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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>June</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 16, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[it's a new world - says AP ]</i><br>
<b>June temperatures briefly passed key climate threshold.
Scientists expect more such spikes</b><br>
BERLIN (AP) — Worldwide temperatures briefly exceeded a key warming
threshold earlier this month, a hint of heat and its harms to come,
scientists worry.<br>
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Researchers at the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change
Service said Thursday that the start of June saw global surface air
temperatures rise 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above
pre-industrial levels for the first time. That is the threshold
governments said they would try to stay within at a 2015 summit in
Paris...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/global-warming-climate-change-el-nino-temperatures-d2d8d8f717237667bb408a486d7158bf">https://apnews.com/article/global-warming-climate-change-el-nino-temperatures-d2d8d8f717237667bb408a486d7158bf</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"> </font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ Montana live court proceedings - via
Zoom connection starting 9AM MT- this is tremendously
innovative </i><i><br>
</i><i> for court cases in Montana -- It is being recorded, and
likely will be posted for viewing ]</i><br>
<b>The Live Zoom connection 89337437466</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://fishercourtreporting.zoom.us/j/89337437466#success/">https://fishercourtreporting.zoom.us/j/89337437466#success/</a><br>
/<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youthvgov.org/held-v-montana">https://www.youthvgov.org/held-v-montana</a><br>
And you might like the fairly readable filed complaint - <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecasechart.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2020/20200313_docket-CDV-2020-307_complaint.pdf">http://climatecasechart.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2020/20200313_docket-CDV-2020-307_complaint.pdf</a></font><font
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Guardian clips from the trial ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>‘I’m a prisoner in my own home,’ asthma
sufferer, 15, tells landmark US climate trial</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Montana teen Mica is one of 16 plaintiffs in
historic trial, alleging state has violated residents’ right to
healthy environment</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Dharna Noor in Helena, Montana</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Tue 13 Jun 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Mica, aged 15, learned about climate change at
the young age of four, when his parents showed him the documentary
Chasing Ice.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">“I understood it more than my parents thought I
would,” he testified in a groundbreaking trial on Tuesday. “I just
knew something bad was happening, but I didn’t know exactly what
it was.”...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Mica is one of the 16 youth plaintiffs in the
2020 lawsuit Held v Montana, which is being heard in the state
capital, Helena, this week. The challengers allege that state
officials have violated their constitutional rights to a healthy
environment. The trial, which began on Monday, marks the first
ever constitutional climate trial in US history.<br>
<br>
A lover of the outdoors, Mica, who lives in Missoula, Montana,
said he was frequently bothered by smoke from wildfires. This
makes it hard to go for runs, something the young plaintiff has
enjoyed since he was five.<br>
<br>
When he can’t train due to the smoke, Mica said, he feels
“trapped”.<br>
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“I can’t get my mind off things,” he said...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Despite their anxiety, both Mica and
Badge said participating in the Held v Montana case has empowered
them.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">“I want to preserve this beautiful land for
myself and future generations,” Badge testified.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Chillcott said she was moved by the young
plaintiffs’ optimism.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">“I hope that their hope will be met,” she said,
“and that we will continue to make progress in mitigating climate
change for them.”</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/13/montana-landmark-us-climate-trial?utm_term=6489abd04b4543b8762328d1b8acc3d0&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/13/montana-landmark-us-climate-trial?utm_term=6489abd04b4543b8762328d1b8acc3d0&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ hmm, I know how you feel ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>How Writing About Climate Change Can Become
a Form of Escapism</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Deborah Willis on the Existential
Contradictions of Writing While Our Planet Is Imperiled</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">But as a writer, do I indulge in the very
bunker mentality that my novel criticizes? Do I want—more than I
admit—to escape?<br>
<br>
Graham Greene said, “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I
wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can
manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear
which is inherent in a human situation.” It strikes me that I
wrote a novel speaking against the bunker mindset while also using
the novel—those hours of quiet, solitary creation—as my own
temporary shelter.<br>
<br>
I consider the word retreat, because I wrote the first draft at a
writing residency. Is writing a form of retreat or of engagement?
