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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>June</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 28, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ food news first - Reuters ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Climate, environmental change puts 90% of
world's marine food at risk, study says</b><br>
By David Stanway<br>
June 26, 2023<i><br>
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<font face="Calibri">SINGAPORE, June 26 (Reuters) - More than 90% of
the world's marine food supplies are at risk from environmental
changes such as rising temperatures and pollution, with top
producers like China, Norway and the United States facing the
biggest threat, new research showed on Monday.<br>
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"Blue food" includes more than 2,190 species of fish, shellfish,
plants and algae as well as more than 540 species farmed in fresh
water, helping sustain 3.2 billion people worldwide.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">But not enough is being done to adapt to
growing environmental risks, a study published in the Nature
Sustainability journal said.<br>
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"Although we have made some progress with climate change, our
adaptation strategies for blue food systems facing environmental
change are still underdeveloped and need urgent attention," said
Rebecca Short, researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and
co-lead author.<br>
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Overproduction in the industry, which has driven the destruction
of wetland habitats, has caused significant environmental damage
but other "stressors" are also impacting the quantity and quality
of blue foods.<br>
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They include rising sea levels and temperatures, ocean
acidification, changes in rainfall, as well as non-climate factors
like algal blooms and pollution from mercury, pesticides or
antibiotics.<br>
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"Vulnerability caused by human-induced environmental change ...
puts blue food production under a lot of pressure," said Ling Cao,
professor at China's Xiamen University, who also co-wrote the
paper.<br>
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"We know aquaculture and fisheries support billions of people for
their livelihoods and their nutritional security."<br>
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China, Japan, India and Vietnam account for more than 45% of
global landings and 85% of aquaculture production, and the study
said reducing their vulnerability should be a priority. Small
island nations that depend on seafood are also especially
vulnerable.<br>
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Cao said a U.N. treaty on sustainable development in the high
seas, signed in March, could enable stakeholders to act in the
common interest when it comes to protecting blue food resources
but other risks are on the horizon.<br>
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Nauru in the Pacific Ocean is at the forefront of efforts to mine
ocean beds for metals, which environmentalists say can cause
immense damage to marine life. Norway, another major seafood
producer, also came under fire last week after announcing it would
open up sea areas to mining.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">"Ocean floor mining will have an impact on the
wild fisheries population," said Cao. "Many scientists are now
calling on governments to evaluate where they do ocean mining in
order to minimise the impact."<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Texas scorcher... ] <br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><b>‘Never occurred before’: How
the Arctic is sizzling Texas</b><br>
By Chelsea Harvey | 06/27/2023<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">The oppressive heat wave roasting Texas
and Mexico is rekindling a scientific debate about the effects
that Arctic climate change might have on weather patterns around
the world.<br>
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Many experts say that rapid warming in the Arctic — where
temperatures are rising four times faster than the global average
— may cause an increase in these kinds of long-lasting extreme
weather events.<br>
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It all comes down to the jet stream, a fast-flowing air current
that wraps around the Northern Hemisphere. Many researchers
theorize that rising temperatures in the Arctic are altering the
atmosphere in ways that disrupt the jet stream’s flow, causing it
to dip and meander up and down as it zooms around the globe. A
wavier jet stream can cause heat waves, storms and other weather
systems to get stuck in place, dragging out for days or weeks on
end. </font><font face="Calibri">That’s what has happened in
Texas and Mexico this month.<br>
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An unusual dip in the jet stream caused a persistent high-pressure
weather system, known as a “heat dome,” to form over the region
