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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 29, 2016</i></font><br>
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    <b><a
href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/28/15-most-ridiculous-things-media-figures-said-about-environmental-issues-2016/214886">The
        15 Most Ridiculous Things That Media Figures Said About
        Environmental Issues In 2016</a></b><br>
    <blockquote><font size="-1">Here is our list of the 15 most
        ridiculous things that media figures said about climate, energy,
        and environmental issues in 2016.  KEVIN KALHOEFER & ANDREW
        SEIFTER of MediaMatters</font><br>
      <blockquote><font size="-1">1. Rush Limbaugh And Matt Drudge
          Peddled A Reckless Conspiracy Theory Downplaying The Threat
          From Hurricane Matthew... </font><br>
        <font size="-1">2. Fox News Blamed The Flint Water Crisis On
          Climate Change Policies, "PC Stuff,” And Even Flint Residents
          Themselves...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">3. CNN’s Alisyn Camerota Claimed Trump EPA
          Nominee Scott Pruitt “Hasn’t Denied Global Warming.”...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">4. MSNBC's Mike Barnicle: ExxonMobil CEO Rex
          Tillerson "Is A Huge Green Guy.” ...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">5. Disregarding Everything Trump Has Said And
          Done On The Subject, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Claimed “I Just
          Know” Trump Believes In Climate Science...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">6. Trump Adviser Stephen Moore: Being Against
          Fracking “Is Like Being Against A Cure For Cancer.”...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">7. Stephen Moore: “We Have The Cleanest Coal In
          The World.”...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">8. Breitbart’s James Delingpole: Climate Change
          Is “The Greatest-Ever Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer.” ...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">9. Fox Report On Law Gas Prices: “Put The Tesla
          In The Garage And Break Out The Hummer.” ...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">10. Wall Street Journal’s Mary Kissel Instructed
          Viewers To “Trust” A Climate Science-Denying Fossil Fuel Front
          Group...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">11. Fox Host Clayton Morris: Rubio's Climate
          Science Denial At Presidential Debate Was An "Articulate
          Moment.” ...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">12. Fox Hosts Mocked Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar
          Speech On Climate Change: "Focus On Something Else Other Than
          The Weather.”...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">13. Fox’s Meghan McCain: "The Liberal Hysteria
          Over Climate Change Was So Overblown That Now People Have A
          Hard Time Even Believing It.”...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">14. Fox’s Steve Doocy: Obama’s Monument
          Designation Was Done To “Appease Environmental Terrorists.”
          ...</font><br>
        <font size="-1">15. Fox Hosts Flipped Out About Portland Public
          Schools Decision To Stop Teaching Climate Denial To Children.
          ...</font><br>
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href="https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/28/15-most-ridiculous-things-media-figures-said-about-environmental-issues-2016/214886">https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/12/28/15-most-ridiculous-things-media-figures-said-about-environmental-issues-2016/214886</a></font><br>
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          sig2-okjwzFl-U-wMjClhCrQPMg did-8664932539046713401"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122016/exxon-climate-change-investigation-attorneys-general"
url="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23122016/exxon-climate-change-investigation-attorneys-general"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">2016: Exxon vs.<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b>, a Battle
            With Many Fronts</span></a></h2>
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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);">That paper and other documents were unearthed last year
        as part of an InsideClimate News investigation of Exxon's
        four-decade history of studying<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>while
        sowing doubt about it publicly and working against<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>action...At
        first, the disclosures did not strike Exxon as terribly
        threatening. There were no "smoking guns," an Exxon lawyer later
        said. But as the months passed the fallout included
        investigations from at least two states, New York and
        Massachusetts, potentially one from the Securities and Exchange
        Commission and calls for the Justice Department to intervene. A
        coalition of 17 state attorneys general vowed in March 2016 to
        hold Exxon and the fossil fuel industry responsible for its role
        in climate change.<br>
        <br>
        It has become a partisan political fight as much as a search for
        the truth about what Exxon knew and did about climate change.
