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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming, </i></font><font
size="+1"><i>Forward this email. January 13, 2016<br>
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</i></font> <font size="+1"><b><font color="#000099"><a
href="http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/">Global
Risks Report 2017 <font color="#000099">World Economic
Forum </font>(text, charts and video)</a></font></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Now in its 12th edition, The Global
Risks Report 2017 completes more than a decade of highlighting
the most significant long-term risks worldwide, drawing on the
perspectives of experts and global decision-makers...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Global Risks report 2017 features perspectives
from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood
of 30 prevalent global risks as well as 13 underlying trends
that could amplify them or alter the interconnections between
them over a 10-year timeframe.<br>
Trends <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/global-risks-landscape-2017/#trends">http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/global-risks-landscape-2017/#trends</a><br>
Risks <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/global-risks-landscape-2017/#risks">http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/global-risks-landscape-2017/#risks</a><br>
</font><font size="-1">2016 saw a crystallization of political
risks that have led to the election of populist leaders, a loss
of faith in institutions and increased strain on international
cooperation. We should not be surprised by this: for the past
decade, the Global Risks Report has been drawing attention to
persistent economic, social and political factors that have been
shaping our risks landscape....</font><br>
<font size="-1">This year's report will examine the five greatest
priorities facing the world in 2017, their interconnections and
the actions necessary to avoid their harshest fall-out.. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/">http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2017/</a></font><br>
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255);"><font size="+1"><a
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-climate-papers-featured-media-2016">Analysis:
The climate papers most featured in the media in 2016</a></font><br>
<blockquote>Every year, thousands of scientific journal papers are
published by researchers across the world, but only a tiny
proportion make it into the pages of the newspapers...<br>
Using Altmetric, we’ve compiled a list of the 25 most
talked-about climate papers of 2016. You can see the Top 10 in
our infographic <br>
Altmetric scores academic papers based on how many times they’re
mentioned in online news articles and on social media platforms.
...https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-climate-papers-featured-media-2016<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/12/chronology-of-the-u-s-military-and-intelligence-communitys-concern-about-climate-change/">Chronology
of Military and Intelligence Concerns About Climate Change</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1"> The U.S. military has been concerned
about climate change since the George W. Bush Administration, at
the latest, but military institutions such as the Naval War
College have been warning policy-makers since 1990, during the
first Bush Administration. The intelligence community has also
been in the game since the early 1990s, with the establishment
of the MEDEA program – a structured collaboration between
climate scientists and U.S. intelligence agencies – and has been
releasing intelligence estimates on the national security
implications of climate change since 2008,...<br>
To clarify the historical record on this subject, we are
therefore posting below an updated chronology of US Department
of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) products that
explicitly address the climate change threat. A broader look at
other national and international security documents addressing
climate risks can be found on the Climate Security Chronology
and Resource Hub.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/12/chronology-of-the-u-s-military-and-intelligence-communitys-concern-about-climate-change/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/12/chronology-of-the-u-s-military-and-intelligence-communitys-concern-about-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Trump CIA Pick Evades<span
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), President-elect Trump's pick
to head the CIA, appeared before the Senate Intelligence
Committee on Thursday, during which he refused to answer whether
he accepts the overwhelming evidence that<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
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usg-AFQjCNGWm8C0kE2syctVF_4Unhg8UO3baQ
sig2-6XJ6pmtgY2Oezyt25Nomyg did--5687638091900631381"
href="http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/12/14250888/exxon-mobil-climate-change-documents-massachusetts"
url="http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/12/14250888/exxon-mobil-climate-change-documents-massachusetts"
id="MAA4AEgBUABgAWoCdXN6AA" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Exxon Mobil must hand over<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>documents, judge
rules</span></a></h2>
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255);">Exxon Mobil must turn over decades' worth of documents
showing how much the company knew about<span
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normal;">climate change</b>. The decision was taken yesterday
by a Massachusetts judge in an investigation brought by the
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href="http://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/tillerson-on-climate-change/"
url="http://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/tillerson-on-climate-change/"
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255);">During his confirmation hearing for secretary of state,
Rex Tillerson said "our ability to predict" the effect of
increased<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">greenhouse gas</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>concentrations in the
atmosphere "is very limited." That's not entirely accurate. ...
