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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>April 10</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Seeking justice from the courts - BBC news ]</i><br>
<b>European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction</b><br>
By Georgina Rannard, BBC climate reporter<br>
March 9, 2024<b><br>
</b><b>A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate
case victory in the European Court of Human Rights.<br>
</b>The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender
made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked
to climate change.<br>
<br>
The court said Switzerland's efforts to meet its emission reduction
targets had been woefully inadequate.<br>
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It is the first time the powerful court has ruled on global warming.<br>
<br>
Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg joined activists celebrating at
the court in Strasbourg on Tuesday.<br>
"We still can't really believe it. We keep asking our lawyers, 'is
that right?' Rosemarie Wydler-Walti, one of the leaders of the Swiss
women, told Reuters news agency. "And they tell us it's the most you
could have had. The biggest victory possible."<br>
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"This is only the beginning of climate litigation," said Ms
Thunberg. "This means that we have to fight even more, since this is
only the beginning. Because in a climate emergency, everything is at
stake."<br>
<br>
The ruling is binding and can trickle down to influence the law in
46 countries in Europe including the UK.<br>
The Court ruled that Switzerland had "failed to comply with its
duties under the Convention concerning climate change" and that it
had violated the right to respect for private and family life.<br>
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It also found that "there had been critical gaps" in the country's
policies to tackle climate change including failing to quantify
reductions in greenhouse gases - those gases that warm Earth's
atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas.<br>
<br>
The Swiss women, called KlimaSeniorinnen or Senior Women for Climate
Protection, argued that they cannot leave their homes and suffer
health attacks during heatwaves in Switzerland.<br>
<br>
On Tuesday data showed that last month was the world's warmest March
on record, meaning the temperature records have broken ten months in
a row.<br>
<br>
More than 2,000 women are in the KlimaSeniorinnen group. They
launched the case nine years ago, calling for better protection of
women's health in relation to climate change.<br>
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Swiss President Viola Amherd told a news conference that she needed
to read the judgement in detail before commenting, according to
Reuters news agency.<br>
She said: "Sustainability is very important to Switzerland,
biodiversity is very important to Switzerland, the net zero target
is very important to Switzerland."<br>
<br>
The court dismissed two other cases brought by six Portuguese young
people and a former French mayor. Both argued that European
governments had failed to tackle climate change quickly enough,
violating their rights.<br>
<br>
Swiss glaciers get 10% smaller in two years<br>
Why is the world getting warmer?<br>
Record hot March sparks 'uncharted territory' fear<br>
Member of the KlimaSeniorinnen Elisabeth Stern, 76, told BBC News
that she has seen how the climate in Switzerland has changed since
she was a child growing up on a farm.<br>
<br>
'Not made to sit in a rocking chair and knit'<br>
Asked about her commitment to the case, she said: "Some of us are
just made that way. We are not made to sit in a rocking chair and
knit."<br>
<br>
"We know statistically that in 10 years we will be gone. So whatever
we do now, we are not doing for ourselves, but for the sake of our
children and our children's children," she added.<br>
<br>
Youth activists around the world had hoped that the six Portuguese
young people would also win their case against 32 European
governments.<br>
<br>
The youth, aged from 12-24, had argued that increasingly extreme
heatwaves and wildfires left them unable to go outside to play, to
go to school, and that they suffered from climate anxiety.<br>
<br>
But the court said the case needed to be decided in Portugal first.<br>
<br>
Sofia Oliveira, 19, told BBC News that she was disappointed but that
the Swiss women's win 'is a win for us too and a win for everyone'."<br>
<br>
A third case by a former French mayor claimed that inaction by the
French government risked his town being submerged in the North Sea.<br>
<br>
It was dismissed because he no longer lived in France and claimants
must prove that they are direct victims of human rights violations.<br>
<br>
Decisions made in the European Court of Human Rights influence law
across its 46 member states.<br>
<br>
Estelle Dehon KC, a barrister at Cornerstone Barristers in the UK,
said "the judgement deals with difficult issues that also vex the UK
courts in a way that may be persuasive."<br>
<br>
"It comprehensively dismisses the argument that courts cannot rule
on climate legal obligations because climate change is a global
phenomenon or because action by one state is just a 'drop in the
ocean'," she told BBC News.<br>
<br>
Governments globally have signed up to drastically reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions.<br>
<br>
But scientists and activists say that progress is too slow and the
world is not on track to meet the crucial target of limiting global
temperature rise to 1.5C.<br>
<br>
Switzerland's largest party, the right-wing Swiss People's Party,
condemned the ruling, calling it a scandal and threatening to leave
the Council of Europe.<br>
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That is unlikely to happen because they hold just two seats of seven
in government.<br>
<br>
The Socialist Party welcomed the court's decision and said the
government should implement it as soon as possible, according to
