[TheClimate.Vote] Daily News brief- Global Warming Issues for voters, candidates and officials June 16, 2016

Thu Jun 16 11:21:43 EDT 2016

Curated climate news For June 16, 2016

    Growing Up With*Climate Change*
    <http://www.thenation.com/article/growing-up-with-climate-change/>

The Nation. 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

My  generation will be the first to have lived an entire lifetime in a 
climate changed world. We witnessed the first climate impacts. We will 
experience the worst. We were born into this crisis and did nothing to 
cause it. Everything that we know and love—from our backyards to the 
existence of Planet Earth—is threatened...This is a generation unlike 
any other.*...Tolkein: “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” 
said Frodo.**“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see 
such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is 
what to do with the time that is given us.”
*

    U.N. Weather Agency Says*Climate*Records Are 'Cause For Alarm' | The
    Weather Channel
    <https://weather.com/news/climate/news/united-nations-weather-agency-warning>

The Weather Channel 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

NASA's announcement this week that the planet had its eighth consecutive 
warmest month on record was quickly followed by a harsh warning from a 
United Nations*climate*official. World Meteorological 
Organization*Climate*Director Dr. David Carlson said ...

    Texas and France Split on*Climate Science*
    <http://billmoyers.com/story/deluge-texas-france-split-climate-science/>

BillMoyers.com 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

Plenty, to be sure, but given that the recent deluge is the topic du 
jour, what's most interesting are the diametrically opposite views 
French and Lone Star State officials hold about 
the*climate-change*connection. ... Texas is getting pummeled... A 
September 2013 survey conducted by the Yale Project on Climate Change 
Communication found that 70 percent of Texans accept the fact that 
global warming is happening and more than 50 percent want local, state 
and federal officials to do more to address it.

    *Aerosols*strengthen storm clouds, lead to extreme weather
    <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160613153420.htm>

Science Daily 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

The research, led by scientists from The University of Texas at Austin 
Jackson School of Geosciences, looked at satellite data from 2,430 
convective cloud systems and found that*aerosols*can help increase the 
lifespans of convective cloud systems*...An abundance of aerosol 
particles in the atmosphere can increase the lifespans of large storm 
clouds by delaying rainfall, making the clouds grow larger and live 
longer, and producing more extreme storms, according to new research. 
The study is the first to address the impact that aerosol particles have 
on the lifespans of large thunderstorms called mesoscale convective 
systems.*

    Wall Street Journal Willing to Print Truth About*Climate Change*if
    You Pay Them <https://ecowatch.com/2016/06/15/wsj-climate-change-ads/>

EcoWatch 	 -‎15 hours ago‎ 	

The Wall Street Journal's opinion page is perhaps the most influential 
outlet for climate denial and rarely gives its readers accurate 
information about how fossil fuels cause*global warming*. The Journal's 
written 201 editorials on*climate change*since*.... So while 97 percent 
of climate scientists agree fossil fuels cause climate change, readers 
of the Journal’s opinion page get the opposite impression as 93 percent 
of its content runs counter to the consensus.*

    *Climate change*, not population growth, plays the main role in
    predicting extreme droughts, study reveals
    <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160613165159.htm>

Science Daily 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

The study published in Climatic Change:Common belief states that the 
dominant factor determining water scarcity in the next few decades will 
be population growth. However, according to a new study, it's climate 
change -- not population growth – that plays the main role in predicting 
future exposure to extreme droughts..... "The relative importance 
of*climate change*and population growth for exposure to future extreme 
droughts," looks at the future global and national populations' exposure 
to extreme drought, based on an ensemble of 16 climate models and UN 
population growth projections...

    France becomes first major nation to ratify UN*climate*deal
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/15/france-becomes-first-major-nation-to-ratify-un-climate-deal>

The Guardian 	 -‎20 hours ago‎ 	

... into force unless at least 55 countries responsible for at least 55% 
of global*greenhouse gas*emissions ratify it. So far 17 states - mainly 
small island and low-lying coastal countries that are especially 
vulnerable to the*sea-level rise*- have*...*

    Hundreds of Scientists Urge Obama to End*Arctic*Drilling for
    'Foreseeable Future'
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/15/hundreds-scientists-urge-obama-end-arctic-drilling-foreseeable-future>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎11 hours ago‎ 	

Hundreds of climate scientists are imploring President Barack Obama to 
block offshore drilling in*Arctic*waters, writing in an open letter 
published Wednesday that "No new oil and gas leasing or exploration 
should be allowed in the Chukchi and Beaufort*...*

    Drones help measure impact of*climate change*on Bering Sea
    <http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/06/15/Drones-help-measure-impact-of-climate-change-on-Bering-Sea/4351465992521/>

UPI.com 	 -‎18 hours ago‎ 	

But the Bering Sea is showing strong signs of*climate change*. The sea 
ice doesn't reach as far south as it once did and the seasonal melt is 
starting earlier in the spring.

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