and trap hot air. It’s already baked the region with
record-breaking heat for two weeks, and it’s expected to drag out
for another week or so, likely creeping into neighboring states in
the coming days.<br>
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A number of factors likely influenced this event, including a
brewing El Niño. But some scientists say these wobbly jet streams
may happen more often as Arctic temperatures continue to soar.<br>
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“This is exactly the type of pattern — that is, extremely wavy and
thus persistent — that we expect to see more frequently as the
Arctic warms now about four times faster than the globe as a
whole,” said Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist at Woodwell
Climate Research Center, in an email to E&E News.<br>
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The Texas event already has clear connections to climate change
thanks to the sheer intensity of its heat. Temperatures have
soared as high as 118 degrees, just 2 degrees shy of the state’s
all-time heat record.<br>
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Some cities have tied or broken local records, including San
Angelo at 114 degrees June 20 and Laredo at 115 degrees. And the
heat index — a metric that accounts for both temperatures and
humidity — has soared across the state, making temperatures feel
well above 120 degrees in some places. Austin broke its all-time
heat index record at 118 degrees Wednesday. And Corpus Christi hit
a staggering heat index of 125 degrees.<br>
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As global temperatures rise, heat waves are becoming more frequent
and more intense all over the planet. The background warming can
help explain why some events, like the one in Texas, are becoming
so extreme.<br>
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The science communication nonprofit Climate Central has developed
a tool it calls the Climate Shift Index, which compares the
likelihood of an extreme temperature event today versus the
likelihood of the same event in a world without human-caused
climate change. The index suggests that the recent temperatures in
southern Texas are at least five times more likely to occur.<br>
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The heat is blistering, even for Texas. Yet it’s not just the
temperatures that are causing mayhem. It’s also how long they’re
dragging out — in a relatively unusual location for a heat dome
during this time of the year.<br>
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That’s due to this summer’s wonky jet stream. It has split into
two branches in recent weeks, meandering in large, looping
patterns over North America that can cause weather patterns to get
stuck in place.<br>
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The Texas heat dome isn’t the only one. There’s also a heat dome
over Alberta and other parts of central Canada, and the jet stream
helped drive wildfire smoke from Canada down into the eastern U.S.
earlier this month.<br>
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The exact drivers of the wacky air currents are still up for
debate. The jet stream naturally wanders or splits sometimes
without the influence of other factors like human-caused climate
change. And a brewing El Niño event could also be playing a role.<br>
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El Niño is a natural climate pattern that causes temporary warming
in parts of the Pacific Ocean, affecting weather events all over
the world. It typically recurs every two to seven years. NOAA
scientists recently announced the arrival of El Niño, which is
expected to strengthen throughout the year.<br>
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El Niño events generally shift the jet stream southward and have
been known to cause the current to split. These effects tend to be
most pronounced in winter, sometimes diverting storms toward the
southern U.S.<br>
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Climate change may also be playing a part in the jet stream’s
behavior.<br>
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Because the Arctic is heating up so quickly, it’s changing the
relationship between temperatures at the top of the world and
those closer to the equator. Air temperatures affect the thickness
of the atmosphere and the way air currents flow around the planet.<br>
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As the temperature gradient changes, some scientists theorize that
the jet stream may become wavier and more meandering as it circles
the globe. That can cause aggressive dips and splits in the
current, like the patterns it’s exhibited this summer.<br>
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These patterns are often associated with persistent storms or heat
waves that get stuck in place and drag on for days or weeks. The
Texas heat wave is a prime example, but other places are affected,
too.<br>
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Wonky jet streams have been linked to severe weather events around
the world. A study last year found that split or “double” jet
