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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
stay well-informed about global warming September 20, 2016</i></font><br>
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255);">If 55 nations come through, the global agreement takes
effect...NEW YORK—Presidents and prime ministers, environmental
advocates and entrepreneurs have descended on the Big Apple to
help the landmark Paris<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>deal take force and
discuss new ways of reducing greenhouse gases. The annual event,
known as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">Climate Week</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">...It is the first such gathering since nearly 200
countries agreed in the French capital in December to curb
global warming through nationally determined plans to limit
emissions. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited
countries to deposit their instruments of ratification of
Paris at a Wednesday morning ceremony at U.N.
headquarters....Only a handful of heads of state are expected
to speak Wednesday, a group that will likely include French
President Francois Hollande....Obama will convene a summit
tomorrow on refugees and migration, which is expected to touch
on warming as a contributor to mass displacements in the
Middle East and elsewhere. And U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power
told reporters Friday that he and Kerry would do <b>"</b>a
lot of buttonholing in corridors<b>"</b> in New York to try to
persuade countries to ratify Paris more swiftly.<b> </b>Kerry,
who helped to broker the Paris deal in December, will attend
Ban’s ceremony Wednesday.<br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/19/tree-death-california-hawaii-sudden-oak"><font
color="#000099"><b>An American tragedy: why are millions of
trees dying across the country?</b></font></a><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">A quiet crisis playing out in US
forests as huge numbers of trees succumb to drought, disease,
insects and wildfire – much of it driven by climate
change....Forestry officials and scientists are increasingly
alarmed, and say the essential role of trees – providing clean
water, locking up carbon and sheltering whole ecosystems – is
being undermined on a grand scale....California and mountain
states have suffered particularly big die-offs in recent years,
with 66m trees killed in the Sierra Nevada alone since 2010,
according to the Forestry Service....In northern California, an
invasive pathogen called Sudden Oak Death is infecting hundreds
of different plants, from redwoods and ferns to backyard oaks
and bay laurels. The disease is distantly related to the cause
of the 19th-century Irish potato famine, and appears to have
arrived with two "Typhoid Marys", rhododendrons and bay laurels,
said Dr David Rizzo, of the University of California,
Davis..."We’re talking millions of trees killed, whole mountain
sides dying," Rizzo said...The outbreak is "something like 10
times bigger than normal, I would argue a lot more than that,"
Six said. "Basically a native insect is acting outside of the
norm, because of climate change, and become an exotic in forests
it’s never been before. We haven’t seen very good outcomes of
exotics moving into native forests."...Boosted by climate
change, various beetles and the fungi they carry have already
wiped out millions of acres of trees, and Six and Rizzo both
warned of cascading effects. In the redwoods, Rizzo said, the
loss of tanoaks and their relatives would strip away
nut-producing species, leaving birds and mammals that rely on
them without food. The loss of mountain pines, Six said,
threatens grizzly bears and the critical snowpack that supplies
water to life below.</font><br>
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<a href="http://phys.org/news/2016-09-climate-law-decade.html"><br>
<b>US predicts climate law within decade</b></a><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on
Monday predicted that the world's largest economy would have
legislation by the end of the decade to combat climate
change....Moniz said that the United States was confident it
would meet its goal submitted under the Paris accord of reducing
emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases by 26 to 28
percent by 2025, from 2005 levels...."But I think there's no
issue that rather than a sectoral approach, which is inherent in
using administrative authorities, a simplified economy-wide
approach would be preferable and, frankly, would be a lot
clearer in terms of the signals for business," Moniz said....The
United Nations is hoping that this week's meetings will put in
force the Paris accord, which requires formal agreement by 55
countries accounting for 55 percent of global emissions....The
accord got a major boost earlier this month when Obama and
Chinese President Xi Jinping jointly committed themselves to the
global climate pact...</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">"What we know is that the overall long-term trend is
clear -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is contributing to
longer, more intense<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">wildfire</b><span
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US," said Rachel Cleetus, lead economist and<span
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<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/19/big-bank-greenwashing-exposed-major-climate-week-sponsors-fund-fossil-fuels">Big
Bank 'Greenwashing' Exposed as Major Climate Week Sponsors
Fund Fossil Fuels</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">'If these banks aspire to be climate
leaders, they must accelerate their exit from coal, and commit
to getting out of extreme oil and fracked-gas terminals as
well'..."If they don't prioritize defunding the climate crisis,"
she said, "they are continuing a pattern of prioritizing profit
over people, planet, and ethical business practices. As the
second largest bank in the U.S., with nearly $2.2 trillion in
assets, the Bank of America has the ability, not to mention a
greater responsibility, to actually move money away from the
fossil fuel economy to prioritize people and planet."</font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-we-dont-know-if-it-will-be-sunny-next-month-but-we-know-itll-be-hot-all-year/">Why
We Don’t Know If It Will Be Sunny Next Month But We Know It’ll
Be Hot All Year</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">...some key climate statistics are
easily predictable far beyond the scales at which weather
forecasts are skillful. Those predictions clearly suggest an
annual global temperature record in 2016 and a (relative)
cooling in 2017, all while the long-term upward trends
continue.....Weather forecasts more than a week ahead are
notoriously unreliable. Yet climate scientists have been
predicting since December that 2016 will be the warmest year
since at least the 19th century. What gives?... some aspects of
the climate system can be usefully forecast over months, years
and even decades. The key to understanding why is realizing that
there are many potential sources of predictability: the motions
of the atmosphere in the short term (days); the motions of the
ocean (months to years); and external factors such as the sun’s
activity, the orbit or greenhouse gases (years to
millennia)....So weather forecasts rely on the predictability of
atmospheric systems that persist a couple of weeks. But some
ocean patterns in the climate system can persist much longer,
and understanding them can help make useful predictions for
regional and global averages that don’t depend so much on
specific weather patterns....These fluctuations in temperature
can be so large that their influence can be felt globally. Warm
El Niño phases cause excess rain in Peru and Ecuador; drought in
Brazil’s Nordeste region, Indonesia and Northern Australia, and
weather responses in North America and Antarctica. There is a
clear impact on global temperature, too, though the mechanisms
are complex: heat released from the oceans; increases in water
vapor, which enhance the greenhouse effect, and redistributions
of clouds. Statistically, the impact on global temperature peaks
two or three months after changes in the tropical Pacific.
