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<font size="+1"><i>June 13, 2017</i></font><br>
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usg-AFQjCNEO2w0_3zNX94V04QDE3XZ7_ZGkAg
sig2-v14cHYR1zsgcxUxioleGcA did-8628333322812960132"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/valley-fever-soars-climate-change-8b236cf4e9c9"
id="MAA4DEgAUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>drives
Valley Fever to soar 800 percent in the US Southwest</span></a></h2>
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New research directly links the rise in Valley Fever to the rise in
dust storms, which in turn is driven by climate change. Valley
Fever, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls "a
fungal lung infection that can be devastating," is caused by
inhaling soil-dwelling fungus. When the soil dries out and turns to
dust, the wind can make the fungus airborne.<br>
"Dust storms are found to better correlated with the disease than
any other known controlling factor," a new study led by NOAA
scientists concluded.<br>
A 2016 study found that the semi-arid Southwest has begun to enter a
"drier climate state," which matches findings from a 2015 study
documenting an expansion of the entire world's dry and semi-arid
climate regions in recent decades as a result of human-caused
climate change.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/valley-fever-soars-climate-change-8b236cf4e9c9">https://thinkprogress.org/valley-fever-soars-climate-change-8b236cf4e9c9</a></font><br>
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sig2-HGNR7LkCcTXd-V7xFxZjoA did-7355911161214757750"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/12/climate/formacist-climate-science-curriculum.html"
id="MAA4AEgTUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Teachers and Parents: Are You
Teaching Climate Change? <br>
</span></a></h2>
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Last week I wrote about a teacher, James Sutter, who is teaching the
basics of climate change - the planet is warming and humans are
primarily responsible - in a Ohio high school where many students
are raised to believe it is bunk.<br>
Since then, dozens of teachers across the country, including many
who are New York Times readers, have shared classroom experiences
that are similar and very different. It seems clear that, as a
nation, we are still figuring out how, or whether, children should
be taught about climate change, not to mention how parents and
teachers can learn about it themselves. I'd like to hear more, from
all areas of the country and from all points of view.<br>
Teachers, parents and students: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/12/climate/formacist-climate-science-curriculum.html">Please
share your story using the form below.</a> I'm interested in both
stories of conflict and creative resolution at home or in the
classroom, so feel free to share what's in lesson plans and other
notable details.<br>
Your name and comments may be published, but your contact
information will not. I or a colleague might contact you to learn
more about your story. at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/12/climate/formacist-climate-science-curriculum.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/12/climate/formacist-climate-science-curriculum.html</a><br>
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sig2-MnGAvdJDtsGRpPoCqX4KFQ did-2757674335657555262"
href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/readers/2017/06/12/blaming-global-warming-our-creator-abdicates-our-responsibility-act/382718001/"
id="MAA4C0gCUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">(opinion letter) Blaming<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">global warming</b> on our
'creator' abdicates our responsibility to act</span></a></h2>
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Max Isaacson's June 7 letter stated that he... can't believe that
the current situation is a "man made" condition.<br>
His reasoning is to ignore that the current carbon output on this
planet started with the Industrial Revolution, leading to
coal-burning power plants, gas-powered automobiles, jet airplanes
and modern-powered society, none of which existed 12,000 years ago.
Since they did not exist, they did not cause any climate change in
prehistoric times, so how could those modern inventions cause it
now? This makes no sense.<br>
He continues to say his creator caused these outcomes, but fails to
state whether we should even try to cure our planet, as one might
work to be rid of cancer upon a diagnosis. Just attributing
calamity, either personal or planetary, to a creator without doing
anything to reverse the disease puts too much blame on the creator,
and abdicates our own responsibilities to act. - Diane S. Kolmer,
West Des Moines<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/readers/2017/06/12/blaming-global-warming-our-creator-abdicates-our-responsibility-act/382718001/">http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/readers/2017/06/12/blaming-global-warming-our-creator-abdicates-our-responsibility-act/382718001/</a></font><br>
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sig2-3oeIOG5ddCyNtEXAwKGFdA did--1415836795088632449"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/12/the-larsen-c-ice-shelf-collapse-hammers-home-the-reality-of-climate-change"
id="MAA4DEgCUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">The Larsen C ice shelf collapse
hammers home the reality of<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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Very soon, a large portion of an ice shelf in Antarctica will break
off and collapse into the ocean. The name of the ice shelf is Larsen
C; it is a major extension from of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and
its health has implications for other ice in the region, and sea
levels globally.<b><br>
</b>The entire Larsen Ice shelf, which is the fourth largest in
Antarctica, covers nearly 50,000 square km (20,000 square miles)
according to reporting at ABC science. The ice on the land upstream
of the shelf is enough to raise sea level, eventually, by ten
centimeters. This is not, by itself, a major threat to the world's
coastlines, but it reveals the path that other, even larger areas
are likely to take in the future.<br>
What we are really concerned about isn't just this breaking event
that will occur quite soon. We are more concerned about the rest of
the Larsen C ice shelf. Will it disintegrate now that the protective
shelf is gone? If it does disintegrate, will the ice up-land follow
suit, and flow into the oceans thereby further increasing sea
