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Heavy rainfall kills at least 9 people in Seoul: Downpours flooded homes, roads and subway stations in the South Korean capital, cutting power and forcing hundreds to evacuate or seek shelter. The 16.6 inches of rain fell at 5.6 inches per hour at times - the highest rate since August 1942. Another 12 inches of rain is forecasted to fall through Wednesday, which could bring additional flash flooding in the region that houses about half of the country’s 52 million people. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sent condolences to the victims, saying he would review the country's disaster management system since climate change is making extreme weather more common. “The abnormal weather caused by climate change is becoming a part of everyday life,” Mr. Yoon told reporters Tuesday. South Korea’s average temperature has warmed by nearly 2 degrees Celsius over the past century, faster than the global average. (CNN, AP, ABC News, USA Today, Axios, Reuters, Sky News, Washington Post $, New York Times $, Wall Street Journal $, Climate Signals: Extreme Precipitation)

Oil storage facility causes worst fire in Cuba’s history: Forty percent of Cuba’s main fuel storage facility was slowly destroyed over five days, causing rolling blackouts and toxic smoke spreading as far as Havana, about 65 miles away. One firefighter has been killed while 16 more remain missing and roughly 125 people have been injured, according to a government report. The oil storage facility in western Cuba caught fire late Friday after lightning struck one of its storage tanks, sparking explosions as the flames spread over the weekend. Four fuel tanks each with a capacity of 883,000 cubic feet of fuel were destroyed, though officials have not said how much fuel has been lost. While Cuban officials have expressed gratitude for technical advice provided by the US on how to handle the blaze, they have also expressed frustration over the lack of more comprehensive US support.(NBC News, The Guardian, NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg $)

Sweltering nighttime temps may increase global mortality: A new study in The Lancet Planetary Health is the first to estimate the impact of hotter nights on climate change-related deaths. The researchers find that rising nighttime temps may increase the global mortality rate by up to 60% by the end of the century, if nothing is done to curb climate pollution and its impacts. Hotter nights can disrupt sleep patterns as the body attempts to cool down, leading to adverse immune system responses and a higher probability of cardiovascular disease, chronic illnesses, inflammation and mental health challenges. Researchers warn vulnerable and low-income people are more likely to be at risk as the average intensity of hot nights nearly doubles by 2090 across 28 cities in east Asia. (NPR, Independent, Earth.com)

ENVIRONMENTAL (IN)JUSTICE:  'The Sacrifice Zone': Myanmar bears cost of green energy (AP), Inflation Reduction Act commits just $47 billion to environmental justice, activists say (Inside Climate News), A victory at whose expense? Climate activists grapple with political compromise (Washington Post $)

THE HILL: Wyden introduces bill to double tax on excess oil profits (The Hill), Dems eye increased oil profit tax after record quarter (The Hill), Landmark US climate bill will do more harm than good, groups say (The Guardian), 5 ways the Inflation Reduction Act will fight climate change (NBC)

EPA: EPA launches civil rights probes of Texas regulator (Politico $)

ELECTIONS: The biggest climate ghouls of the 2022 midterms (Gizmodo)

CITIES AND STATES: New Jersey issues first drought watch since 2016 (The Hill), New York power usage to reach summer high as heat wave peaks (Bloomberg $)

• CALIFORNIA: Californians see drought as top priority, demand more action: survey (The Hill), Oakland’s Chinatown is worried about climate change. Big plans are afoot to adapt (San Francisco Chronicle), California’s cliffs are crumbling into the sea. This map shows the spots where they’re eroding the fastest (San Francisco Chronicle)

IMPACTS: How are floods and droughts happening at the same time? (Vox), Does wildfire smoke cause lung cancer? (New York Times $), Switzerland’s melting glaciers reveal human remains and plane wreckage (The Guardian), Seaweed is a vital source of income and independence for women in Fiji. Climate change is washing it away. (CBS)

HEAT: Another wave of extreme heat targets Europe, prompting alerts (Washington Post $), Britain braces for another round of scorching temperatures (New York Times $), UK issues new 'extreme heat' warning for England and Wales (Reuters), As temperatures rise, industries fight heat safeguards for workers (Washington Post $)

DROUGHT: How climate change spurs megadroughts (Grist)

WILDFIRES: Dry lightning sparked some of California’s most destructive fires (Gizmodo)

THUNDERSTORMS: Thunderstorms are moving east with climate change (National Geographic)

WATER: Northern Mexico has a historic water shortage. These maps explain why (Washington Post $), State refuses request for more water in communities with high wildfire risk (LA Times $)

RENEWABLES: The war in Ukraine is speeding Europe’s pivot to renewables (Bloomberg $)

BUILDINGS: Building performance standards push grows amid electrification incentives, White House efforts (Utility Dive), America’s heat-pump market has a sugar-crash problem (Canary Media)

WATER POWER: Japanese shipping giant to take part in tidal power project planned for Singapore (CNBC), Watts going down? Europe’s scorching summer parches hydropower (Politico $)

SOLAR: Nigeria to seek US “EXIM” loan for solar project with Sun Africa (Bloomberg $)

CCS/DAC: What could keep climate change from becoming catastrophic? (Wired)

