<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="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Extended excerpt :</b> We don’t need more data. Scientific research is still a good thing, but we’re long past the day when the call for more research can be used as an excuse for delay. Enough is already known to give us all the reason we need for taking action.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The basics are already clear enough. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For humans, the potential for killing heat starts to kick in at around 104F, and the risk of dying increases as temperatures climb higher. One study found that risk of death <a href="https://academic.oup.com/epirev/article/24/2/190/535042" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">“increased up to 51 percent for every degree above 106F” </span></a>and that “preventive efforts are complicated by the short time interval that may elapse between high temperature exposure and death.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54);" class="">Physical exertion heightens the risk, <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072018/high-school-football-practice-heat-stroke-exhaustion-deaths-state-rankings-health-safety" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">and we’re already seeing healthy teens killed, often suddenly, by high school football practice in summer heat</span></a>. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">As of June 22, 2017, the distinguished science journal <i class="">Nature</i> could tell its readers that, <a href="https://www.nature.com/news/heatwaves-to-soar-above-the-hot-air-of-climate-politics-1.22164" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">“A death zone is creeping over the surface of Earth, gaining a little more ground each year,”</span></a> Nature referred its readers to a study published by sister journal, <i class="">Nature Climate Change</i>. That study found that outdoor “deadly heat” <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3322" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">already affects 30 percent of the human population at least 20 days a year</span></a>. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">One day of deadly heat is bad enough to push a kid into potentially lethal <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-aid-heat-exhaustion/basics/art-20056651" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">“heat exhaustion.”</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">By the twentieth day of deadly heat waves, risks soar. But the <i class="">Nature Climate Change</i> article also found that, </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">even with “drastic” reductions of emissions, deadly heat will be affecting<b class=""> <font face="Arial" class="">48 percent</font></b><font face="Arial" class=""> </font>of the human population for at least 20 days a year. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">That’s the best case scenario for the next 1,000 years. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">Without the major reductions, <b class=""><font face="Arial" class="">75 percent </font></b>of the human population will be affected by deadly outdoor heat</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> for the next 1,000 years. Is avoiding that risk too much to ask?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The authors conclude that “An increasing threat to human life from excess heat now seems almost inevitable, but will be greatly aggravated if greenhouse gases are not considerably reduced.” The upshot is that many of today’s kids will, in their lifetimes, likely risk their adult lives by going outside to work in construction, farming, forestry, or landscaping. The simple joys of outdoor camping will became hazards to avoid.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Staying indoors won’t guarantee safety. As heat intensifies outdoors, it brings risk of mortality indoors, too. Not every family can afford an air conditioner, and heat waves have a proven record of creating so much demand that delivery of electricity fails, shutting off air conditioners across large areas. A May 2019 study found that, <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab0bb9/pdf" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">just in the US, 50 million household are at risk of indoor “heat disaster."</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Heat ushers in a plethora of risk</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The effects of heat’s sprawl across broader reaches of Earth don’t stop with the direct threat of death. The effects also include the spread of disease-bearing insects moving into regions that used to be too cold for them. In their lifetimes, today’s teens and toddlers will increasingly be at risk from mosquitoes <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/outdoor/mosquito-borne/default.html" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">carrying Zika virus, West Nile virus, Chikungunya virus, dengue, and malaria</span></a>. Even when these diseases aren’t lethal, they can be debilitating, sapping health and energy. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Indirect threats to kids don’t stop there. As heat melts polar and mountain glacial ice, millions of kids will be swept up in increasing need to run from shores of rising seas. Now add heightened heat-driven risk of life-threatening wildfires across grasslands, scrublands, and forests. And we can’t ignore that hotter oceans are already losing capacity to hold enough oxygen to keep fish alive to feed kids and adults alike. As if that was not enough, we’ve been forcing the oceans toward acid, and that too is going to slash the supply side of food we could have expected from the oceans. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Add, too, heat-driven drought created by using the atmosphere as a CO2 dump is increasingly likely to make key food crops unimaginably scarce. A recent study published by the distinguished journal Nature predicts “unprecedented” drying of “large agricultural areas,’ with “severe consequences” for humans — <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class=""><i class="">within the next 10 years.</i></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This will hit the babies born today by the time they get to their 10th birthdays. And if drought doesn’t strip food off their tables, floods will. Data from the past three decades suggest<a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uoia-era043019.php" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class=""> that excessive rainfall can affect US corn crop yield as much as excessive heat and drought</span></a>. Then, each of these studies found confirmation when another study looked broadly across heat waves, drought, and flood impact on corn, rice, soy and spring wheat across the world. The researchers cite evidence of crop decline up to 43 percent with heat <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab154b/pdf" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">playing a globally “dominant role.</span></a>”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Any one of these above repercussions of packing the atmosphere with CO2 brings its own clout over the future lives of children. Add them up, and it’s no wonder then that more and more people around the world are talking out loud and in public about climate catastrophe, climate crisis, climate danger, climate emergency. <a href="http://theconversation.com/killer-climate-tens-of-thousands-of-flying-foxes-dead-in-a-day-23227" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">When thousands of wild bats simply fell dead from extreme heat in Australia, there was even talk of a “killer climate.”</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Who’s responsible?</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Yes, for sure, the corporations absolutely must get their act together to keep the kids from taking brutal hits. They bear clear responsibility for the emissions driving us all into dangerous heat, so they have to shoulder their own share of responsibility for softening the beating that kids will take from heat. But we had better not fall into the trap of thinking that that gets the rest of us off the hook. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The IPCC report on avoiding heat at 1.5C higher than pre-industrial times said we have to begin <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/2018/10/08/summary-for-policymakers-of-ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5c-approved-by-governments" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">“rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all<i class=""> </i>aspects of society</span></a>.” Note the word <i class="">all</i> in the reference to all aspects of society. That means responsibility for protecting the kids from catastrophe comes right on down to household, personal, individual level, including <i class="">unprecedented </i>steps, taken <i class="">soon.</i> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Just the reference to <i class="">far-reaching</i> change means that individuals and households will have to make <i class="">many changes</i>, not just the most convenient few. In her invited address to the European Parliament, Greta Thumberg cited IPCC’s reference to “all aspects of society,” and told Parliament members that “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgLFuyD1Y44" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(169, 0, 40); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(169, 0, 40);" class="">Everyone and everything has to change</span></a>.” Then she said it again. “Everyone and everything has to change.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 35, 54); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://mountainjournal.org/with-climate-change-adults-embrace-me-first-over-future-of-offspring" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/with-climate-change-adults-embrace-me-first-over-future-of-offspring</a></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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