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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>November </b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>1, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Out of control -- says famous radical - be sure to hear the
last 15 mins of video ]</i><br>
<b>Andreas Malm: "Overshoot: Climate Politics When It's Too Late"</b><br>
Futures of Sustainability, Universität Hamburg<br>
Oct 25, 2023<br>
Annual Conference 2023 "THE FAILURE OF GREEN CAPITALISM: FINDINGS,
OBJECTIONS, ALTERNATIVES"<br>
15 September 2023<br>
Chair: Sighard Neckel (Spokesperson DFG Humanities Centre for
Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability")<br>
Keynote Lecture by Andreas Malm (Lund University): "Overshoot:
Climate Politics When It's Too Late"<br>
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<i>[ Beckwith reads and comments on a 3 page letter of where our
climate is now ]</i><br>
<b>Role of Thermodynamic and Dynamic Effects in Weather Extremes
within our Climate System: Review</b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Oct 30, 2023<br>
A few weeks ago Stefan Rahmstorf who heads the very famous “Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impacts” co-authored a letter of weather
extremes:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23</a><br>
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The main point is that extreme weather is greatly increasing in our
climate system and is due to both thermodynamic effects AND dynamic
effects. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-By5xQ1di0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-By5xQ1di0</a>
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<i>[ Highly respected climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf recent
Environmental Research Letters ]</i><br>
<b>Extreme weather in a changing climate</b><br>
Giorgia Di Capua3,1,2 and Stefan Rahmstorf2<br>
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Published 6 October 2023 • © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IOP
Publishing Ltd<br>
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 18, Number 10<br>
15 years of Environmental Research Letters<br>
Citation Giorgia Di Capua and Stefan Rahmstorf 2023 Environ. Res.
Lett. 18 102001<br>
DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23<br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote>Extreme weather events are rising at a pace which
exceeds expectations based on thermodynamic arguments only,
changing the way we perceive our climate system and climate change
issues. Every year, heatwaves, floods and wildfires, bring death
and devastation worldwide, increasing the evidence about the role
of anthropogenic climate change in the increase of extremes. In
this viewpoint article, we summarize some of the most recent
extremes and put them in the context of the most recent research
on atmospheric and climate sciences, especially focusing on
changes in thermodynamics and dynamics of the atmosphere. While
some changes in extremes are to be expected and are clearly
attributable to rising greenhouse gas emissions, other seem
counterintuitive, highlighting the need for further research in
the field. In this context, research on changes in atmospheric
dynamics plays a crucial role in explaining some of these extremes
and more needs to be done to improve our understanding of the
physical mechanisms involved.<br>
</blockquote>
[ a 3 page PDF file
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23/pdf">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23/pdf</a> ]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23">https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23</a><br>
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<i>[ Activism reported in the Guardian ]</i><br>
<b>US students file complaints against six universities over fossil
fuel investments</b><br>
Students say that by investing in fossil fuels their schools are
violating commitments to the public interest<br>
Dharna Noor<br>
Mon 30 Oct 2023<br>
Students at six universities filed legal complaints on Monday
accusing their colleges of breaking a little-known law by investing
in planet-heating fossil fuels, the Guardian has learned.<br>
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Campus organizers from the University of Pennsylvania, the
University of Chicago, Tufts University, Pomona College, Washington
University in St Louis and Pennsylvania State University wrote to
the attorneys general of their respective states to ask officials to
scrutinize their universities’ investments. Each filing elicited
signatures of support from dozens of faculty and staff members,
alumni and local, national and international climate-focused groups.<br>
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The students argue that by investing in coal, oil and gas, the
schools are violating their obligations as non-profit organizations
to prioritize the public interest.<br>
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“Fossil fuel companies have long engaged in a well-documented
campaign to undermine climate science and distort public debate
about how to deal with the climate crisis – including through
efforts targeting Penn scientists and researchers,” University of
Pennsylvania students wrote in their filing. “The industry’s spread
of scientific misinformation undermines the work of Penn faculty and
