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    GOP: How’s that Science Denial Working for You?
    <http://climatecrocks.com/2016/08/09/gop-hows-that-science-denial-working-for-you/>

by greenman3610 <http://climatecrocks.com/author/greenman3610/> 
Yesterday a very vulnerable GOP Senate Candidate, Kelly Ayotte of New 
Hampshire, publicly broke with her party in announcing she could not 
support Presidential nominee Donald Trump, in part because of his stand 
on climate change.  As this NYTimes piece from a few days ago shows, 
Ayotte was trying to keep up a front, but...

    My Education in*Climate*-Denial Jujitsu
    <http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/my-education-in-climate-denial-jujitsu/>

Scientific American (blog) 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

The Republican-dominated Committee has long been hostile to expert 
opinion—particularly on mainstream*climate science*—to the frustration 
of the minority Democrats....Five days after my House Science Committee 
visit, Rep. Smith sent out significantly less subtle congressional 
subpoenas to a number of nonprofit advocacy groups and attorneys general 
to suppress their investigations of ExxonMobil. In one letter to 17 
attorneys general Smith and 16 Republicans on the House Science 
Committee..."The Committee intends to continue its vigorous oversight of 
the coordinated attempt to deprive companies, nonprofit organizations, 
and scientists of their First Amendment rights and ability to fund and 
conduct scientific research free from intimidation and threats of 
persecution."...Instead of holding ExxonMobil accountable, Smith 
conjured up a witch-hunt invoking science-positive rhetoric in an overt 
overreach of power. In so doing, he and his like-minded colleagues have 
intimidated and persecuted the very nonprofit organizations and 
scientists whose First Amendment rights he purports to protect....Those 
ten minutes in the Science Committee chambers primed me to understand 
that underestimating the anti-science elite is a rookie mistake. Big 
money factors calculating minds into the calculus of whom to 
support...So don’t think for a minute they aren’t listening to the 
experts. They are listening so they can retool our words and wield them 
against us.

    Nobody can buy the silence of a*climate*spinning out of control
    <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/09/climate-ministers-bribe-local-fracking-environment>

The Guardian 	 -‎16 hours ago‎ 	

As a new (and still unproven) source of fossil fuels, fracking is 
completely incompatible with tackling*climate change*. The government's 
own*climate*advisers recently published a report suggesting that three 
tests needed to be met for fracking to*proceed safely. None of these 
tests are anywhere near being achieved....the only way out of the 
climate crisis is through a radical transition to a zero-carbon economy 
based on renewable energy. The public know this – that’s why support for 
renewables remains high at 81%, with only 4% opposing. Despite this, the 
UK currently does not have the policies to meet half of its 2030 carbon 
reduction targets. This needn’t be the case. Since 2009 the costs of 
solar photovoltaic modules have fallen by 75%, while recent estimates 
suggest that prices could fall by a further 60% by 2025 if the industry 
receives the right investment.the only thing that makes sense – 
economically, environmentally and socially: invest in the shared wealth 
that can be generated by renewable energy and energy efficiency. In 
other words, invest in the future...*

State of the Climate in 2015 
<https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/>
(The American Meteorological Society advances the atmospheric and 
related sciences, technologies, applications, and services for the 
benefit of society....Founded in 1919, the AMS is the nation’s premier 
scientific and professional organization promoting and disseminating 
information about the atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic sciences.  With 
more than 13,000 members of scientists, researchers, educators, 
broadcast meteorologists, students, weather enthusiasts, and other 
professionals in the fields of weather, water, and climate....) *An 
international, peer-reviewed publication released each summer, the State 
of the Climate is the authoritative annual summary of the global climate 
published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological 
Society.* The report, compiled by NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate 
at the National Centers for Environmental Information is based on 
contributions from scientists from around the world. It provides a 
detailed update on global climate indicators, notable weather events, 
and other data collected by environmental monitoring stations and 
instruments located on land, water, ice, and in space....This is the 
26th edition of the annual assessment now known as State of the 
Climate.*The year 2015 saw the toppling of several symbolic mileposts: 
notably, it was 1.0°C warmer than preindustrial times, and the Mauna Loa 
observatory recorded its first annual mean carbon dioxide concentration 
greater than 400 ppm. Beyond these more recognizable markers, trends 
seen in recent decades continued.*

    NY21:*Climate*is changing. Will that shape how we vote?
    <http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/32359/20160809/ny21-climate-is-changing-will-that-shape-how-we-vote>

North Country Public Radio 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

So, will*climate change*be on voters' minds in the NY21 congressional 
race in November? Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican, has moved 
cautiously on this issue, so cautiously that her opponents say it may 
have left her vulnerable.

    Warming*climate*linked to increase in food poisoning from oysters
    <http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-vibrio-1.3713244>

CBC.ca 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

Until now, researchers had indirectly linked*climate change*to an 
increase in illnesses from the bacteria, Colwell said. Using DNA, a 
50-year database of plankton, water temperatures and disease reports, 
she shows a more comprehensive connection.

    Paris Agreement on*climate change*could go into effect this year
    <http://mashable.com/2016/08/09/paris-agreement-may-enter-force-2016/>

Mashable 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

Other dynamics are at work too, including a continued push 
by*climate*vulnerable nations' to find a way to meet the agreement's 
aspirational*global warming*temperature goal of limiting warming to as 
low as 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit*...*

    Out-of-control California*wildfire*grows, forces schools to close
    <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-fire-idUSKCN10K1ZV>

Reuters 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

Firefighters are making gradual progress against the blaze 
as*wildfire*season in the western United States reaches its traditional 
peak, intensified by prolonged drought and extreme summer heat across 
California.

(Music Video) 2016: The Year That We Still Don't Understand 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlc127JYJ2g>
Understanding Climate Change with video images -  music track and videos 
of news events world wide (1:33)

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