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*Google Earth Shows 30 Years of Climate Change 
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/google-earth-satellites-climate-change-21012>*

    Google has been collecting a database of imagery from the Landsat
    and Sentinel satellite systems that spans 1984 until the present.
    It's part of a petabyte-scale database from our eyes in the sky (for
    reference, you'd need 31,250 iPhone 7s — the basic 32 gigabyte
    version — to store a single petabyte of data). Using their Earth
    Engine system, anyone with an internet connection can see those
    changes. ...(see) some of the starkest and most hopeful timelapses
    of our planet.
    http://www.climatecentral.org/news/google-earth-satellites-climate-change-21012

    *Climate change*is coming for your Christmas favorites
    <https://www.greenbiz.com/article/climate-change-coming-your-christmas-favorites>

GreenBiz 	 -‎17 hours ago‎ 	

    But brace yourselves once more, for many treats we're looking
    forward to are already under threat from*climate change*. Verisk
    Maplecroft's newly released Climate Change Exposure Index (CCEI)
    highlights that changing weather patterns over the coming decades
    are likely to impact the quantity — and quality — of a range of
    festive goods, from fine wines to perfume to Christmas nibbles...
    For consumers, climate change may affect the price and availability
    of the goods we're buying. But for luxury products, the more
    significant threat is that the exclusive characteristic of a brand
    that makes it so desirable could be irretrievably altered.

*MSNBC Video - Bill Nye talks Trump EPA, Energy Secy. picks 
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/bill-nye-talks-trump-epa-energy-secy-picks-839646787975>*

    Scientist Bill Nye joins to discuss Donald Trump's picks to lead
    State, EPA and Energy departments, and why some are concerned over
    their climate views. Duration: 7:45
    http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/bill-nye-talks-trump-epa-energy-secy-picks-839646787975
    (hat tip to D.R. Tucker)

$  Verisk Maplecroft's new Environmental Risk Dataset 2017 is now 
available $ <https://maplecroft.com/themes/cc/>

    Verisk Maplecroft's 2017 new Environmental Risk Dataset features
    comparable business risk data and sub-national mapping for 198
    countries across 44 separate issues, including climate change
    vulnerability and adaptation, ecosystem services, greenhouse gas
    emissions, waste management, environmental regulation, natural
    hazards, and exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards. The
    natural hazards component of the Environmental Risk Dataset can be
    used to help business, investors and international organisations
    identify countries that typically suffer greatest losses from
    natural hazards, and compare their exposure and vulnerability to
    them. https://maplecroft.com/themes/cc/

    Arctic*heatwave*could break records
    <http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38417198>

BBC News 	 -‎6 minutes ago‎ 	

    *Climate*scientists say these unseasonably warm weather patterns in
    the Arctic region are directly linked to man-made*climate change*.
    Temperatures throughout November and December were 5C higher than
    average. It follows a summer during which Arctic .

    Who Wants to Get Really Depressed About*Climate Change*? Thanks,
    Adam Ruins Everything!
    <http://www.themarysue.com/adam-doesnt-ruin-climate-change-thats-the-problem/>

The Mary Sue 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

    In the latest trailer for TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything, host Adam
    Conover talks about*climate change*in the most realistic and
    depressing way possible.

*(view Map display) The U.S. Has Been Overwhelmingly Hot This Year 
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/us-record-heat-2016-21003>*

    In a politically divisive year, there's been one tie that has bound
    most of the U.S. together. We all live in the United States of
    Warming (USW! USW! USW!).
    In all likelihood, the U.S. is going to have its second-hottest year
    on record, trailing only 2012. Every state is slated to have a top
    10 warmest year and even at the city level, unrelenting warmth has
    been the main story in 2016....Climate Central conducted an analysis
    of more than 1,730 weather stations across the Lower 48 that include
    daily temperature data up until Dec. 15....
    A paltry 2 percent are having a colder-than-normal year. That leaves
    98 percent running above normal. Not only that, 10 percent of those
    weather stations are having their hottest year on record....
    Another area where climate change caused a shift is the number of
    record daily highs being set, and this year has been no exception.
    In November, record daily highs outpaced daily lows at a blistering
    44-to-1 pace. For the year, that ratio is 6-to-1, with more record
    highs than lows set in every season. In a climate with no manmade
    warming, the ratio of record highs to record lows would be roughly
    1-to-1.
    http://www.climatecentral.org/news/us-record-heat-2016-21003

