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Overnight News Digest for September 7, 2022 (Same old story edition) [1]

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Date: 2022-09-07

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The top stories tonight are… the same damn top stories they’ve been.

Trump. Treason. Manchin. Pipelines. Midterms. Heatwaves & Wildfires.

“Stop me if you’ve heard this one...”

Let’s see, can I drum up something fresh?

People panicked pretty good, but it wasn’t volcanic venting, it was just a cloud

This morning, September 7, people in the greater Seattle metro area saw what appeared to be venting on the mountain, a video of which was then shared on social media. A new vent has NOT opened on the volcano. After looking at the data we collect, the USGS seismic network does not show any unusual levels of activity coming from Mount Rainier. We have coordinated with our colleagues at the National Park Service and their boots on the ground experts are suggesting it is a lenticular cloud, a very interesting cloud formation at Mount Rainier. Lenticular clouds are often formed when moist air is pushed up and over the top of a mountain, forming a disc shaped cloud. The webcam views from Paradise and Camp Schurman show the flow of the cloud over the top from a different view. In this case, it is likely related to related to a passing weather front.

x Sept 7, 2022 cloud formation, NOT a New Vent on Mount Rainier. ~pw https://t.co/nPOmwhHbHt — MountRainierNPS (@MountRainierNPS) September 7, 2022

California IS on fire, though. Again. And suffering through a record-smashing heatwave

This bit is crazy. Not very carefully that he’s talking about the DAILY AVERAGE, not the DAILY HIGH temperature. That’s the daily high minus the daily low, divided by 2, and gives you the midpoint range of the temperature, ironing out the extremes.

x Today is expected to be the hottest day in a week of all-time-record-hot days in California, with widespread 120F (48C) and even the possibility of 122F (50C). This image shows 121F just East of the Bay Area. pic.twitter.com/0uXkKB6JIe — Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) September 6, 2022

x Climate change is accelerating worldwide.



In Pasadena, CA, a day w/ an average temp of 90°F (( High temp + low temp) / 2 ) used to occur once per decade. It was reserved for the absolute hottest days of resident's lives.



Now, a single heatwave is producing 10 such days IN A ROW — Edgar McGregor (@edgarrmcgregor) September 7, 2022

x Down in SoCal, the #FairviewFire in Riverside County is going absolutely nuclear, producing a gigantic pyrocumulus plume as it spreads explosively.



The wildfire situation across California is rapidly escalating. #CAwx #CAfire pic.twitter.com/kmkmzyREDI — Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) September 7, 2022

x California's record breaking heatwave is caused by climate change. The solution is clean energy. Claiming that fossil fuels will save us is like saying an alcoholic should keep drinking the morning after a hangover. At some point, you've got to quit to actually solve the problem. — Dr. Leah Stokes (@leahstokes) September 7, 2022

Meanwhile, California’s grid DID manage to pull through despite temperatures in excess of 110 degrees (and 120 degrees in places) — in large part thanks to wind and solar power.

x Another reason why this is so exiting:



Renewables held the line



Almost certain California could not have bought this amount of power on the open market today. pic.twitter.com/it3VaRultP — Data Bear, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 | Blue Georgia 🍑 (@dataandpolitics) September 7, 2022

The City of Newburgh is facing a drinking water crisis after toxic chemicals known as PFAS PFOS (per and polyfluoroalkyl substances) were found to have contaminated its primary reservoir, Lake Washington, in May 2016. New York State has since declared the Stewart Air National Guard Base, as the major source of the contamination, a state Superfund site. Alternate sources of water have been provided to ensure tap water is running free of PFAS in the short term. Riverkeeper has been working with the city, community groups and other partners to advance three overarching goals: remediation of PFAS sources; establishment of drinking water source protection and restoration programs for the city’s reservoirs; and response to health concerns. Riverkeeper is also seeking to ensure that the lessons learned from Newburgh’s crisis result in better protections for public drinking water supplies statewide.

Manchin’s dirty pipeline deal may well be in trouble

Protestors are coming to DC on Thursday, and Mark Rufalo made a pretty inflammatory video:

x Let's stop the rubber-stamping of a fracking backroom deal! Tell @GovKathyHochul, @GovMurphy, @GovernorTomWolf, @JohnCarneyDE, & @POTUS @JoeBiden to stop a secret vote to approve a fracked gas export terminal on the Delaware River without a public process! Please Like & RT! pic.twitter.com/FyWL9BUNMy — Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) September 6, 2022

x Action Sept 8: Mass protests against Manchin's dirty pipeline deal

"the Stop MVP coalition & People vs. Fossil Fuels coalition will convene in Washington, DC for ‘No Sacrifice Zones: Appalachian Resistance Comes to DC,’ to stop the MVP, show massive… https://t.co/DvMij7mjIa — Jeremy Bloom (@jeremybloom) September 6, 2022

Utilities knew about climate change as early as the 1960s and misled the public in order to continue turning a profit. America’s electric utilities were aware as early as the 1960s that the burning of fossil fuels was warming the planet, but, two decades later, worked hand in hand with oil and gas companies to “promote doubt around climate change for the sake of continued … profits,” finds a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. But while the role Big Oil played in misleading the public has been widely publicized, utilities’ culpability has largely flown under the radar...

“But my emails”

I don’t think we need to talk about Trump this evening — that’s been pretty much covered to death across the front page and the rec list. But I’d like to include Hillary’s comment:

x Comey admitted he was wrong after he claimed I had classified emails.



Trump’s own State Department, under two different Secretaries, found I had no classified emails. — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 6, 2022

As more and more evidence of the former president’s reckless and potentially criminal misconduct comes to light, he and his defenders keep pointing to “her emails.” They insist that because the Justice Department declined prosecution of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after a long and thorough probe of how she handled allegedly classified information, there should be no investigation, let alone indictment or conviction of Trump.

But while we don’t yet know the extent or nature of Trump’s abuse of classified documents, we can determine how many were found by investigators, after exhaustive searches, among Clinton’s thousands of State Department emails.

The accurate and definitive answer is zero – although few if any news outlets have informed the public of that startling fact. Moreover, it is a fact that the Trump administration itself confirmed three years ago.

x Lancaster, California, spent $11.5m creating a pedestrian-friendly downtown.



In four years, it attracted $130m private investment, doubled its downtown tax revenue, created 48 new businesses and 800 new jobs, and road injuries decreased by two-thirds.



Cities are for people. pic.twitter.com/tWeb4ZSs3E — Jon Burke FRSA 🌍 (@jonburkeUK) September 5, 2022

Meanwhile, nobody is doing anything about Covid, or the children who lost a parent

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