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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>July</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>[ clips from NYTimes on Texas heat -- how
poverty kills ] </i><br>
</font> <b><font face="Calibri">In a Texas City, Heat Proved Deadly
Even for Those Long Used to It</font></b><font face="Calibri"><br>
Extreme heat killed 10 people in Laredo, a sign that the eventual
death toll from this year’s widespread heat waves could be
substantial.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">By J. David Goodman -- Reporting from
Laredo, Texas<br>
July 13, 2023<br>
Alfredo Garza Jr. died in his bedroom with two broken
air-conditioners, on a downtown street in Laredo, Texas, across
from a coffee shop and a bakery. When his body was found, the
temperature inside the room was 106 degrees.<br>
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Nearby on the same June day, in a small home behind his sister’s
house, 67-year-old Jorge Sanchez suffered the heat with nothing
more than a fan to cool him, and then succumbed to temperatures
that reached 113 degrees. A wave of extreme heat also overcame
another man, still unidentified by the authorities, who parked his
truck on a busy residential street with its hazard lights
flashing, and died.<br>
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Hot weather is nothing new in a place like Laredo, where summer
temperatures regularly climb well past 100 degrees. But the
seemingly unending wave of punishing heat and stifling humidity
that began in the middle of June — parked for weeks over much of
the nation’s south and west — is presenting unfamiliar and deadly
new hazard<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">Across the country, extreme heat, which
can strain the heart, lungs and kidneys, is a leading
weather-related cause of death. In Texas last year, at least 306
people died of heat-related causes, according to the state health
department — the highest annual total in more than two decades.
Among them were 158 nonresidents, a figure that includes migrants
crossing the state’s harsh terrain. During the heat wave in Webb
County, at least two migrants were found dead on local ranches,
according to the sheriff, Martin Cuellar.<br>
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The superheated dome of high atmospheric pressure that has been
pressing down on much of the country will probably stay in place
for a few more days at least, forecasters said, pushing
temperatures to dangerous heights from parts of California all the
way to Florida. And the temperature readings tell only part of the
story, public health officials cautioned, because humid air
worsens the heat, making it much more difficult for the body to
cool down. And in cities like Laredo, the air can grow even hotter
as the sun bakes the pavement, with little respite at night.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">“Bottom line: The heat is getting bad.
Everyone needs to do whatever they can — because we want to
prevent people from dying.”<br>
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The county provides free air-conditioners to residents who can’t
afford them, handing out more than 400 last year and nearly 300 so
far this year, Dr. Huang said.<br>
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Instead, the county has opened more than a dozen cooling centers,
organized “fan drives” to give away fans, and leaned on a system
of “promotoras,” well-connected local people who help officials
spread important health information through their networks and at
community centers.<br>
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“It’s like that one aunt that knows everybody, that gets along
with everybody,” said Tano Tijerina, the county judge for Webb
County, describing the approach.<br>
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Mr. Tijerina said the county had not contemplated starting a
program to provide free air-conditioners to residents. “If you’re
going to start giving out air-conditioners, where do you stop?” he
said. “We are an aid, we will help, we’ll assist.” But he added,
“we’re talking about people’s tax dollars here.”<br>
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Nearly the entire population of the city and the county is
Hispanic, according to U.S. Census estimates, and many residents
have lived their entire lives enduring the region’s famously hot
weather. A longtime local meteorologist goes by the nickname
“Heatwave.”<br>
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“We’re used to the heat,” Armando Acosta, 24, a metal worker in
Laredo, said as he finished erecting the frame of a shade
structure outside a house this week, working in the sweltering
sun. “But it’s the air that’s suffocating,” he said.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">His colleague Cristian Patiño, 32, said each of
them would drink about 15 bottles of water during the work day,
and take breaks roughly each hour.<br>
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Workers make up a large share of hospital admissions for
heat-related illnesses, but in Laredo, the people who died from
the latest heat wave were mostly older people who were at home
alone, and either did not have air conditioning or chose not to
turn it on, said Dr. Stern, the medical examiner.<br>
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“They thought, ‘I’m used to this heat,’” she said. “That’s what we
heard from their family, ‘Oh, I’m used to this heat, I’ve got
this.’”<br>
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One victim, a 68-year-old woman, died despite having a working
air-conditioner at home. “Her daughters had seen her the night
before, to bring her some food, and told her, ‘Mom, turn the
air-conditioner on, it’s hot in here,’ and she wouldn’t,” Dr.
