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<font size="+1"><i>June 23, 2017</i></font><br>
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad<br>
I never know whether to be amused or just sad when deniers compare
today's heat waves to that of the 1930s. Here's June 1934 vs 2016<br>
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sig2-zMHBEg2hbSY-c9J1_qnMUA did--521277789171603361"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-altering-droughts-us-21563"
id="MAA4DEgBUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Altering
Droughts, Impacts Across US</span></a></h2>
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The stakes are high. Extreme drought across the U.S. has contributed
to tens of thousands of job losses, unpredictable and often extreme
rainfall and devastating wildfires that have left behind many
millions of charred acres of land and billions of dollars in
property losses. Study author Richard Heim, Jr., a researcher at the
National Centers for Environmental Information at NOAA, compared a
nationwide series of dry spells beginning in 1998 to two other
devastating droughts in the 1930s and 1950s, including the Dust
Bowl....<br>
"Most droughts are a bit quirky in their character, and all droughts
impact a different society and economy than their predecessors
making each drought and its lessons substantially unique," Lund
said. "Still, it is very likely that higher temperatures will worsen
the severity of droughts."<br>
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href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-altering-droughts-us-21563">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-altering-droughts-us-21563</a></font><br>
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bold;"><a target="_blank" class="article
usg-AFQjCNFTl7GTVOr4AUI9kBoxSCNi29jC2w
sig2-MEnDheXKPa3RNcK3rDuHWA did-3222461996281757265"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trumps-putdown-of-wind-energy-whips-up-a-backlash-in-iowa/2017/06/22/4e299a9a-578b-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html"
id="MAA4AkgCUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Trump's putdown of wind energy
whips up a backlash in Iowa</span></a></h2>
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Trump was talking up his support for coal during his speech in Cedar
Rapids on Wednesday night when he said: "I don't want to just hope
the wind blows to light up your homes and your factories." He paused
before adding, "as the birds fall to the ground," a reference to
birds killed by turbines.<br>
The remark drew some cheers and laughs inside the arena but didn't
go over well across Iowa, where the rapid growth of the state's wind
energy industry has been a bipartisan success story.
Environmentalists and politicians said the president's suggestion
that wind is unreliable was outdated and off-base, and noted that
bird deaths have been minimized and aren't a source of controversy
in Iowa....<br>
In the most ever for any state, Iowa last year generated 36.6
percent of its electricity from wind. That figure is expected to
keep growing, with the state's two largest utilities having already
started $4 billion in additional wind expansion projects...<br>
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href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trumps-putdown-of-wind-energy-whips-up-a-backlash-in-iowa/2017/06/22/4e299a9a-578b-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trumps-putdown-of-wind-energy-whips-up-a-backlash-in-iowa/2017/06/22/4e299a9a-578b-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html</a></font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/21/top-global-banks-still-lend-billions-extract-fossil-fuels"><br>
<font color="#000099">"</font>Top global banks still lend
billions to extract fossil fuels<font color="#000099">"</font></a></b></font><br>
Rainforest Action Network, BankTrack, Sierra Club, and Oil Change
International released the 8th annual fossil fuel finance report
card, Banking on Climate Change, in collaboration with 28
organizations around the world. The report finds that 2016 saw a
steep fall in bank funding for extreme fossil fuels - and yet, with
near-failing grades on their policies to rein in fossil fuel
investments, big banks lack guardrails to prevent a future rise in
financing these destructive, risky sectors that should be the first
to go in the energy transition. <br>
You can read the report and interact with the data at <a
href="https://www.ran.org/banking_on_climate_change">www.ran.org/bankingonclimatechange</a>.<br>
In addition to detailing the $290 billion that 37 big banks poured
into extreme fossil fuels in the past 3 years, the report card
grades bank on their policies, and highlights key case studies: the
Keystone XL and Trans Mountain tar sands pipelines, Peabody Energy's
bankruptcy, coal mining in Poland, coal power expansion plans in
Vietnam and the Philippines, LNG terminals in Maryland and Texas'
