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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>September </b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>3, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ Associated Press ]</i><br>
<b>Death under investigation at Burning Man as flooding strands
thousands at Nevada festival site</b><br>
<br>
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Authorities in Nevada were investigating a death
at the site of the Burning Man festival where thousands of attendees
remained stranded Saturday night as flooding from storms swept
through the Nevada desert.<br>
<br>
Organizers closed vehicular access to the counterculture festival
and attendees trudged through mud, many barefoot or wearing plastic
bags on their feet. The revelers were urged to shelter in place and
conserve food, water and other supplies.<br>
<br>
The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said the death happened during
the event but offered few details as the investigation continued,
including the identity of the deceased person or the suspected cause
of death, KNSD-TV reported...<br>
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More than one-half inch of rain is believed to have fallen on Friday
at the festival site, located about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north
of Reno, the National Weather Service in Reno said. At least another
quarter of an inch of rain is expected Sunday.<br>
<br>
The Reno Gazette Journal reported organizers started rationing ice
sales and that all vehicle traffic at the sprawling festival grounds
had been stopped, leaving portable toilets unable to be serviced.<br>
<br>
Officials said late Saturday the entrance to the event remained
closed, and it wasn’t immediately known when celebrants could leave
the grounds. No driving is allowed except for emergency vehicles and
organizers said they didn’t have a time yet when the roads would “be
dry enough for RVs or vehicles to navigate safely.” But if weather
conditions improve, they were hopeful vehicles could depart by late
Monday.<br>
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Many people played beer pong, danced and splashed in standing water,
the Gazette Journal said. Mike Jed, a festivalgoer, and fellow
campers made a bucket toilet so people didn’t have to trudge as
often through the mud to reach the portable toilets.<br>
<br>
“If it really turns into a disaster, well, no one is going to have
sympathy for us,” Jed said. “I mean, it’s Burning Man.”<br>
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href="https://apnews.com/article/burning-man-festival-flooding-entrance-closed-d6cd88ee009c6e1f6d2d92739ec1ca18"
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<i>[ video BBC news reporter on location ]</i><br>
<b>Burning Man: Police investigating death during heavy rain</b><br>
By David Willis & Kathryn Armstrong<br>
BBC News, Burning Man in Nevada & London<br>
An investigation has been launched into the death of a person during
torrential rain at the Burning Man festival in the US state of
Nevada.<br>
<br>
Thousands of people remain stranded at the event after the bad
weather turned the ground to deep, slippery mud.<br>
<br>
Revellers have been told to take shelter and conserve their food,
while roads in and out of the event are closed as vehicles can
barely move.<br>
<br>
Burning Man is held in the Black Rock Desert, which is usually dry
and dusty.<br>
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The unusual rainstorms came towards the end of the nine-day
festival, when the biggest crowds arrive to see the grand finale -
the burning of the giant wooden man.<br>
<br>
The worst of the rain has now passed, according to BBC Weather, but
there is still a risk of some further showers and thunderstorms.<br>
<br>
It could be several days before the ground dries up enough for
people to leave and for this reason, they have been told to conserve
their food, water and fuel.<br>
<br>
The festival's toilets are also out of use, revellers say, because
the service vehicles cannot drive on the mud to empty them.<br>
<br>
According to the sheriff's office, some people who had tried to
drive out of the festival had instead made the muddy ground even
worse.<br>
<br>
Festival-goers told the BBC they watched on as some people tried to
drive away - but they quickly became bogged in the thick clay-like
mud.<br>
<br>
More than 70,000 people had arrived at the site before it was closed
on Saturday but the exact number of those still there is unclear.<br>
<br>
Some have managed to leave the site, however, American DJ Diplo
wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he and comedian Chris Rock walked
5 miles (8km) to a road, where they were given a lift by fans.<br>
<br>
Others have also had to rely on strangers.<br>
<br>
Ashley Smith, who lives in London, told the BBC that he and his
friends left a lot of their gear behind and walked to the road,
where they managed to hitchhike to San Francisco. The whole journey
took 14 hours.<br>
<br>
The event's organisers have arranged for buses to pick people up
from the road and take them to the city of Reno, more than 100 miles
away.<br>
<br>
A woman walks through mud using a bin bag at Burning Man in Nevada<br>
Image caption,<br>
Some revellers are using plastic bags to protect their shoes from
the squelchy mud<br>
Photos show tents partially submerged in muddy flood water.<br>
<br>
Milia Nirshberg, 12, who is at the festival with her father for the
second year running, told the BBC that they had let friends stay in
their campervan, and were also allowing people to use the van's
toilet.<br>
<br>
"The people in the tents are having a hard time because it's
flooding. Since we're in a campervan we're trying to invite people
to come stay with us because they don't have food or water," she
said.<br>
<br>
Burning Man is one of America's most well-known arts and culture
events. Visitors create a temporary city in the middle of the
desert, and are expected to be largely self-sufficient while they
are there.<br>
<br>
"We have come here knowing this is a place where we bring everything
we need to survive," said Burning Man in a statement. "It is because
of this that we are all well-prepared for a weather event like
this."<br>
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href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66700006"
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<p>[ Related -- the same sky-river of rain ]<br>
<b>Las Vegas is Sinking Again! Flash flooding in the streets and
casinos of Las Vegas Strip, Nevada</b><br>
Wild WeatherUS<br>
Sep 2, 2023 LAS VEGAS STRIP<br>
Fast-moving thunderstorms swept across the Las Vegas valley on
Friday, causing flash flooding along parts of the Las Vegas Strip
as the region braced for more rain into Saturday.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV3JW1K5S_Y"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV3JW1K5S_Y</a></p>
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<p><i>[ Massachusetts political gathering dueling hysterics shows
how rational discourse is difficult ]</i><b><br>
"I Don't Mind If You Die": Wealthy Donors Freak Out At Climate
Defiance Protesters<br>
</b>The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder<br>
Aug 31, 2023 U.S. News & Events<br>
A group of ten climate activists from Climate Defiance, a
youth-led disruptive action organization, disrupted a private
fundraiser for Gov. Maura Healey in Nantucket, urging her to halt
the construction of new fossil fuel projects across Massachusetts.
