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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>October 3</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ CNBC PERSONAL FINANCE - this may be the
first big agency warning to the US public ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change could impose ‘substantial financial costs’ on
U.S. household finances, Treasury warns</b><br>
OCT 2 2023<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Climate change is expected to impose
“substantial financial costs” on U.S. households in the coming
years.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">In a new Treasury Department report, government
officials warn of rising prices and disruptions to income due to
climate disasters and the warming planet.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/02/climate-change-could-devastate-household-finances-us-treasury-warns.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/02/climate-change-could-devastate-household-finances-us-treasury-warns.html</a></font>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[clip from </font><font face="Calibri">Treasury
Dept PRESS RELEASE</font><font face="Calibri"> ]<br>
</font></i><font face="Calibri"><b>FACT SHEET: The Impact of
Climate Change on American Household Finances<br>
</b></font>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Today’s report evaluates the
various impacts of climate change on American household
finances, with particular attention to those households and
individuals that may be most adversely affected. It responds to
the objectives set forth by President Biden in Executive Orders
14030 and 13985 Climate-Related Financial Risk and Advancing
Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through
the Federal Government, and to a recommendation in the October
2021 Financial Stability Oversight Council climate report.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The report synthesizes governmental and
academic sources to provide a focused exploration of the ways
climate change impacts household finances. Specifically, the
report explores the impacts of climate hazards, i.e.,
climate-related events and conditions that cause harm or damage
to people, property, resources, and the environment. The report
identifies certain populations and places that may face
heightened financial strain due to their vulnerability and
exposure to climate hazards. Though many households are impacted
by climate hazards, certain households are particularly
susceptible to experiencing financial strain, for example
outdoor workers facing income loss due to adverse climate
conditions, single-parent households, particularly those headed
by women, facing reduced child care availability, and
lower-income households facing reduced access to credit... </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1775#:~:text=For%20impacted%20households%2C%20climate%2Drelated,face%20additional%20expenditures%20on%20utilities">https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1775#:~:text=For%20impacted%20households%2C%20climate%2Drelated,face%20additional%20expenditures%20on%20utilities</a>.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[Clip from the intro of </i></font><font
face="Calibri"><i>a 48 page r</i></font><font face="Calibri"><i>eport
- this may be is the first time a US gov agency sent such an
honest report for the American family. This is a very big deal
]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AMERICAN
HOUSEHOLD FINANCES <br>
</b> </font><font face="Calibri">US Department of the Treasury </font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">This report seeks to deepen our
understanding of the relationship between climate hazards and
household</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">finances. Already, over half of U.S. counties
– home to millions of Americans – face heightened future
exposure</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">to at least one of the three climate hazards
described in this report: flooding, wildfire, or extreme heat.
While</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">climate hazards impose financial challenges
for households across income and wealth spectrums, financial</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">burdens are not distributed evenly. For
vulnerable households, the financial costs and losses associated
with</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">climate hazards have the potential to
compound existing inequities and cause disproportionate
financial</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">strain. As detailed in this report,
approximately one-fifth of all U.S. counties face both elevated
vulnerability and</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">elevated future exposure to climate hazards.
These counties rank in the top 25 percent for both vulnerability</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">and future exposure to at least one of the
three climate hazards. This report brings together existing
information</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">and research to provide a focused exploration
of the various pathways through which climate hazards impact</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">household finances, and to identify people
and places that may face heightened impacts.<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">To begin, this report identifies what
could happen at the household level by describing several
pathways</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">through which climate hazards impact
household finances. This analysis is accompanied by an in-depth
look</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">at who faces the most significant impacts,
including a discussion of those households that are particularly</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">vulnerable to climate-related financial
strain...<br>
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<b>Higher prices for consumer products</b><br>
Climate hazards can also strain household finances by increasing
the costs of consumer goods through<br>
interruptions to production or distribution, including through
impacts on established supply chains. For<br>
example, climate hazards such as droughts, floods, and extreme
temperatures can reduce crop yields, creating<br>
shortages and higher food prices. Further, when climate hazards
occur, they can disrupt supply chains by<br>
interfering with transportation and logistics. Delays and
increased costs for shipping and storing goods can<br>
increase consumer prices. Because the U.S. imports a substantial
amount of consumer goods from abroad,<br>
American households are exposed to price increases from both
foreign and domestic climate hazards.<br>
Lower-income households may experience disproportionate
financial strain from higher prices of consumer<br>
goods. Food is a spending category of particular concern. When
climate hazards increase food prices, this may<br>
cause additional households to experience food insecurity,
defined as limited or uncertain access to adequate<br>
food. Food insecurity disproportionately impacts lower-income
households, families led by single mothers,<br>
families with children, and households in Southern states. The