Scientists also have high<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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sig2-qAkb_CAlxjUrGk9_eE3otQ did--8980409923612130285"
href="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/12/14248484/merkley-tillerson-climate-change-skeptic"
url="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/12/14248484/merkley-tillerson-climate-change-skeptic"
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Rex Tillerson on <b style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b></span></a></div>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Late into Rex Tillerson's marathon secretary of state
confirmation hearing yesterday, it came time for Sen. Jeff
Merkley's second round of questioning.<br>
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Confirmation Hearing</font></a> MediaMatters<br>
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<blockquote> <font size="-1">Secretary of state nominee and former
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson testified before the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee on January 11. Tillerson is already under
fire for making the seemingly false claim that Exxon has not
lobbied against sanctions on Russia and other nations that would
affect Exxon’s business dealings, but here are five other
climate change-related takeaways that reporters should keep in
mind in their coverage of the hearing and Tillerson nomination
going forward.:</font><br>
<font size="-1"> 1. Tillerson distorted climate change science …
again </font><br>
<font size="-1">2. Tillerson disputed the Pentagon’s determination
that climate change is a significant national security threat..</font><br>
<font size="-1"> 3. Tillerson refused to discuss the "ExxonKnew"
scandal.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> 4. Tillerson declined to endorse the Paris
climate agreement.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> 5. Tillerson did not address climate change, oil,
or even Exxon itself in his opening remarks.</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><a
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Evidence on Climate Change and Conflict Links: Context is Key</a></font><br>
THE CENTER FOR CLIMATE & SECURITY<br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">... the role climate change may play
in driving armed conflict rests on important social science
research which seeks to explore how conflicts start, are
sustained, and eventually end....</font><br>
<font size="-1"> ... conflict is most likely to arise from
drought conditions when three circumstances are present: the
communities in question are predominantly dependent on
agriculture for their economic livelihoods; their ecosystems are
particularly vulnerable to environmental changes (e.g. the
importance of the monsoon rains in the Indian subcontinent); and
they lack coping capacity, particularly if that capacity is
impaired by indifference or active suppression from the central
government....</font><br>
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255);">How we view the costs of future<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>, and more importantly how we
quantify them, may soon be changing. A much-anticipated new
report, just released by the National Academy of Sciences,
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How Donald Trump Kingmaker<b> </b><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/12/trump-kingmaker-billionaires-robert-rebekah-mercer-pouring-millions-climate-science-denial">Billionaires
Robert and Rebekah Mercer Have Poured Millions Into Climate
Science Denial</a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">A DeSmog analysis of Federal Electoral
Commission returns shows Robert Mercer, the reclusive hedge fund
manager, has donated $30.1 million to politics since January
2015 (a further $2.3 million has come from daughter Rebekah and
wife Diana)....the Mercers have also pumped at least $22 million
into organizations that push climate science denial while
blocking moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions....</font><br>
<font size="-1">The Chicago-based Heartland Institute has received
$4,988,000 from the Mercers, cashing its first $1 million check
in 2008....</font><br>
<font size="-1">Another organization shy about getting cash from
the Mercer Family Foundation is the George W. Bush Foundation,
the organization set up in 2006 to look after the official
archive of the George W. Bush presidency.</font><br>
<font size="-1">The George W. Bush Foundation publishes a lengthy
list of its financial supporters and the Mercers are not on it.
But tax records show the Mercers have given the Bush Foundation
$4.1 million since 2010...</font><br>
<font size="-1">The biggest beneficiary of Mercer Family
Foundation cash is the Media Research Center (MRC), a group
which claims credit for convincing Americans that most of the
media has a "liberal" bias.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/12/trump-kingmaker-billionaires-robert-rebekah-mercer-pouring-millions-climate-science-denial">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/12/trump-kingmaker-billionaires-robert-rebekah-mercer-pouring-millions-climate-science-denial</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/buying-some-time-on-climate-change-with-methane-and-soot/2012/01/13/gIQAQoDrwP_blog.html">This
Day in Climate History January 13, 2004 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">January 13, 2012: Brad Plumer of the
Washington Post notes: </font><br>
<font size="-1">"When it comes to climate change, fossil fuels nab
most of the headlines. But a new study suggests the world should
also pay closer attention to smaller steps to curb soot and
methane. In fact, those measures could make all the difference
in whether the world makes or misses its climate targets...Now,
in terms of warming the planet, carbon dioxide — the byproduct
of burning coal, oil, and natural gas — is still the most
important man-made driver. But methane and black carbon (soot)
also play a large, if less-appreciated role. Soot particles, for
instance, absorb radiation from the sun and can hasten the
melting of snow and ice cover when they fall to the ground. Some
scientists think that soot is accelerating ice melt in the
Arctic. What’s more, because methane and soot cycle out of the
air fairly rapidly (soot can wash out in a matter of days),
clamping down on these pollutants would have an immediate
impact."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/buying-some-time-on-climate-change-with-methane-and-soot/2012/01/13/gIQAQoDrwP_blog.html">http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/buying-some-time-on-climate-change-with-methane-and-soot/2012/01/13/gIQAQoDrwP_blog.html</a><br>
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