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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming, </i></font><font
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style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Scientists Hatch
Plans to Deal With Trump's<b style="font-weight: bold;">
Climate</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Skeptics</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a
candidate who called human-driven<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a
hoax, was followed by Trump naming more and more<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate-change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>doubters
to run the government's environment and energy agencies. So this
Wednesday<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">...California Gov. Jerry Brown
... <b>"</b>We have the scientists, we have the lawyers and
we are ready to fight!<b>"...</b> <br>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Brown urged scientists to
take the long view. "This is not one battle. This is a long
slog," he said. One election and a presidential term does not
set policy forever, he noted. Scientists, he said to more
cheers, are truth-tellers and truth-seekers. "I’ve been doing
this a long time," he said, “and eventually the truth will
prevail.” In fact, he added, the election should energize the
research community in a needed way. A lot of scientists and
policy makers may have been quietly pushing for actions to
combat warming, he said, but not pushing very hard. "You know
that sometimes you need a heart attack to stop smoking?" he
asked. “Well, maybe we just got our heart attack."</span><b
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</b><b>Canada - Federal Scientists Officially Unmuzzled in New
Collective Agreement with Federal Government </b> </a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Canada’s federal scientists have won the
right to speak freely about their research and science without
upper level bureaucratic control, a feature central to
restrictive communications protocols under the Harper
government...</font><br>
<font size="-1">The move to officially unmuzzle scientists comes
after the Professional Institute of Public Service Canada
(PIPSC), Canada's largest union federal employees including
15,000 scientists, researchers and engineers, negotiated to
include scientists' right to speak in a collective agreement
deal...</font><br>
<font size="-1">A memorandum of agreement contained in new member
agreements states employees<b> "shall have the right to express
themselves on science and their research, with respecting the
Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector adopted on April
2, 2012, without being designated as an official media
spokesperson</b>."..</font><br>
<font size="-1">The language was agreed to in a tentative deal
with the federal government, but Daviau said she expected it to
be adopted by other federal agencies like the National Research
Council, Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Canadian
Nuclear Safety Commission in future negotiations.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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255);">The Earth's Future research project focused on creating a
new model for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">An annual report released Thursday by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was
a factor, however small or large, in 24 of 30 strange weather
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style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Scientists Hatch
Plans to Deal With Trump's<span
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a
candidate who called human-driven<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a
hoax, was followed by Trump naming more and more<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate-change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>doubters
to run the government's environment and energy agencies. So this
Wednesday<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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sig2-8aR4M58KbLefJxjDEkr9UA did-3083627581489737886"
href="http://theconversation.com/the-world-needs-to-consider-how-to-manage-the-end-of-the-fossil-fuel-era-67175"
url="http://theconversation.com/the-world-needs-to-consider-how-to-manage-the-end-of-the-fossil-fuel-era-67175"
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style="font-weight: bold;">The world needs to consider how
to manage the end of the fossil fuel era</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">About three-quarters of the fossil fuel industry’s coal,
oil and gas reserves have to remain in the ground unburnt if the
world is to keep warming to 2°C – never mind well below
it...About three-quarters of the fossil fuel industry’s coal,
oil and gas reserves have to remain in the ground unburnt if the
world is to keep warming to 2°C – never mind well below
it....The speed of the transition ahead, however, may be too
fast for many fossil fuel reliant countries to fully keep up.
