[TheClimate.Vote] Daily News brief- Global Warming Issues for voters, candidates and officials June 14, 2016

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For June 14, 2016

*May 2016 Was the 8th Consecutive Warmest Month on Record, NASA Says 
<https://weather.com/news/climate/news/record-warmest-may-earth-2016>*
NASA has released their estimate for global temperature this May of 
2016. It came in at 0.93 °C, the hottest May on record, and the latest 
12-month running mean is also the hottest on record...The top three 
warmest Mays in NASA's dataset have all now occurred in the last three 
years.


    New Website Helps Connect the Dots Between Extreme Weather Events
    and*Climate Change*
    <https://ecowatch.com/2016/06/13/extreme-weather-events-climate-change/>

EcoWatch 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Debuting in beta form last month, the*Climate*Signals website—created by 
the nonprofit organization*Climate*Nexus—offers a quick and handy way to 
explore the*climate change*elements that are most pertinent to a given 
extreme weather event. The site's*...*


    Revealed: How This Coal Giant Became Treasury Dept.
    for*Climate*Denialists
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/13/revealed-how-coal-giant-became-treasury-dept-climate-denialists>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Peabody Energy, the largest coal producer in the U.S., funded dozens of 
groups spreading skepticism about*climate change*, according to new 
figures that reportedly surprised even environmental advocates with 
their scale.


    Parched California disappointed as*El Nino*fails to deliver rain
    <http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/el-nino-drought-1.3629499>

CBC.ca 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

A massive*El Nino*- possibly the biggest in generations - was supposed 
to bring much-needed drought relief to Southern California and Nevada.


    It's Time to Get Serious About*Climate Change*. Seriously.
    <http://www.thenation.com/article/its-time-to-get-serious-about-climate-change-seriously/>

The Nation. 	 -‎50 minutes ago‎ 	

	
	
	

The Bulletin's statement explaining this advance toward catastrophe 
invoked the two major threats to survival: nuclear weapons and 
“unchecked*climate change*.” The call condemned world leaders, who “have 
failed to act with the ... for the Paris*...*


    Kids Try to Solve*Climate Change*in PSA Campaign, Because Grownups
    Certainly Aren't
    <http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/kids-try-solve-climate-change-psa-campaign-because-grownups-certainly-arent-171926>

Adweek 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

	
	
	

In the first ad, Suzuki lectures an auditorium full of kids on the 
failure of grownups to sufficiently address*global warming*: ... 
Overall, it's meant to drive awareness of, and participation in, the 
province's sweeping new five-year plan to address*...*

*Noam Chomsky: It’s Time to Get Serious About Climate Change. Seriously. 
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176152/tomgram%3A_noam_chomsky%2C_tick..._tick..._tick.../>*
Prospects for decent long-term survival are not high unless there is a 
significant change of course. A large share of the responsibility is in 
our hands -- the opportunities as well.

*From http://climatenexus.org/ <http://climatenexus.org/> Ad Series 
Highlights WSJ Editorial Bias on Climate Change:* A series of 12 
advertisements kicks off today in The Wall Street Journal, bringing 
mainstream climate science to WSJ opinion readers twice a week from 
June 14 to July 21. The ads, which will run on the op-ed page of the 
Journal, are sponsored by the Partnership for Responsible Growth (PRG) 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=229327c216&e=cab6c88302>, 
a D.C.-based nonprofit that is working to build support for a carbon tax 
as a market-based solution to climate change. The first ad poses a 
pointed question: “Exxon’s CEO Says Fossil Fuels Are Raising 
Temperatures and Sea Levels. Why Won’t The Wall Street Journal?” 
Subsequent ads 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=fe8af6f044&e=cab6c88302> 
will cover issues such how climate change threatens national security 
and harms public health. An accompanying analysis 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=682812d3bc&e=cab6c88302> of 
the Journal’s opinion section found that none of the paper’s 201 
editorials on the topic since 1997 explicitly acknowledge that fossil 
fuels cause climate change, and only 14 percent of the guest editorials 
published since 1995 reflect mainstream science. (Washington Post 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=f38fa7748f&e=cab6c88302> 
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