streams are associated with extreme heat in Europe. And a 2019
study found that large waves in the atmosphere can cause
long-lasting extreme heat and severe rainfall from North America
and Europe to the Middle East and Japan.<br>
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Some researchers have suggested that while the jet stream may be
changing as the planet warms, other factors outside the Arctic
could also be to blame.<br>
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A 2018 review paper looked specifically at the links between the
warming Arctic and extreme summer weather throughout the Northern
Hemisphere. It concluded that many questions remain about the
exact mechanisms — but some connections likely do exist.<br>
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Summer weather has been less of a focus than winter weather and
deserves more attention, the authors of the study said, adding
that “a scientific consensus is emerging that [Arctic warming] has
at least some influence on winter weather.”<br>
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In general, the links between Arctic warming and the jet stream
are growing more clear, according to Francis, a top researcher on
the topic.<br>
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“The exact connections between rapid Arctic warming and the jet
stream are still incompletely understood, but I think it’s safe to
say that no one believes the Arctic can warm four times faster
than the globe and NOT affect the jet stream,” she said in an
email.<br>
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The combination of human-caused climate change on top of natural
climate patterns like El Niño can cause even greater extremes. And
these combinations are likely to grow even more intense in the
future as the planet keeps on warming.<br>
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“The present conditions have never occurred before as long as
records have been kept,” Francis said. “As we dig deeper into this
research the story gets only more complicated, but it’s a
fascinating time to be a scientist in this field!”<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><i>[ OK future
lawyers, pay attention to this one ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>The six big surprises in the Montana
youth climate trial</b><br>
The state’s headline expert witness’s testimony was canceled — and
other twists from the landmark trial.<br>
by KARIN KIRK<br>
JUNE 26, 2023...</font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">Here are some highlights from the
courtroom.<br>
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<b>The state’s headline expert witness was canceled.</b><br>
Montana hired Judith Curry as an expert witness. Curry is a
well-known skeptic of human-caused climate change and is a go-to
witness for those wishing to downplay the role of greenhouse gas
emissions in warming the climate.<br>
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As the plaintiffs wrapped up their case, the state announced that
Curry would not be testifying after all. No official explanation
was offered. In her blog, Curry said it was the state’s decision
but she was “relieved” because “MT’s lawyers were totally
unprepared for direct and cross examination of climate science
witnesses.” Curry described some of the mistakes made by defense
lawyers, noting, “this is a very complex issue that they
apparently had not previously encountered.”<br>
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<b>The state called only one expert witness, and he got his math
wrong.</b><br>
Terry Anderson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the
sole expert witness for the state. Both in his written report and
his testimony on the stand, Anderson cited incorrect data about
Montana’s greenhouse gas emissions. In one case, Anderson
conflated Montana’s emissions with that of the entire Mountain
West region. In another, he said his data was “from a reliable
website” though he could not recall its name. Anderson further
testified that he used 2022 greenhouse gas emissions data from the
Energy Information Administration — even though this data has not
yet been published. Plaintiff’s lawyers attempted to follow
Anderson’s footsteps in tracking statewide carbon dioxide
emissions data and found the data has only been released through
2020.<br>
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<b>Witnesses from state agencies showed little knowledge of
climate science.</b><br>
The state called two agency witnesses to clarify the process
behind Montana’s use of fossil fuels. Chris Dorrington is the
director of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. He
was asked if he was familiar with the IPCC, which is the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international
scientific body that publishes authoritative reports on climate
change. Dorrington said he was not familiar with the IPCC’s work
until he learned about it during the trial when IPCC findings were
presented by several expert witnesses.<br>
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Sonja Nowakowski is the administrator of the Air, Energy, and
