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: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:11:04 -0400
'It can't just be a march. It has to be a movement.' What's next for
climate activists?
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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/
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Washington Post - 4 hours ago
Sea of protesters hit streets nationally to protest Trump a Peoples Climate
March
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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/sea-of-protesters-hit-streets-nationally-to-protest-trump-a-peoples-climate-march/
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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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> Washington Post - 6 hours ago
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> Thousands March In Washington, D.C. Heat To Demand Trump Act On Climate
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> Change
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-march-2017_us_590371e1e4b0bb2d086e12ff
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> EPA Officially Removes Its Climate Change Sub-site
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http://gizmodo.com/epa-officially-removes-its-climate-change-sub-site-1794769508
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> Most Referenced:EPA Kicks Off Website Updates | U.S. EPA News Releases |
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> Highly Cited:Presidential Executive Order on Promoting Energy
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> Independence and Economic Growth
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/28/presidential-executive-order-promoting-energy-independence-and-economi-1
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Climate March draws massive crowd to DC in sweltering heat
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Washington Post - 53 minutes ago
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Thousands Of Marchers Expected To Take On Trump's Climate Policies
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NPR
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People's Climate March draws massive crowd to Washington, DC on President
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Trump's 100th day in office
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/peoples-climate-march-draws-massive-crowd-washington-dc/story?id=47103476
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Most Referenced:Peoples Climate Movement 2017 – Logistics - People's
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Major Report Prompts Warnings That the Arctic Is Unraveling
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The polar region is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the
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planet
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/jeff-tollefson/
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/nature-magazine/
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on April 28, 2017
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-report-prompts-
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warnings-that-the-arctic-is-unraveling1/
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Arctic sea ice in March was at the lowest maximum extent ever recorded for
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the month. *Credit: Mario Tama Getty Images
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http://www.gettyimages.com/license/664085452
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The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet,
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suggests a huge assessment of the region. The warming is hastening the
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melting of Arctic ice and boosting sea-level rise
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http://www.nature.com/news/climate-science-rising-tide-1.13749
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The report, compiled by more than 90 scientists, documents the myriad
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changes
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already under way across the Arctic
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http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7459/pdf/499401a
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climate change—from declining sea ice and melting glaciers to shifting
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ecosystems and weather patterns. From 2011 to 2015, the assessment finds,
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the Arctic was warmer than at any time since records began around 1900 (see
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'Arctic warming
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http://www.nature.com/news/huge-arctic-report-ups-estimates-of-sea-level-rise-1.21911#graphic
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Sea ice continues to decline
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http://www.nature.com/news/incredibly-thin-arctic-sea-ice-shocks-re
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and the extent of snow cover across the Arctic regions of North America and
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Eurasia each June has halved as compared to observations before 2000.
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The findings come from the Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost in the Arctic
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report
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https://www.amap.no/documents/doc/Snow-Water-Ice-and-Permafrost.-Summary-for-Policy-makers/1532
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a comprehensive assessment compiled every few years by the Arctic
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Monitoring and Assessment Programme, the scientific body that reports to
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the governments that make up the Arctic Council, a forum for issues
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affecting the region. The last assessment came out in 2011
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https://www.amap.no/documents/doc/arctic-climate-issues-2011-changes-in-arctic-snow-water-ice-and-permafrost/129
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Observation to action
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“The take-home message is that the Arctic is unravelling,” says Rafe
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Pomerance, who chairs a network of conservation groups called Arctic 21 and
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was a deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development
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under US President Bill Clinton. “The fate of the Arctic has to be moved
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out of the world of scientific observation and into the world of government
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policy.”
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Credit: *Nature
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http://www.nature.com/news/huge-arctic-report-ups-estimates-of-sea-level-rise-1.21911
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April 28, 2017, doi:10.1038/nature.2017.21911
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The report increases projections for global sea-level rise
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http://www.nature.com/news/climate-science-rising-tide-1.13749
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takes into account all sources of melting including the Arctic. Their new
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minimum estimates are now almost double those issued by the
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013
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http://www.nature.com/news/ipcc-despite-hiatus-climate-change-here-to-stay-1.13832
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for
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some emissions scenarios. In fact, the latest calculations suggest that the
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IPCC's middle estimates for sea-level rise should now be considered minimum
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estimates.
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In one scenario, which assumes that carbon emissions rise slightly above
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the goals set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement—but still see a
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considerable reduction—sea levels would increase by at least 0.52 metres by
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2100, compared with 2006, the Arctic report says. Under a business-as-usual
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scenario, the minimum increase would be 0.74 metres.
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Although aggressive reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions will make a
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crucial difference by the end of the century, dramatic changes are still
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likely over the next few decades, says Morten Skovgård Olsen, who
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coordinated the assessment and leads the Danish Ministry of Energy,
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Utilities and Climate’s Arctic programme.
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“The Arctic that you will have by mid-century will be very different from
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the Arctic that we see today,” he says.
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*This article is reproduced with permission and was first published
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http://www.nature.com/news/huge-arctic-report-ups-estimates-of-sea-level-rise-1.21911
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April 28, 2017.*
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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
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lfljvenaura@gmail.com
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https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared
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