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<font size="+1"><i>June 9, 2017</i></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Apple's newest ad makes a
haunting plea to take<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change </b>seriously</span></a></h2>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/YpUa7YvhUJo">Apple's
latest commercial</a></b><b> </b>is advertising the Earth.<br>
In a rare topical turn for the company, the ad makes a lofty appeal
for environmentalism at a moment when such efforts face historic
threats from Donald Trump's administration.<br>
"Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our
stand," the late astronomer Carl Sagan says in the ad's voiceover.
"It underscores the responsibility to deal more cleanly with one
another and to preserve and cherish the only home we've ever known."<br>
Climate change is never explicitly mentioned. Nor are any of the
many other problems the planet's facing. But the gist is clear, and
the broad language actually packs a bigger punch. <br>
The ad <i>(</i><b><i><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/YpUa7YvhUJo">Earth - Shot on iPhone</a></i></b><i>)</i>
debuted during Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday night.<br>
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href="http://mashable.com/2017/06/07/apple-environmental-ad/">http://mashable.com/2017/06/07/apple-environmental-ad/</a><br>
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href="https://youtu.be/YpUa7YvhUJo">https://youtu.be/YpUa7YvhUJo</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKyo8uy42aU">(video) NASA
on Greenland's Thinning Ice (June 2017)</a></b><br>
NASA's OMG and Operation IceBridge missions are investigating the
thinning of Greenland's ice sheets from both above and below. Visit
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://science.nasa.gov">http://science.nasa.gov</a>
for more.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKyo8uy42aU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKyo8uy42aU</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://omg.jpl.nasa.gov/portal/"><b>Oceans
Melting Greenland the OMG Mission</b></a><br>
Global sea level rise will be one of the major environmental
challenges of the 21st Century. Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) will
pave the way for improved estimates of sea level rise by addressing
the question: To what extent are the oceans melting Greenland's ice
from below? Over a five-year campaign, OMG will observe changing
water temperatures on the continental shelf surrounding Greenland,
and how marine glaciers react to the presence of warm, salty
Atlantic Water. The complicated geometry of the sea floor steers
currents on the shelf and often determines whether Atlantic Water
can reach into the long narrow fjords and interact with the coastal
glaciers. Because knowledge of these pathways is a critical
component of modeling the interaction between the oceans and ice
sheet, OMG will facilitate improved measurements of the shape and
depth of the sea floor in key regions as well.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://omg.jpl.nasa.gov/portal/">https://omg.jpl.nasa.gov/portal/</a></font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sociopath-trump-paris-climate-agreement-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2017-06">Trump<font
color="#000099">'</font>s Climate-Change Sociopathy</a></b></font><br>
Trump's announcement was made with a bully's bravado. A global
agreement that is symmetric in all ways, across all countries of the
world, is somehow a trick, he huffed, an anti-American plot. The
rest of the world has been "laughing at us."<br>
These ravings are utterly delusional, deeply cynical, or profoundly
ignorant. Probably all three. And they should be recognized as such.<br>
Trump's announcement was rooted in two profoundly destructive
developments. The first is the corruption of the US political
system. Trump's announcement was not really his alone. It reflected
the will of the Republican leadership in Congress, including the 22
Republican senators who sent Trump a letter the week before, calling
on him to withdraw from the Paris accord.<br>
These senators, and their counterparts in the House of
Representatives, are on the take of the oil and gas industry, which
spent $100 million on campaign contributions in 2016, of which 90%
went to Republican candidates. (In fact, the total was almost
certainly far above $100 million, but much is untraceable.)<br>
The second destructive development is the twisted mindset of Trump
and his closest advisers. Their view, defended with "alternative
facts" that have no basis in reality, is paranoid and malevolent,
aimed at inflicting harm on others, or at best indifferent to harm
befalling others. "The Paris agreement," rants Trump, "handicaps the
United States economy in order to win praise from the very foreign
capitals and global activists that have long sought to gain wealth
at our country's expense."<br>
This is nuts. The Paris accord is a universal agreement among 193 UN
member states to cooperate in decarbonizing the world's energy
system and thereby head off the dangers of climate disaster, such as
a multi-meter sea-level rise, extreme storms, massive droughts, and
other threats identified by the global scientific community. Some of