Rio Grande Valley, and the Dakota Access Pipeline.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/21/top-global-banks-still-lend-billions-extract-fossil-fuels">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/21/top-global-banks-still-lend-billions-extract-fossil-fuels</a></font><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ran.org/banking_on_climate_change">https://www.ran.org/banking_on_climate_change</a></font><br>
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<font color="#000099"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-shrinking-the-colorado-river-76280">Climate
change is shrinking the Colorado River</a></b></font><br>
It takes years to implement new water agreements, so states, cities
and major water users should start to plan now for significant
temperature-induced flow declines. With the Southwest's ample
renewable energy resources and low costs for producing solar power,
we can also lead the way in reducing greenhouse gas emissions,
inducing other regions to do the same. Failing to act on climate
change means accepting the very high risk that the Colorado River
Basin will continue to dry up into the future.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-shrinking-the-colorado-river-76280">https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-shrinking-the-colorado-river-76280</a><br>
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sig2-gv1UUEyak5X1aY3Pf7oiFw did--7590987377774839572"
href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jun/22/rick-perry/rick-perry-wrongly-downplays-human-role-climate-ch/"
id="MAA4DEgAUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Rick Perry wrongly downplays
human role in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></h2>
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry downplayed the role of human activity in
the recent rise in the Earth's temperature, saying natural causes
are likely the main driver of climate change.<br>
Perry was asked in a CNBC interview if he believed carbon dioxide
was the "primary control knob" for the earth's temperature.<br>
"No. Most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and
this environment that we live in," Perry said in the June 19
interview.<br>
Perry's claim contradicts settled science. While natural factors
certainly affect the climate, human factors are the main contributor
to global warming, and carbon dioxide has acted as the "primary
control knob" governing the earth's relatively recent uptick in
temperature.<br>
We rate Perry's statement False.<br>
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href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jun/22/rick-perry/rick-perry-wrongly-downplays-human-role-climate-ch">http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jun/22/rick-perry/rick-perry-wrongly-downplays-human-role-climate-ch</a></font>/<br>
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Alarming Rise in Methane Gas Has a Bigger Impact on Climate Change
Than We Ever Thought</a><br>
Richard Aguilar Published on Jun 18, 2017<br>
SUBSCRIBE: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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60 gas leaks found in Medina apartment.<br>
New Report Details Alarming Rise in Methane Gas.<br>
Ancient Earth Wasn't Surrounded By Methane Gas.<br>
Climate change- permafrost meltdown raises risk of catastrophic
global warming.<br>
A river on fire!- MP sets fire to methane gas on Condamine river,
Australia.<br>
Methane gas threatening to slow efforts to slow climate change.<br>
Methane Leaks From Oil and Gas Wells Now Top Polluters.<br>
Scientists Find 7,000 Methane 'Bubbles' Trapped Underground in
Siberia.<br>
Tons of Methane Gas Might Cost the World $60 Trillion.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dc6t94MdtM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dc6t94MdtM</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.carbontracker.org/report/2-degrees-of-separation-transition-risk-for-oil-and-gas-in-a-low-carbon-world/">Report:
Fossil fuel companies face big loses as world transitions to
low-carbon economy</a></b><br>
"Sticking with the growth-at-all-costs scenario just doesn't add up
for shareholder value when policy and technology are heading in the
opposite direction."<br>
Thirty percent of investments planned by oil and gas majors over the
next decade could be wasted if the world economy retools to cap
global warming at two degrees Celsius, researchers warned Wednesday.<br>
The two-degree target is the cornerstone of the 196-nation Paris
Agreement, inked in 2015. President Trump has announced the US is
withdrawing from the agreement - warning it will hurt the country's
economy - but other nations are proceeding to meet its goals.<br>
The new report, "Two degrees of separation: Transition risk for
upstream oil and gas in a low-carbon world," suggests some big
energy companies are failing to adjust their businesses to meet the
low-carbon economy required by the agreement - and could end up with
