Third Actors, Karen Szczepanski and Alice Freund, are all smiles following their release from jail for blocking the front entrance to Citibank during Spring Spark actions:

Shutting down Citibank headquarters:

Release of the Orca:

Orca joins protest:

Dancing Orca:

Bruce Patterson, Third Actor, being arrested:

More pictures:

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Meanwhile, at a big oil and gas conference in Houston last week, the head of the world’s largest oil company told a packed room that the world “should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas.” 

And at the same conference, Exxon’s CEO, D.W. Woods, who was paid over $33 million dollars last year said: Exxon does not “see the ability to generate above-average returns for investors” from established clean energy generation such as wind and solar.”

Also lending weight to Hansen’s analysis have been the extreme temperatures recorded as recently as this week. Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian who monitors extreme weather events, has a social media feed that is now a litany of shattered records. “South Africa is living a madness. Months with thousands of records destroyed every day,” he wrote on Wednesday. “Today 45.1C at Vioolsdrif, latest 45C in Southern Africa history.”

Days before he noted a temperature recorded in Turkmenistan of 35 degrees, 10 degrees above the previous record. “Latin America is boiling from Mexico to Argentina,” he wrote a day earlier. “Guyana 37.4 at Lethem, hottest March day in Guyana history set twice in few days.”

Read the full article here: https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/scientists-struggle-to-explain-really-weird-spike-in-world-temperatures-20240320-p5fdvm.html

And here’s a compelling Guardian account of the record heat across much of Africa in recent weeks.