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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates
and stay well-informed about global warming - August 1, 2016</i></font><br>
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<b><font size="+1"><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2016/07/31/maryland-flooding-climate-nightmare-on-main-street/?theclimate.vote">Maryland
Flooding: Climate Nightmare on Main Street (videos)</a><br>
</font></b><font size="-1">Shocking water rise during Ellicott
City flood. Nearly 20 feet in minutes. Smashes old record going
back to 1868...Shocking water rise during Ellicott City flood.
Nearly 20 feet in minutes. Smashes old record going back to
1868...video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-shmNbxAqs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-shmNbxAqs</a>
and Watch as<b> locals form a human chain to rescue a woman
trapped in her car </b>as Maryland flood waters rise to
dramatic depths<b>. </b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5j_OBNr8OY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5j_OBNr8OY</a>
and <b>Why Climate Change Makes Stronger </b><b>Storms </b> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2s2EjsXJI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2s2EjsXJI</a>
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</font><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/news/heat-waves-productivity-and-the-urban-economy-what-are-the-costs/?theclimate.vote">Heat
waves, productivity, and the urban economy: What are the
costs?</a></b></font><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1">London School of Economics and
Political Science</font><font size="-1">...<b> hot summers can
have devastating effects on worker productivity</b>. As
temperatures increase, workers feel decreased energy, loss of
concentration, muscle cramps, heat rash, and in extreme cases heat
exhaustion or heatstroke....We find that, in the future, costs to
London’s economy in warm years could amount to between 1.9 billion
euros and 2.3 billion euros, which represents over 0.4% of 2005
city GVA. ...Our study suggests<b> additional costs due to
productivity losses may also be substantial.</b> This is all the
more troubling when we consider that climate change means
temperatures like the ones of 19th July will become more and more
common. It is therefore vital that policy makers understand how
heat affects productivity in different urban contexts and what
adaptation measures work better. </font><br>
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<font size="-1"><b>* The WetBulb Globe Temperature (WBGT)</b> is a
measure of the heat stress in direct sunlight, which takes into
account: temperature, humidity, wind speed, sun angle and cloud
cover (solar radiation). This differs from the <b>heat index</b>,
which takes into consideration temperature and humidity and is
calculated for shady areas. <a
href="http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/?n=wbgt"><b>NOAA weather map
(Wet Bulb vs Heat Index)</b></a></font><a
href="http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/?n=wbgt"><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">A green group has posed a "climate challenge" to
Legislative Council hopefuls, and is <b>asking voters to pick
candidates who support combating climate change.</b><br>
... it will ask all candidates to answer 14 questions in its
Fighting Climate Crisis Survey, including whether they support the
introduction of a "carbon tax" .. They will also be asked if they
want the government to be more aggressive in cutting carbon
emissions.... it was disappointing to find most candidates did not
focus on climate change. .. "Climate change is not a political
issue in Hong Kong," ... "Some people may think 'it's no big deal,
just turn on the air-conditioners' but that will worsen the
situation."<br>
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sig2-FEYVnb21BGBnuvJ84kpBng did--9220154106672646657"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/chinas-coal-peak-hailed-as-turning-point-20572"
url="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/chinas-coal-peak-hailed-as-turning-point-20572"
id="MAA4AEgCUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">China's Coal Peak Hailed as
Turning Point</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The global battle against<span
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normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has
passed a historic turning point with <b>China's huge coal burning
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style="font-weight: bold;">UK Prime Minster Theresa May
scraps<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>department as
doomsday fears grow</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">UK Prime Minister Theresa May has axed the climate change
department — despite grim doomsday warnings KILLER heatwaves,
floods, droughts could bring Britain to its knees....And if action
to tackle<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>completely fails, the
report warns, deadly heatwaves reaching temperatures of 48C could
become the new normal across the UK....May abolished the
Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) just days after
she was appointed as the new Prime Minister, raising fears over
her attitude to the looming global climate emergency....The
<b> decision was widely condemned by MPs, campaigners and
scientists, with some branding it "plain stupid</b>", "terrible"
and "deeply worrying".<font size="-2">...five ways that climate
change could cripple Britain:</font><br>
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<font size="-1"> <b>Heatwaves</b> Searing heatwaves, .. above
the 40C mark, will be commonplace by the 2040s.<br>
<b>Floods</b> as global warning increases, rainfall will
intensify across the UK, putting more homes at risk of flooding.<br>
<b>Food </b>... about 40% of goods coming from abroad.<br>
<b>Environment</b> - farmland...useless as water becomes more
scarce and soil is degraded. Only 9% of prime farmland will remain
by 2050,<br>
<b>Water shortages</b> .. heatwaves will mean water shortages
...more frequent by the 2050s.</font><br>
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