problems as a result.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.carbontracker.org/report/2-degrees-of-separation-transition-risk-for-oil-and-gas-in-a-low-carbon-world/">http://www.carbontracker.org/report/2-degrees-of-separation-transition-risk-for-oil-and-gas-in-a-low-carbon-world/</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/22/climate/95-degree-day-maps.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/22/climate/95-degree-day-maps.html</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/business/flying-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/business/flying-climate-change.html</a><br>
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<font size="-2"><b><a class="ehs-post-title"
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/275783/142179/207218/0/"
style="color:#26a; text-decoration:none; font-size:1.5em"
target="_blank">Branson: The world is 'baffled' by Trump's
climate stance.</a></b></font> <br>
<span class="ehs-post-lede">British billionaire Richard Branson said
business leaders were left dumbfounded by President Trump's
decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement.</span><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/275783/142179/207218/0/">http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/275783/142179/207218/0/</a></font><br>
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<font size="-2"><b><a class="ehs-post-title"
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/275783/142179/207209/0/"
style="color:#26a; text-decoration:none; font-size:1.5em"
target="_blank">A first-of-its-kind clean coal plant may not
burn coal at all.</a></b></font><br>
A first-of-its-kind "clean coal" power plant that utility owner
Southern Co. spent years constructing in Mississippi may end up
burning no coal at all - and instead just run like a natural gas
generator. Bloomberg News. <br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/275783/142179/207209/0/">http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/275783/142179/207209/0/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/21/to-lead-on-climate-leave-the-ivy-tower">To
lead on climate, leave the ivy tower</a></b><br>
On behalf of students and alumni from all Ivy-Plus universities, we
call on our institutions to join the "We Are Still In" coalition<br>
Ralien Bekkers, Hillary Aidun, Emily Wier, Geoffrey Supran<br>
@GeoffreySupran<br>
Wednesday 21 June 2017 06.00 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 21 June
2017 06.03 EDT<br>
America's top universities expend considerable efforts to lead in
the rankings, but last week they fell short-missing a critical
opportunity to show moral leadership on climate change. If top
schools want to lead on climate action, they should join the "We Are
Still In" coalition, a collection of states, cities, businesses, and
universities promising to support the Paris Climate Agreement...<br>
President Trump's decision to pull out of the international climate
accord was swiftly rejected by local and state officials, as well as
members of the business and academic community. Over 1,000 leaders
have signed on to the "We Are Still In" pledge-including mayors and
governors representing about 120 million people. More than 200
colleges and universities have joined. Leadership from these
institutions sends a powerful message to President Trump and the
globe: even if the federal government reneges on its international
commitments, Americans are stepping up to fill the gap...<br>
Unfortunately, our 11 academic institutions-the "Ivy-Plus"
group-were not on that list (Columbia was the lone member of the
Ivy-Plus group to sign both coalition statements). <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/21/to-lead-on-climate-leave-the-ivy-tower">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/21/to-lead-on-climate-leave-the-ivy-tower</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/us/global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate.html">This
Day in Climate History June 23, 1988 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">June 23, 1988: NASA scientist James Hansen warns the
US Senate about<br>
the risks of human-caused climate change.<br>
WASHINGTON, June 23- The earth has been warmer in the first five
months of this year than in any comparable period since
measurements began 130 years ago, and the higher temperatures can
now be attributed to a long-expected global warming trend linked
to pollution, a space agency scientist reported today.<br>
Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing rising
global temperatures of recent years to the predicted global
warming caused by pollutants in the atmosphere, known as the
''greenhouse effect.'' But today Dr. James E. Hansen of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a Congressional
committee that it was 99 percent certain that the warming trend
was not a natural variation but was caused by a buildup of carbon
dioxide and other artificial gases in the atmosphere.<br>
Dr. Hansen, a leading expert on climate change, said in an
interview that there was no ''magic number'' that showed when the
greenhouse effect was actually starting to cause changes in
climate and weather. But he added, ''It is time to stop waffling
so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the
greenhouse effect is here.'' An Impact Lasting Centuries .<br>
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