levels?<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/12/the-larsen-c-ice-shelf-collapse-hammers-home-the-reality-of-climate-change">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/12/the-larsen-c-ice-shelf-collapse-hammers-home-the-reality-of-climate-change</a></font><b><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/indias-heat-waves-more-deadly-21522">India's
Punishing Heat Waves More Deadly With Warming</a></b><br>
Heat waves in India have become more extreme and significantly more
deadly even with the relatively moderate amount of human-driven
warming that has occurred over the past few decades, new research
shows.<br>
That rising global temperature will lead to more, and more intense,
extreme heat events is one of the clearest findings of climate
science. Several studies have already found the fingerprints of the
nearly 2°F (1°C) of warming over the past century in today's heat
waves.<br>
Further warming will only intensify the trend: A 2016 study found
that heat waves that would typically only happen about once every 20
years now could become an annual threat for more than half the
world's land area if greenhouse gas emissions aren't curtailed.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/indias-heat-waves-more-deadly-21522">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/indias-heat-waves-more-deadly-21522</a></font><br>
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sig2-XHb9a5z8A88_iKZlpY9NqQ did--4932656932290981327"
href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608089/climate-change-has-made-heat-waves-much-more-deadly-mainly-for-the-poor/"
id="MAA4DEgGUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Has
Made Heat Waves Much More Deadly, Mainly for the Poor</span></a></h2>
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Research on extreme heat in India shows that economic inequality is
already proving lethal as the world warms.<br>
A study published in Science Advances shows that as average summer
temperatures in India rose 0.5 oC from 1960 until 2009, the chance
of a heat wave causing more than 100 deaths more than doubled. As
the authors write, their work is far from theoretical: heat waves in
2010, 2013, and 2015 each killed thousands of people across the
country. In May 2016, the northwestern city of Jaisalmer recorded
India's most intense heat wave ever, while just last month a city in
nearby Pakistan recorded a temperature of 53.5 oC (over 128 oF) -
the hottest temperature ever measured on Earth in the month of May.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608089/climate-change-has-made-heat-waves-much-more-deadly-mainly-for-the-poor/">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608089/climate-change-has-made-heat-waves-much-more-deadly-mainly-for-the-poor/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/Io8o2nTXhb0">What
is Fracking?</a></b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/Io8o2nTXhb0"><br>
</a>BrainStuff - HowStuffWorks<br>
Published on Jan 29, 2015<br>
You've heard of fracking, and you're pretty sure lots of people
don't like it, but do you know how it actually works?<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/Io8o2nTXhb0">https://youtu.be/Io8o2nTXhb0</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3166">How
Was A Climate Crisis Denier Elected President of The United
States?</a></b><br>
Only 16% of people surveyed are very worried about climate change.<br>
Here's what we plan to do about it.<br>
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!<br>
Actually, they're not.<br>
Corporate news is consumed with covering the Trump/Russia affair,
but whatever the truth of all this turns out to be, it pales in
significance to the real existential threat that is upon us. Largely
due to a lack of coverage by corporate television news, there is a
dangerous lack of public awareness of it.<br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3166">http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3166</a></font><br>
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href="https://hbr.org/2017/06/if-you-think-fighting-climate-change-will-be-expensive-calculate-the-cost-of-letting-it-happen"
id="MAA4DEgAUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">If You Think Fighting <b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Will Be Expensive,
Calculate the Cost of Letting It Happen</span></a></h2>
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For recent examples of what climate disruptions will look like in
practice, consider Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the Eastern
Seaboard in 2012, causing $68 billion in damages, making it the
second most costly weather event in the U.S. after Hurricane
Katrina. Record snowfall in Boston of more than 100 inches in the
winter of 2015 shut down transit systems for weeks and made it
difficult, if not impossible, for some employees to get to work. The
"rain bomb" that imperiled the Oroville Dam in California earlier
this year threatened the displacement of more than 250,000
downstream residents. A similar rain bomb effectively destroyed
historic downtown Ellicott City in 2016, just outside of Washington
D.C. Air quality and smog red alerts and the complete bans on
vehicle traffic in major cities around the world highlight how
traditional commerce and supply chains can and do grind to a halt
because of climate risks. Record flooding in Thailand in 2011
severely impacted air travel, tourism, and one of the major regional
airports in Asia.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://hbr.org/2017/06/if-you-think-fighting-climate-change-will-be-expensive-calculate-the-cost-of-letting-it-happen">https://hbr.org/2017/06/if-you-think-fighting-climate-change-will-be-expensive-calculate-the-cost-of-letting-it-happen</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-06-13/news/1993164025_1_btu-tax-energy-tax-gasoline-tax">This
Day in Climate History June 13, 1993,</a> <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB992378085878375783.html?dsk=y">2001 </a>
- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="+1">June 13, 1993: The Baltimore Sun
reports on the well-financed effort by libertarian activists and
fossil-fuel industry lobbyists to stop the BTU tax.</font><br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-06-13/news/1993164025_1_btu-tax-energy-tax-gasoline-tax">http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-06-13/news/1993164025_1_btu-tax-energy-tax-gasoline-tax</a>
</font><font size="+1"><br>
<br>
</font><font size="+1">June 13, 2001: The Wall Street Journal
reports on the coal industry's extensive efforts to get George
W. Bush elected President.</font><br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB992378085878375783.html?dsk=y">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB992378085878375783.html?dsk=y</a>
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