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Music video - Ludovico Einaudi - "Elegy for the Arctic" 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DLnhdnSUVs>
Ludovico Einaudi performs an original piece "Elegy for the Arctic", 
on... June 17th, 2016, With a grand piano on a floating platform in 
front of a glacier, Einaudi played an original piece composed for the 
cause.With this action, Greenpeace is urging the OSPAR Commission not to 
miss the opportunity to protect international Arctic waters under its 
mandate at this week's meeting in Tenerife Einaudi performed one of his 
own compositions on a floating platform in the middle of the Ocean, 
against the backdrop of the Wahlenbergbreen glacier (in Svalbard, 
Norway). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DLnhdnSUVs

*DNC platform calls for Justice Dept. to investigate fossil fuel 
companies. <http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/217219/142179/166385/0/>*
The committee drafting a platform for Hillary Clinton and the Democratic 
Party unanimously called on Friday for the Justice Department to 
investigate fossil fuel companies, such as ExxonMobil Corporation. 
InsideClimate News 
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/217219/142179/166385/0/>. Jun 26

*Shock, sadness, anger: Here's what scientists are tweeting about 
#Brexit <http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/217219/142179/166404/0/>*

U.K. scientists overwhelmingly wanted their country to stay in the 
European Union, and many took to Twitter today to vent their frustration 
over the outcome of yesterday's referendum—as did colleagues from around 
the world. Science 
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/217219/142179/166404/0/>. Jun 25

*Fossil fuel companies impose more in climate costs than they make in 
profits. <http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/217219/142179/166408/0/>*

(opinion) With proper accounting, the fossil fuel business doesn't look 
like such a moneymaker... the economic cost to society of their CO2 
emissions was greater than their after‐tax profit

*The seas may be rising, but Florida keeps building 
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/217219/142179/166398/0/>
* Its very existence depends on the continued allure of the beaches, 
waterways and natural environment. Yet, by 2050, an estimated $15 
billion to $36 billion of Florida's coastal property will be threatened 
by sea-level rise, according to a report last year from the Risky 
Business Project.*

Environmental Group Alleges Scientific Fraud in Disputed Methane Studies 
<http://insideclimatenews.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=1022d50b12&e=131c5dc491>*
By Phil McKenna Advocacy group claims a former EPA science adviser 
failed to acknowledge technical flaws in his industry-funded studies of 
methane emissions from oil and gas sites.The inspector general of the 
Environmental Protection Agency has been asked to examine whether a 
significant recent study of greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas 
fields was technically flawed—and whether researchers brushed aside 
concerns that methane pollution was being understated.

*Climate change refugees: A catastrophe of our own creation. 
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/217219/142179/166413/0/>*

Unless significant resources are to be made available from the developed 
world to build capacity to withstand the increasing severity of climate 
change impacts, a community’s ability to adapt and to remain in its 
homelands would not be an option. Medium 
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/217219/142179/166413/0/>. Jun 20

*Opinion: The case for a child-centered energy and climate policy 
<http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/217219/142179/166132/0/>*
There’s no question that reducing our dependence on fossil fuels would 
achieve highly significant health and economic benefits for children 
worldwide ... Knowing this, we have a moral imperative to enact 
child-centered energy and climate policies.

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