largest oil companies; their U.S. trade association,
the American Petroleum Institute; and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The chamber did not comply with the subpoena, but the rest submitted
a variety of responsive documents, the most salient of which have
been published by the Oversight Committee in two batches. The more
than 1,500 pages include internal communications about media
relations, advertising, and marketing campaigns from 2015 to 2021.<br>
<br>
Taken together, they reveal that the industry’s approach on climate
really hasn’t changed since scientists first started warning that
the burning of fossil fuels was becoming a problem: push “solutions”
that keep fossil fuels profitable, downplay climate impacts,
overstate the industry’s commitments, and bully the media if they
don’t stay on message. It’s the same five-step plan, deployed to the
same end: preserving power, subsidies, and social license...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/24/oil-gas-climate-disinformation/">https://theintercept.com/2022/12/24/oil-gas-climate-disinformation/</a><br>
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<i>[ DW documentary on modern climate change ]</i><br>
<b>Wind and climate change | DW Documentary</b><br>
DW Documentary<br>
4.51M subscribers<br>
Oct 1, 2022 #dwdocumentary #documentary #climatechange<br>
Shifting wind patterns are making extreme weather events more
likely. This is because the wind, which distributes areas of high
and low pressure along the latitude lines of the Earth, is also
being influenced by climate change.<br>
<br>
The wind is the motor for our weather. It brings us both sunshine
and rain. And during the winter months, it regularly blows itself up
into heavy storms. But throughout the globe, climate change is
causing shifts in existing wind systems - with devastating
consequences. Atlantic hurricanes, which build up over the tropics
and often lay waste to swathes of land on the eastern coast of the
US, are becoming more intense and bringing heavier rainfall.<br>
<br>
Scientists are looking for clues as to the precise causes for the
warming in the Arctic, where temperatures are climbing more rapidly
than anywhere else in the world. In the northern hemisphere, rising
temperatures result in wind systems ‘twisting’ at 10-kilometer
altitudes. The Arctic jet stream drives high- and low-pressure areas
around the globe. It travels around the planet from west to east at
speeds of up to 500 kilometers an hour. But in recent years,
meteorologists have noticed more frequent weaker phases in the jet
stream - with fatal consequences for Europe. Droughts like the one
experienced in 2018 and flood catastrophes like that of 2021 are
both likely to recur.<br>
<br>
Researchers on the island of Spitsbergen have already made an
alarming discovery. Climate change is altering the wind, and the
altered wind is accelerating climate change - a dangerous vicious
cycle.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qySBQjSXbfw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qySBQjSXbfw</a>
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<i> [ now is the abnormal time of the intelligent human life on our
planet, philosophizing by Bill Rees ]</i><br>
<b>Too clever by half, but not nearly smart enough - Bill Rees to
the Canadian Club of Rome</b><br>
Canadian Association for the Club of Rome<br>
35,551 views May 12, 2021<br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote>Humans pride themselves as being the most ‘intelligent’
species on Earth yet, despite a half century of stark warnings by
many of our best scientists, the human enterprise remains in a
state of potentially fatal ‘overshoot’. The human enterprise is
exploiting ecosystems far beyond nature’s regenerative and waste
assimilative capacities; we are growing by liquidating the
biophysical basis of our own existence. Remarkably, the global
community shows little sign of taking the corrective action
necessary to avoid potential disaster. I argue here that this
seeming paradox is perfectly natural, that H. sapiens is
inherently – and even predictably – unsustainable. The human
ecological predicament is the product of base human nature
reinforced by an ingrained, increasingly global, but radically
maladaptive growth-based cultural narrative. Modern
techno-industrial (MTI) society cannot be ‘reformed’ to mesh
harmoniously with biophysical reality. Hubris, born of humanity’s
clever success in manipulating the material world, blinds us to
symptoms of impending systemic collapse. The behaviour of
politicians and ordinary people often springs from wilful
ignorance or deep denial, papered over by unwarranted confidence
in technological solutions. Aspirations to high intelligence
aside, H. sapiens is not primarily a rational species – but there
is a way forward. <br>
</blockquote>
Bio note:<br>
William Rees, PhD, FRSC<br>
Dr. William Rees is a population ecologist, ecological economist,
Professor Emeritus and former Director of the University of British
Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning. His academic
research focuses on the biophysical prerequisites for
sustainability. This focus led to co-development (with his graduate
students) of ‘ecological footprint analysis, a quantitative tool
that shows definitively that the human enterprise is in
dysfunctional overshoot. (We would need five Earth-like planets to
support just the present world population sustainably with existing
technologies at North American material standards.) Frustrated by
political unresponsiveness to worsening indicators, Dr. Rees also
studies the biological and psycho-cognitive barriers to
environmentally rational behavior and policies. He has authored
hundreds of peer reviewed and popular articles on these topics. <br>
<br>
Prof Rees is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada and also a Fellow
of the Post-Carbon Institute; a founding member and former President
of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; a founding
Director of the OneEarth Initiative; and a Director of The Real
Green New Deal. He was a full member of the Club of Rome from 2013
until 2018. His international awards include the Boulding Memorial
Award in Ecological Economics, the Herman Daly Award in Ecological
Economics and a Blue Planet Prize (jointly with his former student,
Dr Mathis Wackernagel).<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEXEIp5vB8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEXEIp5vB8</a><br>
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<i>[ Mark Lynas is the author of numerous books on the environment.