I consider the word escapism. Most of us, myself included,
dissociate from the terror, grief and shame that the climate
crisis invokes. Are books—the reading and writing of them—another
form of avoidance?...<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lithub.com/how-writing-about-climate-change-can-become-a-form-of-escapism/">https://lithub.com/how-writing-about-climate-change-can-become-a-form-of-escapism/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><i>[ opinion
by Monbiot ] </i></font><b><font face="Calibri"><br>
</font></b> <font face="Calibri"><b>The hard right and climate
catastrophe are intimately linked. This is how</b><br>
George Monbiot<br>
As climate policy is weakened, extreme weather intensifies and
more refugees are driven from their homes – and the cycle of
hatred continues<br>
Thu 15 Jun 2023 </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Round the cycle turns. As millions are driven
from their homes by climate disasters, the extreme right exploits
their misery to extend its reach. As the extreme right gains
power, climate programmes are shut down, heating accelerates and
more people are driven from their homes. If we don’t break this
cycle soon, it will become the dominant story of our times.<br>
<br>
A recent paper in the scientific journal Nature identifies the
“human climate niche”: the range of temperatures and rainfall
within which human societies thrive. We have clustered in the
parts of the world with a climate that supports our flourishing,
but in many of these places the niche is shrinking. Already,
around 600 million people have been stranded in inhospitable
conditions by global heating. Current global policies are likely
to result in about 2.7C of heating by 2100. On this trajectory,
some 2 billion people may be left outside the niche by 2030, and
3.7 billion by 2090. If governments limited heating to their
agreed goal of 1.5C, the numbers exposed to extreme heat would be
reduced fivefold. But if they abandon their climate policies, this
would lead to around 4.4C of heating. In this case, by the end of
the century around 5.3 billion people would face conditions that
ranged from dangerous to impossible.<br>
<br>
These conditions include extreme disruption, morbidity and death
through heat-shock, water stress, crop failure and the spread of
infectious disease. The figures do not take into account the
effect of rising sea levels, which could displace hundreds of
millions more.<br>
<br>
Already, weather stations in the Persian Gulf have recorded
wetbulb measurements – a combination of heat and humidity – beyond
the point (35C at 100% humidity) at which most human beings can
survive. At other stations, on the shores of the Red Sea, the Gulf
of Oman, the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of California and the
western side of south Asia, measurements have come close. In large
parts of Africa there is almost no monitoring of extreme heat
events. People are likely to have been dying of heat stress in
high numbers already, but their cause of death has not been
registered.<br>
<br>
India, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Papua New Guinea, Sudan, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and central
America face extreme risk. Weather events such as massive floods
and intensified cyclones and hurricanes will keep hammering
countries such as Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Haiti and Myanmar. Many
people will have to move or die.<br>
<br>
In the rich world we still have choices: we can greatly limit the
damage caused by environmental breakdown, for which our nations
and citizens are primarily responsible. But these choices are
being deliberately and systematically shut down. Culture war
entrepreneurs, often funded by billionaires and commercial
enterprises, cast even the most innocent attempts to reduce our
impacts as a conspiracy to curtail our freedoms. Everything
becomes contested: low-traffic neighbourhoods, 15-minute cities,
heat pumps, even induction hobs. You cannot propose even the
mildest change without a hundred professionally outraged
influencers leaping up to announce: “They’re coming for your ...”
It’s becoming ever harder, by design, to discuss crucial issues
such as SUVs, meat-eating and aviation calmly and rationally.<br>
<br>
Climate science denial, which had almost vanished a few years ago,
has now returned with a vengeance. Environmental scientists and
campaigners are bombarded with claims that they are stooges,
shills, communists, murderers and paedophiles.<br>
<br>
As the impacts of our consumption kick in thousands of miles away,
and people come to our borders desperate for refuge from a crisis
they played almost no role in causing – a crisis that might
involve real floods and real droughts – the same political forces
announce, without a trace of irony, that we are being “flooded” or
“sucked dry” by refugees, and millions rally to their call to seal
our borders. Sometimes it seems the fascists can’t lose.<br>
<br>
As governments turn rightwards, they shut down policies designed
to limit climate breakdown. There’s no mystery about why:
hard-right and far-right politics are the defensive wall erected
by oligarchs to protect their economic interests. On behalf of
their funders, legislators in Texas are waging war on renewable
energy, while a proposed law in Ohio lists climate policies as a
“controversial belief or policy” in which universities are
forbidden to “inculcate” their students.<br>
<br>
In some cases, the cycle plays out in one place. Florida, for
example, is one of the US states most prone to climate disaster,
especially rising seas and hurricanes. But its governor, Ron
DeSantis, is building his bid for the presidency on the back of
climate denial. On Fox News, he denounced climate science as
“politicisation of the weather”. At home, he has passed a law
forcing cities to continue using fossil fuels. He has slashed
taxes, including the disaster preparedness sales tax, undermining
Florida’s capacity to respond to environmental crises. But the
hard right thrives on catastrophe, and again you get the sense
that it can scarcely lose.<br>
<br>
If you want to know what one possible future – a future in which
this cycle is allowed to accelerate – looks like, think of the
treatment of current refugees, amplified by several orders of
magnitude. Already, at Europe’s borders, displaced people are
