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<i>[ That's 111 degrees Fahrenheit ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change: Vietnam records highest-ever temperature of 44.1C</b><br>
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In Vietnam's central city of Danang, farmer Nguyen Thi Lan told AFP
the heat was forcing workers to start earlier than ever and finish
by 10:00.<br>
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Vietnam's previous record temperature of 43.4C was set in central Ha
Tinh province four years ago.<br>
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Further west, the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka recorded its highest
temperature since the 1960s while Indian authorities said parts of
the country were experiencing temperatures that were three or four
degrees above normal.<br>
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In April, Spain recorded its hottest-ever temperature for that
month, hitting 38.8C at Cordoba airport in the south of the country.<br>
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In March climate scientists said a key global temperature goal was
likely to be missed.<br>
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Governments had previously agreed to act to avoid global temperature
rises going above 1.5C. But the world has already warmed by 1.1C and
now experts say that it is likely to breach 1.5C in the 2030s.<br>
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In its report, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
said "every increment of global warming will intensify multiple and
concurrent hazards".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65518528">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65518528</a><br>
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<i>[ Opinion ]</i><br>
<b>Your Homeowners’ Insurance Bill Is the Canary in the Climate Coal
Mine</b><br>
May 7, 2023...<br>
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Why are so many home buyers putting themselves in harm’s way? The
simplest explanation is that they are choosing to focus on the
short-term benefits of sunny weather rather than the longer-term
problems. A defining feature of the pandemic housing boom has been
Americans, particularly retirees, moving southward. And with about
10,000 Americans turning 65 each day, this pattern could continue
for years to come....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/climate-change-homeowners-insurance-housing-market.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/climate-change-homeowners-insurance-housing-market.html</a><br>
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</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>News you don't want to hear about
the arctic.</b><br>
Just Have a Think<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">May 7, 2023<br>
Arctic temperatures are rising as much as four times faster than
the global average, and we've all heard about the reduction in the
surface area of sea ice. Now a new study has identified an abrupt
decrease in the thickness of ice too. But what are the
consequences and why should we care?<br>
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Video Transcripts available at our website <br>
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Research links<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Phys.Org</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phys.org/news/2023-04-arctic-peak-ice-shrunk-area.html">https://phys.org/news/2023-04-arctic-peak-ice-shrunk-area.html</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">NSIDC</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2023/03/">http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2023/03/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The Economist - Climate Migrants : What can
be done?</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AuCQml7IQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AuCQml7IQ</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Climate.gov</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/data-snapshots/data-source/arctic-sea-ice-age">https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/data-snapshots/data-source/arctic-sea-ice-age</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Zack Labe</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://zacklabe.com/">https://zacklabe.com/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">European Environment Agency - GDP Projections</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/past-and-projected-global-economic-output-1">https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/past-and-projected-global-economic-output-1</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Financial Times - Habitable areas on Earth in
2070</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ft.com/content/072b5c87-7330-459b-a947-be6767a1099d">https://www.ft.com/content/072b5c87-7330-459b-a947-be6767a1099d</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">[ See the monthly archives ]</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis </b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">MONTHLY ARCHIVES: MARCH 2023<br>
Arctic sea ice maximum at fifth lowest on satellite record<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2023/03/">https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2023/03/</a><br>
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<i>[ Montana makes it harder to challenge carbon infrastructure ]</i><br>
<b>New Montana laws plow through environmental regulations for
fossil fuels</b><br>
Tom Lutey<br>
May 7, 2030<br>
Montanans will have a harder time challenging state government
decisions, while cities are losing the ability to regulate anything
involving fossil fuels, from power plants to gas stations, under new
laws passed by the Montana Legislature.<br>
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Before ending its biennial session May 2, the Legislature’s
Republican majority created several laws plowing a regulatory road
for mining and fossil fuels.<br>
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The House GOP suspended rules to rush to the aid of a gas-fired
power plant being built by NorthWestern Energy, which had been court
ordered to halt construction because state permitters had ignored
carbon emissions.<br>
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Senate Republicans went to work on bills making it more expensive
for citizens to challenge government decisions on issues ranging
from power plants and mining to management of bison and elk, as well
as the preservation of battlefields and burial grounds. All those
subjects are supposed to receive due diligence under permitting
steps prescribed by the Montana Environmental Policy Act, the
state’s half-century old a look-before-you-leap review of impacts to
the environment, wildlife, and historical and cultural sites.
Challenging the state’s pre-permit review will now require a
lawsuit...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://billingsgazette.com/news/new-montana-laws-plow-through-environmental-regulations-for-fossil-fuels/article_99ffab2a-ebd8-11ed-b13a-57c25ebdbb33.html">https://billingsgazette.com/news/new-montana-laws-plow-through-environmental-regulations-for-fossil-fuels/article_99ffab2a-ebd8-11ed-b13a-57c25ebdbb33.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[The news archive - looking back at a
powerful act of unkindness to the future ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>May 8, 1989</b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> May 8, 1989: The New York Times reports that
the Office of Management and Budget in the George H. W. Bush
administration altered NASA climate scientist James Hansen's
upcoming Senate testimony to emphasize alleged uncertainties in
climate science.</font><br>
<blockquote>The White House's Office of Management and Budget has
changed the text of testimony scheduled to be delivered to
Congress by a top Government scientist, over his protests, making
his conclusions about the effects of global warming seem less
serious and certain than he intended.<br>
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The testimony had been prepared by Dr. James E. Hansen, director
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, for delivery Monday before the Senate
Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, Congressional
sources said. Dr. Hansen confirmed that the testimony had been
changed.<br>
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In his original testimony, he said that computer projections of
climatic changes caused by carbon dioxide and other gases released
into the atmosphere would cause substantial temperature increases,
drought, severe storms and other stresses that will affect the
earth's biological systems.<br>
<br>
The text of his testimony was edited by the budget office to
soften the conclusions and make the prospects of change in climate
appear more uncertain, Dr. Hansen said in an interview.<br>
The budget office and other officials in the White House have been
urging a go-slow approach to policies dealing with global warming,
called the greenhouse effect by scientists. Those officials have
opposed the State Department and Environmental Protection Agency,
which have been urging President Bush to take the lead in
mobilizing the international community to meet the threat of rapid
climate change. The Administration is deeply split over whether to
endorse an international treaty that would require action to deal
with global warming, high-ranking executive branch officials said.<br>
<br>
Senator Albert Gore, Democrat of Tennessee and chairman of the
subcommittee, who had been told by Dr. Hansen of the alterations
in the testimony, said that White House officials were attempting
to change science to make it conform to their policy rather than
base policy on accurate scientific data.<br>
<br>
''They are scared of the truth,'' Mr. Gore said. He charged that
the testimony was censored to support those in the Office of
Management and Budget and other parts of the Administration who
are seeking to keep the United States from proposing an
international treaty to ameliorate the now widely anticipated
global warming trend.<br>
<br>
Mr. Gore said that at a future hearing ''I intend to ask O.M.B.