    On*Climate Change*, Obama Lays Down a Scientific Gauntlet for Trump
    Administration
    <https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122016/climate-change-effects-global-warming-science-donald-trump>

InsideClimate News 	 -‎10 hours ago‎ 	

    With the entire Obama*climate*agenda expected to come under assault
    by the Donald Trump regime, this report, released in draft form for
    comment by experts, lays down a marker for the*climate*consensus.
    Unveiling a sobering state-of-the-climate report, President Obama
    makes clear the dire consequences of unabated global warming....
    As if parading its best evidence against an expected onslaught of
    climate denial, the Obama Administration released on Thursday an
    updated compendium of the accepted science about global warming....
    The science review is intended to guide the preparation of the
    government's next National Climate Assessment, a periodic
    comprehensive report scheduled to be released in in 2018. The last
    assessment was published in 2014. ..
    At the most basic level, the report speaks bluntly of the core
    understanding of climate science that is accepted by essentially
    every authoritative institution, yet remains anathema to some
    politicians...
    "Human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are
    primarily responsible for observed climate changes in the industrial
    era," it says. "There are no alternative explanations."...
    But its more significant contribution comes in its presentation of
    the peer-reviewed science published during the past few years, a
    time when global warming has seemed to lurch into overdrive.
    https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122016/climate-change-effects-global-warming-science-donald-trump

Who Wants to Get Really Depressed About Climate Change? Thanks, Adam 
Ruins Everything! 
<http://www.themarysue.com/adam-doesnt-ruin-climate-change-thats-the-problem/>

    In the latest trailer for TruTV's Adam Ruins Everything, host Adam
    Conover talks about climate change in the most realistic and
    depressing way possible. ...Conover is joined by NYU Professor of
    Environmental Studies, Dale Jameson, who breaks down the fact that
    we've already done so much damage to the Earth's atmosphere that
    “we'd be lucky if we can hold the warming to two degrees Celsius.”
    In other words, it's not a matter of if climate change is going to
    happen. It's already happening. It's just a matter of how bad things
    are going to get. Damn.
    http://www.themarysue.com/adam-doesnt-ruin-climate-change-thats-the-problem/

*Black Snake Bleeding Out: How DAPL Is Duping Investors 
<https://theleapblog.org/black-snake-bleeding-out-how-dapl-is-duping-investors/>*

    The Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) is yet another violent variable in
    the equation of environmental racism that plagues the United States,
    and the world—to the peril of Indigenous and low-wealth communities
    of color everywhere...
      The financial implications of this decision are both far reaching
    and profound, and may signal the death knell of DAPL, also referred
    to as the “Black Snake” by the Native communities leading the
    resistance on the ground. For all of ETP’s bravado—including the
    suggestion that they could start drilling in defiance of the Army
    Corps decision—it may very well be oil investors, not the courts or
    the federal government, who ultimately deal the final blow and cut
    off the Black Snake’s head.
    https://theleapblog.org/black-snake-bleeding-out-how-dapl-is-duping-investors/
    https://www.icc.illinois.gov/docket/files.aspx?no=14-0754&docId=237581

*This Day in Climate History  December 24 1988 
<http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19890102,00.html>  - from 
D.R. Tucker
*

    **December 24, 1988: TIME Magazine names "Endangered Earth" its
    "Planet of the Year" for 1988, citing in part rising concerns over
    global warming.
    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/28176/TIME-MAGAZINE-PICKS-EARTH-IN-LIEU-OF-MAN-OF-THE-YEAR.html
    http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19890102,00.html

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