[TheClimate.Vote] March 14, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News for All - Big Carbon conquers colleges

Tue Mar 14 10:26:46 EDT 2017

/March 14, 2017             NE Blizzard,  Big Carbon conquers colleges /

http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/northeast-blizzard-march-2017
*Climate Signals blizzard event and forecast page 
<http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/northeast-blizzard-march-2017>*
Climate Signals has posted an event page for the developing blizzard 
forecast to hit NYC and the northeast.  We will update the page as the 
event develops - 
http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/northeast-blizzard-march-2017
Here is a tweet with a link to the page:
The #climatechange risks and connections behind the coming #StellaBlizzard
https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/841457648721510400

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/13/the-fossil-fuel-industrys-invisible-colonization-of-academia
*The fossil fuel industry's invisible colonization of academia 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/13/the-fossil-fuel-industrys-invisible-colonization-of-academia?CMP=share_btn_tw>*

    Corporate capture of academic research by the fossil fuel industry
    is an elephant in the room and a threat to tackling climate change.
    The very experts we assume to be objective, and the very centers of
    research we assume to be independent, are connected with the very
    industry the public believes they are objectively studying.
    Moreover, these connections are often kept hidden. ..
    To say that these experts and research centers have conflicts of
    interest is an understatement: many of them exist as they do only
    because of the fossil fuel industry. They are industry projects with
    the appearance of neutrality and credibility given by academia...
    After years conducting energy-related research at Harvard and MIT,
    we have come to discover firsthand that this pattern is systemic.
    Funding from Shell, Chevron, BP, and other oil and gas companies
    dominates Harvard's energy and climate policy research, and Harvard
    research directors consult for the industry. These are the experts
    tasked with formulating policies for countering climate change,
    policies that threaten the profits - indeed the existence - of the
    fossil fuel industry...
    Fossil fuel interests - oil, gas, and coal companies, fossil-fueled
    utilities, and fossil fuel investors - have colonized nearly every
    nook and cranny of energy and climate policy research in American
    universities, and much of energy science too. And they have done so
    quietly, without the general public's knowledge.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1615242
*New England Journal of Medicine 
<http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1615242>
The Trump Administration and the Environment — Heed the Science 
<http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1615242>*

    …dramatic reductions in emissions and protection of drinking-water
    resources. The intended policy directions described to date by
    President Donald Trump and his appointees, and likely to be
    supported by Republicans in Congress, raise concern about future
    environmental regulations and protection,…
    March 1, 2017Samet J.M.Burke T.A.Goldstein B.D.10.1056/NEJMms1615242
    Free Full Text
    Science-based policies and regulations have resulted in tremendous
    gains in environmental quality and reduced the population’s exposure
    to harmful pollutants (Figure 1). In the United States, the gains
    have been driven by major laws that were passed and ...
    "Climate change also provides a case study of the need for
    integrating the EPA's science with legal processes, since litigation
    has become a common tactic for both motivating and blocking
    regulatory actions. Greenhouse-gas emissions were not directly
    covered in the CAA, but in Massachusetts vs. EPA, the Supreme Court
    found that that law was sufficiently broad to cover such emissions
    from mobile sources. President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan,
    currently stayed by the Supreme Court, drew on the CAA to address
    carbon emissions from power plants."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/13/this-follows-from-the-basic-laws-of-physics-scientists-rebuke-scott-pruitt-on-climate/

    'This … follows from the basic laws of physics': Scientists rebuke
    Scott Pruitt on climate change
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/13/this-follows-from-the-basic-laws-of-physics-scientists-rebuke-scott-pruitt-on-climate/>

Washington Post 	 -‎2 hours ago‎ 	

The controversy continues over Environmental Protection Agency 
Administrator Scott Pruitt's statement Thursday questioning the most 
important scientific conclusion about climate change - namely, that it 
is driven by human beings.