INFLATION: Fighting inflation with climate action (New York Times $)

METHANE: Conceding to Manchin, U.S. climate bill exempts most oil industry from methane fees (Reuters)

OIL & GAS: The inflation reduction act promises thousands of new oil leases. Drillers might not want them (Grist), ​​European gas prices increase as winter supply risks loom (Bloomberg $)

PFAS: Rainwater is no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth, scientists say (Euronews)

STORAGE: Inflation Reduction Act could supercharge grid energy storage (Wall Street Journal $)

HYDROGEN: Renewable ‘green’ hydrogen gets a lift in Senate’s climate bill (Wall Street Journal $)

FERC: DC Circuit finds FERC erred in flip-flopping on transmission rate case (Politico $)

UTILITIES: Study provides deeper insights on the health impacts of utility shutoffs (Energy News Network), Eye on utilities: finger pointing and a tug-of-war (Energy News Network), In summer of record heat, US power grid Is holding up – so far (Forbes), US power use to reach record high in 2022 as economy grows, EIA says (Reuters)

EVs: Most electric vehicles won’t qualify for federal tax credit (AP), EU warns new US EV tax credit appears to violate global trade rules (Politico $)

BOOKS: Saving Mother Earth: new books about feminism and women protecting the planet (EcoWatch)

FINANCE: Inflation Reduction Act’s $27 billion in green funds could spur private investment (Wall Street Journal $), China shares close up as energy, renewable energy stocks shine (Reuters), Trillions of dollars at risk because central banks’ climate models not up to scratch (The Guardian)

MINING: ‘We are not ready’: divisions deepen over rush to finalize deep sea mining rules (Climate Home), Biden wants minerals, but mine permitting lags (E&E News), Energy Department launches $675M critical minerals program (Politico $)

INTERNATIONAL: Australia’s new climate bill is promising. But the fight over ambitious action is only just starting (TIME), UK plans for blackouts in January in emergency energy plan (Bloomberg $), China’s cities face tough choice: more green energy or food (Bloomberg $), New laws of the land: Sierra Leone reshapes environmental battleground (New York Times $), Climate change and scarcity chip away at de-growth taboo (Japan Times)

• Can philanthropy rise to the challenge of combating climate change?  (The Hill, Phil Buchanan, Katarina Malmgren and Noami Orensten)

• Why the Inflation Reduction Act is an economic winner for rural America (The Hill, Josh Ewing)

• Congress is about to pass a historic climate bill. So why are oil companies pleased? (The Guardian, Kate Aronoff)

• Air-conditioner use will jump 280% in the next decades. How can we keep cool without making climate change worse? (MarketWatch, Mary Grady)

• Heat emergency shows why we must keep the water flowing (Philadelphia Inquirer, Shukriyya Mitchell Hinton)

LinkedIn Bans CO2Coalition for Climate Disinfo, Deniers Complain With More Disinfo

While Facebook and Twitter continue to amplify climate disinformation, LinkedIn seems to be making some effort to deny climate deniers' the chance to propagate climate disinformation. 

Most recently, the professional social network has apparently banned the CO2 Coalition's members, and the group itself. Which makes sense! Given that the group was revealed in a Greenpeace sting as being a front group for fossil fuel money to fund climate disinformation, there's no reason to believe anything they say, but even if you didn't know that, you'd still have to be pretty stupid to buy what they're selling. 

Enter Kevin Mooney. You may remember him as the Republican operative who calls himself an investigative journalist as he turns front group press releases into "news", even at times lying about content being "exclusive" when it wasn't, and running hypocritical pieces attacking the left for NGO CEO salaries in an outlet belonging to an NGO whose CEO made much more than those attacked. 

He was happy to take up CO2Coalition's complaint campaign, with a piece yesterday in the dedicated disinfo outlet RealClearEnergy.

In it, he repeats the exact sort of blatant climate denial disinformation that every social media platform should see fit to remove. He starts with what LinkedIn got the Coalition for: a post claiming that there's been a "dangerous 140-million-year decline in CO2." Dangerous for car-sized mosquitoes, perhaps, but pretty irrelevant to anything happening on a human timescale, like, you know, the development of agriculture and cities. 

Apparently, per Mooney's regurgitation of the CO2 Coalition, the Inflation Reduction Act "is predicated on the false idea that human CO2 emissions are responsible for fueling dangerous levels of global warming." 

Except of course that's not a false idea, but Mooney continues anyway with the claim that "natural influences are largely, if not entirely, responsible for recent warming trends" which again can be rebutted by anyone with an elementary understanding of greenhouse gasses. 

Going further, Mooney claims that "the relatively modest levels of warming that have been experienced recently have been a boon to human civilization while cooling periods have had the opposite effect." 

Oh, so there IS warming, but it's not human-caused (despite the millions of tons of heat-trapping chemicals we've pumped into the atmosphere) and is actually good, because the Dark Ages happened when it was kinda cold and the Bronze Age when it was warm. Real solid stuff here.

Keep it in mind though, as Republicans try to court suburban women voters who would rather not try and scrape out a Bronze Age-esque living in a flooded world of supersized pests.

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