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<font size="+1"><i>August 6, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072017/trump-climate-change-executive-orders-congress-turning-into-law-via-budget">How
Congress Is Cementing Trump's Anti-Climate Orders into Law</a></b><br>
Marianne Lavelle<br>
These efforts are mostly flying under the radar, but they could
short-circuit lawsuits and make it harder to restore environmental
protections.<br>
President Donald Trump marvels at his own velocity when he boasts
about dismantling the Obama climate legacy. "I have been moving at
record pace to cancel these regulations and to eliminate the
barriers to domestic energy production, like never before," he said
at a recent White House event.<br>
But while Trump focuses on speed, his allies in Congress appear
increasingly concerned about the durability of the president's
fossil fuel directives.<br>
In recent weeks, they have advanced a handful of legislative
measures that echo and extend various presidential orders meant to
boost coal, oil and gas production and set aside consideration of
climate change.<br>
These moves may seem redundant, but they could provide bulletproof
armor during future challenges to Trump's agenda.<br>
"They are ... covering their bases by trying to legislate the
rolling back of these safeguards because the process to repeal, undo
or rewrite a regulation is as lengthy as the public process that
helped establish the standard in the first place," explained Melinda
Pierce, chief lobbyist for the Sierra Club. "And, of course, any
attempt to roll back environmental or public health standards can
and will be challenged in court."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072017/trump-climate-change-executive-orders-congress-turning-into-law-via-budget">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072017/trump-climate-change-executive-orders-congress-turning-into-law-via-budget</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/08/making-climate-change-funny/"><br>
Making climate change funny </a></b><br>
The Trump administration and House Science Committee members are
among regular (and easy?) targets of late-night TV hosts and comics.<br>
Climate change isn't something you'd consider, well, funny.<br>
But every now and again, a little gallows humor may come in handy …
and may even lead to improved communications and public
understanding.<br>
There are lots of examples, including a newly fashioned "An
Inconvenient Truth<font size="-1">"</font> newspaper comic strip
first appearing July 24 and strategically timed to help promote the
July 28 opening in some theaters of "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth
to Power."<br>
Far from the mainstream print media, satirical periodicals and
late-night TV hosts often hold sway on climate … with a comical
twist. Take the satirical news site the Onion, with its recent intro
to one story:<br>
'The Time To Act Is Now,' Says Yellowing Climate Change Report
Sitting In University Archive<br>
BERKELEY, CA - Warning society that it has reached a crucial tipping
point from which it may never be able to recover, a brittle,
yellowing report sitting in the archives of the University of
California's Bioscience & Natural Resources Library reportedly
urged readers Friday that "the time to act against climate change is
right now." …<br>
People who make jokes for a living mine all kinds of subjects for
inspiration, and some comedians have found humor in the steadfast
rejection by some of climate change science, and in the verbal
distortions people in power use to justify a do-nothing approach.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/08/making-climate-change-funny/">https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/08/making-climate-change-funny/</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/l4nkoq/the-colbert-report-science-catfight---joe-bastardi-vs--brenda-ekwurzel">(video
humor) THE COLBERT REPORT SCIENCE CATFIGHT - JOE BASTARDI VS.
BRENDA EKWURZEL</a><br>
</b>4/6/2010 video 10:47 <br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/l4nkoq/the-colbert-report-science-catfight---joe-bastardi-vs--brenda-ekwurzel">http://www.cc.com/video-clips/l4nkoq/the-colbert-report-science-catfight---joe-bastardi-vs--brenda-ekwurzel</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FpihogHAQM">(video humor)
Old People Don't Care About Climate Change</a><br>
</b>1:45 Funny Or Die Published on Apr 23, 2016<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FpihogHAQM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FpihogHAQM</a></font><b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme2OTto6Qw">(boring
academic lecture) The Oxymoronic Possibilities of Climate
Change Comedy</a></b><br>
video 37 mins . Cornell University - 2017 Climate Change Seminar by
Aaron Sachs<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme2OTto6Qw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mme2OTto6Qw</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/brendan-guy/trump-continues-isolate-himself-climate-change">Trump
Continues to Isolate Himself on Climate Change</a></b><br>
August 04, 2017 Jake Schmidt Brendan Guy Han Chen<br>
The Trump administration sent the first written notice that it
intends to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. This historic
agreement included, for the first time, clear emissions reduction
commitments from all the major countries in the world - including
China and India - and a system to keep track of progress towards
those commitments. This notice comes as no surprise, but it
reinforces how President Trump intends to walk America away from
international leadership on climate change and further isolate
ourselves from the international community....<br>
The United States cannot formally submit its intention to withdraw
from the Paris Climate Agreement until November 4, 2019; so in
effect today's <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.justsecurity.org/41612/trumps-so-called-withdrawal-paris/">notice
is legally meaningless</a> and serves as a "heads up to a heads up
that we plan to exit." The withdrawal would then formally take
effect one year later on November 4, 2020 - one day after the next
presidential election. Fortunately, even if Trump does decide to
pull the formal trigger to exit, the next President can still rejoin
the agreement as soon as 30 days after they enter office - possibly
as early as February 19, 2021.<br>
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href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/brendan-guy/trump-continues-isolate-himself-climate-change">https://www.nrdc.org/experts/brendan-guy/trump-continues-isolate-himself-climate-change</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/08/273050.htm">Communication
Regarding Intent To Withdraw From Paris Agreement</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/08/273050.htm">https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/08/273050.htm</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://grist.org/article/climate-change-is-turning-cities-into-harsh-sweltering-hotspots/">Climate
change is turning cities into harsh, sweltering hotspots</a></b><br>
As carbon pollution turns up the planetary heat, the impact is
clearest on what's happening to extremely hot days: They're becoming
more common and more intense.<br>
New York has averaged three days above 95 degrees F over the past 20
years. If carbon pollution continues on its current trend, by 2075
that number is likely to increase to 31, according to a new Climate
Central analysis.<br>
Myriad cities across the country will be far worse off, though.
