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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/23/cdc-abruptly-cancels-long-planned-conference-on-climate-change-and-health/

    CDC abruptly cancels long-planned conference on*climate change*and
    health
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/23/cdc-abruptly-cancels-long-planned-conference-on-climate-change-and-health/>

Washington Post 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

    *With little warning or explanation, the Centers for Disease Control
    and Prevention recently canceled a major climate change conference*
    that had been scheduled for next month in Atlanta.
    The Climate and Health Summit, which had been in the works for
    months, was intended as a chance for public health officials around
    the country to learn more about the mounting evidence of the risks
    to human health posed by the changing climate. But CDC officials
    abruptly canceled the conference before President Trump's
    inauguration, sending a terse email on Jan. 9 to those who had been
    scheduled to speak at the event. The message did not explain the
    reason behind the decision.
    "Unfortunately, we are unable to hold the Summit in February 2017,"
    CDC officials wrote, adding that the agency is "currently exploring"
    whether it could reschedule the event later in the year..
    ...which was first reported by E&E News
    <http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2017/01/23/stories/1060048779>....
    ...agency officials decided to preemptively call off the event,
    rather than risk running afoul of an incoming president who has
    repeatedly called climate change a "hoax" and has nominated climate
    change skeptics to his Cabinet..."I don't know why they canceled the
    meeting, but I do know the meeting was important and should have
    been held. Politics is politics, but protecting the health of our
    citizens is one of our government's most important obligations to us,"
    The Obama administration also viewed the problem as a serious
    threat, and the White House last year held its own summit on climate
    change and public health. The Obama White House also undertook
    multiple initiatives to highlight the links between climate and
    health, most recently issuing a 300-page report last summer that
    underscored how a warming climate could exacerbate major public
    health problems.
    Among the threats: Millions more deaths caused by extreme heat. More
    frequent outbreaks of diseases transmitted by ticks and mosquitoes.
    Longer allergy seasons. Worsening air quality that could result in
    thousands more premature deaths each year from respiratory problems.
    "We're committed to making sure the nation knows about the effects
    of climate change on health," he said. "If anyone doesn't think this
    is a severe problem, they are fooling themselves."
      --
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/22/climate-change-poses-a-potentially-catastrophic-risk-to-global-health-says-new-report/
    *Climate change poses a severe risk to global health, says new
    report
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/06/22/climate-change-poses-a-potentially-catastrophic-risk-to-global-health-says-new-report/>*
    The study, more than 300 pages long and several years in the making,
    focuses on what the White House has described as one of the gravest
    threats to the nation: major health problems associated with climate
    change. It details direct effects, such as the potential for
    worsening air quality to trigger thousands more premature deaths
    from respiratory problems or an uptick in annual deaths from
    crushing heat waves. But researchers said other, less obvious
    effects also could take a toll on human health — from mental health
    problems that can result from extreme weather events such as
    hurricanes and floods to the fact that rising carbon dioxide in the
    atmosphere can lower the nutritional value of some crops.
    Climate change could pose a major health risk to the planet's human
    population over the course of the 21st century, says a major new
    report <http://www.thelancet.com/commissions/climate-change> from
    the medical journal the Lancet's Commission on Health and Climate
    Change <http://climatehealthcommission.org/>. But at the same time,
    the document adds, addressing the problem could confer a vast health
    benefit.
    --
    http://www.thelancet.com/climate-and-health
    Health and climate change <http://www.thelancet.com/climate-and-health>
    Climate change underpins all the social and environmental
    determinants of health but also has positive implications. The
    Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change is
    an international, multi-disciplinary research collaboration between
    academic institutions following on from the 2015 Lancet Commission
    on Health and Climate Change, which emphasised that the response to
    climate change could be "the greatest global health opportunity of
    the 21st century".

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/epa-freezes-grants-cdc-cancels-climate-change-summit-article-1.2953986

    EPA freezes grants, CDC cancels*climate change*summit
    <http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/epa-freezes-grants-cdc-cancels-climate-change-summit-article-1.2953986>

New York Daily News 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

    Foreseeing sweeping changes in President Trump's White House, the
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention canceled a*climate
    change*conference and the Environmental Protection Agency froze all
    of its grants and contracts. With fossil fuel enthusiast...

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jan/23/george-takei/george-takei-says-white-house-removed-pages-about-/

    George Takei says White House removed pages about*climate change*,
    civil rights from website
    <http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jan/23/george-takei/george-takei-says-white-house-removed-pages-about-/>

PolitiFact 	 -‎7 hours ago‎ 	

    "The White House removed its*climate change*web page. And the health
    care, civil rights and LGBT sections," tweeted George Takei, the
    former Star Trek actor who now has a large online fanbase.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/01/23/alaska-dispatch-news-poll-climate-change/

    Alaska Dispatch News poll:*Climate change*
    <https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/01/23/alaska-dispatch-news-poll-climate-change/>

Alaska Dispatch News 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

    A strikingly large portion of Alaskans worry about*global
    warming*or*climate change*, though they differ significantly in how
    much they worry, according to a public opinion poll conducted among
    750 respondents last month for Alaska Dispatch News by Ivan .

