[TheClimate.Vote] Dec, 28, 2016 - Daily Global Warming News for voters, candidates and officials
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Facts matter, and on*climate change*, Trump's picks get them wrong
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/dec/27/facts-matter-and-on-climate-change-trumps-picks-get-them-wrong>
The Guardian -4 hours ago
It's ironic that Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson - CEO of
ExxonMobil - has the most sophisticated position on*climate
change*among Trump's key nominees. Tillerson accepts that humans are
causing*global warming*, but he denies that it's a problem....
Climate denial often pinballs between five different stages, but the
cleverer denialist arguments tend to land on Stage 3: denial that
climate change is a problem.
It’s ironic that Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson – CEO of
ExxonMobil – has the most sophisticated position on climate change
among Trump’s key nominees. Tillerson accepts that humans are
causing global warming, but he denies that it’s a problem. His key
argument focuses on sowing doubt about the accuracy of climate models.
The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC
report
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial>
Stage 1: Deny the Problem Exists
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial>
Stage 2: Deny We're the Cause Stage 2b: Consensus Denial
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial>
Stage 3: Deny It's a Problem
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial>
Stage 4: Deny We can Solve It
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial>
Stage 5: It's too Late
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial>
The President-elect’s nominees to key positions deny the existence,
threats, and solutions to human-caused global warming...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/16/climate-change-contrarians-5-stages-denial
2016 Was a Pivotal Year in the War on Climate Change | WIRED
<https://www.wired.com/2016/12/2016-pivotal-year-war-climate-change/>
WIRED -3 hours ago
After Trump's election, will other countries toss their
emissions-cutting commitments, or sanction the US if it reneges on
the Paris climate agreement?
*Mollusc produces pearl of climate wisdom
<http://climatenewsnetwork.net/mollusc-pearl-climate-wisdom/>*
“The only thing you can do to understand climate in the future is to
look at climate in the past”
Scientists in the US believe they have found a new source of hard
evidence about bygone climates − very hard and very bygone − in the
nacreous layers in the mollusc mineral known as mother-of-pearl...
These layers provide a measure of the temperature at which they were
laid down in the tropical seas, and the technique has been tested in
a bivalve sample first fossilised 200 million years ago.
http://climatenewsnetwork.net/mollusc-pearl-climate-wisdom/
Growing tornado impact puzzles scientists
<http://climatenewsnetwork.net/20462-2/>
19 December, 2016 – The US seems to be experiencing more and worse
tornado outbreaks – groups of twisters in quick succession. But
climate change may not be the culprit.
http://climatenewsnetwork.net/20462-2/
Are*Climate*Scientists Ready for Trump?
<https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/are-climate-scientists-ready-for-trump/511604/>
The Atlantic -2 hours ago
How the scientific profession chooses to answer them may decide
whether the United States can summon the political will necessary to
finally vanquish*climate-change*denialism—or whether it will
continue to muddle through on the issue, ..
The meeting revealed a quasi-generational split. Many scientists
continue to act like aloof and methodical professionals. They want
to provide sound data and quietly advocate for good policies. When
the profession is threatened, they will advocate for funding, but
they will also respond to Trump like academic actuaries, sighing
deeply and then getting on with their work....
Another group recognizes that a key fact of modern scientific
understanding—that the Earth’s climate is warming, thanks to the
industrial burning of fossil fuels—has unfortunately become a
central political issue of the era. They see it as their duty to
correct the record, and they will respond to attacks on scientific
fact as activists would: by organizing protests, educating the
public, and shaming their local governments and national
representatives into action.
...If they so chose, climate scientists could become an incredibly
powerful constituency. The climate-change movement has a
well-distributed expert network already—if those experts so choose.
Nothing stops climate scientists from talking to local churches or
high schools nearby them, from sharing the story of climate science
in a straightforward and non-condescending way. Nothing stops them
from organizing protests. Nothing stops them for calling for local
policies to mitigate catastrophic climate change...
Many climate scientists want to go about their lives focusing
intently on their work and getting the research done. It is a
laudable and pleasant dream. The problem is, climate denialists know
that, in this fallen world, it really is just a dream—and they will
exploit it until climate scientists engage.
Give a Nobel Prize to*Climate Science*. It's Time.
<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2016/12/the_nobel_committee_should_honor_climate_science.html>
Slate Magazine -1 hour ago
*Climate science*in the United States is in an existential crisis.
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to cut funding for Earth
science, and the Republican-controlled Senate and House of
Representatives will probably make good on those promises.
*This Day in Climate History December 28,2007
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122701942.html>
from D.R. Tucker*
December 28, 2007: In a Washington Post op-ed, Bill McKibben, citing
a recent speech by NASA scientist James Hansen, states that the
worldwide CO2 level must remain below 350 parts per million to avoid
catastrophic global warming. Further, McKibben writes: "Hansen [has]
called for an immediate ban on new coal-fired power plants that
don't capture carbon, the phaseout of old coal-fired generators, and
a tax on carbon high enough to make sure that we leave tar sands and
oil shale in the ground. To use the medical analogy, we're not
talking statins to drop your cholesterol; we're talking huge changes
in every aspect of your daily life."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122701942.html
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