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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates
and stay well-informed about global warming - September 2, 2016</i></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2016/09/01/pope-calls-global-warming-sin-says-protecting-creation-work-mercy/"
onmousedown="return
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calls <em>global warming</em> sin, says protecting creation
is work of mercy</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">ROME- Insisting that environmental
damage such as global warming amounts to a sin against creation,
Pope Francis on Thursday once again called on Christians to join
forces to protect the earth on what's ecumenically designated as
the "World Day of Prayer for Creation."...</font><font size="-1">"To
commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against
ourselves and a sin against God," .... Francis pointed out the
"sins" against creation, which include humans destroying the
ecosystem and degrading the integrity of the earth by causing
changes in its climate, and the contamination of the earth's
waters, land, air, and life....Keeping in mind both the Holy
Year of Mercy and prayer day for creation, celebrated on Sept.
1, Francis ... proposes "a complement to the two traditional
sets of seven."...As a spiritual work of mercy, the care for our
common home, Francis wrote, "calls for a 'grateful contemplation
of God's world." As a corporeal one, instead, it requires
"simple daily gestures which break with the logic of violence,
exploitation and selfishness" and "makes itself felt in every
action that seeks to build a better world."...the pontiff gives
several suggestions: "Avoiding the use of plastic and paper,
reducing water consumption, separating refuse, cooking only what
can reasonably be consumed, showing care for other living
beings, using public transport or car-pooling, planting trees,
turning off unnecessary lights, or any number of other
practices."...among other things, that Christians should use
their purchasing power to boycott certain companies or products
until they rethink their environmental footprint. <a
href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/01/deeming-pollution-earth-sinful-pope-proposes-climate-action-sacred-duty">Deeming
Pollution of Earth Sinful, Pope Proposes Climate Action as
Sacred Duty</a> Francis accused humans of turning the Earth
into a "polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation, and
filth."...Earlier this month, Francis also excoriated capitalism
for leading to endless war.</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/08/29/this-may-be-the-last-presidential-election-dominated-by-boomers-and-prior-generations/">This
may be the last presidential election dominated by Boomers and
prior generations</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">For the past few decades, presidential
elections have been dominated by voters of the Baby Boom and
previous generations, who are estimated to have cast a majority
of the votes. But their election reign may end this November,
according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of census
data..Baby Boomers and prior generations have cast the vast
majority of votes in every presidential election since
1980,..But the ranks of Millennial and Generation X eligible
voters have been growing, thanks to the aging-in of Millennials
and naturalizations among foreign-born adults....Historical
patterns of voter turnout by generation also suggest the likely
end of dominance by Boomers and prior generations. In general,
as a generation ages, turnout rises, hits a peak, and then
declines....Among those in the oldest living generation, the
Greatest Generation, turnout crested in the 1984 election at 76%
before declining... all the available data suggest that the 2016
election will mark the beginning of a new era for U.S.
presidential elections.</font><br>
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<b><font size="+1"><a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11826">(radio
report) 'Green News Report' - August 30, 2016</a></font></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Standing Rock Sioux Tribe takes a stand
against massive new oil pipeline in North Dakota; California
passes most sweeping climate change law yet; Evacuations in West
Virginia after leak of deadly chlorine gas; PLUS: President
Obama creates world's largest protected marine sanctuary... All
that and more in today's Green News Report!</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font size="+1"><b> </b><b><a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/chinas-trans-amazon-railway-stokes-forest-fears/">China's
trans-Amazon railway stokes forest fears</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">SAO PAULO, 29 August, 2016 ...The
Amazon rainforest`s importance to the climate cannot quench
China`s thirst for minerals and grain and its encroaching
development, threatening the forests and the
atmosphere....China's fast-rising population and its burgeoning
economy make steep demands on natural resources, so steep that
Beijing is searching constantly for supplies from overseas. And
it wants to obtain them, naturally, as cheaply as it can....Now
in prospect is China's trans-Amazon railway – a 3,300 mile-long
(5,000 km) artery to link the soya-growing areas and iron ore
mines of Brazil to the southern Peruvian port of Ilo, providing
a cheaper, shorter route than the Panama Canal. The plan was
reported originally on the Dialogo Chino website...Between 2000
and 2010 the total Amazon region lost an area the size of the
UK, about 240,000 sq. km. In 2005 and 2010 there were serious
droughts. The dry season is growing longer, the rainy season
shorter...Scientists believe deforestation is contributing by
sending more CO2 into the atmosphere, adding to climate change,
which in turn contributes to the droughts. Some even believe
that the Amazon rainforest is approaching a tipping
point......The Chinese onslaught on the Amazon is not confined
to the railway. They have signed a deal with Ecuador to explore
for oil in its part of Amazonia. And they are part of a
consortium seeking to build a giant dam on the Tapajos river in
Brazil.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/31/how-sea-ice-is-making-the-southern-ocean-less-salty-and-what-that-might-mean-for-the-rest-of-the-world/?utm_term=.0852175ec2dc&wpisrc=nl_green&wpmm=1">
<b>The Southern Ocean is getting less salty. Here's what that
could mean for the rest of the world</b></a><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">The ocean surrounding Antarctica has
become substantially less salty over the past couple of decades
— and until now, scientists weren't really sure why. But because
changes in the Southern Ocean's salinity have the potential to
affect all kinds of important processes, including ocean
circulation and its transport of heat and nutrients around the
world, researchers have been eager to figure it out....Now, a
new study, published Wednesday in Nature, suggests that sea ice
may be one of the major culprits. Using satellite data and
models, the authors have shown that Antarctic sea ice has been
moving farther and farther away from the continental coastline
by strengthening winds in recent years, pouring fresh water
farther out into the ocean as it melts. ..."Haumann and
colleagues' findings emphasize that Antarctic sea ice is not
merely a passive indicator of climate change and variability,
but also a driver of changes in the climate system," "…[S]ea
ice might have a bigger role than previously thought."</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/coffee-will-be-extinct-by-2080-climate-change-could-spell-an-end/">'Coffee
could be extinct by 2080': why climate change may eradicate
your daily latte</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Coffee could become extinct by 2080 if
global warming continues to worsen, according to a report by The
Climate Institute.</font><br>
<font size="-1">It's expected that half of the world’s coffee
farming land will no longer be suitable for plantation by 2050
due to increasing temperatures, fungi and pests. It's also
predicted that wild coffee varieties such as Arabica could
become extinct within the next 70 years unless climate change is
tackled. <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/climate-change-predicted-to-halve-coffee-growing-area-that-supports-120m-people">Climate
change predicted to halve coffee-growing area that supports
120m people</a> More than 120 million of the world’s poorest
depend on the coffee economy, a report says, and their
livelihoods are already suffering from temperature
rises...Climate change is going to halve the area suitable for
coffee production and impact the livelihoods of more than 120
million of the world’s poorest people who rely on the coffee
economy, according to a new report by the Climate Institute,
commissioned by Fairtrade Australia & New Zealand....The
report findings follow stark warnings by some of the world’s
biggest coffee producers, including Starbucks and Lavazza, who
have said climate change is posing a severe risk to the
industry.</font><br>
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