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<font size="+1"><i>June 14, 2017</i></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Don't ignore young people - we're
key to fighting climate change</span></a></h2>
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The news should be a starting gun for a new wave of activism, action
and change. Because...the real change is going to come from us. Call
us millennials or Gen Z or Net Gen, we're the consumers, employees,
employers and future leaders who will see the devastating effects of
climate change.<br>
We are also the most connected generation in history, with the
capacity to arrange coordinated global protests ...<br>
And yet, many of the NGOs, charities and global campaigns are
failing to mobilise us. <br>
...recent research shows that only 11% of the globe's NGOs employ a
designated full-time or part-time social media manager.<br>
That means they're losing the 28% of young people that use social
media as their primary news source. It means they're missing out on
the 43% of millennials that are driven to make financial donations
through social channels, the one in two who'll share ideas with
their friends online, or most importantly the one in three willing
to donate their time.<br>
Recent research demonstrates that one in seven millennials around
the world identify as "activists" and half of those recognise their
activism as an important part of who they are. It's one of the many
reasons the likes of Apple, Facebook and Goldman Sachs are
prioritising their environmental focus despite Trump's actions –
they know it matters to their future customers and workforce.<br>
My generation was born into a world where climate change is an
immutable fact, ...a global threat, ... We've got to make this the
issue we tackle and overcome.<br>
Daisy Kendrick is a 23-year old environmental campaigner and founder
of We Are The Oceans<br>
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<a
href="https://theconversation.com/the-three-minute-story-of-800-000-years-of-climate-change-with-a-sting-in-the-tail-73368"><b>Three-minute
story of 800,000 years of climate change with a sting in the
tail</b></a><br>
</font>There are those who say the climate has always changed, and
that carbon dioxide levels have always fluctuated. That's true. But
it's also true that since the industrial revolution, CO₂ levels in
the atmosphere have climbed to levels that are unprecedented over
hundreds of millennia.<br>
So here's a short video we made, to put recent climate change and
carbon dioxide emissions into the context of the past 800,000 years.<br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/rivf479bW8Q">video 3 minutes: </a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/rivf479bW8Q">Why reducing our carbon
emissions matters (a little story about climate change)</a><br>
While it's true that Earth's temperatures and carbon dioxide levels
have always fluctuated, the reality is that humans' greenhouse
emissions since the industrial revolution have put us in uncharted
territory.<br>
<b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/rivf479bW8Q">https://youtu.be/rivf479bW8Q</a></b><br>
The fundamental science is very well understood. The evidence that
climate change is happening is abundant and clear. The difficult
part is: what do we do next? More than ever, we need strong,
cooperative and accountable leadership from politicians of all
nations. Only then will we avoid the worst of climate change and
adapt to the impacts we can't halt.<br>
The authors acknowledge the contributions of Wes Mountain
(multimedia), Alicia Egan (editing) and Andrew King (model
projection data).<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/the-three-minute-story-of-800-000-years-of-climate-change-with-a-sting-in-the-tail-73368">https://theconversation.com/the-three-minute-story-of-800-000-years-of-climate-change-with-a-sting-in-the-tail-73368</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-landmark-climate-change-lawsuit-2017-6"
id="MAA4AEgOUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">The Trump administration is doing
everything it can to keep a huge<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lawsuit from going
to trial</span></a></h2>
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(Dana Varinsky) The Trump administration is seeking a rare review of
a preliminary decision in a landmark climate change lawsuit -
before the case has even gone to trial.<br>
The plaintiffs in the case are 21 kids who range in age from 9 to
21. They argue that the federal government is violating their
constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property by engaging in
actions that contribute to climate change despite long-held
knowledge of its dangerous consequences.<br>
In November 2016, a federal judge denied all motions to dismiss the
case, paving the way for it to go to trial. The Trump administration
tried to appeal that decision (the plaintiffs named President Trump
as a defendant instead of Barack Obama in February, under the
federal rules), but the judge denied that request.<br>
Now, the administration's lawyers are petitioning for a rare legal
procedure - a writ of mandamus - in which a higher court would
step in and review the lower court's decision to let the case
proceed.<br>
The youth plaintiffs aren't seeking financial compensation for the
damage climate change is causing, though many have filed statements
about how global warming has specifically impacted their lives.
