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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
stay well-informed about global warming September 1, 2016</i></font><br>
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href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/08/31/350org-responds-lamar-smith-announcing-hearing-defend-exxons-climate-lies"
url="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/08/31/350org-responds-lamar-smith-announcing-hearing-defend-exxons-climate-lies"
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style="font-weight: bold;">350.org Responds to Lamar Smith
Announcing Hearing to Defend Exxon's<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lies</span></a></h2>
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255);"><font color="#333333">350.org:</font> "This hearing
should take on ExxonMobil as a corporate sponsor -- they're
certainly the money and influence behind it. Rep. Smith has zero
authority or cause to subpoena us, the attorneys general, or any
other groups looking to uncover the truth about Exxon's climate
lies. Maybe instead of this buffoonery, the House Science
committee could call on, you know, a scientist, to re-explain
the threat of climate change and the role of the fossil fuel
industry in causing the crisis. Rep. Smith sounds like he could
use a refresher course."<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">(YouTube video) Seth Meyers
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style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b></span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">...Seth Meyers explained in a "Closer Look" segment on
Tuesday night, 2016 has been one of the hottest years on record
— with July alone being the single hottest month in recorded
history — and things are only going to get worse. And with a
presidential campaign almost completely lacking in substance,
climate change deserves to be getting much, much more attention
than it currently is....Hillary Clinton may at least be pushing
for clean energy, but on the other side of the aisle, Donald
Trump and the rest of the GOP are still firmly taking a "Says
Who Guy" stance on the subject. This is despite the fact that
parts of Louisiana are still underwater from historic flooding,
which was considered a "500 year event" — one of eight of these
types of events in the United States alone in the last
year....Trump's attitude about climate change may have been best
illustrated in his now infamous rant about not being able to use
the type of hairspray he likes, however, an application seeking
permission to build a sea wall at one his resorts in Ireland was
revealed to be specifically in response to predictions of a
rising sea wall due to global warming....Either way, whether
Trump is ultimately for or against global warming, it's more
clear than ever that this is something we all need to be paying
more attention to beyond the theatrics in this election
season.... YouTube video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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style="font-weight: bold;">Are You a Millennial?
Congratulations!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Will Cost Your
Generation $8.8 Trillion</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">That is, unless real change comes to the economy, and
fast....Altogether, without action on<span
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normal;">climate change</b>, Demos projects a loss of $8.8
trillion in the lifetime income of the rising generation—vastly
overshadowing even the $1 trillion student debt crisis...The
millennials struggling with economic precarity today are also
best positioned to turn the disaster around tomorrow. It all
hinges, though, on whether the aging generation will finally
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255);">On Saturday, he will discuss further steps on<span
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is hosting the summit of the
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style="font-weight: bold;">How does the ocean drive weather
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">When ocean currents change, they modify the sea surface
temperature that the atmosphere sees, which drives anomalies in
winds, weather and climate across the planet. Such departures
from average conditions sometimes occur in predictable ways. For
example, every three to seven years, the sea surface temperature
along the equator in the Pacific Ocean warms by as much as 2 to
3 degrees Celsius. A warm El Niño climate pattern results, which
changes rainfall and weather, from flooding in California to
drought in Australia....Abernathey and Seager are particularly
interested in how changes in the ocean cause sea surface
temperature to vary, and how these anomalies drive changes in
atmospheric circulation to create extreme weather and<span
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<font size="+1"><b><font color="#000099"><a
href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/08/31/profit-pipeline-company-claims-public-benefit-seizing-private-lands-pennsylvania">For-Profit
Pipeline Company Claims "Public Benefit" in Seizing Private
Lands in Pennsylvania</a></font></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">The potential windfall for Sunoco
...the reason for.. strong arm tactics to seize private property
in the path of the pipeline extension, tactics that include
invoking eminent domain, even though it's a private, for-profit
company rather than a government entity, and even though, they
say, it has not proven that the pipeline would contribute a
"public benefit." Both conditions are traditionally required for
landowners to forfeit property in eminent domain disputes. ....
