<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 20px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(102, 0, 153);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/17/18626825/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-greta-thunberg-climate-change" class="">Climate change: 12 excuses for inaction <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(102, 0, 153); min-height: 11px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/17/18626825/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-greta-thunberg-climate-change" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; 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margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);" class="">May 24, 2019 - </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Reducing our personal and political </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">carbon budget</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> can't just be one thing ...</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84);" class=""><<<a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/17/18626825/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-greta-thunberg-climate-change" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/5/17/18626825/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-greta-thunberg-climate-change</span></a>>></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(84, 84, 84);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">—————————————————————————————————————————————————<br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“I just want it to be clear</span> that the mainstream environmental movement has been asking very little of people for decades,” said Bea Ruiz, also an organizer with the U.S. national [ Extinction Rebellion ] team. “There’s no element of, ‘We are in an emergency. We all need to do more than what we’re doing.”<br class=""><br class="">“We’re trying to put out there what’s necessary, not what people think is politically possible.”<br class=""><br class="">Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy<br class="">July 22 2019<br class=""><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/</a><br class=""></span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">************************************************<br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">A recent Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate sets out the situation well enough. <br class=""><br class=""></span>A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying “Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …” <br class=""><br class="">They end it saying,“we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.”<br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Their analysis is echoed across the scientists side of the situation. But it doesn’t take a scientist to get the drift of what’s going on. </span><br class=""><br class="">Liam Denning is former investment banker, former editor of one of the Wall Street Journal’s most closely read columns —Heard on the Street — and a former columnist for Financial Times. Writing about the Green New Deal for Bloomberg, Denning has come to the conclusion that, “We have built our standard of living on forms of energy that we now know pose a threat to our very existence,” and that, “this is a conversation that is long overdue — and necessarily begins with a shout, not a whisper.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/14/heat-and-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/</a><br class=""></span></div><span style="font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">*********************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">”Precipitation is just the supply side," said study coauthor Jason Smerdon, a Lamont-Doherty paleoclimatologist. "</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Temperature is on the demand side, the part that dries things out." </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"If we don't see it coming in stronger in, say, the next 10 years, we might have to wonder whether we are right," said Marvel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">"But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon, in a lot of places."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Precipitation over much of central America, Mexico the central and western United States and Europe is projected to stay about the same, or even increase. But, according to both the new study and a separate 2018 paper, rising temperatures and resulting evaporation of moisture from soils in those regions will probably predominate. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php</a></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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