Instead, they're asking the court to compel federal agencies to end
policies that directly hurt the environment (like permitting and
subsidizing fossil fuel extraction) and move to phase out excess
carbon dioxide emissions.<br>
"At its heart, this lawsuit asks this Court to determine whether
defendants have violated plaintiffs' constitutional rights," Judge
Aiken wrote. "That question is squarely within the purview of the
judiciary."<br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">(Snopes) Did 58 Scientific Papers
Published in 2017 Say <b style="font-weight: bold;">Global
Warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is
a Myth?</span></a></h2>
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An article on Breitbart News used flawed interpretations from a
climate skeptic blog to amplify a grossly inaccurate understanding
of climatological research.<br>
<b>CLAIM</b> A total of 58 peer-reviewed papers published in the
first half of 2017 conclude that global warming is a myth.<br>
<b>RATING</b> False<br>
<b>ORIGIN </b> On 6 June 2017, Breitbart News ran an article
titled "'Global Warming' Is a Myth, Say 58 Scientific Papers in
2017". This article, which is in essence merely a link to a post
from a blog that goes by the name "No Tricks Zone" and some added
musings on "grant-troughing scientists," "huxter politicians,"
"scaremongering green activists," and "brainwashed mainstream media
environmental correspondents," claims that this ragtag collection of
studies proves that the long-standing scientific consensus on
climate change is nothing but a myth.<br>
The blog post Breitbart linked to is a list of 80 graphs (so many
graphs!) taken from 58 studies. The analysis of the findings
presented by No Tricks Zone is crude, misinformed, and riddled with
errors. ...<br>
...We rank the claims made by both Breitbart and No Tricks Zone as
false, because they dramatically misrepresent the findings of the
scientists who conducted the research and utilize poorly-articulated
straw man arguments to further misrepresent the significance of the
work of those scientists. These studies were local in nature, narrow
in scope, meant to address how the climate system functioned in the
past, and pose no threat to the tenets of anthropogenic climate
change.<br>
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href="http://www.snopes.com/scientific-papers-global-warming-myth/">http://www.snopes.com/scientific-papers-global-warming-myth/</a></font><br>
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Understanding multi-decadal<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">global warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>rate changes</span></a></h2>
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...the globally-averaged surface temperature has shown distinct
multi-decadal fluctuations since 1900, <br>
...It is the net impact of multiple ocean surface temperature
changes, rather than a single ocean basin change, that plays a main
driver for the multi-decadal global warming accelerations and
slowdowns.<br>
The new finding of the importance of multiple ocean surface
temperature changes to the multi-decadal global warming
accelerations and slowdowns is supported by a set of computer
modeling experiments, in which observed sea surface temperature
changes are specified in individual ocean basins, separately. The
results are published in "Distinct global warming rates tied to
multiple ocean surface temperature changes", in the June 12 online
issue of Nature Climate Change.<br>
"It reveals a fact that we need to explore climate change in a more
global perspective. This could stimulate an integrated strategy and
coordinated effort toward understanding the causes of regional ocean
changes."<br>
"While the tropical Pacific was generally regarded as a key
contributor to the multi-decadal global warming rate changes, other
ocean basins, including the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the
Southern Ocean, also exert important effects. "<br>
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href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/ioap-umg061317.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/ioap-umg061317.php</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=808356"><font
size="+1"><b>Book: Rising Tides</b></font></a><b> Climate
Refugees in the Twenty-First Century</b><br>
John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins<br>
Global climate change is undeniable. Over the next few decades, as
sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification
run rampant, hundreds of millions of civilians will abandon their
homes, cities, and even entire countries. What will happen to these
massive numbers of environmental refugees? Where will they go, what
rights will they have, and who will take care of them?<br>
Over 200 million people in Asian countries live on land that will be
affected by rising seas. Picture Pakistan, India, and China - all
nuclear powers - skirmishing at their borders over access to shared
rivers and farmable land with former coastal areas now submerged.
Imagine tens of thousands of Pacific and Indian Ocean islanders cast
adrift by waves that have drowned their nations, and more than
100,000 Caribbean islanders forced to leave submerged towns.
Consider the complete abandonment of Miami Beach and other coastal
communities up and down the Americas. At the same time, hundreds of
millions will be desperate for water and a secure life in
drought-ravaged Africa and the Middle East.<br>
Rising Tides sounds an urgent wakeup call to the growing crisis of
climate refugees, and offers an essential, continent-by-continent
look at these dangers. The crisis is everywhere and it is imminent.
