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*World at War 
<https://newrepublic.com/article/135684/declare-war-climate-change-mobilize-wwii>*
  New Republic -Bill McKibben -  It’s not that global warming is like a 
world war.*It is a world war.  And we are losing....We’re under attack 
from climate change—and our only hope is to mobilize like we did in 
WWII*....The question is, will we fight back? And if we do, can we 
actually defeat an enemy as powerful and inexorable as the laws of 
physics?  It required ...a wholesale industrial retooling. ..name the 
biggest security threat facing the planet. "Climate change,"...Like 
fascism, *climate change is one of those rare crises that gets stronger 
if you don’t attack*.  In every war, there are very real tipping points, 
past which victory, or even a draw, will become impossible.


    McKibben: Time to Declare a War (Literally) on*Climate Change*
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/15/mckibben-time-declare-war-literally-climate-change>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎53 minutes ago‎ 	

	
	
	

*"It is a world war. And we are losing."..*..We're under attack, says 
author and*climate*campaigner Bill McKibben, and the only way to defeat 
the enemy is to declare a global war against the destructive practices 
that threaten the world's imperiled ecosystems and human civilization as 
we know it*.*.."For years, our leaders chose to ignore the warnings of 
our best scientists and top military strategists*. Global warming, they 
told us, was beginning a stealth campaign that would lay waste to vast 
stretches of the planet, uprooting and killing millions of innocent 
civilians. But instead of paying heed and taking obvious precautions, we 
chose to strengthen the enemy with our endless combustion; a billion 
explosions of a billion pistons inside a billion cylinders have fueled a 
global threat as lethal as the mushroom-shaped nuclear explosions we 
long feared. Carbon and methane now represent the deadliest enemy of all 
time, the first force fully capable of harrying, scattering, and 
impoverishing our entire civilization."... *"We’ve waited so long to 
fight back in this war that total victory is impossible, and total 
defeat can’t be ruled out."**


    *Climate*urgency: we've locked in more*global warming*than people
    realize
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/aug/15/climate-urgency-weve-locked-in-more-global-warming-than-people-realize>

The Guardian 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Today’s carbon pollution will have climate consequences for centuries to 
come. *We’re in the midst of a critical decade*...To put this in 
context, the international community agreed in last year's 
Paris*climate*accords that we should limit*climate change*risks by 
keeping*global warming*below 2°C, and preferably closer to 1.5°C. Yet 
from the carbon pollution we've already*..*we’re committed to 1.5–3°C 
warming over the coming decades and centuries.**
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****Photos Show How Hard Climate Change Has Hit Greenland 
<http://time.com/4447252/greenland-ice-climate-change/>*
Time magazine Photos taken by a research team from Denmark capture how 
warming has hit glaciers in Greenland, where ice melt has been occurring 
at a faster rate than ever in recorded history. Researchers captured the 
images, published in the book The Greenland Ice Sheet, in the*exact 
location their predecessor had taken photos eight decades prior *as 
temperatures had just begun to warm. Side by side, the images offer a 
stark comparison showing vast areas once covered in ice now empty land.


    Mapping the health threat of wildfires under*climate change*in US
    West
    <http://phys.org/news/2016-08-health-threat-wildfires-climate-west.html>

Phys.Org 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

	
	
	

A surge in major*wildfire*events in the U.S. West as a consequence 
of*climate change****will expose tens of millions of Americans to high 
levels of air pollution* in the coming decades, according to a new 
Yale-led study conducted with collaborators from*...*


    *Aerosols*May Be Masking Trend in Stronger Hurricanes
    <http://www.climatecentral.org/news/aerosols-masking-hurricane-trend-20599>

Climate Central 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Over the course of more than a decade of research, scientists studying 
how the steady warming of the planet might impact hurricanes have become 
fairly certain that *such storms will become more intense as the Earth 
continues to heat up*... as the influence of warming will eventually win 
out and the increase in hurricane intensity will become clear, the study 
authors say...

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