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<font size="+1"><i>August 29, 2019</i></font><br>
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[Inslee knows best]<br>
<b>2020 Democrats Are Blitzing Jay Inslee's Phone, Asking for
Climate Policy Advice</b><br>
The Washington governor and former candidate has been in touch with
Biden, Warren, Beto, and Sanders since dropping out...<br>
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During his run, Inslee put together 200 pages of detailed climate
policy proposals, aggressively pushed for a climate change
debate--which the Democratic National Committee recently, formally
shot down--and accumulated more than 130,000 donors who appeared
drawn to his message. The governor never made much headway in the
polls. But his run earned him plaudits among party officials and a
national profile that--despite previously serving as a member of
Congress and the head of the Democratic Governors Association--he
had not previously had...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jay-inslee-is-getting-hit-up-by-2020-democratic-candidates-for-climate-policy-advice">https://www.thedailybeast.com/jay-inslee-is-getting-hit-up-by-2020-democratic-candidates-for-climate-policy-advice</a><br>
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[Cimate displaced]<br>
<b>The New Face Of Climate Change -- The Climate Migrant</b><br>
VICE News<br>
Published on Aug 28, 2019<br>
Audelio Mejia's family has grown corn in the agricultural heart of
Central America, known as the Golden Triangle, for three
generations. But for the last year, the 50-year-old smallholder
farmer has seriously considered migrating north with the help of a
coyote.<br>
He's not afraid of gang violence or political persecution, like many
migrants who would claim asylum in the U.S. He's worried
abhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDlHcxWtbvwout rain -- and the
lack of it.<br>
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[Maryland to Texas shoreline - vibrio]<br>
<b>Doctors say more people will contract a flesh-eating bacteria
because of climate change</b><br>
KENS 5: Your San Antonio News Source<br>
Published on Aug 28, 2019<br>
U.S. government researchers found that vibrio cases could increase
with changing climate conditions<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcIabwJKMss">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcIabwJKMss</a><br>
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[Yale says of Europe]<br>
AUGUST 28, 2019<br>
<b>Europe Is Warming Faster Than Even Climate Models Projected</b><br>
Climate change is raising temperatures in Europe even faster than
climate models projected, according to new research published in the
journal Geophysical Research Letters. The number of summer days with
extreme heat in Europe has tripled since the 1950s, while the number
of days with extreme cold more than halved.<br>
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Extremely hot days in Europe have become hotter by an average of
4.14 degrees Fahrenheit, the study found, while extremely cold days
have warmed by 5.4 degrees F. The research examined data from
weather stations across Europe from 1950 to 2018, with more than 90
percent of stations showing that the climate was warming.<br>
"Even at this regional scale over Europe, we can see that these
trends are much larger than what we would expect from natural
variability," Ruth Lorenz, a climate scientist at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich and lead author of the new study,
said in a statement. "That's really a signal from climate change."<br>
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The research comes after an extremely hot summer in Europe. Southern
France hit 114.8 degrees F -- a new record -- in late June. Germany,
the Netherlands, and Belgium also recorded all-time national
temperature highs. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration recently announced that July was the hottest month
ever recorded on Earth.<br>
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"In the Netherlands, Belgium, France, the model trends are about two
times lower than the observed trends," said Geert Jan van
Oldenborgh, a climate analyst at the Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute in De Bilt, Netherlands, who was not
connected to the new study. "We're reaching new records faster than
you'd expect."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-is-warming-faster-than-even-climate-models-projected">https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-is-warming-faster-than-even-climate-models-projected</a><br>
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[New York Times]<br>
<b>The Amazon, Siberia, Indonesia: A World of Fire</b><br>
The growing intensity of wildfires and their spread to new corners
of the globe raises fears that climate change is exacerbating the
dangers.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/climate/fire-amazon-africa-siberia-worldwide.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/climate/fire-amazon-africa-siberia-worldwide.html</a><br>
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[Washington Post]<br>
<b>What you need to know about the Amazon rainforest fires</b><br>
The Amazon -- nearly four times the size of Alaska -- is a vast sink
for storing carbon dioxide and a key element of any plan to restrain
climate change. Any increase in deforestation there would speed up
global warming as well as damage an important refuge for
biodiversity.<br>
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Studies show the 2.2 million-square mile rainforest in the Amazon is
nearing a tipping point, at which large fragmented portions of the
rainforest could transform into an entirely different, drier
ecosystem, leading to the acceleration of climate change, the loss
of countless species and disaster for the indigenous populations
that call the tropical rainforest home...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-amazon-rainforest-fires/2019/08/27/ac82b21e-c815-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-amazon-rainforest-fires/2019/08/27/ac82b21e-c815-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html</a><br>
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<b>[correction:</b> broken link for reference to the Harvard
discussion paper: <b>] <br>
</b><b>Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega- Catastrophes </b><br>
Carolyn Kousky, Olga Rostapshova, Michael Toman, Richard Zeckhauser<br>
October 19, 2009<br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote> There is a low but uncertain probability that climate
change could trigger "mega-catastrophes,"<br>
severe and at least partly irreversible adverse effects across
broad regions. This paper first<br>
discusses the state of current knowledge and the defining
characteristics of potential climate<br>
change mega-catastrophes. While some of these characteristics
present difficulties for using<br>
standard rational choice methods to evaluate response options,
there is still a need to balance<br>
benefits and costs of different possible responses with
appropriate attention to the uncertainties.<br>
To that end, we present a qualitative analysis of three options
for mitigating the risk of climate<br>
mega-catastrophes--drastic abatement of greenhouse gas emissions,
development and<br>
implementation of geo-engineering, and large-scale ex-ante
adaptation--against the criteria of<br>
efficacy, cost, robustness, and flexibility. We discuss the
composition of a sound portfolio of <br>
initial investments in reducing the risk of climate change
mega-catastrophes. <br>
</blockquote>
<a
href="https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=514%E2%80%8E">https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=514%E2%80%8E</a><br>
<a href="https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rzeckhau/CCCats.pdf">https://sites.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rzeckhau/CCCats.pdf</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - August 29, 2005 -
from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 29, 2005: In a Huffington Post piece, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
notes the irony of Hurricane Katrina assaulting the Gulf Coast just
a few years after the Bush administration decided to give
preferential treatment to the fossil fuel industry with regard to
energy policy.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/for-they-that-sow-the-win_b_6396.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/for-they-that-sow-the-win_b_6396.html</a>
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