<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Concluding paragraphs: <div class=""><span style="color: rgb(9, 34, 43); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(9, 34, 43); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">It remains to be seen exactly what the new justice will think of the EPA, clean air protections, and climate change, but the conservative-liberal split on the court</span><span style="color: rgb(9, 34, 43); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justice-kennedy-the-pivotal-swing-vote-on-the-supreme-court-announces-retirement/2018/06/27/a40a8c64-5932-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term=.d7fda17179f6" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/justice-kennedy-the-pivotal-swing-vote-on-the-supreme-court-announces-retirement/2018/06/27/a40a8c64-5932-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term%3D.d7fda17179f6&source=gmail&ust=1530462101002000&usg=AFQjCNExiJgWjLVBqM2cbToDnA-1WWBaFg" style="color: rgb(5, 74, 97); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); text-decoration: none !important;" class="">will significantly change</a><span style="color: rgb(9, 34, 43); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(9, 34, 43); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">for the first time in decades. Environmentalists may have gotten lucky with Kennedy’s moderate support of CO2 regulation and protecting wetlands — and chances are their luck has run out.</span><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#09222b" class=""><br class=""></font></div><p style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(9, 34, 43); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“I’m fearful,” Blumm, the law professor, told Grist. “And I think all people who watch the court and care about the environment should be fearful.”</p><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><a href="https://grist.org/article/supreme-court-justice-kennedy-is-retiring-heres-what-that-means-for-the-environment/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://grist.org/article/supreme-court-justice-kennedy-is-retiring-heres-what-that-means-for-the-environment/&source=gmail&ust=1530462101003000&usg=AFQjCNGQmYPTbOQ-ny5VLUkKFkHzdYTr3A" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://grist.org/article/<wbr class="">supreme-court-justice-kennedy-<wbr class="">is-retiring-heres-what-that-<wbr class="">means-for-the-environment/</a></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br class="">"What we are witnessing is major hydrologic change," said co-author Jay Famiglietti. <br class=""><br class="">"We see a distinctive pattern of the wet land areas of the world getting wetter -- those are the high latitudes and the tropics -- and the dry areas in between getting dryer.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-102" class="">https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-102</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">“The changes experienced by the biosphere over the past century ... have raised concerns about the possibility of rapid shifts from green to desert states.” </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Richard Sole'. Scaling laws in the drier. Nature 13 September 2007</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”<br class=""><br class="">Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change MAY 2018<br class=""><br class="">Published online: 27 April 2018 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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