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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>April</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 29, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ first thing, brew some coffee ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>What Climate Change Could Mean for
the Coffee You Drink</b><br>
As global warming threatens the two main varieties, coffee growers
in Uganda are betting on a type that can stand up to heat, drought
and pests.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">While Arabica and robusta are the two widely
cultivated species of coffee, more than 100 species grow in the
wild. One Liberica variety has been farmed in Southeast Asia for a
century.<br>
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Another variety is Liberica excelsa, the one that is native to the
lowlands of Uganda. Compared with robusta, which is also native to
Uganda and the dominant coffee species grown in the region,
Liberica takes longer to mature and produce fruit.<br>
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Libericas tower over robustas. Each tree can grow to a height of
eight meters, so farmers need to hoist themselves up on bamboo
ladders to harvest them. Or else they need to prune the trees so
their branches grow wide and not up.<br>
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Around 200 farmers have been growing Liberica in small pockets,
selling it to local traders together with their robusta harvest,
and getting robusta prices. Dr. Kiwuka said she felt as though the
farmers “were cheated.”...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Exports are expected to be lower this year,
compared with last year, according to the Uganda Coffee
Development Authority. Drought and pests are to blame. Had he
relied on robusta alone, Mr. Ocheng said, “I would have been in
extreme poverty.”<br>
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Thankfully, he had another two acres of Liberica.<br>
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How does Liberica excelsa taste when it’s dried, hulled and
roasted? Dr. Davis called it “smooth” and “easy drinking.” It is
heavy in aroma, lower in caffeine than robusta.<br>
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“It’s the Beaujolais nouveau,” he said. “It’s very soft.”<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/climate/coffee-liberica-uganda.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/climate/coffee-liberica-uganda.html</a><br>
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Premiered Apr 26, 2023 #novapbs #windfarm #geothermal<br>
Here’s how the U.S. could reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.<br>
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The U.S. recently set an ambitious climate change goal: zero
carbon emissions by 2050. And to achieve that, slash emissions in
half by 2030. Is it possible? And what kind of technology would it
take? Meet scientists and engineers who are convinced we can
achieve carbon zero in time to avoid the biggest impacts of
climate change.<br>
For more videos related to climate science and the environment,
check out PBS's Earth Month playlist: <br>
• Climate, Nature a... <br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">00:00 Introduction</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">02:47 Making the Ford F-150 into an Electric
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<font face="Calibri">09:11 Heat Pumps Replacing Gas Furnaces in
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<font face="Calibri">15:22 Induction Stoves Replacing Gas Stoves
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<font face="Calibri">21:38 Sensing Sources of Excess Methane in
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<font face="Calibri">27:37 Off-Shore Floating Wind Farms </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">31:50 Iron-Air Batteries as Energy Source</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">37:20 Geothermal Electric Power Plants </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">43:46 The Challenges of Driving an Electric
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<font face="Calibri">48:56 The Road to Net Zero</font><br>
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<i>[ </i><i>Story time - a climate heist and revenge movie ]</i><br>
<b>‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ stands firm in its sympathetic
framing of its protagonists, and then asks you to evaluate
yourself.</b><br>
Taylar Dawn Stagner <br>
April 28, 2023<br>
How to Blow Up a Pipeline asks you to think about what a reasonable
response to climate change looks like. Released this month, the
movie follows a grindhouse, Ocean’s Eleven–type heist in which a
group of people fed up with fossil fuels plan to place homemade
bombs at key points along a pipeline in Texas.<br>
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The pace and editing at the beginning of the film builds a momentum
that propels the viewer into the stories of the main characters.
Scenes are punctuated with doors slamming and shoes dropping as a
group of activists prepares to travel out into the arid Texas
desert.<br>
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The group slowly starts to take shape.<br>
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The ringleader is a young college dropout, Xochitl, who just lost
her mother in a heat wave. She has a friend from college, Shawn, a
clean-cut young student who is disillusioned with the slow pace of
institutional action against climate change. Xochitl’s best friend
is Theo, who has leukemia; she grew up near an oil refinery — the
apparent cause of her cancer — and describes dancing in acid rain
when she was young. Theo’s girlfriend, Alisha, works in a local soup
kitchen, and is the voice of skepticism in the group as Xochitl
develops their plan.<br>
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Xochitl also draws in people from outside her social circle. Michael
is a young, Indigenous bomb expert from North Dakota, who picks
fights and is fed up with the lack of opportunity surrounding him.
Dwayne is a Texas local who joins up with the group after the
federal government takes the land that has belonged to his family
for generations, the same land that the pipeline in question is now
occupying. With a kid on the way and court fees piling up due to
fighting the federal government on a legal level, he scouts the area
for the best places to kick the government where it really hurts.
Finally, there are Rowan and Logan, a pair of young disruptors who
are horny for each other and have a history of getting into trouble.
