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<i><font size="+1"><b>June 30, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[The crowd speaks loud]<br>
<b>Press Release - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication</b><br>
<p>Today, we are pleased to release the results of a new national
survey. We find that, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and
economic crisis, voters want climate action as part of the
economic recovery plan and are more likely to vote for candidates
that support renewable energy. The survey was conducted with
Climate Nexus and the George Mason University Center for Climate
Change Communication. <br>
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<p>Seven in 10 (70%) voters say federal stimulus funding should
prioritize the clean energy industry over the fossil fuel
industry. Further, about six in 10 (62%) voters say they would be
more likely to vote for a candidate who supports federal stimulus
funding for the renewable energy industry, twice the number of
voters who say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate
who supports bailing out the fossil fuel industry (31%). </p>
<p>Roughly two-thirds of voters also say they would be more likely
to vote for candidates who support the following policies:
assistance to communities losing jobs in the fossil fuel industry
(69%), ensuring protection of low-income communities and
communities of color that are most vulnerable to climate impacts
(67%), a carbon tax (65%), and requiring electric utility
companies to generate 100% of their electricity from clean sources
by 2040 (65%).</p>
<p>Additionally, voters want to see conditions placed on companies
that receive stimulus funding. Eighty-six percent of voters say
companies that receive funding must use the money to keep workers
on payroll. About eight in 10 say companies that receive federal
stimulus funding must comply with environmental and labor
regulations (80%), and that these companies should not be run by
members of Congress, the executive branch, or their family members
(78%). And seven in 10 (70%) say airline companies that receive
stimulus funding must create and implement a greenhouse gas
emissions reduction plan. </p>
<p>About seven in 10 (71%) voters support legislation to achieve a
100% clean economy by eliminating fossil fuel emissions from the
transportation, electricity, buildings, industry, and agricultural
sectors in the United States by 2050. By more than a two-to-one
margin, voters believe this transition will have a positive (58%)
rather than a negative (26%) impact on jobs and economic growth...</p>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatenexus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Climate-Nexus-National-Poll-Toplines-Climate-Change-Voter-Opinions-in-2020.pdf">https://climatenexus.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Climate-Nexus-National-Poll-Toplines-Climate-Change-Voter-Opinions-in-2020.pdf</a><br>
Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D.<br>
Director, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication<br>
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies<br>
Yale University<br>
(203) 432-4865<br>
Twitter: @ecotone2<br>
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[Um, sooner would be better]<br>
<b>Democrats to unveil bold new climate plan to phase out emissions
by 2050</b><br>
Report to outline aim to reduce emissions to 88% of 2010 levels<br>
Huge sums for public transport and proposals for green vehicles<br>
House Democrats will unveil an aggressive climate crisis "action
plan" on Tuesday to nearly eliminate US emissions by 2050, according
to summary documents reviewed by the Guardian.<br>
<br>
The net-zero emissions goal is what United Nations leaders and the
scientific community say the world must achieve to avoid the worst
of rising temperatures, and it's what the Democratic presidential
nominee, Joe Biden, says he would pursue if he were to win the White
House in November.<br>
<br>
The Democrats' proposal, referred to in a two-page summary as a
"congressional action plan" and a "roadmap", calls for interim
targets to assess progress and make sure fossil fuel pollution is
declining, particularly in communities of color that have suffered
environmental injustices.<br>
<br>
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, will announce the plan, compiled by
the House select committee on the climate crisis that is chaired by
the Florida congresswoman Kathy Castor, at an event in front of the
US Capitol on Tuesday morning.<br>
<br>
The more than 538-page report will include hundreds of policy
recommendations focused on 12 key pillars, according to a separate
outline...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/29/democrats-climate-crisis-carbon-emissions">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/29/democrats-climate-crisis-carbon-emissions</a><br>
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[increasing rate of change]<br>
<b>Even the South Pole Is Warming, and Quickly, Scientists Say</b><br>
Surface air temperatures at the bottom of the world have risen three
times faster than the global average since the 1990s...<br>
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The pole, home to a United States research base in the high, icy
emptiness of the Antarctic interior, warmed by about 0.6 degrees
Celsius, or 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit, per decade over the past 30
years, the researchers reported in a paper published in Nature
Climate Change. The global average over that time was about 0.2
degrees Celsius per decade.<br>
<br>
Although parts of coastal Antarctica are losing ice, which
contributes to sea level rise, the pole is in no danger of melting,
as the year-round average temperature is still about minus-50
degrees Celsius. But the finding shows that no place is unaffected
by change on a warming planet...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/climate/south-pole-warming-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/climate/south-pole-warming-climate-change.html</a><br>
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[NPR reports]<br>
<b>Minnesota Attorney General Sues Exxon Over Climate Change</b><br>
June 29, 20204:00 PM ET<br>
Heard on All Things Considered<br>
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is suing Exxon Mobil, Koch
Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute over what he calls
"a campaign of deception" about climate change that the companies
"orchestrated and executed with disturbing success."<br>
<br>
Ellison and his office say internal documents show the oil and gas
companies knew the damage that fossil fuels would cause as far back
as the 1970s and '80s, yet hid that science and instead launched
public relations campaigns denying climate change...<br>
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Ellison talked with NPR's All Things Considered about the case.<br>
<br>
<b>Interview Highlights</b><br>
On his supporting evidence<br>
<br>
We have documents, such as one stamped "proprietary information"
from Exxon Engineering, which says, "the CO2 concentration in the
atmosphere has increased" and "the rate of CO2 release from
anthropogenic sources appears to be doubling every 15 years. The
most widely held theory is that the increase is due to fossil fuel
combustion."<br>
<br>
That document was from Oct. 16, 1979. So they knew in '79 and then
they lied about it. They actually, they produced propaganda, which
essentially said things like: "Who told you the Earth was warming?
