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Thu Mar 16 09:55:23 EDT 2017

/March 16, 2017      Medical world speaks up, Republicans Buck Trump,  
opposing sides drawn

/http://www.newsweek.com/house-republicans-buck-trump-climate-change-568267

    House Republicans Buck Trump, Call for*Climate Change* Solutions
    <http://www.newsweek.com/house-republicans-buck-trump-climate-change-568267>

Newsweek 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

    Seventeen Republican members of Congress from diverse
    districts....submitted a resolution in the House Wednesday
    acknowledging that "human activities" have had an impact on global
    climate and resolving to create and support "economically viable"
    mitigation efforts...
    The resolution, sponsored by representatives Elise Stefanik of New
    York, Carlos Curbelo of Florida and Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania,
    is being submitted in the midst of an unprecedented effort by the
    most anti-science administration in recent American history to
    remove climate science studies and data from federal agencies.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-influence-the-inhofe-brigade-matters

    On Team Trump, influence of the 'Inhofe brigade' matters
    <http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trump-influence-the-inhofe-brigade-matters>

MSNBC 	 -‎9 hours ago‎ 	

There are distinct spheres of influence inside Donald Trump's political 
operation. There's the Breitbart Wing, made up on several White House 
aides who worked for the right-wing website; the Goldman Sachs Wing, 
made up of a growing number of folks who joined the administration after 
stints at the Wall Street giant; and the Jeff Sessions Wing, which 
includes both the U.S. Attorney General and some of his former Senate 
aides who now hold key posts in the Trump administration...
But let's not forget that Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), one of the 
nation's highest profile climate deniers, seems to have a contingent of 
his own. The Washington Post reported yesterday:
At least half a dozen former aides to Inhofe – and counting – have been 
hired into top positions at the EPA and the White House. The chief of 
staff and deputy chief of staff to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, a 
fellow Oklahoman and longtime friend of Inhofe, spent years working for 
the senator. Pruitt's senior advisers on air, climate and legal issues 
are Inhofe alumni. In addition, two former Inhofe aides have become top 
domestic and international energy and environmental advisers to 
President Trump. […]
Ryan Jackson, Inhofe's former chief of staff, helps account for part of 
why so many of the senator's aides are now helping guide the 
administration's policymaking. Jackson, who helped shepherd Pruitt's 
nomination, then became the administrator's chief of staff and started 
tapping his former colleagues for top agency posts.
Stephen Brown, vice president for government affairs at Tesoro, a major 
oil refiner, told the Post, "The Inhofe brigade has landed, secured the 
beach and is moving inland with precision as well as speed."
  "Inhofe was like the original climate-denier in chief. He was one of 
the first people spouting this gibberish – fact-free but dangerous 
gibberish," Gene Karpinski, president of the League of Conservation 
Voters, told the Post. "Now he and his cronies have far more reach and 
are far more dangerous than they've ever been…. That's good news for the 
polluters but horrible news for public health."..
Gallup published a report yesterday that found Americans' concerns about 
the climate crisis have reached record highs, with most of the public 
agreeing that global warming is occurring; it's a serious threat; and 
it's the result of human activity...
The Inhofe brigade isn't likely to care....

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/03/15/the-first-climate-model-turns-50-and-predicted-global-warming-almost-perfectly/

    The First Climate Model Turns 50, And Predicted*Global
    Warming*Almost Perfectly
    <https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/03/15/the-first-climate-model-turns-50-and-predicted-global-warming-almost-perfectly/>

Forbes 	 -‎9 hours ago‎ 	

Modeling the Earth's climate is one of the most daunting, complicated 
tasks out there. If only we were more like the Moon, things would be easy.

https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/323996-trump-targets-obamas-car-fuel-efficiency-standards

    Trump targets Obama's*global warming*emissions rule for cars (CAFE
    standards)
    <https://origin-nyi.thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/323996-trump-targets-obamas-car-fuel-efficiency-standards>

The Hill 	 -‎14 hours ago‎ 	

President Trump will sign an order Wednesday to formally evaluate the 
Obama administration's landmark greenhouse gas emissions standards for 
cars....President Trump will ask federal regulators Wednesday to 
formally evaluate the Obama administration's landmark greenhouse gas 
emissions standards for cars.
The action, a top request from the automaker lobby to the new president, 
is the first step toward potentially weakening the aggressive standards 
that set a goal of a 54.5 mile-per-gallon auto fleet in 2025.

