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*Washington Post ‘People were basically running for their lives’: At
least 3 dead as fires engulf Tennessee towns *
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/29/worst-possible-conditions-residents-flee-gaitlinburg-tenn-as-flames-lick-roads/>
Parts of two popular Tennessee tourist towns on the edge of Great
Smoky Mountains National Park were on fire Tuesday morning, along
with much of the timberlands surrounding them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/29/worst-possible-conditions-residents-flee-gaitlinburg-tenn-as-flames-lick-roads/
*Revealed: Most Popular Climate Story on Social Media Told Half a
Million People the Science Was a Hoax
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/29/revealed-most-popular-climate-story-social-media-told-half-million-people-science-was-hoax>*
The most popular climate change story across social media in the
past six months used a debunked survey from the late 1990s to claim
that “tens of thousands of scientists” had declared global warming a
“hoax”, a DeSmog analysis has found...
Published on YourNewsWire, the story was shared, clicked or “liked”
557,000 times on social media, with 555,000 of those engagements
from Facebook. The story's author worked for many years with UK
conspiracy theorist David Icke....
The rise of so called “alternative” and “hyper partisan” news sites,
often publishing faked or unverified content under sensational
headlines with little to no journalistic rigour, has come into sharp
focus after Trump’s election victory.
https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/29/revealed-most-popular-climate-story-social-media-told-half-million-people-science-was-hoax
*Climate Red Flags Fly in Trumpland: (ClimateNexus)
*
Incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus pushed back on
the suggestion that Trump is “softening” his stance on climate,
saying in an interview with Fox News Sunday that the
president-elect’s default position on climate change is that “most
of it is a bunch of bunk.
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=e51fc08dae&e=95b355344d>”
Meanwhile, Kathleen Hartnett White, senior fellow with
Koch-connected
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=290dfb037a&e=95b355344d>
Texas Public Policy Foundation and a rumored pick for an EPA or
Interior Department cabinet position, met with the president-elect
on Monday. White strongly opposes climate regulations, was once
called “an apologist for polluters
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=a4bde0fdca&e=95b355344d>”
during her stint as Chair and Commissioner of the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality and has claimed the coal industry abolished
slavery
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=f15d03b291&e=95b355344d> in
the British empire. Military experts also told ClimateWire
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b2fead211b&e=95b355344d>they
worry that the president-elect will downplay climate change as a
national security threat. The appointment of Fox News analyst K.T.
McFarland
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=43ddc15dc0&e=95b355344d>
as deputy national security adviser probably won’t assuage these
fears: McFarland denies the climate-security link and claimed
Obama’s attendance at the Paris Agreement talks last year gave
“encouragement” to terrorists. (*News: *Houston Chronicle
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=3a62b9b21a&e=95b355344d>,
Morning Consult
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=0dfab8cc26&e=95b355344d>,
ThinkProgress
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=e8ac8e506f&e=95b355344d>,
Greenwire
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=d26def734d&e=95b355344d>
$, Politico Pro
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=8255c6d5ef&e=95b355344d>
$
*NYT & AccuWeather are the only news outlets I can find to connect the
dots to climate change:*
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/gatlinburg-tennessee-wildfire.html?_r=0
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/breaking-wildfire-leads-to-man/61965187
'Worst possible conditions': Residents flee Gatlinburg, Tenn., as
flames engulf popular resort town
A Wrenching Choice for Alaska Towns in the Path of Climate Change
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/29/science/alaska-global-warming.html>
New York Times -6 hours ago
Alaska is warming about twice as fast as the rest of the nation. So
what are the dozens of villages at imminent risk of destruction to do?
Economy | Earth Isn't Doomed Yet. The*Climate*Could Survive Trump
Policies.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/business/economy/trumps-climate-policies-may-work-out-in-the-planets-favor.html>
New York Times -9 hours ago
With the election of Donald Trump, it certainly looked that way to
many of the shellshocked diplomats gathered in Morocco earlier this
month at the first*climate*summit following the breakthrough
agreement in Paris last year to contain*greenhouse gas**...*
Trump's First 100 Days:*Climate*and Energy
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-first-100-days-climate-and-energy/>
Scientific American -10 hours ago
Trump infamously tweeted that*global warming*is a “hoax,” and has
selected Myron Ebell of the conservative Competitive Enterprise
Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, an
outspoken*climate*skeptic, to lead his EPA transition team. Trump
also*...*
Do environmental regulations really hurt jobs? Research review
<http://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/environmental-regulations-economy-jobs-pollution-epa>
Last updated: November 21, 2016
Critics of environmental regulations designed to stave off global
warming say they cost jobs. But research suggests a mixed record,
sometimes including economic growth.