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/13/global-warming-carbon-dioxide-noaa/

    Boulder climate scientist sounds alarm over record carbon dioxide
    readings
    <http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/13/global-warming-carbon-dioxide-noaa/>

The Denver Post 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

Also, according to NOAA's Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA's Global 
Greenhouse Gas Reference Network in Boulder, it was also the record 
fifth straight year that carbon dioxide surged by 2 ppm or more.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/tillerson-used-alias-email-for-climate-messages-n-y-says

    Tillerson Used 'Alias' Email for Climate Messages, NY Says
    <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-13/tillerson-used-alias-email-for-climate-messages-n-y-says>

Bloomberg 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

New York says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used an email alias to 
discuss climate change while he was Exxon Mobil Corp.

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-fingerprints-intersection-weather-climate.html

    Looking for 'fingerprints' at the intersection of weather and
    climate
    <https://phys.org/news/2017-03-fingerprints-intersection-weather-climate.html>

Phys.Org 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

Scientists have found the seasonal "fingerprints" of Arctic sea ice, El 
Nino, and other climate phenomena in a new study that probes the global 
interactions between weather and climate.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/323654-meteorologists-refute-epa-head-on-climate-change

    Meteorologists refute EPA head on*climate change*
    <http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/323654-meteorologists-refute-epa-head-on-climate-change>

The Hill 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

The nation's top organization for meteorology is refuting Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt's recent comments on 
the role of carbon dioxide in*climate change*. Pruitt questioned 
mainstream climate science last week, saying*...*

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/my-climate-action-q-a-aslund-arctic-glacier-greenpeace/

    Pictures Show*Climate Change's*Dramatic Arctic Impact
    <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/my-climate-action-q-a-aslund-arctic-glacier-greenpeace/>

National Geographic 	 -‎14 hours ago‎ 	

Knowledge of*climate change*wasn't as common, our attitudes 
towards*climate change*were different. Now more or less everyone knows 
it's a fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M
*(video) NOAM CHOMSKY - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34LGPIXvU5M>*

    According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky,
    media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media
    elite, flak and the common enemy.
    *(older video) Manufacturing Consent. Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing
    Consent <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU>*
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU
    Summary of Chomsky's analyses on how the corporate media functions.
    Excerpt from the documentary "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky
    and the Media" (1992). Watch the whole thing here:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHa6N...

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/u.s.-bishops-indicate-to-sec-of-state-tillerson-that-global-warming-is-thei

    US Bishops indicate to Sec of State Tillerson *Global Warming*is
    their top foreign-policy priority
    <https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/u.s.-bishops-indicate-to-sec-of-state-tillerson-that-global-warming-is-thei>

Lifesite 	 -‎4 hours ago‎ 	

Guided by that spirit, and speaking for American Catholics, the bishops 
requested that Mr. Tillerson oppose*Global Warming*, by supporting 
Obama's notorious Paris Agreement that creates a new international 
bureaucracy to dictate energy policy to the world.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170310091521.htm

    New research points out that*climate change*will increase fire
    activity in Mediterranean Europe
    <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170310091521.htm>

Science Daily 	 -‎21 hours ago‎ 	

A recent study, researchers show that the direct effect of*climate 
change*in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is 
expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent 
climate on fuel load and structure -that is*...*

http://www.havasunews.com/news/experts-global-warming-effects-on-colorado-river-need-to-be/article_fa6caa18-07b3-11e7-bc03-1f479729e62d.html

    Experts:*Global warming* effects on Colorado River need to be taken
    more seriously
    <http://www.havasunews.com/news/experts-global-warming-effects-on-colorado-river-need-to-be/article_fa6caa18-07b3-11e7-bc03-1f479729e62d.html>

Today's News-Herald 	 -‎11 hours ago‎ 	

The study by Overpeck and Bradley Udall of Colorado State University 
found that*global warming*accounted for anywhere from one-sixth to 
one-half of the decline in Colorado River flows.

http://youtu.be/DSy2UCNwchM
/*This Day in Climate History March 14, 2012 
<http://youtu.be/DSy2UCNwchM> -  from D.R. Tucker*/
"NBC Nightly News" reports on the risk of rising sea levels.
http://youtu.be/DSy2UCNwchM

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