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Process Work Institute’s CLIMATE FORUM: Is Portland [Oregon] Making a Difference? Jan. 17, 2020
I was glad to attend Process Work Institute’s CLIMATE FORUM: Is Portland [Oregon] Making a Difference?, and I hope other cities will follow this format of diverse perspectives, patient listening, and community building. I heard Native Americans and Pacific Islanders, healing song, words of students and high school teachers, authors, local residents, political candidates, business…
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Dissenting Judge Staton in Lost Case 18-36082 Kelsey Rose Juliana v. USA (Children’s Trust Climate Lawsuit Permission to Proceed to Trial Against USA Heard by Case Panel: MURGUIA, HURWITZ, STATON): “In these proceedings, the government accepts as fact that the United States has reached a tipping point crying out for a concerted response – yet presses ahead toward calamity. It is as if an asteroid were barreling toward Earth and the government decided to shut down our only defenses. Seeking to quash this suit, the government bluntly insists that it has the absolute and unreviewable power to destroy the nation.”
For background, click here. The above quote is from Lee Van der Voo’s Jan. 17, 2020 article in The Guardian. Interesting this comes the same day CNN reporter Drew Kann wrote “Almost 6 in 10 Americans are either ‘alarmed’ or ‘concerned’ by global warming, marking what researchers say is a major shift in public perception of the…
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Judge Gives New Meaning to “Swiss Bank Account”
Feb. 6, 2020 Update from Leonard Higgins, Valve Turner: “Regretfully, the Skagit County Superior Court granted the Prosecution’s last-minute motion to delay fellow Valve Turner Ken Ward’s [climate necessity defense] trial (that was scheduled to begin on Monday) to sometime later this Spring. This delay comes at a huge financial cost to us, as we…
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Mary Annaïse Heglar’s “My wish for 2020 [. . .]”
My wish for 2020 is for people to stop asking climate activists what gives us hope and start asking “how can I help?” — Mary Annaïse Heglar (@MaryHeglar) December 26, 2019 I found this tweet at Olympic Climate Action’s blog Hot Off the Wire 1/3/2020, and received permission from Natural Resources Defense Council Publications Director Mary Annaïse…
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DOCUMENTARY: Climate skeptic examines what scientists know and how they know it (by Verify Road Trip in Dallas, Texas)
Thanks to David Schechter / Verify Road Trip for permission. In addition to climate work in Texas, this video focuses on climate impacts in Alaska along with effects on glaciers, salmon, and permafrost experienced by a climate skeptic willing to meet outdoors with scientists. The skeptic, 38-year-old Justin Fain, is a “politically conservative” honest and curious Texas roofer with…
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“2020 spring salmon forecast mirrors previous year’s [low returns]” — The Columbian
Suz on a river near our house about three years ago. Low water steelhead fishing on Oregon coast. Suz and I got in a big fight because her veggie casserole smelled up my sandshrimps, and fish wouldn’t bite. Before that, I was scolded for being too fat, and scolded for not eating enough. I guess…
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Planck Epoch to Precambrian to Anthropocene to Titanicene, “What a long strange trip it’s been.” — Grateful Dead
When the “unsinkable” Titanic went down, some rich people died. History.com noted “Of the 2,240 passengers and crew on board, more than 1,500 lost their lives in the disaster.” Among the drowned was “the wealthiest passenger [ . . .] John Jacob Astor IV, heir to the Astor family fortune.” Businessinsider.com reported wealthy victims included John Thayer,…
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“‘The Most Extreme Fires We’ve Ever Seen’: Record Climate-Fueled Wildfires Engulf Australia in Smoke” Democracy NOW! at COP25
Jan. 14, 2020 Update: “An Australia in flames tries to cope with an ‘animal apocalypse.’ Could California be next?” is a front page Los Angeles Times story by Joseph Serna and Susanne Rust with a two-minute video on attempts to save koalas as “50 to 80% of [their] habitat” was destroyed by recent fires.The article notes “Scientists estimate that,…
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Climate Change and Why We Should Panic voiced by Keira Knightley | Extinction Rebellion
Used with permission of Extinction Rebellion.
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Climate Crisis Underreported in KPBS Roundtable Discussion in San Diego
As I wrote on the back of Hawk on Wire, “the INDC (Intended Nationally Determined Contributions) agreed to in Paris in 2016 of 3.5° C (6.3° F) over pre-industrial levels are insanely irresponsible to present and future generations of all species.” The October 2017 170 California fires and November 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, CA, widely reported…