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    Scientists, Legal Scholars Brief State Prosecutors on Fossil Fuel
    Companies'*Climate*Accountability
    <http://blog.ucsusa.org/peter-frumhoff/scientists-state-prosecutors-fossil-fuel-companies-climate-accountability>

The Equation: Blog of the Union of Concerned Scientists (blog) 	 -‎9 
hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Efforts to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their 
contributions to*climate change*have gained both momentum and traction 
as attorneys general in Massachusetts and the US Virgin Islands recently 
joined their counterparts in New York and*...*


    The Bay Area could get a whole new kind of*climate*tax
    <http://grist.org/cities/the-bay-area-could-get-a-whole-new-kind-of-climate-tax/>

Grist 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Measure AA would impose a property tax of $12 a year on homeowners to 
address forthcoming problems associated with*climate change*. The fund - 
which would raise an estimated half billion over the next 20 years - 
would be used to restore tidal marshes ...


    Coal made its best case against*climate change*, and lost
    <http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/may/11/coal-made-its-best-case-against-climate-change-and-lost>

The Guardian 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

John Abraham previously summarized the proceedings and ruling in favor 
of the higher carbon cost estimates, but it's worth delving into some of 
the details of the*climate science*and economics arguments to see why 
the judge ruled against the coal*...
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    Searing Heat May Spark*Climate*Exodus
    <http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/searing_heat_may_spark_climate_exodus_20160511>

Truthdig 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

*Global warming*happens unevenly, and many regions are experiencing 
warmer winters—with earlier growing seasons—but not necessarily many 
more extremes in summer heat.


      Report: Nearly 41 Million People Internally Displaced Globally
      <http://www.voanews.com/content/report-finds-nearly-41-million-people-displaced-globally/3325791.html>

http://www.voanews.com/content/report-finds-nearly-41-million-people-displaced-globally/3325791.html 

Conflict and natural disasters cited as main reason for fleeing home but 
new report factored in drug and gang-related violence too

The Norwegian Refugee Council'sInternal Displacement Monitoring Center 
(IDMC) reported<http://www.internal-displacement.org/>Wednesday that 
27.8 million people were internally displaced just in 2015.*
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    *Global Warming*Cited as Wildfires Increase in Fragile Boreal Forest
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/science/global-warming-cited-as-wildfires-increase-in-fragile-boreal-forest.html>

New York Times 	 -‎15 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Scientists have been warning for decades that*climate change*is a threat 
to the immense tracts of forest that ring the Northern Hemisphere, with 
rising temperatures, drying trees and earlier melting of snow 
contributing to a growing number of wildfires*...*


    Academics back Exxon and Chevron*climate*openness vote
    <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f8b247f0-1759-11e6-b197-a4af20d5575e.html>

Financial Times 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Shareholders in ExxonMobil and Chevron are being urged by more than 
1,000 leading academics to vote in favour of resolutions demanding more 
openness on*climate change*issues later this month. Leading figures from 
some of the world's best universities*...*


    Shell outlines 'below 2C'*climate change*scenario
    <http://www.carbonbrief.org/shell-outlines-below-2c-climate-change-scenario>

Carbon Brief 	 -‎10 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Oil major Shell has for the first time sketched out what it thinks it 
would take for the world to avoid 2C of*global warming*. ... Net-zero 
emissions: When*greenhouse gas*emissions are balanced by removals, so 
the sum total is zero or less. Scientists*...

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    *Air pollution*in India is so bad that it kills half a million
    people every year
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/05/11/air-pollution-in-india-is-so-bad-that-it-kills-half-a-million-people-every-year/>

Washington Post 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

The study relied on computer simulations of outdoor*air pollution*levels 
throughout the nation - including both fine particulate matter 
and*ozone*, which is also known to cause respiratory disease - using 
data from national inventories on pollutant*...*


    Health*Global Warming*is Threatening Your Morning Coffee
    <http://www.theinertia.com/health/global-warming-is-threatening-your-morning-coffee/>

TheInertia.com 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

The costly consequences of*climate change*have motivated the world's 
largest coffee seller, Starbucks, to make changes.


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