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/03/09/soils-carbon-climate/
*Study: Soils Could Release Much More Carbon Than Expected as Climate 
Warms <http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2017/03/09/soils-carbon-climate/>*

    Deeper soil layers more sensitive to warming than previously
    thought, Berkeley Lab scientists find
    The scientists say these findings suggest the degree to which soil
    organic carbon influences climate change may be currently
    underestimated...
    "There's an assumption that carbon in the subsoil is more stable and
    not as responsive to warming as in the topsoil, but we've learned
    that's not the case," says Torn. "Deeper soil layers contain a lot
    of carbon, and our work indicates it's a key missing component in
    our understanding of the potential feedback of soils to the planet's
    climate."..
    The research was supported by the Department of Energy's Office of
    Science...
    Soils could release much more CO2 than expected into the atmosphere
    as the climate warms, according to new research by scientists from
    the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    (Berkeley Lab).
    Their findings are based on a field experiment that, for the first
    time, explored what happens to organic carbon trapped in soil when
    all soil layers are warmed, which in this case extend to a depth of
    100 centimeters. The scientists discovered that warming both the
    surface and deeper soil layers at three experimental plots increased
    the plots' annual release of CO2 by 34 to 37 percent over non-warmed
    soil. Much of the CO2 originated from deeper layers, indicating that
    deeper stores of carbon are more sensitive to warming than
    previously thought.
    The paper, entitled "The whole soil carbon flux in response to
    warming," will be published online by the journal Science on
    Thursday, March 9, 2017

https://soe.environment.gov.au/key-findings-all
Environmental policies in Australia - Headlines and Key findings 
<https://soe.environment.gov.au/key-findings-all>

    Executive summary
    In the past 5 years (2011–16), environmental policies and management
    practices in Australia have achieved improvements in the state and
    trends of parts of the Australian environment. Australia's built
    environment, natural and cultural heritage, and marine and Antarctic
    environments are generally in good condition...
    There are, however, areas where the condition of the environment is
    poor and/or deteriorating. These include the more populated coastal
    areas and some of the growth areas within urban environments, where
    human pressure is greatest (particularly in south-eastern
    Australia); and the extensive land-use zone of Australia, where
    grazing is considered a major threat to biodiversity...
    In Australia, the key drivers of environmental change are population
    growth and economic activity. The extent to which these drivers lead
    to environmental impacts depends on a range of factors, ..

https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/reports/medical-alert/
*Report: Medical Alert! Climate Change Is Harming Our Health 
<https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/reports/medical-alert/>*
Most Americans understand that climate change is real and are concerned 
about it. But most still see climate change as a faraway threat, in both 
time and place, and as something that threatens the future of polar 
bears but not necessarily people. The reality, however, is starkly 
different: climate change is already causing problems in communities in 
every region of our nation, and from a doctor's perspective, it's 
harming our health...
Most Americans are not aware of the health harms of climate change. A 
recent survey showed that most Americans have not considered how global 
warming might affect people's health, and few (32%) can name a specific 
way in which climate change is harming our health. Few are aware that 
some groups of Americans - including our children, our elders, the sick 
and the poor—are most likely to be harmed by climate change. None of 
these survey findings is surprising. There has been relatively little 
public discussion of the health harms of climate change. But we also 
know people are eager to hear from us. Most survey respondents said, in 
fact, that their primary care physician is a trusted source for 
information about this topic...
We—physicians in medical societies representing over half of the 
nation's doctors—see a need to share our growing understanding and 
concern about the health consequences of climate change with all Americans.
Read the full report here. 
<https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/medical_alert.pdf>
https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/medical_alert.pdf
join   @docsforclimate https://t.co/nXj91rNV8t
Video meeting: http://medicalconsortium.org/launch/
I found out about this just moments before it ended... impressive group 
of health professionals.   I know that VOA will have a report on this.
We are excited to have officially launched. We will be following up soon 
with more information. I have posted an instant replay of the whole 
event online, but the full version (including the last few minutes that 
were cut off due to the outage) should be posted soon! 
https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/launch/
Basically health professionals are joining together and speaking out
https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2017/03/20-powerful-images-from.html
*20 Powerful images from the #NativeNationsRise protests happening in 
Washington, DC 
<http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2017/03/20-powerful-images-from.html>*

