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*California Wildfire Devastates Area Still Rebuilding From Last Year's 
Blazes 
<http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/clayton-fire-california-habitat-for-humanity-wildfire-season-drought>*
Lake County's Clayton Fire is only five percent contained....The blaze 
comes just as the county had started to rebuild from last year's 
calamitous fire season. ...Lake County, California is ablaze again. A 
wildfire erupted there on Saturday night, and has already burned 4,000 
acres and is only 5 percent contained. The cause of the fire remains 
unknown....Three major fires—the Valley Fire, the Rocky Fire, and the 
Jerusalum Fire—*took out thousands of buildings and over 170,000 acres 
in 2015*. The Valley Fire, the largest of the three, destroyed nearly 
2,000 buildings itself, and killed four people.


    Jill Stein just went way overboard on*sea level rise*
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/17/jill-stein-just-went-overboard-on-sea-level-rise/>

Washington Post 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

The contention is that Stein, who has been criticized previously for 
statements on scientific topics like vaccines and genetically modified 
organisms, is presenting*climate science*in an unduly alarmist way. The 
problem traces to this tweet by*...12.3M Americans could lose their 
homes due to a sea level rise of 9ft by 2050. 100% renewable energy by 
2030 isn't a choice, it's a must. *

Coal Industry Borrows From Tobacco Playbook, Activists Say 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/science/coal-industry-feeling-cornered-peeks-at-big-tobacco-playbook.html>
"Survival Is Victory: Lessons From the Tobacco Wars."..*.the coal 
industry was,.. deliberately drawing a comparison between itself and the 
tobacco companies*.... After reviewing the presentation, shared with him 
by a reporter, the state attorney general leading the investigation of 
Exxon Mobil, Eric T. Schneiderman of New York, called it important. 
“This is just the latest example of the fossil fuel industry explicitly 
adopting the Big Tobacco playbook,” ... reached a settlement last year 
with Peabody Energy, the giant coal company, after *finding that it had 
not properly disclosed to the public and its shareholders the risks of 
climate change and regulation to its business* — an investigation 
similar to Mr. Schneiderman’s efforts to determine whether Exxon Mobil 
had committed fraud in its public statements about climate change...Like 
so many elements of climate change, coal is a polarizing issue for 
political parties... the coal industry presentation "is a reminder that 
this is a much more complicated story than just Exxon Mobil."...Money 
the coal industry spent on attacking climate science might have been 
invested to develop effective carbon capture technology.

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