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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. Ezra Klein and four knowledgeable people discuss the climate crisis and the way forward, providing a great deal of illumination in a vigorous interchange.
</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/magazine/what-if-american-democracy-fails-the-climate-crisis.html"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/magazine/what-if-american-democracy-fails-the-climate-crisis.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. Reflective surfaces can cool cities economically if they are in normally upwind areas.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. Air conditioning protects us during heat waves—and adds to the heat, both through production of the electricity needed and through the inevitable release of the HFCs used as coolants. Electric fans can provide effective, energy-efficient
cooling (in spite of what you may have heard). </span><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/heat-waves-2021-western-us-climate-change-1187805/#recipient_hashed=fe17c36079354ec46082a9a7c8fc19c8d3b811c991613e650512e53c322cb659"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/heat-waves-2021-western-us-climate-change-1187805/#recipient_hashed=fe17c36079354ec46082a9a7c8fc19c8d3b811c991613e650512e53c322cb659</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">4. Thinking about heat waves is a good time to decide to read Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2020 novel, The Ministry for the Future. It opens with a wholly convincing heat wave in India which kills 20 million people, and goes on to recount
some successful climate action strategies, sticking close to the current state of politics, societies, the law, technology, and the climate as it portrays a world learning to survive. Due out in paperback this month.
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Try this one even if you bailed out as I did on Robinson’s portrayal of New York escaping sea level rise by climbing onto stilts. This one is for real.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. The Florida Keys are going under. A proposal to raise the streets has not found state funding. Problems abound.</span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">“For example, should we spend money on raising roads if people aren’t paying to raise their yards? We are blazing trails here. We are ahead of everyone in having to think about this.” NOAA projects 10-20” of sea level rise by
2040 for SE Florida. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/24/florida-keys-climate-change-sea-level-rise">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/24/florida-keys-climate-change-sea-level-rise</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">6. Ground temperatures in the Arctic have reached 118F.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">7. A leaked draft report from the UN’s IPCC warns that we are close to crossing climate thresholds of no return (tipping points).
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/23/climate-change-dangerous-thresholds-un-report?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20210624&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/23/climate-change-dangerous-thresholds-un-report?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20210624&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">8. In much of the world it is now cheaper to build new solar power stations than to operate existing coal plants. For example, in India the LCOE for solar is $25 per MWH, and the cost of power from an existing coal plant is $26
per MWH. China has a similar margin. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><a href="https://reneweconomy.com.au/building-new-solar-now-cheaper-than-keeping-coal-plants-open-bnef/">https://reneweconomy.com.au/building-new-solar-now-cheaper-than-keeping-coal-plants-open-bnef/</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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