[TheClimate.Vote] Daily News brief- Global Warming Issues for voters, candidates and officials June 11, 2016

Sat Jun 11 14:13:37 EDT 2016

Important news stories for June 11, 2016  - please forward to voters and 
candidates

    30 years ago scientists warned Congress on*global warming*. What
    they said sounds eerily familiar
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/11/30-years-ago-scientists-warned-congress-on-global-warming-what-they-said-sounds-eerily-familiar/>

Washington Post 	

Thirty years ago, on June 10 and 11 of 1986, the U.S. Senate Committee 
on the Environment and Public Works commenced two days of hearings, 
convened by Sen. John H. Chafee (R-R.I.), on the subject of “Ozone 
Depletion, the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change.”..
“This is not a matter of Chicken Little telling us the sky is falling,” 
Chafee said at the hearing. “The scientific evidence … is telling us we 
have a problem, a serious problem.”...The hearings garnered considerable 
media coverage, including on the front page of The Washington PostThey 
included NASA's James Hansen, who would go on to become the most visible 
scientist in the world on the topic, and Robert Watson, who would go on 
to chair the soon-to-be formed United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel 
on*Climate Change*. ...

*Don’t Look Now, But There Was Just a Mass Exodus of Oil Companies From 
the Arctic* 
<http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/10/dont-look-now-there-was-just-mass-exodus-oil-companies-arctic>
by Jason Schwartz Only Shell still holds a drilling lease in U.S. Arctic 
waters. Here’s why an Arctic oil boom never happened and why it probably 
never will... drilling in the Arctic is dangerous and expensive for oil 
companies, catastrophic for the environment, and unwelcome by the 
communities who live there.

*Why Republicans Only Grasp Climate Science Behind Closed Doors 
<https://newrepublic.com/article/121541/scientists-educate-republicans-about-climate-change>*
The New Republic REBECCA LEBER   ...many Republicans, including those 
who reject the science, have met with scientists who have made the facts 
clear. This is the side of the climate discussion the public rarely 
hears about. A number of Republicans are meeting with experts, nearly 
always off the record, sometimes extemporaneously, and often in some 
strange settings...Scientists say that Republican policymakers are 
generally more receptive to the inescapable facts about climate change 
than their party’s public stances would suggest. The GOP’s problem isn’t 
ignorance; scientists and the media are making the mechanisms and the 
stakes of climate change obvious. Rather, the politics are too strong. 
Feigning ignorance gives Republicans cover from their insistently 
climate-oblivious base.

    Guess What Else*Climate Change*Hurts? Globalization
    <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-10/guess-what-else-climate-change-hurts-globalization>

Bloomberg 	 -‎57 minutes ago‎ 	

This “vertical specialization,” it turns out, may have a blind spot when 
it comes to*climate change*, according to new research from the Potsdam 
Institute for*Climate*Impact Research. Manufacturing is only as strong 
as the weakest, or in this case*...*

    Bay Area Voters Agreed To First-Of-Its Kind*Climate*Adaptation Tax
    <http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/06/09/3786580/bay-area-sea-level-rise-tax-approved/>

ThinkProgress 	 -‎18 hours ago‎ 	

The Bay Area has long been a bastion of environmental action, but this 
week locals outdid themselves when they approved an unprecedented, 
first-of-its kind tax to remove pollution from their bay and create 
habitats to fight*sea level rise*. With more*...*

    This Might Get the World to Finally Pay Attention to*Climate Change*
    <http://gizmodo.com/this-might-get-the-world-to-finally-pay-attention-to-cl-1781662009>

Gizmodo 	 -‎13 hours ago‎ 	

Six British warships stationed in the Persian Gulf are breaking down 
because the water is too hot. This week, members of the British Navy 
testified to the UK's Defence Committee that their Type 45 destroyers 
keep losing power because of high ocean ...

    Hiding in plain sight—a less-explored secret of secondary
    organic*aerosols*
    <http://phys.org/news/2016-06-plain-sighta-less-explored-secret-secondary.html>

Phys.Org 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

Among seven*climate model*parameters studied, oligomerization, which 
causes smaller molecules to combine and form larger molecules in 
secondary organic*aerosols*, surprisingly proved to be the most 
influential process affecting SOAs. This …more.

    A Yuuuuuge*Climate* Flip Flop
    <http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/trump-climate-change-new-york-times-letter-ad/486335/>

The Atlantic 	 -‎Jun 10, 2016‎ 	

Seven years ago, the presumptive Republican nominee called for urgent 
action to stop climate change.... about the open letter or the 
candidate's views on*climate change*.  ..So first, let's state 
unequivocally: 97 percent of actively publishing*climate*scientists 
understand*global warming*to be a real phenomenon, caused by human 
activity. ...2009-Trump might have said it best: Climate change is 
“scientifically irrefutable.”**Now he seems to find it quite refutable.

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