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</span>Yale’s Nadine Unger warns that so far as climate and health are concerned, forestation is a complex issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Planting trees is not a cure-all for climate problems, and not even necessarily beneficial as a climate action strategy, however pleasant and useful they are otherwise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Thanks to Todd Sack for the item.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
He reports from a conversation with a knowledgeable academic friend familiar with Unger's work that trees pose no local health hazard.
</font></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/opinion/to-save-the-planet-dont-plant-trees.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140919&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y&_r=0"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/opinion/to-save-the-planet-dont-plant-trees.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140919&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y&_r=0</font></span></a><u><font color="#0563c1"><font face="Calibri"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">This op-ed concerning trees' release of VOCs that may affect the climate is new information and we will be watching for confirmations and for a better understanding
of its implications. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>A distinguished group of scientists has already strongly objected to Ungar’s piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0922-scientists-respond-to-dont-plant-trees-oped.html"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0922-scientists-respond-to-dont-plant-trees-oped.html</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>If you are planning a few hotter decades ahead, where do you go in the US?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/on-a-warmer-planet-which-cities-will-be-safest.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140922&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/on-a-warmer-planet-which-cities-will-be-safest.html?emc=edit_tnt_20140922&nlid=43628374&tntemail0=y</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(Agreed, coastal FL is not a good bet, but until the oyster beds overheat or acidify and we have to go to all okra and field peas, there’s some good high land inland, at least down to Lake Okeechobee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>But shouldn’t we be putting our energy into eliminating fossil fuels, and building community action to that end, rather than succumbing to individualistic survival fantasies?)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
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</span>Over 310,000 marched for climate action in New York Sunday, Sept. 22, and tens of thousands marched in over 2800 other locations around the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/21/-sp-climate-change-protest-melbourne-london-new-york-protest"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/21/-sp-climate-change-protest-melbourne-london-new-york-protest</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>From the LA Times: </font></span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nn-climate-change-march-new-york-20140921-story.html"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nn-climate-change-march-new-york-20140921-story.html</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Peter Sinclair sees the march as a tipping point in the movement for climate action, mostly ignored by the major US TV networks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font></span><a href="http://climatecrocks.com/2014/09/21/the-tipping-point/"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://climatecrocks.com/2014/09/21/the-tipping-point/</font></span></a><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span>For years the New York Times has been a climate disgrace, treating propagandists with respect and ignoring or distorting the climate issues of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I have been scanning it mostly to keep current on denier talking points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>No longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>They have appointed a climate editor who takes the task seriously, running actual science (item 1), gossip topics (item 2), and basics to bring their readership into the conversation, such as this piece
on CO2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/carbon-dioxide-building-block-of-life-best-in-moderation.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=5"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/carbon-dioxide-building-block-of-life-best-in-moderation.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=5</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>I am delighted that the Times has taken the issue on again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Unfortunately, the digital Times is no longer free and a subscription is required if you read more than ten stories a month.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Worth it, I now say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is time the Guardian had some company among the major news sources in English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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</span>And then there is the Wall Street Journal and other Murdoch imitation news sources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/sep/22/wall-street-journal-downplays-global-warming-risks"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/sep/22/wall-street-journal-downplays-global-warming-risks</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>John Kerry has put climate at the center of US diplomatic efforts, instructing all 275 US foreign missions, embassies, and consulates “to put this issue on the front burner in all of our interventions with host countries. . ..”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/22/us-climate-change-john-kerry-un"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/22/us-climate-change-john-kerry-un</font></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Calibri">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Climate disruption is already influencing food production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Food quality and abundance in the coming years may depend on our ability to control ozone pollution, and to develop crops resistant to the gas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span></font><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/testing-future-conditions-for-the-food-chain.html?emc=edit_th_20140923&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=43628374"><font color="#0563c1" face="Calibri">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/testing-future-conditions-for-the-food-chain.html?emc=edit_th_20140923&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=43628374</font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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