<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Can we talk about local solutions? </div><div><br></div><div>Can the Missoula and Bozeman City Councils pass an ordinance that requires all new homes to have solar panels or be part of a community solar or wind project? If people can afford to buy a new place in Missoula or Boz Angeles, why can’t they roll the cost of solar panels into the cost of the house?</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John Meyer</span></div><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Executive Director & General Counsel <br class="">Cottonwood Environmental Law Center<br class=""><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1/1" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/1" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">P.O. Box 412 Bozeman, MT 59771</a><br class=""><a href="mailto:John@Cottonwoodlaw.org" class="">John@Cottonwoodlaw.org</a><br class=""><a href="tel:(406)%20546-0149" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1/3" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">(406) 546-0149</a><br class=""><br class="">The information contained herein is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must delete this email and inform the sender of the error.<br class=""><br class="">Like what we're doing? <a href="http://www.cottonwoodlaw.org/#donate" class="">Click here</a> to donate. </span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 18, 2021, at 6:36 PM, Lance Olsen via Missoula-Community-News <missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">First, these 3 timely tidbits on life in drier times</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">D2 - Severe Drought</b></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Grazing land is inadequate</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Fire season is longer, with high burn intensity, dry fuels, and large fire spatial extent</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21);" class=""><span style="background-color: #ffffff" class=""></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Trees are stressed; plants increase reproductive mechanisms; wildlife diseases increase</span></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21); 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(21, 21, 21);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">D3 - Extreme Drought</b></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Livestock need expensive supplemental feed; cattle and horses are sold; little pasture remains; fruit trees bud early; producers begin irrigating in the winter</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Fire season lasts year-round; fires occur in typically wet parts of state; burn bans are implemented</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Water is inadequate for agriculture, wildlife, and urban needs; reservoirs are extremely low; hydropower is restricted</span></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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; 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(21, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">D4 - Exceptional Drought</b></span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Fields are left fallow; orchards are removed; vegetable yields are low; honey harvest is small</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Fire season is very costly; number of fires and area burned are extensive</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(21, 21, 21);" class=""><span style="background-color: #ffffff" class=""></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Fish rescue and relocation begins; pine beetle infestation occurs; forest mortality is high; wetlands dry up; survival of native plants and animals is low; fewer wildflowers bloom; wildlife death is widespread; algae blooms appear</span></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Found at :</b> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.drought.gov/topics/snow-drought" class="">https://www.drought.gov/topics/snow-drought</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">——————————————————————————————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Now the main course </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2006 :</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">“Climate change is not a new topic in biology ..... Observations of range shifts in parallel with climate change ... date back to the mid-1700s.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">“This review … deals exclusively with observed responses of wild biological species and systems …. “</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">"A surprising result is the high proportion of species responding to recent, relatively mild climate change (global average warming of 0.6 C)." </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Parmesan, Camille. Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change. The Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 2006. 37: pp. 637–69. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">2006 :</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"Conservationists must therefore assess both current and future distributions of species.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Araújo and Rahbek. How does climate change affect biodiversity? Science 2006).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2007 :</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Climate has long been identified as a primary control on the geographic distribution of plants (Forman 1964, Box 1981). Therefore, plant species may be expected to exhibit marked redistributions in response to climate change." </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"…. In addition, species are expected to be redistributed independently, forming new forest types with unique species combinations (Webb 1992, Williams et al. 2004).”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">McKenney et al. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Distribution of North American Trees. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Bioscience 2007</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2011 :</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Using a meta-analysis, we estimated that the distributions of species have recently shifted to higher elevations at a median rate of 11.0 meters per decade, and to higher latitudes at a median rate of 16.9 kilometers per decade. These rates are approximately two and three times faster than previously reported”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Chen et al. Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming. Science 2011</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2013</b> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The rate of warming implies … range shifts of up to several kilometers per year, raising the prospect of daunting challenges for ecosystems …”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Diffenbaugh and Field. Changes in Ecologically Critical Terrestrial Climate Conditions. Science. 2013</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2015:</b> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"If you are an organization that has focused on conserving particular species in a particular place, as many of today's conservation organizations are, then something has to give—either you need to change your business model or revisit your conservation priorities. And neither is going to be easy for some of these groups," said Paul Armsworth, lead author and associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Full release:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150302105334.htm" class="">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150302105334.htm</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2015:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Serious thresholds are crossed when forests convert to vegetation types without trees... ”</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Constance I. Millar and Nathan L. Stephenson. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance. Science 21 August 2015</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2016:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“We contend that traditional approaches to forest conservation and management will be inadequate ... in the 21st century. New approaches ... acknowledge that change is inevitable and sometimes irreversible, and that maintenance of ecosystem services depends in part on novel ecosystems, i.e., species combinations with no analog in the past.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Golladay et al. Achievable future conditions as a framework for guiding forest conservation and management. Forest Ecology and Management . 2016</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2017:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Human society has yet to appreciate the implications of unprecedented species redistribution for life on Earth …. Even if greenhouse gas emissions stopped today, the responses required in human systems to adapt to the most serious effects of climate-driven species redistribution would be massive.”</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Pecl et al. 2017. Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. Science. 31 March 2017</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2018:</b> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 18, 19); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 10);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“Our results indicate that terrestrial ecosystems are highly sensitive to temperature change and suggest that,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> without major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere, terrestrial ecosystems worldwide are at risk of major transformation.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 18, 19); 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(20, 18, 19); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Nolan et al. Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(20, 18, 19);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Science 31 August 2018 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">***************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">2021:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Plan direction, which emphasizes ecological integrity and resilience, will be critical to minimizing the undesirable effects of these increasing and interacting stressors. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">Nevertheless, managers and the public should expect climate change to drive profound and often surprising changes on ecosystem structure, function, and composition in the coming decades.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">Here, the US Forest Service achieves a realistic public disclosure of climate risk, <b class="">but it’s buried 173 pages deep</b>, </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">in Volume 1, Final Environmental Impact Statement for the 2020 Land Management Plan Custer Gallatin National Forest, Montana <<<a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd763586.pdf" class="">https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd763586.pdf</a>>></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
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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; 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 class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><div class="iv gt gE" style="padding: 20px 0px 0px; cursor: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">**************</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Greta Thunberg boils the basics down to just 5 words:</b> “… and it will get worse”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" 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="">She knows it will get worse because climate scientists had made the same point; e.g., ….</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" 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=""><b class="">Camilo Mora:</b> “ …. our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233" class="">https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 68, 93);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Michael Mann:</b> “</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">But if we continue to burn fossil fuels ... we are going to ... get worse and worse droughts, and heat waves, and super storms, and floods, and wildfires.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how" class="">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" 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=""><b class="">Kate Marvel:</b> “The whole idea that everything’s going to work out isn’t really helpful because it isn’t going to work out ” said Kate Marvel a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Climate change is going to worsen to a point where millions of lives, homes, and species are put at risk she said. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism" class="">https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">My own view:</b> <<</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it</a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">>></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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