[TheClimate.Vote] Daily News of Global Warming Issues for voters, candidates and officials June 29, 2016

Wed Jun 29 09:44:08 EDT 2016

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    Sanders and Clinton teams fight over*climate*language in Democratic
    platform
    <http://grist.org/election-2016/sanders-and-clinton-teams-fight-over-climate-language-in-democratic-platform/>

Grist 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

The Democratic Party's platform drafting committee has written a 
stronger*climate change*section than the platform had in 2012, but it 
also rejected a series of more ambitious*climate*and energy amendments 
on Friday. .. first draft of the platform, voted on by the 15-member 
drafting committee, is now complete, though it hasn’t been made publicly 
available. On July 8 and 9, in Orlando, the full 187-member platform 
committee will meet and debate further changes before approving and 
sending its draft on to the party convention, to be held in Philadelphia 
the last week of July.. ..Drama over the party platform is atypical. 
Usually the document is just a quietly produced, platitudinous summation 
of the presidential nominee’s policy vision. But if Sanders gets some of 
the changes he’s still pushing for, this year’s platform could look very 
different from the last one, adopted four years ago under a moderate 
incumbent president with a mixed record on environmental issues...

    Top science groups tell*climate change*doubters in Congress to knock
    it off
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/06/28/top-science-groups-tell-climate-change-doubters-in-congress-to-knock-it-off/>

Washington Post 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

In a letter dated Tuesday, 31 leading U.S. scientific organizations sent 
members of Congress a no-nonsense message that human-caused*climate 
change*is real, poses risks to society and is backed by overwhelming 
evidence...“Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate 
change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research concludes that the 
greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver,” 
the letter states. “This conclusion is based on multiple independent 
lines of evidence and the vast body of peer-reviewed science.”****
**

    Thirty-one top scientific societies speak with one voice on global
    *climate change*
    <http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/aaft-tts062716.php>

EurekAlert (press release) 	

In a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers, a partnership of 31 leading 
nonpartisan scientific societies today reaffirmed the reality of 
human-caused*climate change*, noting that*greenhouse gas*emissions "must 
be substantially reduced" to minimize*...*

    4 Infographics To Share with the*Climate*Skeptic In Your Life
    <http://www.fastcodesign.com/3061192/4-infographics-to-show-the-climate-skeptic-in-your-life>

Co.Design (blog) 	 -‎21 hours ago‎ 	

But as the oceans heat up due to*global warming*,  1. The Earth is 
changing so drastically, cartographers are redrawing their maps.  2. 
What the weather in your town will be like by 2100 (spoiler: it's 
depressing as hell).  3. Whole cities will be wiped off the map. 4. Some 
countries are more responsible than others.
.. Arctic sea ice has been locked in a downward spiral, retreating more 
and more every year.

    Upcoming*climate*hazards to hit hard Europe's industry, transport
    and energy infrastructure
    <http://phys.org/news/2016-06-upcoming-climate-hazards-hard-europe.html>

Phys.Org 	 -‎10 hours ago‎ 	

*Climate change*-induced damages to critical infrastructures are 
expected to strongly rise in Europe. The study evaluated how*climate 
change*can affect the current stock of critical infrastructures in the 
four sectors in the EU28, Switzerland, Norway and*...*

    5 reasons there's more to*climate*policy than a price on carbon
    <http://www.vox.com/2016/6/28/12045860/carbon-tax>

Vox 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

(opinion) In early June, the Canadian province of Ontario released its 
five-year*climate*plan, covering 2016 to 2020. At the center is a carbon 
cap-and-trade system.

    ExxonMobil's*climate-change*smoke screen
    <http://www.adn.com/opinions/2016/06/28/exxonmobils-climate-change-smoke-screen/>

Alaska Dispatch News 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

*Global warming is perhaps the single most significant threat facing the 
future of humanity on this planet. It is likely to wreak havoc on the 
economy, including, most especially, on the stocks of companies that 
sell hydrocarbon energy products. If large oil companies have 
deliberately misinformed investors about their knowledge of global 
warming, they may have committed serious commercial fraud....Despite the 
efforts of ...companies to invoke First Amendment protections for their 
contributions to public debate, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. 
Circuit found: "Of course it is well settled that the First Amendment 
does not protect fraud."...ExxonMobil and its supporters are now eliding 
the essential difference between fraud and public debate. Raising the 
revered flag of the First Amendment, they loudly object to 
investigations recently announced by attorneys general of several states 
into whether ExxonMobil has publicly misrepresented what it knew about 
global warming....It is grossly irresponsible to invoke the First 
Amendment in such contexts. But we are witnessing an increasing tendency 
to use the First Amendment to unravel ordinary business regulations. 
This is heartbreaking at a time when we need a strong First Amendment 
for more important democratic purposes than using a constitutional noose 
to strangle basic economic regulation. Washi 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/exxonmobils-climate-change-smoke-screen/2016/06/24/2df8b29c-38c4-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html>*ngton 
Post 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/exxonmobils-climate-change-smoke-screen/2016/06/24/2df8b29c-38c4-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html> 

    Is Alaska, another oil state, the next frontier for*climate*action?
    <https://www.edf.org/blog/2016/06/28/alaska-another-oil-state-next-frontier-climate-action>

Environmental Defense Fund (blog) 	 -‎9 hours ago‎ 	

That means there's less of a buffer to pay for things like the 
relocation of communities, or to offset revenue loss from fisheries and 
other industries affected by*climate change*. The reality is, heavy 
reliance on oil is no longer sustainable from an*...*

*Alpine soils storing up to a third less carbon as summers warm 
<http://www.carbonbrief.org/alpine-soils-storing-up-to-a-third-less-carbon-as-summers-warm>*
The top metre of the world’s soils contains three times as much carbon 
as the entire atmosphere. This means that losing carbon from the soil 
can quicken the pace of human-caused climate warming...A new paper, 
published today in Nature Geoscience, finds this is already happening in 
the forests of the German Alps. Soils there are losing carbon as summer 
temperatures rise, ...The scientists also find that soils with a higher 
carbon content to begin with lost more of their carbon over the 30-year 
study period, averaging 32%.

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