[GWSG] Dairy subsidies; AMOC innocent; the idiot's CEOs; US v. the climate; S Australia's 100% goal; saving insects

[Tilley, Al]

1. Government support provides 73% of dairy farmers’ income. They produce more milk and cheese than we can consume, and we should consume less, according to the planetary health diet. Raising livestock is a major source of emissions. Dairy subsidies may be added to those of the fossil fuel industry as money far better employed elsewhere. https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/12/best-way-help-dairy-farmers-is-get-them-out-dairy-farming/?outputType=amp
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The best way to help dairy farmers is to get them out of dairy farming - The Washington Post<https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/12/best-way-help-dairy-farmers-is-get-them-out-dairy-farming/?outputType=amp>
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2. Some of the sea level rise along the US East Coast has been thought to be linked to the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Both the extra East Coast rise and the AMOC now appear to be responding to variations in the trade winds. That is good news for the coast, which had been expecting a pattern of anomalous rise as the AMOC weakens in response to climate disruption. (The coast can still expect a jumbo share of the Greenland melt.) https://phys.org/news/2019-06-link-north-atlantic-currents-sea.html
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No direct link between north Atlantic currents, sea level along New England coast - phys.org<https://phys.org/news/2019-06-link-north-atlantic-currents-sea.html>
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A new study by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) clarifies what influence major currents in the North Atlantic have on sea level along the northeastern United States. The study ...


3. Pope Francis met with oil company executives, as he did last year, and called on them to extricate us from the climate emergency. The executives passed a resolution supporting government action to set a price on carbon but are not acting to set limits on their own search for new fuel deposits. If a corporation is a person, as the Supreme Court has ruled, it is a muscular idiot obsessed with one thing alone: profit, right now and as much as possible. The voices of the corporate executives are the cries of those who have been kidnapped by the idiot. So far as a call for a carbon tax serves to delay the demise of the fossil fuel industry, theirs is the voice of the idiot itself. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/14/pope-francis-declares-climate-emergency-and-urges-action
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Pope Francis declares 'climate emergency' and urges action | Environment | The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/14/pope-francis-declares-climate-emergency-and-urges-action>
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Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency”, warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of ...


4. Do we have a constitutional right to a livable environment? In the Children’s Trust case the government is arguing that we do not. The children’s counsel argues that in hindsight we will see that “government-sanctioned climate destruction was the constitutional issue of this century.” https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-right-to-a-stable-climate-is-the-constitutional-question-of-the-twenty-first-century
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The Right to a Stable Climate Is the Constitutional Question of the Twenty-first Century | The New Yorker<https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-right-to-a-stable-climate-is-the-constitutional-question-of-the-twenty-first-century>
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Carolyn Kormann reports on the oral arguments in Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana v. the United States, better known as the climate kids’ lawsuit, which is an attempt to compel government action on ...


5.  South Australia has set the goal of 100% net renewable power by 2030, the most ambitious target of any large grid. Methane, which now supplies 50% of grid power, will be reduced to 10%, offset by excess wind and solar power which will be sold to other grids.  They have already dumped coal.  https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australias-stunning-aim-to-be-net-100-per-cent-renewables-by-2030/?utm_source=RE+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=51bed46ed4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_17_03_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_46a1943223-51bed46ed4-40325881
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South Australia's stunning aim to be “net” 100 per cent renewables by 2030 | RenewEconomy<https://reneweconomy.com.au/south-australias-stunning-aim-to-be-net-100-per-cent-renewables-by-2030/?utm_source=RE+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=51bed46ed4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_06_17_03_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_46a1943223-51bed46ed4-40325881>
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South Australia Liberal government says it expects state will be “net” 100 per cent renewables by 2030, heralding the most dramatic shift towards wind and solar and storage technologies of any ...


6. The causes of the insect apocalypse may be summarized as habitat loss, climate disruption, human overpopulation, and pesticide misuse. Work is underway to counter all of them. https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-how-to-save-insects-and-ourselves/
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The Great Insect Dying: How to save insects and ourselves<https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/the-great-insect-dying-how-to-save-insects-and-ourselves/>
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The entomologists interviewed for this Mongabay series agreed on three major causes for the ongoing and escalating collapse of global insect populations: habitat loss (especially due to ...


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