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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>July</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 11 , 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ DW News report "We are not well prepared
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</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>El Nino, fires, global warming gang
up to make hottest month on record | DW News</b><br>
DW News<br>
Jul 9, 2023 #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Heatwaves<br>
Countries across the globe are grappling with extreme heatwaves.
EU scientists say last month was the warmest June on record, by a
substantial margin. <br>
And the average temperature reached an unofficial record high this
week. It's feared climate change and the El Nino weather pattern
could push temperatures even higher. The United Nations is warning
governments to take precautions to prevent deaths caused by the
intense heat.<br>
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<i> </i><font face="Calibri"><i> [ Self-care climate anxiety nicely
explained by climate psychology educator </i></font><font
face="Calibri"><i>Leslie Davenport, </i></font><font
face="Calibri"><i>video 43 min -- highly recommended ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>Mental Health in the Climate Crisis: Why
Your Self Care Matters to Viewers</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">YEA! Impact</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jul 10, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">How climate stories are told impacts people’s
mental health and influences their overall wellbeing and ability
to take action in the face of the climate crisis. Content creators
are critical to helping people move from despair to courageous
action in the face of the climate crisis.</font><font
face="Calibri">This digital session is presented by Climate Mental
Health Network in partnership with Pique Action as part of the
2023 Hollywood Climate Summit.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILCdqEL09kc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILCdqEL09kc</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ For another point of view: don't be too
calm...Opinion ]</font></i><br>
<b>Remaining “Calm” About Climate Change Will Kill Us</b><br>
Jul 10, 2023<br>
Adam McKay<br>
Anyone insisting that you “calm down” about climate change is living
in denial about the catastrophes at our doorstep.<br>
<font face="Calibri">The “calm down” set fancy themselves
professional and sober-minded, a tasteful levee protecting the
marvel of our civilization from the uninformed and hysterical
masses.<br>
<br>
The “calm down” person’s business is business as usual.<br>
<br>
They defend the status quo with a practiced rueful resignation:
“Believe me, I wish things were different too, but it’s just the
way things are.” Only “the way things are” is on a historic and
murderous losing streak.<br>
<br>
They love to second guess the “strategies” of those who are trying
to actively change or challenge the “way things are.”</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">“Isn’t that kind of approach
counterproductive?” the “calm down” type will ask.<br>
<br>
They worry anger or a more direct approach will turn off their
friends, like the “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good”
lady or the “don’t let the horrible be the enemy of the atrocious”
guy.<br>
<br>
When you express alarm about how rapidly the climate is warming,
the “calm down” crowd will correct you with the most remedial
facts. They believe that for you to be so bothered when they are
not, there must be a fundamental misunderstanding on your part.<br>
<br>
“You do know the global warming temperature is taken from a
multiyear average, not single extreme heat events, right?” they
will say, like a bemused uncle gently letting the kids know that
elephants don’t actually talk like they do in story books.<br>
<br>
“Yes, I know. But is it possible these extreme heat events,
because of the rapid rate of change, even if only lasting for
months or weeks, could trigger other thresholds if —”<br>
<br>
But they’ve already moved on.<br>
<br>
The “calm down” crowd does not have time for questions in response
to their answers.<br>
<br>
After all, their answers have been approved by the large extended
crowd of “calm down” friends, consultants, business leaders,
journalists, politicians, pundits, financial analysts, and media
personalities with whom they routinely lunch and work.<br>
<br>
Their pronouncements rise above the din and clink of a downtown or
uptown, or an across-the-bridge restaurant that used to be a
school or a hospital with a name like “Waif” or “32 Defunct”:<br>
<br>
“It’s a slam dunk.”<br>
<br>
“Free trade creates value for everyone.”<br>
<br>
“The models show the housing market has always been stable.”<br>
<br>
“Market-based health care is the achievable solution for right
now.”<br>
<br>
“When it comes to climate, we’re actually doing a lot.”<br>
<br>
“The models show this temperature spike is only an anomaly.”<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">God forbid you point out to the “calm down” guy
the numerous conflicts of interest and moral hazards that have
constellated around him or her for the past 30 years, a spirograph
of wrong turns and straight up disasters his “calm down” crowd has
cheered and supported.<br>
<br>
Dark and soft money, advertising revenue, speaking fees, future
jobs, board seats, university endowments, awards, hiring
preferences, social media reach, financial markets, poll numbers,
and on and on.<br>
<br>
Economies form like barnacles on a ship’s hull these days, with so
much money throwing its weight around every waking and sleeping
moment.<br>
<br>
How can the “calm down” expert not see this?<br>
<br>
But be careful. Because by mentioning any of this you are
committing the greatest sin there is for the “calm down” crowd:
stating the obvious.<br>
<br>
So adverse is this group to stating the obvious that after a
while, “the obvious” or the “semi-obvious” pretty much never gets
stated at all.<br>
<br>
The oil industry and their attendant financial institutions’
almost preposterous hold on the government and its elected
officials?<br>
<br>
