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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming, </i></font><font
size="+1"><i>Forward this email. January 5, 2017</i></font><br>
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255, 255);">From 2004 through 2008 alone, more than 300 square
miles of marshland were lost to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita,
Gustav, and Ike," the report states.</div>
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'Dangerous' Pipeline Mega-Merger Threatens Climate and
Consumers</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>New analysis says merger, which would create country's
largest energy-infrastructure firm, would give pipeline giants
unchecked power<br>
Shareholders for both companies approved the deal last
month....between pipeline giants Enbridge and Spectra...<br>
....the merger would give the companies control of 79 percent of
the offshore Gulf of Mexico-Louisiana natural gas pipeline
network; 92 percent of the pipelines crossing the U.S.-Canada
border; and 100 percent of the pipelines in and out of
Michigan....It would also enable Enbridge-Spectra to raise
prices on consumers or increase costs for its rivals in those
key regions at will...<br>
Both companies also have a history of safety issues, with a
track record of leaks and spills that have impacted surrounding
communities and environments. From 1996 to 2015, Enbridge
unintentionally released more than 54,000 barrels of oils and
natural liquids. Its leaks and other releases doubled during
that time, from 54 to 117, the analysis states...<br>
A notorious 2010 incident saw one of its pipelines spill up to 1
million gallons of crude in Michigan's Kalamazoo River and
Talmadge Creek, contaminating the local environment. Nearby
residents reported neurological, gastrointestinal, and
respiratory problems, while Enbridge was ordered to pay $75
million in cleanup costs alone...<br>
"The merger would create a sprawling 38,000-mile oil and gas
pipeline network—and with both firms carrying disturbing safety
and service records, this deal would put the wellbeing of
countless communities at risk," Hauter said. "The FTC must
extend its review of this dangerous, anti-consumer merger, and
ultimately reject it."<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpjL_otLq6Y"><b>(YouTube
video) The Bible doesn’t talk about climate change, right?</b></a><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Global Weirding with <b>Katharine
Hayhoe</b> Published on Jan 4, 2017</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech
Public Media and distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New
episodes every other Wednesday at 10 am central. Brought to you
in part by: Bob and Linda Herscher, Freese and Nichols, Inc, and
the Texas Tech Climate Science Center.</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">"We hope," says Bob Inglis, "that Donald Trump sees an
opportunity to complete the sentence this way: Richard Nixon
went to China, Bill Clinton signed welfare reform, and Donald
Trump did climate change."..<br>
...Inglis—a former Congressman from South Carolina—has emerged
as a spokesperson of sorts for "the eco-right," a suite of think
tanks, activists and politicos making the case for a free-market
approach to environmentalism, grounded in conservative values.
He now serves as the Executive Director of RepublicEn, a small
advocacy outfit of self-described "energy optimists," keen to
dispel rumors that the GOP is the province of climate
denialism....<br>
The holy grail of Inglis’s brand of eco-conservatism is a
"revenue-neutral, border-adjustable" carbon tax. This kind of
pricing mechanism offers a more elegant solution to the
eco-right than the patchwork of regulations involved in Obama’s
landmark climate rule, wherein each state arrives at its own
plan....<br>
... 54 percent of Republicans now believe that the climate is
changing and that humankind has played a hand in it. By
contrast, just 14 of the 247 Republicans in the House of
Representatives signed on to the Gibson Resolution, stating the
urgency of climate change and the body’s commitment to
addressing it.<br>
... in fact, climate change was this year’s least important
issue, according to Gallup...<br>
...of the president-elect. "I would not be totally surprised if
he were to give some speech announcing that [climate change] was
a major crisis, announcing a new Manhattan Project to deal with
it. And I’d be equally unsurprised if he reiterated his comment
that it’s a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese."...<br>
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255);">ALBANY, N.Y. - Today, Dozens of young New Yorkers risk
arrest, urging the Governor to reject Trump’s climate denial ..<br>
"Climate change is a civilizational crisis. Yet our federal
government is now in the hands of oil magnates and Wall Street
billionaires who profit at the expense of our planet, who are
foreclosing on our futures right in front of our eyes," said
Jamie Tyberg, 24-year-old climate activist from NYC. "We’re
wielding our moral authority as young people to demand Governor
Cuomo do the right thing as a father, as a New Yorker, and as
the Governor of a state with a carbon footprint larger than most
nations. If now is not the time for him to be the leader we
need, what would it take?"...<br>
"Donald Trump is a climate emergency, so we’re calling on
Governor Cuomo to show some urgency," said Samantha Nephew, a
27-year-old member of the Seneca Nation. "New York needs to
invest in the communities most vulnerable to climate change and
commit to an economy-wide transition to 100% renewable energy.
