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        *It's not too late to save our planet,*
        *...Vote science deniers out of office......time to vote, vote*
        *Climate change is important enough to make it a one-issue
        election*
        *      this is a one-issue election*. --  Phil Plait in Slate
        <http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/08/22/global_warming_has_allowed_easier_access_to_the_northwest_passage.html>

*Biofuels worse for climate change than gasoline, U-M study says 
<http://www.dailyclimate.org/t/-1241197897698174641>*
The multi-billion-dollar U.S. biofuels industry may be built on a false 
assumption, according to a new University of Michigan study published 
today that is sure to stir all sides in the contentious debate over the 
industry....The multi-billion-dollar U.S. biofuels industry — promoted 
and expanded for over a decade by the federal government — may be built 
on a false assumption, according to a new University of Michigan study 
published today that is sure to stir all sides in the contentious debate 
over the industry....Despite their purported advantages, biofuels -- 
created from crops such as corn or soybeans -- cause more emissions of 
climate change-causing carbon dioxide than gasoline, according to the 
study from U-M Energy Institute research professor John DeCicco....

*Greens push Obama to block N. Dakota pipeline 
<http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/293362-greens-push-obama-on-north-dakota-pipeline>*
The Hill Environmental groups are asking President Obama to intervene in 
the construction of a controversial oil pipeline project in North 
Dakota. ..In a letter to Obama on Thursday, 31 green groups said the 
White House should deny and revoke the permits necessary to build the 
Dakota Access pipeline, a 1,168-mile project that would carry 450,000 
barrels of Bakken crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois. ...The appeal 
to the White House comes after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North 
Dakota sued the Army Corps of Engineers over its approval of the 
project. ...The tribe contends that federal regulators didn’t give 
tribal leaders the option to assess the pipeline’s impact on cultural 
sites or sensitive environmental locations and is asking a judge to halt 
construction until it can do so. The Corps told a federal judge on 
Wednesday that it had tried to consult the tribe but was rebuffed.
Pipeline Battle Draws Hundreds To Remote North Dakota 
<http://insideenergy.org/2016/08/25/pipeline-battle-draws-hundreds-to-remote-north-dakota/>
Inside Energy  Just 12 years old, Alice Brownotter leads a crowd of 
hundreds in a rally against a major oil pipeline....
"We can’t drink oil," they chant. "Keep it in the soil."...She’s 
protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is slated to cross under 
the Missouri River, just upstream of her home on the Standing Rock Sioux 
Reservation in south-central North Dakota...."When it goes through - or 
if - and when it breaks, it will affect everyone," Alice said....She’s 
worried it will leak and poison the drinking water for the 8,000 people 
living on her reservation.

*/Climate change/ to increase hay fever 
<http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/climate-change-to-increase-hay-fever/news-story/721e803839c31ff53d7228b2dbe0f3f7>* 

NEWS.com.au-12 hours ago
The current study, published in the journal Environmental Health 
Perspectives, examined the potential impacts of /climate change/ on 
ragweed ...

*Thanks to /climate change/, this 13-deck cruise ship is attempting to 
... 
<http://qz.com/765154/thanks-to-climate-change-this-13-deck-cruise-ship-is-attempting-to-navigate-the-northwest-passage/>* 

Quartz-9 hours ago
It took three years of planning—and lots of melting ice—but the Crystal 
Serenity cruise ship has finally begun a pioneering journey that will 
take ...

*Coal Executive Says His Industry Must Confront /Climate Change/ 
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-executive-says-his-industry-must-confront-climate-change/>* 

Scientific American-
It's one thing when environmentalists say that fossil fuel companies' 
positions on /climate change/ are similar to Big Tobacco's past 
deflections ...

    The Massive Yellowstone Fish Die-Off: A Glimpse Into
    Our*Climate*Future?
    <http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/yellowstone-fish-die-off-glimpse-climate-future-180960259/>

Smithsonian 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

News of the whitefish kill didn't surprise Clint Muhlfeld, a U.S. 
Geological Survey aquatic ecologist and University of Montana researcher 
who studies*climate change*impacts on cold-water ecosystems. "We're 
seeing severe impacts on Montana's waters*...*

*Using data to better understand /climate change/ 
<https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=189519>*
National Science Foundation (press release)-Aug 23, 2016
The project, called Understanding /Climate Change/: A Data Driven 
Approach, developed methods that use climate and ecosystem data from a ...

*Atomic bombs and oil addiction herald Earth’s new epoch: The 
Anthropocene <http://www.dailyclimate.org/t/-1241197897698174620>*
Science *Geologists vote to seek a "golden spike*," but call for formal 
acceptance faces skepticism....Just after World War II, when the atomic 
bombs fell and our thirst for coal and oil became a full-blown 
addiction, Earth entered the Anthropocene, a new geologic time when 
humanity’s environmental reach left a mark in sediments worldwide. 
That’s the majority conclusion of the Anthropocene Working Group, a 
collection of researchers that has spent the past 7 years quietly 
studying whether the term, already popular, should be submitted as a 
formal span of geologic time....After tallying votes this month, the 
group has decided to propose the *postwar boom of the late 1940s and 
early 1950s as the Anthropocene's start date*. The group will ask the 
International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the bureaucracy that 
governs geologic time, to recognize the Anthropocene as a series, the 
stratigraphic equivalent of an epoch, on par with the Holocene and 
Pleistocene that preceded it. Colin Waters, the group’s secretary and a 
geologist at the British Geological Survey in Keyworth, will reveal the 
group's recommendations on 29 August at the International Geological 
Congress in Cape Town, South Africa....The group’s decision to go for a 
single, recent start date for the Anthropocene disappoints...*"It is a 
mistake to formalize the term by rigidly affixing it to a single time," 
*he says, "especially one that misses most of the history of the major 
transformation of Earth’s surface." Many archaeologists also favor the 
7000-year-old date, when early humans began to alter the planet’s 
surface. But the working group was looking for a signature of global, 
human-driven change that would wind up in the rock record, not the first 
traces of human influence on the local landscape.
Is the Anthropocene an issue of stratigraphy or pop culture? 
<http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/22/7/article/i1052-5173-22-7-60.htm>

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