students who are researching and designing solutions for a
sustainable future.”<br>
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The filings estimate that each of the schools has tens or even
hundreds of millions of dollars invested in fossil fuels.<br>
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“If universities say, ‘We’re climate leaders, we stand for justice,’
but then on the other hand financially contribute to the climate
crisis, we just see that as unacceptable,” said Moli Ma, an
undergraduate student at Tufts, who helped lead the complaint
against her university. “There’s an incongruence there. It doesn’t
match up.”<br>
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The six complaints follow more than a dozen similar initiatives at
colleges around the US, beginning with Boston College in 2020. The
filings were written with help from the Climate Defense Project, a
non-profit environmental law organization.<br>
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State officials have not affirmed any of the legal filings, but
several schools – including Harvard, Cornell and Stanford – said
they would divest from fossil fuels shortly after complaints against
them were filed.<br>
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“We feel like this might have been the last straw that really pushed
Harvard’s administration over the edge on divestment,” said Ma, who
is part of the Tufts Climate Action student group. “We wanted to
replicate the success that happened there.”<br>
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Four of Monday’s filings allege that schools breached the Uniform
Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, a law adopted by 49
states requiring non-profit institutions to consider their
“charitable purposes” in their investments and to do so with
“prudence” and “loyalty”.<br>
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Pennsylvania has not passed such a law, so students’ legal
complaints against the University of Pennsylvania and the
Pennsylvania State University are based on similar regulations that
fall under the state’s Decedents, Estates, and Fiduciary Code.<br>
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In interviews, the student organizers noted that the climate crisis
had wreaked havoc on each of their universities’ home states,
whether through more frequent and severe wildfires in Pomona
College’s California or more devastating heatwaves in Washington
University in St Louis’s Missouri. Those disasters often
disproportionately harm youth, poor communities and people of color,
the complaints note.<br>
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Another key argument in each complaint: investing in fossil fuel
stocks not only harms the climate and threatens human health, but
also creates financial risk.<br>
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“We make the case that fossil fuels from a purely financial point of
view are a very bad investment,” said Ted Hamilton, a lawyer with
the Climate Defense Project who has worked on each of the legal
filings. “This sector is very volatile. It’s been underperforming
lately, and especially for long-term institutional investors like
universities, it has a very bad value thesis [for] the coming
decades.”<br>
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The complaints build on pre-existing fossil fuel divestment efforts
at each of the six universities. Students said they had heard
college officials defend their continued financial backing of fossil
fuels in various ways, from touting their existing efforts to clean
up investments to arguing that investment should not be governed by
specific political agendas.<br>
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“Investing in fossil fuels is a political statement,” said Clara
Dutton, a student organizer at Washington University in St Louis.
“And it’s a hypocritical one.”<br>
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Bill McKibben, the veteran environmental activist and author,
supports the students’ efforts.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/30/us-universities-fossil-fuel-investments-students-complaints">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/30/us-universities-fossil-fuel-investments-students-complaints</a>
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<i>[ politics ]</i><br>
<b>House Speaker Mike Johnson’s First Big Bill Cuts Biden’s Climate
Change Funding</b><br>
-- Measure would end rebates for energy-efficient appliances<br>
-- Slashes funds for other programs to counter climate change<br>
The first major legislation House Republicans passed under newly
installed Speaker Mike Johnson would cut billions of dollars in
consumer rebates for energy efficiency upgrades included in
President Joe Biden’s signature climate law.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-26/speaker-mike-johnson-s-first-big-bill-cuts-biden-climate-change-funding#xj4y7vzkg">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-26/speaker-mike-johnson-s-first-big-bill-cuts-biden-climate-change-funding#xj4y7vzkg</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> November 1, 2012: At a campaign
rally in Virginia, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney is
interrupted by a protester who faults him for not addressing climate
change. The right-wing audience boos the protester. <br>
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