We need to shift how we interact in our relationship with the
elements before there's nothing left to extract."...<br>
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url="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/04/house-science-committee-s-twitter-account-now-just-another-climate-science-denial-troll"
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">... there’s a new addition to the climate science denial
trollerati — the Twitter account of the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://science.house.gov/" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);
outline: 0px;">United States House of Representatives
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology</a>....The
@HouseScience Twitter handle has been pushing out partisan
talking points and attacking "climate alarmists" in a series of
posts in recent months. ... the committee<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/12/01/gop-science-committee-sends-twitter-followers-breitbart-climate-misinformation"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51,
153, 204);">Tweeted a link to an article on the hyper-partisan
conservative Breitbart website</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>written by climate
science denial activist<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/james-delingpole"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51,
153, 204);">James Delingpole</a>.<br>
Delingpole’s polemic was itself based on an article in the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">UK</span>’s Sunday Mail newspaper,
written by David Rose, that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/stunning-new-data-indicates-el-nino-drove-record-highs-global-temperatures-david-rose-daily-mail/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51,
153, 204);">seven climate scientists rated "very low" on
Climate Feedback’s credibility scale</a>.<br>
..in its latest missive, the @HouseScience<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://twitter.com/HouseScience/status/816356348443193344"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51,
153, 204);">Twitter handle has claimed</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the global satellite
temperature data "tells a story climate alarmists don’t want
to hear."<br>
Pointing to a blog post by contrarian scientist and creationist
Dr. Roy Spencer, @HouseScience said the data "doesn’t fit their
climate narrative."<br>
This was peculiar because the chart the committee wants its
followers to look at shows that the planet has warmed since
satellites started collecting data in the late 1970s.<br>
The data, compiled by contrarian scientists<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Spencer</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/john-christy" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Dr.
John Christy</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at
the University of Alabama, Huntsville, tend to be a favorite of
climate science deniers because they suggest less warming than
other data sets.<br>
... the data still shows that all but one of the ten hottest
years on the 38-year-long satellite record have occurred
since 2002.... <br>
Climate scientist Dr. Victor Venema of the University of Bonn in
Germany<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://twitter.com/VariabilityBlog/status/816367813946392576"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51,
153, 204);">responded to the committee’s Tweet</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with a chart showing how
the satellite data it uses shows much less warming than other
sets of data....Climate scientists, including those who manage
the data that Spencer and Christy use, have explained how
land-based, rather than atmospheric, temperatures are more
relevant for climate change discussions. Temperatures taken on
land go through fewer analytical adjustments, are more direct
than the proxy measurements taken by satellites, and are taken
on the ground where humans live.<br>
Pointing to just one set of data to back your argument — while
ignoring all the other evidence that shows you’re wrong — is
called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=16"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51,
153, 204);">cherry picking</a>, and the @HouseScience tweet
was a classic example.<br>
The committee has not posted links to the many lines of evidence
that contradict its points, such as the warming oceans,
temperatures taken on land, melting ice sheets, melting
glaciers, heat records, or the rising sea levels...The<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">GOP</span>-led committee is chaired
