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Trust In A Context Of Mistrust: Getting Young Voters To Vote 
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trust-in-a-context-of-mistrust-getting-young-voters_us_57a104d6e4b07066ba1fde91?>*
Huffington Post ...*Young voters could well determine the 2016 
election*, as they did in many close 2012 states...young voters so 
mistrust both Clinton and Trump that they’re at serious risk of staying 
home... a national nonpartisan project...*Campus Election Engagement 
Project 
<https://www.razoo.com/us/story/Campuselectionengagementproject>*... 
helps colleges and universities use their institutional resources and 
networks to register America's 20 million students to vote, help them 
volunteer in campaigns, educate themselves on candidates and issues, 
navigate the daunting new voter laws, and ultimately, show up at the 
polls...Paul Loeb, Author Soul of a Citizen and The Impossible Will Take 
a Little While, founder Campus Election Engagement Project

    White House overreaches with SEC*climate*disclosure plan
    <http://www.rstreet.org/2016/08/18/white-house-overreaches-with-sec-climate-disclosure-plan/>

R Street 	 -‎9 hours ago‎ 	

Originally proposed by the White House back in January 2015, the new 
rules look to address heightened flood risks to federal programs and 
facilities that stem from*climate change*and*sea-level rise*, issues of 
particular salience this week as we watch*...*

    As Louisiana floods rage, Republicans are blocking
    modest*climate*action
    <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/19/louisiana-floods-climate-legislation-nepa-republican-opposition>

The Guardian 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

If we needed a reminder of the importance of taking*climate 
change*seriously, the floods in Louisiana are providing a big one on a 
daily basis...On 1 August, the White House Council on Environmental 
Quality issued a non-binding suggestion, formally known as “guidance”, 
to federal agencies to think about climate change when making decisions 
under a law called the National Environmental Policy Act 
(Nepa)....*"This kind of all-hands-on-deck resistance to a non-binding 
suggestion that agencies acknowledge climate change is a sign of the 
times, but it’s also a sign that Republican leaders have made compromise 
on climate issues impossible. In throwing away a once proud 
environmental legacy, the party of Donald Trump – the party that makes 
oil drilling the centerpiece of its environmental agenda and insists 
that climate scientists are just ganging up on Exxon to enrich 
themselves – is forfeiting its seat at the table when climate policy is 
inevitably made down the line.*"...If a common sense proposal for 
federal agencies to consider climate change in their decisions on the 
environment is shot down, what hope is there?...Willful ignorance serves 
no one in the real world. That’s the world the guidance to federal 
agencies is about: the world where our nation’s fishermen are finding 
their livelihoods upended by climate change, where whole states like 
California are facing historical levels of drought, where major 
wildfires are now standard front-page news. That’s the world the 
American people live in. It’s the world our government’s decisions 
should reflect... http://bit.ly/2bPSUOf

    *Climate change*and colonial history make a toxic combination
    <https://newint.org/blog/2016/08/18/climate-change-and-colonial-history/>

New Internationalist (blog) 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

New research points to a powerful link between*climate change*and armed 
conflict. It also finds that countries that are ethnically mixed are 
more likely to experience this kind of conflict.

     From Epic Fires to a 1000-Year Flood: The*Climate Change*of Here
    and Now
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/18/epic-fires-1000-year-flood-climate-change-here-and-now>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎21 hours ago‎ 	

 From deadly floods in Louisiana to an "explosive"*wildfire*in 
California, the impacts of the*climate change*are being felt across the 
United States this week. Neither extreme weather event can be 
exclusively blamed on*global warming*. But record*...*

    Floods, Wildfires, Extreme Heat: Is The*Climate*Fighting Back
    Against The Fossil Fuel Industry?
    <http://www.forbes.com/sites/thebakersinstitute/2016/08/19/floods-wildfires-extreme-heat-is-the-climate-fighting-back-against-the-fossil-fuel-industry/>

Forbes 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

One of the supposed truisms about*climate change*is that it isn't “fair. 
... The 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray, Alberta, fled the advance of 
a Rhode Island-sized*wildfire*that burned them out of homes and 
businesses. ... Naturally, folks pointed to*...*

*As Louisiana floods, measuring the climate change effect 
<http://phys.org/news/2016-08-louisiana-climate-effect.html>*
Physics Org A couple of articles now...discuss the evidence that 
*climate change has made events like this more frequent*. ... formal 
attribution studies ...will be done soon,...First of all, no study can 
tell us that climate change caused an event like this to happen, full 
stop. *Every weather event has many causes. Climate change is just one 
of them,* and usually not the most immediate....While attribution 
studies fall on a spectrum, ....One kind of study looks at the event as 
a whole and asks whether it is more likely to occur now than it would 
have been in the absence of human influence....The other kind of study 
....term "pseudo global warming" ...asks whether, once that situation 
occurs, there is more or less rainfall, and by how much, in the warmer 
climate.
These studies basically*start with the specific type of weather system 
that actually happened, plunk it down into two different climates, and 
ask how it differs.*

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