these threats are already evident in vulnerable parts of the planet.<br>
Here's the simple truth: The entire world needs to move quickly and
resolutely to a low-carbon energy system, in order to end emissions
of CO2 and other greenhouse gases by mid-century. This is not a move
against the US. It's a global imperative – true for the US, China,
India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Canada, and other fossil-fuel-rich
countries, as well as for fossil-fuel-importing regions such as
Europe, Japan, and most of Africa. Fortunately, the technologies
exist: solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, ocean, nuclear, and
other low-carbon energy sources.<br>
Here's more simple truth: With its large, rich,
fossil-fuel-intensive economy, the US has done more than any other
country to bring about the global peril of climate change, so it
should accept its responsibility in helping to get us all out of
danger. At a minimum, America should be eagerly cooperating with the
rest of the world.<br>
Instead, Trump's sociopathic behavior, and the corruption and
viciousness of those surrounding him, has produced utter disdain for
a world nearing the brink of human-made catastrophe. The next
human-caused climate disasters should be named Typhoon Donald,
Superstorm Ivanka, and Megaflood Jared. The world will not forget.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sociopath-trump-paris-climate-agreement-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2017-06">https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sociopath-trump-paris-climate-agreement-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2017-06</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Donald Trump's stance on<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">global warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is 'sociopathic,
paranoid and malevolent', world-leading economist says</span></a></h2>
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<b>Professor Jeffrey Sachs suggests naming the next big climate
change-related storms Typhoon Donald, Superstorm Ivanka and
Megaflood Jared</b><br>
Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate
agreement is "sociopathic", a leading economist has claimed, arguing
the US President is "without remorse … wilfully inflicting harm on
others".<br>
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, director of the United Nations Sustainable
Development Solutions Network, said claims that the Republican
billionaire actually believes climate change is real made things
"worse, not better", as this would mean he is knowingly
"jeopardising the planet".<br>
Just a day after he announced the US withdrawal, Mr Trump declared a
major flooding disaster in Missouri, which climate researcher Dr
John Abraham suggested added to the "mounting ironies".<br>
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href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/donald-trump-global-warming-climate-change-sociopathic-paranoid-malevolent-economist-jeffrey-sachs-a7778671.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/donald-trump-global-warming-climate-change-sociopathic-paranoid-malevolent-economist-jeffrey-sachs-a7778671.html</a><br>
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id="MAA4C0gGUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">Carbon dioxide tallied
second-largest rise on record last year</span></a></h2>
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... federal scientists reported 2016 tallied the second-largest rise
in atmospheric carbon dioxide ever recorded.<br>
Carbon dioxide is the "greenhouse" gas scientists say is most
responsible for global warming. Last year's increase in CO2 was
nearly double the average pace since measurements began in 1979, the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.<br>
The gas is measured in parts per million (ppm) of Earth's
atmosphere. Carbon dioxide levels were around 280 ppm prior to the
Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s, when large amounts of
greenhouse gases started to be emitted into the atmosphere due to
human activity.<br>
The burning of the oil, gas and coal for energy releases greenhouse
gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. These gases
have caused the Earth's temperature to rise over the past century to
levels that cannot be explained by natural processes alone.<br>
In the 1980s and 1990s, the CO2 level increased at about 1.5 ppm
each year. Last year, it rose 2.93 ppm. The highest growth rate was
recorded in 2015 at 2.96 ppm, said NOAA spokesman Theo Stein.<br>
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href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2017/06/07/carbon-dioxide-tallied-2nd-largest-rise-record-last-year/102595430/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2017/06/07/carbon-dioxide-tallied-2nd-largest-rise-record-last-year/102595430/</a></font><br>
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Senators accuse DeVos of 'quick
about-face' on climate change</span></a></h2>
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A conservative think tank that does not believe in human-induced
climate change has been sending to hundreds of thousands of K-12 and
college science teachers materials that reject basic principles on
which nearly all climate scientists agree - and now, some U.S.
