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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to keep voters and
candidates well-informed about global warming July 23, 2016</i></font><br>
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Chiefs Tell SEC to Crack Down on Climate</span></a></h2>
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255);"><b>Three former Treasury secretaries say firms are not
giving investors honest information...</b>A revision could
require companies to disclose far more about<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
other environmental risks than ever before...Federal law requires
companies to tell investors about risks that may significantly
affect their business. Still, public companies' financial
statements often are vague, and multiple firms are known to use
verbatim answers when explaining how a given risk relates to their
operations..."Companies continue to disclose these risks poorly,
if at all, using mostly boilerplate language that fails to inform
or suit investors' needs," <br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Democratic Platform Calls For
WWII-Scale Mobilization To Solve<span
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The platform makes for the starkest possible contrast with
a party that just nominated Donald Trump - a man who has called<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a
hoax invented by and for the Chinese, who has denied basic reality
such as the drought in California, and who<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">has vowed to (try to) scuttle the unanimous agreement
by the world’s nations in Paris to take whatever measures are
necessary to avert catastrophic warming and keep total warming
“well below 2°C.<b>"</b>...The final draft of the platform —
which must still be approved by the Democratic National
Convention next week — also calls for a price on CO2 and other
greenhouse gases: <b>"</b>Democrats believe that carbon
dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases should be priced to
reflect their negative externalities, and to accelerate the
transition to a clean energy economy and help meet our climate
goals.<b>"</b><br>
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href="https://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/oil-lobby-paid-washington-post-and-atlantic-to-host-climate-change-deniers-at-rnc/"
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><b>Evidence of human-made climate change is so conclusive
that it’s wrong for journalists to treat its denial like a
reasonable point of view. But it is a new low for major media
groups to sell their brand to lobbyists and let climate truthers
go unchallenged</b>....And The Atlantic was hardly alone. At the
Republican National Convention, the American Petroleum Institute
also paid the Washington Post and Politico to host panel
conversations where API literature was distributed, API
representatives gave opening remarks, and not one speaker was an
environmentalist, climate expert, scientists, or Democrat.....The
event was sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, the
lobbying arm of fossil fuel giants like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and
ConocoPhilips....Johnson, a climate denier and influential member
of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, spoke of a future
when American scientists “solve these big problems” and “figure
out how to harness the sun’s energy, and store it up, so that we
can put it out over time.” His hypothetical invention, of course,
is called a battery, and was invented over 200 years ago...Instead
of balancing Johnson with an environmentalist or a<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>scientist,
The Atlantic paired Johnson with another notorious<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>denier:
Rep. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., who is an energy adviser to Donald
Trump. Cramer has called<b style="font-weight: normal;">global
warming</b> ...The Washington Post’s discussion was hosted at a
swanky brewpub the newspaper rented out for the week, a stone’s
throw from the main entrance to the Quicken Loans Arena where the
convention was held. The American Petroleum Institute was also an
underwriter for the rental, and the brewpub offered guests free
hors d’oeuvres, an open bar, and complimentary massages in a side
room. API literature was stacked on tables, including the check-in
desk....Not to be outdone, Politico rented out the entire 21st
floor of a high-rise hotel and offered guests hits from a
prominently featured “flavored oxygen bar.” At Politico‘s
API-sponsored event, the oil lobbying group’s CEO, Jack Gerard,
opened the event by telling the audience that “the United States
has become the superpower of energy in the world.” - Alex Emmons<br>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Extreme heat waves like
the current string of scorching days in the Midwest have become
more frequent worldwide in the last 60 years, and climate
scientists expect that human-caused global warming will
exacerbate the dangerous trend in coming decades. It comes with
potentially life-threatening consequences for millions of
people...Research has shown that overall mortality increases by
4 percent during heat waves compared to normal days in the U.S.
A study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives in 2011
suggested that rising summer temperatures could kill up to 2,200
more people per year in Chicago alone during the last two
decades of the 21st century.<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span><b style="font-weight: normal;">...The Midwest heatwave
is peaking just as NOAA announced that last month was the
warmest June on record for Earth. It was the 14th consecutive
month that the average global temperature record was broken,
making it the longest streak of record-warm months in 137
years, according to the agency's monthly state of the climate
report. Averaged across land and sea surfaces, the global
temperature was 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century
average, topping the record set just last year. The last time
the global temperature for June was below average was in 1976.</b></div>
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style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
change</b>: Greenland loses a trillion tonnes of ice in four
years as melting rate triples</span></a>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">It's no news that Greenland is in serious trouble - but
now, new research has helped quantify just how bad its problems
are. A satellite study, published last week in the journal
Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that the Greenland ice
sheet lost<span class="Apple-converted-space"> a whopping 1
trillion tonnes of ice between the years 2011 and 2014 alone.
And a big portion of it came from just five glaciers, about
which scientists now have more cause to worry than ever. </span></div>
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255);">Forests take up 25-30 percent of human-caused emissions of
carbon dioxide—a strong<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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therefore considered to play a crucial role in mitigating the
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study that combines future<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">...The study calls into question
previous conclusions about how forests will respond to warmer
average temperatures, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and
shifting rainfall patterns..."In Alaska, for example, where
trees have been projected to respond positively to warming
temperatures under the boreal greening effect, we see that trees
are now responding negatively instead," Evans said. "Trees in
very high latitudes are limited by cold temperatures, so yes, in
warmer years they grow more, but there is a tipping point, and
once they go past that, a warmer climate becomes a bad thing
instead of a good thing."..."It's like a thermostat gone bad,"
Evans said. "Forests act as a carbon sink by taking carbon
dioxide out of atmosphere, but the more the climate is warming,
the slower the trees are growing, the less carbon they suck up,
the faster the climate is changing."<b> </b>Read more at: <a
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255);">Donald Trump's reported top pick for energy secretary, oil
and fracking billionaire Harold Hamm, declared on the Republican
National Convention stage on Wednesday night, “Every time we can't
drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded...Most of the
congressional Republicans that believe in addressing climate
change stayed home from the convention...Meanwhile, scientists
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