pushed back into the sea. They are imprisoned, assaulted and used
as scapegoats by the far right, which widens its appeal by blaming
them for the ills that in reality are caused by austerity,
inequality and the rising power of money in politics. European
nations pay governments beyond their borders to stop the refugees
who might be heading their way. In Libya, Turkey, Sudan and
elsewhere, displaced people are kidnapped, enslaved, tortured,
raped and murdered. Walls rise and desperate people are repelled
with ever greater violence and impunity.<br>
<br>
Already, the manufactured hatred of refugees has helped the far
right to gain or share power in Italy, Sweden and Hungary, and has
greatly enhanced its prospects in Spain, Austria, France and even
Germany. In every case, we can expect success by this faction to
be followed by the curtailment of climate policies, with the
result that more people will have no choice but to seek refuge in
the diminishing zones in which the human climate niche remains
open: often the very nations whose policies have driven them from
their homes.<br>
<br>
It is easy to whip up fascism. It’s the default result of
political ignorance and its exploitation. Containing it is much
harder, and never-ending. The two tasks – preventing Earth systems
collapse and preventing the rise of the far right – are not
divisible. We have no choice but to fight both forces at once.<br>
<br>
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/hard-right-climate-catastrophe-extreme-weather-refugees">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/hard-right-climate-catastrophe-extreme-weather-refugees</a><br>
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<br>
<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ always covering this issue ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>The Mercury is Off the Charts</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">And the Fossil Fuel Industry is Off its Meds</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">BILL MCKIBBEN</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">JUN 15, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/the-mercury-is-off-the-charts?r=10305&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web">https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/the-mercury-is-off-the-charts?r=10305&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web</a></font><br>
- -<br>
We’ve reached the scariest moment yet in the climate saga: I noted
in mid-April that there were all kinds of signs that a rapid
increase in global warming was underway, and every day since has
borne out that warning. We now have truly remarkable data about sea
surface temperature—across the world’s oceans, and especially in the
north Atlantic, we’re seeing numbers that aren’t just off the
charts, they’re off the wall the chart is tacked to. It seems
increasingly likely that 2023 will turn out to be the hottest year
yet, even though a true El Niño won’t be fully underway till late
summer or autumn.<br>
<br>
All of this is terrifying—but far far worse is the fact that the
world isn’t reacting rationally to it. The fossil fuel industry and
its financial backers are, if anything, backsliding: tearing up
their modest promises to make some kind of actual change. The rapid
warming over the next couple of years is likely to be our last
opportunity to really act coherently as a civilization to reduce the
magnitude of this crisis, and so far we are blowing it...<br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-mercury-is-off-the-charts">https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-mercury-is-off-the-charts</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ basic course from MIT ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Lecture 1: Cities and Climate Action: Or,
Why Take This Class?</b><br>
MIT OpenCourseWare<br>
Jun 15, 2023 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY<br>
MIT 11.165 Urban Energy Systems and Policy, Fall 2022<br>
Instructor: Prof. David Hsu<br>
YouTube Playlist: <br>
• MIT 11.165 Urban Energy Systems and Policy, Fall 2022
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63SEOB1q95TFs0hwyf1d7BG">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63SEOB1q95TFs0hwyf1d7BG</a><br>
In this video, Prof. Hsu introduces the main topics and the
primary text for the course, and discusses the first set of
assigned readings.<br>
This video has been dubbed using an artificial voice via
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://aloud.area120.google.com">https://aloud.area120.google.com</a> to increase accessibility. You
can change the audio track language in the Settings menu.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axV4oIluQwY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axV4oIluQwY</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">- -</font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Sustainable Energy - without the hot air</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.withouthotair.com/">https://www.withouthotair.com/</a></font>
<p><font face="Calibri">- -</font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><b>MIT 11.165 Urban Energy Systems and Policy,
Fall 2022 </b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Instructor: Prof. David Hsu</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">View the complete course:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/11-165j-urban-energy-systems-and-policy-fall-2022/">https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/11-165j-urban-energy-systems-and-policy-fall-2022/</a></font><br>
- -<br>
<font face="Calibri">This class is about figuring out together what
cities and users can do to reduce their energy use and carbon
emissions. Many other classes at MIT focus on policies,
technologies, and systems, often at the national or international
level, but this course focuses on the scale of cities and users.
It is designed for any students interested in learning how to
intervene in the energy use of cities using policy, technology,
economics, and urban planning.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63SEOB1q95TFs0hwyf1d7BG">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63SEOB1q95TFs0hwyf1d7BG</a></font>
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Obama for president.<br>
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