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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>July</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 20, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[We knew NOTHING about parking --- Rolly is
most jolly and a brilliant critic ]</i></font><font
face="Calibri"><b><br>
</b></font><font face="Calibri"><b>Parking Laws Are Strangling
America | Climate Town</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Climate Town</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jul 17, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Parking ain’t free, brother. Patreon:
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<font face="Calibri">sUbScRiBe FoR mOrE ViDeOs:
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<font face="Calibri">You heard it right: WE STARTED A PODCAST! It’s
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<font face="Calibri">Also what the hell we’re doing another live
show in Brooklyn on August 23rd at the Bell House??
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate</a>-...</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">And wait there’s actually something we can do
about this maybe? Our friends at Climate Changemakers have put
together a playbook on how to take action:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climatechangemakers.org/p">https://www.climatechangemakers.org/p</a>...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8</a></font><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ another great idea for energy -- 2 min
video ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Roman Sedortsov PhD: Pumped Storage Energy
for Abandoned Mine Shafts</b><br>
greenmanbucket</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jul 19, 2023<br>
Roman Sedortsove PhD is an engineering professor at Michigan Tech
University.<br>
He has been studying the application of well understood pumped
storage technology to store renewable energy in the thousands of
abandoned mine shafts across North America and around the world.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ James Hansen et al research paper - (not
peer reviewed) - an important read ] </i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Global warming in the pipeline</b><br>
James E. Hansen, Makiko Sato, et al<br>
*Correspondence: James E. Hansen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jeh1@columbia.edu"><jeh1@columbia.edu></a> <br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">ABSTRACT</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial
global temperature change implies that<br>
fastfeedback equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is 1.2 ±
0.3°C (2σ) per W/m2</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">which is 4.8°C ± </font><font face="Calibri">1.2°C
for doubled CO2. Consistent analysis of temperature over the
full <br>
Cenozoic era – including</font><font face="Calibri">“slow”
feedbacks by ice sheets and trace gases – supports this ECS and
<br>
implies that CO2 was</font><font face="Calibri"> 300-350 ppm in
the Pliocene and about 450 ppm at transition to a nearly <br>
ice-free planet, thus</font><font face="Calibri"> exposing
unrealistic lethargy of ice sheet models. Equilibrium global
warming <br>
including slow </font><font face="Calibri">feedbacks for
today’s human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing (4.1
W/m2</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> is 10°C,</font><font face="Calibri"> reduced
to 8°C by today’s aerosols. Decline of aerosol emissions since
2010 should increase the</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">1970-2010 global warming rate of 0.18°C per
decade to a post-2010 rate of at least 0.27°C per</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">decade. Under the current geopolitical
approach to GHG emissions, global warming will likely</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> pierce the 1.5°C ceiling in the 2020s and
2°C before 2050. Impacts on people and nature will</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> accelerate as global warming pumps up
hydrologic extremes. The enormity of consequences</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> demands a return to Holocene-level global
temperature. Required actions include: 1) a global</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> increasing price on GHG emissions, 2)
East-West cooperation in a way that accommodates</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> developing world needs, and 3) intervention
with Earth’s radiation imbalance to phase down</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> today’s massive human-made
“geo-transformation” of Earth’s climate. These changes will not</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> happen with the current geopolitical
approach, but current political crises present an opportunity</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> for reset, especially if young people can
grasp their situation.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/Documents/PipelinePaper.2023.07.05.pdf">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/Documents/PipelinePaper.2023.07.05.pdf</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Reuters -- Gaza and Israel suffering --
and a few heatwaves and power outages away from becoming an
archeology site ]</i></font><br>
<b>Gaza power shortages worsened by heatwave as some residents call
for protests</b><br>
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi<br>
July 18, 2023<br>
GAZA, July 18 (Reuters) - A heatwave in the Gaza Strip that has sent
temperatures over 38 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) worsened power
shortages and sparked discontent among residents who expressed
frustration with the ruling Islamist Hamas group.<br>
<br>
Hamas, which has run the territory since 2007 blames a 16-year-long
Israeli blockade for devastating Gaza's economy and undermining
development, including the power network.<br>
<br>
More than 2.3 million people live in a narrow strip of land squeezed
between Egypt and Israel, suffering power cuts for up to 12 hours a
day. The area needs around 500 megawatts of power per day in summer,
according to local officials. It receives 120 megawatts from Israel
while the enclave's lone power plant supplies another 60 megawatts.<br>
The crisis has provoked an unusual wave of social media protests.
Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Ati, a local journalist said, "our dreams have
shrunk from (achieving) the right of return and liberating the
homeland to one extra hour of electricity," he told Reuters.<br>
<br>
Gaza residents are calling for the local generator to produce more
power by operating the plant at full capacity.<br>
<br>
Many residents shared videos of darkness at night and of their
children sleeping on the floor to cool themselves. While asserting
Israel was primarily responsible for the Gaza problem, they demanded
action from Hamas.<br>
Some called for street protests.<br>
<br>
Jalal Ismail, the Hamas-appointed chairman of the Gaza Energy
Authority, said the current problem was driven by the soaring
heatwave.<br>
<br>
Resolving the problem was a political issue, he said, referring to
current divisions with President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction,
which runs the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli-led economic
boycott on Gaza.<br>
<br>
The Palestinian Authority, which pays for the electricity feed from
Israel, blames the crisis on Hamas, whom it said was responsible for
collecting electricity revenues.<br>
"We haven't witnessed such heat in years, and we get electricity for
around six hours a day, so I can't fan my children, so I am using
the plastic tray to fan them because of the severe heat," said
Yasmin Fojo, a mother of five from Nahrelbared camp in southern Gaza
Strip.<br>
<br>
Around 20 children squeezed into a small plastic swimming pool in
the middle of a dusty unpaved road. Thousands packed the beaches,
escaping the heat and power cuts at home.<br>
<br>
Some homes and businesses use generators or solar panels, to
overcome the lengthy power cuts. Those that cannot afford expensive
generators use humble battery-powered led lights.<br>
<br>
"I don't have money to buy a fan and if I did they would cut off the
power and I end up in the heat, therefore, I am using those plastic
trays," said a 90-year-old woman, Um Khattab Dula.<br>
<br>
Reporting by Nidal Almughrabi Editing by Alexandra Hudson<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-power-shortages-worsened-by-heatwave-some-residents-call-protests-2023-07-18">https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-power-shortages-worsened-by-heatwave-some-residents-call-protests-2023-07-18</a>
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[ strange political chaos ]<br>
<b>Republicans’ Deadly Plan to Block Biden From Declaring a Climate
Emergency</b><br>
Thousands of people are going to the E.R. amid record-breaking heat
waves. But Republicans don’t think this is a real emergency.<br>
Prem Thakker<br>
<br>
July 19, 2023<br>
Wednesday marks the twentieth day in a row that Phoenix eclipses 110
degrees Fahrenheit—and the next seven days are projected to maintain
the record-breaking horror. Thousands of Texans have been going to
the emergency room because of heat illnesses. And a rotating cast of
some 100 million Americans have been under heat wave and smog alerts
for over a month.<br>
<br>
Amid all that, Republicans are trying to stop the president from
being able to declare a national emergency over climate change.<br>
Last month, a group of Republicans introduced a bill, insultingly
known as the “Real Emergencies Act,” to prevent President Joe Biden
from mobilizing the nation to take necessary action to stave off
life-threatening climate change.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newrepublic.com/post/174445/republicans-deadly-plan-block-biden-declaring-climate-emergency">https://newrepublic.com/post/174445/republicans-deadly-plan-block-biden-declaring-climate-emergency</a><br>
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<br>
<font face="Calibri"> [ "the poison is being offered as the cure " ]</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Our Inescapable Predicament - Facing Reality</b><br>
Facing Future<br>
Jul 13, 2023 #ClimateChange #MichaelDowd<br>
Industrial civilization has overshot the capacity of our planet to
sustain it, putting us in an inescapable predicament.
#RupertRead, #MichaelDowd and Dale Walkonen seek to answer the
questions of how we can face reality and still live full, useful
lives, taking compassionate and effective action, without doing
more damage to our planet...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=433oiO0Cw3I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=433oiO0Cw3I</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <br>
</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive audio and
transcript of NPR audio -- showing criminal stupidity of
Congress. ironically in my version sponsored by a gas powered
car -- this is from 18 years ago - demonstration of our
political stupidity ]</i></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>July 20, 2006 </b></i></font>
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<br>
<font face="Calibri">July 20, 2006: NPR reports on the GOP's show
trials, er, hearings regarding climate research in the House
Committee on Energy and Commerce.</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri"><b>Global Warming a Hot Topic in
Congressional Hearing</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">July 20, 20066:00 AM ET</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Heard on Morning Edition</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">By Richard Harris</font><br>
<br>
A congressional committee took up the topic of global climate
change Wednesday, focusing on an eight-year-old study suggesting
that the world is warmer now than it has been in a thousand years.
Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) used the hearing to question the
study and the debate over global warming.<br>
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:<br>
<br>
A Congressional committee yesterday returned to the subject of
global warming. At issue were two of the thousands of studies
showing evidence of climate change. Republicans on the House
Energy and Commerce Committee tried to turn shortcomings in those
two papers into a much broader attack on climate science.<br>
<br>
NPR's Richard Harris reports.<br>
<br>
RICHARD HARRIS reporting:<br>
<br>
The focus of this argument is a graph that's shaped like a hockey
stick and which suggests that the planet has warmed abruptly in
recent decades. Last year, Texas Republican Joe Barton attacked
that conclusion and went after the scientists who published the
paper by demanding they turn over their data and their computer
programs.<br>
<br>
Representative JOE BARTON (Republican, Texas): A number of people
basically use that report to come to the conclusion that global
warming was a fact and that the 1990s was the hottest decade on
record. And that one year, 1998, was the hottest year in the
millennium. Now, a millennium is a thousand years. That's a pretty
bold statement.<br>
<br>
HARRIS: Too bold a statement to make on the basis of that study.
Last month, the National Academy of Sciences said the study's
claims were overreaching but largely beside the point in the big
picture of global warming. But Chairman Barton had handpicked his
own reviewers as well, and yesterday he called a hearing to
discuss their results. Democrats wondered why the Energy and
Commerce Committee up till now has all but ignored global warming.<br>
<br>
Jay Inslee is a Democrat from Washington State.<br>
<br>
Representative JAY INSLEE (Democrat, Washington): Instead of
really engaging Congressional talent and figuring out how to deal
with this problem, we try to poke little pinholes in one
particular statistical conclusion of one particular study where
the overwhelming evidence is that we have to act to deal with this
global challenge.<br>
<br>
HARRIS: Inslee pointed out that National Academies of Sciences
from around the world, including that of the United States, have
come to the conclusion from many lines of evidence that global
warming is real and that humans are largely responsible. When the
time came, he turned to the Republicans' key witness, statistician
Ed Wegman.<br>
<br>
Rep. INSLEE: Now, I guess the question to you is do you have any
reason to believe all of those academies should change their
conclusion because of your criticism of one report?<br>
<br>
Professor EDWARD J. WEGMAN (Professor Information Technology and
Applied Statistics, George Mason University): Of course not.<br>
<br>
HARRIS: And the limits of Wegman's expertise became painfully
clear when he tried to answer a question from Illinois Democrat
Jan Schakowsky about the well known mechanism by which carbon
dioxide traps infrared radiation - heat - in our atmosphere.<br>
<br>
Prof. WEGMAN: Carbon dioxide is heavier than air. Where it sits in
the atmospheric profile, I don't know. I'm not an atmospheric
scientist to know that. But presumably, if the atmospheric - if
the carbon dioxide is close to the surface of the earth, it's not
reflecting a lot of infrared back.<br>
<br>
Representative JAN SCHAKOWSKY (Democrat, Illinois): But you're not
clearly qualified to...<br>
<br>
Prof. WEGMAN: No, of course not.<br>
<br>
Rep. SCHAKOWSKY: ...comment on that.<br>
<br>
HARRIS: Republicans on that committee were unmoved by the
discussion. Michael Burgess is a Republican from Texas.<br>
<br>
Representative MICHAEL BURGESS (Republican, Texas): It's false to
presume that a consensus today - exists today where the human
activity has been proven to cause global warming, and that's the
crux of this hearing. I would point out that simply turning off
the electrical generation plants that provide the air conditioning
back in my district would not be a viable option.<br>
<br>
HARRIS: Chairman Barton finally allowed that climate change is a
serious matter and that eminent scientists are deeply concerned
about it.<br>
<br>
Rep. BARTON: My problem is that everybody seems to think that it's
automatically a given and that we shouldn't even debate the
possibility of it and we probably shouldn't debate the causes of
it. And I think that's wrong.<br>
<br>
HARRIS: But if anyone showed up at this hearing room to hear a
true scientific debate on global warming they ended up instead
with just a political debate often far afield from the facts.<br>
<br>
Richard Harris, NPR News.<br>
<br>
(Soundbite of music)<br>
<br>
MONTAGNE: This is NPR News.<br>
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