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of Caution on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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255);">A physicist by training, Holdren is among the chief
architects of the Obama administration’s Climate Action Plan...<br>
This makes him one of the more controversial science advisers,
as well. ..(His) plan has been lauded by environmentalists, but
is loathed by conservative politicians, some of whom have filed
suit against it. The future of the plan, which rests almost
entirely on executive authority, is now very much in doubt. <br>
Holdren spoke to Yale Environment 360 (Elizabeth Kolbert) about
the difference between “dangerous” and “catastrophic” warming,
the incoming Trump administration, and how to talk to people who
deny the existence of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>.e360: <br>
e360:: You’ve said that the goal of avoiding dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the climate system is gone.
We're already experiencing that, and the question is can we
avoid catastrophe? Where do we draw the line between dangerous
and catastrophic? <br>
Holdren: I’ve likened the current situation with respect to
climate change to driving a car toward a cliff in the fog and
the car has bad brakes. <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">...<br>
Holdren: Scientists, number one, should keep talking about the
science and what it's telling us, what the implications are.
That includes the implications of delay. How much more damage
are we buying into if we say, "Let's deal with this later,”
rather than dealing with it now. It's becoming possible to
talk about that. The other thing that is becoming possible is
to talk about impacts in a much more regional way. The third
U.S. National Climate Assessment, which was released in 2014,
succeeded in disaggregating things regionally and sectorally
to a much greater extent than any previous assessment had
done. </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">..http://e360.yale.edu/feature/obama_top_scientist_words_of_caution_climate_john_holdren/3061/</span><br>
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f9NToKsiCA">(video)
NASA’s Gavin Schmidt on why 2016 was a Record Warm year</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">On Wednesday, the world’s three major
meteorological organizations will reveal how global temperature
in 2016 stacked up against previous years. Given exceptional
warmth in most months, it is all but guaranteed that scientists
will confirm 2016 as the hottest year on record.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Dr Gavin Schmidt is director of the NASA Goddard
Institute for Space Studies. Carbon Brief caught up with him at
the University of Southampton, on 12 Jan 2017.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/16/nasas-gavin-schmidt-on-2016-record-warmth/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/16/nasas-gavin-schmidt-on-2016-record-warmth/</a>
6:21 minutes</font><br>
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255);">...a few could be hot-button affairs, including hearings
for Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos and Scott Pruitt,
Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.<br>
Pruitt is also a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>skeptic, writing in
National Review last year that: "Scientists continue to disagree
about the degree and extent of<span
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its connection to the actions of mankind. That debate should be
encouraged - in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">.<br>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tuesday confirmation
hearings: DeVos and Zinke</span><b style="font-weight:
normal;"> - Earlier on Tuesday, at 10 a.m., Interior
Secretary-designate Ryan Zinke will have his confirmation
hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee...he's a supporter of coal, oil and gas exploration,
and has backed building the Keystone XL pipeline.<br>
Wednesday confirmation hearings: Haley, Price, Pruitt and Ross<br>
The confirmation for Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney
general tapped to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, is
sure to attract plenty of attention as he testifies before the
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. He's been a
leading critic of the very agency he's seeking to lead. Pruitt
has been a leading opponent of President Obama's environmental
and climate regulations,<br>
His official biography calls him "a leading advocate against
the EPA's activist agenda." He has repeatedly challenged the
agency's rules in court, and he has even sued the EPA for an
allegedly cozy "sue and settle" relationship with
environmentalists. One profile noted that Pruitt would sue the
federal government "every chance he can get."...<br>
Pruitt is also a climate change skeptic, writing in National
Review last year that: "Scientists continue to disagree about
the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to
the actions of mankind. That debate should be encouraged — in
classrooms, public forums, and the halls of Congress. It
should not be silenced with threats of prosecution. Dissent is
not a crime."<br>
Thursday confirmation hearings: Mnuchin and Ydstie<b>....<br>
</b></b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rick Perry will
testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee at 10 a.m. as well on his nomination to be Secretary
of Energy. The former Texas governor also briefly ran for
president before withdrawing early on in the 2016 campaign;
he, too, was initially critical of Trump before endorsing him
last May. The Austin American-Statesman reports that Perry has
cut ties with several oil and gas companies ahead of his
hearing.</span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br>
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<b><font size="+1"><a
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cuts will not prevent sea level rise</a></font></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1"><b> ". . . you don't just get to stop
emitting and have everything go back to a pre-industrial
state. You are going to live with this for a very long time"</b></font><br>
<font size="-1"> “It's all the more reason why it's important to
understand how long climate changes will last, and how much more
sea-level rise is already locked in.”</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Sea levels are rising as glaciers the world over
