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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
stay well-informed about global warming October 19, 2016</i></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">With No Illusions, Says<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Leader, Clinton Must
Be Elected—Then Fiercely Confronted</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The day after the election, the climate movement will
'need to press harder than ever for real progress on the biggest
crisis the world has ever faced.'.. And when faced with the
choice between a "horror," and a politician who—through growing
pressure from concerned citizens—has shown she can be pushed on
issues related to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b>, McKibben reasons,
he'll take the latter.... Those feelings... were compounded
after WikiLeaks revealed this weekend that behind closed doors
Clinton defended natural gas and fracking, and said that
environmental activists should "get a life."...Those damning
email leaks only further underscored what McKibben describes as
Clinton's "craven" silence over the Dakota Access Pipeline
fight...."Even the sight of attack dogs being used on peaceful
Native American protesters didn't move her to break ranks with
her industry allies and that fraction of the labor movement that
still wants to build pipelines," he writes. "That's craven on
her part, pure and simple."...The "good news," McKibben
concludes, "is that when she wins, none of us will be under the
slightest illusion about who she is." ...And the day after she's
elected, he says, that's when the environmental movement will
truly need to kick into gear...."The honeymoon won't last 10
minutes," he says, "on November 9 we'll be organizing for
science and human rights and against the timid incrementalism
that marks her approach. It's clear that we need to beat the
creepy perv she's running against. It's also clear that we then
need to press harder than ever for real progress on the biggest
crisis the world has ever faced."...Bill McKibben, author and
co-founder of 350.org, minces no words addressing those
environmentally-minded voters who are fretting over the mixed
record of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton: Elect
her, "and then give her hell."</div>
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sig2-B7carp3braMHutzKtWjaDw did-8223238563746756972"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/hottest-months-global-warming-20797"
url="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/hottest-months-global-warming-20797"
id="MAA4AEgNUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">Hottest Months on Record Have
Something in Common</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><font size="-2">The global average temperature is the
clearest indicator of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
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record is a testament to what's happening to the planet
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/10/17/it-could-be-the-nations-first-carbon-tax-and-environmentalists-are-fighting-over-it/?postshare=6311476715239575&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4b104ba8548a">It
could be the nation's first carbon tax. And environmentalists
are fighting over it</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">A new initiative slated for the ballot
in Washington state next month would create the first-ever
carbon tax to be implemented in the United States. But while the
initiative promises to fight climate change by making it more
expensive to emit greenhouse gases, it's caused an unexpected
controversy among environmentalists....Despite the endorsement
of dozens of climate scientists and economists, many
environmental groups have refused to support it at all, citing
concerns about the proposal's revenue projections, its approach
to the involvement of disadvantaged communities, and a lack of
true investment in clean energy....Initiative 732 began as a
grassroots campaign known as Carbon Washington, founded by
environmental economist and stand-up comedian Yoram Bauman. If
successful, it would become one of just a few ever to be
implemented in North America and the first in the United States.</font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-washington">The
left vs. a carbon tax</a></b></font> <font size="-1">Dave
Roberts: .... carbon tax on the ballot ... meant not just to
put the state on the path to its climate targets but to serve as
an example to other states. ... I-732 .. would do four things:</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Impose a tax on carbon emissions,</b> </font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Reduce the state sales tax by 1 percentage
point.</b></font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Fund the working families tax rebate (WFTR),</b>
</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Eliminate the business and occupation tax on
manufacturing.</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">First is the large, predictable, and steadily
rising price on carbon, something climate policy analysts have
been advocating for decades as the most cost-effective way to
reduce emissions... liberal groups in Washington believe ...that
its policy is fatally incomplete and insufficient.... it's worse
than incomplete — they think it would set back climate progress.
They really, really hate it, perhaps more than can be fully
explained through policy disagreements....Talks between
Washington's environmental groups reach a standoff...The left in
Washington state has largely abandoned I-732</font><br>
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sig2-HlpPdKOoTwkPBVOAKccsVg did-5228945790010021159"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-18/climate-change-belongs-in-the-next-presidential-debate"
url="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-18/climate-change-belongs-in-the-next-presidential-debate"
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style="font-weight: bold;">The Missing<span
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Debate</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">For a presidential campaign notable for dark warnings of
the coming apocalypse, the one thing that actually could bring
about an apocalypse --<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-- has been
conspicuously absent from the debates. A final chance to raise
the issue will come ...</div>
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href="http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/17/13304052/climate-policy-aviation-paris-hfcs"
url="http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/17/13304052/climate-policy-aviation-paris-hfcs"
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class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Stop waiting
for a big breakthrough on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>. This is
what we'll get instead.</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Global warming can sometimes feel like this big,
hopelessly intractable problem that no one's doing much about.
