[TheClimate.Vote] July 25, 2016 Daily Global Warming News for voters, candidates and officials

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    The Democratic Party has made a big shift toward*climate*action in
    the last four years
    <http://grist.org/election-2016/the-democratic-party-has-made-a-big-shift-toward-climate-action-in-the-last-four-years/>

Grist 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

...This election cycle is very different. The Democratic primary 
candidates competed over who would be the toughest on fossil fuels and 
climate change. Hillary Clinton has called for banning offshore drilling 
in the Arctic and Atlantic, phasing out fossil fuel production on public 
land, and imposing stricter fracking regulations. She did not get there 
on her own: Both Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders challenged her from 
the left on climate change with even more ambitious proposals. The 
Sanders' camp also pushed the Democratic platform committee with a 
number of climate-related demands, resulting in a document that calls 
for carbon pricing and rejecting future infrastructure projects that 
would increase U.S. carbon emissions.... stop far short of what is 
needed to avert catastrophic*climate change*. "This is a Democratic 
Party that has embraced *climate science*and*climate*solutions," Erich 
Pica, president of the lefty green group Friends of the Earth, told 
Grist in a recent*..*

*Clinton's VP Pick Gets Mixed Reception as DNC Draws Protesters:* 
<http://grist.org/election-2016/possible-clinton-vp-pick-has-a-weird-appeal-with-enviros-fossil-fuel-groups/> 
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton chose Virginia Senator 
Tim Kaine as her running mate, drawing a mixed reaction from the climate 
community. While the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation support 
his candidacy, groups such as 350.org and Climate Hawks Vote were less 
enthusiastic. Though Kaine supports the Clean Power Plan and opposed the 
construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, he also has supported offshore 
drilling and natural gas exports. On the eve of the Democratic National 
Convention, thousands of protesters took to the sweltering streets of 
Philadelphia to demand support for solar, wind and other forms of 
renewable energy and a ban on fracking. (*Kaine Pick:***InsideClimate 
News 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=98a9e0f889&e=95b355344d>,Politico 
Pro 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=247a933eca&e=95b355344d> 
$,AP 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=5ceb367b29&e=95b355344d>,Washington 
Post 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=f654753f7e&e=95b355344d> 
$,Grist 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=a8c0fba19b&e=95b355344d>. 
*DNC Protest: *Grist 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=5619338b44&e=95b355344d>,AP 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=5369076982&e=95b355344d>,The 
Inquirer 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=43531b1c6a&e=95b355344d>, 
Metro 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=25817de63e&e=95b355344d>, 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=f98e978e30&e=95b355344d> 
NBC Philadelphia 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=bd9a9f3fa3&e=95b355344d>. 
*Commentary*:<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=9642d41d30&e=95b355344d>Washington 
Post, Larry J. Sabato op-ed 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=923913140b&e=95b355344d>$; 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=bc7d5b5c10&e=95b355344d>The 
Hill, Lowell Feld op-ed 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=0360d3b8db&e=95b355344d>; 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=cb9063524d&e=95b355344d>New 
York Times, Room for Debate 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=f397d2efcc&e=95b355344d>$ 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=d62f04233e&e=95b355344d>; 
Salon, Justine Morris column 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=ba4c3cff36&e=95b355344d>; 
ThinkProgress, Evan Popp column 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=3db891f6c1&e=95b355344d>)


    Hollywood stars hold*climate*rally ahead of DNC
    <http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/32518322/hollywood-stars-hold-climate-rally-ahead-of-dnc>

WMBF 	 -‎16 minutes ago‎ 	

	
	
	

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - More than 1,000 people joined Hollywood stars 
including Shailene Woodley, Susan Sarandon and Danny Glover in 
Philadelphia last night on the eve of the Democratic National Convention 
and vowed to keep fighting for*climate*and ...


    Sarandon, Glover, Woodley Headline*Climate*-Conscious Movie Night in
    Germantown
    <http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Susan-Saranadon-Danny-Glover-Shailene-Woodley-DNC-Climate-Rally-Vernon-Park-388016482.html>

NBC 10 Philadelphia 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Some of Hollywood's liberal movie stars descended on Philly for the 
Democratic National Convention and the first event of the weeklong 
gathering took place at a park in Germantown....A group called NextGen 
Climate, which advocates on environmental issues, organized the event 
called "The Climate Revolution is Up to Us."

*What Advocates of Strong Government Action on Climate Change Should 
Learn from Sociology 
<https://ethicsandclimate.org/2016/07/24/what-advocates-of-strong-government-action-on-climate-change-should-learn-from-sociology/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EthicsAndClimate+%28ETHICS+and+CLIMATE%29>* 

This is the 3rd entry in a series that has been examining the practical 
significance for climate change policy formation of insights of 
sociologists about the failure of governments to respond to the enormous 
threat of climate change...This series is reviewing a new book about the 
social causes of climate change. The book is Climate Change and Society, 
Sociological Perspectives by Riley Dunlap and Robert Brulle, eds., 
Oxford University Press, 2015, New York....In the first entry in the 
series, we described why sociological explanations for the success of 
the opponents of climate change policies and identification of deep 
ethical and moral problems with arguments made by climate change policy 
opponents largely have been  missing from mainstream climate change 
literature and the media coverage of human-induced warming issues....In 
the second entry in this series, we looked at the insights from 
sociology about the morally reprehensible climate change disinformation 
countermovement....We now review what advocates of strong government 
action on climate change should learn from sociologists...1. Pay 
attention to ... how civil society’s understanding of climate change 
issues has been manipulated by powerful forces,...For a discussion of 
these tactics and why they are morally reprehensibility, see,An Ethical 
Analysis of the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign: Is This A New 
Kind of Assault on Humanity 
<https://ethicsandclimate.org/2011/12/02/an_ethical_analysis_of_the_climate_change_disinformation_campaign_is_this_a_new_kind_of_assault_on_h/>?


    'World can't afford to silence us': black church leaders
    address*climate change*
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/24/african-methodist-episcopal-church-climate-change-letter>

The Guardian 	 -‎15 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

African American religious leaders have added their weight to calls for 
action on*climate change*, with one of the largest and oldest black 
churches in the US warning that black people are disproportionally 
harmed by*global warming*and fossil fuelpollution *..African American 
religious leaders have added their weight to calls for action on climate 
change, with one of the largest and oldest black churches in the US 
warning that black people are disproportionally harmed by global warming 
and fossil fuel pollution...The African Methodist Episcopal church has 
passed its first resolution in its 200-year history devoted to climate 
change, calling for a swift transition to renewable energy...“We can 
move away from the dirty fuels that make us sick and shift toward safe, 
clean energy like wind and solar that help make every breath our 
neighbors and families take a healthy one,” states the resolution, which 
also points to research showing that black children are four times as 
likely as white children to die from asthma..*

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