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/23/climate-campaigner-heres-how-activsim-green

    So you want to be a*climate*campaigner? Here's how
    <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/23/climate-campaigner-heres-how-activsim-green>

The Guardian 	 -‎17 hours ago‎ 	

    If you believe, as People and Planet do, that fossil fuels are the
    root causes of*climate change*the first step is to get acquainted
    with the people fighting to keep them in the ground, from Canada's
    indigenous community in Tar Sands to the Colombians*...*

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/22/all-change-supermarket-aisles-more-veg-sainsburys-cut-meat-consumption
*All change in the aisles to entice us to eat more veg 
<https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/22/all-change-supermarket-aisles-more-veg-sainsburys-cut-meat-consumption>*

    British shoppers are to become the subject of an experiment aimed at
    making them eat their greens. In a bold move to rebalance the
    contents of supermarket trolleys, Oxford academics have teamed up
    with supermarket chiefs to persuade consumers to buy less meat.
    The move to take specific steps to get people to eat more vegetarian
    food comes in the wake of a study, published in the Proceedings of
    the National Academy of Sciences in the US last year, which
    concluded that eating less meat could reduce global mortality by
    6-10% and cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30-70%. "The food system
    is responsible for more than a quarter of all greenhouse gas
    emissions, of which up to 80% are associated with livestock production,"
    Cattle and sheep are responsible for a significant proportion of
    these emissions. Meat production requires the use of huge amounts of
    pesticide, fertiliser, fuel, feed and water, and at the same time it
    releases significant greenhouse gases and toxic chemicals.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-atomic-origins-of-climate-science

    The Atomic Origins of*Climate Science*
    <http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-atomic-origins-of-climate-science>

The New Yorker 	 -‎Jan 22, 2017‎ 	

    Trump has often contradicted himself on the subject of nuclear
    weapons, but one of the more interesting things he's said about them
    is that they are far more dangerous to the planet than*global
    warming*is. It's a revealing comparison. The damage from a ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sonny-perdue-usda-climate-change_us_58826920e4b070d8cad255e7

    Trump's Pick For Agriculture Secretary Is A*Climate*Denier, Too
    <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sonny-perdue-usda-climate-change_us_58826920e4b070d8cad255e7>

Huffington Post 	 -‎15 hours ago‎ 	

    “*Climate change*, we're told, is responsible for heavy rains and
    drought alike,” Perdue wrote. “Whether temperatures are unseasonably
    low or high,*global warming*is the culprit. Snowstorms, hurricanes,
    and tornadoes have been around since the beginning*...*

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/23/one-of-the-last-obama-era-climate-reports-had-a-troubling-punchline-about-the-rising-seas/

    One of the last Obama-era*climate*reports had a troubling update
    about the rising seas
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/23/one-of-the-last-obama-era-climate-reports-had-a-troubling-punchline-about-the-rising-seas/>

Washington Post 	 -‎14 hours ago‎ 	

    A new report, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
    Administration on the last day of Barack Obama's presidency,
    presents a series of updated estimates for future*sea-level rise*,
    both in the United States and worldwide. It suggests that*...*

http://www.climatecodered.org/2017/01/antarctic-tipping-points-for-multi.html
*Antarctic tipping points for a multi-metre sea level rise  -- David 
Spratt 
<http://www.climatecodered.org/2017/01/antarctic-tipping-points-for-multi.html>*

    Overview:   The Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
    has most likely been destabilized and ice retreat is unstoppable for
    the current conditions.
    No further acceleration in climate change is necessary to trigger
    the collapse of the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on decadal
    time scales.
    Antarctica has the potential to contribute more than a metre of
    sea-level rise by 2100.
    A large fraction of West Antarctic basin ice could be gone within
    two centuries, causing a 3–5 metre sea level rise.
    Mechanisms similar to those causing deglaciation in West Antarctica
    are now also found in East Antarctica.
    Partial deglaciation of the East Antarctic ice sheet is likely for
    the current level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, contributing to 10
    metres of more of sea level rise in the longer run, and 5 metres in
    the first 200 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm6LtF3P5cA
*(video) Eric Rignot - Is Greenland Melting? 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm6LtF3P5cA>*

    30 minutes. Lecture overview of Greenland cryology

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-activist-idUSKBN1572QB

    *Climate*activist killed in Florida while on barefoot US walk
    <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-florida-activist-idUSKBN1572QB>

Reuters 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

    Florida authorities were investigating on Monday the death of an
    activist who was struck by a car and killed over the weekend while
    on a campaign to walk barefoot across the United States to draw
    attention to*climate change*concerns. Mark Baumer, 33*..*

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/climate-change-cause-effect/*
This Day in Climate History  January 24, 2007 
<http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/climate-change-cause-effect/> -  from 
D.R. Tucker*

    "CBS Evening News" provides a sneak preview of the 4th IPCC report.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/climate-change-cause-effect/

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