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    How To Talk To Your*Climate Change*-Denying Relatives This
    Thanksgiving (Yes, You Can!)
    <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-to-talk-to-climate-change-deniers_us_5833f1c4e4b099512f848267>

Huffington Post 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

	
    One in 3 Americans still don't believe that humans are the primary
    driver of*climate change*, and more than half don't believe
    that*global warming*will pose a serious threat to them in their
    lifetime, according to a 2016 Gallup poll. Engaging with*...*


    5 charts that show the severity of*climate change*
    <https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/11/22/climate-change-clues-from-that-have-scientists-worried/NoVztJq65ogcibC8jjRlyO/story.html>

The Boston Globe 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

	
    The effects of*climate change*have been particularly pronounced this
    year. By a host of measures that climatologists keep a close eye on,
    2016 is poised to be one of the most worrisome ever observed.


    Attack on*climate*action under Trump? It happened in Canada.
    <http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Inhabit/2016/1122/Attack-on-climate-action-under-Trump-It-happened-in-Canada>

Christian Science Monitor 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
    Both Stephen Harper in Canada and Tony Abbott in Australia have
    voiced skepticism of*climate change*as an urgent challenge
    (sometimes verging, like Mr. Trump, into blunt denial of the issue's
    validity).


    ExxonMobil Accuses the Rockefellers of a*Climate*Conspiracy
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/science/exxon-mobil-rockefellers-climate-change.html>

New York Times 	 -‎Nov 21, 2016‎ 	

	
    The company, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to
    deny the threat of*climate change*, is trying to turn the tables by
    calling its opponents the real conspirators.  Also http://exxonknew.org/


    Climate justice, student activism discussed at climate change forum
    <https://thetech.com/2016/11/22/climate-change-ethics-forum>

The Tech 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

	
    Forum panelist Kerry A. Emanuel, a professor in the Department of
    Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, said that “MIT made a big
    mistake” in refusing to create a*climate ethics*advisory
    committee.*... humans “have built up institutions that feed our
    demand for energy,” and she questioned the cycle that she sees as
    contributing to this: building more buildings to hire more
    professors to publish more papers, and so on, all so that MIT can be
    “number one.”
    “The point is,” she said, “it’s a machine in which nobody is in
    charge, and it keeps reproducing itself. And although nobody is in
    charge and nobody intends it to happen... the outcomes are not
    random. They are predictable.”...
    Silbey advised students to learn from the past. “You don’t have to
    reinvent the world,” she said. She noted that previous movements,
    such as the women’s movement and Students for a Democratic Society,
    were “highly intellectual.” She suggested that today’s students
    follow their lead by studying past movements and reading about
    social theory to understand what causes movements to succeed or fail.*

*The risk of climate ruin:   Catastrophes and disasters in economics 
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-016-1846-3>*

            Abstract
    How large a risk is society prepared to run with the climate system?
    This is a question of the utmost difficulty and it admits a variety
    of perspectives. In this paper we draw an analogy with the
    management and regulation of insurance companies, which are required
    to hold capital against the risk of their own financial ruin.
    Accordingly, we suggest that discussions about how much to reduce
    global emissions of greenhouse gases could be framed in terms of
    managing the risk of ‘climate ruin’. This shifts the focus towards
    deciding upon an acceptable risk of the very worst-case scenario,
    and away from how “avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference
    with the climate system” has come to be framed politically. Moreover
    it leads to the conclusion that, in terms of greenhouse gas
    emissions today and in the future, the world is running a higher
    risk with the climate system than insurance companies run with their
    own solvency...
    ...Contingent on setting the threshold for climate ruin at 4 ∘C
    warming above the pre-industrial level, it is... even clearer, if
    climate ruin is expected to be triggered by less than 4 ∘C warming...
    The aim of this paper has been to augment our understanding of the
    level of risk (risk in the broad sense) that society is running with
    the climate system, based on historical and likely future emissions
    of greenhouse gases. The novelty has been in reasoning about this by
    analogy with the insurance industry, which holds capital against the
    risk of ruin, a strategy to ensure resilience against shocks....
    http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-016-1846-3


    *Global Warming*Alters Arctic Food Chain, Scientists Say, With
    Unforeseeable Results
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/science/global-warming-alters-arctic-food-chain.html>

New York Times 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

	
    Confirming earlier research, scientists reported Wednesday
    that*global warming*is altering the ecology of the Arctic Ocean on a
    huge scale.


    Washington State Youth Sue Government Over*Climate Change*
    <http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/juvenile-activists-sue-government-climate-change-policy-43725711>

ABC News 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

	
    Eight children asked a Seattle judge Tuesday to find Washington
    state in contempt for failing to adequately protect them and future
    generations from the harmful effects of climate change, part of a
    nationwide effort by young people to try to force action on global
    warming....The petitioners, between 12 and 16 years old, asked a
    state judge to step in and require the state Department of Ecology
    to come up with science-based numeric emissions reductions....The
    state argued that it has complied with the court's prior orders and
    there's no basis for finding the Department of Ecology in
    contempt...After hearing arguments Tuesday afternoon, King County
    Superior Court Judge Hollis Hill said she needed more time and would
    rule at a later date....The case is not about the clean air rule,
    Rodgers said, but about whether the state has fulfilled its
    constitutional and statutory duties to protect the fundamental
    rights of young people from the perils of climate change...."This is
    the world I'm going to have to grow up in," said Gabe Mandell, 14,
    of Seattle, before the hearing. "Ecology has a mandate to protect
    our future and they're not doing it. They're not doing their job and
    they're not doing what the judge ordered."


    Trump's "Open Mind" on*Climate*Denounced as Nothing but "Empty
    Rhetoric"
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/22/trumps-open-mind-climate-denounced-nothing-empty-rhetoric>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

	
    President-elect Donald Trump's claim to be keeping an "open mind"
    about the Paris*climate change*accord is nothing but "a bunch of
    empty rhetoric" when viewed alongside his policy proposals and
    personnel choices, environmental group 350.


    Obama Says Fake News Is Impeding Progress on*Climate Change*
    <https://www.inverse.com/article/24175-barack-obama-fake-news-facebook-climate-change>

Inverse 	 -‎13 hours ago‎ 	

	
    Obama blamed fake news - and social media more broadly - for being a
    major reason why the country can't come together to combat
    global*climate change*. Obama spoke at length to The New Yorker's
    editor David Remnick at length in the wake of Donald ...


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