Similar to Extinction Rebellion's demands, the activists heckled
Healey during the event, asking if she would commit to stopping
fossil fuel projects. Although Healey didn't directly respond to
the question, she spoke about her lawsuit against ExxonMobil for
misleading investors about climate change risks. The activists
unfurled banners reading "end fossil fuels" and "business as usual
is a climate disaster," prompting heated exchanges with fundraiser
attendees before leaving peacefully as Nantucket police officers
arrived.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDAGPAGT8Y"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsDAGPAGT8Y</a><b><br>
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<i>[ This will be a very interesting information battle ]</i><br>
<b>Texas eighth graders will soon be required to learn about climate
change. But not without a showdown over textbooks.</b><br>
Texas is one of the few states that don’t already require eighth
graders to be taught about climate change. That’ll change next fall.<br>
BY ERIN DOUGLAS<br>
AUG. 29, 2023<br>
Starting next year, Texas will require that eighth graders learn
about climate change as part of a science curriculum overhaul
approved two years ago.<br>
<br>
But which textbooks they’ll use to learn about it will largely
depend on the state board charged with setting curriculum standards,
and questions during a Tuesday meeting to hear testimony on the
proposed teaching materials showed that the 15-member body — which
has taken a rightward turn since 2021 — could make its decision
along partisan lines.<br>
<br>
One Republican member of the State Board of Education asked whether
students ought to learn about the benefits of burning fossil fuels.
Meanwhile, Democrats advocated for texts that emphasized the
scientific consensus on climate change.<br>
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The board’s decision could impact how science is taught in Texas
classrooms for years. And while school districts aren’t required to
use board-approved textbooks, many do so for the assurance that
those materials meet the state’s standards.<br>
<br>
At least one Republican board member, Will Hickman, who represents
Houston, indicated that he’d advocate for instructional materials
that do not include climate change solutions in science courses. He
argued those solutions would be a better fit in social studies.<br>
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Another Republican SBOE member, Pat Hardy, who represents Tarrant
and Parker counties and parts of Dallas County, has previously said
she wants children to learn about the good fossil fuels have done
for human society, such as helping the Texas economy grow. Texas is
the nation’s largest oil and gas producing state.<br>
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“We absolutely should say humans do impact climate change,” said
Marisa Perez-Diaz, a Democrat who represents San Antonio on the
board, in an interview with The Texas Tribune. “It doesn’t have to
be political — it is just fact. But I think because sometimes we get
into these culture-war conversations, it blurs what should and
shouldn’t go into the standards.”<br>
Although all the textbooks that have been submitted for approval
explain that climate change is happening and “can” be due to human
activity, not all of them explicitly say that human activities are
the primary reason or include information on how to mitigate climate
change. In other words, some of the textbooks don’t say that humans
will need to quickly and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions,
largely by phasing out fossil fuels, to avoid the most devastating
impacts of climate change, as international climate scientists have
long warned.<br>
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“Climate change might be politically controversial, but the
scientific consensus is clear,” said Carisa Lopez, a senior
political director for Texas Freedom Network, during a Tuesday press
conference. “It’s past time for the board to be clear about
textbooks: that textbooks in public schools should teach the truth.”<br>
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One 11th-grade student who testified during the Tuesday meeting,
Marygrace Beinke, said none of her teachers have ever told her that
climate change is a hoax or that evolution isn’t real. She
emphasized to the board that all students in Texas should be given
the opportunity to learn about those topics, which she said have
reinforced her faith in God.<br>
<br>
“I’ve never felt closer to God as when I’ve been learning about how
fragile, beautiful and complex our Earth is,” Beinke told the board.<br>
Geoff Carlisle, who taught eighth-grade science at a KIPP school in
Austin for a decade, said in an interview with the Tribune that like
Beinke’s teachers, he taught his students about climate change, even
though it was not required by the state’s standards. Carlisle
incorporated information about climate science into his own lesson
plans — something he said most teachers in Texas don’t likely have
the time or resources to do.<br>
<br>
He said many of his students understood that climate change was
happening and that it might have something to do with burning fossil
fuels, but they could not explain the greenhouse gas effect or what
role burning fossil fuels had in it. He wants the state to go
further and require climate science to be taught at all levels.
Other states, such as New Jersey, have such standards.<br>
“When I think about the alarming emergency that our students are
going to face or are facing, it’s unethical to not be talking about
this in all grade levels,” Carlisle said. “Our students deserve the
right to understand what’s happening.”<br>
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Governor Michael Steele blows off concerns about climate change by
proclaiming: "Drill, baby, drill!"<br>
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