[TheClimate.Vote] Daily News of Global Warming Issues for voters, candidates and officials June 23, 2016

Thu Jun 23 08:48:13 EDT 2016

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    Proposals for a North American*Climate*Strategy
    <https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/report/2016/06/22/139747/proposals-for-a-north-american-climate-strategy/>

Center For American Progress 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

In December 2015, more than 190 nations adopted the Paris Agreement, a 
legally binding pact that aims to limit*greenhouse gas*pollution and 
build global resilience to the effects of*climate change*. The agreement 
required years of negotiation and ...

    Koch Brothers Gave $21 Million To Groups Defending
    ExxonMobil's*Climate*Cover-up
    <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/connor-gibson/koch-brothers-gave-21-mil_b_10602398.html>

Huffington Post 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

The Kochs have spent over $88 million in *traceable* funding to groups 
attacking*climate change*science, policy and regulation.

    As Southwest Burns,*Climate*Scientists Warn: You Ain't Seen Nothin'
    Yet
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/22/southwest-burns-climate-scientists-warn-you-aint-seen-nothin-yet>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

The high temperatures have stymied emergency workers' efforts to 
extinguish the fires, which began burning even before the*heatwave*hit. 
Kevin Trenberth, a senior scientist at the National Center for 
Atmospheric Research, told the HuffPost that there*...*

    Obama Criticizes Republicans In Congress For Blocking*Climate*Action
    <http://cleantechnica.com/2016/06/22/obama-criticizes-republicans-congress-blocking-climate-action/>

CleanTechnica 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

Over the weekend, President Obama visited Yosemite National Park. He 
used the occasion to slam congressional Republicans for their 
intransigent stance on*climate change*. While 99% of scientists agree 
that*climate change*is real and threatens ..

    Proposals for a North American*Climate*Strategy
    <https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/report/2016/06/22/139747/proposals-for-a-north-american-climate-strategy/>

Center For American Progress 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

In December 2015, more than 190 nations adopted the Paris Agreement, a 
legally binding pact that aims to limit*greenhouse gas*pollution and 
build global resilience to the effects of*climate change*. The agreement 
required years of negotiation and ...

    Governor Inslee's Administration Is Appealing the*Climate*Kids'
    Court Win
    <http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/06/22/24246069/governor-inslees-administration-is-appealing-the-climate-kids-court-win>

TheStranger.com 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

Judge Hollis Hill ordered the state to release a rule capping the 
state's*greenhouse gas*emissions by the end of the year.

*Oil-Funded Groups Have Spent $2.7 Million To Defeat California 
Candidates Who Want Climate Action 
<http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/21/oil-funded-groups-have-spent-2-7-million-defeat-california-candidates-who-want-climate-action>*
Groups funded largely by oil companies have spent $2.7 million in 
California to defeat candidates for the state legislature who support 
strong climate action.
...The groups are targeting lawmakers who supported... legislation 
designed to rein in California’s greenhouse gas emissions and boost 
adoption of renewable energy technologies,... which was signed into law 
last year by Governor Jerry Brown, requires California to get 50 percent 
of its electricity from renewable sources and double the energy 
efficiency of existing buildings by 2030. ...“Oil companies are trying 
to push back” against renewable energy and other efforts to decarbonize 
California’s economy, Mike Young, California League of Conservation 
Voter's associate director for campaigns and organizing, told Greenwire. 
“You're seeing an industry that is very concerned about losing its 
monopoly.”...But they’re not pushing back openly, they’re doing it 
through front groups, like an organization with the unwieldy name " 
Coalition to Restore California's Middle Class, Including Energy 
Companies who Produce Gas, Oil, Jobs and Pay Taxes".  That group has 
spent $1.8 million in an attempt to sway 10 races
towards anti-climate candidates.
*
**Scientists, business leaders and prominent Australians call for 
emergency climate action 
<http://www.climatecodered.org/2016/06/emergency.html>*
More than 20 prominent Australians have called for emergency-scale 
action on climate change in an open letter to the new parliament, 
published in "The Age" on 23 June 
<https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KdHacfGOQg0/V2oxTBPjeGI/AAAAAAAABo0/gSdzbRyxwTo29HUh8WMImnaEfXf74T-sgCLcB/s1600/Climateemergency_ad.jpg>. 
The statement reads (in part):   At the Paris climate talks, scientists 
and people from low-lying island states set 1.5ºC of warming as a red 
line that must not be crossed.    However, earlier this year, the global 
average temperature spiked past 1.6ºC of warming...There must be an 
immediate ban on new coal and gas developments and an emergency-speed 
transition to zero emissions.   ...We must begin the enormous task of 
safely drawing down the excess greenhouse gases already in the 
atmosphere.  We call on the new parliament to declare a climate emergency.

    Never mind a Brexit recession, Leave voters don't believe in
    *climate change*
    <http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/06/never-mind-brexit-recession-leave-voters-dont-believe-climate-change>

New Statesman 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

Pounding the table with arguments about unelected Brussels burdening us 
with regulations, the Leave campaign again did its best to avoid facts.

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