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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
stay well-informed about global warming September 4, 2016</i></font><br>
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<a
href="http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/pont-messages/2016/documents/papa-francesco_20160901_messaggio-giornata-cura-creato.html"><b>The
Pope adds tasks on global warming: Show Mercy to our Common
Home </b><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1">"..let me propose a complement to the
two traditional sets of seven: may the works of mercy also
include care for our common home"... As a spiritual work of
mercy, care for our common home calls for a "grateful
contemplation of God’s world" which "allows us to discover in
each thing a teaching which God wishes to hand on to us" As a
corporal work of mercy, care for our common home 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".</font><br>
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<b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/science/flooding-of-coast-caused-by-global-warming-has-already-begun.html">Flooding
of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"><font color="#666666">NYTimes </font>Scientists'
warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the
United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical...Huge
vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in the streets
here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that increasingly
inundate their roads are too deep to drive through....Five
hundred miles down the Atlantic Coast, the only road to Tybee
Island, Ga., is disappearing beneath the sea several times a
year, cutting the town off from the mainland...And another 500
miles on, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., increased tidal flooding is
forcing the city to spend millions fixing battered roads and
drains — and, at times, to send out giant vacuum trucks to suck
saltwater off the streets....For decades, as the global warming
created by human emissions caused land ice to melt and ocean
water to expand, scientists warned that the accelerating rise of
the sea would eventually imperil the United States’
coastline...Several studies have concluded that Naval Station
Norfolk, the world’s largest naval base, is profoundly
threatened by rising seas, as are other coastal bases. The
Pentagon has managed to build floodgates and other protective
measures at some facilities. But attempts by the military to
develop broader climate change plans have met fierce resistance
in Congress...He is, though, under no illusions about the
long-term fate of the region he calls home...."We’re putting
enough heat in the ocean to send water over us, no question,"
Dr. Stoddard said. "Ultimately, we give up and we leave. That’s
how the story ends."</font><br>
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<b><a
href="http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/27984/20160902/can-we-predict-a-societys-doom-study-reveals-signs.htm">Can
We Predict a Society's Doom? Study Reveals Signs</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Results found ... a "major
reorganization" or movement within the ecosystem that may be a
sign that it will soon "collapse."....researchers studied 2,378
archaeological sites from nine regions of Neolithic Europe.<a
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/113/35/9751.full"> The
researchers from the University of Maryland and University
College London</a> attempted to find out if early signs have
already exist once an ecosystem starts to reveal a "declining
resilience."...After studying the archaeological records of the
communities living in Neolithic Europe, the researchers were
able to identify early warning signs. Thus, locking the search
to these two signals: critical slowing down (CSD) and
flickering. These signals will direct them to the system's
ability to strongly fight back against factors such as warfare,
diseases and crop failure...According to the journal PNAS, "CSD
describes a general increase in the time it takes a system to
recover from external shocks such as population loss due to
disease, warfare, or crop failure."..''Flickering describes
increasing directional bias in a system's response rate to such
perturbations, such as a society stuck in a socio-ecological
trap where strong reinforcing behaviour and a lack of innovation
prevents adaptation," the researchers said. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/113/35/9751.full">http://www.pnas.org/content/113/35/9751.full</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/03/gaping-chasm-between-coalitions-climate-mantra-and-the-real-debate">(Australia)
Gaping chasm between Coalition's climate mantra and the real
debate</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Almost every group with a financial,
intellectual or ethical interest in salvaging a workable climate
policy is now deep in an urgent debate about how Australia can
break a decade of policy paralysis. Everyone except the Turnbull
government, that is...The debate, involving big business, small
business, investors, the government’s own independent climate
advisers, academics, environmentalists, the welfare lobby and
the unions, is predicated on the obvious conclusion that our
policy – as it stands – cannot deliver the cuts to greenhouse
emissions that are domestically necessary and which Australia
has promised internationally.</font><br>
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<!--StartFragment--><b><a
href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/a-strange-thing-happened-in-the-stratosphere">NASA
- A Strange Thing Happened in the Stratosphere</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">High above Earth's tropics, a pattern of
winds changed recently in a way that scientists had never seen
in more than 60 years of consistent measurements...This
disruption to the wind pattern... The<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_-QlDmicIw">
quasi-biennial oscillation (video)</a> has a wide influence
on stratospheric conditions. The amount of ozone at the equator
changes by 10 percent between the peaks of the easterly and
westerly phases, while the oscillation also has an impact on
levels of polar ozone depletion....With this disruption now
documented, Newman and colleagues are currently focused on
studying both its causes and potential implications. They have
two hypotheses for what could have triggered it – the
particularly strong El Niño in 2015-16 or the long-term trend of
rising global temperatures. Newman said the scientists are
conducting further research now to figure out if the event was a
"black swan," a once-in-a-generation event, or a "canary in the
coal mine," a shift with unforeseen circumstances, caused by
climate change. <a
href="https://eos.org/research-spotlights/mysterious-anomaly-interrupts-stratospheric-wind-pattern">Mysterious
Anomaly Interrupts Stratospheric Wind Pattern</a> For the
first time, scientists have observed a deviation from the
typical alternating pattern of easterly and westerly winds in
the equatorial stratosphere.</font><br>
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<b><a
href="http://www.krdo.com/news/uccs-climate-change-class-makes-waves/41493700">(TV
news video) UCCS climate change class makes waves</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">This whole thing became a talker when a
student at Notre Dame wrote an article for a college paper after
getting a letter from a student at UCCS....The student claims in
an email sent by his professors, the class was told if they
didn't believe in man-made climate change they should drop the
course...University officials say that's not what
happened..."The faculty did offer to meet with students if they
had differing opinions about the course," UCCS spokesman Tom
Hutton said. "But, in my eyes this is very much like a math
teacher saying this a course about algebra not
geometry."...Hutton knows the professors simply wanted to be
specific about the theme of the class.</font><br>
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