Chicken Little?" And then other ones: "The most serious problem with
catastrophic global warming is that it may not be true." They
directly contradicted what their research found. We can prove that
and we will.<br>
<br>
On why the lawsuit begins by saying global warming will
"disproportionately impact people living in poverty and people of
color"<br>
<br>
Well, because it's true, which is always important, to make sure
that we tell the story about what's really going on here. So many
civil rights groups that work on issues of racial and economic
justice don't always factor in the environmental realities that
people of color and low-income people face. I mean, the fact is, is
that environmental justice and environmental harms that
disproportionately affect communities of color and low-income people
is a civil rights issue and it should be treated as that. We've got
to make sure that as people are working on criminal justice and
things like that, that they factor in environmental justice, as
urgent as it is.<br>
<br>
On examples of how climate change is already impacting Minnesotans<br>
<br>
If you're a farmer, you probably have seen much wetter fields than
you've ever seen. Those wetter fields delay your growing season.
You've seen infestation and pests that are impacting. There are a
range of things that Minnesotans are seeing every day. We saw many
of them join with us just last week.<br>
<br>
One person who was with us was an environmentalist who is from the
White Earth Nation of Ojibwe. And she was talking about how wild
rice production has been dramatically impacted, which is a, she
called it a sacred food of the Ojibwe people, and how that just
climate change has so dramatically affected how they can harvest
their crop.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/29/884958624/minnesota-attorney-general-comments-on-the-states-climate-change-lawsuit">https://www.npr.org/2020/06/29/884958624/minnesota-attorney-general-comments-on-the-states-climate-change-lawsuit</a><br>
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[Paul Beckwith in dramatic form - a stormy video lecture on climate
calamity]<br>
<b>Teaser: Global Food Supply at RISK from Simultaneous Crop Losses
Due to Specific Jet Stream Patterns</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIxlWxI3Vkc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIxlWxI3Vkc</a><br>
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[Methane concerns]<br>
<b>Global warming will cause ecosystems to produce more methane than
first predicted</b><br>
Date: June 29, 2020<br>
Source: Queen Mary University of London<br>
Summary: New research suggests that as the Earth warms natural
ecosystems such as freshwaters will release more methane than
expected from predictions based on temperature increases alone.<br>
New research suggests that as the Earth warms natural ecosystems
such as freshwaters will release more methane than expected from
predictions based on temperature increases alone.<br>
<br>
The study, published today in Nature Climate Change, attributes this
difference to changes in the balance of microbial communities within
ecosystems that regulate methane emissions.<br>
<br>
The production and removal of methane from ecosystems is regulated
by two types of microorganisms, methanogens -- which naturally
produce methane -- and methanotrophs that remove methane by
converting it into carbon dioxide. Previous research has suggested
that these two natural processes show different sensitivities to
temperature and could therefore be affected differently by global
warming...<br>
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Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with some 28 times the global
warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 100 year period. Over 40
per cent of methane is released from freshwaters such as wetlands,
lakes and rivers making them a major contributor to global methane
emissions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200629120210.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200629120210.htm</a><br>
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[Source material]<br>
<b>Disproportionate increase in freshwater methane emissions induced
by experimental warming</b><br>
<blockquote>Abstract<br>
Net emissions of the potent GHG methane from ecosystems represent
the balance between microbial methane production (methanogenesis)
and oxidation (methanotrophy), each with different sensitivities
to temperature. How this balance will be altered by long-term
global warming, especially in freshwaters that are major methane
sources, remains unknown. Here we show that the experimental
warming of artificial ponds over 11 years drives a
disproportionate increase in methanogenesis over methanotrophy
that increases the warming potential of the gases they emit. The
increased methane emissions far exceed temperature-based
predictions, driven by shifts in the methanogen community under
warming, while the methanotroph community was conserved. Our
experimentally induced increase in methane emissions from
artificial ponds is, in part, reflected globally as a
disproportionate increase in the capacity of naturally warmer
ecosystems to emit more methane. <b>Our findings indicate that as
Earth warms, natural ecosystems will emit disproportionately
more methane in a positive feedback warming loop.</b><br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0824-y">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0824-y</a><br>
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[ask scientists video]<b><br>
</b><b>Ask A Scientist Live Ep4 | Tipping Points: What should we be
