[TheClimate.Vote] Daily News brief- Global Warming Issues for voters, candidates and officials June 1st 2016

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Date  June 1, 2016


    *Climate*Scientists Debate Best Path Forward for Clean Energy
    <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-debate-best-path-forward-for-clean-energy/>

Scientific American 	 -‎48 minutes ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Is nuclear power best?  “We shouldn't be taking them off the table, in 
my opinion,” said James Hansen, a former scientist at NASA famous for 
raising the alarm about*climate change*before Congress in 1988, speaking 
from the van. “It's our biggest source of carbon-free energy*...*


    Civic chiefs must lead the charge against*climate change*
    <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6ba781aa-eb66-11e5-bb79-2303682345c8.html>

Financial Times 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

As the world gets hotter, however, urban areas will need to put 
themselves at the heart of the international effort to mitigate the 
effects of*climate change*. Along with the prosperity and innovation, 
global cities are the principal source of the*...what is required is 
co-ordination: between urban planners, developers, energy and transport 
specialists and the business community. The goal? To minimise demand for 
carbon-intensive energy and maximise the supply possibilities for 
renewables...*


    How General Mills and Kellogg Are Tackling*Greenhouse Gas*Emissions
    <https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-general-mills-and-kellogg-are-tackling-greenhouse-gas-emissions>

Harvard Business Review 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

	
	
	

In the global effort to limit*climate change*and reduce*greenhouse 
gas*emissions (GHGs), the energy and transportation sectors are the most 
obvious targets, but different in two key ways: 1) they’re explicitly 
based on science; and 2) they cover emissions from agricultural 
suppliers. This latter point is a big deal — General Mills estimates 
that agriculture is responsible for more than 40% of its lifecycle GHG 
emissions (and uses 82% of the water).

*Elon Musk's Advice on Climate Change in 12 minute YouTube:  "Talk to 
Politicians"* <https://youtu.be/xKCuDxpccYM?t=10m57s>
May 31, 2016 "Talk to Politicians" is the advice that Elon Musk offers 
as he breaks down climate change for students at The Sorbonne in Paris 
right before the historic COP21 Climate Change Conference in which 170+ 
nations signed to reduce carbon emissions below 2C, and preferably under 
1.5C.


    *Climate*Data Tools for Informed Decisions
    <http://blogs.usda.gov/2016/05/31/climate-data-tools-for-informed-decisions/>

USDA.gov (press release) (blog) 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

REE joined with multiple institutions to model the economic responses of 
global agriculture to scenarios of*climate change*through 2050, 
including changes in harvested area, international trade, production, 
consumption, and price.


    Hydrothermal vents, methane seeps play enormous role in marine life,
    global*climate*
    <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160531143217.htm>

Science Daily 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

In an even more important role, the life forms in these vents and seeps 
consume 90 percent of the released methane and keep it from entering the 
atmosphere, where as a*greenhouse gas*it's 25 times more potent than 
carbon dioxide. "We had no idea at*...*


    Earth DOOMED by*climate change*which could burn us alive, warns
    Stephen Hawking
    <http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/675474/Stephen-Hawking-climate-change-earth-Good-morning-Britain>

Express.co.uk 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

The 74-year-old was discussing catastrophes that could spell an end to 
life as we know it when he said that while asteroids do pose a 
significant threat, it is apparently*climate change*which is the issue 
humanity should worry about immediately*...*


    Six Months after Paris Accord, We're Losing
    the*Climate-Change*Battle
    <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601601/six-months-after-paris-accord-were-losing-the-climate-change-battle/>

MIT Technology Review 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

... fell by 0.6 percent, according to a study in Nature*Climate 
Change*—the first time emissions have shrunk in a period of economic 
growth, rather than contraction.The goals laid out by the IEA are not 
unreachable. But they will require “urgent actions by national 
governments and local officials so we can employ clean energy 
technologies much faster than we have done in the last few years,” says 
Birol. “I am hopeful, but not fully confident.”

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