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<font size="+1"><i>Forward this email to voters and candidates and
stay well-informed about global warming -October 31, 2016 </i></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">The ambitious Clinton<span
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>plan nobody is
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">During the presidential debates, moderators asked the
candidates precisely zero questions about<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>, and the press has paid scant
attention to Clinton's plan....Under Clinton's plan, which she
calls the $60 billion Clean Energy Challenge, the federal
government will "partner with states, cities, and rural
communities to cut carbon pollution and expand clean energy,
including for low-income families." Her recognition that state
and local authorities can be powerful laboratories of innovation
and ingenuity may appeal to Republicans interested in less
federal action on climate change, Aldy says. Helping states
ascertain what policies and programs are most effective at
promoting investment in clean energy and energy transmission
"could break some of the deadlocks" keeping the US from pushing
its energy system forward....Clinton’s plan also includes $30
billion to invest in communities hit hard by the reduced demand
for coal. "There are communities, especially in Appalachia,
that, for a century or more, have been built around the coal
mining industry," Aldy says. "Given the reduction in coal
production that we've seen in the US, which is likely to
continue as we take on the challenge of climate change, there’s
a risk of these communities suffering high unemployment."...
full Interview: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=16-P13-00042&segmentID=2">http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=16-P13-00042&segmentID=2</a><br>
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<b>(YouTube video) Before the Flood - Leonardo DiCaprio -
National Geographic (95 mins)</b></a></font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1">Before the Flood, directed by Fisher
Stevens, captures a three-year personal journey alongside
Academy Award-winning actor and U.N. Messenger of Peace
Leonardo DiCaprio as he interviews individuals from every
facet of society in both developing and developed nations who
provide unique, impassioned and pragmatic views on what must
be done today and in the future to prevent catastrophic
disruption of life on our planet. <a
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255);"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Climate change</b><span
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attention in the presidential election, yet it has profound
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255);">NASA's earth science work, something it's undertaken
since the 1970s, includes a focus on<span
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normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>research,
making NASA the only federal agency able to study the impacts of
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<b><a
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changes threaten food production</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">New UN report says climate change's
impacts on rainfall will have harsh economic consequences for
regions such as Latin America and the Caribbean... report warns
that rainfall patterns will have changed so drastically by the
end of this century that agriculture, forestry and fishing will
all be seriously affected...."It will become more and more
difficult to harvest crops, rear animals and manage forests and
fisheries in the same places and in the same way as before,"
says the report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO)....And that is a major concern for regions such as Latin
America that are economically dependent on agriculture, and the
Caribbean, which is heavily reliant on fisheries....In Brazil's
northeast, for example, rainfall is expected to decrease by 22%,
while in the southeast of South America, which covers parts of
Chile and Argentina, it could increase by 25%....The report says
these changes in rainfall mean "that the capacity to face
shortages or excesses of water will be fundamental in the
efforts to improve productivity in a sustainable
way"....http://climatenewsnetwork.net/rainfall-changes-food-production/</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Filipinos will be more prone to the devastating effects
of typhoons if President Duterte continues to refuse ratifying
the Paris Agreement on Climate Change,, former president Fidel
V. Ramos insisted. In his Manila Bulletin column entitled,
"Climate change: Attention P Digong, Cabinet and Congress,"
Ramos on Saturday hurled strong criticism against Duterte, who
earlier threatened that he will not honor the international pact
to lower climate-warming emissions.... "In his consistently
frequent insulting diatribes against the US (United
States),..."He may claim that to be more 'insulting than
friendly' to our long-established allies is part of his
God-given 'destiny.' But, this is obviously wrong, and full of
S…. T !!!"...Duterte has repeatedly expressed disdain for the
pact, saying cutting carbon emissions at a point when the
Philippines' economic rise is just starting will be unfair since
industrialized countries have been giving off such emissions for
decades....He also vowed to develop the Philippines based on the
needs of the public, not according to international
demands....Ramos, however, emphasized that the principle of
Common But Differentiated Responsibilities (CBDR), on which the
Paris Agreement is based, allows developing countries with
relatively smaller carbon footprints to continue to grow their
economies, especially if done in the context of sustainable
development and poverty eradication.... ..The deal will enter
into force on Tuesday and the first meeting of its parties is
set in Marrakech, Morocco on Saturday. The Philippines, having
yet to ratify the pact, will only sit as an observer at the
Marrakech meeting..</div>
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href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation"><b>This
day in Climate History October 31, 1938</b></a><b><a
href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation">
</a>: "War of the Worlds" Orson Welles Scares Nation </b></font>
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<blockquote><font size="-1">Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic
with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds"—a realistic radio
dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth... his Mercury
Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells’ 19th-century
science fiction novel War of the Worlds for national radio.
.... "War of the Worlds" was not planned as a radio hoax, and
Welles had little idea of the havoc it would cause.....The show
began on Sunday, October 30, at 8 p.m. A voice announced: "The
Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present
Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air in ‘War of the
Worlds’ by H.G. Wells."... Sunday evening in 1938 was prime-time
in the golden age of radio, and millions of Americans had their
radios turned on. .... Welles introduced his radio play with a
spoken introduction, followed by an announcer reading a weather
report. Then, seemingly abandoning the storyline, the announcer
took listeners to "the Meridian Room in the Hotel Park Plaza in
downtown New York, where you will be entertained by the music of
Ramon Raquello and his orchestra." Putrid dance music played
for some time, and then the scare began. An announcer broke in
to report that "Professor Farrell of the Mount Jenning
Observatory" had detected explosions on the planet Mars. Then
the dance music came back on, followed by another interruption
in which listeners were informed that a large meteor had crashed
into a farmer’s field in Grovers Mills, New Jersey... Soon, an
announcer was at the crash site describing a Martian emerging
from a large metallic cylinder. "Good heavens," he declared,
"something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now
here’s another and another one and another one. They look like
tentacles to me … I can see the thing’s body now. It’s large,
large as a bear. It glistens like wet leather. But that face,
it… it … ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable. I can hardly
force myself to keep looking at it, it’s so awful. The eyes are
black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is kind of V-shaped
with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver
and pulsate.".... Perhaps as many as a million radio listeners
believed that a real Martian invasion was underway. Panic broke
out across the country. In New Jersey, terrified civilians
jammed highways seeking to escape the alien marauders. People
begged police for gas masks to save them from the toxic gas and
asked electric companies to turn off the power so that the
Martians wouldn’t see their lights. One woman ran into an
Indianapolis church where evening services were being held and
yelled, "New York has been destroyed! It’s the end of the world!
Go home and prepare to die!"... </font><font size="-1">When
news of the real-life panic leaked into the CBS studio, Welles
went on the air as himself to remind listeners that it was just
fiction. There were rumors that the show caused suicides, but
none were ever confirmed.</font><br>
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