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for June 13, 2016


    The Choctaw v*climate change*: 'The earth is speaking'
    <http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/05/choctaw-climate-change-earth-speaking-160528090311635.html>

Aljazeera.com 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Brown knows the outside world has a term for these catastrophic weather 
shifts:*climate change*. He knows there have been summits and debates 
and policies on the matter...The Choctaw cultural identity has always 
hinged on an intimate connection with the environment, says Wilson 
Roberts, a tribal elder and spiritual teacher. "In my mother's teaching, 
I was always taught that all animals and life-bearing things are just 
like us," he says. "We're a part of them, they're a part of us. We're 
supposed to take care of each other and look out for each other."


    Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning*climate
    change*
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/13/peabody-energy-coal-mining-climate-change-denial-funding>

The Guardian 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Peabody, the world's biggest private sector publicly traded coal 
company, was long known as an outlier even among fossil fuel companies 
for its public rejection of*climate science*and action. But its funding 
of*climate*denial groups was only exposed in ...documents suggest(ing) 
Peabody supported dozens of groups engaged in blocking environmental 
regulations in addition to a number of contrarian scientists who 
together have obstructed US and global action on climate change.  The 
support squares up with Peabody’s public position on climate change. The 
company went further than the fossil fuel companies and conservative 
groups that merely promoted doubt about the risks of climate change, 
asserting that rising carbon emissions were beneficial.


    What Future Does*Arctic*Oil Have?
    <http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/What-Future-Does-Arctic-Oil-Have.html>

OilPrice.com 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

The horizontal white line is unmistakable. A white blanket and an icy 
sea that cover a "warm" core of hydrocarbons that, recently, seems to 
have lost its attractiveness.. In this regard, the message of Hillary 
Clinton, Democratic presidential candidate, was immediately clear: "the 
Arctic is a unique treasure, and we cannot run the risk of exposing it 
to new drilling." Clinton’s position satisfies the hopes of 
environmentalists, who are asking White House candidates to adopt a 
harder line on the development of fossil fuels than the approach taken 
during current President Obama’s 2 terms in office..


    This luxury cruise ship will soon sail through the*Arctic*. Here's
    what that means for Alaska.
    <http://www.adn.com/arctic/2016/06/12/this-luxury-cruise-ship-will-soon-sail-through-the-arctic-heres-what-that-means-for-alaska/>

Alaska Dispatch News 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

	
	
	

On Aug. 16, the ship, full of creature comforts, will set out to travel 
through one of the world's harshest sea routes - the icy and isolated 
waters of the Northwest Passage through the*Arctic*Ocean. It will wind 
through narrow waters in far northern Canada*...A luxury vessel, the 
$350 million Crystal Serenity can carry up to 1,070 passengers and 655 
crew members, and measures 820 feet long. On board, you'll find a 
casino, a library, penthouses and shops with name brands like Gucci, 
Armani and Dior, among other countless amenities.**All you need is about 
$22,000 to be a passenger. *..* as much as $120,095 for the fanciest 
penthouse*.**
*
The Ablation Season Starts in Greenland 
<http://polarportal.dk/en/nyheder/arkiv/nyheder/the-ablation-season-starts-in-greenland/>* 

The ablation season in Greenland is the name scientists give to the 
period when the ice sheet loses more mass from melting along the edges 
than it gains from snowfall on top. This is usually June, July and 
August. Scientists at the Polar Portal define the start of the ablation 
season as the first of three days in a row when the ice sheet loses more 
than 1 Gigatonne of ice from its surface to the ocean.


    *Climate*warming sometimes—but not always—benefits insect pests
    <http://phys.org/news/2016-06-climate-sometimesbut-alwaysbenefits-insect-pests.html>

Phys.Org 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

A female Chrysomela lapponica beetle laying eggs on her host plant. C. 
lapponica is one of four species of leaf-eating beetles monitored in a 
study of how changes in*climate*and pollution affect insect population 
dynamics in a subarctic …more. As the*...*


    Scientists use*climate*, population changes to predict diseases
    <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-disease-prediction-idUSKCN0YY133>

Reuters 	 -	

	
	
	

LONDON British scientists say they have developed a model that can 
predict outbreaks of zoonotic diseases - those such as Ebola and Zika 
that jump from animals to humans - based on changes in*climate*... The 
model also has the potential to look at the impact of global change on 
many diseases at once, she said.  Around 60 to 75 percent of emerging 
infectious diseases are so-called "zoonotic events", where animal 
diseases jump into people. Bats in particular are known to carry many 
zoonotic viruses.  The Ebola and Zika viruses, now well known, both 
originated in wild animals, as did many others including Rift Valley 
fever and Lassa fever that affect thousands already and are predicted to 
spread with changing environmental factors.

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