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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming, </i></font><font
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<a
href="http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/california-floods-january-2017">California
Floods January 2017</a><br>
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<blockquote><font color="#000099"><b> </b><font size="-1">Climate
change increases the risk of extreme precipitation and
flooding...</font></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><font size="-1"> Warmer temperatures mean
more precipitation falls as rain than snow, increasing flood
risk...</font></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><font size="-1"> Models project that climate
change will increase the intensity, duration and frequency of
atmospheric rivers impacting California..</font></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><font size="-1"> ...two back-to-back
atmospheric river storms brought heavy rain, mountain snow,
and localized flooding to central California...</font></font><br>
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and chaos across Europe</a></b></font></h3>
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7, 2017</span></div>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255);">In Italy eight deaths were blamed on the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">extreme cold</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the authorities
... bringing the nation's death toll from winter<span
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style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">weather</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to 55 since the .<br>
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255);">The Bureau of Meteorology has warned New South Wales
residents to brace for a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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url="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/01/08/25-smears-hoaxes-grifts-and-whoppers-climate-and-environment-obama-era"
id="MAA4AEgAUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">25 Smears, Hoaxes, Grifts and
Whoppers on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the Environment
in the Obama Era</span></a></h2>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">But before we turn the page on this administration let's
take a look back at the tall tales, regrettable pronouncements,
farces and scams on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and the environment
during the Obama years. Anti-regulatory zealots led the pack,
but President Obama ...<br>
20) April 2014: A disaster in Flint<br>
<br>
The struggling city of Flint switches its water source. Reports
of discolored water, foul smell and taste, and high bacteria and
lead levels go ignored for more than a year. The local, state
and federal governments declare a state of emergency nineteen
months later. <br>
<blockquote>1)<b> January 2009: The most transparent
administration? Not quite.</b><br>
A day after his inauguration, President Obama signed a
memorandum promising: “the most transparent administration in
history.”<br>
By May 2016, a different verdict came in. Washington Post
media columnist Margaret Sullivan called it “one of the most
secretive.” In August 2015, 52 journalism organizations,
including the Society of Environmental Journalists, sent an
appeal to the White House, asking for an end to restrictions
on government employees’ contact with reporters....<br>
...<br>
...21) <b>February 2015: An exposed Willie</b><br>
Documents obtained by Greenpeace and the Climate
Investigations Center show climate researcher Willie Soon took
more than a million dollars in funding from fossil fuel
interests. He promised "deliverables" to his benefactors, and
generated studies that cast doubt on human-caused climate
change. <br>
<br>
22) <b>February 2015: Inhofe’s (cold) curveball</b><br>
Senator and alpha-male among deniers Jim Inhofe throws a
snowball at the Senate President’s podium, forever proving
climate change is a hoax. <br>
<br>
23) <b>April 2015: Pilgrimage gets no press</b><br>
Climate deniers stage a pilgrimage to Rome to “educate” Pope
Francis on his “unholy alliance with the UN’s climate agenda”
and to suggest that Jesus would have served the poor by
burning more coal. They are not granted an audience. Their
press conference didn’t really get one, either.<br>
<br>
24) <b>September 2015: Exxon ignores itself</b><br>
Investigations by InsideClimate News and The Los Angeles Times
reveal that Exxon’s scientists had confirmed the dangers of
climate change decades ago, while the company took virtually
no action to curb it and continued to fund climate-denying
scientists and groups.<br>
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id="MAA4AEgCUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
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style="font-weight: bold;">Obama's Legacy: Assessing<span
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American West</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>Eight years later, a new president-elect has dismissed<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as
a hoax, promised to revive coal and other extractive industries,
and sworn to cut—or gut—the U.S....<br>
In his 17-minute speech, which was entirely about energy, Obama
did not use the term “climate change” once, signaling an
administration-wide retreat that continued for many months.
Congressional Republicans, some of whom deny that climate change
is a threat and others who reject attempts to deal with it as
economically risky, kept attacking. Meanwhile, activists grew
impatient...<br>
In his final years in office, Obama has produced a powerful
National Climate Change Assessment, preserved vast stretches of
land as national monuments, won court battles over its clean car
rules and the EPA’s right to regulate carbon pollution from
power plants, drafted regulations to slash greenhouse gases, and
negotiated major bilateral treaties with China, India and
Brazil, as well as the historic Paris Climate Agreement with
nearly every nation on the planet. What had started slowly was
picking up steam...<br>
Obama was slow to apply his climate change principles to fossil
fuels beneath federal land. Throughout his administration, the
Interior Department continued to lease federal lands for oil and
gas development and fought in court against environmentalists’
“keep it in the ground” campaign.<br>
.But Earthjustice attorney Ted Zukoski sees a deep hypocrisy in
the decision. “There is a conflict between this administration’s
soaring and bold rhetoric on the need to address climate change
and its failure to keep fossil fuels in the ground,” he says.
“Billions of tons of federal coal were leased on Obama’s watch.”<br>
...And even with a president and Congress unwilling to tackle
tough questions on energy and the climate, states will remain
largely responsible for their own energy choices. Even with big
utilities fighting hard against solar, low renewable energy
prices and state mandates will make the clean energy revolution
hard to
stop....http://www.newsweek.com/obama-legacy-assessing-climate-policies-american-west-539570<br>
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Reading, 05 January 2017</font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1">2016 confirmed as the warmest year on
record, warmer than 2015 by close to 0.2°C</font><br>
<font size="-1">Global temperatures reached a peak in February
2016 around 1.5°C higher than at the start of the Industrial
Revolution</font><br>
<font size="-1">Extreme conditions impacting several regions
across the Earth</font><br>
<font size="-1">The first global analysis of the whole of 2016
has confirmed last year as the warmest on record and saw the
planet near a 1.5°C warming, according to the Copernicus
Climate Change Service (C3S).</font><br>
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<font size="-1">The latest figures from C3S, part of the EU’s
Copernicus earth observation programme, show that 2016’s
global temperature exceeded 14.8°C, and was around 1.3°C
higher than typical for the middle years of the 18th century.
2016 was close to 0.2°C warmer than 2015, which was previously
the warmest year on record. </font><br>
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<font size="-1">Countries agreed in Paris in 2015 to holding the
increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C
above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the
temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels,
recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and
impacts of climate change.</font><font size="-1"><br>
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href="http://climate.copernicus.eu/news-and-media/press-room/press-releases/earth-edge-record-breaking-2016-was-close-15%C2%B0c-warming">http://climate.copernicus.eu/news-and-media/press-room/press-releases/earth-edge-record-breaking-2016-was-close-15%C2%B0c-warming</a></font><br>
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255);">ALEX EVANS is a development wonk with an engaging streak
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<!--EndFragment--><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35346">This
Day in Climate History January 9, 1989 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">January 9, 1989: In a letter to House
Speaker Jim Wright and Vice President George H. W. Bush,
President Ronald Reagan writes: "Because changes in the earth’s
natural systems can have tremendous economic and social effects,
global climate change is becoming a critical concern."</font><br>
<font size="-1">(Apparently, Reagan's reference to the "critical
concern" of climate change has never been acknowledged by
right-wing media entities such as the Fox News Channel.)</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35346">http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=35346</a></font><br>
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