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http://grist.org/briefly/a-massive-climate-march-is-coming-soon-to-washington/
*A massive climate march is coming soon to Washington 
<http://grist.org/briefly/a-massive-climate-march-is-coming-soon-to-washington/> 
(Grist 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=70f300323a&e=95b355344d>)*

    The People's Climate March will descend on D.C. with an
    intersectional coalition of green and environmental-justice groups,
    indigenous and civil-rights organizations, students and labor
    unions. The march will take place on Saturday, April 29, exactly 100
    days into Trump's presidency.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow
*I'm just one person, what can I do?  Global Weirding with Katharine 
Hayhoe <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q48BvprCFr0>*

    Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and
    distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New episodes every other
    Wednesday at 10 am central. Brought to you in part by: Bob and Linda
    Herscher, Freese and Nichols, Inc, and the Texas Tech Climate
    Science Center.

http://www.shutitdown.today/press_release_february_1_2017
*Skagit Jury Refuses to Convict First "Valve-Turner", Vindicates Climate 
Threat <http://www.shutitdown.today/press_release_february_1_2017>*

      In a resounding recognition of the threat of climate change, a
    Skagit County jury has refused to convict Ken Ward of two felony
    counts stemming from an act of civil disobedience in October of last
    year. After more than five hours of deliberation, Ward's three-day
    trial ended in a hung jury, with at least one juror refusing to convict.
      "In five hours, the jury was unable to decide that with all of the
    evidence against me, including the video of me closing the valve,
    that this was a crime. I didn't contest a single piece of the
    evidence, only presented my story and evidence of catastrophic
    climate change. This is a tremendous outcome.," said Ken Ward after
    the decision.

Climate city' lines up to advance climate change issues in Trump era 
(WCQS 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=18ab9c3fe2&e=95b355344d>)

Bills Across The Country Could Increase Penalties For Protesters (NPR 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=0e95df181b&e=95b355344d>)

Climate change denial is not dead (The Hill, Michael Mann op-ed 
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=876a108ccf&e=95b355344d>)

https://www.skepticalscience.com/trump-copying-bush-censorship-playbook-scientists-arent-standing-for-it.html
*Trump is copying the Bush censorship playbook. Scientists aren't 
standing for it 
<https://www.skepticalscience.com/trump-copying-bush-censorship-playbook-scientists-arent-standing-for-it.html>*

    By dana1981
    As President George W. Bush said, "Fool me once, shame on ... shame
    on you. Fool me ... You can't get fooled again!"... the Trump
    Administration has copied the Bush scientific censorship playbook.
    They issued de facto gag orders to government science agencies like
    the EPA and USDA, ordered that the EPA take down its climate
    webpage, and have mandated that any studies or data from EPA
    scientists must undergo review by political appointees before they
    can be released to the public...
    However, the Trump Administration is quickly realizing that
    scientists learned from the Bush scandal. This time around they're
    not trying to appease the political appointees by staying quiet and
    allowing the censorship to happen...But Trump has given scientists
    every reason to feel threatened...
    For example, he appointed Myron Ebell to lead his EPA transition
    team - an oil and coal-funded enemy of science who wants to gut the
    agency. That team also included David Schnare and Chris Horner, who
    have spent much of their careers harassing and intimidating climate
    scientists. Here's what the transition team had to say about how the
    EPA currently uses science:..
    EPA does not use science to guide regulatory policy as much as it
    uses regulatory policy to steer the science ... EPA has greatly
    increased its science manipulation.

http://grist.org/politics/trumps-first-week-was-remarkably-terrible-for-the-climate/
Zombie pipelines, EPA under attack, and that's just Week One 
<http://grist.org/politics/trumps-first-week-was-remarkably-terrible-for-the-climate/>

    TheBestSchools.org Issues Open Call for*Global Warming*Rebuttals to
    Dr. William Happer -- $5000 Prize
    <http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thebestschoolsorg-issues-open-call-for-global-warming-rebuttals-to-dr-william-happer----5000-prize-300399420.html>

PR Newswire (press release) 	 -‎Jan 31, 2017‎ 	

    PELLA, Iowa, Jan. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Is
    CO2-driven*global warming*good for the planet? Dr. William Happer
    thinks so.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/dinograndoni/rex-tillerson-climate-change

    Rex Tillerson Took A Different Tone On*Climate Change*When The
    Cameras Were Off
    <https://www.buzzfeed.com/dinograndoni/rex-tillerson-climate-change>

BuzzFeed News 	 -‎22 hours ago‎ 	

    With cameras trained on him for more than six hours of questioning,
    Rex Tillerson told Democratic senators on the Senate Foreign
    Relations Committee many of the things they wanted to hear when it
    came to*climate change*. "*Climate change*does exist*...*
    *In responses to written questions from at least two senators,
    Tillerson questioned the consensus among climate scientists about
    humanity*'*s role in warming the planet — including some scientists
    who work for ExxonMobil, the company Tillerson ran for a decade. He
    also doubled back spoken testimony that said the United States
    should remain in the Paris climate accord.*
    *Tillerson*'*s responses to these two senators, Ben Cardin of
    Maryland and Jeff Merkley of Oregon, are not yet public but were
    obtained by BuzzFeed News. The offices of both senators confirmed
    that the answers to their questionnaires are real.*

