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*Pope calls /global warming/ sin, says protecting creation is work of
mercy
<https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2016/09/01/pope-calls-global-warming-sin-says-protecting-creation-work-mercy/>*
ROME- Insisting that environmental damage such as global warming
amounts to a sin against creation, Pope Francis on Thursday once
again called on Christians to join forces to protect the earth on
what's ecumenically designated as the "World Day of Prayer for
Creation."..."To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin
against ourselves and a sin against God," .... Francis pointed out
the "sins" against creation, which include humans destroying the
ecosystem and degrading the integrity of the earth by causing
changes in its climate, and the contamination of the earth's waters,
land, air, and life....Keeping in mind both the Holy Year of Mercy
and prayer day for creation, celebrated on Sept. 1, Francis ...
proposes "a complement to the two traditional sets of seven."...As a
spiritual work of mercy, the care for our common home, Francis
wrote, "calls for a 'grateful contemplation of God's world." As a
corporeal one, instead, it requires "simple daily gestures which
break with the logic of violence, exploitation and selfishness" and
"makes itself felt in every action that seeks to build a better
world."...the pontiff gives several suggestions: "Avoiding the use
of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse,
cooking only what can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other
living beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting
trees, turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other
practices."...among other things, that Christians should use their
purchasing power to boycott certain companies or products until they
rethink their environmental footprint. Deeming Pollution of Earth
Sinful, Pope Proposes Climate Action as Sacred Duty
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/01/deeming-pollution-earth-sinful-pope-proposes-climate-action-sacred-duty>
Francis accused humans of turning the Earth into a "polluted
wasteland full of debris, desolation, and filth."...Earlier this
month, Francis also excoriated capitalism for leading to endless war.
*This may be the last presidential election dominated by Boomers and
prior generations
<http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/29/this-may-be-the-last-presidential-election-dominated-by-boomers-and-prior-generations/>*
For the past few decades, presidential elections have been dominated
by voters of the Baby Boom and previous generations, who are
estimated to have cast a majority of the votes. But their election
reign may end this November, according to a new Pew Research Center
analysis of census data..Baby Boomers and prior generations have
cast the vast majority of votes in every presidential election since
1980,..But the ranks of Millennial and Generation X eligible voters
have been growing, thanks to the aging-in of Millennials and
naturalizations among foreign-born adults....Historical patterns of
voter turnout by generation also suggest the likely end of dominance
by Boomers and prior generations. In general, as a generation ages,
turnout rises, hits a peak, and then declines....Among those in the
oldest living generation, the Greatest Generation, turnout crested
in the 1984 election at 76% before declining... all the available
data suggest that the 2016 election will mark the beginning of a new
era for U.S. presidential elections.
*(radio report) 'Green News Report' - August 30, 2016
<http://bradblog.com/?p=11826>*
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe takes a stand against massive new oil
pipeline in North Dakota; California passes most sweeping climate
change law yet; Evacuations in West Virginia after leak of deadly
chlorine gas; PLUS: President Obama creates world's largest
protected marine sanctuary... All that and more in today's Green
News Report!
***China's trans-Amazon railway stokes forest fears
<http://climatenewsnetwork.net/chinas-trans-amazon-railway-stokes-forest-fears/>*
SAO PAULO, 29 August, 2016 ...The Amazon rainforest`s importance to
the climate cannot quench China`s thirst for minerals and grain and
its encroaching development, threatening the forests and the
atmosphere....China's fast-rising population and its burgeoning
economy make steep demands on natural resources, so steep that
Beijing is searching constantly for supplies from overseas. And it
wants to obtain them, naturally, as cheaply as it can....Now in
prospect is China's trans-Amazon railway – a 3,300 mile-long (5,000
km) artery to link the soya-growing areas and iron ore mines of
Brazil to the southern Peruvian port of Ilo, providing a cheaper,
shorter route than the Panama Canal. The plan was reported
originally on the Dialogo Chino website...Between 2000 and 2010 the
total Amazon region lost an area the size of the UK, about 240,000
sq. km. In 2005 and 2010 there were serious droughts. The dry season
is growing longer, the rainy season shorter...Scientists believe
deforestation is contributing by sending more CO2 into the
atmosphere, adding to climate change, which in turn contributes to
the droughts. Some even believe that the Amazon rainforest is
approaching a tipping point......The Chinese onslaught on the Amazon
is not confined to the railway. They have signed a deal with Ecuador
to explore for oil in its part of Amazonia. And they are part of a
consortium seeking to build a giant dam on the Tapajos river in Brazil.
*The Southern Ocean is getting less salty. Here's what that could mean
for the rest of the world*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/31/how-sea-ice-is-making-the-southern-ocean-less-salty-and-what-that-might-mean-for-the-rest-of-the-world/?utm_term=.0852175ec2dc&wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1>
The ocean surrounding Antarctica has become substantially less salty
over the past couple of decades — and until now, scientists weren't
really sure why. But because changes in the Southern Ocean's
salinity have the potential to affect all kinds of important
processes, including ocean circulation and its transport of heat and
nutrients around the world, researchers have been eager to figure it
out....Now, a new study, published Wednesday in Nature, suggests
that sea ice may be one of the major culprits. Using satellite data
and models, the authors have shown that Antarctic sea ice has been
moving farther and farther away from the continental coastline by
strengthening winds in recent years, pouring fresh water farther out
into the ocean as it melts. ..."Haumann and colleagues' findings
emphasize that Antarctic sea ice is not merely a passive indicator
of climate change and variability, but also a driver of changes in
the climate system," "…[S]ea ice might have a bigger role than
previously thought."
*'Coffee could be extinct by 2080': why climate change may eradicate
your daily latte
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/coffee-will-be-extinct-by-2080-climate-change-could-spell-an-end/>*
Coffee could become extinct by 2080 if global warming continues to
worsen, according to a report by The Climate Institute.
It's expected that half of the world’s coffee farming land will no
longer be suitable for plantation by 2050 due to increasing
temperatures, fungi and pests. It's also predicted that wild coffee
varieties such as Arabica could become extinct within the next 70
years unless climate change is tackled. Climate change predicted to
halve coffee-growing area that supports 120m people
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/climate-change-predicted-to-halve-coffee-growing-area-that-supports-120m-people>
More than 120 million of the world’s poorest depend on the coffee
economy, a report says, and their livelihoods are already suffering
from temperature rises...Climate change is going to halve the area
suitable for coffee production and impact the livelihoods of more
than 120 million of the world’s poorest people who rely on the
coffee economy, according to a new report by the Climate Institute,
commissioned by Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand....The report
findings follow stark warnings by some of the world’s biggest coffee
producers, including Starbucks and Lavazza, who have said climate
change is posing a severe risk to the industry.
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