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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
stay well-informed about global warming - August 25, 2016<br>
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<blockquote><font size="+1"><b>It's not too late to save our planet,</b>
though. There are things we can do. <b>Enact a carbon tax</b>,
for one. <b>Switch to renewable energy</b> for another, which
is completely doable....<b>And third? Vote science deniers out
of office. </b>They inhabit not only the U.S. Congress but
also political seats all over the world<b>....When it comes time
to vote, vote. Climate change is important enough to make it a
one-issue election,</b> but some people feel that's not enough
to sway them. But really that's a matter of framing. Chances are
those who deny the reality of climate change deny lots of other
science, too. When that one issue is reality itself, then damn
straight <b>this is a one-issue election</b>. -- Phil Plait
in <a
href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2016/08/22/global_warming_has_allowed_easier_access_to_the_northwest_passage.html">Slate
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href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-and-china-prepare-for-climate-negotiation/"
url="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-and-china-prepare-for-climate-negotiation/"
id="MAA4AEgEUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">U.S. and China Prepare for<span
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255);">The discussions will center on key international
environmental agreements, namely the details of implementing the
Paris Agreement to curb global<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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style="font-weight: bold;">Bill Nye Rips CNN For Having '<b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Denier
Meteorologist'</span></a></h2>
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meteorologist and knock yourselves out,” Nye said. “But this is a
big problem and it's not going to go away.<br>
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255);">But in Russia, the spread of illness was not the result of
bioterrorism; it was a result of<span
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normal;">global warming</b>. Record-high temperatures melted
Arctic permafrost and released deadly anthrax spores from a
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Beacon Hill, Sunday, Aug 21, 2016, in Spokane, Wash. The fast
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255);">A groundbreaking series by<span
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on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b>-threatening rise of
wood energy was named as a finalist for one national journalism
award, and as a runner-up in another...Wood energy — pellets made
from trees, mostly from the U.S. South, and burned as fuel in
power plants — is touted as being good for the planet, and heavily
subsidized by governments in Europe for the climate benefits. But
as senior science writer John Upton’s three-part series “Pulp
Fiction” showed, the <b>electricity produced using wood is
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Fiction Part 1 </a></b><br>
<font size="-1">The European Accounting Error That's Warming the
Planet...In England and across Europe, the most popular source of
renewable energy is wood. But chopping down trees — many of them
in the U.S. — and burning the<b> wood heats the planet more
quickly than burning coal</b>. Yet plants like Drax receive
financial support to switch from coal to wood. That’s because of
an entrenched loophole in the EU’s climate rules....Wood has
quietly become the largest source of what counts as “renewable”
energy in the EU. <b>Wood burning in Europe produced as much
energy as burning 620 million barrels of oil last year </b>(both
in power plants and for home heating). That accounted for nearly
half of all Europe’s renewable energy. That’s helping nations meet
the requirements of EU climate laws on paper, if not in
spirit....Pound for pound, burning wood releases less energy but
more carbon than a fossil fuel... And burning wood releases an
immediate pulse of carbon dioxide. It takes a long time for a
forest to begin to recover, and then to absorb an equivalent
amount of pollution as it regrows — if it ever does.</font><br>
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