[TheClimate.Vote] August 6, 2016 Daily Global Warming News for voters, candidates and officials

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*Suncor Opens Conversation about 'Stranded Assets' in Alberta’s 
Oilsands* 
<http://www.desmog.ca/2016/08/02/suncor-opens-conversation-about-stranded-assets-alberta-s-oilsands>
Suncor Energy CEO Steve Williams*rocked the oil industry boat when he 
announced a plan to leave some of the company's oilsands reserves 
unrecovered* during a conference call with investors....Williams said 
the company is working to develop a plan with Alberta to "strand" its 
least economical reserves, a proposal that appears to align with the 
call of environmentalists to *leave the high-cost and high-carbon fossil 
fuels in the ground to prevent catastrophic global warming*..."We are 
advocating in a modest way to work with government*so that we can strand 
some of the oil in the oilsands*," Williams said, as reported by The 
Canadian Press

    *Climate*summaries 'for grownups,' but not too difficult for
    policymakers
    <http://phys.org/news/2016-08-climate-summaries-grownups-difficult-policymakers.html>

Phys.Org 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

...examined the writing and editing procedures by which the 
Intergovernmental Panel on*Climate Change*createscreates summaries of 
their findings for policymakers*.*...* we found that IPCC reports are 
designed for grownups, but *they are not harder to read than other 
science documents, including those written for the public by 
professional writers,"*... also suggest the possibility of getting 
professional science editors to participate in the review process to 
help keep the writing as accessible as possible without losing meaning.

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    California May Put*Climate*Plan to a Public Vote
    <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/california-may-put-climate-plan-to-a-public-vote/>

Scientific American 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

A legislative effort to extend California's*climate change*policies past 
2020 is proving more difficult than policymakers had bargained for...

*Former Bush adviser: Climate change threatens national security 
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/stephen-hadley-climate-change-national-security-226678>*
Politico Tyler Pager *Climate change will be one of the top national 
security issues for the next administration,* a former national security 
adviser to President George W. Bush said Thursday...Stephen Hadley, who 
served both as deputy and top adviser through Bush's administration from 
2001 to 2009, said climate change has resulted in massive refugee flows 
that have threatened European unity..."Climate change and a lot of other 
economic dislocations have put a lot of people out of work, they are on 
the move and they have no place to go and*it means they are recruiting 
grounds for terrorists and extremists* and potential refugee flows that 
will tax Europe even more."

    Our collective amnesia on*climate change (letters)
    *
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/05/our-collective-amnesia-on-climate-change>

The Guardian 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

Icebergs in Jakobshavn fjord, Ilulissat, Greenland. 'Even if emissions 
from human activities are cut, those from melting ice sheets will 
increase while the darker surfaces exposed will absorb more heat,' 
writes Iain Climie....."..people are not reminded of the urgency of 
their responsibilities, perhaps because *the media feel that their 
audience will become saturated and resistant if too much emphasis is 
placed on these issues.* Meanwhile, the world seems to be en route to a 
terrifying climatic future, and our grandchildren will surely be 
justified in saying: *"Why didn’t you do something before it was too 
late?".*..universities...need to take up... intelligent public education 
about our problems and what to do about them. Promoting public awareness 
of the vital need to do much more to *halt climate change, by means of 
discussion and debate, ought to be a basic activity of universities*. At 
present it is not... George Monbiot is right to*berate the media 
industry for granting the transport, farming, gas, oil and coal 
industries "a social licence to operate"*

    US States Signed Pact to Keep Exxon*Climate*Probe Confidential
    <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-states-signed-pact-to-keep-exxon-climate-probe-confidential/>

Scientific American 	 -‎Aug 4, 2016‎ 	

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A pact that 15 U.S. states signed to jointly 
investigate Exxon Mobil Corp for allegedly misleading the public 
about*climate change*sought to keep prosecutors' deliberations 
confidential and was broadly *written so they could probe**other fossil 
fuel companies* *... signatories of the agreement should keep 
discussions private and "refuse to disclose any shared information 
unless required by law."...*

    *Climate Change*Could Release Cold War-Era Radioactive Waste In
    Greenland
    <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-cold-war-greenland_us_57a4ed36e4b021fd9878a267>

Huffington Post 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

*Global warming****could release radioactive waste* stored in an 
abandoned Cold War-era U.S. military camp deep under Greenland's ice 
caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on 
Friday.
The military abandoned the ice-tunnel complex with tons of chemicals and 
radioactive materials 
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/greenland-ice-melt-could-expose-hazardous-cold-war-waste/>
Scientific American When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a 
complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the 
mid-1960s, they left behind thousands of tons of waste, including 
hazardous radioactive and chemical materials. *They expected the 
detritus would be safely entombed in the ice sheet for tens of thousands 
of years*, buried ever deeper under accumulating layers of snow and 
ice... that *material could be exposed much, much sooner—possibly even 
by the end of this century*

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