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    *Climate*Scientists Hatch Plans to Deal With
    Trump's*Climate*Skeptics
    <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-hatch-plans-to-deal-with-trumps-climate-skeptics/>

Scientific American 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

    The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a candidate who
    called human-driven*climate change*a hoax, was followed by Trump
    naming more and more*climate-change*doubters to run the government's
    environment and energy agencies. So this Wednesday*...California
    Gov. Jerry Brown ... *"*We have the scientists, we have the lawyers
    and we are ready to fight!*"...*
    *Brown urged scientists to take the long view. "This is not one
    battle. This is a long slog," he said. One election and a
    presidential term does not set policy forever, he noted. Scientists,
    he said to more cheers, are truth-tellers and truth-seekers. "I’ve
    been doing this a long time," he said, “and eventually the truth
    will prevail.” In fact, he added, the election should energize the
    research community in a needed way. A lot of scientists and policy
    makers may have been quietly pushing for actions to combat warming,
    he said, but not pushing very hard. "You know that sometimes you
    need a heart attack to stop smoking?" he asked. “Well, maybe we just
    got our heart attack."*
    *

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**Canada - Federal Scientists Officially Unmuzzled in New Collective 
Agreement with Federal Government * 
<http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-hdbuuy-jdkkkdhi-g/>

    Canada’s federal scientists have won the right to speak freely about
    their research and science without upper level bureaucratic control,
    a feature central to restrictive communications protocols under the
    Harper government...
    The move to officially unmuzzle scientists comes after the
    Professional Institute of Public Service Canada (PIPSC), Canada's
    largest union federal employees including 15,000 scientists,
    researchers and engineers, negotiated to include scientists' right
    to speak in a collective agreement deal...
    A memorandum of agreement contained in new member agreements states
    employees*"shall have the right to express themselves on science and
    their research, with respecting the Values and Ethics Code for the
    Public Sector adopted on April 2, 2012, without being designated as
    an official media spokesperson*."..
    The language was agreed to in a tentative deal with the federal
    government, but Daviau said she expected it to be adopted by other
    federal agencies like the National Research Council, Canadian Food
    Inspection Agency and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in
    future negotiations.
    http://desmogblog.cmail20.com/t/t-l-hdbuuy-jdkkkdhi-g/

    New*Sea-Level Rise*Projection Raises Threat to World's Coasts
    <http://www.livescience.com/57216-sea-level-rise-projections-threaten-coasts.html>

Live Science 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

    The Earth's Future research project focused on creating a new model
    for*sea-level rise*that takes a more holistic approach in
    considering factors that will impact coastal communities, the
    scientists said.

    *Climate change*fingerprints seen on 24 weird weather cases, study
    says
    <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-fingerprints-seen-on-24-weird-weather-cases/>

CBS News 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

    An annual report released Thursday by the National Oceanic and
    Atmospheric Administration found*climate change*was a factor,
    however small or large, in 24 of 30 strange weather events.

    *Climate*Scientists Hatch Plans to Deal With
    Trump's*Climate*Skeptics
    <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-scientists-hatch-plans-to-deal-with-trumps-climate-skeptics/>

Scientific American 	 -‎15 hours ago‎ 	

    The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a candidate who
    called human-driven*climate change*a hoax, was followed by Trump
    naming more and more*climate-change*doubters to run the government's
    environment and energy agencies. So this Wednesday*..*

    The world needs to consider how to manage the end of the fossil fuel
    era
    <http://theconversation.com/the-world-needs-to-consider-how-to-manage-the-end-of-the-fossil-fuel-era-67175>

The Conversation AU 	 -‎Dec 14, 2016‎ 	

    About three-quarters of the fossil fuel industry’s coal, oil and gas
    reserves have to remain in the ground unburnt if the world is to
    keep warming to 2°C – never mind well below it...About
    three-quarters of the fossil fuel industry’s coal, oil and gas
    reserves have to remain in the ground unburnt if the world is to
    keep warming to 2°C – never mind well below it....The speed of the
    transition ahead, however, may be too fast for many fossil fuel
    reliant countries to fully keep up. Environmental regulations and
    the rapid progress in clean and alternative energy are stranding
    coal assets across the globe....
    Such trends are already sending shockwaves throughout the fossil
    fuel industry. They pose significant risks to countries heavily
    reliant on fossil fuel revenues, such as Nigeria and Venezuela...
    If we are to act in line with the Paris Agreements, we will need to
    move even faster. Global emissions have stagnated over the last
    three years. But to keep global warming to 1.5°C, they need to be
    reduced at about 8.5% a year. That, according to Oxfam researcher
    James Morrissey is the equivalent of pulling about 980 coal fired
    power stations off-line per year...
    Ending the fossil fuel era will constitute a major shift to the
    current global geopolitical order, one dominated by major fossil
    fuel producers like Russia and the United States. It’s hard to see
    petrostates eagerly facilitating a transition away from that order,
    never mind funding a globally just transition away from it....
    Given that hard political reality, we need to be careful to not
    allow questions of stranded assets and equity to derail progress on
    climate change. It may be an injustice to not strand fossil fuels
    equitably. But much graver injustice and harm will come from not
    acting on climate change, particularly for least developed and
    developing nations....
    What’s clear is that the problem shouldn’t be exacerbated by
    investing in new fossil fuel projects. There are already more than
    enough fossil fuel reserves and infrastructure to push past climate
    targets. Investing in more will only exacerbate climate change,
    deepen the problem of stranded assets, and make an equitable
    solution even harder to attain....

