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July 8, 2016<font size="+1"><i> by forwarding this email you help
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<!--EndFragment--><a href="http://climatenexus.org/"><font
color="#3333ff" size="+1"><strong>In June, Record Heat in
America and All-Time Low Ice Extent in Arctic</strong><b>:</b></font></a><font
size="-1"> June was the <a
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style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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normal;text-decoration: underline;">warmest on record </a>since
1895 in the United States, with a monthly average temperature of
71.8°F in Lower 48 states, 3.3°F above normal. According to the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there have also
been <a
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style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">eight weather and climate
disasters</a> with losses exceeding $1 billion each in the first
half of the year – a combination of severe storms and massive
flooding. In the Arctic, sea ice extent plunged 100,000 sq. miles
below the previous record low set in June 2010, the National Snow
and Ice Data Center <a
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100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">showed</a>. The sea ice extent was 525,000 sq. miles
below the 1981-2010 long-term average. From mid-June onwards, ice
cover reduced 70 percent faster than typical rate of ice loss, at
an average rate of 29,000 sq. miles a day. (<a
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100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Guardian</a>, <a
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100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">AP</a>, <a
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underline;">Washington Post</a> $, <a
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100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">The Hill</a>, <a
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target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
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100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Bloomberg</a>, <a
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100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Climate Central</a>, <a
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target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Guardian</a>, <a
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target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
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usg-AFQjCNFa85erbyHVex5qshGme0quWbHCkg
sig2-JNWrjrLWpdRPdeFLtlJhsg did-8369720816037411860"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/unilever-climate-risk_us_577e74b2e4b0344d514e261f"
url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/unilever-climate-risk_us_577e74b2e4b0344d514e261f"
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style="font-weight: bold;">Companies Should Be Forced To
Disclose<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Risk, Unilever CEO
Says</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Unilever chief Paul Polman said Wednesday that all
companies should be forced to disclose to shareholders any risk
that<b style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>might pose to their
business. “<b style="font-weight: normal;">Climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>reporting should be
mandatory for businesses,” Polman wrote in a tweet that linked to
a Brookings Institution talk on delivering on the goals of the
Paris climate accord. “We must hold each other to account on
#ParisAgreement.” ...Polman’s call for regulation on this issue
fits into a larger pattern of growing pressure ― especially on
firms in heavily polluting industries ― to tell investors about
any risks posed to their business by climate change and by efforts
to curb it....More than half of the 20 largest U.S.-listed energy
and industrial companies don’t disclose information about the
potential costs they might suffer as a result of climate
change....Left unchecked, climate change could upend human
civilization within the next century, swallowing coastal cities as
sea levels surge, displacing millions of people and unleashing
destructive storms as weather becomes more extreme and less
predictable. That poses a risk to virtually every business.
Meanwhile, efforts by lawmakers to combat climate change pose yet
another risk to companies, like oil firms, that make money from
products that pollute the environment....A few of the world’s
biggest oil companies ― including U.S. giants Chevron,
ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Valero Energy ― are starting to
tell investors that their businesses could take a hit from climate
change, according to a review of recent public filings with
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usg-AFQjCNFnchnjsJLqABBBxnWzlYpIvxiIbg
sig2-ZScHRCsM8vWhktWH_qjOng did--8987051011831782001"
href="http://news.mit.edu/2016/gauging-climate-change-impact-on-agriculture-0707"
url="http://news.mit.edu/2016/gauging-climate-change-impact-on-agriculture-0707"
id="MAA4AEgPUABgAWoCdXN6AA"
ping="//news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&ct2=us%2F1_0_s_15_1_a&sa=t&usg=AFQjCNFnchnjsJLqABBBxnWzlYpIvxiIbg&cid=52779152274706&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.mit.edu%2F2016%2Fgauging-climate-change-impact-on-agriculture-0707&ei=S8x-V6irCYvUugKQzpLoAg&sig2=ZScHRCsM8vWhktWH_qjOng&rt=SECTION&vm=STANDARD&bvm=section&did=-8987051011831782001&sid=a985a5a2ee2eddc9&st=3&at=dt0"
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class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Gauging the
impact of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on US agriculture</span></a></h2>
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255);">To assess the likely impact of<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
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U.S. agriculture, researchers typically run a combination of<span
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normal;">climate</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
crop models that project how yields of maize, wheat, and other key
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sig2-W75ydYi-W6UlpBx33_bbvA did-6130077968344678318"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/07/great-tide-is-britain-equipped-cope-glbal-warming"
url="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/07/great-tide-is-britain-equipped-cope-glbal-warming"
id="MAA4AEgRUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">The great tide: is Britain really
equipped to cope with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">global warming</b>?</span></a></h2>
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sig2-Eyc_2AzlOUnTjGNojnSLvA did--8760827424305779415"
href="http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/high-risk-wildfire-projected-amazon"
url="http://universityofcalifornia.edu/news/high-risk-wildfire-projected-amazon"
id="MAA4AEgHUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">High risk of<span
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255);">“Severe drought conditions at the start of the dry season
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forecast model is focused particularly on the link between sea
surface temperatures and fire activity. Warmer sea surface
temperatures in the tropical Pacific (El Niño) and Atlantic oceans
shift rainfall away from the Amazon region, increasing the risk of
fires during dry season months...“When trees have less moisture to
draw upon at the beginning of the dry season, they become more
vulnerable to fire, and evaporate less water into the atmosphere,”
said Randerson. “This puts millions of trees under stress and
lowers humidity across the region, allowing fires to grow bigger
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<b><font color="#3333ff"><a
href="http://www.desmog.ca/2016/07/05/why-we-re-all-responsible-line-climate-change-cop-out">Why
the 'We're All Responsible' Line is a Climate Change Cop-Out</a></font></b><br>
<font size="-1">DeSmogBlog To no one’s surprise, there’s been an
awfully wide range of responses to what caused the catastrophic
Fort McMurray wildfires...Some blame climate change. Others peg it
on the El Niño and forest management techniques. Still more
suggest that now’s simply not the time to be having such a
conversation...But the one thing that appears to unite all sides
is “our” alleged complicity in it as North American
consumers....For instance, the National Post’s Jen Gerson argued
in a May 5 piece: “We are all responsible for climate change. Fort
McMurray simply produces some of the products we all consume.”...
“It’s this ‘there’s no such thing as society.’ That’s just not
true. The real things, the real game-changers here, would be
regulations imposed by government.”...So while it may be simpler
to write statements like “we are all responsible for climate
change” than to call out a handful of powerful people and
corporations who have access to policymakers via direct lobbying
and campaign donations, it ignores the powerful role that
governments can and probably should play in implementing
regulations and price mechanisms....If we really want to build a
more equitable and sustainable society, cutting through the blithe
“we’re all responsible” lingo is a must.</font><br>
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