[TheClimate.Vote] August 23, 2016 - Daily Global Warming News for voters, candidates and officials

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    Report Shows Whopping $8.8 Trillion*Climate*Tab Being Left for Next
    Generation
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/22/report-shows-whopping-88-trillion-climate-tab-being-left-next-generation>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

The Price Tag of Being Young:*Climate Change*and Millennials' Economic 
Future (pdf) 
<https://nextgenclimate.global.ssl.fastly.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/NGC-Report-The-Price-Tag-of-Being-Young-2016-0820-single-pages-1-1.pdf> 
compares some of the high costs millennials will face in the "new 
inequality economy"—such as student debt, child care costs, stagnant 
wages, as well as financial and *job insecurity—against the fiscal 
impacts of unmitigated global warming...."The fact is," the report 
states, "unchecked climate change will impose heavy costs on millennials 
and subsequent generations, both directly in the form of reduced incomes 
and wealth, and indirectly through likely higher tax bills as extreme 
weather, rising sea levels, drought, heat-related health problems, and 
many other climate change-related problems take their toll on our 
society."...The impacts from climate costs alone, the report finds, are 
"comparable to Great Depression-era losses." The study employs a model 
developed by researchers from Stanford University and University of 
California at Berkeley that measures the effects of rising temperatures 
on long-term economic growth and national productivity drawing on 50 
years of data from 166 countries....*

(video) Watch the climate debate devolve into nonsense in the 10 years 
since*An Inconvenient Truth* 
<http://www.vox.com/2016/8/22/12590380/american-climate-politics>/
/VOX  The 2016 Republican party platform mentions climate change only to 
dismiss it...So it's become really easy to forget that the Republican 
Party wasn't always compelled to reject scientific evidence on climate 
change...In 2008, the Republican presidential candidate actually 
campaigned on a promise to fight global climate change. The party 
platform that year said:   "The same human economic activity that has 
brought freedom and opportunity to billions has also increased the 
amount of carbon in the atmosphere. While the scope and long-term 
consequences of this are the subject of ongoing scientific research, 
common sense dictates that the United States should take measured and 
reasonable steps today to reduce any impact on the environment. Those 
steps, if consistent with our global competitiveness will also be good 
for our national security, our energy independence, and our economy."/
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    Bill Nye talks national parks,*climate change*and the 2016 election
    <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-nye-national-parks-climate-change-2016-election/>

CBS News 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

Nye spoke with CBS News about some of his favorite places, the 
dangerous power of those he calls*climate change* “deniers,” and what 
he thinks is at stake this election year.

(video) CNN's Stelter Faults Media On Louisiana Flooding: “It's Got To 
Be Connected To Climate Change" 
<http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/22/cnns-stelter-faults-media-louisiana-flooding-its-got-be-connected-climate-change/212562>
Slate's Eric Holthaus: Media "Missed" The "Underlying Story" That "We're 
Going To Start Seeing More" Of These Disasters...HOLTHAUS: Yeah. Even 
flooding is a larger killer on average than tornadoes and hurricanes in 
the U.S. on an annual average. And when was the last time you saw TV cut 
in for a flood warning or something like that.

    Al Gore: If You Care About The*Climate*Crisis, Don't Vote For A
    Third Party
    <https://thinkprogress.org/al-gore-dont-vote-third-party-15711ce062e7>

ThinkProgress 	 -‎11 hours ago‎ 	

In an exclusive interview last week, I asked Gore what he would say to 
voters concerned about*climate change*but dissatisfied with both major 
candidates and considering voting for a third party, such as the Green 
Party.

    Gary Johnson Backs CO2 'Fee' To Fight Global Warming | The Daily ...
    <http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/22/gary-johnson-backs-co2-fee-to-fight-global-warming/>

Daily Caller 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson looks on during 
National Convention held at the Rosen Center in Orlando, Florida, May 
29, 2016.
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/*NY Times 1981 article:   STUDY FINDS WARMING TREND THAT COULD RAISE 
SEA LEVELS 
<http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html>*
Walter Sullivan  "A team of Federal scientists says it has detected an 
overall warming trend in the earth's atmosphere extending back to the 
year 1880. They regard this as evidence of the validity of the 
''greenhouse'' effect, in which increasing amounts of carbon dioxide 
cause steady temperature increases. ...The seven atmospheric scientists 
predict a global warming of ''almost unprecedented magnitude'' in the 
next century. It might even be sufficient to melt and dislodge the ice 
cover of West Antarctica, they say, eventually leading to a worldwide 
rise of 15 to 20 feet in the sea level. In that case, they say, it would 
''flood 25 percent of Louisiana and Florida, 10 percent of New Jersey 
and many other lowlands throughout the world'' within a century or less. "

10 min YouTube video - History of global warming journalism - Peter 
Sinclair video 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Un69RMNSw&feature=youtu.be>
Uploaded on Jun 26, 2009  Climate science is not completely dependent on 
climate models. There are many threads of supporting evidence. Still, it 
is clear that climate models are telling us something important that we 
cannot afford to ignore. Includes references to 
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/1978/Hansen_etal.html

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