senators are asking Education Secretary Betsy DeVos whether staff
members in her department have anything to do with it....<br>
... DeVos was asked by reporters whether she believes in
human-caused climate change. She responded, "Certainly, the climate
changes. Yes." Then, asked what should be done about it, she
responded: "I don't have any answer. I'm here to talk about students
in schools today."...<br>
The senators reacted with a letter that accuses DeVos of having done
a "quick about-face" from statements she had made in her February
confirmation hearing before the Senate.<br>
In their letter, the senators said in part:<br>
It is our sincere hope that neither White House staff nor Department
of Education officials have turned to the Heartland Institute on the
issues of climate change and climate science, or had any roll in
this mailing to educators. At your nomination hearing, you were
asked whether you would stand on the side of students or with the
political entities trying to force junk science into schools. You
responded that you 'support the teaching of great science and
especially science that allows students to exercise critical
thinking and to really discover and examine in new ways.' We agree
that 'great science' and critical thinking are cornerstones of a
high-quality education, but that is not achieved with Heartland's
industry-funded and possibly fraudulent materials.<br>
Heartland sent to teachers materials that include a DVD, pamphlets
and a book titled "Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming,"
which question the scientific consensus among climate researchers
that human activity is fueling climate change.<br>
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href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/06/08/senators-accuse-devos-of-quick-about-face-on-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/06/08/senators-accuse-devos-of-quick-about-face-on-climate-change/</a><br>
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>might
help pests resist corn's genetic weapon</span></a></h2>
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Climate change might be great news for pests looking to munch on
genetically modified crops, researchers propose.<br>
In particular, researchers analyzed 21 years of data from Maryland
cornfields and suggest that rising temperatures might help corn
earworms (Helicoverpa zea) develop resistance faster to a widespread
genetically built-in crop protection.<br>
Some commercial varieties of corn have been engineered with genes
for a toxin borrowed from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis,
known as Bt, that kills the earworms when they eat the crop. In
areas with a lot of Bt corn acreage, plants defended by the Bt
protein Cry1Ab suffered more earworm damage when summers grew
warmer, the team reports June 7 in Royal Society Open Science.<br>
Climate change might be great news for pests looking to munch on
genetically modified crops, researchers propose.<br>
In particular, researchers analyzed 21 years of data from Maryland
cornfields and suggest that rising temperatures might help corn
earworms (Helicoverpa zea) develop resistance faster to a widespread
genetically built-in crop protection.<br>
Some commercial varieties of corn have been engineered with genes
for a toxin borrowed from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis,
known as Bt, that kills the earworms when they eat the crop. In
areas with a lot of Bt corn acreage, plants defended by the Bt
protein Cry1Ab suffered more earworm damage when summers grew
warmer, the team reports June 7 in Royal Society Open Science.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-might-help-pests-resist-corns-genetic-weapon">https://www.sciencenews.org/article/climate-change-might-help-pests-resist-corns-genetic-weapon</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/6/170210">Climate
change, transgenic corn adoption and field-evolved resistance in
corn earworm</a></b><br>
Abstract<br>
Increased temperature anomaly during the twenty-first century
coincides with the proliferation of transgenic crops containing the
bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner) (Bt) to express
insecticidal Cry proteins. Increasing temperatures profoundly affect
insect life histories and agricultural pest management. However, the
implications of climate change on Bt crop–pest interactions and
insect resistance to Bt crops remains unexamined. We analysed the
relationship of temperature anomaly and Bt adoption with
field-evolved resistance to Cry1Ab Bt sweet corn in a major pest,
Helicoverpa zea (Boddie). Increased Bt adoption during 1996–2016
suppressed H. zea populations, but increased temperature anomaly
buffers population reduction. Temperature anomaly and its
interaction with elevated selection pressure from high Bt acreage
probably accelerated the Bt-resistance development. Helicoverpa zea
damage to corn ears, kernel area consumed, mean instars and
proportion of late instars in Bt varieties increased with Bt
adoption and temperature anomaly, through additive or interactive
effects. Risk of Bt-resistant H. zea spreading is high given
extensive Bt adoption, and the expected increase in overwintering
and migration. Our study highlights the challenges posed by climate
change for Bt biotechnology-based agricultural pest management, and
the need to incorporate evolutionary processes affected by climate