Swiss broadcaster RTS.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68768598">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68768598</a><br>
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<i>[ long term heat ]</i><br>
<b>Extreme Heat Projections: New Understanding</b><br>
AmericanResiliency<br>
Apr 9, 2024<br>
We haven't taken a good look at the projections for increased days
over 105 as we get ready for 2C. Let me show you what I figured
out, and you can look for yourself here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://atlas.globalchange.gov/#exploreshorts">https://atlas.globalchange.gov/#exploreshorts</a><br>
<br>
Open the explorer, and from in the explorer, choose the "open map"
button towards the bottom of the screen.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMj_6lbuwMY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMj_6lbuwMY</a><br>
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<i>[ March Climate Bulletins -see the data ]</i><br>
<b>Copernicus: March 2024 is the tenth month in a row to be the
hottest on record</b><br>
DATE:9th April 2024<br>
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the
European Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes
monthly climate bulletins reporting on the changes observed in <b>global
surface air and sea temperatures</b>, <b>sea ice cover </b>and <b>hydrological
variables</b>. All the reported findings are based on
computer-generated analyses and according to ERA5 dataset, using
billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and
weather stations around the world. <br>
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<b>Surface air temperature and sea surface temperature highlights</b><br>
<blockquote>March 2024 was warmer globally than any previous March
in the data record, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature
of 14.14°C, 0.73°C above the 1991-2020 average for March and
0.10°C above the previous high set in March 2016. <br>
<br>
This is the tenth month in a row that is the warmest on record for
the respective month of the year. <br>
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The month was 1.68°C warmer than an estimate of the March average
for 1850-1900, the designated pre-industrial reference period. <br>
<br>
The global-average temperature for the past twelve months (April
2023 – March 2024) is the highest on record, at 0.70°C above the
1991-2020 average and 1.58°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial
average. <br>
<br>
The average European temperature for March 2024 was 2.12°C above
the 1991-2020 average for March, making the month the second
warmest March on record for the continent, only a marginal 0.02°C
cooler than March 2014. Temperatures were most above average in
central and eastern regions. <br>
<br>
Outside Europe, temperatures were most above average over eastern
North America, Greenland, eastern Russia, Central America, parts
of South America, many parts of Africa, southern Australia, and
parts of Antarctica. <br>
<br>
The El Niño continued to weaken in the eastern equatorial Pacific,
but marine air temperatures in general remained at an unusually
high level. <br>
<br>
The global sea surface temperature averaged for March over
60°S–60°N was 21.07°C, the highest monthly value on record,
marginally above the 21.06°C recorded for February. <br>
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<b>Sea ice highlights</b><br>
<blockquote>Arctic sea ice extent reached its annual maximum in
March, with a monthly value slightly below average, marking the
highest March extent since 2013. <br>
<br>
As in January and February, sea ice concentration anomalies were
mixed across the Arctic Ocean. Concentrations remained above
average in the Greenland Sea, a persistent feature since October.
<br>
<br>
Antarctic sea ice extent was 20% below average, the sixth lowest
extent for March in the satellite data record, continuing a series
of large negative anomalies observed since 2017. <br>
<br>
As in February, sea ice concentrations were most below-average in
the northern Weddell Sea and in the Ross-Amundsen Sea sector. <br>
<br>
<b>Hydrological variables highlights</b><br>
In March 2024, it was wetter than average in most of western
Europe, with storms causing heavy rainfall over the Iberian
Peninsula and southern France. It was also wetter than average in
regions of Scandinavia and north-western Russia. <br>
<br>
The rest of Europe was predominantly drier than average, with
pronounced below-average precipitation over north-western Norway.
<br>
<br>
In March 2024, it was wetter than average in regions of North
America, across Central Asia, Japan, much of the Arabian
Peninsula, Madagascar, and parts of South America. Australia
experienced an exceptionally wet month. <br>
<br>
Drier-than-average conditions established in parts of central USA,
western Canada and northern Mexico, regions of Central Asia and
China and in south-eastern Australia, most of southern Africa and
South America... <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-march-2024-tenth-month-row-be-hottest-record">https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-march-2024-tenth-month-row-be-hottest-record</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>April 10, 2007 </b></i></font>
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April 10, 2007: In a debate with Senator John Kerry in Washington,
DC, Newt Gingrich acknowledges that climate change is real and
largely caused by human activity, though he insists that regulatory
solutions are not needed to stem emissions. By 2009, Gingrich would
once again suggest that the basic science of human-caused climate
change was in dispute.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/197538-1">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/197538-1</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/19/gingrich-didnt-always-take-issue-with-john-kerr/198125">https://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/19/gingrich-didnt-always-take-issue-with-john-kerr/198125</a>
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