by Texas Republican<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/lamar-smith" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Lamar
Smith</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>— a
climate science denier who has built a reputation for attacking
government scientists while defending oil giant<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51,
153, 204);">ExxonMobil’s funding of attacks on climate science</a>.<br>
The Twitter account’s posts have not gone unnoticed, with
hundreds describing the Tweets as shameful, embarrassing,
anti-science, appalling, shocking, irresponsible,
and misleading. <br>
And those are just the nice comments. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/04/house-science-committee-s-twitter-account-now-just-another-climate-science-denial-troll">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/04/house-science-committee-s-twitter-account-now-just-another-climate-science-denial-troll</a><br>
<a href="v">(YouTube Video) How Reliable are Satellite
Temperatures?</a><br>
We often hear from climate deniers that satellite measurements
of global temperature are "the best data we have"?<br>
But is that true?<br>
Here, interviews with leading climate scientists, including Carl
Mears, who keeps the dataset that he says Senator Ted Cruz, and
others, are misusing.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVMsYXzmUYk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVMsYXzmUYk</a></div>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">This paper is another reminder why it is so important to
invest in the temperature measurements that are needed to create
long-term<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>records. We really need
uninterrupted measurements that span many years/decades if we
want to truly understand<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">...<br>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">These and many other
questions make measuring global warming challenge. Different
groups of scientists make different decisions so that
depending on the institution, they will get a slightly
different temperature result...<br>
But this diversity is also a good thing. It turns out that it
doesn’t matter whose results you use – NASA, NOAA, The Hadley
Centre in the UK, the Japanese Meteorological Agency, or the
Berkeley Earth group – they all report a warming world.
However, the rates are slightly different. So, one persistent
question is, which group is most accurate? Whose methods are
best?</span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">...Finally, and for those
who read my posts regularly,<b> I am sounding like a broken
record. Global warming is happening, it never stopped, it
never paused, and the models have gotten it right.</b><b>...</b><b><br>
</b><b>It reminds me of a debate between creationists and
scientists. One scientist whose name I cannot remember
stated, "we have the fossil record, we win." Well, a similar
quote works here. "We have the data, we win." Now let’s move
on to solving the problem</b>.</span><b style="font-weight:
normal;"> - Jo</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">hn
Abraham</span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
</b></div>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnyX32nkYBs">(video)
Recent Ocean Warming has been Underestimated</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">In a paper published in Science Advances, we used
data from buoys, satellites, and Argo floats to construct
separate instrumentally homogenous sea surface temperature
records of the past two decades. We compared them to the old
NOAA ERSSTv3b record, the new ERSSTv4 record, the Hadley
Centre’s HadSST3 record, and the Japanese COBE-SST record. We
found a strong and significant cool bias in the old NOAA record,
and a more modest (but still significant) cool bias in the
Hadley and Japanese records compared to buoy, satellite, and
Argo float data. The new NOAA record agrees quite well with
these instrumentally homogenous records. This suggests that the
new NOAA record is likely the most accurate sea surface
temperature record in recent years, and should help resolve some
of the criticism that accompanied the original NOAA study.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnyX32nkYBs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnyX32nkYBs</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/04/new-study-shows-again-deniers-wrong-noaa-scientists-right/">New
Study Shows (Again): Deniers Wrong, NOAA Scientists Right </a></b><br>
<font size="-1">Peter Sinclair videos - Once again, Science FTW.