retreat and Arctic icecaps melt, in response to rising carbon
dioxide levels in the atmosphere, as humans burn fossil fuels. </font><br>
<font size="-1"> But this time the MIT team applied their climate
model not to carbon dioxide, but to the other greenhouse gases,
among them methane and the chlorofluorocarbons. They then fed
into the simulation the effect of heat on water, which expands
with temperature.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> And the short-lived gases are potent: the finding
says that even if the production of these ceased entirely, at
the end of 100 years three-fourths of the thermally-driven sea
level rise would still be there, washing over low-lying coasts,
drowning estuaries and river deltas, and seeping into the coral
bedrock of islands too small even to register on the global
climate maps.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> “It's all the more reason why it's important to
understand how long climate changes will last, and how much more
sea-level rise is already locked in.”</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Sea levels are rising as glaciers the world over
retreat and Arctic icecaps melt, in response to rising carbon
dioxide levels in the atmosphere, as humans burn fossil fuels. </font><br>
<font size="-1"> But this time the MIT team applied their climate
model not to carbon dioxide, but to the other greenhouse gases,
among them methane and the chlorofluorocarbons. They then fed
into the simulation the effect of heat on water, which expands
with temperature.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> And the short-lived gases are potent: the finding
says that even if the production of these ceased entirely, at
the end of 100 years three-fourths of the thermally-driven sea
level rise would still be there, washing over low-lying coasts,
drowning estuaries and river deltas, and seeping into the coral
bedrock of islands too small even to register on the global
climate maps. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/cutting-carbon-will-not-prevent-sea-level-rise/">http://climatenewsnetwork.net/cutting-carbon-will-not-prevent-sea-level-rise/</a></font></blockquote>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Dana Nuccitelli: The remaining climate change
uncertainties point toward higher risks and greater urgency for
action..<br>
Rex Tillerson was given a confirmation hearing by the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee last week. In his testimony,
Tillerson accepted the reality of human-caused global warming
and that “The risk of climate change does exist and the
consequences of it could be serious enough that action should be
taken.”<br>
While he accepted the problem exists, Tillerson nevertheless
proceeded to downplay its risks, saying:<br>
"The increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the
atmosphere are having an effect, our ability to predict that
effect is very limited."<br>
Many climate scientists took issue with that statement, and for
good reason. Climate models have been very accurate in their
projections about many consequences of human carbon pollution.
It’s true that there’s uncertainty in just how quickly some of
those consequences will be triggered. The bad news is that
recent studies have shown that many of those consequences are
happening more quickly than climate scientists anticipated.
Greater climate uncertainty translates into more urgency to
tackle the problem, not less.<br>
<b>Tillerson might undermine international climate negotiations</b><br>
Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D-OR) questioning in the hearing
revealed that Tillerson is not very concerned about climate
change and doesn’t think America should be a leader on the
issue. He wouldn’t pull the US out of international climate
negotiations, but he might very well undermine them...<br>
That should normally be enough to disqualify Tillerson from
being Secretary of State and in charge of America’s role in
those negotiations. The problem is that if the Senate rejects
Tillerson, Trump might very well nominate an outright science
denier to the position. However, Tillerson would likely support
lifting sanctions against Russia, which would allow ExxonMobil
to extract tremendous reserves of oil from the country. ...While
Tillerson does accept the reality of climate change and that it
poses some risks, he denies that those risks are serious.
Functionally he might not be very different than a Secretary of
State who outright denies climate change. Such are the choices
we face under a President Trump.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/16/new-studies-show-rex-tillerson-is-wrong-about-climate-risks">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/16/new-studies-show-rex-tillerson-is-wrong-about-climate-risks</a>..</div>
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<font size="+1"><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/national/19warming.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/national/19warming.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0</a></font><b><br>
<a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/national/19warming.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0">This
Day in Climate History January 17, 2006</a> - from D.R.
Tucker<br>
</b></font>
<blockquote><font size="+1"><b> </b></font><font size="-1">January
17, 2006: The Fred Barnes book "Rebel-in-Chief: Inside the Bold
and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush" is released. In
the book, Barnes notes that in 2005, Bush had a private meeting
with overrated novelist and climate-change denier Michael
Crichton, during which Bush and Crichton "were in near-total
agreement" about the supposed alarmism of climate activists.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/national/19warming.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/national/19warming.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/02/16/the-full-barnes-treatment-of-b/">http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/02/16/the-full-barnes-treatment-of-b/</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2008/11/07/michael-crichton-author-of-state-of-fear-leaves-global-warming-disinformation-legacy/">http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2008/11/07/michael-crichton-author-of-state-of-fear-leaves-global-warming-disinformation-legacy/</a></font><br>
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