Detailing a number of solutions, John R. Wennersten and Denise
Robbins argue that no nation can tackle this universal problem
alone. The crisis of climate refugees requires global, concerted
solutions beyond the strategic, fiscal, and legal capability of a
single country or agency.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=808356">http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=808356</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Merkel urges bigger fight against<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
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(Reuters) Germany and the rest of Europe should redouble their
efforts to fight climate change after the withdrawal of the United
States from the Paris climate pact, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on
Tuesday.<br>
Merkel told members of her conservative party in the German town of
Erfurt that the U.S. decision would not stop those committed to
protecting the earth from continuing their efforts.<br>
"For us, it is clear that the Paris agreement is a cornerstone for
cooperation in the world," she told the event, which was
livestreamed on Facebook. "I believe we must take even more decisive
action in Germany and Europe to join forces to combat climate
change."<br>
Merkel said the efforts would pay off for humanity and would also
spur economic growth.<br>
The German leader, who is seeking a fourth term in September
national elections, said she had been involved in the issue for
nearly her entire political career. She served as German Environment
Minister from 1994 to 1998.<br>
Climate change is likely to be a contentious issue when U.S.
President Donald Trump visits Germany next month for a summit of the
Group of 20 industrialized countries.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-germany-idUSKBN1942OO">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-germany-idUSKBN1942OO</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22423-2/">US cities face
growing flood risks</a></b></font><br>
As the seas rise, US cities can expect varied flood risks: some will
have more of the worst floods, others more frequent familiar
inundations.<br>
By Tim Radford<br>
LONDON, 13 June, 2017 – Sea level rise – driven by global warming
and climate change – will bring new flood risks to America's coastal
cities.<br>
Paradoxically, those conurbations already at risk of catastrophic
floods driven by hurricanes can expect a greater number of
"moderate" floods. And those cities that have little or no history
of severe flooding can expect a greater level of risk from
historically unprecedented inundation, according to a new study in
the journal Environmental Research L.etters <br>
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href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22423-2/">http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22423-2/</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/11/new-sham-journal-OMICS-climate-science-denier-ties-heartland-institute">Editor
of New 'Sham Journal' Is Climate Science Denier With Ties to
Heartland Institute</a></b></font><br>
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Readfearn</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
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none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>• Sunday, June
11, 2017 - </span><br>
The title alone of the scientific paper could have suggested one of
two things - either the author deserved a Nobel prize in science,
or something very odd was going on.<br>
Professor Steve Sherwood knew it was not the former.<br>
The paper's title was grandiose but sincere - "The Refutation of
the Climate Greenhouse Theory and a Proposal for a Hopeful
Alternative" - and appeared in a publication with a name that
sounded like a legitimate scientific journal. But appearances don't
always stack up, and neither did this paper.<br>
"The paper is laughable," Sherwood told DeSmog.<br>
"It is so riddled with unsupported, fantastic and … or …
unintelligible claims, arranged in a disorderly fashion and
sprinkled liberally with innuendo,<br>
Climate scientists have told DeSmog that anyone considering
publishing in the "pseudo journal" should steer clear or risk
damaging their reputation.<br>
After just two issues, the journal has published six papers claiming
to refute the science linking human activity to dangerous climate
change - claims that run counter to the conclusions of all the
world's major science academies.<br>
Climate scientists have described the papers as "garbage" and
"ridiculous."...<br>
Two scientists listed as editorial board members at Environment
Pollution and Climate Change told DeSmog they had not been aware of
the nature of the climate articles being published at the journal.<br>
One scientist, Manolis Tyllianakis, an environmental economist
working at a UK government agency, had accepted an email invitation
to be on the editorial board before the first issue had been
published. He told DeSmog he had not read, written, or reviewed any
articles.<br>
He said he was "very sorry I was included in such a journal" and
said his own research showed he was "completely against" the views
being expressed.<br>
He added: "From this market failure arose the predatory open-access
publication, where marginal academics can get stuff published that
would never get published in legitimate journals.<br>
"Climate skeptics have simply taken advantage of this to get their
particular brand of bullshit published. Ultimately, though, most
people know a fourth-rate journal when they see it and I don't think
these faux peer-reviewed papers are taken seriously by anyone. At
least I hope not."<br>
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href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/11/new-sham-journal-OMICS-climate-science-denier-ties-heartland-institute">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/06/11/new-sham-journal-OMICS-climate-science-denier-ties-heartland-institute</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatecodered.org/2017/06/will-adanis-coal-mine-kill-500000-people.html">Will
