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    Bad Week for Exxon: Outlook Plunges as NY Court
    Says*Climate*Criminal Must Comply
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/27/bad-week-exxon-outlook-plunges-ny-court-says-climate-criminal-must-comply>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎14 hours ago‎ 	

    ...New York State Supreme Court has ordered the oil giant and its
    accounting firm to produce documents subpoenaed in a highly charged
    investigation of whether the company concealed from investors and
    the public what it knew about climate change as long as four decades
    ago.....“I hope that today’s order serves as a wake up call to
    Exxon,” the New York attorney general said....ExxonMobil and its
    auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP must comply with a subpoena
    issued as part of New York Attorney General Eric
    Schneiderman's*climate*fraud probe, The New York Supreme Court ruled
    Wednesday. ...subpoenaed Exxon following allegations that it lied to
    its investors about the risks of carbon emissions and climate
    change... A second subpoena, issued in August, seeks documents
    related to PwC’s work for the oil giant....ruling that New York law,
    which does not recognize an accountant-client privilege, applies to
    Schneiderman’s subpoena....said his office is looking forward to
    “moving full-steam ahead with our fraud investigation of Exxon.”

    *Climate change*could flip Mediterranean lands to desert
    <http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-could-flip-mediterranean-lands-to-desert-1.20894>

Nature.com 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

*Climate change*could flip Mediterranean lands to desert. Warming beyond 
2 ºC ... The situation in southern Europe is similar to the US 
southwest, Gonzalez points out: temperature increases drive droughts3. 
More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means rising temperatures, less 
precipitation and then more drying that leads to 
desertification....Maintaining the historic ranges of the region's 
ecosystems would require limiting warming to just 1.5 ºC, by making 
substantial cuts to the world's*greenhouse-gas**...

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    (opinion) Building Walls' Will Worsen Coming*Climate *Crisis, Top
    General Warns
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/27/building-walls-will-worsen-coming-climate-crisis-top-general-warns>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

    *Global warming*has the potential to "completely destabilize" the
    planet, cautioned a top military leader, as nations increasingly
    respond by erecting "walls and fences" rather than seek out a
    "global solution" to address the coming tide of*climate**of climate
    refugees...publications was presented earlier this week at the Hague
    Roundtable on Climate and Security in the Netherlands...Among the
    group's findings, Muniruzzaman explained to the U.K.'s Independent,
    are that the risks of climate change are becoming "all-pervasive,"
    with the impacts "becoming so severe they hold tremendous conflict
    potential."
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    Florida scientists want to educate Trump on*climate*
    <http://www.wmnf.org/florida-scientists-educate-trump-climate/>

WMNF 	 -‎21 hours ago‎ 	

    Twenty-six Florida scientists have written a letter to Donald Trump;
    they want to meet with the Republican presidential nominee to talk
    about the latest*climate science*and the threats expected because of
    a changing*climate*. ... First of all,*sea level**...

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    Tibet Just Had Another Massive Ice Avalanche
    <http://www.climatecentral.org/news/tibet-ice-avalanche-20822>

Climate Central 	 -‎9 hours ago‎ 	

    “The risk of natural hazards is amplified in the mountains and by
    the mountains,” Joseph Shea, a scientist at the International Centre
    for Integrated Mountain Development, told*Climate*Central after the
    first avalanche. “And*climate change*generally*...*

*Adapting to rates versus amounts of climate change: a case of 
adaptation to sea-level rise 
<http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/104007>*

    "The optimum solution for investment in coastal zones comes from 
    when you are looking at the rate of change, not the amount of
    change"
    http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/104007/pdf
    How fast will we adapt to global warming? '...the decision to defend
    or abandon cities'  How fast will we need to adapt to global
    warming? 'Societies will be faced with the decision of whether to
    defend or abandon cities threatened by sea-level rise'

    BlackRock calls for higher carbon price to tackle*climate change*
    <https://www.ft.com/content/bde6859a-9ac2-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae>

Financial Times 	 -‎10 hours ago‎ 	

    The world's largest fund house, which manages $4.9tn for investors,
    said it is struggling to understand the*climate change*risks it
    faces when making investment decisions because the price companies
    have to pay for emitting carbon is inconsistent.

    US negotiator: 'severe' damage without more*climate*action
    <http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Inhabit/2016/1026/US-negotiator-severe-damage-without-more-climate-action>

Christian Science Monitor 	 -‎Oct 26, 2016‎ 	

    October 26, 2016 Washington—Countries will be expected to increase
    their level of ambition on*climate change*as they gather next month
    to build on a landmark deal to curb*greenhouse gas*emissions, the
    top United States*climate *negotiator said Tuesday.

*This day in Climate History October 28, 2005 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/business/28oil.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print>**:  
>From D.R. Tucker  ---------------------------*
October 28, 2005: The New York Times reports:

    "A sudden interruption in oil supplies sent prices and profits
    skyrocketing, prompting Exxon's chief executive to call a news
    conference right after his company announced that it had chalked up
    record earnings. ...'I am not embarrassed,' he said. 'This is no
    windfall.'..."That was January 1974, a few months after Arab oil
    producers cut back on supplies and imposed their short-lived embargo
    on exports to the United States. Oil executives, including J. K.
    Jamieson, Exxon's chief executive at the time, were put on the
    defensive, forced to justify their soaring profits while the nation
    was facing its first energy crisis. ..."Three decades later, their
    successors are again facing contentions that oil companies are
    making too much money and have failed to expand production. ...
    "Politicians and other critics are asking why the industry allowed
    its refining capacity to tighten. ...."Exxon Mobil, the world's
    largest oil company, said yesterday that its third-quarter net
    income jumped 75 percent, to $9.92 billion. Its profit in the first
    nine months of this year - $25.42 billion - already equals its
    full-year earnings for 2004. This year's sales, which topped $100
    billion in the last quarter, are expected to exceed those of
    Wal-Mart..."Another oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, reported a 68
    percent jump in profits yesterday, to $9.03 billion. Chevron is
    expected to post a profit of more than $4 billion today...."This
    year is shaping up as an exceptionally lucrative one for the oil
    industry, thanks to strong global demand, tight supplies and high
    prices for oil and natural gas. While the idea that the Bush
    administration was considering imposing a windfall profits tax was
    knocked down yesterday by officials, longstanding resentments
    against Big Oil are resurfacing and could end up imposing some
    additional burdens on the industry. ..."The sense that government
    should step in to curb the phenomenal wealth and power often enjoyed
    by oil companies goes back to Exxon Mobil's corporate ancestor from
    the late 19th century, the Rockefeller oil trust known as Standard
    Oil...."Today, Republicans and Democrats alike, aware of the
    politically sensitive issue of high energy prices, are putting
    increasing pressure on the oil and gas industry to return some of
    its profits. The ideas include forcing the industry to invest in
    more refining capacity, to increase inventories to cushion energy
    shocks, or to provide money directly to the government program that
    helps low-income people pay heating bills."
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/business/28oil.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print

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