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*The 15 Most Ridiculous Things That Media Figures Said About 
Environmental Issues In 2016 
<https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/28/15-most-ridiculous-things-media-figures-said-about-environmental-issues-2016/214886>*

    Here is our list of the 15 most ridiculous things that media figures
    said about climate, energy, and environmental issues in 2016.  KEVIN
    KALHOEFER & ANDREW SEIFTER of MediaMatters

        1. Rush Limbaugh And Matt Drudge Peddled A Reckless Conspiracy
        Theory Downplaying The Threat From Hurricane Matthew...
        2. Fox News Blamed The Flint Water Crisis On Climate Change
        Policies, "PC Stuff,” And Even Flint Residents Themselves...
        3. CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Claimed Trump EPA Nominee Scott Pruitt
        “Hasn’t Denied Global Warming.”...
        4. MSNBC's Mike Barnicle: ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson "Is A
        Huge Green Guy.” ...
        5. Disregarding Everything Trump Has Said And Done On The
        Subject, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Claimed “I Just Know” Trump
        Believes In Climate Science...
        6. Trump Adviser Stephen Moore: Being Against Fracking “Is Like
        Being Against A Cure For Cancer.”...
        7. Stephen Moore: “We Have The Cleanest Coal In The World.”...
        8. Breitbart’s James Delingpole: Climate Change Is “The
        Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer.” ...
        9. Fox Report On Law Gas Prices: “Put The Tesla In The Garage
        And Break Out The Hummer.” ...
        10. Wall Street Journal’s Mary Kissel Instructed Viewers To
        “Trust” A Climate Science-Denying Fossil Fuel Front Group...
        11. Fox Host Clayton Morris: Rubio's Climate Science Denial At
        Presidential Debate Was An "Articulate Moment.” ...
        12. Fox Hosts Mocked Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar Speech On Climate
        Change: "Focus On Something Else Other Than The Weather.”...
        13. Fox’s Meghan McCain: "The Liberal Hysteria Over Climate
        Change Was So Overblown That Now People Have A Hard Time Even
        Believing It.”...
        14. Fox’s Steve Doocy: Obama’s Monument Designation Was Done To
        “Appease Environmental Terrorists.” ...
        15. Fox Hosts Flipped Out About Portland Public Schools Decision
        To Stop Teaching Climate Denial To Children. ...

    https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/28/15-most-ridiculous-things-media-figures-said-about-environmental-issues-2016/214886

    2016: Exxon vs.*Climate Change*, a Battle With Many Fronts
    <https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122016/exxon-climate-change-investigation-attorneys-general>

InsideClimate News 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

    That paper and other documents were unearthed last year as part of
    an InsideClimate News investigation of Exxon's four-decade history
    of studying*climate change*while sowing doubt about it publicly and
    working against*climate*action...At first, the disclosures did not
    strike Exxon as terribly threatening. There were no "smoking guns,"
    an Exxon lawyer later said. But as the months passed the fallout
    included investigations from at least two states, New York and
    Massachusetts, potentially one from the Securities and Exchange
    Commission and calls for the Justice Department to intervene. A
    coalition of 17 state attorneys general vowed in March 2016 to hold
    Exxon and the fossil fuel industry responsible for its role in
    climate change.

    It has become a partisan political fight as much as a search for the
    truth about what Exxon knew and did about climate change. While many
    on the Democratic side wanted to hold Exxon accountable, Republicans
    lined up to hold Exxon's adversaries accountable.
    .Short timeline of #ExxonKnew climate investigations and backlash
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzRpT5rcdZc>**
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzRpT5rcdZc

*/Global Warming/: Most Depressing Stories Of 2016 
<http://www.itechpost.com/articles/69078/20161227/global-warming-most-depressing-stories-of-2016.htm>* 

    iTech Post-16 hours ago
    This year's effects of climate change are shockingly depressing and
    devastating. (Photo : The RingofFire/Youtube). Circulating around
    social ...

    Fort McMurray*wildfire*is Canada's biggest weather story of 2016
    <https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/12/28/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-is-canadas-biggest-weather-story-of-2016.html>

Toronto Star 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

    The “beast” of a*wildfire*that charred Fort McMurray, Alta., was
    named Canada's biggest weather story of the year in an annual list
    compiled by the country's top meteorologists.

    Science can't be driven by ideology: Why you should be worried about
    Donald Trump's*climate change*search
    <http://www.salon.com/2016/12/28/ideology-driven-science_partner/>

Salon 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

    The incoming administration has paraded a roster of*climate
    change*deniers for top jobs. On Dec. 13, Trump named former Texas
    Governor Rick Perry, another*climate change*denier, to lead the
    Department of Energy (DoE), an agency Perry said he
    would ...President-elect Trump has called global warming “bullshit”
    and a “Chinese hoax.” He has promised to withdraw from the 2015
    Paris climate treaty and to “bring back coal,” the world’s dirtiest,
    most carbon-intensive fuel. The incoming administration has paraded
    a roster of climate change deniers for top jobs. On Dec. 13, Trump
    named former Texas Governor Rick Perry, another climate change
    denier, to lead the Department of Energy (DoE), an agency Perry said
    he would eliminate altogether during his 2011 presidential
    campaign....http://www.salon.com/2016/12/28/ideology-driven-science_partner/

    Trump questionnaire recalls dark history of ideology-driven science
    <https://theconversation.com/trump-questionnaire-recalls-dark-history-of-ideology-driven-science-70379>
    https://theconversation.com/trump-questionnaire-recalls-dark-history-of-ideology-driven-science-70379

/Global Warming/ Killing Elk? Herd Of 41 Die In Oregon After Falling 
Through Ice At Brownlee Reservoir. 
<http://www.ibtimes.com/global-warming-killing-elk-herd-41-die-oregon-after-falling-through-ice-brownlee-2466243> 

    International Business Times-8 hours ago
    Reindeer were perhaps the worst hit cervids, largely due to various
    impacts of climate change and /global warming/, with reports of
    about 80,000 ...

*This Day in Climate History  December 29, 2009 
<http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/climate_change_is_bad_but_the.html>  
from D.R. Tucker*

    December 29, 2009: Washington Post writer Ezra Klein excoriates
    members of the US Senate who have developed cold feet about
    addressing global warming:

        "Amidst all this, conservative Senate Democrats are waving off
        the idea of serious action in 2010. But not because they're
        opposed. Oh, heavens no! It's because of abstract concerns over
        the political difficulties the problem presents. Sen. Kent
        Conrad (D-N.D.), for instance, avers that 'climate change in an
        election year has very poor prospects.' That's undoubtedly true,
        though it is odd to say that the American system of governance
        can only solve problems every other year. Sen. Evan Bayh
        (D-Ind.) says that 'we need to deal with the phenomena of global
        warming,' but wants to wait until the economy is fixed.

        "Rather than commenting abstractly on the difficulty of doing
        this, Conrad and Bayh and others could make it easier by saying
        things like 'we simply have to do this, it's our moral
        obligation as legislators,' and trying to persuade reporters to
        write stories about how even moderates such as Conrad and Byah
        are determined to do this. They could schedule meetings with
        other senators begging them to take this seriously, leveraging
        the credibility and goodwill built over decades in the Senate.
        They could spend money on TV ads in their state, talking
        directly into the camera, explaining to their constituents that
        they don't like having to face this problem, but see no choice.
        That effort might fail -- probably will, in fact -- but it's got
        a better chance of success than not trying. And this is, well,
        pretty important."

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/climate_change_is_bad_but_the.html

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