[TheClimate.Vote] Daily News of Global Warming Issues for voters, candidates and officials June 22, 2016

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*"**CLIMATE JUSTICE: The international momentum towards climate 
litigation 
<http://climatejustice.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Report-Climate-Justice-2016.pdf>*"documents 
the growing number of climate litigation cases being taken across the 
world, looks at how they can be- and are being - replicated, and 
compares them with tobacco and asbestos lawsuits...State 
Attorneys-General are currently meeting in Vermont, and 17 of them are 
investigating ExxonMobil for its role in funding climate denial 
campaigns, despite its own climate scientists warning of the issue as 
early as the 1970’s. ...A new report finds these US probes are likely to 
be just the tip of the iceberg. ...Now, citizens and governments are 
beginning to seek redress in court with ground breaking cases emerging 
around the world, in a whole new area of litigation.... In addition, 
governments have allowed and encouraged this crisis to transpire, in 
many instances in violation of citizens’ fundamental rights.


    The Case for a Child-Centered Energy and*Climate*Policy
    <http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/21/case-child-centered-energy-and-climate-policy>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎11 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Children, whose bodies and brains are especially vulnerable to harm as 
they develop in utero and in the first years of life, bear a 
disproportionate burden of disease from both air pollution and*climate 
change*. Exposure to toxic air pollutants released*...*


    Extreme Oil Prices May Be Costly to the*Climate*
    <http://www.climatecentral.org/news/extreme-oil-prices-costly-to-climate-20469>

Climate Central 	 -‎10 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

When oil and gas prices go to extremes, such as when they crashed two 
years ago, scientists begin to look for answers about what those prices 
mean for*climate change*- especially when cheap oil encourages people to 
guzzle more gasoline in less fuel-efficient vehicles. ...A new study 
shows that if oil and gas prices remain at either extreme — very high or 
very low — for long periods of time, they are likely to prevent 
countries from keeping global warming from exceeding 2°C (3.6°F).


    *Climate change*and wild weather
    <http://phys.org/news/2016-06-climate-wild-weather.html>

Phys.Org 	 -‎14 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Speaking to media earlier in the year, John Pomeroy put forward that 
Western Canada was primed for extreme*wildfire*conditions...When flames 
raged across Fort McMurray, Alta. throughout the month of May, razing 
homes to the ground and forcing evacuations, he was dismayed to see that 
his predictions had come true.And he doesn't think we're through the 
worst of it. ..  "It's very disturbing that it turned out to be the 
case. We couldn't predict Fort McMurray would be the place, but we could 
say with a fair bit of confidence that they would be remarkably large 
fires—and we're not done yet," he said.... According to his work, the 
mountain snowpacks melted about six weeks early and prairie snowpacks 
did not form at all in parts of Alberta. Since these stores are a major 
water resource, feeding into rivers, streams and other channels as they 
thaw, an early melt can mean a long, dry summer..."How late lying that 
snow pack is has a strong correlation to forest fires. If you have an 
extra month or month and a half of summer without the extra rainfall to 
keep things wet, you can develop very dry conditions where fires can 
develop. Even with normal rainfall patterns and a longer summer because 
it's warmer, we get into trouble with drought and with fires," Pomeroy 
said.    Read more at: 
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-climate-wild-weather.html#jCp: 
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-climate-wild-weather.html#jCp

*A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial* 
<https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-fossil-fuelled-climate-denial-61273>
John Cook - The fossil fuel industry has spent many millions of dollars 
on confusing the public about climate change. But the role of vested 
interests in climate science denial is only half the picture...Interest 
in this topic has spiked with the latest revelation regarding coalmining 
company Peabody Energy. After Peabody filed for bankruptcy earlier this 
year, documentation became available revealing the scope of Peabody’s 
funding to third parties. The list of funding recipients includes trade 
associations, lobby groups and climate-contrarian scientists...

Institutionalizing delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. 
climate change counter-movement organizations 
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-1018-7>
Robert Brulle  ...An examination of these data shows that these 91 
Climate Change Counter Movement organizations have an annual income of 
just over $900 million, with an annual average of $64 million in 
identifiable foundation support. The overwhelming majority of the 
philanthropic support comes from conservative foundations. Additionally, 
there is evidence of a trend toward concealing the sources of CCCM 
funding through the use of donor directed philanthropies.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-1018-7


    A peek into the relatively sane*climate*debates outside the United
    States
    <http://grist.org/article/a-peek-into-the-relatively-sane-climate-debates-outside-the-united-states/>

Grist 	 -‎15 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Even when conservative candidates argue against*climate-change*action in 
their home countries, scientific denial is rarely part of the conversation.


    Did an invisible force whisk water away from Venus?
    <http://spaceref.com/venus/the-electric-wind-of-venus.html>

Christian Science Monitor 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Scientists now say that Venus's super-strong electric field may have 
something to do with the disappearance of water from the planet. The 
planet has a surprisingly strong electric field - the first time this 
has been measured at any planet - that is sufficient to deplete its 
upper atmosphere of oxygen, one of the components of water....
Venus is often called Earth's twin, since the second planet from the Sun 
is only slightly smaller than our own. But its atmosphere is quite 
different, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide, with a little nitrogen 
and trace amounts of sulphur dioxide and other gases. It is much thicker 
than Earth's, reaching pressures of over 90 times that of Earth at sea 
level, and incredibly dry, with a relative abundance of water about 100 
times lower than in Earth's gaseous shroud....The presence of such a 
field at Venus suggests that particles and ions necessary to form water 
are leaving the planet's atmosphere faster than was expected. In turn, 
this means that Venus might have hosted even larger amounts of water in 
the past, before being almost entirely stripped away...."Water has a key 
role for life as we know it on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the 
Universe," says Håkan Svedhem, Venus Express Project Scientist at ESA.

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