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/ *Global Risks Report 2017 World Economic Forum (text, charts and 
video) <http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/>*

    Now in its 12th edition, The Global Risks Report 2017 completes more
    than a decade of highlighting the most significant long-term risks
    worldwide, drawing on the perspectives of experts and global
    decision-makers...
    Global Risks report 2017 features perspectives from nearly 750
    experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 30 prevalent
    global risks as well as 13 underlying trends that could amplify them
    or alter the interconnections between them over a 10-year timeframe.
    Trends
    http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/global-risks-landscape-2017/#trends
    Risks
    http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/global-risks-landscape-2017/#risks
    2016 saw a crystallization of political risks that have led to the
    election of populist leaders, a loss of faith in institutions and
    increased strain on international cooperation. We should not be
    surprised by this: for the past decade, the Global Risks Report has
    been drawing attention to persistent economic, social and political
    factors that have been shaping our risks landscape....
    This year's report will examine the five greatest priorities facing
    the world in 2017, their interconnections and the actions necessary
    to avoid their harshest fall-out..
    http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/

Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2016 
<https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-climate-papers-featured-media-2016>

    Every year, thousands of scientific journal papers are published by
    researchers across the world, but only a tiny proportion make it
    into the pages of the newspapers...
    Using Altmetric, we’ve compiled a list of the 25 most talked-about
    climate papers of 2016. You can see the Top 10 in our infographic
    Altmetric scores academic papers based on how many times they’re
    mentioned in online news articles and on social media platforms.
    ...https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-climate-papers-featured-media-2016

*Chronology of Military and Intelligence Concerns About Climate Change 
<https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/12/chronology-of-the-u-s-military-and-intelligence-communitys-concern-about-climate-change/>*

       The U.S. military has been concerned about climate change since
    the George W. Bush Administration, at the latest, but military
    institutions such as the Naval War College have been warning
    policy-makers since 1990, during the first Bush Administration. The
    intelligence community has also been in the game since the early
    1990s, with the establishment of the MEDEA program – a structured
    collaboration between climate scientists and U.S. intelligence
    agencies – and has been releasing intelligence estimates on the
    national security implications of climate change since 2008,...
    To clarify the historical record on this subject, we are therefore
    posting below an updated chronology of US Department of Defense
    (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) products that explicitly
    address the climate change threat. A broader look at other national
    and international security documents addressing climate risks can be
    found on the Climate Security Chronology and Resource Hub.
    https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/12/chronology-of-the-u-s-military-and-intelligence-communitys-concern-about-climate-change/

    Trump CIA Pick Evades*Climate Change*Questions
    <https://www.climatecentral.org/news/trump-cia-climate-change-21052>

Climate Central 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

    Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), President-elect Trump's pick to head the
    CIA, appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday,
    during which he refused to answer whether he accepts the
    overwhelming evidence that*climate change*is occurring, ...

    Exxon Mobil must hand over*climate change*documents, judge rules
    <http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/12/14250888/exxon-mobil-climate-change-documents-massachusetts>

The Verge 	 -‎29 minutes ago‎ 	

    Exxon Mobil must turn over decades' worth of documents showing how
    much the company knew about*climate change*. The decision was taken
    yesterday by a Massachusetts judge in an investigation brought by
    the state's attorney general Maura Healey.

    Tillerson on*Climate Change*
    <http://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/tillerson-on-climate-change/>

FactCheck.org 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

    During his confirmation hearing for secretary of state, Rex
    Tillerson said "our ability to predict" the effect of
    increased*greenhouse gas*concentrations in the atmosphere "is very
    limited." That's not entirely accurate. ... Scientists also have
    high*...*

Sen. Jeff Merkley patiently exposed Rex Tillerson on *climate change* 
<http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/12/14248484/merkley-tillerson-climate-change-skeptic>
Vox 	 -‎58 minutes ago‎ 	

    Late into Rex Tillerson's marathon secretary of state confirmation
    hearing yesterday, it came time for Sen. Jeff Merkley's second round
    of questioning.

