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    Former Treasury Chiefs Tell SEC to Crack Down on Climate
    <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/companies-should-be-required-to-reveal-climate-risks/>

Scientific American 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

*Three former Treasury secretaries say firms are not giving investors 
honest information...*A revision could require companies to disclose far 
more about*climate change*and other environmental risks than ever 
before...Federal law requires companies to tell investors about risks 
that may significantly affect their business. Still, public companies' 
financial statements often are vague, and multiple firms are known to 
use verbatim answers when explaining how a given risk relates to their 
operations..."Companies continue to disclose these risks poorly, if at 
all, using mostly boilerplate language that fails to inform or suit 
investors' needs,"

    Democratic Platform Calls For WWII-Scale Mobilization To
    Solve*Climate*Crisis
    <http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/22/3801094/democratic-platform-climate-wwii-mobilization/>

ThinkProgress 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

The platform makes for the starkest possible contrast with a party that 
just nominated Donald Trump - a man who has called*climate change*a hoax 
invented by and for the Chinese, who has denied basic reality such as 
the drought in California, and who*has vowed to (try to) scuttle the 
unanimous agreement by the world’s nations in Paris to take whatever 
measures are necessary to avert catastrophic warming and keep total 
warming “well below 2°C.*"*...The final draft of the platform — which 
must still be approved by the Democratic National Convention next week — 
also calls for a price on CO2 and other greenhouse gases: *"*Democrats 
believe that carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases should 
be priced to reflect their negative externalities, and to accelerate the 
transition to a clean energy economy and help meet our climate goals.*"*
*

    Oil Lobby Paid Washington Post and Atlantic to
    Host*Climate-Change*Deniers at RNC
    <https://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/oil-lobby-paid-washington-post-and-atlantic-to-host-climate-change-deniers-at-rnc/>

The Intercept 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

*Evidence of human-made climate change is so conclusive that it’s wrong 
for journalists to treat its denial like a reasonable point of view. But 
it is a new low for major media groups to sell their brand to lobbyists 
and let climate truthers go unchallenged*....And The Atlantic was hardly 
alone. At the Republican National Convention, the American Petroleum 
Institute also paid the Washington Post and Politico to host panel 
conversations where API literature was distributed, API representatives 
gave opening remarks, and not one speaker was an environmentalist, 
climate expert, scientists, or Democrat.....The event was sponsored by 
the American Petroleum Institute, the lobbying arm of fossil fuel giants 
like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhilips....Johnson, a climate denier 
and influential member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
spoke of a future when American scientists “solve these big problems” 
and “figure out how to harness the sun’s energy, and store it up, so 
that we can put it out over time.” His hypothetical invention, of 
course, is called a battery, and was invented over 200 years 
ago...Instead of balancing Johnson with an environmentalist or 
a*climate*scientist, The Atlantic paired Johnson with another 
notorious*climate*denier: Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., who is an energy 
adviser to Donald Trump. Cramer has called*global warming* ...The 
Washington Post’s discussion was hosted at a swanky brewpub the 
newspaper rented out for the week, a stone’s throw from the main 
entrance to the Quicken Loans Arena where the convention was held. The 
American Petroleum Institute was also an underwriter for the rental, and 
the brewpub offered guests free hors d’oeuvres, an open bar, and 
complimentary massages in a side room. API literature was stacked on 
tables, including the check-in desk....Not to be outdone, Politico 
rented out the entire 21st floor of a high-rise hotel and offered guests 
hits from a prominently featured “flavored oxygen bar.” At Politico‘s 
API-sponsored event, the oil lobbying group’s CEO, Jack Gerard, opened 
the event by telling the audience that “the United States has become the 
superpower of energy in the world.”  - Alex Emmons

    Sizzling Midwest Feels a Preview of a Hotter Future*Climate*
    <https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21072016/sizzling-midwest-heat-wave-future-climate-change-global-warming-noaa>

InsideClimate News 	 -‎18 hours ago‎ 	

Extreme heat waves like the current string of scorching days in the 
Midwest have become more frequent worldwide in the last 60 years, and 
climate scientists expect that human-caused global warming will 
exacerbate the dangerous trend in coming decades. It comes with 
potentially life-threatening consequences for millions of 
people...Research has shown that overall mortality increases by 4 
percent during heat waves compared to normal days in the U.S. A study in 
the journal Environmental Health Perspectives in 2011 suggested that 
rising summer temperatures could kill up to 2,200 more people per year 
in Chicago alone during the last two decades of the 21st century.*...The 
Midwest heatwave is peaking just as NOAA announced that last month was 
the warmest June on record for Earth. It was the 14th consecutive month 
that the average global temperature record was broken, making it the 
longest streak of record-warm months in 137 years, according to the 
agency's monthly state of the climate report. Averaged across land and 
sea surfaces, the global temperature was 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit above 
the 20th century average, topping the record set just last year. The 
last time the global temperature for June was below average was in 1976.*

*Climate change*: Greenland loses a trillion tonnes of ice in four years 
as melting rate triples 
<http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-global-warming-greenland-ice-melting-rate-sea-levels-rise-a7147846.html> 

The Independent 	 -‎16 hours ago‎ 	

It's no news that Greenland is in serious trouble - but now, new 
research has helped quantify just how bad its problems are. A satellite 
study, published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, 
suggests that the Greenland ice sheet losta whopping 1 trillion tonnes 
of ice between the years 2011 and 2014 alone. And a big portion of it 
came from just five glaciers, about which scientists now have more cause 
to worry than ever.

    North American forests unlikely to save us from*climate change*,
    study finds
    <http://phys.org/news/2016-07-north-american-forests-climate.html>

Phys.Org 	 -‎Jul 20, 2016‎ 	

Forests take up 25-30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon 
dioxide—a strong*greenhouse gas*—and are therefore considered to play a 
crucial role in mitigating the speed and magnitude of*climate change*. 
However, a new study that combines future*...The study calls into 
question previous conclusions about how forests will respond to warmer 
average temperatures, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and shifting 
rainfall patterns..."In Alaska, for example, where trees have been 
projected to respond positively to warming temperatures under the boreal 
greening effect, we see that trees are now responding negatively 
instead," Evans said. "Trees in very high latitudes are limited by cold 
temperatures, so yes, in warmer years they grow more, but there is a 
tipping point, and once they go past that, a warmer climate becomes a 
bad thing instead of a good thing."..."It's like a thermostat gone bad," 
Evans said. "Forests act as a carbon sink by taking carbon dioxide out 
of atmosphere, but the more the climate is warming, the slower the trees 
are growing, the less carbon they suck up, the faster the climate is 
changing."**Read more at: 
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-north-american-forests-climate.html#jCp*

    Republicans in Cleveland Deny*Climate Change*as Arctic Snow Turns
    Pink
    <https://theintercept.com/2016/07/21/republicans-in-cleveland-deny-climate-change-as-arctic-snow-turns-pink/>

The Intercept 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

Donald Trump's reported top pick for energy secretary, oil and fracking 
billionaire Harold Hamm, declared on the Republican National Convention 
stage on Wednesday night, “Every time we can't drill a well in America, 
terrorism is being funded...Most of the congressional Republicans that 
believe in addressing climate change stayed home from the 
convention...Meanwhile, scientists noted that the earth’s clouds had 
changed shape, growing taller and moving away from the tropics toward 
the poles, encouraging drier weather in the subtropics.
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