officials who have substituted their scientific judgments for
those of atmospheric scientists to come in and testify about the
basis for their conclusions. I want to determine their
qualifications, the climate models they have used, the amount of
study they have given to the subject and the evidence that they
found most persuasive. And I intend to pursue this at great
length.'' Budget Office Review Is Routine<br>
<br>
A spokeswoman for the budget office reached Saturday said that she
made repeated attempts to seek an explanation but that no one from
the office was available to respond to questions about the changed
testimony. She also said that the only press official who will
agree to have her name used in connection with budget office
statements is Barbara Clay, who was among those not available.<br>
The Office of Management and Budget routinely reviews testimony to
be presented to Congressional committees by officials to make sure
that Federal policy conforms to the President's budget.<br>
<br>
The United States heads an international panel assigned the task
of preparing a policy response to the global warming trend. The
panel is scheduled to make recommendations at a meeting sponsored
by the United Nations in Geneva this week.<br>
<br>
Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d and Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator William K. Reilly are said to be urging that
the United States take the lead on a convention to meet the threat
of global warming. But officials in the White House, including the
Office of Management and Budget, as well as in the Department of
Energy, are urging a wait-and-see approach, saying the scientific
information and data on economic effects of a remedial action are
inadequate.<br>
<br>
Dr. Hansen's testimony, before it was changed, would have given
strong support to the position that while there are still many
uncertainities, enough is known now about the general and even
regional effects of the global warming trend to start acting now
to mitigate and prepare for those effects. Dr. Hansen concluded,
for example, ''We believe it is very unlikely that this overall
conclusion - drought intensification at most middle- and
low-latitude land ares, if greenhouse gases increase rapidly -
will be modified by improved models.''<br>
<br>
At the end of the section of his testimony dealing with regional
effects of global warming, however, the Office of Management and
Budget, over Dr. Hansen's objections, added this paragraph:
''Again, I must stress that the rate and magnitude of drought,
storm, and temperature change are very sensitive to the many
physical processes mentioned above, some of which are poorly
represented in the G.C.M.'s [ general climate models ] . Thus,
these changes should be viewed as estimates from evolving computer
models and not as reliable predictions.'' Scientists Criticizes
Change<br>
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Dr. Hansen said in an interview that the additional paragraph
served to ''negate'' the entire point of that part of his
testimony, which was that scientific understanding has now reached
the stage where ''we can begin to draw significant conclusions
about droughts, storm, temperature - conclusions which are
unlikely to change as the models and observational data become
more detailed.''<br>
<br>
Another change required the testimony to say that the relative
contribution of human and natural processes to changing climate
patterns ''remains scientifically unknown.'' In fact, Dr. Hansen
said, he and his colleagues at NASA who helped prepare the
testimony ''are confident that greenhouse gases are primarily'' of
human origin.<br>
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''It distresses me that they put words in my mouth; they even put
it in the first person,'' Dr. Hansen said, adding that he had
tried to ''negotiate'' with the budget office over the wording but
''they refused to change.''<br>
<br>
''I should be allowed to say what is my scientific position; there
is no rationale by which O.M.B. should be censoring scientific
opinion,'' Dr. Hansen insisted. ''I can understand changing
policy, but not science.''<br>
<br>
While there is strong consensus within the scientific community
that the greenhouse effect is real, there have been a substantial
number of challenges to Dr. Hansen's contention that long-term
global temperature trends show a high probability that it is
already taking place. Dr. Hansen's testimony that the global
warming trend is already occurring was presented to Congress last
July and attracted widespread attention.<br>
<br>
While the O.M.B., in its function of coordinating policies within
the executive branch, reviews and edits such testimony, the
research findings of Government scientists are subject to peer
review, not to change by the policy-oriented budget office. Dr.
Hansen's testimony was based on his and his colleagues' research,
which had been subjected to such peer review.<br>
<br>
Mr. Reilly, asked about what proposals the United States would
take to the Geneva meeting on global warming, said ''the United
States Government would be very positive and very involved.'' As
for United States sponsorship of an international treaty, he said,
''We are still looking at whether a convention is desirable and
what it should contain.''<br>
<br>
A number of foreign leaders have been urging the United States to
take the lead on global action to meet the threat of global
warming, recalling President Bush's campaign pledge to exert such
leadership.<br>
<br>
Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway, who discussed the
issue with the President last week, said in an interview on
Friday: ''A United States leadership role is essential. The United
States has to step forward in this process.''<br>
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