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Fake news is old news to*climate*scientists
<http://grist.org/article/fake-news-is-old-news-to-climate-scientists/>
Grist -8 hours ago
Bogus*climate*stories also allege that a so-called “pause” in*global
warming*undermines established*climate science*.
Although*climate*scientists overwhelmingly agree that temperatures
are rising and*climate change*is real, there has been debate
over ....This kind of fake news has set progress back years, if not
decades, Mann said. It’s a “crime against the planet,” he told
Grist, and a “crime against humanity.”...
All the news that’s unfit to print...
There are many flavors of fake news. Some of these stories push the
idea that, yes, the climate is changing, but it’s just a natural
effect of changes in the sun’s activity and humans have nothing to
do with it. This theory has been a favorite of deniers for three
decades, and even though it’s been widely discredited, Breitbart
reported it in again in 2014, under the headline, “Solar Activity
Could Cause Global Warming, New Paper Says.” Of course, this runs
contrary to actual science, but Breitbart never lets that stop them....
Other fake stories claim that carbon dioxide is good because it
increases plant growth, as the ever-optimistic Breitbart declared
again last year. But while it’s true that CO2 can be beneficial for
plants, it doesn’t outweigh the fact that increasing concentrations
in the atmosphere are toasting our home planet. Good for plants does
not equal good for people....
Bogus climate stories also allege that a so-called “pause” in global
warming undermines established climate science. Although climate
scientists overwhelmingly agree that temperatures are rising and
climate change is real, there has been debate over whether the rate
of temperature increase slowed in the early 2000s — which climate
deniers refer to as the “pause” or “hiatus.” Fake media outlets have
seized on this debate and tried to spin it as proof that climate
change isn’t real: Breitbart even claimed that Mann jumped on the
pause bandwagon, deserted his scientific colleagues, and decided
that there’s been no global warming since 1998. This was likely news
to Mann himself.
And yet there remains a vocal contingent of ideologues who refuse
to accept the connection between carbon emissions and a warming
planet. For example, Donald Trump and a good portion of his proposed
cabinet. For years, right-wing news organizations like Breitbart,
Infowars, the Daily Caller, and Climate Depot have fed their denial,
publishing stories that misinterpret, misrepresent, or distort
scientific findings — or just outright lie.
http://grist.org/article/fake-news-is-old-news-to-climate-scientists/
US|California, at Forefront of*Climate*Fight, Won't Back Down to
Trump
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/us/california-climate-change-jerry-brown-donald-trump.html>
New York Times -5 hours ago
The prospect of California's elevated role on*climate change*is the
latest sign of how this state, where Hillary Clinton defeated Mr.
Trump by more than four million votes, is preparing to resist the
policies of the incoming White House.
Mothers unleash their organizing power on climate
<http://grist.org/climate-energy/mothers-unleash-their-organizing-power-on-climate/>
She co-founded Climate Parents <http://www.climateparents.org/> with
author Mark Hertsgaard <https://grist.org/author/mark-hertsgaard/>
in 2012, and has since built a membership of 50,000 people.
During that same time, new and emerging groups with names like Moms
Clean Air Force <http://www.momscleanairforce.org/>, Cool Mom
<http://coolmom.org/>, Mothers Out Front
<http://www.mothersoutfront.org/>, and Climate Mama
<http://www.climatemama.com/> attracted a collective million or so
other pissed-off parents. Those ranks swell when you factor in
international allies such as Canadian Parents for Climate Action
<https://www.facebook.com/canadianparentsforclimateaction/>, the
multinational Grands-Parents pour le Climat <http://gpclimat.be/>,
and the deliciously named Parents Roar, based in Sweden.
“For too long, the climate movement was all environmentalists
talking to each other, economists talking to each other, and
scientists talking to each other,” says Dominique Browning, founder
of Moms Clean Air Force. “There was no easy way to become
politically active on this issue, but there was a great deal of
passion [among mothers] for making the world better and safer for
their children.”
