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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">1. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is now chair of the Budget Committee and has held ten hearings on the climate crisis. Last week he focused on the dark money financing
the fossil fuel industry’s programs to mislead the American people since the 1950s. Republican responded that Democrats took dark money too, and more than Republicans (for which they provided no evidence); Senator Merkley invited them to join him in supporting
the Disclose Act to expose dark money wherever it is being used. </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/senate-budget-committee-dark-money-climate-action" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/senate-budget-committee-dark-money-climate-action</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">2. In the National Academy of Sciences geoengineering workshop I was given the names of several projects removing carbon from seawater. Ebb is attracting the largest
investments to date. It is especially low in cost, converting carbon to bicarbonate and releasing slightly alkaline water back to the ocean, where it reduces acidity locally and attracts and fixes more carbon from the atmosphere.
</span><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebb-carbon-raises-20-million-114500598.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebb-carbon-raises-20-million-114500598.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">Heimdal electrolyzes seawater to collect carbon in the form of carbonic acid, which is used to produce stable bicarbonate and carbonate to sink to the ocean floor. They
have been through the test process and hope to have a large model installation running this year.
</span><a href="https://carbonherald.com/worlds-first-co2-removal-plant-from-ocean-launched-by-heimdal/" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://carbonherald.com/worlds-first-co2-removal-plant-from-ocean-launched-by-heimdal/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">Caltech’s Captura develops CO2 from seawater through electrolysis and releases the purified water back to the ocean’s surface, where it will attract more carbon from
the atmosphere. What happens to the captured CO2 is still not decided. </span><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/4/23711098/ocean-carbon-removal-california-captura-climate-change" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/4/23711098/ocean-carbon-removal-california-captura-climate-change</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">Carboniferous proposes to sink waste from land crops in anoxic water where the carbon it embodies will persist without decay for many centuries.
</span><a href="https://www.carboniferous.co/" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.carboniferous.co/</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0"> The project is a cousin of
kelp permaculture, which raises kelp on frames and floats it over deep water, where the kelp is detached and sinks to hold its embodied carbon for thousands of years.
</span><a href="https://regeneration.org/nexus/seaforestation" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://regeneration.org/nexus/seaforestation</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">
There were other marine carbon dioxide removal projects mentioned in the workshop which escaped my notes.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">SeaChange has a lot of good company. We are moving in the right direction by many paths.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">3. This summer extreme heat will cost the US $1 billion in health care costs. The estimate is a projection based on analysis of health records in Virginia. The cost
is expected to continue or increase in coming years. Costs will be greatest in the poorest communities, the least able to provide relief. Undiagnosed harm and people who should seek medical aid but do not are not represented in the study.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><a href="https://grist.org/health/extreme-heat-will-cost-the-us-1-billion-in-health-care-costs-this-summer-alone/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://grist.org/health/extreme-heat-will-cost-the-us-1-billion-in-health-care-costs-this-summer-alone/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=daily</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">4. Europe is heating at over twice the global average, faster than any other continent. 16,000 weather-related fatalities were reported last year, mostly from heat waves.
</span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-06-europe-fast-continents-climate.html" class="ContentPasted0"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:FR">https://phys.org/news/2023-06-europe-fast-continents-climate.html</span></a><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:FR"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">5. Texas is under a heat dome and expects to suffer a record-breaking heat wave for some time to come. Coal and gas plants are failing, but the state’s solar power,
which has doubled since 2022, is being aided by wind power and conservation pleas in saving the state from rolling blackouts.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/28/texas-heatwave-power-grid-solar-energy" class="ContentPasted0">
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/28/texas-heatwave-power-grid-solar-energy</a><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
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