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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. January 4, 2017</i></font><br>
    <a
href="http://theweek.com/articles/668419/4-reasons-not-completely-despair-about-climate-change-2017"><br>
      <font size="+1"><b>4 reasons not to completely despair about
          climate change in 2017</b></font></a><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1">The Week Magazine-19 hours ago</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> As the Trump administration takes shape, it has
        become crystal clear that the president-elect's climate change
        denialism will soon become...</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> Not all of the news is this bleak, however. As
        the year ends, there are some pockets of optimism:</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> <b>1. Other nations are not waiting for the U.S.</b></font><br>
      <font size="-1"><b> </b><b>2. U.S. states and cities aren't
          giving up the fight either.</b></font><br>
      <font size="-1"><b> </b><b>3. Public opinion is on the side of
          action.</b></font><br>
      <font size="-1"><b> </b><b>4. Even the most fossil fuel-dependent
          entities are starting to plan for a less-carbon intensive
          future.</b></font><br>
      <font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://theweek.com/articles/668419/4-reasons-not-completely-despair-about-climate-change-2017">http://theweek.com/articles/668419/4-reasons-not-completely-despair-about-climate-change-2017</a></font><br>
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    <a
href="https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/greenland-ice-melt-could-push-atlantic-circulation-collapse">Greenland
      Ice Melt Could Push Atlantic Circulation to Collapse</a><br>
    <blockquote><font size="-1">Hakai Magazine  - New research gives a
        glimpse of the potential long-term consequences of anthropogenic
        warming.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">But anthropogenic climate change seems to have
        made the current weaken slightly... a shutdown of the
        circulation from further warming is considered unlikely. Yet a
        new study says that the unprecedented melting of Greenland's
        massive ice sheets, previously overlooked in most climate
        modeling, will result in the AMOC weakening, and maybe even
        collapsing, within the next 300 years...</font><br>
      <font size="-1">... Sediment cores drilled from Greenland and
        Antarctica show that during the last ice age, the AMOC weakened
        suddenly and dramatically, nearly to the point of collapse, just
        before periods of wild climate change in the northern and
        southern hemispheres... I'm not sure if we really know all the
        consequences of such things."   <a
          class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/greenland-ice-melt-could-push-atlantic-circulation-collapse">https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/greenland-ice-melt-could-push-atlantic-circulation-collapse</a></font><br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <a
href="http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/01/climate-change-new-years-resolutions/">Climate
      Change New Year Resolutions</a><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1">Yale Climate Connections asked 13
        influential and respected voices in the climate change research,
        policy, and communications fields to describe, in just 100 words
        or so, their climate change-related New Year's Resolutions:</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> Wisely using our knowledge about climate and
        energy can give us a better economy as well as a cleaner
        environment. And, in addressing these twin challenges, we can
        achieve the long-sought goal of abundant, sustainable energy,
        providing everyone with the good that some of us have been
        obtaining from the energy stored in fossil fuels  - Richard
        Alley, PhD, ..</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> I will redouble my efforts at climate mitigation
        within my family, my university, my city, and my state, even as
        I find new courage to defend climate science, and climate
        scientists, from attack.   ...Kim Cobb, PhD,  ...</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> I resolve to keep my reporting focused on what
        policies or practices, from local to global scales, can help or
        hinder humanity's journey toward a sustainable relationship with
        climate and energy. -Andrew Revkin,..</font><br>
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/01/climate-change-new-years-resolutions/">http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/01/climate-change-new-years-resolutions/</a><br>
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Meet the Four Horsemen of the<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">We hoped for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>moderates and instead we
        got Rex Tillerson at State, Scott Pruitt at EPA, Rick Perry at
        DOE and Tom Pyle (probably) in the White House: the Four
        Horsemen of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">Climate</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Apocalypse. ...