    How*Climate*Rules Might Fade Away
    <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/how-climate-rules-might-fade-away>

Bloomberg 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

    Over a club sandwich, Michael Greenstone, a White House economist,
    and Cass Sunstein, Obama's top regulatory officer, decided that the
    executive branch needed to figure out how to estimate the economic
    damage from*climate change*. With the recession ...

    Trump Taps*Climate*-Confused Congressman As Interior Secretary
    <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ryan-zinke-interior-secretary_us_585076f9e4b0ee009eb43e50>

Huffington Post 	 -‎36 minutes ago‎ 	

    Slashing environmental regulations appears to be a top priority of
    the next administration, as Trump fleshes out his proposed Cabinet
    with*climate science*deniers and those who have alarmingly deep ties
    to the coal, oil and gas industries. Zinke has ...

    Tell Investors of*Climate*Risks, Energy Sector Is Urged
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/business/energy-environment/global-panel-urges-companies-to-disclose-climate-change-risks.html>

New York Times 	 -‎20 hours ago‎ 	

    A coalition of the world's most powerful bankers, regulators and
    even executives at some heavy polluters have a message for oil and
    gas companies: Be more forthcoming about the risks posed by*climate
    change*. The new guidelines, issued on ... The New*...*

*Is Donald Trump pushing more scientists towards political activism? 
<http://www.nature.com/news/is-donald-trump-pushing-more-scientists-towards-political-activism-1.21130>*

    Researchers are reaching out to the US president-elect with science
    advice — and criticism.
    Kim Cobb, a palaeoclimatologist at the Georgia Institute of
    Technology in Atlanta, told the crowd that she learned of Trump's
    win while on a research expedition in the tropical Pacific. The
    implications didn’t sink in until she returned to the laboratory
    where she studies links between climate change and coral die-offs.
    "The nightmare continues and keeps getting worse every day," she
    said....
    Cobb told Nature that she is worried about the long-term safety of
    US government climate datasets and other federal research
    infrastructure. Trump’s transition team recently asked the
    Department of Energy for lists of government employees who worked on
    climate-change policy (a request the department has refused). Cobb
    fears that the Trump administration will interfere with the work of
    researchers inside and outside the government...
    "Now is the time to say something," she said. "How many thousands of
    our peers are still in the poster halls?"
    http://www.nature.com/news/is-donald-trump-pushing-more-scientists-towards-political-activism-1.21130

*Hundreds Of Climate Scientists Rally Against President-Elect Trump 
<http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/12/13/hundreds-of-climate-scientists-rally-against-president-elect-trump/>*

    Hundreds of climate researchers rallied in the Bay Area, vowing to
    fight back against Donald Trump...
    It’s the world’s largest gathering of earth scientists and this year
    the topic focused on the President-elect, and his administration’s
    potential threat to climate research...
    Researchers from around the world gathered in San Francisco to
    deliver their defiant message...
    Hundreds of the brightest scientific minds, and many concerned Bay
    Area citizens, gathered in Jessie Square to challenge the new Trump
    administration, specifically the President-elect’s rhetoric on
    climate change...
    They said every time Trump makes a new appointment they grow more
    concerned...
    That’s why they’ve decided activism is just as important as
    scientific research...
    http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/12/13/hundreds-of-climate-scientists-rally-against-president-elect-trump/

*(Video) Jerry Brown speaks to the AGU National Conf Dec 2016 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MLHWFO6DwE>*

      "...we have the laws we have the tools of enforcement and we have
    the political will and we will set the stage will set the example
    and whatever Washington thinks they're doing California is the future"
    AGU's Fall Meeting is the largest Earth and space science meeting in
    the world - The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is an international
    scientific society dedicated to promoting discovery in Earth and
    space science for the benefit of humanity. (see full transcript)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MLHWFO6DwE

*This Day in Climate History  December 16, 1995 
<http://www.csmonitor.com/1995/1218/18032.html>- from D.R. Tucker *

    * The 2nd IPCC report is released.* GLOBAL warming is happening at a
    slower pace than once thought, but even so, nations must act quickly
    and decisively to protect the planet's atmosphere...These were two
    conclusions from a UN-sponsored report, expected to help world
    leaders draw up a new blueprint for reducing dangerous gasses...The
    study was the first broad review of global-warming research in five
    years by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United
    Nations-sponsored group of more than 2,500 scientists charged with
    keeping governments up to date on global-warming research and its
    implications. http://www.csmonitor.com/1995/1218/18032.html

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