Because these events are large, take months to play out and can
be predicted months ahead of time, we can use ENSO to predict
the next year’s global temperatures....We now have over half a
year of data from 2016. The fact that the observations have a
"memory" from month to month (because the ocean is slow to
change temperature) allows us to predict the annual mean from
the year-to-date average (which implicitly includes the ENSO
effect). Starting in March (and every month since), this
suggested that the 2016 net warming will be about 1.3 degrees
Celsius above late-19th century temperatures.</font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://www.montereyherald.com/article/NF/20160915/NEWS/160919808">Soberanes
Fire becomes costliest to fight in US history</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">The Soberanes Fire is now the
costliest blaze to suppress in U.S. history, according to
National Interagency Fire Center data....The center estimates
the cost of fighting the blaze at $197.8 million. ...Ten of the
state's 20 largest wildfires on record have burned in the last
10 years.</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">For years, he said, he aligned with the mainstream
scientific consensus:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">Global warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is real and humans are
to blame. At least 97 percent of working<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate</b> scientists - as well as the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">... <b>"</b>The authors’ insistence that they are
‘contradicting mainstream theory’ is just delusional
self-aggrandizement.<b>"</b>...The scientists came clean to
Willis in September 2015. <b>"</b>We have been forced by
unfortunate circumstances to use pseudonyms,<b>"</b> Volokin
wrote to the editor, in an email dated Sept. 27 that the
scientist provided to The Post...<b>"</b>Den Volokin and Lark
ReLlez are nothing more than our actual names spelled
backwards.<b>"...</b>Behind the pseudonyms were Ned Nikolov, a
physical scientist, and Karl Zeller, a retired
meteorologist..Nikolov argued that the pseudonyms are a way to
disarm bias trapped in the publishing process. That the
peer-review process is flawed is a critique that has existed
as long as the system itself. It is still around. In 2015, for
instance, a group of female biologists had their paper
rejected because they lacked a male co-author....To that end,
journals such as Nature now allow researchers to submit
manuscripts through an optional double-blind peer review......</b></div>
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sig2-o3sSmX-OVsL3hXw3kPgysw did-7960527384472535772"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/sep/19/new-study-undercuts-favorite-climate-myth-more-co2-is-good-for-plants"
url="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/sep/19/new-study-undercuts-favorite-climate-myth-more-co2-is-good-for-plants"
id="MAA4AEgGUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">New study undercuts favorite<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>myth 'more CO2 is
good for plants'</span></a></h2>
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style="vertical-align: middle; padding-right: 6px;
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<div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
padding-left: 1px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">A 16-year study found that we’re at a point where more
CO2 won’t keep increasing plant production, but higher
temperatures will decrease it....However, reality is far more
complicated than the oversimplification of 'CO2 is plant food.'
Unlike in the controlled environment of a greenhouse, the
increasing greenhouse effect on Earth causes temperatures to
rise and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to change in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">...found that carbon dioxide at higher levels than
today (400 ppm) did not significantly change plant growth,
while higher temperatures had a negative effect.....Another
study published in Nature Climate Change last week concluded
that higher temperatures will cause wheat production to
decline. Just a 1°C rise in global temperature will decrease
wheat yields by about 5% (approximately 35 million tons).
Climate change is bad news for several of our staple
crops..... but all evidence suggests the negatives will far
outweigh the positives. Cherry picking one possible positive
outcome and ignoring all the negatives as an excuse to
maintain the status quo is simply a failure of basic risk
management. And with a threat as dangerous as global climate
change, engaging in proper risk management is incredibly
important. Failure is simply not an option.</b></div>
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sig2-j5H4mt-qyOGFluWznQc5BA did-7638458420884639448"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/09/19/is-the-media-scaring-the-pubic-too-much-about-climate-change-and-extreme-weather/"
url="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/09/19/is-the-media-scaring-the-pubic-too-much-about-climate-change-and-extreme-weather/"
id="MAA4AEgOUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Is the media scaring the public
too much about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and extreme weather?</span></a></h2>
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<div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
padding-left: 1px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">They argue that journalists are oversimplifying
connections between weather and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">global warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
are resorting to scare tactics that are distracting the society
from being prepared for extreme weather....heir contention of a
media-induced "atmosfear" goes too far. It’s possible to both
plainly and carefully communicate how climate change is
affecting extreme weather while also stressing the importance of
extreme weather preparedness, irrespective of climate
change....However, ... our atmosphere is fundamentally changed
because of increasing greenhouse gases, and the effects on
certain types of extreme weather are real. We can’t ignore this.
It would be irresponsible for journalists to omit this very
important aspect of the climate change story.</div>
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