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Currently in the Twin Cities — October 16, 2023: Mostly sunny and warming up
Plus, a look into the global criminalization of climate protests
Sven Sundgaard & Abbie Veitch
October 15, 2023
The weather, currently.
Mostly sunny and warming up
After nearly two inches of rain fell Thursday into Friday, we took another big bite out of our rainfall deficits. Since June 1, we’re now behind by about 3.68 inches, which is half what the deficit was when we ended August.
We’re in for sunshine on Monday and Tuesday and a nice little warm-up. Highs will be in the low to mid-60s on Tuesday and Wednesday, a little bit above the normal high of 57 this week. A clipper system and cold front will come through late Wednesday bringing the chance of a few showers and a drop in temperatures back into the 50s for late week and next weekend.
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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