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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates,
keep them well-informed about global warming -- July 26, 2016</i></font><br>
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Voters Finally
Matter. Can Clinton Convince Them?</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><b>Hillary needs to realize—soon—that her chances of
becoming president hinge on climate voters</b>....But it turns
out that this minority—the one that believes<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is
an issue of singular importance worth hanging your vote on—could
be large enough to swing the election this year, if they decide to
stay home or vote for Jill Stein, ....<b style="font-weight:
normal;">Hillary needs to make it known as loudly and as often
as possible that she believes climate change is a human rights
issue, and there’s nothing more important. She needs to be clear
that in addition to the incremental steps she’s already
announced, she’ll make significant further leaps to address
it—the kind of language Sanders used throughout his campaign.
According to the latest numbers from FiveThirtyEight’s Nate
Silver, if the election were held today, Trump would likely win.
Hillary needs to assuage Bernie backers’ fears, and fast...What
she needs to do now is convince climate voters that her specific
brand of incrementalism is the best way forward: After all,
making steady, day-after-day progress is better than just hoping
for a carbon tax to magically make it through a hostile
Congress. Problem is, that’s a hard sell when you’re already
convinced the world is burning down around you...</b></div>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Tim Kaine's<span
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">He is for natural gas and oil drilling, yet also for
cutting greenhouse gas emissions...At the same time, he supported
renewable energy and instituted the first-ever<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>commission
in Virginia to bring together environmentalists and power
companies to chart a way forward on cutting<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">greenhouse gas</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>levels.
<b>..</b><b style="font-weight: normal;">."I think, at best, his
climate record is mixed to poor," said Mike Tidwell, head of the
Chesapeake Climate Action Network..."In terms of the broader
environmental track record, both as governor and senator, I do
think 'moderate' is an accurate label," said Trip Pollard, a
Richmond-based lawyer with the Southern Environmental Law
Center. Pollard noted that for a Southern Democrat in a state
where most lawmakers still won't utter the words "climate
change," Kaine could be considered moderate to
progressive...."It's hard to predict what anyone would do in a
different office, but I do feel like the bottom line is, as
governor and senator, he's been a fairly strong voice on
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255);"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>negotiators meeting in
Vienna over the weekend laid the groundwork for an agreement to
stem emissions of<b style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b>-causing
hydrofluorocarbons—known as HFCs—that some environmental experts
say could be the most significant advance in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> fighting global warming this
year....An agreement is finally in sight after seven years of
talks on the topic, negotiators said following meetings. They
expect the accord to be finalized at a conference in October
during a conference in Rwanda. “Amending the Montreal Protocol
to phase down HFCs is one of the single most important unitary
steps that we could possibly take at this moment to stave off
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for people in every single corner of the globe,” said U.S.
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">WASHINGTON -- The government has found that jet engine
exhaust is adding to climate change and endangering human health,
and needs to be regulated....Jet engines spew significant amounts
of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, into
the upper atmosphere, where they trap heat from the sun. But
proposed rules such as imposing fuel-efficiency standards have
faced stiff opposition from aircraft makers and commercial
airlines...Aircraft emissions were not addressed as part of the
landmark global climate agreement agreed to in Paris in
December..."Addressing pollution from aircraft is an important
element of U.S. efforts to address climate change," said Janet
McCabe, EPA's acting assistant administrator for air and
radiation. She said aircraft are the third largest contributor to
greenhouse gas emissions... Environmentalists say aviation
accounts for about 5 percent of global greenhouse emissions,...The
EPA's findings do not apply to small piston-engine planes or to
military aircraft....Environmental groups have criticized the new
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warming. Planes burn the most fuel during takeoffs and landings,
while cruising at high altitudes is the most fuel-efficient
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best arguments from the 3% of<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>scientist
'skeptics.' Really.</span></a></h2>
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white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">When<a
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/best-arguments-from-3-percent.html">
I give a presentation and mention the 97% expert consensus</a>
on human-caused<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b>, I'm often
asked, “what's the deal with the other 3%?.the world’s largest
private sector coal company went to court, made its best
scientific case against the 97% expert consensus, and lost. One of
coal’s expert witnesses was University of Alabama at Huntsville
climate scientist Roy Spencer - a controversial figure who once
compared those with whom he disagreed to Nazis, and has expressed
his love for Fox News....Last week, Spencer wrote a white paper
for the Texas Public Policy Institute (TPPI) outlining the
contrarian case against climate concerns. TPPI is part of the web
of denial, having received substantial funding from both the
tobacco and fossil fuel industries, including $65,000 from
ExxonMobil and at least $911,499 from Koch-related foundations
since 1998, and over $3 million from “dark money” anonymizers
Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund....<br>
Spencer’s arguments should of course be evaluated on their own
