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      <font size="+1"><i>"The most important issue of all time" -</i></font>
    <font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming,  </i></font><font
      size="+1"><i>Forward this email. December 27, 2016</i></font><br>
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Fake news is old news to<span
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              style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
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      <blockquote>Bogus<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>stories also allege that
        a so-called “pause” in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>undermines established<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate science</b>. Although<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>scientists
        overwhelmingly agree that temperatures are rising and<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is
        real, there has been debate over ....This kind of fake news has
        set progress back years, if not decades, Mann said. It’s a
        “crime against the planet,” he told Grist, and a “crime against
        humanity.”...<br>
        All the news that’s unfit to print...<br>
        There are many flavors of fake news. Some of these stories push
        the idea that, yes, the climate is changing, but it’s just a
        natural effect of changes in the sun’s activity and humans have
        nothing to do with it. This theory has been a favorite of
        deniers for three decades, and even though it’s been widely
        discredited, Breitbart reported it in again in 2014, under the
        headline, “Solar Activity Could Cause Global Warming, New Paper
        Says.” Of course, this runs contrary to actual science, but
        Breitbart never lets that stop them....<br>
        Other fake stories claim that carbon dioxide is good because it
        increases plant growth, as the ever-optimistic Breitbart
        declared again last year. But while it’s true that CO2 can be
        beneficial for plants, it doesn’t outweigh the fact that
        increasing concentrations in the atmosphere are toasting our
        home planet. Good for plants does not equal good for people....<br>
        Bogus climate stories also allege that a so-called “pause” in
        global warming undermines established climate science. Although
        climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that temperatures are
        rising and climate change is real, there has been debate over
        whether the rate of temperature increase slowed in the early
        2000s — which climate deniers refer to as the “pause” or
        “hiatus.” Fake media outlets have seized on this debate and
        tried to spin it as proof that climate change isn’t real:
        Breitbart even claimed that Mann jumped on the pause bandwagon,
        deserted his scientific colleagues, and decided that there’s
        been no global warming since 1998. This was likely news to Mann
        himself.<br>
         And yet there remains a vocal contingent of ideologues who
        refuse to accept the connection between carbon emissions and a
        warming planet. For example, Donald Trump and a good portion of
        his proposed cabinet. For years, right-wing news organizations
        like Breitbart, Infowars, the Daily Caller, and Climate Depot
        have fed their denial, publishing stories that misinterpret,
        misrepresent, or distort scientific findings — or just outright
        lie.<br>
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href="http://grist.org/article/fake-news-is-old-news-to-climate-scientists/">http://grist.org/article/fake-news-is-old-news-to-climate-scientists/</a><br>
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              style="font-weight: bold;">US|California, at Forefront of<span
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          255, 255);">The prospect of California's elevated role on<span
            class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
            normal;">climate change</b><span
            class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the latest sign of
          how this state, where Hillary Clinton defeated Mr. Trump by
          more than four million votes, is preparing to resist the
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      <font size="+1"><a
href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/mothers-unleash-their-organizing-power-on-climate/">Mothers
          unleash their organizing power on climate</a></font><br>
      <blockquote>She co-founded <a
          href="http://www.climateparents.org/">Climate Parents</a> with
        author <a href="https://grist.org/author/mark-hertsgaard/">Mark
          Hertsgaard</a> in 2012, and has since built a membership of
        50,000 people. <br>
        During that same time, new and emerging groups with names like <a
          href="http://www.momscleanairforce.org/">Moms Clean Air Force</a>,
        <a href="http://coolmom.org/">Cool Mom</a>, <a
          href="http://www.mothersoutfront.org/">Mothers Out Front</a>,
        and <a href="http://www.climatemama.com/">Climate Mama</a>
        attracted a collective million or so other pissed-off parents.
        Those ranks swell when you factor in international allies such
        as <a
          href="https://www.facebook.com/canadianparentsforclimateaction/">Canadian
          Parents for Climate Action</a>, the multinational <a
          href="http://gpclimat.be/">Grands-Parents pour le Climat</a>,
        and the deliciously named Parents Roar, based in Sweden.<br>
        “For too long, the climate movement was all environmentalists
        talking to each other, economists talking to each other, and
        scientists talking to each other,” says Dominique Browning,
        founder of Moms Clean Air Force. “There was no easy way to
        become politically active on this issue, but there was a great
        deal of passion [among mothers] for making the world better and
        safer for their children.”<br>
        While it’s hard to claim victory against a looming global
        apocalypse, mother-led climate groups have made tangible gains.
        Moms Clean Air Force, Climate Parents, and Mothers Out Front
        joined with a dozen like-minded groups to form a coalition
        called <a href="http://ourkidsclimate.org/">Our Kids’ Climate</a>
        in advance of the landmark <a
          href="https://grist.org/series/the-paris-climate-talks-yes-oui-can/">Paris
          climate talks</a> last year. They participated in press
        conferences and panels during the talks and helped deliver <a
href="https://www.climaterealityproject.org/press/civil-society-leaders-deliver-over-6-million-petitions">6.2
          million petition signatures to U.N. Secretary-General Ban
          Ki-moon</a> demanding bold action.<br>
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="http://ourkidsclimate.org/">http://ourkidsclimate.org/</a><br>
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="http://ourkidsclimate.org/#partners">http://ourkidsclimate.org/#partners</a><br>
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            style="font-weight: bold;">New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on
            Another<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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                release)</span></td>
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      <div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">The loss of Arctic sea ice has already been shown to be
        part of a positive feedback loop driving<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate change</b>, and a recent study published in
        the journal Nature puts the spotlight on what appears to be
        another of these feedback loops....The study's abstract
        summarizes the findings thusly:<br>
        Despite the considerable uncertainty in our estimates, the
        direction of the global soil carbon response is consistent
        across all scenarios. This provides strong empirical support for
        the idea that rising temperatures will stimulate the net loss of
        soil carbon to the atmosphere, driving a positive land
        carbon–climate feedback that could accelerate climate change.</div>
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          usg-AFQjCNERu3H6lyVe1Dz0i8X-QfMtjORUoQ
          sig2-AilRdjrozPzescDc99ejUg did-1853842377307207339"
href="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/orwellian-scott-walker-admin-quietly-scrubs-mentions-of-climate-from-climate-change-website/"
url="http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/orwellian-scott-walker-admin-quietly-scrubs-mentions-of-climate-from-climate-change-website/"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">'Orwellian': Scott Walker admin.
