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    Katharine Hayhoe, a Climate Explainer Who Stays Above the Storm ...
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/science/katharine-hayhoe-climate-change-science.html>

New York Times 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    ...“Katharine Hayhoe is a national treasure,” said Anthony
    Leiserowitz, the director of the Yale Program on Climate Change
    Communication. He said that she combined powerful communications
    skills, world-class scientific credentials and an ability to relate
    to conservative religious communities that can be skeptical about
    the risks of a changing climate...Dr. Hayhoe has come to prominence
    in part because she is just so darned nice. It would be too easy to
    chalk that up to her Canadian background — she says it does help
    explain her commitment to finding consensus — and she has found that
    she gets her science across more effectively if she can connect with
    people personally. In a nation seemingly addicted to argument as a
    blood sport, she conciliates. On a topic so contentious that most
    participants snarl, she smiles. She is an evangelical Christian, and
    she does not flinch from using the language of faith and stewardship
    to discuss the fate of the planet..... If you begin a conversation
    with, 'You're an idiot,' that's the end of the conversation, too,”
    says the Texas Tech scientist, an evangelical Christian spreading a ...


    Climate Change Blamed for Half of Increased Forest Fire Danger ...
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/science/climate-change-forest-fires.html>

New York Times 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    A study found that human-caused warming was responsible for 55
    percent of the rise in the dryness of the landscape in the western
    United States.


    (opinion) 'Shameful': Another Presidential Debate Basically
    Ignores*Climate Change*
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/10/shameful-another-presidential-debate-basically-ignores-climate-change>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    As environmental organizations denounce*climate change's*near total
    absence from the second presidential debate, a new analysis
    highlights the starkly differing attitudes backers of Hillary
    Clinton and Donald Trump hold on the issue.


    Caring for Creation makes the Christian case for*climate*action
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/oct/10/caring-for-creation-makes-the-christian-case-for-climate-action>

The Guardian 	 -‎13 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    Interspersed within the main text are enlightening anecdotes mainly
    from weather forecasters across the country which show an informed
    lived experience of experts watching the*climate change*before their
    very eyes. ... Not just about what is happening*...*


    Fracking is a form of*climate-change*denial
    <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/10/fracking-climate-change-denial-fight-fossil-fuel-madness>

The Guardian 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    Here's one thing we don't often want to admit: it is too late to
    stop many of the harshest and most destructive aspects of*climate
    change*from materialising. We're out of time. Superstorms, droughts,
    floods, disappearing islands, coastlines and lost*...*


    Being 'prepared for surprises' -*climate change*increases hurricane
    impact in unexpected ways
    <http://www.dw.com/en/being-prepared-for-surprises-climate-change-increases-hurricane-impact-in-unexpected-ways/a-36008463>

Deutsche Welle 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    Being 'prepared for surprises' -*climate change*increases hurricane
    impact in unexpected ways. Hurricane Matthew has moved on, but
    people from Haiti to the US are still dealing with its deadly effects.



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