Mining Division at the Montana Department of Environmental
Quality. She said she cares deeply about the environment. Yet she
testified that she has no opinion “one way or another on the
impacts of climate change,” despite more than 15 years working in
environmental policy.<br>
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In their testimony, Nowakowski and Dorrington said their agency is
prohibited from evaluating the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions
and they can only follow the letter of the law when approving
permits for fossil fuel projects. Historically, the state has
approved every application for fossil fuel activities, according
to Anne Hedges, director of policy and legislative affairs at the
Montana Environmental Information Center and expert witness for
the plaintiffs.<br>
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<b>Attorneys for Montana resorted to straw man arguments.</b><br>
One of the more surprising tactics used by the defense was a
reliance on exaggerated “straw man” arguments that seemed to
deliberately mischaracterize the purpose of the lawsuit. Counsel
for the state asked Mark Jacobson, an expert witness about
renewable energy, if the remedy in the case would include the
judge buying electric cars for everyone in Montana. Will airplanes
that run on fossil fuels be barred from flying over Montana? Are
we supposed to go fossil-free “with the flip of a switch?” These
spurious questions were reminiscent of what one sees in online
arguments about climate change, except they were playing out in an
actual court of law.<br>
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<b>State lawyers dismissed the experiences of the young
plaintiffs.</b><br>
The state’s closing arguments echoed the dismissive tone of their
opening statements. Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell
characterized the plaintiffs’ case as “a weeklong airing of
political grievances” and “social and political statements.”<br>
<br>
Russell argued the lawsuit was an attempt by the youth to “evade
the democratic process and force their policy views on all
Montanans without their consent or participation.”<br>
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Meanwhile, the Montana attorney general’s office called the case a
“publicity stunt staged by an out-of-state organization that is
exploiting well-intentioned children.”<br>
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Russell advised the plaintiffs to work through the state
legislature — where Republicans hold a supermajority — not the
courts.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>The state never defended its need for fossil fuels.</b><br>
In closing arguments, Nate Bellinger, an attorney for the
plaintiffs, emphasized that Montana did not justify its reliance
on fossil fuels, despite the demonstrable harm they are causing.<br>
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In fact, witnesses Peter Erickson and Mark Jacobson repeatedly
made the point that Montana has abundant potential for renewable
energy. “Montana has so much renewable energy potential, it’s
incredible,” Jacobson said on the witness stand. Jacobson is the
director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program at Stanford University.<br>
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The state made only one point, albeit repeatedly: Montana is too
insignificant to have any impact on climate change. But Erickson,
an affiliated researcher at the nonprofit Stockholm Environment
Institute, noted that there are 100 countries with emissions
smaller than Montana’s, yet the governments of those countries
have pledged to cut their emissions.<br>
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“Every ton matters” was a refrain from the plaintiff’s side,
referring to statements from the IPCC that emphasize the need for
rapid decarbonization across all economic sectors and around the
world.<br>
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Montana annually sends over 100 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere
via fossil fuel consumption and extraction, with an additional 80
tons related to fuels transported through or refined in Montana,
according to numbers presented by Erickson.<br>
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“Montana’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions is
nationally and globally significant,” Erickson said. “Montana’s
responsibility and ability to transition away from fossil fuels is
substantial.”<br>
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<b>What’s next? More lawsuits.</b><br>
Two of the plaintiffs spoke to the public after the trial wrapped
up, and they noted that this case will likely have impacts far
beyond their home state. Grace Gibson-Snyder, one of the young
plaintiffs, said, “We’re hoping for this to have a resonating
effect around the country and around the world.” Lander Busse,
another plaintiff, added, “It feels like the beginning, really.”<br>
<br>
Busse’s comment may have been prophetic, as Multnomah County in
Oregon just announced it’s suing several fossil fuel companies for