change into Bt-resistance management programmes.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/6/170210">http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/6/170210</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Merkel in Argentina talks Trump,
trade and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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Germany and Argentina have agreed on fostering multilateral trade
and protecting the environment from climate change, Chancellor
Angela Merkel said Thursday during a visit to the South American
country.<br>
Merkel is visiting Latin America through a series of trips ahead of
July's G-20 summit in Germany. The chancellor has criticized the
U.S. protectionist stance and called President Donald Trump's
decision to withdraw from the Paris climate pact "extremely
regrettable."<br>
In a press conference with President Mauricio Macri, Merkel said
both nations want to be part of an "interconnected world" and are
committed to defending the Paris accord.<br>
"No one alone in this world - no individual and no country - can
solve all the problems alone," Merkel said. "We must all work
together and we both advocate ... a free, open world in which we
want to shape globalization in a humane way."<br>
Merkel praised Argentina's potential for the development of
renewable resources and said Germany could use its experience to
help develop them. She also said the European Union should commit to
reaching a trade deal with the Mercosur bloc of South American
countries.<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">California, Tsinghua to set up
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The state of California and China's Tsinghua University will
establish a U.S.-China Climate Change Institute to cooperate on
technology and research in the battle against global warming, they
announced on Thursday.<br>
...California has promised to step up cooperation, announcing on
Tuesday it would work with China's science ministry to develop and
commercialize know-how on carbon capture and storage and other clean
energy technologies.<br>
The new institute was unveiled at an event in Tsinghua with
California governor Jerry Brown, who has been in Beijing this week
to discuss deepening cooperation with China on climate and clean
technology, after branding Trump's withdrawal from Paris as
"insane".<br>
The institute would focus not only on technological innovation, but
also climate change policies and strategies, Yao Qiang, director of
Tsinghua's Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy, told Reuters.<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">It Didn't Take Long for China to
Fill America's Shoes on<b style="font-weight: bold;">
Climate Change</b></span></a></h2>
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Just a week after President Trump announced his decision to withdraw
from the Paris Agreement, China has already wrestled the mantle of
leadership on climate change from the United States.<br>
In a high-level meeting of energy ministers in Beijing this week,
China played the convening role in bringing together countries from
across the globe for a discussion on how to deploy clean energy. The
meeting had been scheduled long before Trump's decision on the Paris
Agreement, but the timing sent a clear message about who will lead
the fight to address climate change in the coming years. During the
four-day meeting, China launched a number of initiatives to advance
clean energy and announced partnerships with other governments
around the globe to fight climate change.<br>
"I didn't come to Washington, I came to Beijing," said California
Governor Jerry Brown after announcing a joint clean energy effort
with Chinese leadership, according to a New York Times report.
"Well, someday I'm going to go to Washington, but not this week."<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">(opinion) Trump's Climate
Withdrawal Is An Impeachable Offense</span></a></h2>
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By pulling out of the climate accord, Trump "makes himself guilty of
what looks like a grave crime against humanity, the planet Earth,
and future generations," Uffe Elbæk, former Danish minister of
culture and leader of Denmark's Green Party, said.<br>
Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch calls the "system of destruction on a
planetary scale ... the ultimate 'crime against humanity.'" He
writes, "It is becoming a 'terracide.'"<br>
The House of Representatives Should Impeach Trump<br>
It takes 51 percent of the House of Representatives to impeach the
president. Republicans control a majority of the seats in the House.
But imperiling the planet should not be a partisan issue.<br>
The fact that virtually every other country in the world, as well as
U.S. states and cities, corporations and activists worldwide are
taking steps on their own to slow the changing climate does not
absolve Trump from his crime.<br>
It is incumbent upon the House of Representatives to vote for the
impeachment of Trump.<br>
Meanwhile, we must, and will, continue to build the global climate
justice movement.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666">Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita
at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the
National Lawyers Guild. Follow her on Twitter.<br>
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Day in Climate History June 9, 1993</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">June 9, 1993: The New York Times reports on the
demise of President Clinton's "BTU tax" proposal.<br>
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