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The Dakota Access Pipeline will lock-in the emissions of 30 coal plants 
<http://priceofoil.org/2016/09/12/the-dakota-access-pipeline-will-lock-in-the-emissions-of-30-coal-plants/>*

    "We calculate that at typical utilization rates of 95% of capacity,
    total lifecycle emissions from producing, transporting, processing
    and burning the products derived from the oil would amount to 101.4
    million metric tons of CO2e per year. These emissions are equivalent
    to 29.5 typical U.S. coal plants or the average emissions of 21.4
    million U.S. passenger vehicles."  ...Read more:  Our first tweet is
    here: https://twitter.com/PriceofOil/status/775361410876448770 ...
    Facebook image is here:
    https://www.facebook.com/priceofoil/photos/a.293872007305564.89304.138121286213971/1554195601273192/?type=3&theater


    Donald Trump's Newest Adviser Says*Global Warming*Is a Huge Threat
    to National Security
    <http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/james-woolsey-trump-climate>

Mother Jones 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey has signed on as a senior
    adviser to Donald Trump—even though the two men's views are oceans
    apart on an issue very close to Woolsey's heart:*climate change*.
    For years, the former CIA director has been an ...


    Bad news for nervous fliers:*climate change*is making severe
    turbulence more common
    <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/bad-news-for-nervous-fliers-severe-turbulence-is-becoming-more-common/>

Telegraph.co.uk 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    Incidents of severe air turbulence are on the rise and there will be
    worse to come as*climate change*takes hold, scientists have
    warned...Last month a United Airlines flight from Houston, Texas to
    London Heathrow was forced to make an emergency landing at Shannon
    Airport in Ireland after severe turbulence left 16 passengers
    needing hospital treatment....Transatlantic flights are likely to be
    significantly impacted by rising temperatures because the effect
    climate change is having on the jet stream. ..."Our study finds that
    the jet stream winds along the flight route between London and New
    York are getting stronger because of climate change – they are
    getting 15 per cent stronger in winter," he said...."This increase
    in the jet stream winds is going to have an impact on people’s
    flights."...Turbulence is the most common cause of injury to air
    passengers – in US alone there are an estimated 58 injuries annually
    because of it – and according to the US Federal Aviation
    Administration, the number of injuries doubled between 1982 and 2003
    (including adjustments made for the rise in number of flights).


    (opinion) Nothing to Lose: A President Clinton Should Take
    Aggressive*Climate*Action
    <http://prospect.org/article/nothing-lose-president-clinton-should-take-aggressive-climate-action>

The American Prospect 	 -‎15 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    Hillary Clinton's instincts for incrementalism won't get her far on
    the issue of*climate change*, given the urgency of the issue and the
    intransigence of Republicans on Capitol Hill....R.L. Miller, chair
    of the California Democratic Party’s Environmental Caucus and
    founder of Climate Hawks Vote, a climate-focused PAC. "That means
    considering the climate test in approving all new fossil-fuel
    infrastructure, choosing an attorney general who will investigate
    Exxon and other fossil fuel companies for failing to disclose their
    global warming research in the 1970s, prioritizing renewable energy
    over natural gas, and pricing carbon." Miller also recommends a
    moratorium on any new fossil fuel projects....None of these policies
    will get a hearing from Republicans in Congress, and they may rankle
    fossil fuel interests. But they will appeal to the progressive
    voters on whom Democratic chances rest in 2018 and 2020, who expect
    to see bold leadership on these and related issues. The voters who
    strongly oppose such initiatives have mostly already gravitated to
    the Republican Party. ...In short, a hypothetical Clinton
    administration should act as aggressively as possible on climate
    change, notwithstanding the prospective incoming president’s natural
    instincts toward incrementalism. The problem’s urgency demands a
    forceful response; obstructionist and climate-denying Republicans
    will almost certainly not compromise legislatively with Clinton in
    any case, and the increasingly leftward tilt of the Democratic
    electorate on climate issues suggests that Clinton and her party
    would reap significant political rewards down the road.


*Carmakers Defeated On Emissions Rules 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202391.html>*

    "This should finally be the wake-up call that car companies can't
    ignore global warming," said Doniger, who helped argue the Vermont
    case. "Up until now, there's been a lot of green talk at auto shows.
    But they are fighting tooth and nail in the courts to block any real
    standards, and today they lost."....A federal judge in Vermont
    yesterday rejected an attempt by automakers to block individual
    states from adopting their own standards for limiting greenhouse gas
    emissions from cars and trucks.... U.S. District Court in Burlington
    ruled that state action to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new
    vehicles -- standards that originated in California in 2002 and have
    since been adopted by Vermont and at least 10 other states -- was
    not preempted by federal rules on vehicle fuel economy....The
    decision follows a Supreme Court ruling in April that the
    Environmental Protection Agency violated the Clean Air Act by
    declining to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. It
    also comes as automakers are confronted with growing public demand
    and governmental pressure to build more fuel-efficient vehicles....
    This fall, Congress is to take up vehicle fuel-efficiency
    legislation that could bring about the biggest change in
    fuel-economy laws since the 1970s.


*With more people hitting the road, it’s time for a carbon tax 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/with-more-people-hitting-the-road-its-time-for-a-carbon-tax/2016/09/11/87eb0f4a-7085-11e6-9705-23e51a2f424d_story.html?utm_term=.673f4a0f83f8>*

    September 12, 2016 <x-apple-data-detectors://0>: The Washington Post
    editorial page observes: ..  "[I]t would be better to encourage
    people to buy cleaner cars and cut out unnecessary trips all at once
    — in fact, it would be better to establish a policy that encouraged
    individuals and businesses to account for the environmental impacts
    of driving, turning on the light switch, buying clothes or doing
    anything else that involves fossil fuels. This policy is a steadily
    rising carbon tax. A carbon tax would put a lower ceiling on
    national gasoline use without more aggressive regulatory
    interventions. It would also encourage every other piece of the
    economy to green up over time, starting with those for whom doing so
    is cheapest. This is why it is also the least expensive path to
    lowering the country’s carbon dioxide emissions."

*(whimsy) A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature  - comic XKCD 
<http://xkcd.com/1732/>*

    Randall Munroe, the author of the webcomic XKCD, has a habit of
    making wonderfully lucid infographics on otherwise difficult
    scientific topics. Everyone should check out today’s edition on
    global warming. It’s a stunning graphic showing Earth’s recent
    climate history. Take some time with it. Stroll through the events
    like the domestication of dogs and the construction of Stonehenge.
    And then ponder the upshot here.

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