    Five Key Climate Takeaways From The Rex Tillerson Confirmation
    Hearing
    <https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/12/five-key-climate-takeaways-rex-tillerson-confirmation-hearing/214985> 
    MediaMatters

    Secretary of state nominee and former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson
    testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January
    11. Tillerson is already under fire for making the seemingly false
    claim that Exxon has not lobbied against sanctions on Russia and
    other nations that would affect Exxon’s business dealings, but here
    are five other climate change-related takeaways that reporters
    should keep in mind in their coverage of the hearing and Tillerson
    nomination going forward.:
    1. Tillerson distorted climate change science … again
    2. Tillerson disputed the Pentagon’s determination that climate
    change is a significant national security threat..
    3. Tillerson refused to discuss the "ExxonKnew" scandal.
    4. Tillerson declined to endorse the Paris climate agreement.
    5. Tillerson did not address climate change, oil, or even Exxon
    itself in his opening remarks.
    https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/12/five-key-climate-takeaways-rex-tillerson-confirmation-hearing/214985

    The Hermit Who Inadvertently Shaped*Climate-Change*Science
    <https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/billy-barr-climate-change/512198/>

The Atlantic 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

    During the last couple decades, scientists at the RMBL have become
    fascinated with*climate change's*impact on plants and animals in the
    high alpines, hoping to scale their discoveries into broader lessons
    about life in a warmer earth.

More Evidence on Climate Change and Conflict Links: Context is Key 
<https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/12/more-evidence-on-climate-change-and-conflict-linkages-context-and-governance-is-key/>
THE CENTER FOR CLIMATE & SECURITY

    ... the role climate change may play in driving armed conflict rests
    on important social science research which seeks to explore how
    conflicts start, are sustained, and eventually end....
    ... conflict  is most likely to arise from drought conditions when
    three circumstances are present: the communities in question are
    predominantly dependent on agriculture for their economic
    livelihoods; their ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to
    environmental changes (e.g. the importance of the monsoon rains in
    the Indian subcontinent); and they lack coping capacity,
    particularly if that capacity is impaired by indifference or active
    suppression from the central government....
    https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/12/more-evidence-on-climate-change-and-conflict-linkages-context-and-governance-is-key/

    Scientists have a new way to calculate what*global warming*costs.
    Trump's team isn't going to like it.
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/12/scientists-have-a-new-way-to-calculate-what-global-warming-costs-trumps-team-isnt-going-to-like-it/>

Washington Post 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

    How we view the costs of future*climate change*, and more
    importantly how we quantify them, may soon be changing. A
    much-anticipated new report, just released by the National Academy
    of Sciences, recommends major updates to a federal metric known as ...

How Donald Trump Kingmaker**Billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer Have 
Poured Millions Into Climate Science Denial 
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/12/trump-kingmaker-billionaires-robert-rebekah-mercer-pouring-millions-climate-science-denial>

    A DeSmog analysis of Federal Electoral Commission returns shows
    Robert Mercer, the reclusive hedge fund manager, has donated $30.1
    million to politics since January 2015 (a further $2.3 million has
    come from daughter Rebekah and wife Diana)....the Mercers have also
    pumped at least $22 million into organizations that push climate
    science denial while blocking moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions....
    The Chicago-based Heartland Institute has received $4,988,000 from
    the Mercers, cashing its first $1 million check in 2008....
    Another organization shy about getting cash from the Mercer Family
    Foundation is the George W. Bush Foundation, the organization set up
    in 2006 to look after the official archive of the George W. Bush
    presidency.
    The George W. Bush Foundation publishes a lengthy list of its
    financial supporters and the Mercers are not on it. But tax records
    show the Mercers have given the Bush Foundation $4.1 million since
    2010...
    The biggest beneficiary of Mercer Family Foundation cash is the
    Media Research Center (MRC), a group which claims credit for
    convincing Americans that most of the media has a "liberal" bias.
    https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/12/trump-kingmaker-billionaires-robert-rebekah-mercer-pouring-millions-climate-science-denial

*This Day in Climate History  January 13, 2004 
<http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/buying-some-time-on-climate-change-with-methane-and-soot/2012/01/13/gIQAQoDrwP_blog.html> 
-  from D.R. Tucker*

    January 13, 2012: Brad Plumer of the Washington Post notes:
    "When it comes to climate change, fossil fuels nab most of the
    headlines. But a new study suggests the world should also pay closer
    attention to smaller steps to curb soot and methane. In fact, those
    measures could make all the difference in whether the world makes or
    misses its climate targets...Now, in terms of warming the planet,
    carbon dioxide — the byproduct of burning coal, oil, and natural gas
    — is still the most important man-made driver. But methane and black
    carbon (soot) also play a large, if less-appreciated role. Soot
    particles, for instance, absorb radiation from the sun and can
    hasten the melting of snow and ice cover when they fall to the
    ground. Some scientists think that soot is accelerating ice melt in
    the Arctic. What’s more, because methane and soot cycle out of the
    air fairly rapidly (soot can wash out in a matter of days), clamping
    down on these pollutants would have an immediate impact."
    http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/buying-some-time-on-climate-change-with-methane-and-soot/2012/01/13/gIQAQoDrwP_blog.html

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