I interviewed UC Berkeley’s Zeke Hausfather in December, and one
of the things we discussed was his latest research study, now
public....I described the Anti-Science Committee’s witch hunt
against NOAA and NASA a few months ago, in this must-see
vid....My video from last year explains in more detail what the
new study proved.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/04/new-study-shows-again-deniers-wrong-noaa-scientists-right/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/04/new-study-shows-again-deniers-wrong-noaa-scientists-right/</a></font><br>
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<blockquote>Rising sea levels are a concern but it is new
transparency rules that are having the biggest impact on sales<br>
Climate change or not, the daily high-water marker at Virginia
Key in Miami has been rising by an average of almost an inch a
year for the past five years, nearly 10 times the rate of the
global average, although that high rate is not expected to
continue. Even so, according to a report by the National
Wildlife Federation, Greater Miami — with all those pricey condo
buildings on Miami Beach — stands to lose $3.5tn in assets by
2070 if damage from rising tides cannot be mitigated.<br>
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class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Did Exxon
launch a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate science</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'disinformation
campaign'?</span></a></h2>
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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);">Many Americans, including many influential
lawmakers, still don't believe in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">global warming</b>. As a result, the United States
has delayed taking meaningful action to address<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>, and Exxon has enjoyed decades
of record-breaking profits ...Almost four decades ago, Exxon
knew that the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
could have catastrophic effects on the world's climate....Yet,
in the late 1980s, instead of giving an honest assessment of
its views on climate change — or even remaining silent on the
topic — the company apparently embarked on what appears to be
a multi-million dollar disinformation campaign to raise doubts
about global warming. ...<br>
The costs of Exxon's misdirection, if that's what it indeed
was, could be staggering. More than half of all industrial
carbon dioxide emissions have been released into the
atmosphere since 1988. Delay has made the problem of climate
change a lot harder to solve now than it was then. States owe
it to their residents to hold Exxon accountable for the costs
of any misrepresentations. Fighting fraud should not be a
partisan issue...<br>
While the federal government seems unlikely to investigate
Exxon's actions any time soon, the states should not let Exxon
slide. The attorney general of every state is charged with
both preventing consumer fraud and protecting consumer safety.
Both responsibilities are in play here...<br>
First, if the company knowingly made false statements to the
public about climate change in order to sell its products,
fossil fuels, that conduct was potentially fraudulent. Second,
Exxon's products imperil consumer safety when produced in
large quantities because global warming will cause widespread
health problems...<br>
If attorneys general don't take action, their states may be
left picking up the tab. Because of climate change, state
governments will have to field teams of first responders to
assist victims of bigger floods and more intense wildfires.
State-owned infrastructure will also be put at risk. Ports
must be defended against rising sea levels, and wastewater
treatment plants must be redesigned to handle bigger storms.
These costs have only gotten bigger with time. If Exxon
perpetuated a fraud in order to stall action on climate change
so that it could continue selling a potentially dangerous
product, it should be liable for its share of the costs of the
delay...Every state is affected by this potential fraud, so
every state attorney general should take a seat at the table
by joining the investigations into Exxon. <a
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">The fire through the smoke:
Working for transparency in<span
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255);">We will lose our ability to identify large ice sheets
melting, events that could rapidly accelerate<span
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255);">... to go up and up, driving<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">global warming</b>. But it won't be the first time
that CO2 has surged. In Earth's ancient atmosphere, scientists
see the faint outlines of a CO2 roller coaster, climbing and
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<b><a
href="https://qz.com/877447/the-overwhelming-whiteness-of-the-us-environmentalist-movement-is-hobbling-the-fight-against-climate-change/">The
overwhelming whiteness of US environmentalism is hobbling the
fight against climate change</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Immediate and significant actions must
be taken to reach these communities of color who reflect the new
socio-political landscape of the United States. Given that
people of color are largely supportive of ameliorative actions
to address climate change, and that they are potentially less
swayed by political ideologies regarding climate change, climate
messages should prioritize people of color as essential allies
in the climate-change mitigation movement.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://qz.com/877447/the-overwhelming-whiteness-of-the-us-environmentalist-movement-is-hobbling-the-fight-against-climate-change/">https://qz.com/877447/the-overwhelming-whiteness-of-the-us-environmentalist-movement-is-hobbling-the-fight-against-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://news.wsu.edu/2016/12/20/computer-models-find-ancient-solutions-modern-problems/">Computer
models find ancient solutions to modern problems</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1"> Washington State University
archaeologists are at the helm of new research using
sophisticated computer technology to learn how past societies
responded to climate change...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> ... demonstrates how drought, hunting and habitat
competition among growing populations in Egypt led to the
extinction of many large-bodied mammals around 3,000 B.C. In
addition, d’Alpoim Guedes and Bocinsky, an adjunct faculty
member in anthropology, are investigating how settlement
patterns in Tibet are affecting erosion....</font><br>
<font size="-1">"Our models showed Hopi corn could grow well in
the Ethiopian highlands where one of their staple foods, the
Ethiopian banana, has been afflicted by emerging pests, disease
and blasts of intense heat," Bocinsky said. "Cultivating Hopi
corn and other traditional, drought-resistant crops could become
crucial for human survival in other places impacted by climate
change."</font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://news.wsu.edu/2016/12/20/computer-models-find-ancient-solutions-modern-problems/">https://news.wsu.edu/2016/12/20/computer-models-find-ancient-solutions-modern-problems/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/village-ecodynamics-projecthttps://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/village-ecodynamics-project">Village
Ecodynamics Project</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">The Village Ecodynamics Project (VEP) is a
multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration among
scientists and other researchers studying the long-term (A.D.