merits, regardless of who commissioned them. However, it turns out
that they have little merit on which to stand. The white paper is
a classic example of a Gish Gallop – producing such a large volume
of nonsense arguments that refuting all of them is too
time-consuming. NASA Goddard director Gavin Schmidt rightly
described Spencer’s paper as:..A mishmash of myths...Most of
Spencer’s white paper consists of repeating a variety of
long-debunked myths. It’s laid out in the form of 13 basic climate
questions that Spencer tries to answer. Fortunately,
SkepticalScience.com has a database of over 200 climate myths, and
summaries of what the peer-reviewed scientific research says about
each. This makes it possible to handle Spencer’s 13-point Gish
Gallop by <a href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/fixednum.php">simply
referring to the relevant myth rebuttals</a>. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/fixednum.php">https://www.skepticalscience.com/fixednum.php</a></div>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">A Brooklyn-based artist strives to create emotional
connections with the looming threat of climate change...Harrowing
facts about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have become commonplace;
the concept of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>anxiety is now part of the
popular lexicon...The “new normal” is here: The world is
experiencing its 14th consecutive month of record-breaking
temperatures, the longest in recorded history. Harrowing facts
about climate change have become commonplace; the concept of
climate anxiety is now part of the popular lexicon. Yet while
cause for concern has increased, engagement with climate change
has stagnated or ceased. This disparity is what spurred Leonard to
action. “I thought to myself, if we’re not going to listen to
climate scientists, we might as well be listening to
fortune-tellers,” Leonard says. Then he took that idea and ran
with it, using the art of divination as a conduit to help people
grapple with climate change...On the surface, such small actions
may seem futile, bordering on frivolous. But Leonard’s perception
is correct: Psychologists have almost no evidence that data
changes people’s decision-making, as I learned in research for a
2012 TEDx talk on psychological barriers to environmental
engagement. Science is not our only conduit to understanding....
“The human species did not evolve to handle today’s complex
problems,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, a research scientist who runs
the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Instead, our
brains are designed to respond to four kinds of threats, explains
Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert: “Ones that are
instantaneous, imminent or personalized—or things that repulse
us.” What we see and, more importantly, what we directly
experience, matters. What also matters is what we believe to be
true: Psychology studies suggest that we will go so far as to
embrace misinformation that conforms to our pre-existing ideas in
order to keep our values in alignment. When faced with compelling
evidence contrary to their opinions, people often harden their
beliefs because they distrust the message or the messenger.<br>
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url="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/weather-disasters-can-fuel-war-20557"
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style="font-weight: bold;">Weather Disasters Can Fuel War in
Volatile Countries</span></a></h2>
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refugee crisis,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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<font color="#000099" size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/facing-down-environmental-grief/">Facing
Down "Environmental Grief"</a></b></font><br>
<font size="-1">Is a traumatic sense of loss freezing action against
climate change?<br>
Despite a growing body of evidence that climate change is wreaking
havoc on our environment and psyches, many people still resist
making small lifestyle changes that may help mitigate disaster.
The logic of climate science has not shaken enough people from
their apparent complacency; neither has fear. So what will?
Washington State–based thanatologist Kriss Kevorkian—a specialist
in death, dying and bereavement—suggests that real motivation
depends on people acknowledging their “environmental grief,” a
term she coined after studying the decline of killer whale
populations...Grief over loss of human life is assigned a series
of stages but Kevorkian (no relation to famed assisted-suicide
doctor Jack Kevorkian) notes that we lack an analogous lexicon for
the loss of our natural world and its creatures. Yet what else can
we call the wrenching feeling of witnessing whales beaching
themselves like toppled towers, bee populations dying off, even
the death of a gorilla at a zoo?...This “is the grief reaction
stemming from the environmental loss of ecosystems by natural and
man-made events,” Kevorkian says. This theory builds on
gerontologist Ken Doka’s work on “disenfranchised grief,” which is
grief that is often unacknowledged or invalidated (often resulting
from cases of suicide or abortion). Whereas the term
“environmental grief” may be new, similar concepts emerged from
“ecopsychology” and movements including the deep ecology of the
1970s, which drew from indigenous traditions to promote living in
connection with nature....Kevorkian says that when the death of
whales began causing her to experience grief as profound as it
would be for members of her own family, she was hesitant to share
this with others at first—until she found like-minded grievers.
Now, at this critical climate juncture, she hopes to bring
legitimacy to these experiences, much as naturalist Richard Louv
made people aware of nature deficit disorder a decade ago.</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">One of the most successful environmental treaties of all
time was the Montreal Protocol of 1987, which banned the use of
chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, an ozone-depleting substance mainly
used in refrigeration and air conditioning.... Nearly 100 of the
most ozone-depleting substances have been phased out. And as a
result, the hole in the ozone is shrinking and on its way to
repair. It’s why we’re here today... Now, that’s the good news.
The bad news is that in too many cases, the substances banned by
the Montreal Protocol have been replaced by hydrofluorocarbons -
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