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<font size="+1"><i>June 21, 2017<br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jun/20/dust-on-desert-winds-reduces-air-pollution">Dust
on desert winds reduces air pollution</a></b><br>
Study of Gobi sand blowing over east China finds air stagnates and
human-made <b>pollution rises when dusty winds die down</b>...<br>
People in China breathe more easily when dust-laden winds blow in
from the Gobi desert. Paradoxical as it sounds, desert dust helps to
keep human-made pollution down, a new study shows....<br>
This research showed that when the winds were slack the lack of
desert dust in the air allowed more solar radiation to reach the
surface. This lessened the temperature difference between land and
sea, reducing winds even further and helping the air to stagnate
over east China, creating the perfect conditions for a build-up of
pollutants produced by people. The effect was most pronounced during
the winter monsoon season...<br>
The<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15333"> findings,
published in Nature Communications,</a> suggest that air pollution
in eastern China increases by as much as 13% when the desert winds
are at their slackest...<br>
Observational data from dozens of sites backed up the model
findings, showing that the air became cleaner two or three days
after the winds brought dust into the region...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jun/20/dust-on-desert-winds-reduces-air-pollution">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jun/20/dust-on-desert-winds-reduces-air-pollution</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/06/20/honduras-farmers-climate-challenges">(audio)
Struggling Honduran Farmers Cope With Climate Challenges</a></b><br>
World leaders have called President Trump's withdrawal from the
Paris climate accord "regrettable" and "disappointing." But for
Honduran farmers, climate change is personal.<br>
The country has the dubious distinction of being ranked No. 3 in
the world on the list of countries most affected by global warming
between 1996 and 2014. Among Hondurans' challenges are storms, water
shortages and pests, and now, they risk losing millions in USAID
money earmarked to fight back.<br>
Here & Now's Karyn Miller-Medzon visited Honduras, where she met
with affected farmers.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/06/20/honduras-farmers-climate-challenges">http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/06/20/honduras-farmers-climate-challenges</a><br>
- more:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://latinamericagoesglobal.org/2017/05/just-facts-development-assistance-latin-american-caribbean-trumps-state-skinny-budget/">Development
assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean in Trump's "skinny
budget"</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://latinamericagoesglobal.org/2017/05/just-facts-development-assistance-latin-american-caribbean-trumps-state-skinny-budget/">http://latinamericagoesglobal.org/2017/05/just-facts-development-assistance-latin-american-caribbean-trumps-state-skinny-budget/</a><br>
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">2500 Cities Have Taken Up the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b>-<b
style="font-weight: bold;">Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fight</span></a></h2>
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More than 2,500 cities have now listed climate-change pledges on the
Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action (NAZCA) portal launched as
part of the 2014 Lima-Paris Action Agenda, HSBC notes.<br>
"We think this is extremely important because NSAs [non-state
actors] can move quicker in implementing climate change policies and
measures," reads the report.<br>
Cities and other NSAs tend to be faster than countries at making
decisions, and are more accountable to their local electorates. They
may also have greater control over which budgets can be assigned to
climate-change mitigation policies. (Some experts, however, warn
that cities are having serious problems implementing their own
climate goals.)<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/how-cities-are-taking-up-the-climate-change-fight">https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/how-cities-are-taking-up-the-climate-change-fight</a></font><br>
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sig2-oC7Ein9Z2aKFAXKycejo-g did--5295174792035133553"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/businesses-call-for-climate-tax-815dd8d00a18"
id="MAA4DEgGUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Exxon, Shell, and BP support a
Republican plan to do something about <b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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A carbon tax has long been touted as the free-market climate action
path.<br>
A group of major businesses, including Johnson & Johnson,
General Motors, and fossil fuel giants ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell,
announced Tuesday they have joined a Republican-led council that
proposes to put a $40 tax on carbon emissions.<br>
The companies, along with a list of high profile business people and
two environmental groups, are part of the Climate Leadership
Council, whose platform was written by former cabinet members James
Baker and George Shultz.<br>
The council's plan calls for starting fee of $40 per ton on carbon
emissions, which rises over time and is returned to taxpayers via
the Social Security Administration. It also includes a "border
carbon adjustment" - in which goods coming from outside the United
States would be charged for their carbon footprints - and
"significant regulatory rollback," intended to take carbon
regulations out of the hands of the EPA.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/businesses-call-for-climate-tax-815dd8d00a18">https://thinkprogress.org/businesses-call-for-climate-tax-815dd8d00a18</a></font><br>
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sig2-KQfQnPHPrkWBG6ISparW0Q did--7881895175548313942"
href="http://news.psu.edu/story/472084/2017/06/19/research/mann-receives-schneider-award-outstanding-climate-science"
style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none;"><span
class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Mann receives
Schneider award for outstanding climate science
communication | Penn State University</span></a></h2>
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SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric
science and director of the Earth System Science Center, Penn State,
will receive the seventh annual Stephen H. Schneider Award for
Outstanding Climate Science Communications from Climate One at the
Commonwealth Club.<br>
The $15,000 award is given to a natural or social scientist who has
made extraordinary scientific contributions and communicated that
knowledge to a broad public in a clear and compelling fashion. The
award was established in honor of Stephen Henry Schneider, one of
the founding fathers of climatology, who died suddenly in 2010.<br>
The jurors for the award state that Mann exemplifies the rare
ability to be both a superb scientist and powerful communicator in
the mold of Schneider.<br>
"Professor Mike Mann has been a world leader in scientific efforts
to understand the natural variability of the climate system and to
reconstruct global temperature variations over the past two
millennia,"<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://news.psu.edu/story/472084/2017/06/19/research/mann-receives-schneider-award-outstanding-climate-science">http://news.psu.edu/story/472084/2017/06/19/research/mann-receives-schneider-award-outstanding-climate-science</a></font><br>
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href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/20/climate-change-give-up-on-trump-congress-pressure-corporations-henry-waxman-column/102754204/"
id="MAA4DEgEUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">USAToday After Paris<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b> pullout,
give up on Trump and Congress for now</span></a></h2>
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Henry Waxman, -- <b>To confront our greatest common threat, we
need to put pressure on corporations. That's where the most change
can be made.</b><br>
The withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate accord is
one of President Trump's most irresponsible moves yet.<br>
But let's not kid ourselves, it was not reasonable to expect Trump
to keep us in the Paris accords - or to meet our obligations even if
we stayed in. Given his short and stunningly terrible record on
climate and the environment, we can reasonably conclude that this
likely never will be a climate-friendly administration.<br>
I believe it is time to accept that. At least until 2018, we will
not make any real progress in reducing America's greenhouse gas
emissions through federal policy. At best, we will be able to defend
existing climate, renewable energy and other environmental programs
and budgets. Even that goal, while essential to holding U.S.