effects of climate-related food price increases<br>
may further exacerbate food insecurity among these households.<br>
<br>
<b>Increased spending on energy</b><br>
As climate events and conditions continue to grow in frequency
and intensity, additional spending on utilities<br>
may present a source of financial strain. Households could face
higher energy prices if climate events cause<br>
interruptions to energy generation, disruptions to fuel
production and distribution systems, and damage to<br>
energy resources and infrastructure. In addition, climate
conditions could require households to increase<br>
the amount of energy they use. For example, households exposed
to heat waves and higher average<br>
temperatures are more likely to need and use air-conditioning,
which could further increase energy costs and<br>
add to households’ total utilities spending. The potential
increase in energy prices is a concern especially<br>
for lower-income households that already spend a larger share of
their budget on utilities than higher-income<br>
households.<br>
</font></blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"> Full PDF is 48 pages
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Climate_Change_Household_Finances.pdf">https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Climate_Change_Household_Finances.pdf</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Launch of the "Climate Corps" - video ]</i></font><br>
<b>Biden Admin Will Train 20,000 Young People in Skills to Combat
Climate Change | Amanpour and Company</b><br>
Amanpour and Company<br>
Sep 29, 2023 #amanpourpbs<br>
Ali Zaidi is national climate adviser for the White House, and his
job couldn’t be more important right now. The year has so far seen
23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, according
to the U.S. government. Zaidi joins Michel Martin to talk about
turning the climate crisis into opportunity.<br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-rwBlWGZA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-rwBlWGZA</a></font><font
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ many unhoused victims disappeared too ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">OPINION GUEST ESSAY<br>
<b>Climate Change Is Forcing Families Into a New Kind of
Indefinite Hell</b><br>
Oct. 2, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">By Matthew Wolfe and Malcolm Araos<br>
Dr. Wolfe is a national fellow at New America. Dr. Araos is a
postdoctoral fellow at the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and
Policy at the University of Utah.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">The August wildfire that roared through the
town of Lahaina in Hawaii burned so hot that some of the dead
were effectively cremated, their bones combusting to
unidentifiable ash. Other bodies may have been lost in the
Pacific Ocean, into which many of those fleeing the inferno were
forced to plunge. As of Sept. 22, 97 people have been confirmed
dead, but the Maui Police Department still lists 22 people as
missing.<br>
<br>
That’s a common pattern in the aftermath of disasters. In
Morocco, families are still desperately searching for hundreds
of loved ones after a devastating earthquake, while thousands in
Libya are missing after two dams collapsed in a heavy rainstorm.
Climate change has supercharged the kind of deadly weather that
creates disappearances. In March, over 500 Malawians were
presumed dead after being buried in mudslides unleashed by the
exceptionally intense Cyclone Freddy. For families of the
missing, disappearance is a special kind of indefinite hell. In
a wealthy country like the United States, victims of disaster
tend to be quickly tallied and searched for. But poorer nations,
which are already more vulnerable to the damage wrought by
climate change, often don’t have the resources to follow
through. We need to fund measures for these countries that both
prevent disappearances through emergency preparedness and also
resolve them by promptly identifying bodies. The nations
responsible for the most climate pollution have a moral
responsibility to help families left in limbo.<br>
<br>
In addition to intensifying disasters, climate change is also
leading to disappearances through migration and conflict. Some
years ago, one of us, Dr. Wolfe, visited refugee camps on the
Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to learn more about migrants
who had disappeared while trying to reach Europe. Malnutrition,
hunger and famine linked to new climate conditions have pushed
more Africans to undertake the perilous journey across the
Mediterranean and more Latin Americans to travel through Central
America and into Mexico. Tens of thousands have disappeared.
Rising temperatures have also made these passages more lethal as
migrants die of heat exhaustion while trekking across deserts
and asphyxiate inside metal shipping containers.<br>
<br>
What was most striking on Lesbos and Chios was both the sheer
number of people who seemed to be missing and the loneliness of
their relatives’ investigations. There was no government agency
their families could turn to for the help they needed, no nation
willing to invest resources in searching for someone who had
disappeared while crossing borders.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Without a body to bury and visit, a loved
one’s death, however likely, remains uncertain. This form of
ambiguous loss makes grieving difficult if not impossible,
forestalling funerals and pushing many kin of missing persons
into a potentially endless search. More practically, such
absences can deprive surviving relatives of a breadwinner while
also creating legal difficulties in receiving a declaration of
death. Even if a person is declared dead, the wound of
disappearance frequently remains unhealed. Years later, against
ever thinning odds, families of the missing are still seeking
some proof of their loved one’s life or death.<br>
<br>
We need more resources for the climate missing, but we also need
better data. Right now, we don’t even know the number of people
who have disappeared because of climate change. Unless we get
some sense of what disappearance actually looks like and how it
happens, it’s going to be much harder for governments to respond
to the problem — and much easier for them to ignore it.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">A big part of the problem is that the people
who are most exposed to the ravages of climate change are also
the people who are already most likely to slip through the
cracks if they disappear. Although we are all affected by
extreme weather, the well-off are largely insulated from harm,
while the already marginalized suffer. It is probably no
coincidence that Lahaina had an outsize population of people
experiencing homelessness who were poorly equipped to withstand
extreme weather. Put bluntly, many of the missing are not people
who, collectively, we seem to miss, so there is little pressure
on governments to find them.<br>
<br>
“A lot of the people we deal with don’t have connections with
family,” said Scott Hansen, the executive director of the Maui
Rescue Mission, a group that works with unhoused people and has
helped lead efforts to find some who disappeared in the fires.