An economic system that has nurses paying a higher functional tax
rate than billionaires?<br>
<br>
A world climate plan that after hundreds of forums, treaties, and
“net-zero pledges,” still saw emissions reach their highest levels
ever this past year?<br>
<br>
All of it risks not only upsetting the “calm down” guy’s
well-developed delicate late-twentieth-century aesthetic taste,
but worst of all, it might just get “the people” riled up or in
the worst of all possible outcomes, actually demanding change and
accountability.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Freak storms, fires, mass inhalation events,
and megadroughts?<br>
<br>
“A troubling look into our climate future,” the “calm down” expert
intones, with vague ideas of a three-part series and who knows,
maybe an award or two, running through his mind in an instant.<br>
<br>
“But it’s all happening right now at the same time,” you say,
scratching your head with an almost manic fervency.<br>
<br>
“It’s happened before. Winter tornados, El Niño, droughts. Let’s
not overreact,” he says or posts or op-edifies. “Calm down.”<br>
<br>
And it is then that you realize this perfectly smooth stone of a
person will get a lot of people killed. And after it happens, they
will let us all know there was no way anyone could have ever
known.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.levernews.com/remaining-calm-about-climate-change-will-kill-us/">https://www.levernews.com/remaining-calm-about-climate-change-will-kill-us/</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Early slip ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Declassified docs: U.S. resisted
calls for climate aid since Nixon</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">By Sara Schonhardt 7/06/2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri">The United States
has long resisted compensating poorer countries for environmental
damages, boding ill for global negotiations to bolster climate
aid, according to an analysis of declassified records published
Thursday.<br>
<br>
The briefing from the National Security Archive, a nonprofit
watchdog group at George Washington University, finds that U.S.
opposition to such international support stretches back to the
early 1970s, starting with an intelligence report commissioned
under President Richard Nixon.<br>
<br>
“These records shed light on the various ways that the U.S.
government has tried to avoid getting what President George H. W.
Bush called a ‘big bill’ for its environmental impacts in talks
about compensation, liability, and reparations programs meant to
alleviate the impacts of climate change,” the analysis states.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">The report comes as a U.N.-backed committee
works to hammer out the details of a fund for so-called loss and
damage, which would compensate developing countries for the
irreparable harms of human-caused climate change. Countries agreed
to establish that fund last year at global climate talks in Sharm
el-Sheikh, Egypt — though settling on its outlines has been no
easy task.<br>
<br>
But the arc of U.S. history on climate reparations complicates
future loss and damage negotiations, the National Security Archive
analysis concludes.<br>
<br>
“Although the adoption of the Loss and Damage Fund was historic,
recent events, and the declassified record, suggest that developed
countries will continue to resist practical efforts to implement
climate finance programs,” it states.<br>
<br>
The 17 documents cited in the analysis come from various sources,
including presidential libraries, the State Department’s Foreign
Relations of the United States series and previous National
Security Archive briefing books on White House climate change
policy. Some were only recently declassified.<br>
<br>
One of the earliest documents is a 1972 State Department
intelligence note released ahead of a U.N. environment conference
in Stockholm. It assesses calls by a coalition of African nations
for reparations from developed countries that have “partially
based (and continue to base) their growth” on the exploitation of
natural resources.<br>
<br>
The document interprets the African group’s position as a push for
increased foreign aid rather than reparations. But it also asserts
that the group’s views linking environment and development will
“be with us in the years to come” and reflect “an increasing
African militancy.”<br>
<br>
At the Stockholm conference, the United States pledged up to $40
million for a voluntary $100 million U.N. environment fund — a
proposal suggested by Russell Train, then-head of the White House
Council on Environmental Quality, and Henry Kissinger, who at the
time was Nixon’s assistant for national security affairs. In a
memo to Nixon, they said it would give the conference the chance
“to produce a substantive international program.”<br>
<br>
But the U.S. delegation opposed a principle calling for the
development of international law “regarding liability and
compensation for the victims of pollution and other environmental
damage,” according to a declassified roundup of actions taken at
the conference.<br>
<br>
A summary memo by Train states that the delegation opposed
“politicizing” the conference and “consistently opposed using the
conference as an excuse for new development ‘add-ons.'”<br>
<br>
Train also noted, however, that “it is not possible to discuss
environmental protection with the LDCs [least-developed countries]
completely outside the context of development objectives.”<br>
<br>
Train later went on to head EPA, where he faced a death threat for
helping to institutionalize federal environmental policy in the
agency’s early days.<br>
<br>
<b>‘We don’t want a big bill’</b><br>
Developing countries began calling for reparations during the
1970s as environmental concerns entered international forum
discussions, according to the National Security Archive’s analysis
of the declassified documents. That prompted the State Department
and other government officials to ready a strategy in anticipation
of further calls for compensation.<br>
<br>
“It really does reveal such a long, charged history of no
admittance of responsibility for environmental impacts,” said
Rachel Santarsiero, a research analyst at the National Security
Archive.<br>
<br>
Neither the State Department nor the White House responded to a
