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<i>June 22, 2016 Forward this email to "Keep voters and
candidates well-informed about global warming" </i><br>
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<span><font face="Calibri" color="#000000" size="3"><span><font
face="Calibri"><font size="3"><font color="#0563c1"><b>"</b></font><b><a
href="http://climatejustice.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Report-Climate-Justice-2016.pdf"
target="_blank"><font color="#0563c1">CLIMATE JUSTICE:
The international momentum towards climate
litigation</font></a></b><font color="#000000">"<font
size="-1"> documents the growing number of climate
litigation cases being taken across the world, looks
at how they can be<span> </span>- and are being -
replicated, and compares them with tobacco and
asbestos lawsuits...State Attorneys-General are
currently meeting in Vermont, and 17 of them are
investigating ExxonMobil for its role in funding
climate denial campaigns, despite its own climate
scientists warning of the issue as early as the
1970’s. ...A new report finds these US probes are
likely to be just the tip of the iceberg. </font></font></font></font></span></font></span><font
size="-1">...Now, citizens and governments are beginning to seek
redress in court with ground breaking cases </font><font
size="-1">emerging around the world, in a whole new area of
litigation...</font><font size="-1">. </font><font size="-1">In
addition, governments have allowed and encouraged this crisis to </font><font
size="-1">transpire, in many instances in violation of citizens’
fundamental rights.</font><br>
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href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/21/case-child-centered-energy-and-climate-policy"
url="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/06/21/case-child-centered-energy-and-climate-policy"
id="MAA4AEgGUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">The Case for a Child-Centered
Energy and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Policy</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Children, whose bodies and brains are especially vulnerable
to harm as they develop in utero and in the first years of life,
bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both air pollution
and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>. Exposure to
toxic air pollutants released<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/extreme-oil-prices-costly-to-climate-20469"
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class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Extreme Oil
Prices May Be Costly to the<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b></span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">When oil and gas prices go to extremes, such as when they
crashed two years ago, scientists begin to look for answers about
what those prices mean for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- especially when cheap
oil encourages people to guzzle more gasoline in less
fuel-efficient vehicles. ...A new study shows that if oil and gas
prices remain at either extreme — very high or very low — for long
periods of time, they are likely to prevent countries from keeping
global warming from exceeding 2°C (3.6°F). <br>
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url="http://phys.org/news/2016-06-climate-wild-weather.html"
id="MAA4AEgSUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
wild weather</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Speaking to media earlier in the year, John Pomeroy put
forward that Western Canada was primed for extreme<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">wildfire</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>conditions...When
flames raged across Fort McMurray, Alta. throughout the month of
May, razing homes to the ground and forcing evacuations, he was
dismayed to see that his predictions had come true.And he doesn't
think we're through the worst of it. .. "It's very disturbing
that it turned out to be the case. We couldn't predict Fort
McMurray would be the place, but we could say with a fair bit of
confidence that they would be remarkably large fires—and we're not
done yet," he said.... According to his work, the mountain
snowpacks melted about six weeks early and prairie snowpacks did
not form at all in parts of Alberta. Since these stores are a
major water resource, feeding into rivers, streams and other
channels as they thaw, an early melt can mean a long, dry
summer..."How late lying that snow pack is has a strong
correlation to forest fires. If you have an extra month or month
and a half of summer without the extra rainfall to keep things
wet, you can develop very dry conditions where fires can develop.
Even with normal rainfall patterns and a longer summer because
it's warmer, we get into trouble with drought and with fires,"
Pomeroy said. Read more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://phys.org/news/2016-06-climate-wild-weather.html#jCp">http://phys.org/news/2016-06-climate-wild-weather.html#jCp</a>:
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<a
href="https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-fossil-fuelled-climate-denial-61273"><b><font
size="+1">A brief history of fossil-fuelled climate denial</font></b></a><br>
John Cook - <font size="-1">The fossil fuel industry has spent
many millions of dollars on confusing the public about climate
change. But the role of vested interests in climate science denial
is only half the picture...Interest in this topic has spiked with
the latest revelation regarding coalmining company Peabody Energy.
After Peabody filed for bankruptcy earlier this year,
documentation became available revealing the scope of Peabody’s
funding to third parties. The list of funding recipients includes
trade associations, lobby groups and climate-contrarian
scientists...<br>
<br>
</font><font size="+1"><a
href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-1018-7">Institutionalizing
delay: foundation funding and the creation of U.S. climate
change counter-movement organizations </a></font><font
size="-1"><br>
Robert Brulle ...An examination of these data shows that these 91
Climate Change Counter Movement organizations have an annual
income of just over $900 million, with an annual average of $64
million in identifiable foundation support. The overwhelming
majority of the philanthropic support comes from conservative
foundations. Additionally, there is evidence of a trend toward
concealing the sources of CCCM funding through the use of donor
directed philanthropies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-1018-7">http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-1018-7</a><br>
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href="http://grist.org/article/a-peek-into-the-relatively-sane-climate-debates-outside-the-united-states/"
url="http://grist.org/article/a-peek-into-the-relatively-sane-climate-debates-outside-the-united-states/"
id="MAA4AEgLUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">A peek into the relatively sane<span
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Even when conservative candidates argue against<span
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Scientists now say that Venus's super-strong electric field
may have something to do with the disappearance of water from the
planet. The planet has a surprisingly strong electric field - the
first time this has been measured at any planet - that is
sufficient to deplete its upper atmosphere of oxygen, one of the
components of water....<br>
Venus is often called Earth's twin, since the second planet from
the Sun is only slightly smaller than our own. But its atmosphere
is quite different, consisting mainly of carbon dioxide, with a
little nitrogen and trace amounts of sulphur dioxide and other
gases. It is much thicker than Earth's, reaching pressures of over
90 times that of Earth at sea level, and incredibly dry, with a
relative abundance of water about 100 times lower than in Earth's
gaseous shroud....The presence of such a field at Venus suggests
that particles and ions necessary to form water are leaving the
planet's atmosphere faster than was expected. In turn, this means
that Venus might have hosted even larger amounts of water in the
past, before being almost entirely stripped away...."Water has a
key role for life as we know it on Earth and possibly elsewhere in
the Universe," says Håkan Svedhem, Venus Express Project Scientist
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