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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>June</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 14, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Yesterday was their 2nd day, more to
come ] <br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><b>The first-ever constitutional
climate trial in the U.S. - led by Montana youth </b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://fishercourtreporting.zoom.us/j/89337437466">https://fishercourtreporting.zoom.us/j/89337437466</a></b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>WATCH TRIAL *LIVE* ONLINE! THIS LINK IS LIVE
6/12-6/16 AND 6/19-6/23, 9AM-5PM MT</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>The Live connection </b><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://fishercourtreporting.zoom.us/j/89337437466#success">https://fishercourtreporting.zoom.us/j/89337437466#success</a><i><br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youthvgov.org/held-v-montana">https://www.youthvgov.org/held-v-montana</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><i>[ Associated
Press and Fortune magazine bring best analysis of their strategy
]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Gen Z climate activists from 5 to 22
years old are suing Montana for ‘choosing corporations over the
needs of their citizens’</b><br>
BYMATTHEW BROWN, AMY BETH HANSON AND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS<br>
June 12, 2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Experts for the state are expected to downplay
the impacts of climate change and what one of them described as
Montana’s “miniscule” contributions to global greenhouse gas
emissions.<br>
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Lawyers for Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, a Republican,
tried repeatedly to get the case thrown out over procedural
issues. In a June 6 ruling, the state Supreme Court rejected the
latest attempt to dismiss it, saying justices were not inclined to
intervene just days before the start of a trial that has been
“literally years in the making.”<br>
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One reason the case may have made it so far in Montana, when
dozens of similar cases elsewhere have been rejected, is the
state’s unusually protective 1972 Constitution, which requires
officials to maintain a “clean and healthful environment.” Only a
few other states, including Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New
York, have similar environmental protections in their
constitutions.<br>
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In prior rulings, State District Judge Judge Kathy Seeley
significantly narrowed the scope of the case. Even if the
plaintiffs prevail, Seeley has said she would not order officials
to formulate a new approach to address climate change.<br>
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Instead, the judge could issue what’s called a “declaratory
judgment” saying officials violated the state Constitution. That
would set a new legal precedent of courts weighing in on cases
typically left to the government’s legislative and executive
branches, environmental law expert Jim Huffman said.<br>
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Still, such a ruling would have no direct impact on industry, said
Huffman, dean emeritus at Lewis & Clark Law School in
Portland, Oregon...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">A key question for the trial will be how
forcefully the state contests established science on human-caused
greenhouse gas emissions, said Jonathan Adler, environmental law
professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. If the
state doesn’t deny that science, the trial will deal with the
question of whether courts can tell governments to address climate
change.<br>
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“I’m skeptical about that,” Adler said. “It really pushes the
boundaries of what courts are capable of and effective at
addressing.”..<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fortune.com/2023/06/12/montana-gen-z-climate-activists-sue-state-declaratory-judgment/">https://fortune.com/2023/06/12/montana-gen-z-climate-activists-sue-state-declaratory-judgment/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Beckwith on Canadian smoke ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>Cascading Feedbacks and the Science Behind
the Dystopian Orange Skies in NYC</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Paul Beckwith</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jun 8, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Air quality in Ottawa was excellent today. The
Air Quality Index (AQI) was 14, with PM2.5 count at 3 microgram
per cubic meter.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Yesterday the AQI was over 500 in Ottawa, with
PM2.5 (Particulate Matter 2.5 micron and smaller) reaching a peak
of 511 microgram per cubic meter overnight (air quality worsens at
night since it’s colder). Thus, yesterday PM2.5 levels were
extremely hazardous, and 170 times worse than todays normal
levels. Two days ago the level was 270 micrograms per cubic meter,
also very bad. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">A low pressure region off the eastern coast
drew the air in a counterclockwise direction, picking up the smoke
from 150 wildfires in Quebec (110 out of control) and sending it
southward hitting Ottawa and then moving on to the USA. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">As this horrible, smoggy, yellowish orangish
dystopian air moved southeasterly it hit much of the eastern USA,
including the major cities New York City, Washington, Boston,
Philadelphia, etc. causing record levels of air pollution.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Interestingly, the atmosphere seemed to channel
the wildfire smoke into narrower corridors in the atmosphere over
NYC, since the density of the smoke and the opacity of the air
(orange tinge) seemed extra dystopian in NYC compared to that in
Ottawa nearer the source of the wildfires.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">In this video, I focus on the science of how
