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    Millennials Ditch Trump Over His Stance on*Climate Change*
    <http://www.ecowatch.com/millennials-trump-climate-change-1976368422.html>

EcoWatch 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

Voters across the political and demographic spectrum find Trump 
increasingly objectionable and Millennials in particular are refusing to 
support the Republican nominee because of his position on*climate 
change*. Former supporters describe their 'last straw' when it came to 
Trump, the Post took a look at Millennial reddit users and found trends 
represented by examples like: "When he and Clinton both got the 
nomination for their respective parties, I was actually leaning more 
toward Trump," Scratch_That_Itch said. "However, his denial of climate 
change completely changed my mind. I'm not one to get caught up in the 
doom and gloom of many articles about the climate changing, but there is 
absolutely ZERO reason not to invest time, money and energy into 
renewable/cleaner power sources."...Millennials want a president who 
holds justice and equality among their top priorities. Clinton has 
demonstrated her commitment to progressive values time and again, from 
her work as an advocate at the Children's Defense Fund, to making 
history by holding the first hearing on environmental justice ever in 
the U.S. Senate....While Trump will drag us backwards toward the dirty 
fuels of the past and cook the planet in the process, Clinton will build 
on the progress we've already achieved in moving America and the world, 
towards a 21st century clean energy economy under President Obama.

*Progressive Clinton supporters: You broke it, you bought it 
<http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/291791-progressive-clinton-supporters-you-broke-it-you>*
Becky Bond, The Hill So to progressives who supported Clinton in the 
primary  —  labor advocates, environmentalists, immigration reformers, 
anti-war activists  —  you have a special responsibility to lead efforts 
to hold your candidate accountable....Not just on TPP, but on the fight 
to keep fossil fuels in the ground, dismantle structural racism, stop 
the deportations of children fleeing violence in Central America, and 
bring our troops home from U.S. wars of choice in the Middle 
East....Like a lot of people who worked hard to win the Democratic 
nomination for a candidate who would be making very different choices 
for these key positions, my message to progressives who backed Clinton 
over Bernie isn't "I told you so." These appointments are totally 
predictable moves by the Clinton administration.

*Breitbart, source of Trump's new head executive, classifies climate 
believers as 'pure scum' 
<http://fusion.net/story/337458/trump-and-breitbart-match-made-in-climate-denier-hell/>*
Donald Trump has reshuffled his campaign team, again. While the exact 
reasons for this latest realignment, in whichhe hired 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/us/politics/donald-trump-stephen-bannon-paul-manafort.html?_r=0>a 
top executive from ultra conservative Breitbart News and promoted a 
senior adviser, remain debatable, one thing is clear: Climate change 
will be more maligned, misconstrued, and relegated to obscurity than it 
was even before the shift...Trump, inhis own words 
<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/donald-trump/article95161477.html>, 
is "not a big believer in manmade climate change."..
He thinks that, over the Earth's billions of years "certainly climate 
has changed."   But he would say "it goes up, it goes down, and I think 
it's very much like this over the years…we'll see what happens. I mean, 
we'll see what happens."

*Nobody can buy the silence of a climate spinning out of control 
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/09/climate-ministers-bribe-local-fracking-environment>*
Caroline Lucas   It's an insult to those who have fought hard to protect 
their local environment – and the wider global environment – from the 
dangers posed by fracking, to suggest they can be bought off like this. 
Despite ministers trying to shut down the planning process and silence 
legitimate peaceful protest, local people do still have a powerful voice 
and are not afraid to use it. To assume their objections are for sale is 
to misunderstand the principles at stake here. The government would do 
better to listen to the communities rejecting fracking and to the 10,000 
local people who opposed a new opencast mine at Druridge Bay, which will 
nonetheless go ahead unless the secretary of state steps in to stand up 
for a safe climate....The bigger picture is that fracking is yet another 
sign of a broken and outdated energy policy ...The only way out of the 
climate crisis is through a radical transition to a zero-carbon economy 
based on renewable energy. The public know this – that's why support for 
renewables remains high at 81%, with only 4% opposing.

*Time to listen to the ice scientists about the Arctic death spiral 
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/18/ice-scientists-arctic-ice-disappearing-reduce-emissions-peter-wadhams>*
The warming now being widely experienced worldwide is concentrated in 
the polar regions and Wadhams says we will shortly have ice-free Arctic 
Septembers, expanding to four or five months with no ice at all. The 
inevitable result, he predicts, will be the release of huge plumes of 
the powerful greenhouse gas methane, accelerating warming even 
further....The warming now being widely experienced worldwide is 
concentrated in the polar regions and Wadhams says we will shortly have 
ice-free Arctic Septembers, expanding to four or five months with no ice 
at all. The inevitable result, he predicts, will be the release of huge 
plumes of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, accelerating warming even 
further....Because Wadhams says what other scientists will not, he has 
been widely slandered, attacked and vilified by denialists and 
politicians who have advised caution or non-action. But now he returns 
their fire, exhorting people to counter what he calls "the sewage flow 
of lies and deceit" emitted by the deniers. Above all, he says, people 
who study climate change should speak up and be prepared to risk the 
blighting of their careers and absence of honours....How to proceed 
safely in a warming world without disastrous unintended consequences? 
The need for truly urgent action is undeniable, but by the time answers 
have been found to the massive questions of science, engineering and 
governance that Wadhams agrees need to be solved before geo-engineering 
on a planetary scale can go ahead, it will be far too late....*Climate 
change has been caused by ignorance and stupidity and cannot be solved 
by endorsing more of the same with geo-engineering*. The only answer is 
reducing greenhouse emissions. Fast.

    Are We Feeling Collective Grief Over*Climate Change*?
    <http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/18/are-we-feeling-collective-grief-over-climate-change>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎11 hours ago‎ 	

The idea is highly controversial, but at least one psychiatrist is 
convinced that we are, whether we know it or not...The deterioration of 
our planet—the only home we have ever known and an assurance we used to 
take for granted—is bound to elicit a wide range of emotions in 
different individuals. Mourning is personal, but as a species, could it 
be that we are making our way through the stages of grief as outlined by 
the late Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross?...The problem is that the inertia of 
the system is not our friend," *...*The disconnect is almost 
understandable: we are hitting tipping points of no return, etching our 
fate in glacial ice while the full consequence of our inaction remains 
hidden from view.

    NPR: Should We Be Having Kids In Light Of*Global Warming*?
    <http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/18/npr-should-we-be-having-kids-in-light-of-global-warming/>

Daily Caller 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

National Public Radio (NPR) featured an academic philosopher Thursday 
who says morality requires Americans to stop having kids, because they 
will only cause more*global warming*. "Maybe we should protect our kids 
by not having them," ....Scientists warn that a catastrophic tipping 
point is possible in the next few decades. By midcentury, possibly 
before, the average global temperature is projected to rise by more than 
2 degrees Celsius, the point scientists and world leaders agree would 
trigger cataclysmic consequences. Last year's historic Paris climate 
agreement falls short of preventing that, so more drastic cuts in carbon 
emissions are needed....He cites a study from 2010 that looked at the 
impact of demographic change on global carbon emissions. It found that 
slowing population growth could eliminate one-fifth to one-quarter of 
all the carbon emissions that need to be cut by midcentury to avoid that 
potentially catastrophic tipping point.

*This igloo greenhouse could revolutionize food production in the North 
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/this-igloo-greenhouse-could-revolutionize-food-production-in-the-north-1.3698224>*
*video * A Ryerson University student has built an greenhouse on the 
Arctic Circle that allows people in the far North to grow fresh produce.
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