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*Global Warming's Six Americas and the Election, 2016 
<http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/six-americas-2016-election/>*
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication    ..Americans hold diverse 
views on global warming, falling into six distinct groups – Global 
Warming's Six Americas – that range in their beliefs, attitudes, policy 
preferences and behavior... Climate change is a top-tier issue in the 
2016 presidential election only for Americans who are in the most 
engaged of the six groups – the Alarmed (a group constituting 17% of the 
U.S. population and 19% of registered voters). However, presidential 
candidates who support taking action to reduce global warming are also 
more likely to earn the votes of a large majority of the Concerned (28% 
of the population and 29% of registered voters) and a substantial 
minority of the Cautious (27% of the population and 25% of registered 
voters). Conversely, candidates who oppose taking action on global 
warming are less likely to earn the votes of Americans in three of the 
six groups. Only the Dismissive (10% of the population and of registered 
voters) are more likely to vote for a candidate who opposes action on 
global warming.

*A carbon tax and pricing greenhouse gas emissions: Research, insights 
<http://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/energy/carbon-tax-greenhouse-gas-climate>*
Journalist's Resource Shorenstein Center This compilation of reports, 
research studies and other resources provides journalists with 
perspective on the ongoing debate over a proposed U.S. carbon tax....For 
years — through many sessions of Congress — policymakers, researchers, 
environmentalists and energy companies have debated the merits of 
instituting a carbon tax across the U.S. economy. Such a tax, which 
would assign a fee to carbon dioxide emissions because of their 
detrimental impact on the atmosphere and contributions to climate 
change, has long appealed to a diverse mix of people of varying 
political ideologies, from groups on both the political left and right. 
This unusual appeal across party lines (of course, with many exceptions) 
mostly stems from the relative simplicity, in principle, of a uniform 
tax, in contrast to the more administratively complicated policy of 
lowering emissions by putting caps on the amount of carbon dioxide that 
can be released. Some conservative economists, for example, are 
attracted to it because it does not necessarily require Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) involvement and could be used to offset and 
lower personal and corporate income taxes, possibly facilitating broader 
tax reform. This issue of how revenue is used can divide even liberal 
groups, who generally support action on climate change....Still, in a 
largely symbolic measure in June 2016, the U.S. House of Representatives 
voted 237-163 to oppose any future carbon tax proposals, and despite 
converts to the cause such as the energy giant ExxonMobil, there is no 
clear political pathway to passage as of yet. Currently, the U.S. 
government is attempting to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions 
largely through the Clean Power Plan, which aims to put constraints on 
power plants. That plan is currently under judicial review. At the 
global level, meanwhile, the Paris agreement through the United Nations 
mandates that each country set and achieve its own emissions targets, 
with a wide variety of policy mechanisms being used to achieve those goals.

*We just broke the record for hottest year, nine straight times* 
<http://www.skepticalscience.com/broke-hottest-year-record-9-straight-times.html>
Skeptical Science *By dana1981 *2014 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jan/16/global-warming-made-2014-record-hot-year> and 
2015 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jan/25/record-hot-2015-gave-us-a-glimpse-at-the-future-of-global-warming> each 
set the record for hottest calendar year since we began measuring 
surface temperatures over 150 years ago, and 2016 is almost certain to 
break the record once again. It will be without precedent: the first 
time that we've seen three consecutive record-breaking hot years....June 
2015 through May 2016 was the hottest 12-month period on record. That 
was also true of May 2015 through April 2016, and the 12 months ending 
in March 2016. In fact, it's true for every 12 months going all the way 
back to the period ending in September 2015, according to global surface 
temperature data compiled by Kevin Cowtan and Robert Way. We just set 
the record for hottest year in each of the past 9 months.

*Global warming implicated in dinosaur extinction 
<http://www.skepticalscience.com/gw-implicated-in-dino-extinction.html>*
Skeptical Science In a paper published on Tuesday in the journal Nature 
Communications, scientists from the University of Michigan and the 
University of Florida show that there were big jumps in climate warming 
when the dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous. This 
brings the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in line with the other mass 
extinction events, which occurred at times of abrupt and sometimes 
extreme climate change (including the end-Permian, the end-Triassic, the 
Toarcian, and others)....By employing a relatively new 
ancient-temperature-measuring technique called "carbonate clumped 
isotope paleothermometry," scientists have uncovered an 8ºC jump in 
seawater temperatures that unfolded rapidly, at the same time as massive 
CO2 emissions from the Indian Deccan Traps eruptions ("rapidly" here 
means anything less than about 30,000 years, possibly centuries; such 
are the limits of time resolution). They also found a second, smaller 
spike in warming about 150,000 years later, at around the same time as 
the asteroid impact at Chicxulub in Mexico.


    Senators Target The 'Many-Headed Dragon' Of*Climate Change*Denial
    <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senators-target-climate-change-denial_us_57856398e4b0867123dececc>

Huffington Post 	 -‎14 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

WASHINGTON ― Before national attention turns to the political party 
conventions, a group of Senate Democrats took to the floor this week to 
confront the "many-headed dragon" of*climate change*denial. The effort, 
which began Monday, is meant to call*...*


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