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<font size="+1"><i>June 7, 2017</i></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Scientists just linked another
record-breaking weather event to climate change</span></a></h2>
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Because of the strong connection between April temperatures and El
Nino, the authors suggest that scientists may be able to better
predict extreme events in advance through closer monitoring of
factors, such as sea surface temperatures, which can help them see
strong El Nino events coming. But Otto, the University of Oxford
scientist, cautioned that this method might become less reliable as
the planet continues to heat up and the influence of global warming
on extreme Southeast Asian temperatures catches up to that of El
Nino.<br>
"In the past, you needed El Nino to have extreme events like this,"
she said. "In the future, this is not necessarily true."<br>
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href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/06/scientists-just-linked-another-record-breaking-weather-event-to-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/06/06/scientists-just-linked-another-record-breaking-weather-event-to-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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sig2-seuSVGzJr6QyLjcLcbglCA did--2673356533594733149"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-chief-attacked-for-fossil-fuel-support-db69dce64dc3"
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">EPA chief accused of 'promoting<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">global warming</b>' with
unwavering support for fossil fuels</span></a></h2>
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Nation's top environmental protection official keeps touting coal
industry jobs.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/epa-chief-attacked-for-fossil-fuel-support-db69dce64dc3">https://thinkprogress.org/epa-chief-attacked-for-fossil-fuel-support-db69dce64dc3</a></font><br>
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sig2-LrnnsKPiLdY33cFfqsb1Kw did-1777026236674190704"
href="http://theweek.com/articles/703451/terrible-risk-management-climate-change-moderates"
id="MAA4DEgFUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">The terrible risk management of<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'moderates'</span></a></h2>
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Can conservative intellectuals think straight about climate change?
Back in 2014, I argued that their fixation with the so-called global
warming "pause" demonstrated most of them could not. After 2014,
2015, and 2016 all came in as the hottest years ever recorded, each
one breaking the previous record (and the last by a huge margin), I
checked back in to see whether such people - like The New York
Times' Ross Douthat - had recanted and admitted their previous
error. As of a few weeks ago, he had not.<br>
Finally, Douthat has returned to the subject and admitted fault on
the since-vanished pause. But he has made no change to his
underlying view on climate change, still subscribing to what he
calls "lukewarmism," a belief that climate change is real, humans
are causing it, but it won't be as bad as the greens say. He's still
wrong - and he unintentionally offers a good demonstration of why
this sort of fake moderation on climate is untenable.<br>
Like his colleague Bret Stephens, most of Douthat's column makes
meta-discourse points, though at least in this instance he both
admits to errors on his own part and the fact that the Republican
Party is saturated with full-blown denial. But he outsources the
meat of his lukewarmer case to two articles by Oren Cass....<br>
More fundamentally, if we are talking risk assessment, any future
economic projections are on much shakier epistemological grounds
than climactic ones. (If you think climate models are off, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/10/07/the-imf-fesses-up-to-big-growth-prediction-misses-biggest-of-all-brazil-india/">check
out the IMF sometime</a>.) Whereas one could in principle figure
out more or less for sure what is going to happen to Greenland given
better data, better models, and better science, there's no way to
get such certainty when it comes to political economy. Nordhaus'
prediction of 2.3 percent world growth relies on continuous
improvements in total factor productivity in line with earlier
observations. But it could be that we'll simply hit an
insurmountable technological bottleneck in a decade or two and be
stuck there forever.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://theweek.com/articles/703451/terrible-risk-management-climate-change-moderates">http://theweek.com/articles/703451/terrible-risk-management-climate-change-moderates</a></font><br>
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Xi Jinping and Jerry Brown of
California Meet to Discuss<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b></span></a></h2>
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It is unusual for Mr. Xi to meet with governor-level officials from
other countries. His meeting with Mr. Brown was covered extensively
by the government-controlled news media and featured as one of the
top stories on evening news programs.<br>
The United States energy secretary, Rick Perry, also attended the
energy conference in Beijing on Tuesday, but there were no reports
that he had met with Mr. Xi.<br>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-jerry-brown-california-climate.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-jerry-brown-california-climate.html</a></font><br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2017/jun/06/liberals-climate-change-trump-paris-accord"
id="MAA4DEgAUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">(opinion) Liberals have a
responsibility too: make <b style="font-weight: bold;">climate
change</b> a top issue</span></a></h2>
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And I want to yell: "Yes, again! Again and again and again! Of
course, again. Don't you get that this is a crisis of civilization?
