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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>August 1</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ heat history a temporary tally ]</i><br>
<b>Phoenix’s record streak of temperatures above 110F ends after 31
days</b><br>
Reprieve expected to be brief, with the forecast calling for highs
again above 110F for several days later in the week<br>
Erum Salam and agencies - Mon 31 Jul 2023<br>
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The streak was finally broken Monday, when the high topped out at
108F (42.2C), the National Weather Service reported.<br>
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But the reprieve was expected to be brief, with the forecast calling
for highs again above 110F for several days later in the week. And
National Weather Service meteorologist Matthew Hirsch said August
could be even hotter than July.<br>
<br>
Over 50 million Americans remain under a heat advisory in one of the
hottest summers ever recorded, and a heatwave continues to affect
vast parts of the country.<br>
<br>
Nasa recently confirmed June was the hottest June ever.<br>
<br>
The hot and dry weather in the south-west of the US has set off a
wave of wildfires. California and Nevada are currently battling a
major fire that is uncontrolled. Another out-of-control fire that
originated in Washington state has spread into Canada, forcing
residents in the town of Osoyoos, British Columbia, to evacuate.<br>
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Doctors in the south-west reported a rise in first-, second-, and
third-degree contact-burn cases, some fatal, amid extreme heat
conditions.<br>
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Maricopa county, Arizona’s most populous and home to Phoenix,
reported 25 heat-related deaths this year as of 21 July, and
hundreds more are under investigation. The county reported 425
heat-associated deaths in all of 2022, with more than half in July.<br>
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In Texas, San Antonio hit an all-time high of 117F in June.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/31/us-extereme-heat-alert-wildfires">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/31/us-extereme-heat-alert-wildfires</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ We are not surprised ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Congressional Dems Request DOJ Investigation
into Big Oil’s Climate Deception</b><br>
A new letter sent to the Attorney General highlights recent
evidence, including internal Shell docs first reported by DeSmog.<br>
ByDana Drugmand on Jul 26, 2023</font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">Just two weeks ago, during an online
climate discussion, several members of Congress including
Ocasio-Cortez, Whitehouse, and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont,
called on the Department of Justice to take legal action against
Big Oil, with Sanders suggesting they pay the Attorney General a
visit to make their request in person. He and other senators have
previously written to the DOJ and President Joe Biden requesting
an investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s climate
deception.<br>
<br>
Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity,
which advocates for holding climate polluters accountable, said in
an emailed statement that this deception amounts to the most
“consequential fraud committed against the American people” ever.
<br>
<br>
“Just as they did with the tobacco industry, the Department of
Justice must exercise its unique power to hold the fossil fuel
industry accountable and stop the lying,” Wiles said. “As long as
Big Oil’s climate lies, both past and present, remain unchallenged
by the DOJ, protecting the American public from the ravages of
climate change will remain that much more difficult.”<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/26/doj-investigation-big-oil-climate-deception-congressional-democrats/">https://www.desmog.com/2023/07/26/doj-investigation-big-oil-climate-deception-congressional-democrats/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri">[ early in March ]</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early
Warnings Over Climate Change</b><br>
Newly discovered documents from the 1970s and early ’80s show that
Shell knew more about the “greenhouse effect” than it let on in
public.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan
Hüzeir, and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism
platform Follow The Money, the documents show how Shell was
actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers
posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s —
years earlier than previously thought.<br>
<br>
Even as the company’s awareness of the potentially devastating
consequences of climate change grew, the documents show how Shell
shaped a series of influential industry-backed publications that
downplayed or omitted key risks; emphasized scientific
uncertainties; and pushed for more fossil fuels, particularly
coal...</font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">Compiled by Dutch climate activist Vatan
Hüzeir, and reviewed by DeSmog and Dutch investigative journalism
platform Follow The Money, the documents show how Shell was
actively supporting research that clearly underscored the dangers
posed by burning its fossil fuel products from the mid-1970s —
years earlier than previously thought.<br>
<br>
Even as the company’s awareness of the potentially devastating
consequences of climate change grew, the documents show how Shell
shaped a series of influential industry-backed publications that
downplayed or omitted key risks; emphasized scientific
uncertainties; and pushed for more fossil fuels, particularly
coal. <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">- - <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">1973 Nov 19th WAES correspondence from
Carroll Wilson to Frits Bottcher<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23735750-1973-nov-19th-waes-correspondence-from-carroll-wilson-to-frits-bottcher#document/p1/a2235480">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23735750-1973-nov-19th-waes-correspondence-from-carroll-wilson-to-frits-bottcher#document/p1/a2235480</a></font><i><font