*
https://qz.com/899450/trump-kenneth-haapala-and-wilbur-ross-the-future-of-noaa-the-worlds-largest-repository-of-climate-data-is-now-in-the-hands-of-a-climate-change-denier/.*

    The future of NOAA, the world's largest repository of climate data,
    was put in the hands of a*climate*-*change*denier
    <https://qz.com/899450/trump-kenneth-haapala-and-wilbur-ross-the-future-of-noaa-the-worlds-largest-repository-of-climate-data-is-now-in-the-hands-of-a-climate-change-denier/>

Quartz 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

    Update (Feb. 1, 9:52am): This story has been updated with a comment
    from a Trump-appointed US Department of Commerce official, who
    claims Haapala never participated in transition meetings, despite
    his ties to the transition team.

https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/how-to-stayoutraged-without-losing-your-mind-fc0c41aa68f3#.eye1b9xpe
How to #StayOutraged Without Losing Your Mind 
<https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/how-to-stayoutraged-without-losing-your-mind-fc0c41aa68f3#.eye1b9xpe>

    Self-Care Lessons for the Resistance
    Stare Down the Abyss, then Build the Bridges to Get Over It

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-bengal-depleted-fish-stocks-pollution-climate-change-migration
Bay of Bengal: depleted fish stocks and huge dead zone signal tipping 
point 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-bengal-depleted-fish-stocks-pollution-climate-change-migration>

    What is unfolding in the bay is a catastrophic convergence of flawed
    policy, economic over-exploitation, unsustainable forms of waste
    management, and climate change impacts that are intensifying in
    unpredictable ways. The scientists who identified the bay's dead
    zone warn that this stretch of ocean is approaching a tipping point
    that will have serious consequences for the planet's oceans and the
    global nitrogen cycle...
    Should the bay's fisheries collapse there will also be very serious
    human consequences, including intensified conflict and mass
    displacement. If millions of people lose their livelihoods then we
    can be sure that the resultant churning of populations will create
    huge new streams of migration, across the bay, the Indian Ocean, and
    indeed, the planet. Recent refugee flows in the region suggest that
    such a process may have already begun...
    For these issues to be addressed there needs to be a sea change in
    governmental attitudes and policies.

http://grist.org/living/so-your-world-might-be-falling-apart-heres-how-to-build-it-up-again/
So, your world is falling apart. Here's how to build it up again. 
<http://grist.org/living/so-your-world-might-be-falling-apart-heres-how-to-build-it-up-again/>

    You'll find other guides on how to influence Congress
    <https://www.indivisibleguide.com/> and resist different goals
    <https://www.resistancemanual.org/Resistance_Manual_Home> of the
    Trump administration. This one simply addresses how to be a better
    citizen of the Anthropocene — a starter pack of ideas on how to
    begin to build a more sustainable community and country.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/01/high-tech-war-on-science
*The hi-tech war on science fraud 
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/01/high-tech-war-on-science?CMP=share_btn_gp>*

      The exposure of fraud directly threatens the special claim science
    has on truth, which relies on the belief that its methods are purely
    rational and objective. As the congressmen warned scientists during
    the hearings, "each and every case of fraud serves to undermine the
    public's trust in the research enterprise of our nation".
    But three decades later, scientists still have only the most crude
    estimates of how much fraud actually exists. The current accepted
    standard is a 2009 study by the Stanford researcher Daniele Fanelli
    that collated the results of 21 previous surveys given to scientists
    in various fields about research misconduct. The studies, which
    depended entirely on scientists honestly reporting their own
    misconduct, concluded that about 2% of scientists had falsified data
    at some point in their career.
    If Fanelli's estimate is correct, it seems likely that thousands of
    scientists are getting away with misconduct each year. Fraud –
    including outright fabrication, plagiarism and self-plagiarism –
    accounts for the majority of retracted scientific articles. ...
    When scientists publish papers in journals, they release only the
    data they wish to share. Critical evaluation of the results by other
    scientists – peer review – takes place in secret and the discussion
    is not released publicly. Once a paper is published, all comments,
    concerns, and retractions must go through the editors of the journal
    before they reach the public. There are good, or at least
    defensible, arguments for all of this. But Hartgerink is part of an
    increasingly vocal group that believes that the closed nature of
    science, with authority resting in the hands of specific gatekeepers
    – journals, universities, and funders – is harmful, and that a more
    open approach would better serve the scientific method.

*This Day in Climate History  February 2, 1977 
<http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/153913-1> -  from D.R. Tucker
*

    **In a (literal) fireside chat, President Carter discusses his plans
    to establish a national energy policy that emphasizes conservation.
    http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7455
    http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/153913-1

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