<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=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></a><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""></a><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY</font></span></header></a><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""></a><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">A study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry underscores that the release of pollutants in one region can have implications beyond its borders; emphasizing the dire need for global collaboration on environmental issues. </font></span></a><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; display: inline !important;" class=""></a></p><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline !important;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> The study suggests that coal-burning activities in the Asia-Pacific region have influenced environmental conditions in the United States Pacific Northwest.</span></div></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">JOURNAL</font></span></dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry</font></em></dd></dl><div class="">Full release <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/soet-ias122019.php</a></div></div></header><div class="">
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line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Greta Thunberg boils the basics down to just 5 words:</b> “… and it will get worse”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Climate scientists had made the same point; e.g., ….</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Camilo Mora:</b> “ …. our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233" class="">https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 68, 93);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Michael Mann:</b> “</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">But if we continue to burn fossil fuels ... we are going to ... get worse and worse droughts, and heat waves, and super storms, and floods, and wildfires.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how" class="">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Kate Marvel:</b> “The whole idea that everything’s going to work out isn’t really helpful because it isn’t going to work out ” said Kate Marvel a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Climate change is going to worsen to a point where millions of lives, homes, and species are put at risk she said. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism" class="">https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">My own view:</b> <<</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it</a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">>></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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