‘Green News Report’ – September 5, 2023

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IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: 2024 GOP Presidential campaign kicks off with more climate denial, more delay; President Biden calls on Congress to act after a summer of climate disasters; PLUS: Nevada’s Burning Man festival becomes latest victim of climate extremes… All that and more in today’s Green News Report!

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IN ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (see links below): The Summer From Hell was just a warning; Home insurers cut natural disasters from policies as climate risks grow; 5 things to know as halftime of the 2023 hurricane season approaches; Shuttered EPA prove could have brought ‘meaningful reform’ in Cancer Alley; Green groups are divided over plan to increase the nation’s hydro-electric power; Rags Not Riches: Ghana drowns in Western castoffs; Global fossil fuel subsidies reached $7 Trillion in 2022, an all-time high… PLUS: The Never-Ending Nightmare of Ukraine’s Dam Disaster… and much, MUCH more! …

STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY’S ‘GREEN NEWS REPORT’…

• Hurricane Hilary’s historic landfall brought historic damages:
• L.A. was ready for Tropical Storm Hilary. That preparedness proved to be life-saving (LA Times/MSN):
  Days of preparedness ahead of Hurricane Hilary appear to have paid off in Los Angeles, with not even a single traffic fatality reported on city streets, despite L.A. getting the most rain it’s had in a year. Urgent pleas for people to stay home seem to have worked.
• ‘Enormous undertaking’ ahead to reopen Death Valley roads damaged by Tropical Storm Hilary
  (NBC Los Angeles)
• Hurricane Idalia’s rapid intensification is becoming the norm for gulf storms (Washington Post/MSN)
• Hurricane Idalia on track to be costliest U.S. weather disaster of 2023:
• Hurricane Idalia could become 2023’s costliest climate disaster for the US (Guardian)
• Climate change, warming oceans causing more rapid intensification in hurricanes (MSN)
• ‘And just like that it’s gone’: Horseshoe Beach mourns what was lost to Idalia (WUSF/NPR)
• How billion-dollar hurricanes, other disasters are starting to reshape your insurance bill (USA Today)
• Record hot Gulf of Mexico generates record-shattering heat in coastal cities:
• Record-Breaking Summer: Over 6,500 Daily U.S. Heat Records Fell—Here Are The Biggest Ones (Forbes/MSN):
  U.S. cities have been reeling from a relentless series of blistering heat waves that have not only toppled longstanding daily temperature records this summer, but have brought dangerous—and in some cases deadly—conditions to the South and Southwest, with New Orleans, Houston, and Portland, Oregon, setting all-time high temperature records.
• Houston heat: Hobby Airport breaks 23-year heat record Sunday, city of Houston ties all-time record high (Fox26-Houston)
• After 8 major hurricanes in 6 years, some Gulf Coast communities are hitting a ‘tipping point’ (CNN)
• Biden pledges full federal support for Florida, while DeSantis disappears:
• Biden Surveys Storm Damage In Florida, Without DeSantis (Reuters):
  President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Saturday to survey the destruction from Hurricane Idalia and comfort victims of the storm, but he did not meet with Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come.
• Biden tells Idalia’s Florida victims ‘your nation has your back.’ DeSantis rejects meeting with him (AP)
• VIDEO: Presidential Remarks on Hurricane Idalia From Live Oak, Florida (C-SPAN)
• Transcript: President Biden Delivers Remarks Reaffirming his Commitment to Supporting the People of Florida (Rev)
• In hurricane-torn Florida, Biden urges Congress to shore up emergency funding (Politico/MSN)
• GOP 2024 Presidential candidates double down on cllimate denial, delay:
• Republican debate: What they said (and didn’t say) about climate (BBC)
• As young conservatives try to get climate on the agenda in 2024, denial takes the spotlight instead (CNN)
• Fact check: Ramaswamy says green policies kill more people than climate change (WRAL)
• VIDEO: Watch the full Republican primary debate (Fox News)
• Vivek Ramaswamy’s firm says its pro-energy fund exceeded $100 million one week after launch (Fox News, 8/15/2022)
• Burning Man Festival inundated by extreme rain, treacherous mud:
• The 2023 Burning Man meltdown: A moment-by-moment look at the festival’s descent into chaos (Yahoo News)
• VIDEO: Burning Man revelers begin exodus after flooding left tens of thousands stranded in Nevada desert (AP)
• VIDEO: Wake-Up for the Woke – First Real News Reports from Burning Man are Sobering (Climate Crocks):
  On the plus side, this is an opportunity for rich white folks to experience what people in the developing world are going thru – massive unprecedented weather events leaving them with little outside assistance or hope for escape. One thing wise people always tell you about raising your consciousness, is that you are not going to like a lot of what you see. Welcome to Our Shared Reality, where the woke wake up.
• Neal Katyal: It was an incredibly harrowing 6 mile hike at midnight through heavy and slippery mud, but I got safely out of Burning Man (Neal Katyal, former US Solicitor General/Twitter)
• Burning Man’s climate protesters have a point (Vox)

‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (Stuff we didn’t have time for in today’s audio report)…

For a comprehensive roundup of daily environmental news you can trust, see the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Daily Headlines page

• The Summer From Hell Was Just A Warning (E&E News)
• Home Insurers Cut Natural Disasters From Policies As Climate Risks Grow (Washington Post)
• 5 Things To Know As Halftime Of The 2023 Hurricane Season Approaches (Forbes)
• Shuttered EPA Probe Could’ve Brought ‘Meaningful Reform’ In Cancer Alley (WWNO)
• Green Groups Are Divided Over Proposal to Boost the Nation’s Hydropower (Inside Climate News)
• Rags Not Riches: Ghana Drowns In Western Castoffs (Thompson Reuters Foundation)
• The Never-Ending Nightmare of Ukraine’s Dam Disaster (NY Times)
• Big Farms and Flawless Fries Are Gulping Water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes (NY Times)
• Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reached $7 Trillion in 2022, an All-Time High (Yale e360)
• Trump Rule Allowing Rail Shipments Of LNG Will Be Put On Hold For Safety (AP)
• Rising Temperatures Are Wreaking Havoc Year-Round (gift link, Bloomberg)
• Rough years ahead [as new El Nino arrives] (Nature)
• Complete Series: Farmers Under Attack for Supporting Clean Energy (Climate Crocks)
• These are the places most at risk from record-breaking heat waves as the planet warms (CNN)
• Building Steam in Lithium Valley (The American Prospect)
• Feeling Overwhelmed About Going All-Electric at Home? Here’s How to Get Started (Inside Climate News)
• VIDEO: See what three degrees of global warming looks like (The Economist/YouTube)
• The 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever (Grist)
• The 1977 White House climate memo that should have changed the world (Guardian UK)
• Four solutions to mitigate climate change, from the IPCC (Dr. Michael Mann, Penn Today)
• Environmental Sacrifice Zones: 8 Places We’ve Given Up-Probably Forever (Environmental Health Network)
• Feeling Hopeless About the Climate? Try Our 30-Day Action Plan (The Revelator)
• VIDEO: 2050: what happens if we ignore the climate crisis (Guardian UK)
• 99.9 percent Of Scientists Agree Climate Emergency Caused By Humans (Guardian UK)
• Climate Fund Choices for Investors Are Multiplying (Bloomberg/Yahoo)
• How climate change could undo 50 years of public health gains (Grist)
• Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration (Pro Publica)
• Exxon’s Snake Oil: 100 years of deception (Columbia Journalism Review)
• VIDEO: A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (The Intercept)
• What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like: How to hit the most stringent targets, with no loopholes. (David Roberts, Vox)
• A Global Shift To Sustainability Would Save Us $26 Trillion (Vox)
• Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (Drawdown.org)
• An Optimist’s Guide to Solving Climate Change and Saving the World (Vice)
• The great nutrient collapse: The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention. (Politico)
• The world’s bleak climate situation, in 3 charts: We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there. (Vox)
• The Climate Risks We Face (NY Times):
  To stabilize global temperature, net carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero. The window of time is rapidly closing to reduce emissions and limit warming to no more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the goal set in the Paris climate accord. The further we push the climate system beyond historical conditions, the greater the risks of potentially unforeseen and even catastrophic changes to the climate – so every reduction in emissions helps.
• The Uninhabitable Earth: When will climate change make earth too hot for humans? (New York Magazine):
  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak – sooner than you think.
• A beginner’s guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy (Vox):
  Clean-energy enthusiasts frequently claim that we can go bigger, that it’s possible for the whole world to run on renewables – we merely lack the “political will.” So, is it true? Do we know how get to an all-renewables system? Not yet. Not really.