[TheClimate.Vote] Daily News brief- Global Warming Issues for voters, candidates and officials June 6, 2016

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for June 6, 2016


    Tom Toles cartoon - *Climate change*reaches biblical proportions
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2016/06/05/climate-change-reaches-biblical-proportions/>

Washington Post 	 -	

	
	
	

Tom Toles is the editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post and writes 
the Tom Toles blog. See all of his cartoons ...


    *Wildfire*in Monterey County grows to 3500 acres
    <http://www.ksbw.com/news/wildfire-burning-in-south-monterey-county/39903928>

KSBW The Central Coast 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

*wildfire*. Firefighters are battling a*wildfire*Saturday near Mission 
Creek and Milpitas roads, north of Fort Hunter Liggett.


    Peak Oil and*Climate*Collapse: Can Society Make the Transition in
    Time?
    <http://www.globalresearch.ca/peak-oil-and-climate-collapse-can-society-make-the-transition-in-time/5528996>

Center for Research on Globalization 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

As the independent investigative journalist Dahr Jamail has detailed in 
his regular*climate*dispatch for Truthout, there are signs that 
excessive amounts of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide are 
wreaking havoc on the globe's atmospheric and ocean*...*


    Ice free*Arctic*could occur this year, warns expert
    <https://www.rt.com/news/345476-ice-free-arctic-occur/>

RT 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Sea ice in the*Arctic*could be a thing of the past, a leading scientist 
has warned. For the first time in 100,000 years the chilling landscape 
known for its snow-capped mountains and polar bears may be without its 
sea ice either this year or the next.


    *Climate Change*Film Tells Us “How to Let Go of the World”
    <http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/climate-change-film-tells-us-how-to-let-go-of-the-world-20160603>

YES! Magazine 	 -‎Jun 3, 2016‎ 	

	
	
	

Three years after his Gasland series showed viewers the detrimental 
effects of fracking, Fox explores the hard truths of*climate change*and, 
recognizing the immensity of the struggle we confront, challenges us to 
let go of what can't be helped.*Climate**...*


    Film Review: 'Time to Choose'
    <http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/time-to-choose-climate-change-1201788089-1201788089/>

Variety 	 -‎Jun 3, 2016‎ 	

	
	
	

“An Inconvenient Truth,” the epochal Al Gore/Davis Guggenheim 
documentary about*climate change*(which back then was still routinely 
called*global warming*), came out 10 years ago last week. There have 
been any number of*climate-change*docs since, ...

*Should lawyers be ethically obligated to protect the environment? 
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/216101/142179/165343/0/>
(Opinion) Daily Climate -* As states and corporations increasingly head 
to court over climate change, a lawyer lays out an ethical roadmap to 
give the environment a louder legal voice...“Some of the most important 
legal issues today are large corporations lying about climate change and 
being able to pollute a few more years,” Siegel said. “The role of 
lawyers helping them do that and the ethical considerations governing 
our profession will increasingly come under the microscope.”

*What Exxon Knew About Climate Change  by BILL MCKIBBEN* 
<http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-exxon-knew-about-climate-change>
  By 1977, an Exxon senior scientist named James Black was, according to 
his own notes, able to tell the company’s management committee that 
there was “general scientific agreement” that what was then called the 
greenhouse effect was most likely caused by man-made CO2; a year later, 
speaking to an even wider audience inside the company, he said that 
research indicated that if we doubled the amount of carbon dioxide in 
the planet’s atmosphere, we would increase temperatures two to three 
degrees Celsius.

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