their alleged role in lethal heat waves in 2019.<br>
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A verdict from district court Judge Kathy Seeley is expected later
this summer.<br>
Disclosure: Karin Kirk lives in Montana and volunteers on behalf
of cleaner energy policies in the state.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ advice delivered by the Guardian ]</i></font><br>
<b>We don’t have to be overwhelmed by climate anxiety. Feel the
pain, then act</b><br>
Susie Orbach<br>
Sun 25 Jun 2023 <br>
My working day as a psychotherapist involves engaging with
conflicts, with confusions, with lassitude. Clarity and relief don’t
come from intricate analysis on its own. Clarity and relief emerge
out of an understanding of the difficult feelings generated by hurt,
by abandonment, by aggression, by neglect, by carelessness and by
unintentionality.<br>
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It doesn’t matter which week we choose. There is always a climate
emergency; an emergency we can close our ears and eyes to. Two weeks
ago, it was the blanketing of New York in a cloud of smoke from
Canada. Last week, Beijing recorded the hottest June since records
began. All over the world, sea levels rise. Drought or flooding
ensues. And the loss of habitats and species. We can get frightened
and find it hard to hold the knowledge of what is occurring.<br>
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As filmmaker Josh Appignanesi shows in his new film My Extinction,
which will be released on 30 June, allowing himself to feel the
real-time effects of climate change is uncomfortable. Appignanesi,
who recycles yet makes car commercials, turns the camera on himself
as his climate concerns start to make him feel disgruntled. He feels
put out and inconvenienced. And he ends up getting far more involved
in climate work than he’d ever thought possible.<br>
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The implications of acknowledging the nefarious activities of the
oil and logging companies, and the London hard-sell thinktanks that
operate as fig leaves for their corporate power, can be enraging and
curiously stultifying. Yet if we stay long enough with our feelings
of rage, of helplessness, of sorrow, of wanting to shut off what we
didn’t want to know about, we can find a way too towards a new
ethics of responsibility.<br>
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Appignanesi’s film reminds us that working together is the
empowering antidote. It’s a lesson we need to be reminded of again
and again.<br>
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My working day as a psychotherapist involves engaging with
conflicts, with confusions, with lassitude. Clarity and relief don’t
come from intricate analysis on its own. Clarity and relief emerge
out of an understanding of the difficult feelings generated by hurt,
by abandonment, by aggression, by neglect, by carelessness and by
unintentionality.<br>
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Along with understanding is the process of experiencing these often
troubling emotions. Experiencing emotions is not an “aha” moment.
Feelings are more devilish and complex. It’s as though we have to
“un-repress” them so they can unfold through their many and varied
dimensions.<br>
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The involuntary turning away and acceptance that our world is doomed
can sink us into despair<br>
We might first notice rage, which then gives way to sadness, to
despair and a new thoughtfulness about what to do. Or we might start
with helplessness, which opens up into insult and then indignation.
How feelings cascade is personal. They are rooted in the emotional
palates we were exposed to growing up – the feelings our families
sanctioned (and didn’t) and how we’ve been able to expand from
those. In whichever way we now come at our feelings, what’s
interesting is that, once allowed, supplementary feelings emerge.<br>
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Sticking around to see what those are enriches not just our own
sense of self and potency but builds a bridge to doing. Adding our
knowledge – the facts of a given situation – to our feelings
combines to create new psychological landscapes that allow an
individual, family or group to act differently in the present.<br>
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So, too, with climate issues and the sorrows and immobility that the
catastrophic can at first induce in us. The involuntary turning away
and acceptance that our world is doomed can sink us into despair.
Thank goodness for the young and their refusal of futility. Their
railing and actions set an example by reminding us that
acknowledging our feelings can propel us to act. Shutting off from
our feelings is a counsel of collapse; it diminishes us, it
disempowers us, it makes us less smart and, in so doing, adds to the
climate emergency.<br>
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Do we know what to do? Not exactly. Are the efforts being made by
individuals who come together to force the climate emergency on to
our and the government’s consciousness effective? Yes and no.
