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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
stay well-informed about global warming September 12, 2016</i></font><br>
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in a changing climate</b></font></a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"><b>Global warming is a business issue
that cannot be ignored any longer</b> .."If the world is to
reduce the risk of catastrophic global warming to acceptable
levels, there will have to be a huge reallocation of capital
away from fossil fuels..." ..The transition is not
straightforward: for as long as oil is the lifeblood of the
world’s transport, pipelines will be needed. ... when investors
and boards make decisions about projects like Dakota Access,
they will have to consider their impact on greenhouse gas
emissions...The financial consequences of climate change can no
longer be ignored.
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/who%27s-banking-dakota-access-pipeline">Who's
Banking on the Dakota Access Pipeline?</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Thousands of people, mostly Native
Americans, have converged at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
in North Dakota in an effort to stop the pipeline from being
built. The Standing Rock Sioux call the pipeline a black snake,
and they know that if it were to rupture and spill — a serious
risk, given the well-documented history of pipeline leaks in the
U.S. — it could poison their drinking water and pollute their
sacred land....The Standing Rock Sioux are inspiring the world
with their resistance against the pipeline. But it’s not just
Big Oil and Gas that they’re opposing....Powerful oil and gas
companies are taking appalling steps to override the Sioux’s
objections, using their immense financial resources to push for
building this pipeline, which will further line their pockets.
But behind the companies building the pipeline is a set of even
more powerful Wall Street corporations that might give you
flashbacks to the 2007 financial crisis...</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">NPR correspondent Jennifer Ludden profiled some of my
work in procreative ethics with an article entitled, "Should we
be having kids in the age of climate ...In my work, I suggest
that 1.5-2 degrees Celsius warming over preindustrial levels
will be “dangerous” and “very bad,” while 4 degrees C will be
“catastrophic” and will leave large segments of the Earth
“largely uninhabitable by humans.” Here is a very brief survey
of the evidence for those claims based on what I consider
reputable sources.<br>
At 1.5-2 degrees C, a World Bank report predicts an increase in
extreme weather events, deadly heat waves and severe water
stress. Food production will decrease, and changing disease
vectors will create unpredictable infectious disease outbreaks.
Sea levels will rise, combining with increased storm severity to
place coastal cities at risk. The World Health Organization
(WHO) estimates that from the years 2030-2050 – as we reach this
level of warming – at least 250,000 people will die every year
from just some of the climate-related harms....Perhaps many of
us in rich countries (the “us” who might be reading this) will
be largely protected from these early harms; but that doesn’t
make them less real to the vulnerable citizens of, say,
Bangladesh, Kiribati or the Maldives. In fact, it escalates the
injustice, as the global wealthy have benefited from and
contributed to climate change the most, while the global poor
will be hurt first and worst....At 4 degrees C warming, the
World Bank predicts that every summer month will be hotter than
any current record heat wave, making the Middle East, North
Africa and the Mediterranean deadly during the summer months.
Many coastal cities will be completely under water, and all
low-lying island nations will likely have to be abandoned.
Hundreds of millions, if not billions of people could become
climate refugees, as their homelands become
uninhabitable....Based on these descriptions, I stand by my
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/temperatures-rise-and-were-cooked.html">Temperatures
Rise, and We’re Cooked</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font color="#666666" size="-1">NYTimes </font><font
size="-1"> ... obstinacy confronts a new wave of research
showing that climate change is much more harmful than we had
imagined....Until now, the focus has been on rising seas, more
intense hurricanes, acidification of oceans, drought and crop
failures. But new studies are finding that some of the most
important effects will be directly on our bodies and minds....A
clever new working paper by Jisung Park, a Ph.D. student in
economics at Harvard, compared the performances of New York City
students on 4.6 million exams with the day’s temperature. He
found that students taking a New York State Regents exam on a
90-degree day have a 12 percent greater chance of failing than
when the temperature is 72 degrees....The Regents exams help
determine whether a student graduates and goes to college, and
Park finds that when a student has the bad luck to have Regents
exams fall on very hot days, he or she is slightly less likely
to graduate on time....<span style="background-color: rgba(255,
255, 255, 0);">New York Times columnist Nick Kristof discusses
the impact of human-caused climate change on the human body.
...Heat affects our bodies as well as our minds: As
temperatures rise, people die. In India, a rise of 1.8 degrees
Fahrenheit in average daily temperatures leads to a 10 percent
increase in the annual mortality rate. Even a single extra hot
day leads to a noticeable jump in mortality....Even in the
U.S., heat kills. A single day above 90 degrees increases the
monthly mortality rate by more than 1 percent, according to
research by Olivier Deschenes and other economists....</span>
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