Don't you understand that all your other concerns will be swallowed
by this one?" But I'm a polite Midwesterner, so after spouting my
two-minute climate piece, haltingly and in eloquently, I let the
topic shift to something everyone is more comfortable with like
civil rights, health care, or crippling student debt. <br>
You see, the GOP has made it too easy for liberals in the US to
simply shrug their shoulders and say: it's their fault we can't get
anything done. And, of course, this is true. In part. Of course, the
GOP is world's only major party that still denies climate change. Of
course, the GOP has been corrupted by fossil fuel industries to the
extent that they willfully ignore the world's greatest national
security threat. <br>
But Obama's 2010 climate legislation in the US didn't just fail
because the GOP refused to support it. It also failed because
Democrats didn't support it enough, some of the them even openly
opposed it. The Democratic Party has been in general timid,
conservative, and coy on climate change. Oh, at times their rhetoric
has been inspiring, but their actions have no-where near measured up
to the what the science demands. They include it in their platform,
but rarely prioritize it. Yes, Obama got more done than any other
president before - but even during the administration best moments
it never felt like the planetary emergency it is.<br>
Liberals: climate change belongs on it's own tier above all others,
shared perhaps with nuclear war - only climate change is already
here and inevitable, future nuclear wars are not....<br>
Climate change is the great aggravator. Let me say that again,
because it so important: climate change is the great aggravator.
Every single issue that liberals care particular about - whether it
is economic inequality, racism, sexism, injustice, war - is going to
be made worse by climate change. Climate change will hit people of
color, the poor, indigenous, and marginalized communities hardest
and first, whether they live on eroding islands or high-rises in the
middle of Brooklyn. And, yes, climate change will disproportionately
injure women over men. Of course, climate change will also strike
what conservatives care about most. The global economy will be
absolutely shattered by climate change and national security threats
will popup like overheated groundhogs - even the most rich and
powerful will not get away unscathed....<br>
What happens when a society becomes overstressed? It's not pretty.
Historian Christopher Wickham, has described the period following
the end of the Roman Empire as "extreme material simplification":
population declined, technology stagnated, conflicts erupted, the
standard of living plummeted and the written record vanished - hence
the popular term 'Dark Ages.' It's not just centuries ago: the
unimaginable horror and stress of World War I allowed the rise of
totalitarianism in both Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia....<br>
The worst thing about climate change won't be its physical impacts;
it will be what it makes us do to each other.<br>
So, what can liberals do? First off, if your understanding of
climate change is only passing, educate yourself. Some good places
to start: here, here and here. Learn too about off-shoots like ocean
acidification, deforestation, mass extinction. Next take action:
march, protest, divest your money from fossil fuel companies, use
public transit, eat less meat (especially beef), trade in for an
electric car, put solar panels on your house, buy carbon credits, do
something, do many things.<br>
So, yes, good on you liberals: you're on the right side of history
and science when it comes to climate change. Pat yourself on the
back. But here's the thing: your kids aren't really going to care
that you believed in climate change, if we don't stop climate
change. They aren't going to listen to excuses like 'but it's the
Republicans' fault' or 'but Trump, Trump'.<b> If you continue to
view climate change as a lower tier issue, liberals, I guarantee
you it will be the only issue for your children and grandchildren.