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<p><font face="Calibri">Shell’s internal interest in climate change
continued to grow, leading to the drafting in 1986 of the
internal “Greenhouse Effect” memo unearthed by Mommers, the
Dutch journalist, which spelled out dire risks. Three years
later, in 1989, Shell joined the Global Climate Coalition (GCC),
a U.S.-based fossil fuel lobby group that pushed outright denial
of climate science. As public concern over climate change
intensified, Shell joined other prominent companies that quit
the GCC in 1998 — but not before the lobby group had made
extensive efforts to manipulate and undermine the work of the
IPCC, the UN scientific body. Shell remained a member of the
American Petroleum Institute, which ramped up its own climate
misinformation campaign in the early 2000s. <br>
<br>
Despite Shell’s initially high expectations for coal, by 1999,
the company had decided to abandon the business, and put its
mines up for sale. Shell’s then chairman Cor Herkströter said
the decision reflected the company’s desire to embrace
“decarbonisation.” <br>
<br>
Though coal fell by the wayside, other fossil fuels did not, and
Shell’s dependence on oil and gas has increasingly been the
subject of legal action. In May 2021, a Dutch court ruled that
the company must slash its emissions by 45 percent by 2030,
compared to 2019 figures after a case brought by environmental
organisation Milieudefensie. Shell has appealed the verdict,
arguing that it effectively holds Shell accountable for a wider
global issue — reducing consumer demand for fossil fuels —
something the company says it cannot do alone.<br>
<br>
Meanwhile, environmental law organization ClientEarth launched
legal proceedings in London last month to sue Shell’s directors
for failing to properly prepare the company to achieve its goal
of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Shell said in response
that it was delivering on the commitment, including by adopting
an industry-leading target to halve emissions from its global
operations by 2030, and transforming its business to provide
more low-carbon energy for customers.<br>
<br>
Fifty years after Shell staff had publicly pushed back against
the warnings of mounting environmental pressures in The Limits
To Growth, the company is still prospecting for new reserves of
oil and gas. </font><i><font face="Calibri"><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2023/03/31/lost-decade-how-shell-downplayed-early-warnings-over-climate-change/">https://www.desmog.com/2023/03/31/lost-decade-how-shell-downplayed-early-warnings-over-climate-change/</a></font><i><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[Noam Chomsky solves all problems -- 20 min
video ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Noam Chomsky on how to stop planetary
destruction and move past capitalism</b><br>
The Breach</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jul 4, 2023<br>
The force pushing humanity towards destructive wars and climate
catastrophe is “very simple,” Noam Chomsky says. It’s “the word
we’re not allowed to think about called: capitalism.”<br>
<br>
In this interview with The Breach’s publisher Dru Oja Jay, Chomsky
explains why our current period of capitalism is particularly
harsh. He also lays out why co-ops are the basis for collective
movements and says that organized, active groups of workers can
make gains against the system.<br>
<br>
“It’s difficult, of course, class war is not easy.”<br>
<br>
The Breach’s full interview with Chomsky also covers NATO, the war
in Ukraine, why capitalism is a “suicide pact” and what type of
organizing can create a better world. Read it here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://breachmedia.ca/noam-chomsky-on-canadian-war-criminals-and-a-world-after-capitalism/">https://breachmedia.ca/noam-chomsky-on-canadian-war-criminals-and-a-world-after-capitalism/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykUpA63AmDY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykUpA63AmDY</a></font><i><font
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<i> </i><i><font face="Calibri"> [ How much CO2 do we breath from
our atmosphere now? ]</font></i><br>
<b>Atmospheric CO2 Latest Daily CO2 Jul. 29, 2023 423.17 ppm</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.co2.earth/">https://www.co2.earth/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Question to NASA: how much can we
increase CO2 levels ? Compare with NASA crew in peak physical
condition ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri">NASA/TM—20205011433<br>
<b>Characterization of How CO2 Level May Impact Crew Performance
Related to the HSIA Risk</b><br>
Bettina L. Beard<br>
NASA Ames Research Center<br>
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<blockquote>"available evidence suggests that elevated CO2 could
affect the cognitive processes of detection, diagnosis and
recovery used in anomaly response. Without mature technology to
aid the crew, elevated CO2 could exacerbate the risk that crew may
not be able to independently respond to these events."<br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://hsi.arc.nasa.gov/publications/NASA_TM20205011433.pdf">https://hsi.arc.nasa.gov/publications/NASA_TM20205011433.pdf</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">- -</font></p>
<i><font face="Calibri">[ How astronauts breath at various CO2
levels ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Carbon Dioxide on Earth and on the ISS</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>How is carbon dioxide controlled on
board the ISS?</b><br>
Almost all of the CO2 on board the ISS is produced by the
astronauts’ breathing. Carbon dioxide levels are monitored and
controlled on the ISS by the Atmosphere Revitalization (AR)
subsystem of the Environmental Control and Life Support System
(ECLSS). NASA has set the maximum allowable 24-hour average CO2 on
board the ISS at 5 250 ppm (4.0 mmHg). <br>
<br>
There are a number of sensors at different places inside the ISS
that monitor CO2 levels. To remove CO2 from the station’s
atmosphere, air is blown over a bed of rocks called zeolites.
