CDP: Oceans Clips: September 8, 2022
Trump’s Cabinet-In-Exile Preps 2024 Energy Playbook. According to Politico, “Residents of this southern New Mexico city piled into a conference room in the back of a farming and ranching museum after work last month to hear former Trump administration officials and their local congresswoman berate President Joe Biden. On their way in, attendees shuffled past hats for sale that read “AMERICA FIRST, ALWAYS.” A song called “Bubba Shot the Jukebox” poured through the stereo, and some in the crowd grumbled to each other about the loan forgiveness program Biden had announced earlier that day. The lights dimmed and a video streamed onto the stage featuring former President Donald Trump touting his “America First” slogan. The line has been adopted by the America First Policy Institute, the group that put on the event.” [Politico, 9/7/22 (=)]
Clean Energy Projects Surge After Climate Bill Passage. According to the New York Times, “In the weeks since President Biden signed a comprehensive climate bill devised to spur investment in electric cars and clean energy, corporations have announced a series of big-ticket projects to produce the kind of technology the legislation aims to promote. Toyota said it would invest an additional $2.5 billion in a factory in North Carolina to produce batteries for electric cars and hybrids. Honda and LG Energy Solution announced a joint venture to build a $4.4 billion battery factory at a location to be named. Piedmont Lithium, a mining company, said it would build a plant in Tennessee to process lithium for batteries, helping to ease America’s dependence on Chinese refineries — a key aim of the Biden administration. First Solar, a big solar panel manufacturer, said it would invest up to $1.2 billion to build its fourth factory in the United States, probably somewhere in the Southeast, largely because of renewable energy incentives in the climate bill.” [New York Times, 9/8/22 (=)]
Appeals Court Says N.C. Fisheries Challenge Can Continue. According to Politico, “Coastal recreational anglers can keep suing the state of North Carolina over accusations that government regulators have devastated nearshore fishing stocks in violation of the state constitution, the state Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The Coastal Conservation Association of North Carolina and more than 80 individuals sued the state in 2020, alleging that it had failed its fiduciary duty to protect the state's fisheries from overfishing. Their complaint cited constitutional provisions giving people the right to hunt and fish and making it the state's policy "to conserve and protect its lands and waters for the benefit of all its citizenry." The constitutional right to hunt, fish and harvest wildlife was approved by voters in November 2018. The "conserve and protect" language cited in the lawsuit was added to the constitution in 1972.” [Politico, 9/7/22 (=)]
Hurricane Kay’s Remnants Could Bring Rare Deluge, Flooding To California. “According to the Washington Post, “With much of California baking under a record-breaking September heat wave, it seems hard to believe that the weather could get any more unusual. However, as soon as Thursday, Southern California and other parts of the Southwest may contend with another extreme event. Remnants of Hurricane Kay — the storm is currently about 200 miles southwest of Mexico’s Baja California — are forecast to bring substantial rainfall and possible flooding to the region Friday and Saturday. Some areas, particularly in interior Southern California, could see multiple inches of rain.” [Washington Post, 9/7/22 (=)]
The Southern Ocean Absorbs More Heat Than Any Other Ocean On Earth, And The Impacts Will Be Felt For Generations. According to The Conservation, “Over the last 50 years, the oceans have been working in overdrive to slow global warming, absorbing about 40% of our carbon dioxide emissions, and over 90% of the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere. But as our research published today in Nature Communications has found, some oceans work harder than others. We used a computational global ocean circulation model to examine exactly how ocean warming has played out over the last 50 years. And we found the Southern Ocean has dominated the global absorption of heat. In fact, Southern Ocean heat uptake accounts for almost all the planet’s ocean warming, thereby controlling the rate of climate change.” [The Conservation, 9/7/22 (=)]
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