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<font size="+1"><i>August 4, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.weather.gov/">Dangerous
Heat in the Western U.S.</a></b><br>
A dangerous heat wave continues to grip the West Coast states this
week. Temperatures will be greater than 15 degrees above normal and
easily exceed 100 degrees in many locations from portions of
California & Nevada into Oregon and southwest Washington. Some
relief is forecast this weekend, but it will remain hot. <a
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href="http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd">Read
More >
http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd</a><br>
Learn more of the National Weather Service is a<font size="-1">t</font>
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The heat of summer is here. Head to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.weather.gov/heat">weather.gov/heat</a> for
information on how to avoid heat-related illness. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.weather.gov/heat">http://www.weather.gov/heat</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.weather.gov/">http://www.weather.gov/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/lead14/">NASA
Climate Prediction Center monthly Climate Outlooks </a></b><br>
August 2017 Revised OFFICIAL Forecasts<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/lead14/">http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/lead14/</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/two_class.php">Experimental
Unofficial Two-class Monthly & Seasonal Climate Outlooks</a><br>
Temperature: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/t01.2c.gif">http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/t01.2c.gif</a><br>
Precipitation: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/p01.2c.gif">http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/p01.2c.gif</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/two_class.php">http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/two_class.php</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/two_class_seasonal_info.php">How
to Read the 2-class Three-Month Outlook maps</a><br>
The contours on the map show the total probability (%) of two
categories, above, indicated by the letter "A", and below, indicated
by the letter "B". At any point on the map, the sum of the
probabilities of these two categories is 100%.<br>
For any particular location, and season, these two categories are
defined from the 30 observations from 1981-2010. The coldest or
driest 1/2 (15 years) define the B category, the warmest or wettest
1/2 (15 years) defines the A category.<br>
When the forecasters decide that one of the extreme categories, say
above (A), is the most likely one, they assign probabilities which
exceed 50% to that category. This means that the chance of the
opposite category is the remaining part of the total (100%). In
regions where the forecasters have no indications favoring either A,
or B, the chance of these two categories is defined to be 50% each,
and the region is labeled "EC", which stands for equal chances.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/two_class_seasonal_info.php">http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/two_class_seasonal_info.php</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattles-air-quality-is-worse-than-beijing-kolkata/461795469">Seattle's
air quality is worse than Beijing, Kolkata</a></b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattles-air-quality-is-worse-than-beijing-kolkata/461795469">http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattles-air-quality-is-worse-than-beijing-kolkata/461795469</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://issuu.com/iccg/docs/iccg_international_climate_policy_m_524e06acfa71b0">The
latest issue of International Climate Policy Magazine (N.47) is
out.</a></b><br>
The bi-monthly magazine aims at providing a clear analysis of the
worldwide evolution of both international and domestic climate and
energy policies, as well as the carbon market.<br>
In this edition:<br>
- Paris Agreement "irreversible" for G20 leaders except for US<br>
- Mission 2020 says don't be late and US mayors are answering the
call<br>
- Coal's fate sealed by unstoppable greening of the power sector<br>
- Developments in CCS: time for direct air capture and CO2 re-use?<br>
- GCF heads toward complex, pragmatic new phase<br>
- The potential of localising climate change narratives<br>
- Carbon markets: June – July 2017<br>
International Climate Policy Magazine is realized by the ICCG, an
initiative of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, whose activities focus
on the design of climate policy and related governance issues.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.iccgov.org">www.iccgov.org</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/us/politics/climate-change-trump-working-poor-activists.html?_r=0">In
Sweltering South, Climate Change Is Now a Workplace Hazard</a></b><br>
In the sweltering Southern states, workers laboring outdoors are
wrestling with the personal and political consequences of a
worsening environment.<br>
"For too long, a lot of the climate change and global warming
arguments have been looking at melting ice and polar bears and not
at the human suffering side of it," Professor Bullard said. "They
are still pushing out the polar bear as the icon for climate change.
