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Currently in Los Angeles — October 16, 2023: Sunny and cooling (just a little)
Plus, a look into the global criminalization of climate protests
Ade Adeniji & Abbie Veitch
October 15, 2023
The weather, currently.
Sunny and cooling (just a little)
Sunday’s ridge did not disappoint, as temperatures in and around Downtown Los Angeles flirted with 90 degrees, and the warmest valleys were in the low 90s. After a weird September full of tropical remnants and a marine inversion as bad as early June, October in SoCal has been great.
To start the week, this current ridge will give way to a trough that skirts to the north of us. Things will cool a bit today, but probably not by much. Temperatures will be in the 80s and lower 90s inland through the work week.
What you need to know, currently.
Climate activists are no strangers to facing arrest and criminal charges for climate protests. Just last month, over 100 climate activists were arrested in New York City.
However, a “crackdown” on climate protests in Europe is raising alarm bells for human rights experts. The crackdown extends past Europe, Inside Climate News reports that the criminalization of climate protests is, “an increasingly global trend.”
In an interview with On the Media, climate reporter Amy Westervelt discusses how the Atlas Network, a collective of right-leaning think tanks, has worked to reframe climate protests as extremist and dangerous. This, in part, has led to an uptick in the criminalization of climate protests.
Westervelt covers this topic extensively alongside climate journalist Geoff Dembicki in “The Real Free Speech Threat” an investigative series on her podcast, Drilled.
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