emissions steady, will be hard enough for dedicated advocates to
achieve....<font size="-1" color="#666666"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/20/climate-change-give-up-on-trump-congress-pressure-corporations-henry-waxman-column/102754204/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/20/climate-change-give-up-on-trump-congress-pressure-corporations-henry-waxman-column/102754204/</a></font><br>
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id="MAA4C0gEUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Are Carbon Taxes The Solution To<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Global Warming</b>?</span></a></h2>
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That all said, getting taxes on carbon to the price where they
actually do the job that they are required to do hasn't occurred
anywhere in the world yet. British Columbia's revenue neutral carbon
tax was stopped at $30 per tonne, which is at least $60 below the
minimum necessary for the scale of the problem. Australia shut down
their carbon tax foolishly, even though it was reducing emissions at
its low price of $23, and didn't get anywhere near high enough to
make a significant different.<br>
Carbon taxes aren't the entire solution. But they are part of the
tool kit.<br>
Taxes change behavior. They aren't punitive.<br>
And don't forget the reason why carbon taxes appeal to some
libertarians and conservatives despite their aversion to government
in general: revenue neutrality. In this model, when government
revenues increase through a carbon tax, they decrease via tax cuts
elsewhere. The typical model is to reduce income taxes.<br>
That all said, getting taxes on carbon to the price where they
actually do the job that they are required to do hasn't occurred
anywhere in the world yet. British Columbia's revenue neutral carbon
tax was stopped at $30 per tonne, which is at least $60 below the
minimum necessary for the scale of the problem. Australia shut down
their carbon tax foolishly, even though it was reducing emissions at
its low price of $23, and didn't get anywhere near high enough to
make a significant different.<br>
Carbon taxes aren't the entire solution. But they are part of the
tool kit.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/06/19/are-carbon-taxes-the-solution-to-global-warming/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/06/19/are-carbon-taxes-the-solution-to-global-warming/</a></font><br>
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id="MAA4DEgAUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Australia warned it has radically
underestimated<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>security threat</span></a></h2>
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As the Senate launches an inquiry into the national security
ramifications of climate change, a new report has warned global
warming will cause increasingly regular and severe humanitarian
crises across the Asia-Pacific.<br>
Disaster Alley, written by the Breakthrough Centre for Climate
Restoration, forecasts climate change could potentially displace
tens of millions from swamped cities, drive fragile states to
failure, cause intractable political instability, and spark military
conflict.<br>
Report co-author Ian Dunlop argues Australia's political and
corporate leaders, by refusing to accept the need for urgent climate
action now, are "putting the Australian community in extreme
danger".<br>
"Global warming will drive increasingly severe humanitarian crises,
forced migration, political instability and conflict. The Asia
Pacific region, including Australia, is considered to be 'disaster
alley' where some of the worst impacts will be experienced," the
report, released this morning, says.<font size="-1" color="#666666"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/21/australia-warned-it-has-radically-underestimated-climate-change-security-threat">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/21/australia-warned-it-has-radically-underestimated-climate-change-security-threat</a></font><br>
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<b> </b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0wk1CBFgk">Climate
Change Implications for Wildfire in Alaska: Randi Jandt</a></b></font><br>
Randi Jandt is a Fire Ecologist for the Alaska Fire Science
Consortium located in Fairbanks, Alaska.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0wk1CBFgk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef0wk1CBFgk</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats"><br>
</a><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats">This
Day in Climate History June 21, 2010</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
In the New Republic, Brad Plumer writes that if the Senate can't
pass cap-and-trade, the EPA should move ahead with regulating carbon
emissions. He further observes:<br>
"In the long term, though, we'd really need a price on carbon to
transform the country's energy sector and give people incentive to
develop new clean-energy technologies—having the EPA just flatly
tell polluters that they have to adopt this or that specific
pollution-cutting gizmo isn't very good for innovation. But hey,
maybe a few years from now we'll have a Congress that's ready to
address this problem. Odder things have happened."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats">http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats</a></font><br>
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