“There’s no next of kin to contact, so when they do go missing
or pass away, they end up being forgotten.”<br>
<br>
For governments, searching for missing persons can be a hassle.
The ad hoc work of finding and identifying remains after a
disaster, drawing on forensic anthropology and DNA matching, is
slow and expensive. While international pacts have created rules
for locating the missing, these agreements often go unheeded.
Disappearances can still exist in a bureaucratic “gray zone”
where no nations take responsibility for corpses. Many of those
who become lost at the border and in the sea are never
identified, often through a lack of money and political will.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">We need more cooperation between countries.
We also need a clear, equitable division of global
responsibilities in resolving disappearances. Wealthy states
should invest in initiatives in poorer countries that aim to
both prevent individuals from disappearing in the first place
and resolve the fate of those already dead. They must also
sponsor disaster preparation and emergency responses that can
save lives in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe, as well
as the identification of bodies later on, including funds for
coroners to collect identifying biometric data like tattoos and
fingerprints.<br>
<br>
How can rich nations help? In Lahaina, the F.B.I. and Maui
Police Department cooperated to send out calls for information
about who was missing and under what circumstances they
disappeared. The authorities then quickly published a list of
the names — crucial information in the search for the
disappeared. Phone lines remained opened for days to gather
information, while investigative teams ran down cases. As a
result, the number of people still unaccounted for plummeted
from hundreds down to a few dozen after just a few weeks. Libya
and Morocco don’t have the same systems and resources to pull
off similar efforts. But funding their search of missing persons
could help.<br>
<br>
Better emergency preparedness can also prevent disappearances.
Wealthier governments like the United States have the ability to
publicize detailed plans on what citizens should do during
natural disasters. They can also save lives by maintaining
infrastructure and enforcing building standards. If poorer
countries can’t afford these lifesaving measures, it’s incumbent
upon richer nations to help them.<br>
<br>
Missing persons posters can still be seen in Maui, though the
likelihood of spotting someone alive has grown slim. They
function now less as tools of surveillance than as petitions for
aid — silent pleas for the sacred right to grieve.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/opinion/missing-climate-change-weather-dead.html#:~:text=OPINION,a.m.%20ET">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/opinion/missing-climate-change-weather-dead.html#:~:text=OPINION,a.m.%20ET</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/opinion/missing-climate-change-weather-dead.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/opinion/missing-climate-change-weather-dead.html</a>
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<font face="Calibri"><i> [ A superb and elegant educational video
about our solar system - at 3 and a half hours - worth seeing
and hearing it all ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Bizarre
Journey to the Outer Solar System DOCUMENTARY BOXSET These
Planets Continue to Mystify Us</b></font><br>
TV - Quantum Universe<br>
<font face="Calibri">Premiered Feb 7, 2021<br>
Evidence of ninth planet found in outer reaches of solar system
... in the outer reaches of our solar system, US scientists
announced on ... and follows a "bizarre, highly elongated orbit in
the distant solar system," said ... "Although we were initially
quite skeptical that this planet could exist, as we continued to
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</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSg7TREgNTA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSg7TREgNTA</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back politics
in 2010]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 3, 2010</b></i></font> <br>
October 3, 2010: NewYorker.com posts Ryan Lizza's analysis of the
demise of climate legislation in the Senate earlier in the year.
The piece, which also appears in the October 11 edition of the New
Yorker, notes that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was concerned about
being rhetorically assaulted by right-wing media entities for
supporting the climate bill:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"At a climate-change conference in
South Carolina on January 5, 2010, Graham started to sound a
little like Al Gore. 'I have come to conclude that greenhouse
gases and carbon pollution' are 'not a good thing,' Graham said.
He insisted that nobody could convince him that 'all the cars
and trucks and plants that have been in existence since the
Industrial Revolution, spewing out carbon day in and day out,'
could be 'a good thing for your children and the future of the
planet.' Environmentalists swooned. 'Graham was the most
inspirational part of that triumvirate throughout the fall and
winter,' Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra
Club, said. 'He was advocating for strong action on climate
change from an ethical and a moral perspective.'</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">"But, back in Washington, Graham warned
Lieberman and Kerry that they needed to get as far as they could
in negotiating the bill 'before Fox News got wind of the fact
that this was a serious process,' one of the people involved in
the negotiations said.'"</font></blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza?printable=true#ixzz11K5nMoZ9">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza?printable=true#ixzz11K5nMoZ9</a><br>
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