Stern said. “Didn’t want to turn it on, to save money.”<br>
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Money was also a major concern in the home of Mr. Garza, 61, who
died in a room with two broken air-conditioners...<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/us/texas-heat-deaths-webb-county.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/us/texas-heat-deaths-webb-county.html</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ video briefing from a most respected
climate scientist - starts about 2 min in ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Kevin Trenberth on El Nino, and
Earth's Hottest Day</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Jul 6, 2023<br>
When Kevin Trenberth speaks, scientists around the world listen</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">greenmanbucket</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVnP3KH6VOM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVnP3KH6VOM</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ James Hansen's team speaks wisely ]</i><br>
</font><b>The Climate Dice are Loaded. Now, a New Frontier?</b><br>
13 July 2023<br>
James Hansen, Makiko Sato and Reto Ruedy<br>
<font face="Calibri">Andy Revkin recently asked whether the “climate
dice” have become more “loaded” in the last 15 years. Climate dice
were defined[1] in 1988, after we realized that the next cool
summer may cause the public to discount human-caused climate
change. The answer is “yes,” the dice are more loaded as we will
explain via the shifting bell curve (Fig. 1). The shift is large
enough that most people notice the change, but that doesn’t
prevent a person with a bias from taking the cool June in the U.S.
this year (Fig. 2) as proof that global warming predictions were
wrong – and, of course, a loose cannon on Twitter has done just
that. That’s nonsense, of course. On global average, June 2023 was
easily the warmest June in the historical record, as we will
illustrate below.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">What to do about loose cannons? Censor them?
Bad idea. Censorship leads to enforced conformity, which has more
serious consequences than loose cannons. Conformity leads to
dogma[2] which is anti-science. Science aims to compile real-world
data and interpret it without prejudice, including its
implications for policy. In a democracy, we must keep the public
informed, which requires correcting disinformation. The aim is not
to persuade a loose cannon – who likely has prior bias and is
unpersuadable – but rather to educate those people who are
open-minded...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mailchi.mp/caa/the-climate-dice-are-loaded-now-a-new-frontier?e=cd4f052551">https://mailchi.mp/caa/the-climate-dice-are-loaded-now-a-new-frontier?e=cd4f052551</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ a single page essay by Hansen team
explains the graphics of change ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Perception of climate change</b><br>
James Hansena, Makiko Satoa, and Reto Ruedyb<br>
a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute
for Space Studies<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/Documents/Hansen.2012.PerceptionClimChan.PNAS.pdf">https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/Documents/Hansen.2012.PerceptionClimChan.PNAS.pdf</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> [ DW News ]<br>
<b>EU lawmakers narrowly pass 'nature restoration bill' | DW News</b><br>
DW News<br>
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<p>Jul 12, 2023 #EuropeanUnion #Biodiversity #nature<br>
The European Parliament has accepted a key biodiversity bill that
will see the restoration of CO2-storing peatlands but has been
criticized by farmers and other opposition groups due to fears
they might lose land. Testing the EU's global climate credentials,
the lawmakers supported the European Commission plan in a
razor-thin 324-312 vote with 12 abstentions.<br>
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After weeks of intense negotiations and despite the steadfast
opposition of the legislature's biggest group, the European
People's Party, the plan survived in the vote at the European
Parliament in Strasbourg. Immediately after its approval,
lawmakers started voting on more than 100 amendments in a bid to
adjust the plan. These amendments will be negotiated with the
member states of the EU, signifying a months-long process before
the final law can be approved. The debate surrounding the law had
become an important campaign issue prior to the European elections
in June 2024. The makeup of the next European Parliament will
influence the priorities of the next European Commission, which is
currently led by Ursula von der Leyen. The full chamber had to
vote on the bill after a parliamentary commission failed to agree
on a position. <br>
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The Nature Restoration Act was at the center of the EU's
biodiversity strategy, forming part of the bloc's Green Deal
approach to boost environmental protection and mitigate the