Sunoco Logistics is not regulated nor held to the standards of a
utility.... The primary purpose of Mariner East II is, one, to
make money for a for-profit, private corporation, and two, to
export natural gas products overseas," ....The controversy over
<a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/06/07/the-growing-battle-over-the-use-of-eminent-domain-to-take-property-for-pipelines/?utm_term=.a8525b0c310c">whether
a private company can take private land to build pipelines is
not settled</a> - "The growing use of eminent domain to seize
property for pipelines has generated opposition from an unusual
coalition of liberal environmentalists and conservative and
libertarian property rights advocates" ....with oil and gas
pipeline construction projects on the rise across the nation,
observers on both sides will eagerly await the results.</font><br>
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<b><font color="#000099"><a
href="http://e360.yale.edu/digest/thousands_of_us_homes_keep_flooding_and_being_rebuilt_fema_insurance_louisiana/4792/">Thousands
of Homes Keep Flooding, Yet They Keep Being Rebuilt Again</a></font></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">The U.S. National Flood Insurance
Program, which holds policies for more than 5 million homes, is
$23 billion in debt after a string of natural disasters this
century. As climate change further strains the program,
analysts say it is time to shift its focus from rebuilding to
mitigating risk.... More than 2,100 properties across the U.S.
enrolled in the National Flood Insurance Program have flooded
and been rebuilt more than 10 times since 1978, according to a
new analysis of insurance data by the Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC). One home in Batchelor, Louisiana has flooded 40
times over the past four decades, receiving $428,379 in
insurance payments. More than 30,000 properties in the program,
run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have flooded
multiple times over the years. Those homes, known as "severe
repetitive loss properties," make up just 0.6 percent of federal
flood insurance policies. But they account for 10.6 percent of
the program's claims — totaling $5.5 billion in payments....the
average cumulative payout per property as a result of repeated
flooding was $181,444. Nearly half of these repetitive loss
properties have been paid more in flood insurance money than
their houses are worth,</font><br>
<font size="-1"> By Katherine Bagley <a
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<b><font color="#000099"><a
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/low-water-mark/">Harbinger
of Climate Slums to Come</a></font></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Federal legislation is hastening the
collapse of working class neighborhoods near water... Rather
than drawing lines of explicit exclusion, climate redlining
functions through predatory inclusion. Here's how it works: In
cities like Troy, governments underinvest in poor neighborhoods
because their residents lack the political power to push for
protection. ..Federal policies... encourage homeowners to
abandon flood-prone neighborhoods by raising insurance premiums
so high that they're impossible to pay. Those who can afford to
move get out. Those who can't are stuck without adequate
infrastructure or the security of attainable
insurance....Finally, real-estate capitalism kicks in. Filling
the gap in affordable housing in small historic cities facing
gentrification pressures, landlords buy up abandoned buildings
in climate-vulnerable neighborhoods for cash and offer them as
low-cost rentals. Because homes bought for cash carry no
mortgages, there's no requirement that they carry flood
insurance. The result of this process are hypervulnerable
climate slums.....The vulnerability of poor and working-class
neighborhoods to natural disaster will worsen as climate change
advances. Environmental scientists caution that what were once
known as 100-year floods will become 10-year floods by
midcentury....Troy's poor and working-class neighborhoods came
within a hair's breadth of total disaster during Tropical Storm
Irene. There are hundreds of older cities and rural communities
in the United States built along waterways... How do we respond
to the reality of rising waters without encouraging climate
redlining?......the New York City Panel on Climate Change's 2015
report confirms that the old and the very young, women, the
mentally ill, those who lack physical mobility, and the poor all
suffer from climate-based trauma at higher rates than the
general population. The Black Lives Matter movement explicitly
links racial justice and climate justice, citing the fatalities
of Hurricane Katrina and the weeks of suffering in Red Hook,
Brooklyn, after Superstorm Sandy.....Climate redlining is not a
problem that can be solved one household at a time. The
interlocking crises of climate change, failing federal safety
nets, and neglected infrastructure are the result of shared
political decision-making, not bad choices made by people living
in floodplains. Poor and working-class communities aren't
responsible for the changing climate, but we are being asked to
pay the price, with our money and our lives, when the waters
rise. </font> <br>
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