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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">1. Peter Sinclair pulls together some considerations of the finding on the fragility of the AMOC, including a ten-minute video from Stefan Rahmstorf, putting the new
study in the context of previous work, with a link to further Rahmstorf comments in RealClimate.
</span><a href="https://climatecrocks.com/2023/07/26/is-the-gulf-stream-shutting-down-is-amoc-running-amok/" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://climatecrocks.com/2023/07/26/is-the-gulf-stream-shutting-down-is-amoc-running-amok/</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. Rebecca Solnit advises us to resist accepting as wise the position that we have failed the earth. The common wisdom positions—that people don’t know or care, that
it’s too late, that we don’t have the right tools or technology to deal with the crisis, that we must accept defeat as inevitable—are just more excuses not to act. In fact, we can now say, as we could not have a few years ago, that we know what to do, have
the means to do it, and are moving to cope with the crisis. Righteous indignation is something of a stupefying drug. The difficulties are complex and daunting. We are more than metaphorically at war. Suffering must be borne, and precious things, places, and
beings will be lost, but the way out of the Cave of Despair lies open. “I keep saying I respect despair as an emotion, but not as an analysis. You can feel absolutely devastated about the situation and not assume this predicts outcome; you can have your feelings
and can still chase down facts from reliable sources, and the facts tell us that the general public is not the problem; the fossil fuel industry and other vested interests are; that we have the solutions, that we know what to do, and that the obstacles are
political; that when we fight we sometimes win; and that we are deciding the future now.”
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/26/we-cant-afford-to-be-climate-doomers</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">3. China’s solar power capacity is expected to increase by 120-140 gigawatts this year. (New capacity in the US last year was 20GW.) (China’s hydropower, the country’s
primary renewable energy resource, is down about a quarter due to drouth; increased coal is making up the difference. We may hope that the jump in solar will replace that coal.)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span></span><a href="https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202307/20/WS64b8e395a31035260b8178eb.html#:~:text=China%20is%20set%20to%20witness,Photovoltaic%20Industry%20Association%20on%20Thursday" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202307/20/WS64b8e395a31035260b8178eb.html#:~:text=China%20is%20set%20to%20witness,Photovoltaic%20Industry%20Association%20on%20Thursday</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">.<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. Over 2,000 gigawatts of new power were waiting to be connected to the grid at the end of last year—equal to the entire generating capacity of all US power plants.
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions just issued a new rule to streamline the interconnection process. Part of the rule deters discrimination against renewable power.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" class="ContentPasted0">5. A study of completed community relocations around the world concluded that the more community members were involved in decisions about “whether, where, and how to
relocate,” the more successful it was. </span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-07-communities-minimal.html" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">https://phys.org/news/2023-07-communities-minimal.html</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">6. There are now over 2,000 climate cases pending in the world’s courts. Many have been successful—for example, in the areas of human rights and countering disinformation—and
many more are promising. <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/7/27/23805887/climate-change-legal-court-cases-un-report" class="ContentPasted0">
https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/7/27/23805887/climate-change-legal-court-cases-un-report</a><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
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