[TheClimate.Vote] Daily News of Global Warming Issues for voters, candidates and officials June 24, 2016

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    One year later, how a Pope's message on*climate*has resonated
    <http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0624/One-year-later-how-a-Pope-s-message-on-climate-has-resonated>

Christian Science Monitor 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

... to change. In the year since Pope Francis released his encyclical, 
Laudato Si, imploring his followers and fellow believers to care for the 
earth and its creatures, observers say more and more Roman Catholics are 
beginning to view*climate change*as*...*

    *Climate Change*is Tipping Scales Toward More Wildfires
    <http://www.climatecentral.org/news/western-wildfires-climate-change-20475>

Climate Central 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

The 2016 wildfire season has barely begun and dozens of large wildfires 
have already raged through Western states, with hundreds of thousands of 
acres burned. This comes on the heels of a 2015 wildfire season that was 
the worst on record in the U.S., with more than 10 million acres burned.

    Senators, Obama Administration Butt Heads Over*Wildfire*Costs
    <https://morningconsult.com/2016/06/23/senators-obama-administration-butt-heads-wildfire-costs/>

Morning Consult 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

The bill aims to end the downward spiral of “fire-borrowing,” in which 
federal agencies run out of fire suppression funds and then start using 
money that could have been used to proactively 
mitigate*wildfire*damage.*..*. the Department of Agriculture, told the 
committee that the draft legislation ignores a “far more debilitating” 
problem than fire-borrowing...The bill would set the federal fire 
suppression budget at the average cost of firefighting over the last 10 
years, which Bonnie said would lead to a steadily increasing portion of 
the Forest Service’s budget. In that case, the available emergency funds 
won’t be of much use if the initial fire suppression budget keeps rising.
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    This chart perfectly explains what's at stake in the quest to
    stop*climate change*
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/23/this-chart-perfectly-explains-whats-at-stake-in-the-quest-to-stop-climate-change/>

Washington Post 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

Here at the Energy and Environment blog, we cover, regularly, the 
tipping points of*climate change*- how, for instance, the glaciers of 
West Antarctica may already have passed a key threshold that leads to 
unstoppable melt..the glaciers of West Antarctica may already have 
passed a key threshold that leads to unstoppable melt....The Paris 
agreement, if implemented successfully with its targets respected — and 
especially the lower boundary, 1.5 degrees C —  gives hope of keeping us 
from exceeding tipping points that would erase the key climatic 
parameters that sustained our very development.

    Heat Deaths in New York City Expected to Rise by 2080,*Climate
    Change*To Blame
    <http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/24182/20160624/heat-deaths-new-york-city-expected-rise-2080-climate-change.htm>

Nature World News 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

The study also warns that this trend would continue until 2080, with hot 
days expected to triple until the said year if no steps are taken to 
reduce carbon emissions and*global warming*. By retrospect, the National 
Center for Health Statistics claims*...*

    Why the*climate change*fight needs a new type of entrepreneur
    <http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-climate-change-fight-needs-new-type-entrepreneur>

University of California 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

“It's only been in the last five years that we've seen the real impacts 
of*climate change*on our livelihood, and that's going to cause the right 
situation for entrepreneurs to play a role in*climate 
change*mitigation,” said UC Santa Cruz physics*...*

    Why the GOP is trying to stop the Pentagon's*climate*plan
    <http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/06/republicans-trying-to-stop-pentagon-climate-plan-000149>

Politico 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

But when it comes to coping with*climate change*, the largest federal 
agency—the Pentagon—has taken a spot in the vanguard...Republicans say 
the directive is a distraction from the real threats the Pentagon should 
be focused on, particularly terrorist groups in the Middle East. “The 
military, the intelligence community [and] the domestic national 
security agencies should be focused on ISIS and not on climate change,” 
said Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), who sponsored the amendment to block the 
funding.

    Warning from the past: Future*global warming*could be even warmer
    <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160623112206.htm>

Science Daily 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

Future*global warming*will not only depend on the amount of emissions 
from human-made greenhouse gasses, but will also depend on the 
sensitivity of the*climate*system and response to feedback mechanisms. 
By reconstructing past*global warming*and ...

    Senators, Obama Administration Butt Heads Over*Wildfire*Costs
    <https://morningconsult.com/2016/06/23/senators-obama-administration-butt-heads-wildfire-costs/>

Morning Consult 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

The bill aims to end the downward spiral of “fire-borrowing,” in which 
federal agencies run out of fire suppression funds and then start using 
money that could have been used to proactively mitigate*wildfire*damage. 
It was introduced in May by*..*

*97% /global warming/ consensus paper surpasses half a million ... 
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwikzfrilr7NAhXipYMKHSrFCnIQqQIIISgAMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fenvironment%2Fclimate-consensus-97-per-cent%2F2016%2Fjun%2F23%2F97-global-warming-consensus-paper-surpasses-half-a-million-downloads&usg=AFQjCNFNVEIXrwOaIwuy9zncZOhGNgAUeg&cad=rja>* 

The Guardian-Cook et al. (2013) has remained the most-read paper in 
Environmental Research Letters for most of the past 3 years ... Voters 
believe that there is no consensus about /global warming/ within the 
scientific community. The two key conclusions from the paper were:      
1) Depending on exactly how you measure the expert consensus, it’s 
somewhere between 90% and 100% that agree humans are responsible for 
climate change, with most of our studies finding 97% consensus among 
publishing climate scientists.   2) The greater the climate expertise 
among those surveyed, the higher the consensus on human-caused global 
warming.

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