            quietly scrubs mentions of '<b style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b>'
            from '<b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b>'
            website</span></a></h2>
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      <div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
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        sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-style: normal;
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">... to the Scientific American. Political writer James
        Rowen reported on Monday that the Walker administration had
        advanced their war on science by scrubbing information about<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from
        a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website that<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
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          sig2-u416cLriOsgHkDWXlHaRwQ did-3948760887284188525"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/isolated-low-temps-may-reassure-climate-skeptics/"
url="https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/isolated-low-temps-may-reassure-climate-skeptics/"
          id="MAA4AEgAUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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            style="font-weight: bold;">(audio) Isolated Low Temps May
            Reassure<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Skeptics</span></a></h2>
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                style="white-space: nowrap;">Scientific American</span></td>
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                nowrap;">‎6 hours ago‎</span></td>
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      <div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
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        sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-style: normal;
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">... against<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>..  put climate
        data in terms people understand: money. "We should propose a
        simple bet to climate skeptics. And that is: For every new
        record high temperature at a weather station, you pay us a
        dollar. And for every new record low temperature, we'll pay you
        a dollar.".... Like Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe. Remember last
        year, when he tossed a snowball in Congress? "You know what this
        is?... “He's run casinos. So you can kind of think of climate
        like a climate casino. If you were a casino owner and you had a
        machine that was constantly paying out more record high
        temperatures than more record low temperatures, you would look
        into that machine. Something's wrong with the machine. And
        that's what the climate machine has been doing...<br>
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/isolated-low-temps-may-reassure-climate-skeptics/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/isolated-low-temps-may-reassure-climate-skeptics/</a>.</div>
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          sig2-AbeWxWVBKSZmnx7XWb5Wqw did-766223285248439800"
          href="http://phys.org/news/2016-12-climate-expensive.html"
          url="http://phys.org/news/2016-12-climate-expensive.html"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Ignoring<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>just got more
            expensive</span></a></h2>
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">He published results of an early test-drive of it this
        week in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper,
        titled "Projections and Uncertainties About<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">Climate Change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in
        an Era of Minimal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">Climate</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Policies." Readers of
        recent headlines might be ...</div>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/opinion/states-will-lead-on-climate-change-in-the-trump-era.html"
url="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/opinion/states-will-lead-on-climate-change-in-the-trump-era.html"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">States Will Lead on<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the Trump Era</span></a></h2>
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                style="white-space: nowrap;">New York Times</span></td>
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      <div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
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        sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-style: normal;
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">It's hard to know how Mr. Trump will change<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>policy,
        but it is almost certain that he won't advance it. He told The
        Times last month that he has an “open mind” about<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate change</b>, but has also called it a “hoax.”
        The people he has chosen to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">...</b></div>
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          sig2-UX9kQuJOoATx8RFRj1J8Bw did--3231870459197454778"
href="http://stthomassource.com/content/news/local-news/2016/12/26/undercurrents-will-global-warming-initiatives-freeze-trump-presid"
url="http://stthomassource.com/content/news/local-news/2016/12/26/undercurrents-will-global-warming-initiatives-freeze-trump-presid"
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          style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline;"><span
            class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Undercurrents:
            Will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Global Warming</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Initiatives Freeze
            Up in Trump Presidency?</span></a></h2>
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">The purpose is to help the territory to develop policies
        and approaches to deal with the anticipated effects of<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in
        the coming decades. Those are expected to include significant<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">sea level rise</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
        resulting land erosion, more unstable<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">...</b></div>
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          This Day in Climate History  December 27, 2008</a>   from D.R.
        Tucker</b></font><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1">December 27, 2008: WeeklyStandard.com
        posts an article from self-professed "global warming agnostic"
        Charles Krauthammer calling for a so-called "net zero gas tax."
        In the article, which is also published in the magazine's
        January 5, 2009 issue, Krauthammer writes:</font><br>
      <blockquote><font size="-1">"High gas prices, whether achieved by
          market forces or by government imposition, encourage fuel
          economy. In the short term, they simply reduce the amount of
          driving. In the longer term, they lead to the increased
          (voluntary) shift to more fuel-efficient cars. They render
          redundant and unnecessary the absurd CAFE standards--the
          ever-changing Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulations that
          mandate the fuel efficiency of various car and truck
          fleets--which introduce terrible distortions into the market.
          As the consumer market adjusts itself to more fuel-efficient
          autos, the green car culture of the future that
          environmentalists are attempting to impose by decree begins to
          shape itself unmandated. This shift has the collateral
          environmental effect of reducing pollution and CO2 emissions,
          an important benefit for those who believe in man-made global
          warming and a painless bonus for agnostics (like me) who
          nonetheless believe that the endless pumping of CO2 into the
          atmosphere cannot be a good thing."</font><br>
      </blockquote>
      <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/17031">http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/17031</a></font><br>
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