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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates
and stay well-informed about global warming August 26, 2016</i></font><br>
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<blockquote> <font size="+1"><b>It's not too late to save our
planet,</b></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b>...Vote science deniers out of
office......time to vote, vote</b></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b>Climate change is important enough to make it
a one-issue election</b> </font><br>
<font size="+1"><b> this is a one-issue election</b>.
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<font color="#000099"><b><font size="+1"><a
href="http://www.dailyclimate.org/t/-1241197897698174641">Biofuels
worse for climate change than gasoline, U-M study says</a></font></b></font><br>
<font size="-1">The multi-billion-dollar U.S. biofuels industry may
be built on a false assumption, according to a new University of
Michigan study published today that is sure to stir all sides in
the contentious debate over the industry....The
multi-billion-dollar U.S. biofuels industry — promoted and
expanded for over a decade by the federal government — may be
built on a false assumption, according to a new University of
Michigan study published today that is sure to stir all sides in
the contentious debate over the industry....Despite their
purported advantages, biofuels -- created from crops such as corn
or soybeans -- cause more emissions of climate change-causing
carbon dioxide than gasoline, according to the study from U-M
Energy Institute research professor John DeCicco....</font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/293362-greens-push-obama-on-north-dakota-pipeline">Greens
push Obama to block N. Dakota pipeline</a></b></font><br>
</font><font size="-1"><font color="#666666">The Hill </font>Environmental
groups are asking President Obama to intervene in the construction
of a controversial oil pipeline project in North Dakota. ..In a
letter to Obama on Thursday, 31 green groups said the White House
should deny and revoke the permits necessary to build the Dakota
Access pipeline, a 1,168-mile project that would carry 450,000
barrels of Bakken crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois. ...The
appeal to the White House comes after the Standing Rock Sioux
tribe of North Dakota sued the Army Corps of Engineers over its
approval of the project. ...The tribe contends that federal
regulators didn’t give tribal leaders the option to assess the
pipeline’s impact on cultural sites or sensitive environmental
locations and is asking a judge to halt construction until it can
do so. The Corps told a federal judge on Wednesday that it had
tried to consult the tribe but was rebuffed. </font><font
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<a
href="http://insideenergy.org/2016/08/25/pipeline-battle-draws-hundreds-to-remote-north-dakota/">Pipeline
Battle Draws Hundreds To Remote North Dakota</a><br>
</font><font color="#666666" size="-1">Inside Energy</font><font
size="-1"> Just 12 years old, Alice Brownotter leads a crowd of
hundreds in a rally against a major oil pipeline....<br>
"We can’t drink oil," they chant. "Keep it in the soil."...She’s
protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, which is slated to cross
under the Missouri River, just upstream of her home on the
Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in south-central North
Dakota...."When it goes through - or if - and when it breaks, it
will affect everyone," Alice said....She’s worried it will leak
and poison the drinking water for the 8,000 people living on her
reservation.</font><br>
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href="http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/climate-change-to-increase-hay-fever/news-story/721e803839c31ff53d7228b2dbe0f3f7"><em>Climate
change</em> to increase hay fever</a></b></font>
<div class="slp"><font size="-1"><span class="_tQb _IId">NEWS.com.au</span><span
class="_v5">-</span><span class="f nsa _uQb">12 hours ago</span></font></div>
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<div class="st"><font size="-1">The current study, published in
the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, examined the
potential impacts of <em>climate change</em> on ragweed ...</font></div>
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<div class="_cnc"><font color="#000099"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://qz.com/765154/thanks-to-climate-change-this-13-deck-cruise-ship-is-attempting-to-navigate-the-northwest-passage/">Thanks
to <em>climate change</em>, this 13-deck cruise ship is
attempting to ...</a></b></font>
<div class="slp"><font size="-1"><span class="_tQb _IId">Quartz</span><span
class="_v5">-</span><span class="f nsa _uQb">9 hours ago</span></font></div>
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<div class="st"><font size="-1">It took three years of
planning—and lots of melting ice—but the Crystal Serenity
cruise ship has finally begun a pioneering journey that will
take ...</font></div>
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<div class="_cnc"><font color="#000099"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-executive-says-his-industry-must-confront-climate-change/">Coal
Executive Says His Industry Must Confront <em>Climate
Change</em></a></b></font>
<div class="slp"><font size="-1"><span class="_tQb _IId">Scientific
American</span><span class="_v5">-</span></font></div>
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<div class="st"><font size="-1">It's one thing when
environmentalists say that fossil fuel companies' positions on
<em>climate change</em> are similar to Big Tobacco's past
deflections ...</font></div>
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sig2-n00HKWeVROvG6Cqxn8iSow did-5306311525995095489"
href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/yellowstone-fish-die-off-glimpse-climate-future-180960259/"
url="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/yellowstone-fish-die-off-glimpse-climate-future-180960259/"
id="MAA4AEgFUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">The Massive Yellowstone Fish
Die-Off: A Glimpse Into Our<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b>Future?</span></a></h2>
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255);">News of the whitefish kill didn't surprise Clint Muhlfeld,
a U.S. Geological Survey aquatic ecologist and University of
Montana researcher who studies<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
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href="https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=189519">Using
data to better understand <em>climate change</em></a></font></b></font>
<div class="slp"><font size="-1"><span class="_tQb _IId">National
Science Foundation (press release)</span><span class="_v5">-</span><span
class="f nsa _uQb">Aug 23, 2016</span></font></div>
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<b><font size="+1"><a
href="http://www.dailyclimate.org/t/-1241197897698174620">Atomic
bombs and oil addiction herald Earth’s new epoch: The
Anthropocene</a></font></b><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1">Science </font><font size="-1"><b>Geologists
vote to seek a "golden spike</b>," but call for formal
acceptance faces skepticism....Just after World War II, when the
atomic bombs fell and our thirst for coal and oil became a
full-blown addiction, Earth entered the Anthropocene, a new
geologic time when humanity’s environmental reach left a mark in
sediments worldwide. That’s the majority conclusion of the
Anthropocene Working Group, a collection of researchers that has
spent the past 7 years quietly studying whether the term, already
popular, should be submitted as a formal span of geologic
time....After tallying votes this month, the group has decided to
propose the <b>postwar boom of the late 1940s and early 1950s as
the Anthropocene's start date</b>. The group will ask the
International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), the bureaucracy
that governs geologic time, to recognize the Anthropocene as a
series, the stratigraphic equivalent of an epoch, on par with the
Holocene and Pleistocene that preceded it. Colin Waters, the
group’s secretary and a geologist at the British Geological Survey
in Keyworth, will reveal the group's recommendations on 29 August
at the International Geological Congress in Cape Town, South
Africa....The group’s decision to go for a single, recent start
date for the Anthropocene disappoints...<b>"It is a mistake to
formalize the term by rigidly affixing it to a single time," </b>he
says, "especially one that misses most of the history of the major
transformation of Earth’s surface." Many archaeologists also favor
the 7000-year-old date, when early humans began to alter the
planet’s surface. But the working group was looking for a
signature of global, human-driven change that would wind up in the
rock record, not the first traces of human influence on the local
landscape.</font><br>
<a
href="http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/22/7/article/i1052-5173-22-7-60.htm">Is
the Anthropocene an issue of stratigraphy or pop culture?</a><br>
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