Water and CO2 stick to the zeolites, but everything else passes
through. The water is recovered for recycling, but the CO2 is
blown out of the station. This means that a small amount of the
station’s air is lost every day.<br>
<br>
Air circulation is an important part of controlling CO2 on the
station. Because air does not circulate in microgravity the way it
does on Earth, pockets of CO2 can build up in parts of the ISS.
This build-up can be hazardous to astronauts. For instance, a
bubble of CO2 could form around an astronaut’s head as he or she
is sleeping. This would lead to a lack of oxygen. <br>
<br>
Astronauts always make sure they have fans blowing on their faces
when they sleep. There are fans all over the ISS that are always
moving air, but they can’t completely stop the pockets of CO2 from
forming.<br>
<br>
Research on board the ISS shows that astronauts are more sensitive
to CO2 levels in space than they are on Earth. High CO2 levels can
give astronauts headaches, make them dizzy, increase their blood
pressure, and make them tired. When they are doing complicated
tasks, astronauts also make more mistakes and take longer when
they have been exposed to high levels of CO2. Because of this,
researchers are doing a lot of work to figure out how to monitor
and lower CO2 levels on spacecraft like the ISS...<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounders/carbon-dioxide-on-earth-and-on-iss">https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounders/carbon-dioxide-on-earth-and-on-iss</a><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at
the beginning of a misinformation campaign ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>August 1, 1988</b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri">August 1, 1988: Sacramento, California-based
right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh begins his nationally
syndicated program; over the next three decades, Limbaugh
aggressively promotes the notion that climate science is a "hoax."</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">PROPAGANDA MAY 2007 ISSUE<br>
<b>Rush to Judgment</b><br>
Attacking environmentalists as hippie-dip “wackos” who care more
about spotted owls than people and use polar bears for propaganda,
Rush Limbaugh has blinded millions of Americans to the climate
crisis.<br>
BY JAMES WOLCOTT<br>
<br>
APRIL 10, 2007<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">- -<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Limbaugh will shrug off this report
as he has shrugged off the others. If he could set his shrug to
music, he could become king of the mambo beat. Valiant efforts
have been made to correct the mistakes, half-truths,
exaggerations, and confusions that Limbaugh coughs up like
furballs during his preachings. In 1994 the Environmental
Defense Fund issued a rebuttal to The Way Things Ought to Be and
See, I Told You So titled “The Way Things Really Are: Debunking
Rush Limbaugh on the Environment.” Where Limbaugh claimed that
ozone depletion was being hyped by “prophets of doom,” the
E.D.F. report stated, “Substantially reduced levels of ozone
have been measured over most of the globe.” Where Limbaugh cited
a Gallup poll finding that 53 percent of scientists engaged in
global-climate research don’t believe that global warming has
occurred, the E.D.F. discovered the numbers had been garbled.
E.D.F.: “Nowhere in the actual poll results are there figures
that resemble those cited by … Limbaugh. Instead, the Gallup
poll found that a substantial majority of the scientists polled,
66 percent, believed that human-induced global warming was
already occurring.” In 1995, Fairness & Accuracy in
Reporting—fair—brought out a paperback called The Way Things
Aren’t: Rush Limbaugh’s Reign of Error, wrestling with such oft
repeated Rushisms as his screwy notion that even if the polar
ice caps did melt there’d be no rise in ocean levels, and his
eye-opening discovery that there were more acres of forestland
in America in 1993 than when Columbus discovered the New World,
in 1492 (wrong). In 1996, Al Franken swung for the fences with
his lyrical study Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, having fun
with Limbaugh’s fictional fact-checker, Waylon, who’s often
baffled himself by the bizarre stuff emanating from Rush’s
mouth. (“Al: Okay, let’s jump right in. First of all, back in
1991, Rush claimed that Styrofoam was biodegradable and paper
wasn’t. Waylon: Right. I remember that. That is … uh … that’s
totally wrong.”) Anyone can make mistakes, and anyone doing a
three-hour broadcast five times a week is likely to make lots of
them, but Limbaugh’s mistakes all lean in the same direction and
leave the impression that they’re intended to obfuscate and make
fact-checking as time-consuming, painstaking, and futile as
picking shrapnel out of the wall or mopping up after Ann
Coulter. Goebbels propagated the theory and practice of the Big
Lie, in which constant thumping reiteration wears down rational
resistance and fuses heartbeat and drumbeat. Postmodern
conservatives prefer to let little lies proliferate and take on
a viral life of their own that becomes impossible to arrest...</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/wolcott200705">http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/wolcott200705</a>
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