afraid of?</b><br>
Extinction Rebellion<br>
Ask A Scientist is your chance to get your questions on the climate
crisis answered by experts in the scientific community.<br>
<br>
This episode, we're talking about Tipping Points.<br>
<br>
10 years ago, scientists identified 16 potential tipping points in
the earth system that could spell disaster. Today, there is evidence
that 9 of these are already active.<br>
<br>
Join us to learn all about tipping points: What should we (and
should not) worry about? Hoes does their existence affect the
environmental movement? And do they really mean it's too late to
act?<br>
<br>
Shifts in ideas and values can, under the right conditions, suddenly
bring about massive changes in human behaviour. This has happened in
the past; can it happen again and bring us back from the brink?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i_KkQX2bQ0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i_KkQX2bQ0</a><br>
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[Potholer delivers video lesson in science journalism news]<br>
<b>The cause of Australia's bushfires – what the SCIENCE says</b><br>
Jan 18, 2020<br>
potholer54<br>
Arson? Lack of hazard reduction? Nothing new? This video looks at
what fire chiefs and scientists say is the REAL cause of the
2019-2020 fires in Australia, in response to amateur theories
proposed by media commentators and bloggers. -- Potholer54<br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0x46-enxsA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0x46-enxsA</a></p>
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[A serious profession]<br>
<b>How climate change misinformation spreads online</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-climate-change-misinformation-spreads-online">https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-climate-change-misinformation-spreads-online</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
June 30, 2002 </b></font><br>
Republican-turned-Independent Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont calls
out President George W. Bush in a New York Times piece for his
administration's reckless disregard of climate science:<br>
<blockquote><b>Unhealthy Air</b><br>
By Jim Jeffords - June 30, 2002<br>
It is already too late for the United States to lead the world in
the fight against global warming. President Bush saw to that last
year, when he abandoned his promise to make power plants reduce
the amount of carbon dioxide they send into the air.<br>
<br>
But if the president won't lead the world, then the business
community, the American people and their elected representatives
in Congress must lead the president.<br>
<br>
This month President Bush gave up all pretense of moving forward
in the effort to clean up the oldest and dirtiest power plants.
First he denigrated the climate action report released by his own
administration. That report follows the National Academy of
Sciences and the vast majority of scientists by stating that
global warming is real and poses a significant threat. Then his
administration announced possibly the biggest rollback of the
Clean Air Act in history, proposing wholesale weakening of the
''new source review'' provision that requires old power plants to
install modern pollution controls when they are renovated.<br>
<br>
Pollution from power plants causes a variety of problems. Three in
particular are health-threatening: mercury contamination linked to
birth defects, ozone smog that triggers asthma attacks and fine
particulate soot that can actually lead to death. In addition,
these plants emit the chemicals that cause acid rain and haze in
our parks, as well as large amounts of carbon dioxide, a
greenhouse gas.<br>
<br>
On Thursday, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of
which I am chairman, voted to set strong limits on the three major
health-threatening types of power-plant pollution and to put a
cap, for the first time in American history, on the release of
carbon dioxide from power plants.<br>
<br>
The administration's climate action report projects that American
emissions of carbon dioxide will rise by 43 percent by 2020. Yet
its climate policy does little or nothing to control or reduce
this increase.<br>
<br>
This is a problem with a solution. The technology to clean up
these plants already exists; some of it has been around for
decades. What has been missing is the political will either to
tell the owners to install this technology or to create a market
to encourage that investment.<br>
<br>
America is on the verge of a boom in power-plant construction, and
that gives us a rare opportunity. Including carbon dioxide
reductions in a comprehensive cleanup plan now is the most
efficient and least costly way to address the threat of global
warming. The power industry realizes that the question on carbon
dioxide is not whether it will be regulated, but when.<br>
<br>
Dealing with global warming is too important to leave solely to
Washington. Several states, including New York, New Hampshire and
Massachusetts, are acting on their own to limit power-plant
emissions. But Washington has a crucial role. The scientific
consensus has never been stronger. A broad and growing coalition
of public health and environmental organizations and several
utility companies agree that we must act now. I hope that at some
point President Bush will follow this lead.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/opinion/unhealthy-air.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/opinion/unhealthy-air.html</a> <br>
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