Xochitl collects friends, internet strangers, and people from the
fringe of society in her effort to broadcast a message that’s hard
to ignore. It’s a heist movie in which everyone involved has banded
together for a different reason, and throughout the film layers peel
back to reveal how deep (or not) each person’s commitment is to the
cause...<br>
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The film stands firm in its sympathetic framing of the actions of
the group, but it is also a revenge movie. Xochitl lost her mom to
cancer, and is now losing her best friend, Theo; Micheal is dealing
with disillusionment in the face of colonialism; Dwayne wants his
family’s land back; and Rowan and Logan simply have an anarchic
modus operandi. The primal rage felt by these people comes from
witnessing the havoc wrought by the overuse of fossil fuels—seeing
the health of loved ones torn asunder by our collective reliance on
the energy resources that are slowly heating up our planet. They
manifest the frustration and rage of people who have no other
options.<br>
<br>
The mission of blowing up the pipeline is personal for the
characters in ways that might resonate for viewers as well.
Personally, as I look around at the effects of climate change, what
I see influences my outlook on life and even my desire to have
children. What does the future look like for my loved ones and
potential children in the face of such overwhelming circumstances?
Having experienced these feelings myself gave me a sense of
connection to the characters.<br>
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What does the future look like for my loved ones and potential
children in the face of such overwhelming circumstances?<br>
The film also makes us think about how climate change intersects
with class. People struggling to make ends meet can’t just move away
from their homes when they become uninhabitable. As the world gets
hotter and more dangerous, those with fewer resources are the ones
who will be most affected. But these upheavals will come for
everyone eventually.<br>
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The film maintains snappy dialogue and quick pacing, but it also
takes the time to slow down and reveal the details of the
characters’ lives. In this way, we see the effects of climate change
from many different perspectives, making it hard to ignore the
experiences of those most impacted...<br>
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Anticipating what many viewers might be thinking, the film presents
arguments against eco-terrorism. Alisha, Theo’s partner, says that
damaging the pipeline will spike gas prices for low income people,
but Xochitl justifies the decision: We have to do something. Alisha
also argues that they could be spending their time and energy doing
important community work, such as working at a soup kitchen like she
does. Why not do more building up than tearing down? Xochitl
encounters similar arguments in the scenes set during her time in
college. When she says there is no time to sit around and wait for
institutional change on climate change, she is met with shrugs.
These are big systems, others at the college tell her, and most move
at a snail’s pace. She is told that change is slow.<br>
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The group Xochitl goes on to assemble is made up of radicals who are
looking at the clock, comparing the pace of change to the time we
have left to avert catastrophe, and realizing that the math isn’t
adding up. This is especially clear when seen through the lens of
protagonists who are people of color, since they represent the
communities that will be most harmed. To judge the actions of the
group too harshly is to disengage with the justifiable rage that
blooms in us as we see our planet slowly being squeezed of oil and
sold back to us at a premium.<br>
<br>
Taylar Dawn Stagner is a writer and audio journalist who’s an
editorial intern for the Indigenous Affairs desk at HCN. She’s
Arapaho and Shoshone and writes about racism, rurality, and gender.
Email her at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:taylar.stagner@hcn.org">taylar.stagner@hcn.org</a> or submit a letter to the
editor. See our letters to the editor policy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hcn.org/articles/ideas-review-a-climate-heist-and-revenge-movie">https://www.hcn.org/articles/ideas-review-a-climate-heist-and-revenge-movie</a>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ different headlines for the same news
April 26, 2023 ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Record ocean temperatures put Earth in
‘uncharted territory’, say scientists</b><br>
‘Unprecedented’ warming indicates climate crisis is taking place
before our eyes, experts say<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Warming oceans are a concern for many reasons.
Seawater takes up more space at higher temperatures, accelerating
sea level rise, and warmer water at the poles accelerates the
melting of the ice caps. Hotter temperatures can also be dire for
marine ecosystems, as it can be difficult or impossible for
species to adapt. Corals in particular can suffer devastating
bleaching.<br>
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Some scientists fear that the rapid warming could be a sign of the
climate crisis progressing at a faster rate than predicted. The
oceans have acted as a kind of global buffer to the climate crisis
over recent decades, both by absorbing vast amounts of the carbon
dioxide that we have poured into the atmosphere, and by storing
about 90% of the excess energy and heat this has created,
dampening some of the impacts of global heating on land. Some
scientists fear we could be reaching the limit of the oceans’
capacity to absorb these excesses...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Mark Maslin, professor of Earth system science
at University College London, said the climate crisis was taking
hold before our eyes. “Climate scientists were shocked by the
extreme weather events in 2021,” he said. “Many hoped this was
just an extreme year. But they continued into 2022 and now they
are occurring in 2023. It seems we have moved to a warmer climate
system with frequent extreme climate events and record-breaking
temperatures that are the new normal. It is difficult to see how
anyone can deny climate change is happening and having devastating
effects around the world.”<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at when
Jack Kemp sold out ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>April 29, 1999</b></i></font> <br>
April 29, 1999: The ExxonMobil-funded Competitive Enterprise
Institute names former Rep. Jack Kemp (R-NY) its first
"Distinguished Fellow." Two years later, in a Washington Times
op-ed, Kemp asserts that the scientific evidence pointing to
human-caused climate change is inconclusive.<br>
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href="http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost">http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost</a><br>
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