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<font size="+1"><i>July 20 , 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.voanews.com/a/state-of-emergency-extended-british-columbia-wildfires-rage/3951106.html">State
of Emergency in British Columbia Extended as Wildfires Rage </a></b><br>
VANCOUVER — <br>
British Columbia's government took the unprecedented step on
Wednesday of extending a state of emergency by two weeks as it
battled 155 wildfires that have forced nearly 50,000 people from
their homes.<br>
Enbridge, which took a natural gas compressor station offline and
canceled planned maintenance work, said on Sunday it had no timeline
for restarting the station.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.voanews.com/a/state-of-emergency-extended-british-columbia-wildfires-rage/3951106.html">https://www.voanews.com/a/state-of-emergency-extended-british-columbia-wildfires-rage/3951106.html</a></font><br>
- more:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIOOi5hU3hk"><b>(Video)
Something Big is Going On! California Wildfire Causes Mass
Evacuation</b> </a><br>
California Wildfire Forces 2,000 Mariposa Residents To Evacuate.<br>
Detwiler Fire Surges Past 25,000 Acres, Threatening Mariposa.<br>
Evacuees in Mariposa County anxious for news from wildfire lines.<br>
Mariposa County wildfire scorches 7,100 acres.<br>
MARIPOSA FIRE- Wildfire near ear Lake McClure, a reservoir about 50
miles east of Modesto.<br>
Town evacuated as fire swells in Mariposa County.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIOOi5hU3hk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIOOi5hU3hk</a></font><br>
-more:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3XVgPaDKiM">MASSIVE FIRE
THREATENS POWER SUPPLY IN YOSEMITE </a></b><br>
Published on Jul 19, 2017<br>
MARIPOSA COUNTY, CA - A massive wildfire in Mariposa County nearly
doubled in size overnight as flames destroyed structures, threatened
power to Yosemite National Park and forced 4,000 people to flee
their homes.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3XVgPaDKiM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3XVgPaDKiM</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-cap-trade-climate-change-california-legislature-political-landscape-20170719-htmlstory.html">Eight
Republicans backed Jerry Brown's climate change bill - here's
what that means for their political futures</a></b><br>
Eight GOP votes were pivotal in passing the cap-and-trade bill and
gave Brown's plan an imprimatur of bipartisanship that is rare on
big-ticket legislation - particularly on bills concerning climate
change.<br>
"When you can lock something in with support of Republicans and
Democrats, it has durability," Brown said Monday night.<br>
Although cap and trade may be on solid ground, those GOP members now
find themselves in thorny territory.<br>
The Republican base largely despises the measure, calling it
burdensome regulation that will increase gas prices. Conservative
talk radio and bloggers have railed against cap and trade, and the
Wall Street Journal editorial board lashed out Tuesday at GOP
lawmakers' "political self-sabotage and voter betrayal."<br>
Assemblyman Rocky Chávez (R-Oceanside) said he expected more of his
colleagues - as many as 12 GOP lawmakers total - to join him in
backing the bill.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-cap-trade-climate-change-california-legislature-political-landscape-20170719-htmlstory.html">http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-cap-trade-climate-change-california-legislature-political-landscape-20170719-htmlstory.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/19/538216232/climate-scientist-says-he-was-demoted-for-speaking-out-on-climate-change">Climate
Scientist Says He Was Demoted For Speaking Out On Climate Change</a></b><br>
Joel Clement, a scientist who was director of the Interior
Department's Office of Policy Analysis for much of the Obama
Administration, was recently reassigned to work to an "accounting
office," the agency's Office of Natural Resources and Revenue.<br>
In an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post, he wrote
that he believes he was retaliated against for "speaking out
publicly about the dangers that climate change poses to Alaska
Native communities." He says that he's turning whistleblower on an
administration that "chooses silence over science."<br>
In his former role, Clement advised the Obama Administration on
Arctic issues. He authorized a report to Obama in 2013 that warned
the Arctic is warming faster than any other region on Earth and that
the implications of the change would include "rapid coastal erosion
threatening villages and facilities, loss of wildlife habitat,
ecosystem instability... and unpredictable impacts on subsistence
activities and critical social needs."<br>
Clement wrote in the op-ed that in the months preceding his
reassignment, he had raised the issue with White House officials,
senior Interior officials and the international community...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/19/538216232/climate-scientist-says-he-was-demoted-for-speaking-out-on-climate-change">http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/19/538216232/climate-scientist-says-he-was-demoted-for-speaking-out-on-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://climatenexus.org/">ClimateNexus
Hot News</a></b><br>
<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif"><strong>2017 Heats Up: </strong>The
first half of 2017 was the second-hottest on record and last month
was the third-hottest June on record, new global temperature data
from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show.
