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<p><font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>April </b></i></font><font
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<i>[ In our North American future, where can we go? Answer,
Minnesota! ]</i><br>
<b>Minnesota 2C Climate Outlook: NCA5 Update</b><br>
American <br>
Apr 11, 2024<br>
Minnesota has an interestingly varied climate outlook, with regions
of high change and regions of wonderful stability. Let's walk
through the state, we'll identify challenges and opportunities for
the distinct regions forming up in this state-level outlook.<br>
Here's a link to the NCA5<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/">https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vSXKYR_yak">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vSXKYR_yak</a><i><br>
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<i>[ DW news explains why this is a very big deal]</i><br>
<b>Swiss pensioners win climate victory in Strasbourg | DW News</b><br>
DW News<br>
Apr 9, 2024 #humanrights #climatechange #echr<br>
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favour of Swiss
pensioners that their government's failure to act on climate change
violated their human rights. It's the first time the court has
accepted such an argument and opens the door to more legal
challenges. But it wasn't all wins for activists -- the judges in
Strasbourg threw out a similar case brought by young Portuguese
climate campaigners on procedural grounds. Another case brought by
a French former mayor was also ruled inadmissible. We spoke to DW
Correspondent Bernd Riegert in Strasbourg and to our Senior Climate
Reporter Louise Osborne in Berlin.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y8mmXS4H8I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y8mmXS4H8I</a><br>
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</i><i>[ WaPo learning in YouTube ]</i><br>
<b>WATCH LIVE: This is Climate: Tipping Points Summit</b><br>
Washington Post Live<br>
Started streaming 52 minutes ago<br>
Humanity is entering a new climate era. The peril and promise of
record-breaking temperatures, unprecedented investments in clean
energy and a growing public recognition of the effects of global
warming are shaping the future of the planet. On Thursday, April 11,
join Washington Post Live for a compelling and high-powered summit
with policymakers, innovators and civic leaders examining the
tipping points at this critical moment. <br>
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Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform,
featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business
leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most
pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the
globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth
multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s
newsroom to life on stage. Subscribe to The Washington Post on
YouTube: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK">https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK</a><br>
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<i>[ disturbing danger ]</i><br>
<b>Big Oil is quietly paying state legal officials to kill climate
litigation</b><br>
Honolulu's climate lawsuit is an existential threat to Big Oil. So
they’re buying Republican attorneys general to defend them in court.<br>
ARIELLE SAMUELSON AND EMILY ATKIN<br>
APR 11, 2024<br>
At the Society of Environmental Journalists conference this year, we
heard about a promising legal case that experts believe actually has
a real shot at holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for
climate change.<br>
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City & County of Honolulu v. Sunoco LP is the first climate
liability lawsuit against fossil fuel companies to be greenlit for
trial, expected later this year. In it, Honolulu accuses several oil
and gas giants of misleading its citizens about the environmental
consequences of fossil fuels for decades, and seeks financial
compensation for past, present, and future damages to the region. <br>
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As a trial comes closer, however, we learned that the lawsuit is
facing more and more serious obstacles. Most notably, last week, a
plethora of fossil fuel-funded groups–including the American
Petroleum Institute–filed petitions asking the U.S. Supreme Court to
step in and stop the trial from moving forward.<br>
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In addition, a whopping 20 Republican state attorneys general also
filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to do the same. So it’s
not just industry groups: nearly half of the country’s chief legal
officers are asking the nation’s top court to intervene in a local
government’s climate lawsuit.<br>
<b>RAGA: A legal group fueled by oil and gas</b><br>
To understand how these 20 state attorneys general are connected to
the fossil fuel industry, you first must understand The Republican
Attorneys General Association, known as RAGA.<br>
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“RAGA is a pay to play group,” says Lisa Graves, the executive
director of the watchdog group True North Research. “It was created
to allow industries to wash money into RAGA, which RAGA then uses to
fuel the election campaigns and ambitions of AGs.”...<br>
Among RAGA’s donors are Koch Industries, Exxon, Chevron,
ConocoPhillips, the American Petroleum Institute, and American Fuel
and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)—and these donors have pushed
AGs to adopt an aggressive anti-climate strategy...<br>
<b>RAGA’s goal: industry capture of the U.S. legal system</b><br>
In 2021, 20 AGs sued the EPA to block its power plant emissions
rules, which Thompson specifically called out in the panel. West
Virginia v. EPA ultimately went to the Supreme Court, whose ruling
significantly decreased the EPA’s authority to regulate emissions.<br>
That network of industry influence has purchased the current
anti-regulatory legal environment—and RAGA plays an essential role.
"These AGs are willing to let the planet burn as they continue to
take funding through RAGA from this industry," Graves said...<br>
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Former Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Michael Wilson went one step
further in describing the effect of RAGA in fighting climate change.<br>
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“The AGs are violating their public duty to protect the future of
their citizenry,” he said. “This partisan political use of the rule
of law is what has caused the judicial branch of government to
descend to its lowest level of public approval in recorded history.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://heated.world/p/big-oil-is-quietly-paying-state-legal">https://heated.world/p/big-oil-is-quietly-paying-state-legal</a><br>
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<i>[ Washington Post sponsors talking heads ]<br>
</i><b>WATCH LIVE: This is Climate: Tipping Points Summit</b><br>
Washington Post Live<br>
Started streaming 4-11-24<br>
Humanity is entering a new climate era. The peril and promise of
record-breaking temperatures, unprecedented investments in clean
energy and a growing public recognition of the effects of global
warming are shaping the future of the planet. On Thursday, April 11,
join Washington Post Live for a compelling and high-powered summit
with policymakers, innovators and civic leaders examining the
tipping points at this critical moment. <br>
<br>
Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform,
featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business
leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most
pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the
globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth
multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s
newsroom to life on stage. Subscribe to The Washington Post on
YouTube: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK">https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK</a>
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>April 11, 2010 </b></i></font>
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April 11, 2010: In the New York Times Magazine, Paul Krugman
observes:<br>
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"If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless
campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time
to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, they say,
we are facing a rise in global temperatures that will be little
short of apocalyptic. And to avoid that apocalypse, we have to wean
our economy from the use of fossil fuels, coal above all.<br>
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"But is it possible to make drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions
without destroying our economy?<br>
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"Like the debate over climate change itself, the debate over climate
economics looks very different from the inside than it often does in
popular media. The casual reader might have the impression that
there are real doubts about whether emissions can be reduced without
inflicting severe damage on the economy. In fact, once you filter
out the noise generated by special-interest groups, you discover
that there is widespread agreement among environmental economists
that a market-based program to deal with the threat of climate
change — one that limits carbon emissions by putting a price on them
— can achieve large results at modest, though not trivial, cost."<br>
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