Awareness is high, but action is interrupted by ideological currents
that seep into us emotionally.<br>
<br>
Climate deniers learned new tricks from their forefathers in the
tobacco lobby to stain our minds. Tobacco companies no longer deny
smoking is bad – that battle is lost. Instead, they instigate an
emotional appeal about freedom, individual choice and desire.<br>
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And so, too, the climate deniers having lost the scientific fight,
have chosen to fight on a different terrain. They also invoke
individual choice, reformulating progress as personal freedom. It’s
sold as part of growth – economic development brings the whole world
wealth. It’s a strange sell, and yet a compelling one. It’s of a
piece with bearing arms in the United States and everyone making
their own destiny and wealth, being an individual who can think for
her or himself.<br>
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Psychology is harnessed to a pseudo-behavioural economics to
persuade us that personal liberty and growth is all, that the
freedom to travel where we wish, to see the world as our playground,
to see forest fires and coral death as part of the “natural”
ecosystem are phenomena we shouldn’t worry too much about so long as
we recycle.<br>
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Emotional appeal at this level isn’t just cynical; it is deadly. It
needs to be resisted.<br>
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The young, growing up more emotionally literate and with greater
knowledge about environmental stories, are the ones to take the lead
and contest such abhorrent views of freedom and personal liberty as
they work to find solutions to the climate crisis. They join those
who love and respect the “natural” world and those of us who abhor
the perverse agendas of growth that rape the earth.<br>
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Yes, it is true we don’t know what to do but we are endeavouring to
learn together, fight and speak truth to power. Old slogans, I know,
but no less valid for that. Feelings can make us humble and make us
strong. There isn’t a contradiction, just different aspects of human
subjectivity that can propel us to think and act.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Extreme
precipitation risks currently underestimated</b><br>
Andrew Freedman, author of Axios Generate<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">A database that infrastructure planners
use to determine how best to design a bridge, building or new
tunnel vastly understates the risk of extreme precipitation
events, a report shows.<br>
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The big picture: The current NOAA precipitation expectations, used
to determine the risk of a "100-year" rainstorm and even rarer
events, are not keeping pace with the warming climate, the First
Street Foundation concludes in an analysis.<br>
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The report uses a new, peer-reviewed flood model to examine how
climate change already has shifted the odds of extreme
precipitation events across the U.S.<br>
It compares the model's findings with what is contained in the
NOAA database, known as Atlas 14.<br>
The climate change-related trends are projected to continue as
warmer ocean and air temperatures provide more water vapor for
storms to convert into heavy precipitation.<br>
Between the lines: First Street shows that more than 51% of
Americans live in an area now twice as likely to experience a
1-in-100-year flood event, compared with expectations from Atlas
14.<br>
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The biggest positive corrections to NOAA's data came in the
Northeast, Ohio Valley, and Texas and Louisiana coastlines.<br>
Some areas saw decreases compared to Atlas 14, including parts of
the Plains and intermountain West.<br>
Studies show that climate change is increasing the frequency and
magnitude of precipitation extremes, along with contributing to
hotter, more frequent and long duration heat waves as well as
stronger hurricanes.<br>
NOAA is in the process of updating its database for Atlas 15, but
this is not expected to begin rolling out until 2026.<br>
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The government's outdated estimates may help set the design
standards for the vast sums of infrastructure spending in the
Biden administration's climate and infrastructure laws.<br>
If that is the case, it would mean many large projects would be
outdated and vulnerable as soon as they are completed, First
Street founder and CEO Matthew Eby told Axios in an interview.<br>
Yes, but: Besides First Street, a nonprofit, many climate startups
exist to help prepare companies and communities for changing risks
where existing data falls short.<br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ here it is ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Extreme weather </b><b>The big picture</b><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ From NASA visualization Labs ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Sea Level Through a Porthole</b><br>
Updated, June 27, 2023 <br>
Visualizations by: Andrew J Christensen<br>
As the planet warms and polar ice melts, our global average sea
level is rising. Although exact ocean heights vary due to local
geography, climate over time, and dynamic fluid interactions with
gravity and planetary rotation, scientists observe sea level
trends by comparing measurements against a 20 year spatial and
temporal mean reference. These visualizations use the visual
metaphor of a submerged porthole window to observe how far our
oceans rose between 1993 and 2022.<br>
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href="https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5114" moz-do-not-send="true">https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5114</a></font>
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news archive - looking back at a set back ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><font size="+2"><i><b>June 28, 2006</b></i></font></font><br>
<b>June 28, 2006: The documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" is
released in the United States.</b> (Executive producer Dean Devlin
and electric-car advocate Chelsea Sexton would appear on the July 7,
2006 edition of "EcoTalk with Betsy Rosenberg" on Air America to
discuss the film.)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/k96tIRjxzw0">http://youtu.be/k96tIRjxzw0</a> <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/07/who_killed_the_.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/07/who_killed_the_.html</a>
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