The new NOAA data, combined with figures released last week from
NASA, suggest that 2017 is well on its way to being the
second-hottest year on record, trailing only 2016. "Personally, I
wasn't expecting it to be as warm as it has been," NOAA scientist
Ahira Sanchez-Lugo told Climate Central. "After the decline of the
strong El Niño [in 2016] I was expecting the values to drop a bit
and rank among the top five warmest years. This year has been
extremely remarkable." (<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b5d9adf42d&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">The Guardian</a>, <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=ed88e40db8&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Washington Post</a> $, <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=c511f094d3&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Climate Central</a>)</span><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/07/19/climate-change-plum-island">(audio
+ transcript) Signs Of Climate Change - Past, Present And Future
- On Plum Island (7:24)</a></b><br>
Plum Island is mostly a national wildlife refuge. It's a long,
narrow spit of sand 50 miles north of Boston.<br>
You can see evidence of climate change past and present there, and
get a glimpse of the future.<br>
The island was created by climate change. Over millions of years,
natural forces made the planet a lot colder and the ocean sea level
a lot lower.<br>
Nowadays, it's hard to believe Plum Island was once buried under
half a mile of ice. Eleven thousand years ago, the glacier began
receding, leaving a scarred landscape that was sculptured by wind,
waves and currents into today's barrier island beach.<br>
To shore up the property, Tolpin said, "we put up these big boulders
all the way up to the edge of the deck."<br>
Plum Island homeowners did not have permission to bring in the
boulders, but there were few complaints. A large share of the
coastal community's property taxes are paid by the owners of these
expensive beachfront homes.<br>
The rocks were covered with sand scraped off the shore, but erosion
is relentless.<br>
"It's a losing battle eventually, and there is a good, good chance
that all these houses eventually will be gone," he said. "No matter
what our president says, climate change is occurring."..<br>
The Plum Island shoreline is a case study in the complexities of
human-caused global climate change interacting locally with man-made
structures and coastal development...<br>
"It might not be 2030, it might not be 2075, but at some point the
ocean will win out."<br>
Plum Island is a minor, fragile footnote in geological time -- just
one of Massachusetts' 681 barrier beaches. But those beaches help
protect 1,500 miles of the state's coastline counties, where
two-thirds of our residents call home.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/07/19/climate-change-plum-island">http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/07/19/climate-change-plum-island</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/8/577/2017/"><b>World's
young face $535 trillion bill for climate</b></a><br>
The next generation will have to pay a $535 trillion bill to tackle
climate change, relying on unproven and speculative technology.<br>
By Tim Radford<br>
LONDON, 19 July, 2017 – One of the world's most famous climate
scientists has just calculated the financial burden that tomorrow's
young citizens will face to keep the globe at a habitable
temperature and contain global warming and climate change – a $535
trillion bill.<br>
And much of that will go on expensive technologies engineered to
suck 1,000 billion metric tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide
from the air by the year 2100.<br>
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href="https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/8/577/2017/">https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/8/577/2017/</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5569901"><br>
</a><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5569901">This
Day in Climate History July 20, 2006 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 20, 2006: NPR reports on the GOP's show trials, er.... <br>
"The House Committee on Energy and Commerce took up the topic of
global climate change Wednesday, focusing on an eight-year-old study
suggesting that the world is warmer now than it has been in a
thousand years. Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX) used the hearing to
question the study and the debate over global warming."<br>
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href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5569901">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5569901</a></font><br>
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