And all those other things you cared so much about will be
subsumed in a planet of storms, heat, floods, fires, extremism,
xenophobia, injustice, violence, war, death, and suffering. This
issue will burn away all the others. </b><b>. </b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2017/jun/06/liberals-climate-change-trump-paris-accord">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2017/jun/06/liberals-climate-change-trump-paris-accord</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/can-juliana-beat-tigerswan-the-climate-minute-podcast/">(audio)
Can Juliana beat TigerSwan? The Climate Minute Podcast</a></b><br>
Jun 5th, 2017 by massclimateaction<br>
DAPL activists were the target of military style counter-terrorism
methods at Standing Rock and elsewhere, conducted by the TigerSwan
security company. Is this even legal? (And why are these
organizations obsessed with Secret-Agent-007-James-Bondian names for
their sad little enterprises?) On a happier note, a young woman
named Juliana has frightened three big oil groups. At first they
asked to be named <b>defendants in the "Our Children's Trust"
lawsuit, but now that they might have to answer questions before
God and the internet they've developed cold feet. Listen in about
14:35</b><br>
The Climate Minute examines current news on global warming, climate
change, renewable energy and the prospects for progress on
international negotiations, carbon taxes and clean energy policy.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/can-juliana-beat-tigerswan-the-climate-minute-podcast/">http://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/can-juliana-beat-tigerswan-the-climate-minute-podcast/</a></font><br>
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">How<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b> helped Lyme
disease invade America</span></a></h2>
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Cases of the tick-borne illness have exploded since the 1990s.<br>
Lyme cases have more than doubled since the 1990s, and the number of
counties that are now deemed high-risk for Lyme has increased by
more than 320 percent in the same period. 2017 is also shaping up to
be a particularly bad year for Lyme.<br>
New York state is an epicenter for Lyme. More than 90 percent of
cases in the Northeast, upper Midwest, and mid-Atlantic. And it's
why New York Sen. Chuck Schumer has been calling on the federal
government to more aggressively tackle Lyme.<br>
But Trump's policies on climate change, Walter said, will likely do
the opposite, and make climate-sensitive infectious diseases like
Lyme even more common. Here are four things to know as we enter the
season for the disease.<br>
<b>1) Lyme disease spreads to people through tick bites - but the
disease can be really hard to diagnose</b><br>
Lyme is the most common vector-borne disease in the US, ... Lyme
reaches people through tick bites after circulating through a chain
of other species.<br>
The bacteria typically live in mice, chipmunks, birds, and deer in
wooded areas. And these are all animals that ticks feast on.<br>
Ticks like humans too. They're attracted to the warmth and carbon
dioxide we give off. .. while outdoors - walking through tall grass,
playing in fields. If they're carrying the Borrelia burgdorferi
bacteria, they can infect us when they bite. (In most cases, the
tick needs to be attached to the skin for more than 36 hours before
the Lyme bacteria can be transmitted.)<br>
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, common
Lyme symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, and muscle and joint
aches. There's also that telltale skin rash,...<br>
<b>2) Lyme disease has become increasingly common</b><b><br>
</b>In the US, the incidence of Lyme disease has doubled since 1991,
from about four cases per 100,000 people to eight per 100,000
people. About 30,000 people are known to get sick with the disease
each year, and the CDC thinks the real number of cases is about 10
times that. It's also spread to a wider area of the country.<br>
<b>3) A major reason for the uptick in Lyme incidence: global
warming</b><br>
The Environmental Protection Agency tracks the number of Lyme cases,
along with heat-related deaths and severe weather events, as an
indicator of global warming.<br>
That's because researchers think climate change is another major
driver of the trend - and they expect the situation to get much
worse during the 21st century.<br>
One of the most important determinants of where ticks can live is
temperature, because they can't survive in very cold climates. Now
that we are experiencing warmer winters, ticks are able to live
further and further north.<br>
<b>4) 2017 is expected to be a very bad year for Lyme</b><br>
There are other factors that influence how far Lyme can spread:
plentiful acorn seasons. It may sound weird, but it's another
fascinating aspect of the ecology that helps Lyme proliferate - and
why 2017 is shaping up to be a very bad year for the disease.<br>
Tick-carrying mice feast on acorns, and there's been a bumper crop
for acorns in the US over the past two years. More acorns means
there's more food for mice, helping rodent populations grow and
increasing the number of hosts that carry Lyme-infected ticks.<br>
To protect yourself, the CDC suggests avoiding areas with lots of
mice and deer, and checking your body for ticks after you've been in
wooded areas where you might have gotten bitten. If you find a tick
on your body, the CDC recommends using tweezers to carefully remove
it. Wearing insect repellent and clothing that covers your body can
help keep ticks away, too.<br>
At a broader level, there are more impactful things policymakers can
do to help drive down the risk of Lyme infection, Walter said, and
tackling climate change is one of them.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/6/15728498/lyme-disease-symptoms-rash-ticks-global-warming">https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/6/15728498/lyme-disease-symptoms-rash-ticks-global-warming</a></font><br>
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</a><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/world/europe/07prexy.html">This
Day in Climate History June 7, 2007 </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
"As leaders of wealthy nations converged Wednesday on a Baltic Sea
resort for their annual meeting, the White House effectively
derailed a climate change initiative backed by one of President Bush<font
size="+1"><b>'</b></font>s strongest European allies, Chancellor
Angela Merkel of Germany.<br>
"The White House said it would hold firm against concrete long-term
targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a major priority for
Mrs. Merkel, the host of the Group of 8 meeting."<br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/world/europe/07prexy.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/world/europe/07prexy.html</a></font><font
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