Atlanta is projected to see 69 days above 95 degrees F, Boise could
spend 80 days above that threshold, while Dallas is on track to have
140 days above 95 degrees F. Then there's Phoenix, where residents
may have to contend with more than half of the year above 95 degrees
F (163 days in case you're wondering).<br>
Many small towns will suffer even more. Alva, Florida (population
2,182) could see 142 days above 95 degrees F while Salton City,
California (population 3,763) could have to cope with a mind-bending
203 days where the mercury tops out at 95 degrees F or higher.<br>
The biggest factor in the number of future hot days is how fast the
world reins in carbon pollution today. However, even if emissions
are dramatically cut, every place across the U.S. will face more hot
weather.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://grist.org/article/climate-change-is-turning-cities-into-harsh-sweltering-hotspots/">http://grist.org/article/climate-change-is-turning-cities-into-harsh-sweltering-hotspots/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/warming-fueling-arizonas-monstrous-monsoons-21679">Global
Warming Is Fueling Arizona's Monstrous Monsoons</a></b><br>
Summer in Arizona and throughout the Southwest is monsoon season,
which means a daily pattern of afternoon thunderstorms, flash
floods, dramatic dust clouds and spectacular displays of lightning
over the desert.<br>
As the climate changes, Arizona's monsoon rainfall is becoming more
intense even as daily average rainfall in parts of the state has
decreased, according to a new study. Increasingly, extreme storms
threaten the region with more severe floods and giant dust storms
called haboobs.Every summer, rivers of moisture in the lower
troposphere - the monsoonal flow - stream into the Southwest from
the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of California. Nearly every day in
midsummer, the sun heats the mountains and the deserts, creating
convection. The rising warm air allows thunderclouds to build during
the day before exploding into dramatic electrical storms in the
afternoon and evening.<br>
But today's monsoons aren't like the ones travelers on Route 66
would have driven through 60 years ago.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/warming-fueling-arizonas-monstrous-monsoons-21679">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/warming-fueling-arizonas-monstrous-monsoons-21679</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bgr.com/2017/08/03/global-warming-impact-crops-protein/"><br>
<b>How global warming will make you weak and sick</b></a><br>
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href="http://bgr.com/2017/08/03/global-warming-impact-crops-protein/">http://bgr.com/2017/08/03/global-warming-impact-crops-protein/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22843-2/">Nutrition will
suffer as warming affects diet</a></b><br>
By 2050, heat waves, floods and other climate change effects won't
be the only worry. There's also the evidence that warming affects
diet.<br>
By Tim Radford<br>
LONDON, 5 August, 2017 - Global warming and climate change are not
the only threats linked to greenhouse gas emissions: there is also
the knowledge that warming affects diet.<br>
Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also mean that
wheat, rice, maize, potatoes and other staples will grow with lower
levels of protein - and by 2050, an extra 150 million people in 47
countries will be at greater risk of malnutrition.<br>
Four out of five people on the planet depend mostly on grain staples
and legumes for dietary protein. The UN estimates that poor
nutrition already accounts for around 3 million deaths among young
children every year, and experiments show that higher carbon dioxide
levels in the atmosphere are associated with protein losses of
around 5%.<br>
"This study highlights the need for countries that are most at risk
to actively monitor their populations' nutritional sufficiency, and,
more fundamentally, the need for countries to curb human-caused CO2
emissions," said Samuel Myers, a research scientist in the
department of environmental health at Harvard University in the US.<br>
Increased loss<br>
He and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Health
Perspectives that tests of crops grown under high levels of
atmospheric carbon dioxide show protein decreases of up to 15%... <br>
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href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22843-2/">http://climatenewsnetwork.net/22843-2/</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/extreme-heat-evidence-global-warming-11346623">This
Day in Climate History August 6, 2010</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 6, 2010: "ABC World News Tonight" reports on the link between
extreme heat and human-caused climate change. <br>
Is Extreme Heat Evidence of Global Warming?<br>
Clayton Sandell on the link between the hottest year ever and
climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/extreme-heat-evidence-global-warming-11346623">http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/extreme-heat-evidence-global-warming-11346623</a><br>
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