        Certainly, I hope to see the best corporations<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">...We need, in effect, to be to dropping stones into
          the water — the more stones, the bigger the stones, the better
          — to create a massive ripple effect that spreads out in
          concentric circles, engulfing ultimately all of us, in a
          common effort to save ourselves by saving the
planet....https://www.greenbiz.com/article/meet-four-horsemen-climate-apocalypse</b><!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--></div>
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href="https://www.poynter.org/2017/environmental-journalists-have-a-new-beat-coping-with-climate-disaster/444025/"
url="https://www.poynter.org/2017/environmental-journalists-have-a-new-beat-coping-with-climate-disaster/444025/"
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            class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Environmental
            journalists have a new beat: Coping with<span
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              style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>disaster</span></a></h2>
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Connecticut coast
        late October of 2012 and Gov. Dannel Malloy pled with residents
        to find high ground, reporter Neena Satija couldn't shake one
        thought: "We are clearly not prepared for this.</div>
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    <!--EndFragment--><b><a
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wasserman-rex-tillerson-exxonmobil-20170103-story.html">Op-Ed
        What Rex Tillerson's Exxon Mobil track record tells us </a></b><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1">Tillerson's essential failure as
        chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil has been that he viewed climate
        change as a threat to the company's bottom line rather than a
        signal to change course. When business environments and markets
        shift, companies must adapt or die. Tillerson must have
        understood the scientific consensus about climate change for
        decades; after all, Exxon Mobil is one of the most science-based
        corporations in the world. As revealed in the Los Angeles Times
        and InsideClimate News in 2015, internal Exxon documents dating
        back to the late 1970s confirmed that the burning of fossil
        fuels was destabilizing Earth's climate and would likely cause
        catastrophic damage to the world's ecosystems as well as immense
        human suffering...</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> ...while Exxon was trying to confuse the public
        about the dangers of continuing to burn fossil fuels, it was
        also figuring out how to profit from its products' damage to the
        planet....</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> ... Tillerson has never backed down from Exxon
        Mobil's position that it can pump and burn all its known fossil
        fuel reserves. ..</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wasserman-rex-tillerson-exxonmobil-20170103-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wasserman-rex-tillerson-exxonmobil-20170103-story.html</a></font><br>
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    <br>
    <!--StartFragment--><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/02/climate-change-in-2016-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly">Climate
      change in 2016: the good, the bad, and the ugly </a><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/02/climate-change-in-2016-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/02/climate-change-in-2016-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2017/01/the-climate-change-debate-black-people-are-being-left-out-and-that-can-be-deadly/"
url="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2017/01/the-climate-change-debate-black-people-are-being-left-out-and-that-can-be-deadly/"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">The<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Debate: Black People
            Are Being Left Out and That Can Be Deadly</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;
        font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">When Bloomberg Media convened an invitation-only forum of
        notables on "The Future of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">Climate Change</b>" during the
        first weekday of the Democratic National Convention in
        Philadelphia last summer, there was only one black person at the
        table.</div>
      <font size="-1">A lack of diversity in the green movement is
        leaving people of color out of the discussion, even though
        climate and environmental disasters disproportionately affect
        our communities.</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> <a
href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2017/01/the-climate-change-debate-black-people-are-being-left-out-and-that-can-be-deadly/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=theroot&utm_campaign=01032017">http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2017/01/the-climate-change-debate-black-people-are-being-left-out-and-that-can-be-deadly/</a></font><br>
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          Bloom of Rhododendrons in Himalayas Linked to Climate Change,
          Scientists Say</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1">The rhododendron, one of the most
        popular and colorful small evergreen trees grown in gardens and
        parks across the world, is changing its flowering season from
        spring to winter in its native Himalayan habitat...</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> The blooming of rhododendron, with their
        conspicuous displays of deep red or pale pink flowers, has
        always heralded the arrival of spring in the Himalayas, but this
        has undergone a dramatic change. Peak flowering season is now
        early February to mid-March, instead of the spring months from
        March to May.</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ecowatch.com/himalayan-rhododendrons-climate-change-2175571724.html">http://www.ecowatch.com/himalayan-rhododendrons-climate-change-2175571724.html</a></font><br>
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          href="http://phys.org/news/2017-01-climate-tropical-birds-hung.html"
url="http://phys.org/news/2017-01-climate-tropical-birds-hung.html"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Will<span
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              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>leave tropical birds
            hung out to dry?</span></a></h2>
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">In 1993 and 1998, there were distinct<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">El Niño</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>events,
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          sig2-6XlQrghKIOdcpvljk-dwVQ did--8002505936537642917"
href="https://www.climatecentral.org/news/where-to-follow-climate-action-2017-21008"
url="https://www.climatecentral.org/news/where-to-follow-climate-action-2017-21008"
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              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Action in 2017</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);">In late 2015, a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>accord was struck by
        nearly 200 countries in Paris, potentially heralding a new era
        of international cooperation in reducing carbon pollution and
        slowing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b>. The pact was
        the result of extraordinary turnarounds by<span
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href="http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2017/01/03/side-effect-californias-drought-more-climate-pollution/95875684/"
