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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
stay well-informed about global warming - September 14, 2016</i></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/hms-terror-wreck-found-arctic-nearly-170-years-northwest-passage-attempt">Ship
found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage
attempt</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">The long-lost ship of British polar
explorer Sir John Franklin, HMS Terror, has been found in
pristine condition at the bottom of an Arctic bay, researchers
have said, in a discovery that challenges the accepted history
behind one of polar exploration’s deepest mysteries....HMS
Terror and Franklin’s flagship, HMS Erebus, were abandoned in
heavy sea ice far to the north of the eventual wreck site in
1848, during the Royal Navy explorer’s doomed attempt to
complete the Northwest Passage....All 129 men on the Franklin
expedition died, in the worst disaster to hit Britain’s Royal
Navy in its long history of polar exploration. Search parties
continued to look for the ships for 11 years after they
disappeared, but found no trace, and the fate of the missing men
remained an enigma that tantalised generations of historians,
archaeologists and adventurers....Now that mystery seems to have
been solved by a combination of intrepid exploration – and an
improbable tip from an Inuk crewmember....On Sunday, a team from
the charitable Arctic Research Foundation manoeuvred a small,
remotely operated vehicle through an open hatch and into the
ship to capture stunning images that give insight into life
aboard the vessel close to 170 years ago.</font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'significant and
direct' threat to US military: reports</span></a></h2>
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255);">A separate report by a panel of retired military
officials, also published on Wednesday by the Center for <b
style="font-weight: normal;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Security, said more
frequent extreme weather is a threat to U.S...."There are few
easy answers, but one thing is clear: the current trajectory of
climatic change presents a strategically-significant risk to
U.S. national security, and inaction is not a viable option,"
said a statement published on Wednesday by the Center for
Climate and Security, a Washington-based think tank.<br>
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experts say<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>poses
'significant risk' to security</span></a></font></h2>
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<blockquote> <font size="-1">A coalition of 25 military and
national security experts, including former advisers to Ronald
Reagan and George W Bush, has warned that<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>poses
a "significant risk to US national security and international
security" that requires more attention from the US federal
government....The prominent members of the US national security
community warned that warming temperatures and rising seas will
increasingly inundate military bases and fuel international
conflict and mass migration, leading to "significant and direct
risks to US military readiness, operations and strategy".<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">...<b>"</b>It’s hard to energize people now, but it’s
too late when the water is around your ankles,<b>"</b> he
said, <b>"</b>People can say the temperature hasn’t followed
the models but I can read a thermometer and a flood gauge. We
need to do this threat analysis now.<b>"</b></b></font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">In a federal courthouse in Oregon on Tuesday, 21 youths
and their supporters argued that by failing to act on<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>, the U.S. government has violated
the youngest generation's constitutional rights. .... Olson will
argue that the federal government, by failing to adequately
regulate greenhouse gas pollution and by continuing to lease new
federal lands and waters for fossil fuel extraction, as recently
as this year, is violating the kids' constitutional right to
life, liberty, and property. (Warming is causing the seas to
rise, for example, and one plaintiff lives in coastal Florida).
She'll also claim that children are a class that's being
discriminated against when it comes to climate change: They're
not causing this problem, and yet they will be
disproportionately subjected to its dire consequences....The aim
of the suit is to have a court—the Supreme Court, if the suit
advances that far through the legal system—to require the
federal government to address climate change more aggressively
through laws and regulations. Lawyers in the case draw
comparisons to the federal response to Brown v. Board of
Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that required the
desegregation of schools. In that case, "judges found there were
fundamental constitutional rights to equality and courts
supervised the enforcement of those rights," Mary Christina
Wood, a law professor at the University of Oregon, told Bill
Moyers.com last year. Our Children's Trust is hoping for a
similar outcome on the issue of climate change.</div>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/09/13/media-call-out-trump-dodging-key-science-questions/213045">Media
Call Out Trump For Dodging Science Questions And Providing
Vague Answers</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Climate change stands out as perhaps
the most egregious area of disagreement between the two
candidates, given its stakes and the significant scientific
consensus that humans have caused it. Trump, who has previously
called global warming a "hoax," referred to climate change in
quotation marks and suggested that "there is still much that
needs to be investigated." Clinton offered an abbreviated recap
of her plan to address the issue and called it "a defining
challenge of our time."... Global warming may be the issue with
the most obvious contrast, but it is far from the only area
where the difference is stark. On protecting ocean health, for
instance, Clinton wrote more than 400 words, citing a federal
law that protects fisheries and alluding to a plan to promote
coastal restoration.... Trump wrote just two sentences on the
same topic, saying he would "establish priorities" about how the
federal government spends money (presumably with little room for
oceans). Trump also questioned the premise of questions of
biodiversity, public health and food. "The implication of your
question is that there should be central control of American
agriculture by the federal government," Trump wrote in response
to a question on food. "That is totally inappropriate." [Time,
9/13/16]</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/western-us-faces-wildfires-explosion/">Western
US faces wildfires explosion</a></b></font></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Wildfires used to hit California only
in the latter part of the year, but changing climate and
persistent drought mean they are now a constant threat.... five
drought years mean there is no moisture in the
vegetation...."When we get these fires now, we are seeing what
we call explosive fire growth," Mohler told the NPR radio
network...."And now the explosive fire growth statewide is
unfortunately the new normal. We’re seeing fire conditions that
are unprecedented. In my 22 years [in the fire service], I
haven’t seen fire move like I have this year."...</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">That's why some scientists are increasingly looking at<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">global warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as
a waste disposal problem. They say that thinking of emissions in
terms of trash that needs to be taken out may draw more
attention to something called negative carbon emissions<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">....<b>"</b>If you dig up a ton of CO2, you have to
remove a ton of CO2,<b>"</b> he said. <b>"</b>If I were to
dump garbage in front of my house, my neighbors would be upset
with me, and I would not make things less tense if I promised
to research the problem and figure out how to reduce my
garbage production by embracing more modern methods and much
higher efficiency. In the end, I have to get rid of the
garbage....both carbon dioxide removal and drastic emissions
cuts are necessary to stop global warming....<b>"</b>We can’t
stop (emissions) in time to avoid harmful climate change, and
we need to start working backward as soon as we can,<b>"</b>
Lackner said. <b>"</b>Of course, we need to do all the other
things as well to stop emissions. Negative emissions combined
with positive emissions will not get us there.<b>"</b><br>
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url="http://www.vox.com/2016/9/13/12862360/gop-climate-clean-energy-faison"
id="MAA4AEgEUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Rifts are forming in the GOP on<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and clean energy.