600–1760) interaction between Pueblo Indians and their
environment. Funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) grants
awarded to Washington State University, the project employs an
innovative approach to manipulating large, diverse data sets to
"predict" the past.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/village-ecodynamics-project">https://www.crowcanyon.org/index.php/village-ecodynamics-project</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://skepticalscience.com/seas-rise-miami-development-continues.html">As
Seas Rise, Miami Development Continues Unabated</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Posted on 3 January 2017 by
greenman3610</font><br>
<font size="-1"> "Miami, as we know it today, is not going to
exist."...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> That’s because the ocean is rising, and it will
be hard to keep the water out. Some Miami neighborhoods already
flood during high tides.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> And yet, "the building here is going on at a
record rate … high-rises all along the beach. Basically, nothing
has changed," Goodell says in this month’s "This Is Not Cool"
video by independent videographer Peter Sinclair.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Describing how extensive parts of South Florida
are "built on a big porous sponge," he says levees cannot
mitigate the problem. "It’s just a big flat limestone pancake."</font><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGuQKv4gPU"><b>(video)
The Perfect Tide: Sea Level and the Future of South Florida</b></a><br>
<font size="-1">YaleClimateConnections <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGuQKv4gPU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGuQKv4gPU</a></font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Shifting rainfall patterns and the amount of water in the
ground are likely causes for the heightened risk...<br>
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....<br>
Climate scientists know that the intensity of extreme
precipitation events is on the rise because there’s more water
vapor in the atmosphere caused by higher global and sea
temperatures. With rising global temperatures, the 2014 National
Climate Assessment predicts that many communities will see more
frequent extreme precipitation events like the one that hit
Baton Rouge, La., last year.... <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-raising-flood-risk-in-the-northern-u-s/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-raising-flood-risk-in-the-northern-u-s/</a><br>
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</b><b> </b><b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/04/10-years-of-kicking-denier-butt-climate-crocks-year-in-review/">10
Years of Kicking Denier Butt: Climate Crocks Year in Review</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Just a quick look back on 2016’s work
educating and communicating on global climate change. This year
marks a decade that I’ve been bringing the fight to professional
Climate Deniers and purveyors of Fake News.</font><br>
<font size="-1">I wanted to share this because so many readers and
viewers helped out to make it happen this year with
tax-deductible donations to Dark Snow Project – thanks to all
who helped out....The year started out with a bang, when my
collection of interviews on satellite temperature measurements
(above) was immediately attacked by a (then) little known
Neo-nazi website,
Breitbart....https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/04/10-years-of-kicking-denier-butt-climate-crocks-year-in-review/</font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html">This
Day in Climate History January </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">January 5, 2000: During a Democratic
Presidential debate with former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley,
Vice President Al Gore notes that as a Congressman, "...I
decided to take on the issue of global warming and make it a
national issue, when everybody was saying 'You know, you're
going to run a lot of risk there. People are going to think that
that's kind of off the edge there.' Well, now more and more
people say, 'Yes, it is real,' and the next president has to be
willing to take it on."
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocraticCandidatesDebate10">http://c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocraticCandidatesDebate10</a>
(29:28-29-50)</font><br>
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