url="http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/2017/01/03/side-effect-californias-drought-more-climate-pollution/95875684/"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Side effect of California's
            drought: More<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pollution</span></a></h2>
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        because of human-caused<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
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        255);">And yet Salemi told me that many of his compatriots
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          style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b>. "They know
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        255);">This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is
        reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The
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href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-raising-flood-risk-in-the-northern-u-s/"
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            style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">Scientists who combined an on-the-ground look at stream
        gauge data and an above-the-ground view from satellites have
        determined that as the Earth warms, the threat of flooding is
        growing in the northern half of the United States.</div>
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          sig2-j1K_vW8yspaV09fZgrBe7w did-7185250650544306275"
href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/03/climate-campaigners-announce-new-major-mobilization-resist-trump"
url="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/03/climate-campaigners-announce-new-major-mobilization-resist-trump"
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            style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Campaigners Announce
            New Major Mobilization to Resist Trump</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);">"Their first job is to review Donald Trump's nominees for
        cabinet," Meisel wrote in an email Tuesday, "and ours is to make
        sure they reject the slate of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>deniers he has picked
        for every major<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and energy related
        position in his<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">...</b></div>
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          sig2-Y01ajPjnODhKsj3R2qckxw did--6252240017078679828"
href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/01/03/imagine-boston-climate-ready/Jfmr3NkcB5Ue2QvvGPq7yJ/story.html"
url="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/01/03/imagine-boston-climate-ready/Jfmr3NkcB5Ue2QvvGPq7yJ/story.html"
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          text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
            style="font-weight: bold;">Is 'Imagine Boston 2030' climate
            ready? - The Boston Globe</span></a></h2>
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      <blockquote> TWO RECENTLY RELEASED City of Boston planning reports
        are on a direct collision course.<br>
        The first one, "Climate Ready Boston," forecasts an alarming
        future. The coastlines of mid-19th-century and mid-21st-century
        Boston will be eerily similar delineations, making Back Bay,
        South Bay, the Seaport, and other areas that were filled during
        an era of intensive land-making once again the subjects of major
        urban reimagination. The second report, "Imagine Boston 2030,"
        identifies five priority growth areas: Suffolk Downs, Sullivan
        Square, Beacon Yards, 100 Acres/South Boston Waterfront, and
        Widett Circle. Astonishingly, four of the five growth areas in
        "Imagine Boston 2030" are shown to be extremely vulnerable to
        flooding by "Climate Ready Boston." How and where we decide to
        grow will have immeasurable economic and social consequences, so
        why would we intentionally grow in parts of the city that we
        know to be extremely vulnerable to flooding?<br>
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    <!--EndFragment--><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/world/95-is-hottest-year-on-record-as-the-global-trend-resumes.html?pagewanted=print">This
          Day in Climate History  January 4, 1996 </a> -  from D.R.
        Tucker</b></font><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1">January 4, 1996: The New York Times
        reports:</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"The earth's average surface temperature climbed
        to a record high last year, according to preliminary figures,
        bolstering scientists' sense that the burning of fossil fuels is
        warming the climate.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"Spells of cold, snow and ice like the ones this
        winter in the northeastern United States come and go in one
        region or another, as do periods of unusual warmth. But the net
        result globally made 1995 the warmest year since records first
        were kept in 1856, says a provisional report issued by the
        British Meteorological Office and the University of East Anglia.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"The average temperature was 58.72 degrees
        Fahrenheit, according to the British data, seven-hundredths of a
        degree higher than the previous record, established in 1990.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"The British figures, based on land and sea
        measurements around the world, are one of two sets of long-term
        data by which surface temperature trends are being tracked.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"The other, maintained by the NASA Goddard
        Institute for Space Studies in New York, shows the average 1995
        temperature at 59.7 degrees, slightly ahead of 1990 as the
        warmest year since record-keeping began in 1866. But the
        difference is within the margin of sampling error, and the two
        years essentially finished neck and neck...</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"The preliminary Goddard figures differ from the
        British ones because they are based on a somewhat different
        combination of observations around the world...</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"One year does not a trend make, but the British
        figures show the years 1991 through 1995 to be warmer than any
        similar five-year period, including the two half-decades of the
        1980's, the warmest decade on record.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"This is so even though a sun-reflecting haze cast
        aloft by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines
        cooled the earth substantially for about two years. Despite the
        post-Pinatubo cooling, the Goddard data show the early 1990's to
        have been nearly as warm as the late 1980's, which Goddard says
        was the warmest half-decade on record.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"Dr. James E. Hansen, the director of the Goddard
        center, predicted last year that a new global record would be
        reached before 2000, and yesterday he said he now expected that
        'we will still get at least a couple more' by then...</font><br>
      <font size="-1">"Dr. Hansen has been one of only a few scientists
        to maintain steadfastly that a century-long global warming trend
        is being caused mostly by human influence, a belief he
        reiterated yesterday."</font><br>
      <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/world/95-is-hottest-year-on-record-as-the-global-trend-resumes.html?pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/world/95-is-hottest-year-on-record-as-the-global-trend-resumes.html?pagewanted=print</a></font><br>
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