        While many on the Democratic side wanted to hold Exxon
        accountable, Republicans lined up to hold Exxon's adversaries
        accountable.  <br>
        <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzRpT5rcdZc">.Short
          timeline of #ExxonKnew climate investigations and backlash</a><b><span
            style="font-weight: normal;"></span></b></div>
      <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzRpT5rcdZc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzRpT5rcdZc</a></font><br>
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    <div class="_cnc"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.itechpost.com/articles/69078/20161227/global-warming-most-depressing-stories-of-2016.htm"
          onmousedown="return
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            Warming</em>: Most Depressing Stories Of 2016</a></b>
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        <div class="slp"><span class="_tQb _IId">iTech Post</span><span
            class="_v5">-</span><span class="f nsa _uQb">16 hours ago</span></div>
        <div class="st">This year's effects of climate change are
          shockingly depressing and devastating. (Photo : The
          RingofFire/Youtube). Circulating around social ...</div>
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          sig2-0SfWzxbW2riW-pvjOvKzHA did--2068040531467198957"
href="https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/12/28/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-is-canadas-biggest-weather-story-of-2016.html"
url="https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/12/28/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-is-canadas-biggest-weather-story-of-2016.html"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Fort McMurray<span
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              style="font-weight: bold;">wildfire</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is Canada's biggest
            weather story of 2016</span></a></h2>
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">The “beast” of a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">wildfire</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that charred Fort
        McMurray, Alta., was named Canada's biggest weather story of the
        year in an annual list compiled by the country's top
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          sig2-T7vUA787tA2EHLf4cILB_w did--7122593403903395238"
          href="http://www.salon.com/2016/12/28/ideology-driven-science_partner/"
url="http://www.salon.com/2016/12/28/ideology-driven-science_partner/"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Science can't be driven by
            ideology: Why you should be worried about Donald Trump's<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>search</span></a></h2>
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      <blockquote>The incoming administration has paraded a roster of<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>deniers
        for top jobs. On Dec. 13, Trump named former Texas Governor Rick
        Perry, another<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>denier, to lead the
        Department of Energy (DoE), an agency Perry said he
        would ...President-elect Trump has called global warming
        “bullshit” and a “Chinese hoax.” He has promised to withdraw
        from the 2015 Paris climate treaty and to “bring back coal,” the
        world’s dirtiest, most carbon-intensive fuel. The incoming
        administration has paraded a roster of climate change deniers
        for top jobs. On Dec. 13, Trump named former Texas Governor Rick
        Perry, another climate change denier, to lead the Department of
        Energy (DoE), an agency Perry said he would eliminate altogether
        during his 2011 presidential
campaign....http://www.salon.com/2016/12/28/ideology-driven-science_partner/ 
        <br>
        <a
href="https://theconversation.com/trump-questionnaire-recalls-dark-history-of-ideology-driven-science-70379">Trump
          questionnaire recalls dark history of ideology-driven science</a><br>
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/trump-questionnaire-recalls-dark-history-of-ideology-driven-science-70379">https://theconversation.com/trump-questionnaire-recalls-dark-history-of-ideology-driven-science-70379</a><br>
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    <div class="_cnc"><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/global-warming-killing-elk-herd-41-die-oregon-after-falling-through-ice-brownlee-2466243"
        onmousedown="return
rwt(this,'','','','2','AFQjCNEc35DzSTEfcBhrqvK1W5kX5m49fQ','','0ahUKEwiB1byopZfRAhUqr1QKHQEgD1cQqQIIKygAMAE','','',event)"><em>Global
          Warming</em> Killing Elk? Herd Of 41 Die In Oregon After
        Falling Through Ice At Brownlee Reservoir.</a>
      <blockquote>
        <div class="slp"><span class="_tQb _IId">International Business
            Times</span><span class="_v5">-</span><span class="f nsa
            _uQb">8 hours ago</span></div>
        <div class="st">Reindeer were perhaps the worst hit cervids,
          largely due to various impacts of climate change and <em>global
            warming</em>, with reports of about 80,000 ...<br>
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    <!--EndFragment--><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/climate_change_is_bad_but_the.html">This
          Day in Climate History  December 29, 2009</a>  from D.R.
        Tucker</b></font><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1">December 29, 2009: Washington Post
        writer Ezra Klein excoriates members of the US Senate who have
        developed cold feet about addressing global warming:</font><br>
      <blockquote><font size="-1">"Amidst all this, conservative Senate
          Democrats are waving off the idea of serious action in 2010.
          But not because they're opposed. Oh, heavens no! It's because
          of abstract concerns over the political difficulties the
          problem presents. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), for instance,
          avers that 'climate change in an election year has very poor
          prospects.' That's undoubtedly true, though it is odd to say
          that the American system of governance can only solve problems
          every other year. Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) says that 'we need
          to deal with the phenomena of global warming,' but wants to
          wait until the economy is fixed.<br>
          <br>
          "Rather than commenting abstractly on the difficulty of doing
          this, Conrad and Bayh and others could make it easier by
          saying things like 'we simply have to do this, it's our moral
          obligation as legislators,' and trying to persuade reporters
          to write stories about how even moderates such as Conrad and
          Byah are determined to do this. They could schedule meetings
          with other senators begging them to take this seriously,
          leveraging the credibility and goodwill built over decades in
          the Senate. They could spend money on TV ads in their state,
          talking directly into the camera, explaining to their
          constituents that they don't like having to face this problem,
          but see no choice. That effort might fail -- probably will, in
          fact -- but it's got a better chance of success than not
          trying. And this is, well, pretty important."</font><font
          size="-1"><br>
        </font></blockquote>
      <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/climate_change_is_bad_but_the.html">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/climate_change_is_bad_but_the.html</a></font><br>
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