Environmental regulations and the rapid progress in clean and
alternative energy are stranding coal assets across the
globe....<br>
Such trends are already sending shockwaves throughout the fossil
fuel industry. They pose significant risks to countries heavily
reliant on fossil fuel revenues, such as Nigeria and
Venezuela...<br>
If we are to act in line with the Paris Agreements, we will need
to move even faster. Global emissions have stagnated over the
last three years. But to keep global warming to 1.5°C, they need
to be reduced at about 8.5% a year. That, according to Oxfam
researcher James Morrissey is the equivalent of pulling about
980 coal fired power stations off-line per year...<br>
Ending the fossil fuel era will constitute a major shift to the
current global geopolitical order, one dominated by major fossil
fuel producers like Russia and the United States. It’s hard to
see petrostates eagerly facilitating a transition away from that
order, never mind funding a globally just transition away from
it....<br>
Given that hard political reality, we need to be careful to not
allow questions of stranded assets and equity to derail progress
on climate change. It may be an injustice to not strand fossil
fuels equitably. But much graver injustice and harm will come
from not acting on climate change, particularly for least
developed and developing nations....<br>
What’s clear is that the problem shouldn’t be exacerbated by
investing in new fossil fuel projects. There are already more
than enough fossil fuel reserves and infrastructure to push past
climate targets. Investing in more will only exacerbate climate
change, deepen the problem of stranded assets, and make an
equitable solution even harder to attain....<br>
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style="font-weight: normal;">climate science</b><span
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255);">A coalition of the world's most powerful bankers,
regulators and even executives at some heavy polluters have a
message for oil and gas companies: Be more forthcoming about the
risks posed by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>. The new
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<b><a
href="http://www.nature.com/news/is-donald-trump-pushing-more-scientists-towards-political-activism-1.21130">Is
Donald Trump pushing more scientists towards political activism?</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Researchers are reaching out to the US
president-elect with science advice — and criticism.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Kim Cobb, a palaeoclimatologist at the Georgia
Institute of Technology in Atlanta, told the crowd that she
learned of Trump's win while on a research expedition in the
tropical Pacific. The implications didn’t sink in until she
returned to the laboratory where she studies links between
climate change and coral die-offs. "The nightmare continues and
keeps getting worse every day," she said....</font><br>
<font size="-1">Cobb told Nature that she is worried about the
long-term safety of US government climate datasets and other
federal research infrastructure. Trump’s transition team
recently asked the Department of Energy for lists of government
employees who worked on climate-change policy (a request the
department has refused). Cobb fears that the Trump
administration will interfere with the work of researchers
inside and outside the government...</font><br>
<font size="-1">"Now is the time to say something," she said. "How
many thousands of our peers are still in the poster halls?"</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nature.com/news/is-donald-trump-pushing-more-scientists-towards-political-activism-1.21130">http://www.nature.com/news/is-donald-trump-pushing-more-scientists-towards-political-activism-1.21130</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/12/13/hundreds-of-climate-scientists-rally-against-president-elect-trump/">Hundreds
Of Climate Scientists Rally Against President-Elect Trump</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Hundreds of climate researchers rallied
in the Bay Area, vowing to fight back against Donald Trump...</font><br>
<font size="-1">It’s the world’s largest gathering of earth
scientists and this year the topic focused on the
President-elect, and his administration’s potential threat to
climate research...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Researchers from around the world gathered in San
Francisco to deliver their defiant message...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Hundreds of the brightest scientific minds, and
many concerned Bay Area citizens, gathered in Jessie Square to
challenge the new Trump administration, specifically the
President-elect’s rhetoric on climate change...</font><br>
<font size="-1">They said every time Trump makes a new appointment
they grow more concerned...</font><br>
<font size="-1">That’s why they’ve decided activism is just as
important as scientific research...</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/12/13/hundreds-of-climate-scientists-rally-against-president-elect-trump/">http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/12/13/hundreds-of-climate-scientists-rally-against-president-elect-trump/</a></font><br>
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MLHWFO6DwE">(Video)
Jerry Brown speaks to the AGU National Conf Dec 2016</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"> "...we have the laws we have the tools
of enforcement and we have the political will and we will set
the stage will set the example and whatever Washington thinks
they're doing California is the future"</font><br>
<font size="-1">AGU's Fall Meeting is the largest Earth and space
science meeting in the world - The American Geophysical Union
(AGU) is an international scientific society dedicated to
promoting discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit
of humanity. (see full transcript) <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MLHWFO6DwE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MLHWFO6DwE</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/1995/1218/18032.html">This Day
in Climate History December 16, 1995 </a>- from D.R.
Tucker </b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"><b> The 2nd IPCC report is released.</b>
GLOBAL warming is happening at a slower pace than once thought,
but even so, nations must act quickly and decisively to protect
the planet's atmosphere...These were two conclusions from a
UN-sponsored report, expected to help world leaders draw up a
new blueprint for reducing dangerous gasses...The study was the
first broad review of global-warming research in five years by
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United
Nations-sponsored group of more than 2,500 scientists charged
with keeping governments up to date on global-warming research
and its implications.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/1995/1218/18032.html">http://www.csmonitor.com/1995/1218/18032.html</a></font><br>
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