The icon should be a kid who is suffering from the negative impacts
of climate change and increased air pollution, or a family where
rising water is endangering their lives."<br>
"You can't have freedom and justice in this country if you can't
breathe your air, if you can't open your window because of the toxic
smells," Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, said. "It may
not be a billy club that is hitting you or a dog that is tearing
your skin - those images from the Civil Rights movement - but it is
violence to the body."<br>
"We are kind of trapped. We don't have money to just pick up and
leave. We don't have options," Ms. Morales said. "Who knows how it
is going to affect me later? I don't know. How will it affect my
kids? I don't know."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/us/politics/climate-change-trump-working-poor-activists.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/us/politics/climate-change-trump-working-poor-activists.html?_r=0</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/03/epas-scott-pruitt-can-deny-co2-role-in-global-warming-epa-panel-says.html">EPA
chief Scott Pruitt can publicly downplay CO2's role in global
warming, EPA panel concludes</a></b><br>
- An EPA panel found Scott Pruitt did not violate the agency's
Scientific Integrity Policy after the Sierra Club asked for an
investigation.<br>
-Pruitt told CNBC in March that he does not believe carbon dioxide
is a primary contributor to global warming, contradicting the EPA's
findings.<br>
-The EPA panel said its Scientific Integrity Policy protected
Pruitt's right to express his opinion.<br>
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt did not
violate the agency's Scientific Integrity Policy when he expressed
his view that carbon dioxide is not the "primary contributor" to
global warming, a panel of EPA officials has concluded.<br>
The decision came after the Sierra Club, an environmental group,
filed a complaint with the EPA's inspector general in March, which
called for an investigation into Pruitt's comments on CNBC's "Squawk
Box."<br>
"I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate
is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous
disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree
that it's a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,"
Pruitt said during a March 9 appearance on "Squawk Box."<br>
That statement contradicted the public stance of the EPA at the
time. An EPA web page that has since been edited read, "Carbon
dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent
climate change."<br>
In March, the Sierra Club contended that while Pruitt is within his
rights to advocate for policy changes, he is not allowed to distort
the basic science that underpins policies he opposes. It said the
comment contradicted decades of established science and violated
three principles of the EPA's Scientific Integrity Policy,
including:<br>
"When dealing with science, it is the responsibility of every EPA
employee to conduct, utilize, and communicate science with honesty,
integrity, and transparency, both within and outside the Agency."<br>
"[P]olicy makers shall not knowingly misrepresent, exaggerate, or
downplay areas of scientific uncertainty associated with policy
decisions."<br>
"To operate an effective science and regulatory agency like the EPA,
it is also essential that political or other officials not suppress
or alter scientific findings."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/03/epas-scott-pruitt-can-deny-co2-role-in-global-warming-epa-panel-says.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/03/epas-scott-pruitt-can-deny-co2-role-in-global-warming-epa-panel-says.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/07/30/540002667/how-do-refugee-teens-build-resilience">How
Do Refugee Teens Build Resilience?</a></b><br>
July 30, 2017 MAANVI SINGH<br>
What does it mean to be resilient - to be able to face trauma and
get through it?<br>
You're resilient if you're like a stick of bamboo - able to bend
with the winds rather than break in half. That's how psychologists
like to explain it.<br>
But in different cultures, the source of that strength can be very
different. That's the finding in a study published in the journal
Child Development. The researchers interviewed Syrian tweens and
teens who had been displaced because of war.<br>
"In the West, we tend to think of resilience as inner psychological
strength," says Catherine Panter-Brick, an anthropologist at Yale
University. "In the Middle East, resilience is more of a collective
and social strength."<br>
Panter-Brick and her colleagues found that, for young refugees in
Jordan, friendship gives them the strength to endure.<br>
I wanted to learn more so I interviewed some of the teens from the
study. For one 15-year-old Syrian girl in Jerash, Jordan, resilience
is "to mix with people, to not be introverted or alone." Another
teenage refugee in Jerash said it means she was able to adapt to her
new home. A 16-year-old Syrian boy who has sought asylum in the
nearby city of Zarqua agrees. For him, resilience means "that I have
Jordanian friends."<br>
(The teenagers asked that their names not be used to protect their
privacy.)<br>
The researchers asked the young Syrian refugees about their hopes
for the future rather than the traumas they had suffered in the
past.<br>
"We're often so focused on documenting the negative impacts of war,"
says Panter-Brick. "But that is only half of the story. We found
that these young people actually prefer that you focus on their
strengths rather than their vulnerabilities, their dignity rather
than their misery, their capability rather than their vulnerability,
and their resources and their agency rather than their victimhood."<br>
The young people said that resilience came from their ability to
integrate into their new communities, to go to school and to work
toward their dreams and ambitions.<br>
The researchers used that insight to develop a quick survey to
measure resilience among adolescents who've been affected by the
long conflict in Syria. It's designed to help humanitarian aid
groups track whether their programs are working to improve the lives
of young refugees.<br>
The questionnaire asked young refugees to rank their reaction to