request for comment Wednesday.<br>
<br>
A recently declassified 1989 State Department document — which
considered financial measures to limit or adapt to climate change
— said proposals for a global climate fund were “premature and
raise serious concerns.”<br>
<br>
In language that echoes arguments from developed countries today,
the paper adds: “Substantial work would need to be done to
identify activities which might be supported. Any resources would
need to be raised on a voluntary basis. The compatibility of a
separate fund with existing assistance programs would also have to
be demonstrated.”<br>
<br>
While each presidential administration has approached climate
action with varying degrees of ambition, they all appear to share
a reticence to support calls for compensation.<br>
<br>
Twenty years after the Stockholm conference, George H.W. Bush told
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl he had a “major problem” with a
summit marking its anniversary in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Bush,
facing a rocky election, said he wouldn’t commit to things that
would halt the economy.<br>
<br>
“Maybe our experts can resolve these problems. But we don’t want a
big bill at the end of the day,” he said, according to a White
House record of the conversation.<br>
<br>
None of the resistance stopped developing countries from
continuing to push for compensation measures — with some small
success. Climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007 led to the
first formal mention in a U.N. document of the term “loss and
damage.” At climate talks in 2013, countries agreed to create the
Warsaw International Mechanism, making loss and damage a formal
pillar of U.N. climate negotiations.<br>
<br>
But efforts continued to avoid any mention of liability or
compensation under the administration of President Barack Obama.<br>
<br>
A declassified State Department communications package in the
run-up to the 2015 Paris climate change conference states that
“demands for massive sums and for ‘compensation’ are simply not
feasible.”<br>
<br>
The document includes talking points and questions and answers,
including advice for officials on how to respond if pressed on why
the United States opposes the creation of a fund for loss and
damage. The suggested response: “We don’t think it appropriate or
feasible to suggest that unknown, unlimited liability should be
imposed on certain countries.”<br>
<br>
“These documents are particularly interesting because they show
snapshots of the U.S. hardline right before the Paris climate
summit,” Santarsiero said.<br>
<br>
The agreement to create a loss and damage fund last year still
includes a caveat that those arrangements do not constitute
liability, compensation or reparations. That’s a signal that the
United States and other wealthy nations will continue to oppose
such language into the future, the analysis concludes.<br>
<br>
“Questions like, ‘Who will contribute to the fund?’ ‘Will only
developed countries contribute?’ and ‘Will developing countries
like China and India, or other non-state actors have to
contribute?’ will surely dominate future climate summits — but any
acceptance of responsibility is unlikely,” it states.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ exuberant talk ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>One Million Years into Climate Change's Past</b><br>
ClimateAdam<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Jul 10, 2023 #ClimateChange #iceage<br>
How can scientists dig up the secrets to Earth's climate past?
These ancient records reveal the history of our planet: From ice
ages, to dramatic sea level rise. So what do the past one million
years tell us about climate change today, and where global warming
might take us tomorrow?<br>
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==DATA==<br>
Temperature data: IPCC AR6 mean (historical), Kaufman, Shakun,
Hansen<br>
CO2 data: IPCC dataset, Figure 2.4a WG1 AR6<br>
Sea Level Rise data: Spratt & Lisieck, 2016<br>
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Future CO2 concentrations from Meinshausen et al., 2020<br>
Future temperatures from IPCC<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back
George H. W. Bush]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>July 11, 1990 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> July 11, 1990: The Los Angeles Times observes
that President George H. W. Bush seems to have dissociative
identity disorder when it comes to climate:</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"The tension is often explained as
a dispute between Bush's strong-willed chief of staff, John H.
Sununu, who is deeply suspicious of environmentalists, and his
Environmental Protection Agency chief, William K. Reilly.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"That explanation, however, is an inaccurate
characterization, Administration officials say. Although Reilly
has advocated a stronger environmental policy, he has neither
the clout nor the access to Bush to challenge Sununu, the
officials say. In fact, Reilly has been conspicuous by his
absence from the economic summit, virtually the only senior
Administration official with an interest in the summit issues
whom Bush left in Washington.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"Instead, the disputes within the
Administration reflect Bush's own ambivalence about the issues.
Throughout his Administration, he has been pulled in opposite
directions on the environment, tugged between his desire to
placate environmentally-conscious voters on the one side and his
instinct to protect business people from government regulation
on the other."</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The Times also notes:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">"Bush's top aides are unanimous in believing
that the scientific evidence is shaky on all aspects of global
warming--the problem's dimensions, its potential effects and its
causes."</font><br>
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href="http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-11/news/mn-224_1_global-warming-issue">http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-11/news/mn-224_1_global-warming-issue</a></font><br>
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