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    This Monday, Join Protests Across the Country to Block
    Trump's*Climate*-Denying Cabinet Picks
    <https://www.thenation.com/article/this-monday-join-protests-across-the-country-to-block-trumps-climate-denying-cabinet-picks/>

The Nation. 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

    Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson was the CEO of Exxon, a
    company that funded*climate-change*denial for years after their own
    research pointed to the veracity of human-caused*global warming*.
    Environmental Protection Agency nominee Scott Pruitt ...

    Obama's*Climate*Legacy Will Be Harder to Undo Than Trump Thinks
    <http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/01/obama-climate-change-legacy-west>

Mother Jones 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

    Eight years later, a new president-elect has dismissed*climate
    change*as a hoax, promised to revive coal and other extractive
    industries, and sworn to cut—or gut—the U.S.

    New Evidence That the Atlantic Ocean's Big Current Is Unstable
    <https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/what-a-real-debate-looks-like-in-climate-science/512444/>

The Atlantic 	 -‎16 hours ago‎ 	

    *The Atlantic Ocean and an Actual Debate in Climate Science*...
    Scientists have recently begun to re-examine a scary question: Will
    a crucial ocean current shut down?
    While scientists continue to explore the consequences of climate
    change, there is essentially no debate among scientists about global
    warming's “connection to the actions of mankind.” Nor has there been
    a debate for years. Since at least 1995, the ...
    (YouTube Video)*The Gulf Stream Explained
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuGrBhK2c7U>***5 minutes
    The global conveyer belt is part of the large-scale ocean
    circulation that is driven by differences in the density of the
    waters. It plays a key role in keeping the climate at balance and
    Europe warm. Global warming may change it forever with unforeseeable
    consequences.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuGrBhK2c7U
    Overlooked possibility of a collapsed Atlantic Meridional
    Overturning Circulation in warming climate
    <http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1601666>
    Observationally based freshwater budget analyses suggest that the
    AMOC is in an unstable regime susceptible for large changes in
    response to perturbations. ...the AMOC collapse brings about large,
    markedly different climate responses: a prominent cooling over the
    northern North Atlantic and neighboring areas, sea ice increases
    over the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian seas and to the south of
    Greenland, and a significant southward rain-belt migration over the
    tropical Atlantic. Our results highlight the need to develop
    dynamical metrics to constrain models and the importance of reducing
    model biases in long-term climate projection.
    http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/1/e1601666

    <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-might-make-birds-mis-time-their-migrations/>

    Climate Change Might Make Birds Mis-Time Their Migrations ...
    <https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-might-make-birds-mis-time-their-migrations/>

Scientific American 	 -‎Jan 6, 2017‎ 	

    Bird species trace their migratory paths based on where they can
    find the most resources, but changes to the climate might soon make
    their knowledge outdated.

(BBC) Brixton Road breaches annual air pollution limit in five days 
<http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-38529928>

    In the UK it is estimated that the air pollution that we breathe
    causes an estimated 40,000 early deaths per year.
    Legal limits were set in 1999 to protect our health, with a deadline
    to meet them by 2010. Now, in 2017, they have been breached in the
    first five days of the year.A south London road has breached its
    annual air pollution limit for 2017 in just five days.
    Readings taken in Brixton Road found levels of nitrogen dioxide
    (NO2), linked to nearly 5,900 early deaths a year, repeatedly
    breached the EU limit.
    King's College London, which runs the air quality monitoring
    stations, said similar pollution problems are found along many of
    London's main roads.
    Oxford Street, Kings Road and the Strand are other pollution hotspots.
    Under EU law the average hourly level of NO2, mostly caused by
    diesel vehicles, must not exceed 200 micrograms per cubic metre more
    than 18 times in a year.
    In the first five days of 2017 Brixton Road had exceeded this annual
    limit on a further 19 occasions, according to the London Air Quality
    Network at King's College London.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-38529928

    Prepare for reanimation of the zombie myth 'no*global warming*since
    2016'
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/06/prepare-for-reanimation-of-the-zombie-myth-no-global-warming-since-2016>

The Guardian 	 -‎Jan 6, 2017‎ 	

    ... Niña cycle.*El Niño*events temporarily warm temperatures at the
    Earth's surface, while*La Niña*events cause temporary surface cooling.

    China's air pollution crisis shows no sign of ending as nation fails
    to lower coal use
    <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-08/chinese-air-pollution-crisis-caused-by-ongoing-coal-use/8168702>

ABC Online 	 -‎26 minutes ago‎ 	

    For weeks northern China has been covered in a thick toxic smog. It
    is one of the worst episodes of air pollution the country has seen,
    affecting 460 million people...Cheap coal has powered China's
    economic miracle and still provides 70 per cent of the country's
    energy. The Government is reluctant to wean itself off coal, fearing
    unemployment and unrest...
    In a rare display of anger, China's rising middle class took to the
    Chinese social media website "wechat", demanding the Government take
    action and protect the children of China...
    They said the Government's "war on pollution", now in its third
    year, has not delivered results....— studies suggest more than one
    million people die prematurely every year from the toxic air that
    has engulfed northern China...."The Government should do something
    and not just give us empty promises. Every year it gets worse."
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-08/chinese-air-pollution-crisis-caused-by-ongoing-coal-use/8168702

*(Opinion) How climate scientists should explain the unacceptable risk 
of doing nothing on global warming 
<http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-cliamte-change-ben-santer-20170106-story.html>*

    If climate change is not from human activities and we proceed with
    efforts to correct it, then some money is wasted and the fossil fuel
    industry will suffer. The green industry will prosper with jobs
    gained, we will probably get cleaner air to breath, and we will have
    less dependence on foreign oil.
    If climate change is from human activities and we do nothing, the
    results could be devastating. The world could lose vast forests
    along with the watersheds. Grasslands could die off with new dust
    bowls. Our supplies of food and fresh water could be devastated.
    People in hardest-hit areas stand to be displaced. The next
    extinction could be humans.
    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-cliamte-change-ben-santer-20170106-story.html

*This Day in Climate History  January 8, 2003 
<http://www.edf.org/news/environmental-defense-praises-new-mccain-lieberman-climate-bill> 
-  from D.R. Tucker*

    January 8, 2003: Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman
    (D-CT) introduce the bipartisan Climate Stewardship Act of 2003,
    which would establish a federal cap-and-trade program to reduce
    greenhouse gas emissions. (The bill would be defeated in the Senate
    in October 2003.)
    http://www.colorado.edu/economics/morey/4545/global/mccainlieberman.html
    http://www.edf.org/news/environmental-defense-praises-new-mccain-lieberman-climate-bill

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