statements like "I feel supported by my friends" and "I feel my
community treats me with justice." Did the comments ring true? The
ranking was on a scale of one to five (with five being the most
true).<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/07/30/540002667/how-do-refugee-teens-build-resilience">http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/07/30/540002667/how-do-refugee-teens-build-resilience</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/345079-epa-walks-back-delay-of-obama-air-pollution-rule">EPA
Does About Face on Ozone: </a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/epa-chief-reverses-decision-delay-rules-emissions-49001866">EPA
chief reverses decision to delay rules on emissions</a></b><b>
</b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/epa-chief-reverses-decision-delay-rules-emissions-49001866">http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/epa-chief-reverses-decision-delay-rules-emissions-49001866</a><br>
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt reversed course on plans to delay an
Obama-era ozone pollution regulation, announcing Wednesday that EPA
would comply with the rule's original October 1 deadline. The move
comes a day after 15 states and the District of Columbia filed suit
against EPA for the delay, claiming that Pruitt's original plan to
put a one-year stay on implementation would endanger "the health and
safety of millions." In a statement announcing the decision, Pruitt
claims EPA "believe[s] in dialogue with, and being responsive to,
our state partners." The Obama-era standards would lower the amount
of allowable ground-level ozone from 75 parts per billion to 70ppb.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/345079-epa-walks-back-delay-of-obama-air-pollution-rule">http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/345079-epa-walks-back-delay-of-obama-air-pollution-rule</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-safe-ozone-idUSTRE57A5RN20090811">Even
'safe' ozone levels may be hard on the lungs</a></b><br>
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ozone concentrations below the current
U.S. clean-air standard may still temporarily impair lung function,
even in healthy young people, a small study suggests.<br>
Ozone has been linked to inflammation in the lungs, and to breathing
problems. Researchers found that when 31 young adults exercised at
various levels of ozone exposure over several hours, participants'
average lung function began to deteriorate when ozone concentrations
stood at 70 parts per billion (ppb).<br>
That is below the current U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standard
(NAAQS), which states that people should be exposed to ozone levels
of no more than 75 ppb, averaged over 8 hours.<br>
The findings essentially suggest that if healthy young adults
exercise outside at ozone levels of 70 ppb for several hours --
taking a long hike, for instance -- about half will suffer
respiratory symptoms like coughing or pain during deep breathing,
explained lead researcher Dr. Edward S. Schelegle, of the University
of California, Davis.<br>
Typically, summer ozone levels hover between 50 and 60 ppb in the
U.S., according to a 10-year study by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency.<br>
The findings, reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and
Critical Care Medicine, are based on exercise tests of 31
non-smokers between the ages of 18 and 25.<br>
Schelegle and his colleagues had the men and women work out
moderately on a stationary bike or treadmill on five separate days.
On each day, participants exercised in six 50-minute bouts over 6.6
hours; over the course of each day, they breathed either filtered
air, or air containing ozone concentrations of 60, 70, 80 or 87 ppb.<br>
The researchers found that on average, exercisers' lung function
deteriorated after several hours of exposure to ozone levels of 70
ppb. There was, however, significant variation from person to
person; 19 percent showed a fairly strong sensitivity to ozone
concentrations of 70 ppb, while some showed far lesser reactions.<br>
Some others were particularly sensitive; 16 percent showed <b>significantly
decreased lung function when ozone levels stood at 60 ppb.</b><b><br>
</b><b> </b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-safe-ozone-idUSTRE57A5RN20090811">http://www.reuters.com/article/us-safe-ozone-idUSTRE57A5RN20090811</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a href="http://evidencesquared.com/ep18/">Robert Mac on science
comedy, part 2</a></b><br>
Our <a
href="http://evidencesquared.us15.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8a0f5ded9e53e63b39b708165&id=a3ad6a899c&e=e9d6004e11">new
podcast episode </a>is Part 2 of our interview with stand-up
comedian Robert Mac on telling Mormon jokes in Utah, the tension
between accuracy and comedy, herd mentality and the different types
of laughs.<br>
You can listen to our episode at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://evidencesquared.com/ep18/">http://evidencesquared.com/ep18/</a>
or download it directly from <a
href="http://evidencesquared.us15.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=8a0f5ded9e53e63b39b708165&id=291bbb0caf&e=e9d6004e11">iTunes
</a>or <a
href="http://evidencesquared.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8a0f5ded9e53e63b39b708165&id=0f90f70fb5&e=e9d6004e11">Soundcloud.</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://evidencesquared.com/ep18/">http://evidencesquared.com/ep18/</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/Ugma4WhLWFE">This Day in Climate History
August 4, 2009</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 4, 2009: MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviews Virginia Rep. Tom
Perriello about a bizarre effort by the coal industry to fool
members of the House of Representatives into thinking that the NAACP
and other civil rights groups opposed the American Clean Energy and
Security Act. The next day, Maddow interviews New Jersey Rep. Frank
Pallone about the matter.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/Ugma4WhLWFE">http://youtu.be/Ugma4WhLWFE</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/qFijdjiSyvw">http://youtu.be/qFijdjiSyvw</a></font><br>
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