effects of climate change. Degraded ecosystems could be restored
by boosting forested areas and marine habitats as well as
increasing connectivity between rivers. The bill will allow for
30% of all former peatlands currently exploited for agriculture to
be restored and partially shifted to other use by the end of the
decade, a figure rising to 70% by 2050. Farmers' associations and
EU conservative politicians had previously complained that farmers
would be too restricted by protective measures, and even claimed
the bill could endanger food security in the EU. EU legislators
from center-left, green and left-wing groups in the parliament
supported the legislation, with many joining Swedish climate
activist Greta Thunberg in a protest in favor on Tuesday. On the
other side, farmers with tractors responded to a call by the
European farmers' association Copa-Cogeca and demonstrated against
the nature conservation law in front of the parliament.<br>
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<i> </i><font face="Calibri"><i> [ Vice delivers the conjectured
terror-of-the-Month - text and audio ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Scientists
Raise Alarm Over Risk of 'Synchronized' Global Crop Failures</b><br>
New research exposes an underestimated risk of simultaneous global
food supply shocks due to climate change.<br>
Becky Ferreira<br>
By Becky Ferreira<br>
July 6, 2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Scientists are raising alarms about the risk of
simultaneous crop failures occurring in multiple regions across
the globe as a result of human-driven climate change, a
catastrophe that poses an underestimated threat to the global food
supply, reports a new study.<br>
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Using sophisticated climate models, researchers zeroed in on the
effects of the jet stream, a system of rapidly flowing winds in
the atmosphere, on heat extremes around the world. The results
revealed that “meandering” jet stream patterns can produce weather
anomalies in some of the most important crop-producing lands on
Earth, an ominous signal that “synchronized” harvest collapses
could occur in the future.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Climate change, which is driven by human
consumption of fossil fuels, is placing enormous new pressures on
humans and other lifeforms on the planet. In particular, rising
temperatures are fueling more intense extreme weather events, such
as heatwaves, droughts, floods, wildfires, and storms, all of
which have adverse effects on food production worldwide. Given
that disruptions to the global food supply can be deadly,
especially for import-reliant nations, scientists have been
galvanized to better understand the complex risks that climate
change poses to global crop yields.<br>
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To that end, scientists led by climate scientist Kai Kornhuber
from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory set
out to study meandering jet streams, which are especially wavy
wind patterns in the sky that have remained a wild card in climate
and crop models. <br>
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By analyzing climate data collected from 1960 and 2014, the team
discovered “an increased likelihood of concurrent low yields
during summers featuring meandering jets in observations and
models” which expose “high-risk blind spots” in climate models,
according to a study published on Tuesday in Nature
Communications.<br>
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“Concurrent crop failures in major crop-producing regions
constitute a systemic risk as associated spikes in food prices can
lead to conflict and undernutrition in countries that rely on
imports,” said Kornhuber and his colleagues in the study. “Thus,
understanding the likelihood of concurrent crop failures and the
degree to which models are able to reproduce observed
relationships is important for increasing the resilience of the
global food system and mitigating climate risks.”<br>
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<font face="Calibri">“While climate models have been excellent in
projecting the mean response to continued anthropogenic greenhouse
gas emissions our analysis suggests that they might provide a
conservative estimate of how concurrent extreme weather events
driven by specific circulation regimes might evolve in future and
how they might affect regional crop yield and covariability across
regions,” the team added.<br>
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Climate models and projections have become extremely sophisticated
in recent years, but it’s still challenging to account for all of
the effects caused by the collision of natural climate cycles with
human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels. <br>
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For instance, Kornhuber and his colleagues note that the intricate
relationship between jet stream patterns, extreme weather events,
and crop yield anomalies has only been quantified on a regional
basis, rather than a global level. Up until now, there has also