Adani's coal mine kill 500,000 people? </a></b></font><br>
If all goes as Adani plans, coal from its proposed mine in
Queensland will produce enough air pollution to kill hundreds of
thousands of Indians. Given that this risk is not only known but
avoidable, would it be fair to say that the businessmen and
politicians developing this mine will be guilty of premeditated mass
murder? Here are the facts and the competing arguments: you make the
call.<br>
Scientists found that air pollution from coal burnt to generate
electricity in India causes the premature deaths of 80,000 to
115,000 people per year from chronic lung conditions, respiratory
infections, heart diseases, strokes, bronchitis and trachea and lung
cancers. 10,000 of these victims are children under the age of 5. In
addition every year tens of millions of cases of asthma and other
respiratory ailments are linked to coal pollution including 21
million asthma attacks. <br>
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href="http://www.climatecodered.org/2017/06/will-adanis-coal-mine-kill-500000-people.html">http://www.climatecodered.org/2017/06/will-adanis-coal-mine-kill-500000-people.html</a></font><br>
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Two years after Pope Francis launched Laudato Si, the Vatican's plea
to save the Earth, Trump rejected its tenets and the Paris
Agreement. But people of all faiths are unified globally to beat
climate change.<br>
JUSTIN CATANOSO<br>
Two years after the release of Laudato Si - and long after its
intense global attention has faded - it's worth asking: is the
uncompromising and unprecedented Catholic teaching document
fulfilling Vatican expectations by uniting leaders of all faiths,
along with their billions of congregants, to take decisive climate
action "in care for our common home"?<br>
The answer is a qualified "yes" - based on evidence from interviews
with a range of faith leaders, recent conferences, signed pledges,
and a host a concrete actions, large and small, in congregations and
seminaries around the world.<br>
"There is an assumption that if religious leaders let the pope talk
about [environmental protection], it will usher in rapid,
large-scale change," said Fletcher Harper, executive director of
GreenFaith, a U.S.-based interfaith environmental activism
organization with an international reach.<br>
On May 10th, nine large Catholic organizations - one global, five
from Italy, two from the U.S., and one from the United Kingdom -
announced their divestment from coal, oil, and gas stocks in what
was deemed "the largest Catholic fossil fuel divestment to date," by
the Global Catholic Climate Movement.<br>
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href="https://psmag.com/social-justice/growing-concern-over-climate-change-is-creating-interfaith-dialogue">https://psmag.com/social-justice/growing-concern-over-climate-change-is-creating-interfaith-dialogue</a></font><br>
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</i><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/Novak-President-not-giving-in-to-his-greens-2025433.php">This
Day in Climate History June 14, 2001</a> - from D.R. Tucker<br>
</b></font></font>In his nationally syndicated column, Robert
Novak writes:<br>
"For weeks, a contingent of greens inside the administration has
been pressing the president to look more and more like Al Gore. Bush
has been forced to fight his own advisers in order to maintain his
rejection of the Kyoto treaty and his call for more science to
determine the true causes of climate change.<br>
"The last such encounter was over substantial government spending to
combat global warming, proposed in his [June 11] speech. According
to administration sources, Deputy National Security Adviser Gary
Edson inserted the money figures on his own initiative. A veteran of
the Reagan and first Bush administrations, Edson, under the new
president, has established himself as a formidable bureaucratic
infighter and a leading proponent of a forward position on global
warming.<br>
"His ally has been John Bridgeland, deputy domestic policy adviser
in the White House, who has coordinated the task force on global
warming. In private meetings, Bridgeland has argued that giant
industrial concerns are enthusiastic about plans to voluntarily
reduce carbon dioxide emissions in tacit fulfillment of the Kyoto
accord.<br>
"Edson and Bridgeland are not alone as middle-level staffers
confronting solid opposition from on high. Environmental Protection
Administrator Christie Whitman has pressed for control of CO2
emissions from her first day in office, and she is supported by
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill (called 'Mr. Global Warming' by
dismissive congressional conservatives) and Bridgeland's boss,
domestic policy chief Josh Bolten.<br>
"Behind closed doors of the task force, they urged Bush to embrace
the global warmers and come out for caps on CO2 emissions. An e-mail
floating around the capital last week listed a proposed schedule
that would finally eliminate these emissions by the year 2050. White
House aides, with some passion, denounced this report as a fantasy.
However, other administration officials contend that at one point, a
draft of the president's speech did call for voluntary CO2 emission
controls as the message he would carry to Europe.<br>
"The Bush greens ultimately failed. In task force meetings so
restricted that the senior staffers of Cabinet members were not
permitted to attend, the CO2 caps were removed after considerable
debate. That retained the president's renouncing of the Kyoto
accord, contending that its emission targets are 'arbitrary and not
based on science.'"<br>
In his 2003 book "The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George
W. Bush," former Bush administration speechwriter David Frum notes
that "bureaucratic rivals" of Edson and Bridgeland leaked the story
of their defeat to Novak out of spite.<br>
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