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[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

'It can't just be a march. It has to be a movement.' What's next for
climate activists?
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/30/it-cant-just-be-a-march-it-has-to-be-a-movement-whats-next-for-climate-activists/>
Washington Post  - ‎4 hours ago‎
Sea of protesters hit streets nationally to protest Trump a Peoples Climate
March
<http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/sea-of-protesters-hit-streets-nationally-to-protest-trump-a-peoples-climate-march/>Raw
Story

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two
>>> decades
>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20
>>> 17/04/28/epa-website-removes-climate-science-site-from-publ
>>> ic-view-after-two-decades/?utm_term=.2828d62e2486
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>> EPA website removes climate science site from public view after two
>> decades
>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/28/epa-website-removes-climate-science-site-from-public-view-after-two-decades/>
>> Washington Post  - ‎6 hours ago‎
>> Thousands March In Washington, D.C. Heat To Demand Trump Act On Climate
>> Change
>> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-march-2017_us_590371e1e4b0bb2d086e12ff>Huffington
>> Post
>> EPA Officially Removes Its Climate Change Sub-site
>> <http://gizmodo.com/epa-officially-removes-its-climate-change-sub-site-1794769508>
>> Gizmodo
>> Most Referenced:EPA Kicks Off Website Updates | U.S. EPA News Releases |
>> US EPA <https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-kicks-website-updates>US EPA
>> Highly Cited:Presidential Executive Order on Promoting Energy
>> Independence and Economic Growth
>> <https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/28/presidential-executive-order-promoting-energy-independence-and-economi-1>The
>> White House
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> Climate March draws massive crowd to DC in sweltering heat
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-march-expected-to-draw-massive-crowd-to-dc-in-sweltering-heat/2017/04/28/1bdf5e66-2c3a-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html>
> Washington Post  - ‎53 minutes ago‎
> Thousands Of Marchers Expected To Take On Trump's Climate Policies
> <http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/29/526179637/thousands-of-marchers-expected-to-take-on-trumps-climate-policies>
> NPR
> People's Climate March draws massive crowd to Washington, DC on President
> Trump's 100th day in office
> <http://abcnews.go.com/International/peoples-climate-march-draws-massive-crowd-washington-dc/story?id=47103476>ABC
> News
> Most Referenced:Peoples Climate Movement 2017 – Logistics - People's
> Climate March <https://peoplesclimate.org/logistics/>People's Climate
> March
>
> Major Report Prompts Warnings That the Arctic Is Unraveling
> The polar region is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the
> planet
>
>    -  Jeff Tollefson
>    <https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/jeff-tollefson/>, Nature
>    magazine <https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/nature-magazine/>
>    on April 28, 2017
>
> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-report-prompts-
> warnings-that-the-arctic-is-unraveling1/
>
> Arctic sea ice in March was at the lowest maximum extent ever recorded for
> the month. *Credit: Mario Tama Getty Images
> <http://www.gettyimages.com/license/664085452>*
>
> The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet,
> suggests a huge assessment of the region. The warming is hastening the
> melting of Arctic ice and boosting sea-level rise
> <http://www.nature.com/news/climate-science-rising-tide-1.13749>.
>
> The report, compiled by more than 90 scientists, documents the myriad 
> changes
> already under way across the Arctic
> <http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7459/pdf/499401a> because of
> climate change—from declining sea ice and melting glaciers to shifting
> ecosystems and weather patterns. From 2011 to 2015, the assessment finds,
> the Arctic was warmer than at any time since records began around 1900 (see
> 'Arctic warming
> <http://www.nature.com/news/huge-arctic-report-ups-estimates-of-sea-level-rise-1.21911#graphic>
> ').
>
> Sea ice continues to decline
> <http://www.nature.com/news/incredibly-thin-arctic-sea-ice-shocks-re>,
> and the extent of snow cover across the Arctic regions of North America and
> Eurasia each June has halved as compared to observations before 2000.
>
> The findings come from the Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost in the Arctic
> report
> <https://www.amap.no/documents/doc/Snow-Water-Ice-and-Permafrost.-Summary-for-Policy-makers/1532>,
> a comprehensive assessment compiled every few years by the Arctic
> Monitoring and Assessment Programme, the scientific body that reports to
> the governments that make up the Arctic Council, a forum for issues
> affecting the region. The last assessment came out in 2011
> <https://www.amap.no/documents/doc/arctic-climate-issues-2011-changes-in-arctic-snow-water-ice-and-permafrost/129>
> .
> Observation to action
>
> “The take-home message is that the Arctic is unravelling,” says Rafe
> Pomerance, who chairs a network of conservation groups called Arctic 21 and
> was a deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development
> under US President Bill Clinton. “The fate of the Arctic has to be moved
> out of the world of scientific observation and into the world of government
> policy.”
> Credit: *Nature
> <http://www.nature.com/news/huge-arctic-report-ups-estimates-of-sea-level-rise-1.21911>*,
> April 28, 2017, doi:10.1038/nature.2017.21911
>
> The report increases projections for global sea-level rise
> <http://www.nature.com/news/climate-science-rising-tide-1.13749>, which
> takes into account all sources of melting including the Arctic. Their new
> minimum estimates are now almost double those issued by the
> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013
> <http://www.nature.com/news/ipcc-despite-hiatus-climate-change-here-to-stay-1.13832>
>  for
> some emissions scenarios. In fact, the latest calculations suggest that the
> IPCC's middle estimates for sea-level rise should now be considered minimum
> estimates.
>
> In one scenario, which assumes that carbon emissions rise slightly above
> the goals set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement—but still see a
> considerable reduction—sea levels would increase by at least 0.52 metres by
> 2100, compared with 2006, the Arctic report says. Under a business-as-usual
> scenario, the minimum increase would be 0.74 metres.
>
> Although aggressive reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions will make a
> crucial difference by the end of the century, dramatic changes are still
> likely over the next few decades, says Morten Skovgård Olsen, who
> coordinated the assessment and leads the Danish Ministry of Energy,
> Utilities and Climate’s Arctic programme.
>
> “The Arctic that you will have by mid-century will be very different from
> the Arctic that we see today,” he says.
>
> *This article is reproduced with permission and was first published
> <http://www.nature.com/news/huge-arctic-report-ups-estimates-of-sea-level-rise-1.21911>
>  on
> April 28, 2017.*
>
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> Lawrence F. London, Jr.
> lfljvenaura@gmail.com
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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared