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<font size="+1"><i>July 13, 2016 by forwarding this email you
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/six-americas-2016-election/">Global
Warming's Six Americas and the Election, 2016</a></b></font><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1">Yale Program on Climate Change
Communication ..</font><font size="-1">Americans hold diverse
views on global warming, falling into six distinct groups – Global
Warming's Six Americas – that range in their beliefs, attitudes,
policy preferences and behavior... Climate change is a top-tier
issue in the 2016 presidential election only for Americans who are
in the most engaged of the six groups – the Alarmed (a group
constituting 17% of the U.S. population and 19% of registered
voters). However, presidential candidates who support taking
action to reduce global warming are also more likely to earn the
votes of a large majority of the Concerned (28% of the population
and 29% of registered voters) and a substantial minority of the
Cautious (27% of the population and 25% of registered voters).
Conversely, candidates who oppose taking action on global warming
are less likely to earn the votes of Americans in three of the six
groups. Only the Dismissive (10% of the population and of
registered voters) are more likely to vote for a candidate who
opposes action on global warming.<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/energy/carbon-tax-greenhouse-gas-climate">A
carbon tax and pricing greenhouse gas emissions: Research,
insights </a></b></font><br>
<font size="-1"><font color="#666666">Journalist's Resource
Shorenstein Center</font> This compilation of reports, research
studies and other resources provides journalists with perspective
on the ongoing debate over a proposed U.S. carbon tax....For years
— through many sessions of Congress — policymakers, researchers,
environmentalists and energy companies have debated the merits of
instituting a carbon tax across the U.S. economy. Such a tax,
which would assign a fee to carbon dioxide emissions because of
their detrimental impact on the atmosphere and contributions to
climate change, has long appealed to a diverse mix of people of
varying political ideologies, from groups on both the political
left and right. This unusual appeal across party lines (of course,
with many exceptions) mostly stems from the relative simplicity,
in principle, of a uniform tax, in contrast to the more
administratively complicated policy of lowering emissions by
putting caps on the amount of carbon dioxide that can be released.
Some conservative economists, for example, are attracted to it
because it does not necessarily require Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) involvement and could be used to offset and lower
personal and corporate income taxes, possibly facilitating broader
tax reform. This issue of how revenue is used can divide even
liberal groups, who generally support action on climate
change....Still, in a largely symbolic measure in June 2016, the
U.S. House of Representatives voted 237-163 to oppose any future
carbon tax proposals, and despite converts to the cause such as
the energy giant ExxonMobil, there is no clear political pathway
to passage as of yet. Currently, the U.S. government is attempting
to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions largely through the
Clean Power Plan, which aims to put constraints on power plants.
That plan is currently under judicial review. At the global level,
meanwhile, the Paris agreement through the United Nations mandates
that each country set and achieve its own emissions targets, with
a wide variety of policy mechanisms being used to achieve those
goals.</font><br>
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<a
href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/broke-hottest-year-record-9-straight-times.html"><font
color="#3333ff"><b><font size="+1">We just broke the record for
hottest year, nine straight times</font></b></font></a><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1">Skeptical Science </font><font
size="-1"><b><font color="#666666">By dana1981</font> </b><a
class="u-underline"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/jan/16/global-warming-made-2014-record-hot-year"
data-link-name="in body link">2014</a> and <a
class="u-underline"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jan/25/record-hot-2015-gave-us-a-glimpse-at-the-future-of-global-warming"
data-link-name="in body link">2015</a> each set the record for
hottest calendar year since we began measuring surface
temperatures over 150 years ago, and 2016 is almost certain to
break the record once again. It will be without precedent: the
first time that we've seen three consecutive record-breaking hot
years....June 2015 through May 2016 was the hottest 12-month
period on record. That was also true of May 2015 through April
2016, and the 12 months ending in March 2016. In fact, it's true
for every 12 months going all the way back to the period ending in
September 2015, according to global surface temperature data
compiled by Kevin Cowtan and Robert Way. We just set the record
for hottest year in each of the past 9 months.</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/gw-implicated-in-dino-extinction.html">Global
warming implicated in dinosaur extinction</a></b></font><br>
<font size="-1">Skeptical Science In a paper published on Tuesday in
the journal Nature Communications, scientists from the University
of Michigan and the University of Florida show that there were big
jumps in climate warming when the dinosaurs went extinct at the
end of the Cretaceous. This brings the end-Cretaceous mass
extinction in line with the other mass extinction events, which
occurred at times of abrupt and sometimes extreme climate change
(including the end-Permian, the end-Triassic, the Toarcian, and
others)....By employing a relatively new
ancient-temperature-measuring technique called "carbonate clumped
isotope paleothermometry," scientists have uncovered an 8ºC jump
in seawater temperatures that unfolded rapidly, at the same time
as massive CO2 emissions from the Indian Deccan Traps eruptions
("rapidly" here means anything less than about 30,000 years,
possibly centuries; such are the limits of time resolution). They
also found a second, smaller spike in warming about 150,000 years
later, at around the same time as the asteroid impact at Chicxulub
in Mexico.</font><br>
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255);">WASHINGTON ― Before national attention turns to the
political party conventions, a group of Senate Democrats took to
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