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      <font size="+1"><i>July 3, 2016  by forwarding this email you
        help keep voters and candidates well-informed about global
        warming </i></font><br>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-ambitious-climate-change-plan-avoids-carbon-tax.html"
url="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/us/politics/hillary-clintons-ambitious-climate-change-plan-avoids-carbon-tax.html"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Hillary Clinton's Ambitious<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Plan Avoids Carbon
            Tax</span></a></h2>
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      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
      255);">WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton, courting young voters and the
      broader Democratic base, has promised to one-up President Obama on<span
        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
        normal;">climate change</b>, vowing to produce a third of the
      nation's electricity from renewable sources by 2027, three years
      faster<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
        style="font-weight: normal;">...Conservative campaign operatives
        agree that they would immediately pounce on any mention by Mrs.
        Clinton of a carbon price...“Hillary Clinton surely knows the
        political peril of directly telling American families that she
        wants to tax their gasoline,” said Tim Phillips, the president
        of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative group backed by
        the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch...Since the
        political fallout from 2010, Mr. Obama has sought to circumvent
        Congress on climate change. He used his executive authority to
        release Clean Air Act regulations on vehicles and power plants,
        the nation’s two largest sources of carbon pollution.</b></div>
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          href="http://www.vox.com/2016/7/2/12085146/paris-climate-ratification"
url="http://www.vox.com/2016/7/2/12085146/paris-climate-ratification"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Dozens of countries still haven't
            ratified the Paris<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>deal. What's the
            holdup?</span></a></h2>
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      255);">In the wake of the UK's vote to leave the European Union,
      environmentalists have been in a bit of a tizzy. The Paris<b
        style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>deal, negotiated late last
      year, needs ratification from 55 parties accounting for at least
      55 percent of global emissions<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/01/06/america-has-been-lied-to-about-climate-change/">Pic
        of the week: The largest wildfire in the country ignites the
        California landscape</a></b><br>
    <font size="-1">There are two primary types of wildfires that scorch
      the West each year: summer fires and Santa Ana fires. ...Right
      now, it is the season of summer fires.<br>
      The Erskine Fire, located near Lake Isabella in California, has
      become one of the most intense fires so far this summer.
      Destroying hundreds of structures and burning over 60,000 acres as
      of Friday morning, this destructive fire is just one of many
      “summer fires” setting the California landscape ablaze this month.</font><br>
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    <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAzdoPCNqY">(Video)
        Global Food Assistance Outlook Brief</a></b><br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1">FEWS NET USAID  (June 2016) </font><br>
    <font size="-1"> ...forward-looking analysis of projected emergency
      food assistance needs in FEWS NET coverage countries. The
      projected size of each country’s acutely food insecure population
      is compared to last year and the recent five-year average...
      Countries where external emergency food assistance needs are
      anticipated are identified... Projected lean season months
      highlighted in red indicate either an early start or an extension
      to the typical lean season. Additional information is provided for
      countries with large food insecure populations, an expectation of
      high severity, or where other key issues warrant additional
      discussion.</font><br>
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href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/07/02/climate-change-endangered-animals-species-extinction"
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            class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Eight Animals
            That<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Is Pushing to the
            Brink</span></a></h2>
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      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
      255);">Here are eight other threatened or endangered animals that
      climate change may drive extinct faster than thought. Global
      warming is not the only challenge these species face, but it might
      be what pushes them over the edge of existence—unless nations slow
      climate change and find conservation solutions.<span
        class="Apple-converted-space"> ..Red-Ruffed Lemur, White-Bellied
        Cinclodes, Waved Albatross, Spoon-Billed Sandpiper,
        Orange-Bellied Parrot, Hawksbill Turtle, Ivory Gull and Atlantic
        Cod.<br>
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    <b><font size="+1"><a
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/06/13/world-beyond-return-of-historic-carbon-dioxide-milestone/">World
          ‘beyond return’ of historic carbon dioxide milestone</a></font></b><br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1">Climate Home  climatechangenews.com</font><br>
    <font size="-1">Record surge in CO2 through 2015 and 2016 saw
      atmospheric concentrations rise fast than 2 parts per million
      average to well above 400ppm...The past 12 months have seen a
      record surge in carbon dioxide emissions say scientists, driven by
      the burning of fossil fuels and boosted by a rampant El Nino
      phenomenon....Tropical forests and plants that once would have
      been expected to reduce global CO2 levels by September have
      suffered badly under this El Nino, reducing their ability to soak
      up carbon...That means the iconic milestone of 400 parts of carbon
      dioxide in every million molecules of air has likely been passed
      for good, says a study published in the journal <a
        href="http://www.nature.com/nclimate/index.html">Nature Climate
        Change</a> "Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to
      keep warming well below 2 °C".</font><br>
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