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    <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/obama-warns-of-mass-migrations-if-climate-change-is-not-confronted/>


    Obama Warns of "Mass Migrations" If*Climate Change*Is Not Confronted
    <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/obama-warns-of-mass-migrations-if-climate-change-is-not-confronted/>

Scientific American 	 -‎15 hours ago‎ 	

	
    President Obama used his final address to the U.N. General Assembly
    yesterday to warn that*climate change*would worsen the kind of
    unrest and inequality that has spurred a global refugee crisis.


*Benicians for a Safe and Healthy Community Shutdown Coal Trains 
<http://safebenicia.org/>*
If This Town Can #StopOilTrains -- Any Town Can 
<http://www.stand.earth/blog/if-town-can-stopoiltrains-any-town-can>

    Benicia, California City Council voted to unanimously deny Valero's
    proposed oil trains project. If built, 100-car trains carrying
    millions of gallons of toxic, explosive crude oil would have rolled
    through dozens of California communities every day en route to
    Valero's refinery - endangering the 5.5 million Californians who
    live within a mile of the tracks...Communities everywhere can say no
    to dangerous oil trains projects: The Surface Transportation Board's
    decision
    <http://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/vertical/sites/%7BF991A639-AAED-4E1A-9735-86EA195E2C8D%7D/uploads/STB_Decision_September_20_2016.pdf>
    has impacts far beyond the borders of Benicia, or even California.
    It means that refinery communities across the US considering whether
    or not to grant oil train permits to Big Oil will have the freedom
    to say NO. For decision makers sitting on the fence, this means no
    more hiding behind federal pre-emption. You're either for oil trains
    in your community, or you're against them.


*Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds: Making Polluters Pay for the Climate Crisis 
<http://sustainable-economy.org/fossil-fuel-risk-bonds-making-polluters-pay-for-the-climate-crisis/>*

    For a copy of Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds: Safeguarding public finance
    from product life cycle risks of oil, gas, and coal,
    <http://sustainable-economy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fossil-Fuel-Risk-Bonds-May-25.pdf>...fossil
    fuel companies are passing on huge financial risks to taxpayers and
    politicians are simply turning their backs on the problem instead of
    holding those companies accountable. At each stage of the fossil
    fuel product life cycle, taxpayers are increasingly burdened with a
    litany of costs such as those associated with fracking-induced
    earthquake swarms, pipeline explosions, abandoned infrastructure,
    water pollution and, of course, the costs of climate change. Fossil
    fuel risk bond programs – a policy innovation proposed by Center for
    Sustainable Economy – can help reverse this glaring inequity by
    shifting the economic risk back where it belongs: on the polluters.


    Paris*Climate*Deal Passes Milestone as 20 More Nations Sign On
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/world/americas/climate-change-paris-agreement-united-nations-ban-ki-moon.html>

New York Times 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

	
    The legally binding portion of the Paris accord does little more
    than require governments to continue to convene at high-profile
    global*climate*summit meetings, make public pledges to tackle*global
    warming*at home and submit those plans to be published*...*


    Holding Clinton's Feet to the Fire On*Climate*
    <http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/21/holding-clintons-feet-fire-climate>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

	
    She staked out seemingly aggressive positions on*climate change*,
    but often left wiggle room in her language, making her pledges far
    from assured.


*Scientists may have solved a key riddle about Antarctica — and you're 
not going to like the answer 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/20/scientists-may-have-just-solved-a-riddle-about-antarctica-and-youre-not-going-to-like-the-answer/>*** 
(Washington Post 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=81277a5ecc&e=cab6c88302> 
$)

      — for it suggests that large parts of East Antarctica can indeed
    collapse, and moreover, can do so in conditions not too dissimilar
    from those we're creating today with all of our greenhouse gas
    emissions.....This is another piece of a jigsaw puzzle that the
    community is rapidly putting together, and which appears to show
    that the ice sheets are more sensitive to warming than we had hoped.
    If humans continue to warm the climate, we are likely to commit to
    large and perhaps rapid sea-level rise that could be very costly. No
    one piece of the puzzle shows this, but as they fit together, the
    picture is becoming clearer. Windblown Pliocene diatoms and East
    Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat <http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12957>


*Kill Climate Deniers: the provocative play that sneakily infiltrated 
Australia's Parliament House* 
<https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/sep/21/kill-climate-deniers-provocative-play-slyly-infiltrates-australias-parliament-house>

    Kill Climate Deniers by David Finnigan has been a radio play, a
    book, a short film and a live show....The album has just been
    released
    <https://clananalogue.bandcamp.com/album/kill-climate-deniers>on the
    seminal electronic label Clan Analogue and last week Finnigan
    unveileda video for the track Bolted <https://youtu.be/809XLvFtgu4>.
    A remix of the same song by James Atkin of British band EMF (best
    known for 1991 track Unbelievable) is due for release as well. This
    week Ingall and Finnigan launch the album in Canberra and
    atMelbourne fringe festival
    <https://melbournefringe.com.au/program?event/kill_climate_deniers/6d9c5044-7669-4af7-b61e-b2afee5cec4a/>....But
    why vintage rave? It's an era thing, says Finnigan. "It's been 28
    years since [Nasa scientist] James Hansen testified to the US
    Congress that climate change had commenced. Around that time Chicago
    house and Detroit techno arrived in the UK with all the cheap
    ecstasy and kicked off the second summer of love."

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