I’ll note that 2.5°C of warming by 2100 is a significant improvement over the trajectory we were on a decade ago, even if still far from where we need to be
Miami TV meteorologist Steve MacLaughlin unleashed a scathing critique of a measure that would remove most references to climate change in Florida law.
This comes after Trump promised the oil executives he’d end all decarbonization efforts in exchange for a billion dollars, and made it possible for Trump to start outraising Biden for the first time...
Make Billionaires Pay (Their Taxes) (www.nytimes.com)
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Biden Administration Cancels Another $7.7 Billion in Student Loans (www.nytimes.com)
Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds | Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results (www.theguardian.com)
I’ll note that 2.5°C of warming by 2100 is a significant improvement over the trajectory we were on a decade ago, even if still far from where we need to be
New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity (www.theatlantic.com)
Conservatives Weave Anti-Abortion Fantasyland To Allow Emergency Room Abortion Bans (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Vermont legislature passes bill to charge fossil fuel companies for damage from climate change (www.nbcnews.com)
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A Hidden Variable in the Presidential Race: Fears of ‘Trump Forever’ | Undecided voters are concerned that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’ll never leave. (www.bloomberg.com)
It’s almost like Trump tried a coup to avoid leaving office the last time around.
Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’ | Effects of heat are expected to worsen with law prohibiting municipalities from enacting shade and water protection (www.theguardian.com)
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday her intention to sue the fossil fuel industry for its role in changing Michigan's climate and threatening the state (www.detroitnews.com)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe (www.propublica.org)
Meteorologist rebukes DeSantis for scrubbing climate change from state law: ‘Florida is on fire’ (wapo.st)
Miami TV meteorologist Steve MacLaughlin unleashed a scathing critique of a measure that would remove most references to climate change in Florida law.
Oil and Gas Billionaires Drum Up Dollars for Trump (www.nytimes.com)
This comes after Trump promised the oil executives he’d end all decarbonization efforts in exchange for a billion dollars, and made it possible for Trump to start outraising Biden for the first time...
When climate damage paralyzed traffic (slrpnk.net)
Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought | A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found (www.theguardian.com)
Senate Democrats Open Inquiry Into Trump’s $1 Billion Request of Oil Industry: Committees are seeking information from oil executives about a dinner where the former president proposed a quid pro quo (www.nytimes.com)
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Abbott grants Daniel Perry pardon in murder of Black Lives Matter protester | Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is pardoning Daniel Perry, the former Army sergeant convicted in the fatal shooting (wapo.st)
The idea is to make it effectively legal to kill anybody deemed left-of-center
America’s Hottest City Is Having a Surge of Deaths | Skyrocketing temperatures are colliding with a lack of planning in Phoenix that is contributing to a rise in heat-related deaths (www.scientificamerican.com)
Archived copies of the article: web.archive.org archive.today ghostarchive.org
EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close (climateactiontracker.org)
Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn (www.ft.com)
New documents show oil executives promoted natural gas as green — but knew it wasn’t | It's the first evidence of an oil company acknowledging that gas wasn't as climate-friendly as promised. (grist.org)
The Summer of 2023 Was the Hottest in 2,000 Years (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Why cancer-causing pollution from oil refineries is falling: In an environmental success story, refineries have reduced their emissions of benzene due to federal regulations and oversight. (wapo.st)
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Trump’s promises to oil executives ought to be illegal (wapo.st)
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Investigate fossil fuel industry, top Democrats urge justice department | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Jamie Raskin highlight decades-long efforts to sow doubts about climate crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Video of the press conference is here...
Alarm as German climate activists charged with ‘forming a criminal organisation’ | Action against Letzte Generation could have ‘immense chilling effect’ on climate protest, campaigners say (www.theguardian.com)