His latest is Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
and is co-founder of the pro-science environmental campaign
network RePlanet ]</i><br>
<b>Mark Lynas: Don't Look Up: Is Climate Change an Extinction-Level
Event?</b><br>
CSER Cambridge<br>
Feb 4, 2022<br>
Mark Lynas - "Don't Look Up: Is Climate Change an Extinction-Level
Event?" (1 February 2022, CSER Public Lecture, University of
Cambridge)<br>
<br>
In the movie Don't Look Up, humanity dithers when faced with an
extinction-level threat from a comet and is wiped out. Designed
explicitly as an analogy for what the moviemakers see as our
collective lack of response to the existential risk of climate
change, how accurate is this comparison? Mark Lynas, the climate
author who has recently released an updated version of his
award-winning book Six Degrees, reviews the latest evidence as to
whether climate breakdown can be considered a planetary-scale
extinction threat and whether human civilisation or even humanity as
a species it significantly at risk this century.<br>
<br>
Mark Lynas is the author of several books on the environment,
including High Tide, Six Degrees, The God Species, Nuclear 2.0 and
Seeds of Science. His most recent publication, in June 2020, was
‘Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency’. This is an
entirely new update of the original 2007 Six Degrees which won the
prestigious Royal Society science books prize. The original Six
Degrees was translated into 22 languages and was also adapted into a
documentary broadcast on the National Geographic Channel. He also
received the Breakthrough Paradigm Award in 2012.<br>
He advises former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on climate, and
works with the 48-member Climate Vulnerable Forum in this capacity.
Mark is currently a visiting fellow with the Cornell Alliance for
Science at Cornell University, which engages in pro-science advocacy
and research around the world on issues ranging from GMOs to
vaccines to climate. He has written for numerous publications,
including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street
Journal, the Guardian and CNN.com.<br>
<br>
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is an
interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge
dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to
human extinction or civilisational collapse. For more information,
please visit our website: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cser.ac.uk">https://www.cser.ac.uk</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/CSERCambridge">https://twitter.com/CSERCambridge</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/CSERCambridge">https://www.facebook.com/CSERCambridge</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gc3GHDJM9Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gc3GHDJM9Q</a><br>
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<i>[ The news archive - looking back 41 years ago and the NYTimes
report on our predicament ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>January 7, 1982 <br>
</b></i></font>January 7, 1982: The New York Times report on
Section B, Page 14s:<br>
<blockquote><b>WARMING OF WORLD'S CLIMATE EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN THE
80'S</b><br>
Special to the New York Times<br>
Jan. 7, 1982<br>
Mankind's activities in increasing the amount of carbon dioxide
and other chemicals in the atmosphere can be expected to have a
substantial warming effect on climate, with the first clear signs
of the trend becoming evident within this decade, a scientist at
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said here today.<br>
<p>The changes are in prospect because of excess carbon dioxide
put into the atmosphere as humans burn coal, gas, oil and wood
and cut forests for agriculture and other purposes. More
recently there has also been an atmospheric buildup of methane,
nitrous oxide and other chemicals as a result of agriculture and
industry, said Dr. James Hansen of the space agency's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies in New York.<br>
<br>
Dr. Hansen spoke at a session of the annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science here and
amplified some of his remarks at a news conference.<br>
<br>
Several recent studies have concluded that such a warming trend
will occur, but the effects have usually been predicted for the
next century and have been interpreted differently by
specialists. Dr. Roger Revelle of the University of California
at San Diego said the subject of future climate change produced
by mankind's activity was shrouded by a fog of uncertainty.<br>
</p>
<p>Dr. Hansen said the probability was that a warmer climate would
make some places wetter while others were likely to be drier
than today, but that it was too early to say which effects any
given region would experience. Several specialists have noted
that a pronounced warming trend could raise sea levels
sufficiently to inundate many of the world's major cities. There
has already been a small rise in sea level simply because of
expansion of the warmer surface waters of the ocean, Dr. Hansen
said.<br>
<br>
At the same session of the meeting, Hermann Flohn of University
of Bonn said warming effects on the climate would be small at
first, but, through the next century, might give the planet its
warmest spell since an interglacial period 125,000 years ago. In
that period, he noted, lions, elephants and other warm-climate
animals roamed what is now England.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/07/us/warming-of-world-s-climate-expected-to-begin-in-the-80-s.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/07/us/warming-of-world-s-climate-expected-to-begin-in-the-80-s.html</a><br>
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