been a lack of clarity about how shifts in these atmospheric wind
patterns could affect crop yields in the future.<br>
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The team’s 54-year dataset showed that meandering jet streams have
the potential to trigger far more devastating heat extremes than
previously realized. The researchers also generated projections
for the latter half of the 21st century that show an elevated risk
of simultaneous crop failures that could cripple the global food
supply chain by triggering crop failures in key breadbasket
regions such as India, the United States, and Eastern Europe.<br>
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In other words, the new study offers a frightening glimpse of a
world roiled by food shortages brought on by meandering winds. As
with all other warnings about climate change, the only chance at
avoiding this fate is to drastically reduce humanity’s consumption
of fossil fuels within the coming years.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">“Our study points towards potential high-impact
blind spots in current climate risk assessments, highlighting the
urgent need for more empirical and process-based research to
support model improvements in the climate and agriculture domains,
supplemented by expert elicitation, qualitative storylines, and
decision-centric approaches,” the researchers said. <br>
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“Evidence for high-risk blind spots such as an underestimation of
synchronized harvest failures as identified here, manifests the
urgency of rapid emission reductions, lest climate extremes and
their complex interactions might increasingly become
unmanageable,” they concluded.<br>
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href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m3k3/scientists-raise-alarm-over-risk-of-synchronized-global-crop-failures">https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3m3k3/scientists-raise-alarm-over-risk-of-synchronized-global-crop-failures</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ This is an excellent essay -- worthy of
attention ]</i><br>
<b>The big idea: why climate tribalism only helps the deniers</b><br>
From nuclear power to electric vehicles, battles between
activists risk getting in the way of reducing emissions<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">Hannah Ritchie<br>
Mon 10 Jul 2023 <br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">One of the most effective ways to be a
climate sceptic is to say nothing at all. Why expend the effort
slapping down climate solutions when you can rely on feuding
climate activists to tear each other’s ideas apart? We tend to
fight with those we are closest to. This is true of family. But
it’s also true of our peers, which for me, are those obsessed
with trying to fix climate change. Step into the murky waters of
Twitter and you’ll often find activists spending more time going
after one another than battling climate falsehoods.<br>
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These might seem like small squabbles, but they have a real
impact. They slow our progress and play into the hands of the
deniers, the oil companies, the anti-climate lobbyists. These
groups push on while our heads are turned.<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">What we want to achieve is the same: to
reduce carbon emissions. The problem is that we are stubborn
about how we get there. We often have strong opinions about what
the evils are, and how to fix them. The nuclear zealots want to
go all-in on building new power stations. The renewable zealots
want no nuclear at all. Some promote electric cars; their
opponents want car-less roads. Vegans advocate for cutting out
animal products; flexitarians feel judged when they eat their
weekly roast chicken.<br>
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These cracks can start at an even higher level. For some it is
not about the specific technology we deploy, it’s about the fact
that we see technology as a solution at all. There are those who
believe that technology will fix everything. Their detractors
think this techno-optimism is naive; only radical economic and
social change can save us.<br>
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Such inner-circle battles aren’t specific to climate. They are
everywhere. The American economist Michael Munger wrote about
this very same tension in economic policy, describing how the
world is split into “directionalists” and “destinationists”.
Directionalists back any solution that takes us towards the
final goal. In climate, this means they support anything that
puts a notable dent in emissions. Destinationists are less
flexible: they have an ideal outcome in mind. They block and
reject anything that doesn’t fit their perfect vision. If they
want to see a car-less world, they push against electric
vehicles (EVs), even if they would cut emissions by a lot.<br>
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Destinationalism is a problem. Sure, we all have our favourite
solutions. But the reality is that we can’t afford to be choosy.