climate change caused this dystopian event. I also discuss how
vast regions of northern Canada, across the breath of the country,
have had record high temperatures throughout May, with
exceptionally minimal rainfall. A year ago a powerful derecho
(straight line winds) levelled many trees and branches, and this
dead wood provided perfect fuel for these fires. </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Remember the ice storm that Ontario and Quebec
had in early May? This caused 1.2 million Quebecers to lose power,
mostly from falling branches and trees laden with ice. With the
record spring heat and lack of rainfall since then, these dead
branches and trees act as perfect fuel for creating record setting
wildfires.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">This is yet another example of cumulative bad
stuff leading to cascading severe events in our climate casino.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8j4YuLwS0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir8j4YuLwS0</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Serious Apocalyptic studies -
"Prevention does not always work" mentions Edward Munch and The
Scream - but really it's food that is the "pinch point" for many
catastrophes ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Florian
Ulrich Jehn: Practical Approaches to Allow Your Society to
Survive the End-Times</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Centre for Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Studies</font><br>
June 13, 2023<br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/@CAPASHeidelberg">https://www.youtube.com/@CAPASHeidelberg</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBjsdRJ27w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SBjsdRJ27w</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ research, resilience and response ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>ALLFED </b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">"Feeding everyone no matter what"</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://allfed.info/">https://allfed.info/</a> <br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Book about how fire defines our era , from
the pen of a fire scholar ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>The Pyrocene</b><b><br>
</b><b>How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next</b><br>
by Stephen J. Pyne (Author)<br>
August 2022<br>
Pages: 192<br>
ISBN: 9780520391635<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520391635/the-pyrocene">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520391635/the-pyrocene</a><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at
how Bush's greens quickly died ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>June 14, 2001</b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> June 14, 2001: In his nationally syndicated
column, Robert Novak writes:</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"For weeks, a contingent of greens
inside the administration has been pressing the president to
look more and more like Al Gore. Bush has been forced to fight
his own advisers in order to maintain his rejection of the Kyoto
treaty and his call for more science to determine the true
causes of climate change.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"The last such encounter was over substantial
government spending to combat global warming, proposed in his
[June 11] speech. According to administration sources, Deputy
National Security Adviser Gary Edson inserted the money figures
on his own initiative. A veteran of the Reagan and first Bush
administrations, Edson, under the new president, has established
himself as a formidable bureaucratic infighter and a leading
proponent of a forward position on global warming.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"His ally has been John Bridgeland, deputy
domestic policy adviser in the White House, who has coordinated
the task force on global warming. In private meetings,
Bridgeland has argued that giant industrial concerns are
enthusiastic about plans to voluntarily reduce carbon dioxide
emissions in tacit fulfillment of the Kyoto accord.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"Edson and Bridgeland are not alone as
middle-level staffers confronting solid opposition from on high.
Environmental Protection Administrator Christie Whitman has
pressed for control of CO2 emissions from her first day in
office, and she is supported by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill
(called 'Mr. Global Warming' by dismissive congressional
conservatives) and Bridgeland's boss, domestic policy chief Josh
Bolten.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"Behind closed doors of the task force, they
urged Bush to embrace the global warmers and come out for caps
on CO2 emissions. An e-mail floating around the capital last
week listed a proposed schedule that would finally eliminate
these emissions by the year 2050. White House aides, with some
passion, denounced this report as a fantasy. However, other
administration officials contend that at one point, a draft of
the president's speech did call for voluntary CO2 emission
controls as the message he would carry to Europe.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"The Bush greens ultimately failed. In task
force meetings so restricted that the senior staffers of Cabinet
members were not permitted to attend, the CO2 caps were removed
after considerable debate. That retained the president's
renouncing of the Kyoto accord, contending that its emission
targets are 'arbitrary and not based on science.'"</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">In his 2003 book "The Right Man: The Surprise
Presidency of George W. Bush," former Bush administration
speechwriter David Frum notes that "bureaucratic rivals" of
Edson and Bridgeland leaked the story of their defeat to Novak
out of spite.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/Novak-President-not-giving-in-to-his-greens-2025433.php">http://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/Novak-President-not-giving-in-to-his-greens-2025433.php</a></font><br>
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