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    <font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
        stay well-informed about global warming  October 1, 2016</i></font><br>
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      <blockquote> <b>       </b><b> Instructions: </b><br>
        select one story that interests you, <br>
        contact one candidate, or one representative in your government,
        one friend, or one neighbor,<br>
        discuss the issue with them, <br>
        forward this email to someone you know. <br>
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        bold;"><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/298671-dear-speaker-ryan-your-forward-looking-agenda-ignores">Dear
              Speaker Ryan: your 'forward-looking agenda' ignores
              climate change</a></b></font><br>
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      <blockquote><font size="-2">Considering the much-touted centrality
          of poverty to Speaker Ryan's thinking, you'd expect "A Better
          Way" to acknowledge the economic impacts of a changing
          climate. Unfortunately, not only would his agenda make climate
          change harder to combat, it would make life more difficult for
          many of the minority and low-income communities that climate
          change has already harmed....His failure to address climate
          change's national security impacts is just as glaring. "A
          Better Way" claims to "tackle new threats" of "our time and
          beyond," but only mentions climate change by way of
          complaining that President Obama has supposedly prioritized it
          over "countering radicalization at home." (In fact, he has
          rightly focused on both issues.) The Department of Defense now
          formally treats climate change as a "threat multiplier," since
          erratic precipitation patterns, rising temperatures and
          extreme weather events will exacerbate global instability and
          increase circumstances that breed terrorism. Speaker Ryan's
          agenda simply ignores this....The danger of that approach is
          clear for anyone who cares to look. In the Horn of Africa
          between 2008 and 2012 – a period of severe drought – more than
          144 million people were displaced by sudden onset disasters.
          Contrary to Republican orthodoxy, efforts to curb emissions
          and bolster U.S. security complement one another. Indeed, they
          often rely on each other to succeed.</font><br>
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          sig2-0T-nmc_r_EaCz7DMgNjzrA did-6062702767382093431"
href="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76339"
url="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76339"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Runaway<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Global Warming</b></span></a></h2>
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      <div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
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        sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-style: normal;
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">As this permafrost melts, it sets off a biochemical chain
        reaction in the soil that could dramatically increase the
        emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, accelerating
        further<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>change. San Diego State
        University biologist Donatella<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">Zona wrote about this issue in a <a
            href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7622/full/537625a.html">commentary
            article this week in the journal Nature</a>... the layer of
          permafrost typically acts as a barrier against moisture
          drainage in the soil. As this permafrost melts, the moisture
          drains out, leaving the top layers of the soil drier and
          warmer. This warming kick-starts a biochemical process within
          organic matter present in the soil that releases carbon
          dioxide into the atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon dioxide and
          other greenhouse gases are leading contributors to warming
          global temperatures....emission of methane, another greenhouse
          gas, is highest in the Arctic during the region<b>'</b>s cold
          season. That was surprising, as most scientists thought little
          if any greenhouse gases escaped the frozen soil during the
          cold season. <a
href="http://universe.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news_story.aspx?sid=76086">Reshaping
            the Arctic Landscape</a>  <br>
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    <font color="#000099"><b><a
          href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7622/full/537625a.html">($)
          Biogeochemistry: Long-term effects of permafrost thaw</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1">Carbon emissions from the Arctic
        tundra could increase drastically as global warming thaws
        permafrost. Clues now obtained about the long-term effects of
        such thawing on carbon dioxide emissions highlight the need for
        more data.</font><br>
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    <div class="st"><font color="#000099"><b><a
            href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNk5xV1w0m0">(YouTube
            video )National Geographic<font color="#000099">'</font>s
            Dangerous Warming Documentary 1-6 degrees warming</a></b></font><br>
      <blockquote><font size="-1">This thought-provoking film tackles in
          startling detail the alarming changes that may face us
          all....scientists are warning that the global average
          temperature could increase by as much as 6 degrees Celsius
          over the next century, which would cause our world to change
          radically.... This documentary... take(s) a look at what
          effect each rise of 1ºC could have on the world.... what if
          the global temperature increased by another degree? ...the
          changes would no longer be gradual. Greenland's glaciers and
          some of the lower lying islands would start to disappear.
          ...At 3ºC higher the Arctic would be ice-free all summer, the
          Amazon rainforest would begin to dry out and extreme weather
          patterns would become the norm. An increase of 4ºC would see
          the oceans rise drastically. Then comes the twilight zone of
          climate change, if the global temperature rises again by
          another degree. ...Part of once temperate regions could become
          uninhabitable, while humans fight each other for the world's
          remaining resources. The sixth degree is what is called the
          doomsday scenario as oceans become marine wastelands, deserts
          expand and catastrophic events become more common. ...If we do
          nothing to reduce this threat, where will the tipping point be
          that may mean we are no longer able to stop global warming?  <a
            class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
            href="http://natgeotv.com/ca/six_degrees/about">http://natgeotv.com/ca/six_degrees/about</a></font><br>
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          href="http://phys.org/news/2016-09-global-2c-threshold.html"
          url="http://phys.org/news/2016-09-global-2c-threshold.html"
          id="MAA4BUgGUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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            style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Global
              warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>set
            to pass 2C threshold in 2050: report</span></a></h2>
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">Earth is on track to sail past the two degree Celsius
        (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold for dangerous global warming
        by 2050   <b style="font-weight: normal;">Climate change</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is happening .. much
        faster than anticipated,...</div>
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          sig2-puw9B7b07U3GgrLKO_H8vw did--6964329573243575994"
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0928/Earth-CO2-levels-Have-we-crossed-a-point-of-no-return"
url="http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0928/Earth-CO2-levels-Have-we-crossed-a-point-of-no-return"
          id="MAA4D0gDUABgAWoCdXM" ssid="snc" style="color: rgb(17, 85,
          204); text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
            style="font-weight: bold;">Earth CO2 levels: Have we crossed
            a point of no return?</span></a></h2>
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                  class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
                class="al-attribution-timestamp" style="white-space:
                nowrap;">‎3 hours ago‎</span></td>
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                      middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width:
                      17px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"><br>
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                      middle; padding: 0px 1px; cursor: pointer; width:
                      17px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"><br>
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                      17px; height: 16px; visibility: hidden;"><br>
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    <blockquote>
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        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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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">Earth CO2 levels: The annual low for atmospheric
        concentrations of carbon dioxide has crossed the 400 parts per
        million threshold, a level not seen for millions of years.</div>
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