*The problem with Donald Trump's stance on /global warming/
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-global-warming-climate-change/>*
CBS News-Nov 25, 2016...Is there reason to doubt climate change
because some of the nation's hottest days happened in 1898, as
President-elect Donald Trump told the ...
This is what it would take for Trump to truly damage the
planet's*climate*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/29/this-is-what-it-would-take-for-trump-to-truly-damage-the-planets-climate/>
Washington Post -6 hours ago
The election of*global warming*doubter Donald Trump came at a time
when the planet was just poised to start collectively acting on the
problem - leading to confusion and even defiance at a recent
global*climate change*meeting in Marrakech, Morocco.
*Zika surfaces in Texas, likely to be first local transmission
*(Washington Post
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=9bfc7fb7cf&e=95b355344d>
$)
*West Antarctic ice shelf breaking up from the inside out
<http://phys.org/news/2016-11-west-antarctic-ice-shelf.html>*
"It's generally accepted that it's no longer a question of whether
the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt, it's a question of when,"
said study leader Ian Howat, associate professor of earth sciences
at Ohio State. "This kind of rifting behavior provides another
mechanism for rapid retreat of these glaciers, adding to the
probability that we may see significant collapse of West Antarctica
in our lifetimes." Read more at:
http://phys.org/news/2016-11-west-antarctic-ice-shelf.html#jCp
*Megacity planning must change in four years to limit /global warming/
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/29/megacity-planning-must-change-four-years-limit-global-warming>*
The Guardian-- By the end of this decade it may be too late to limit
/global warming/ to scientifically guided limits, if the
infrastructure built in the next four years is ...
*
**Google Earth Timelapse lets you see climate change clearer than ever
<http://thenextweb.com/google/2016/11/29/google-earth-timelapse-lets-see-climate-change-clearer-ever/>*
Want to see climate change happening before your very eyes? Just
take a look at theupdated imagery
<https://blog.google/products/earth/our-most-detailed-view-earth-across-space-and-time/>onGoogle
<https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/>Earth Timelapse.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2016/11/29/google-earth-timelapse-lets-see-climate-change-clearer-ever/
*Our most detailed view of Earth across space and time
<https://blog.google/products/earth/our-most-detailed-view-earth-across-space-and-time/>*
In 2013, we released Google Earth Timelapse, our most comprehensive
picture of the Earth's changing surface. This interactive experience
enabled people to explore these changes like never before—to watch
the sprouting of Dubai’s artificial Palm Islands, the retreat of
Alaska’s Columbia Glacier, and the impressive urban expansion of Las
Vegas, Nevada. Today, we're making our largest update to Timelapse
yet, with four additional years of imagery, petabytes of new data,
and a sharper view of the Earth from 1984 to 2016. We’ve even teamed
up again with our friends at TIME to give you an updated take on
compelling locations.
example
https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/#v=37.76175,-122.32088,10.404,latLng&t=2.17
Large parts of West Antarctic Ice Sheet could collapse 'in our
lifetimes' (Mashable
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=91e50e2906&e=95b355344d>)
The Standing Rock protests are a symbolic moment (Guardian, Neil Young &
Daryl Hannah op-ed
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b8e59f4e81&e=95b355344d>)
*(video) This Day in Climate History November 30, 2010
<http://youtu.be/NTx2QD-XYt8>- from D.R. Tucker *
November 30, 2010: Katie Couric, in her CBSNews.com "Notebook"
segment, observes:
"The debate over global warming is once again heating up in
Washington. Roughly half of the newly elected Republican
congressmembers are climate change skeptics, according to one
survey, and some want to roll back environmental regulations.
"Their position was bolstered by the Climategate scandal, in which a
handful of scientists were accused of manipulating data to support
climate change. The scientists were later cleared, but the damage
was done. Less than 60 percent of Americans now believe in global
warming, down from 80 percent in 2006.
"Still, the vast majority of scientists -- 97 percent -- say
man-made climate change is real. 700 climate experts have joined a
media project to educate the public, and UN talks are underway in
Cancun on a treaty to curb greenhouse gases.
"Time is ticking. Global warming may have become a political
football, but scientists say it's one we can't afford to punt."
http://youtu.be/NTx2QD-XYt8
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