    Tribes from around the county have been gathering in Washington,
    D.C., for days, erecting teepees on the National Mall near the White
    House.
    The protest follows months of demonstrations in a remote part of
    North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux tribe demonstrated in an
    attempt to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing upstream from
    their reservation...
    That pipeline is being installed now, after Trump signed an
    executive order last month smoothing the path for construction. He
    also cleared the way for the Keystone XL project that would pipe
    Canadian crude into the United States...
    The protesters, some wearing traditional tribal garb, carried signs
    reading "Native Lives Matter", "Water is Life", and "Protect the
    Water" while marching. ..
    The Native Nations March, organized by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
    and the Indigenous Environmental Network, comes a month after the
    Army greenlighted completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline without
    an environmental study. ..
    "There's not a chance he's going to go to a reservation," Phillips
    said. "There's not a chance he's going to go to the people to find
    out what's going on."

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/03/15/444478.htm

    Appliances to Pipelines: Trump Plans Major Rollback of Obama*Climate
    Change* Rules
    <http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/03/15/444478.htm>

Insurance Journal 	 -‎9 hours ago‎ 	

President Donald Trump is set to sign a sweeping directive to 
dramatically shrink the role*climate change*plays in decisions across 
the government, ranging from appliance standards to pipeline approvals, 
according to a person familiar with the ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2017/03/15/more-than-900-examples-of-how-climate-change-affects-business/

    More Than 900 Examples Of How*Climate Change*Affects Business
    <https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2017/03/15/more-than-900-examples-of-how-climate-change-affects-business/>

Forbes 	 -‎8 hours ago‎ 	

Some 929 students took the*Climate Change*Challenge, analyzing 
organizations including Toyota, General Mills, Maker's Mark, Amazon Web 
Services and Vail Ski Resort.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/13/carbon-dioxide-in-the-atmosphere-is-rising-at-the-fastest-rate-ever-recorded/?utm_term=.6534277c7610
*Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising at the fastest rate ever 
recorded 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/13/carbon-dioxide-in-the-atmosphere-is-rising-at-the-fastest-rate-ever-recorded/?utm_term=.6534277c7610>*

    For the second year in a row, atmospheric carbon dioxide
    concentrations have climbed at a record pace. According to data from
    the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, carbon dioxide
    levels jumped by three parts per million in both 2015 and 2016 and
    now rest at about 405 parts per million...
    It's the biggest jump ever observed at the agency's Mauna Loa
    Baseline Atmospheric Observatory in Hawaii, where the measurements
    were recorded. Similar observations have been recorded at stations
    all over the world, said Pieter Tans, who leads the Carbon Cycle
    Greenhouse Gases group at NOAA's Greenhouse Gas Reference Network...
    Throughout the last decade, the average rate of increase has been
    around 2.3 parts per million per year, Tans added...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/science/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff.html

    Large Sections of Australia's Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists
    Find
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/science/great-barrier-reef-coral-climate-change-dieoff.html>

New York Times 	 -‎5 hours ago‎ 	

Severe bleaching last year on the northern Great Barrier Reef affected 
even the largest and oldest corals, like this slow-growing Porites colony.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-republicans-reject-climate-change-science/
*This Day in Climate History March 16, 2011 
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-republicans-reject-climate-change-science/> 
-  from D.R. Tucker*

    CBS News reports on the aggressive anti-science attitudes of the
    112th Congress.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-republicans-reject-climate-change-science/

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