While it’s hard to claim victory against a looming global
apocalypse, mother-led climate groups have made tangible gains. Moms
Clean Air Force, Climate Parents, and Mothers Out Front joined with
a dozen like-minded groups to form a coalition called Our Kids’
Climate <http://ourkidsclimate.org/> in advance of the landmark
Paris climate talks
<https://grist.org/series/the-paris-climate-talks-yes-oui-can/> last
year. They participated in press conferences and panels during the
talks and helped deliver 6.2 million petition signatures to U.N.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
<https://www.climaterealityproject.org/press/civil-society-leaders-deliver-over-6-million-petitions>
demanding bold action.
http://ourkidsclimate.org/
http://ourkidsclimate.org/#partners
New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another*Climate*Feedback Loop
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/12/26/new-study-sounds-alarm-another-climate-feedback-loop>
Common Dreams (press release) -1 hour ago
The loss of Arctic sea ice has already been shown to be part of a
positive feedback loop driving*climate change*, and a recent study
published in the journal Nature puts the spotlight on what appears
to be another of these feedback loops....The study's abstract
summarizes the findings thusly:
Despite the considerable uncertainty in our estimates, the direction
of the global soil carbon response is consistent across all
scenarios. This provides strong empirical support for the idea that
rising temperatures will stimulate the net loss of soil carbon to
the atmosphere, driving a positive land carbon–climate feedback that
could accelerate climate change.
'Orwellian': Scott Walker admin. quietly scrubs mentions of
'*climate*' from '*Climate Change*' website
<http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/orwellian-scott-walker-admin-quietly-scrubs-mentions-of-climate-from-climate-change-website/>
Raw Story -9 hours ago
... to the Scientific American. Political writer James Rowen
reported on Monday that the Walker administration had advanced their
war on science by scrubbing information about*climate change*from a
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website that*...*
(audio) Isolated Low Temps May Reassure*Climate*Skeptics
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/isolated-low-temps-may-reassure-climate-skeptics/>
Scientific American -6 hours ago
... against*climate change*.. put climate data in terms people
understand: money. "We should propose a simple bet to climate
skeptics. And that is: For every new record high temperature at a
weather station, you pay us a dollar. And for every new record low
temperature, we'll pay you a dollar.".... Like Oklahoma Senator
James Inhofe. Remember last year, when he tossed a snowball in
Congress? "You know what this is?... “He's run casinos. So you can
kind of think of climate like a climate casino. If you were a casino
owner and you had a machine that was constantly paying out more
record high temperatures than more record low temperatures, you
would look into that machine. Something's wrong with the machine.
And that's what the climate machine has been doing...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/isolated-low-temps-may-reassure-climate-skeptics/.
Ignoring*climate change*just got more expensive
<http://phys.org/news/2016-12-climate-expensive.html>
Phys.Org -4 hours ago
He published results of an early test-drive of it this week in a
National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, titled
"Projections and Uncertainties About*Climate Change*in an Era of
Minimal*Climate*Policies." Readers of recent headlines might be ...
States Will Lead on*Climate Change*in the Trump Era
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/opinion/states-will-lead-on-climate-change-in-the-trump-era.html>
New York Times -8 hours ago
It's hard to know how Mr. Trump will change*climate*policy, but it
is almost certain that he won't advance it. He told The Times last
month that he has an “open mind” about*climate change*, but has also
called it a “hoax.” The people he has chosen to*...*
Undercurrents: Will*Global Warming*Initiatives Freeze Up in Trump
Presidency?
<http://stthomassource.com/content/news/local-news/2016/12/26/undercurrents-will-global-warming-initiatives-freeze-trump-presid>
St, Thomas Source -45 minutes ago
The purpose is to help the territory to develop policies and
approaches to deal with the anticipated effects of*climate change*in
the coming decades. Those are expected to include significant*sea
level rise*and resulting land erosion, more unstable*...*
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This Day in Climate History December 27, 2008
<http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/17031> from D.R. Tucker*
December 27, 2008: WeeklyStandard.com posts an article from
self-professed "global warming agnostic" Charles Krauthammer calling
for a so-called "net zero gas tax." In the article, which is also
published in the magazine's January 5, 2009 issue, Krauthammer writes:
"High gas prices, whether achieved by market forces or by
government imposition, encourage fuel economy. In the short
term, they simply reduce the amount of driving. In the longer
term, they lead to the increased (voluntary) shift to more
fuel-efficient cars. They render redundant and unnecessary the
absurd CAFE standards--the ever-changing Corporate Average Fuel
Economy regulations that mandate the fuel efficiency of various
car and truck fleets--which introduce terrible distortions into
the market. As the consumer market adjusts itself to more
fuel-efficient autos, the green car culture of the future that
environmentalists are attempting to impose by decree begins to
shape itself unmandated. This shift has the collateral
environmental effect of reducing pollution and CO2 emissions, an
important benefit for those who believe in man-made global
warming and a painless bonus for agnostics (like me) who
nonetheless believe that the endless pumping of CO2 into the
atmosphere cannot be a good thing."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/17031
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