But the first two weeks of October have seen a genuinely
impressive barrage of climate action around the world.... 1)
Canada got a carbon tax., 2) The Paris climate deal went into
effect.,3) A new global deal on aviation emissions.,4) A new
global deal to phase out HFCs.....Not bad for half a month!
Gernot Wagner, an economist at Harvard's School of Engineering
and Applied Sciences, called it a “masterclass in climate
policy.” You've got carbon pricing, international agreements,
offsets ... all the stuff environmental wonks have been
suggesting for years....<b>Of course, we're still not close to
stopping global warming</b>...<br>
Now, if you wanted to inject some pessimism here, you could
point out the very real limitations of all these moves. Even
added together, they don't get us anywhere close to keeping
global warming below 2°C (or 3.6°F) — the level governments all
agree is unacceptable....Nor are we yet on a trajectory to do
so. If you take all the policy promises that nations proposed at
Paris last year (which included reducing HFCs), they still put
us on pace for 2.5°C or 3°C or more of warming. And that's
assuming countries actually hit their pledges, which they may
not. Case in point: A recent study in Nature Climate Change
warned that the US could miss its targets due to excess methane
emissions....I'm deeply skeptical that countries can achieve
their goal of keeping global warming below 2°C. The math is too
brutal, the momentum too sluggish. But that doesn't mean it's
time to give up. Even keeping global warming at 2.5°C or 3°C is
vastly preferable to 4°C or 5°C. Every additional degree means
more coastal area lost to the sea, more crop failures, more
deadly heat waves, more human misery. There's always reason to
push harder.<br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/17/13190036/global-climate-change-facts-effects-cartoon">Show
this cartoon to anyone who doubts we need huge action on climate
change</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"> It's a crisp fall day. So why would you
believe Earth is in a dire situation?...all the fossil fuels —
oil, coal, and natural gas — that humans have identified as
recoverable with current technology. The black spot is what
we're currently harvesting with mines and wells...So what if,
tomorrow, all the world leaders got together and decided to stop
building new mines and wells?...if we were able to keep it at
that amount, what would happen?...The kicker is that even in
this crazily ambitious scenario, we have to rely on "negative
emissions" technologies that pull carbon out of the air and bury
it....The problem: We have no clue if that's even
possible....Negative emissions technologies have not been tested
or proven at any scale. We are literally gambling our species'
future on the idea that we're going to be able to invent it and
scale it up to enormous size ... by 2065...No country is taking
this long shot seriously. This means Earth will probably warm
past 2 degrees. It's terrifying.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<b><a
href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-west-is-burning-and-climate-change-is-partly-to-blame/">The
West Is Burning, And Climate Change Is Partly To Blame</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">California's Soberanes Fire, which was
sparked by an illegal campfire in July, is still smoldering. The
effort it took to contain that blaze is believed to be one of
the most expensive — if not the most expensive —
wildfire-fighting operations ever....With wildfire, such
superlatives have, paradoxically, become normal. Records are
routinely smashed — for acreage burned, homes destroyed,
firefighter lives lost and money spent fighting back flames. A
study published earlier this year found that, between 2003 and
2012, the average area burned each year in Western national
forests was 1,271 percent greater than it was in the 1970s and
early 1980s....Abatzoglou and his co-author, Park Williams, a
bioclimatologist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, estimate that human-caused climate change was
responsible for nearly doubling the area burned in the West
between 1984 and 2015. If the last few decades had been simply
dry, instead of some of the hottest and driest on record,
perhaps 10.4 million fewer acres would have burned, they say.<br>
</font><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font
color="#000099"><a
href="https://youtu.be/jCGtHqIwKek?t=27m25s"><font size="+1"><b>This
day in Climate History </b><b>October 19, 1992:</b> </font></a>
From D.R. Tucker
---------------------------------------------- </font></span><b><br>
</b></span>
<blockquote><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font
size="-1"><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGtHqIwKekhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGtHqIwKek"> In
the third presidential debate</a>, President George H. W.
Bush accuses Democratic challenger Bill Clinton and his
running mate, Senator Al Gore, of pandering to "the spotted
owl crowd or the extremes in the environmental movement" by
supporting an increase in fuel efficiency standards. Clinton
defends the idea of raising fuel efficiency standards; in
addition, he states, "We also ought to convert more vehicles
to compressed natural gas. That's another way to improve the
environment." (26:30-29:00)</font></span><font size="-1"><span
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><font
color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);"><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGtHqIwKek"
dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true"
x-apple-data-detectors-type="link"
x-apple-data-detectors-result="1"><font color="#000000"> </font>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v</a><wbr><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGtHqIwKek"
dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true"
x-apple-data-detectors-type="link"
x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">=jCGtHqIwKek</a></span></font></font><span
style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><br>
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