The answer to almost every climate dilemma is “We need both”. We
need renewables and nuclear energy (even if that means just
keeping our existing nuclear plants online). We need to tackle
fossil fuels and our food system; fossil fuels are the biggest
emitter, but emissions from food alone would take us well past a
temperature rise of 1.5C and close to 2C. Not everyone can
commute without a car, so we need electric vehicles and
cycle-friendly cities and public transport networks. We can’t
decarbonise without technological change, but we need to rethink
our economic, political and social systems to make sure they
flourish.<br>
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<b>Fossil fuel companies don’t need to dunk on nuclear power
because many environmentalists have done it for them</b><br>
These battles are not just neutral noises off; they actively
help the other side. Fossil fuel companies don’t need to dunk on
nuclear power because many environmentalists have done it for
them. Take Germany, where nuclear plants were closed early,
delaying the phasing-out of coal power. This was not only bad
for the climate but for air pollution too. Many people on the
pro-nuclear side didn’t help: their bashing of renewable energy
technologies made anti-nuclear environmentalists even more
defensive. Or there’s the claim that EVs can be just as bad for
the environment, often trotted out even in green-leaning media.
In response, people are persuaded to stick with their petrol or
diesel car. Similarly, meat-eaters who are considering cutting
back see claims about how “unhealthy” and “processed” some
plant-based burgers are, and opt for beef instead.<br>
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The solution isn’t to stop debating. I’m not claiming we should
uncritically support every proposal on the table. That would
waste money, time and resources. Our efforts would become
scattered and diluted. We’d focus on the wrong things. We need
to be intensely critical to make sure we invest in climate
solutions that are effective and can scale. And no solution is a
panacea – EVs, lab-grown meat, renewable energy, nuclear power –
all have some impact. We need to be transparent about those
impacts to reduce them as much as we can.<br>
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So how can we make these debates work better? First, we need to
become less fixated on the ideal pathway. None of us will get
precisely what we want; we need to compromise and take a route
that reduces emissions effectively and quickly, using a
combination of solutions.<br>
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Second, we need to be more generous when dealing with our
rivals. Intellectual disagreements can quickly descend into
name-calling. Real conversation stops and we talk past one
another instead. We become more focused on winning the argument
than understanding the other side. This makes the climate
solution space hostile, which is counterproductive considering
we want the world’s best minds to be there.<br>
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Third, we need to be honest about what is and isn’t true about
the solutions we don’t like. “EVs emit just as much CO2 as
petrol cars” is simply wrong. They emit significantly less, even
if they emit more than the subway or a bike (and yes, this is
still true when we account for the emissions needed to produce
the battery). “Nuclear energy is unsafe” is wrong – it’s
thousands of times safer than the coal we’re trying to replace,
and just as safe as renewables. It’s fine to advocate for your
preferred solutions, but it’s not OK to lie about the
alternatives to make your point.<br>
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In short, we need to become better directionalists. To focus on
moving towards our goals, rather than pinning all our hopes on
an ideal means of getting there. Whether you’re a fan of nuclear
or solar, electric cars or trains, lab-grown meat or lentils: we
are all on the same team. Let’s start acting like it.<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/10/the-big-idea-why-climate-tribalism-only-helps-the-deniers">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/10/the-big-idea-why-climate-tribalism-only-helps-the-deniers</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ the clean energy disinformation battles
and co-ordinated physical disturbance battles ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Key operatives for the fossil fuel
industry are organizing a campaign of threats and intimidation
against Farmers who wish to site clean energy, solar and wind,
on their land.</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jul 13, 2023</font><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qha681qGJJw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qha681qGJJw</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>July 14, 2008</b></i></font> <br>
July 14, 2008: On MSNBC's "Countdown," fill-in host Rachel Maddow
describes another controversy that has left the US feeling
"Bushed":<br>
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"Number one, serial driller-gate. President Bush today lifted an
executive order banning off-shore drilling. It‘s an order that
dates back to the other President Bush. The move accomplishes
nothing, because Congress still has its own ban in effect. But
that‘s not the only way we know this is pure politics. According
to Mr. Bush‘s own Energy Information Administration, off-shore
production could not even start until five years after the
off-shore sites were leased. So that‘s 2013. Off-shore sites
could not significantly impact U.S. production until 18 years
after leasing. So that's 2026. <br>
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"And the impact on prices from off-shore drilling when the oil
finally starts flowing in 2026? Because oil prices are set on a
global market, the EIA says the offshore impact on prices would
be, quote, insignificant. But the political impact, priceless."<br>
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