Here's how they could be exploited.</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Last week, I wrote about new research showing that
partisan polarization on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is worse than ever. In a
nutshell, fewer than half of US Republicans acknowledge
anthropogenic<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or worry about its
impacts. This is rather alarming<span
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target="_blank" class="article
usg-AFQjCNE4kPcmoixuIgy-o340k9CIqioulg
sig2-MqjRp_-5u6ujpIquZAGE_g did--8439557314538292129"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-supran/scientific-organizations_b_11990708.html"
url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-supran/scientific-organizations_b_11990708.html"
id="MAA4AEgGUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Scientific organizations must be
braver in confronting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>denial</span></a></h2>
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white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Exxon is a company that has spent decades perfecting the
art of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate science</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>disinformation. Decades
orchestrating, funding, and perpetuating campaigns designed to
confuse the public, sabotage science, and slander scientists,
many of whom are AGU ...AGU’s decision is an implicit sanction,
however unintentional, for Exxon to attack science and
scientists. It is a failure to protect the integrity of science
- and scientists themselves - against those who undermine our
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sig2-M2V0fZ9YHlAyoGSLYesEmA did--3889135161680052515"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/global-warming-jump-419da72c9215"
url="https://thinkprogress.org/global-warming-jump-419da72c9215"
id="MAA4AEgKUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Record-smashing August means
long-awaited 'jump' in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">global warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is here</span></a></h2>
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white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">We appear to be in the midst of the long-awaited jump in
global temperatures. And that means "The kinds of extreme
weather we have seen over the past year or so will be routine
all too soon, but then even worse records will be set," as Kevin
Trenberth<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">....That’s where we are. Global
temperatures often jump over a couple years, then they rise
more slowly, like a staircase (or ladder) where the steps are
sloped up. The climate science deniers make a lot of noise
during the short periods of slower warming, and stay strangely
quiet during the jumps. Go figure!...Trenberth explains that <b>"</b>the
nature of the changes going on now suggest that we have made
another step up the ladder to another rung, and we won’t go
down again.<b>"</b> That means the recent bouts of extreme
weather <b>"</b>will be routine all too soon, but then even
worse records will be set. It is not something to welcome and
it is hard to plan for.<b>"</b>.</b></div>
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sig2-rWpndQz9tC0STJvz-BneuQ did-3685784848894947806"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/13/russian-scientists-are-besieged-by-polar-bears-at-a-remote-arctic-post/"
url="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/13/russian-scientists-are-besieged-by-polar-bears-at-a-remote-arctic-post/"
id="MAA4BkgFUABgAWoCdXM" ssid="t" style="color: rgb(17, 85,
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style="font-weight: bold;">Russian scientists are 'besieged'
by polar bears at a remote Arctic post</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">A team of Russian weather experts claim that their
station on an ice-covered Arctic isle is "besieged" by polar
bears, according to a report by Russian news agency TASS....The
five researchers charged with staffing the outpost on Troynoy
Island say that there are about 10 adult polar bears as well as
cubs circling their base. A female polar bear spends nights
perched outside the station's windows, making it dangerous for
the scientists to exit. They have reportedly run out of flares
and have lost at least one of their dogs to the arctic
beasts...The presence of the polar bears has made carrying out
meteorological observations difficult, reports TASS. Russian law
outlaws killing polar bears, a globally-listed endangered
species, so scientists in the Arctic are mostly equipped with
flares and guns with rubber bullets.<br>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/others/news/n0384-arctic-residents-issued-with-rubber-bullets-to-shoot-at-polar-bears/">Arctic
residents issued rubber bullets to shoot at polar bears</a></b><br>
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<blockquote> <font size="-1">It is illegal to shoot and kill polar
bears but now residents in the Siberian Arctic are being issued
with rubber bullets amid fears of attacks by the animals. Flare
pistols are also used to scare away the bears....Two places in
the Siberian north are in particular danger - the villagers of
Amderma, population 350, and the occupants of a lonely weather
station on the island of Vaygach, between the Pechora and Kara
seas. Until now the two female scientists and one male engineer
have had no weapons to protect themselves from the bears which
come close....One of the women reported: 'They sleep near the
houses. Two of them walk together. They are aggressive. Recently
they fought together near our house.'...Employees of the station
go out twice daily to take measurements at the sea. 'This is
dangerous: these people need to walk a few hundred metres,'
reported WWF Russia....The meteorologist added: 'So we go, your
head rotating 360 degrees. Yesterday we came out and a bear was
near the house. Three times our engineer fired a small flare
pistol and the bear was not even scared. We managed to scare it
off with a flare, but not far.'</font><br>
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