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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming, </i></font><font
size="+1"><i>Forward this email." January 18, 2017 </i></font> <font
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</font><font color="#666666" size="-1"><a
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href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/nasa-noaa-to-announce-2016-global-temperatures-climate-conditions/">https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/nasa-noaa-to-announce-2016-global-temperatures-climate-conditions/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/nasa-noaa-to-announce-2016-global-temperatures-climate-conditions/">(Wednesday
AM press briefing) NASA, NOAA to Announce 2016 Global
Temperatures, Climate Conditions</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Climate experts from NASA and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will
provide the annually-scheduled release of data on global
temperatures and discuss the most important climate trends of
2016 during a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday,
Jan. 18. Audio of the briefing, as well as supporting
graphics, will stream live at:</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio">http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio</a><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxFWwNS1unk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxFWwNS1unk</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxFWwNS1unk">(video)
Pollster Ed Maibach: Public Awareness and Resolve on Climate</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">50% of Americans want both carbon tax
and carbon regulation</font><br>
<font size="-1">(from transcript)..."...and this is the most
exciting finding from this survey; </font><br>
<font size="-1">Eight out of 10 Americans say .. We explained in
very simple clear terms, that governments have two basic options
for reducing global warming pollution they can either regulate
it or they can tax it --- </font><br>
<font size="-1">And we asked our respondents which of those two if
any would you prefer to see our country do eight out of 10
Americans say they would like to see one or the other. </font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Five out of 10 Americans say they would like to
see our nation do both (tax and regulate)</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">Only one out of ten said neither and one out of
ten was essentially undecided so really strong public support
for for climate action that waiting to be tapped...On the other
hand there is unequivocally a silence the climate silence in
America today.</font><br>
<font size="-1">The average American while concerned about climate
change rarely if ever talks about it and the reason they don't
talk about it is because they think they are in the minority.."
... <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxFWwNS1unk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxFWwNS1unk</a><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/17/brit-scientists-flee-halloween-crack-on-antarctic-ice/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/17/brit-scientists-flee-halloween-crack-on-antarctic-ice/</a></font><br>
<b><font size="+1"><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/17/brit-scientists-flee-halloween-crack-on-antarctic-ice/">Brit
Scientists Flee "Halloween Crack" on Antarctic Ice</a></font></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">"I'd pay to watch that movie. In fact, I
think I did."</font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBssLrx67Xc">THE DAY
AFTER TOMORROW - Larsen B Collapse</a></b> <font
color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBssLrx67Xc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBssLrx67Xc</a></font><br>
<font size="-1">Favorite line in the clip above, "You let Jason
operate the drill?"</font><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38643420">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38643420</a>?</font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38643420?">BBC:
Ice crack to put UK Antarctic base in shut-down</a></b></font><br>
<font size="-1">The British Antarctic Survey is to pull all staff
out of its space-age Halley base in March for safety reasons.</font><br>
<font size="-1">The highly unusual move is necessary because the
Brunt Ice Shelf on which the research station sits has developed
a big new crack.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> "Changes to the ice, particularly the growth of a
new crack, presents a complex glaciological picture that means
that BAS scientists are unable to predict with certainty what
will happen to the ice shelf during the forthcoming Antarctic
winter," the research organisation said in a statement.</font><br>
<font size="-1">"As a precautionary measure, BAS will remove its
people before the Antarctic winter begins."</font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92S91DcIxsk">Watch
drone footage of Halloween Crack</a></b> <font
color="#666666"> <font size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92S91DcIxsk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92S91DcIxsk</a></font></font><br>
<font size="-1">UAV (unmanned airborne vehicle) flight along a
crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf, which appeared. This was detected
by scientists in October 2016.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/house-science-panel-adds-climate-denying-members/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/house-science-panel-adds-climate-denying-members/</a></font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The committee has jurisdiction over $40 billion in
federal budgets, and influence on climate research and
environmental regulations....The panel has also challenged
government scientists who refuted the theory of a<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">global warming</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pause,
a favorite conservative talking point.<br>
Under Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the committee has earned a
reputation for questioning climate scientists and environmental
groups that say human activity, like burning fossil fuels, is
the main cause of rising temperatures....<br>
Some of the committee's new members reject climate science
altogether, even as other conservative lawmakers have softened
their skeptical views to appear more reasonable. On Friday, the
committee announced the appointment of six new members.<br>
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), who was elected to Congress this fall,
said in October as a state senator that climate change is
"leftist propaganda."<br>
"I believe that climate change in this country is largely
leftist propaganda to change the way Americans live and create
more government obstruction and intrusion in our lives," Banks
said at a candidates forum in Indiana, the Fort Wayne Journal
Gazette reported...<br>
Some...new GOP members have acknowledged that humans play a role
in changing the climate, but they stop short of saying it
justifies stronger environmental protections......<font
color="#666666">.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/house-science-panel-adds-climate-denying-members/<br>
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href="http://billmoyers.com/story/climate-threat-posed-right-wing-populisms-rising-tide/">http://billmoyers.com/story/climate-threat-posed-right-wing-populisms-rising-tide/</a></font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">European nationalists are not excited about the Paris
Agreement....It is a devastating irony that less than a week
after the Paris<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">Climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Agreement went into
effect, America elected a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>denialist who promptly
announced he would pull America out of the deal. However, even
if America does leave the pact<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;"><br>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">"If you take an issue
like climate change, you've got a feedback loop. Without those
institutions it makes it harder to fight climate change. A
more destabilized climate will erode economic security and
will increase migration. These issues add more pressure that
may cause more populist politicians to be elected. That erodes
international rule of law further and makes it harder to fight
climate change, and so on."</span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">,..<br>
<font color="#666666">.http://billmoyers.com/story/climate-threat-posed-right-wing-populisms-rising-tide/<br>
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href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/starla-yeh/top-scientists-validate-approach-climate-policy-making">https://www.nrdc.org/experts/starla-yeh/top-scientists-validate-approach-climate-policy-making</a></font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Adjusting this estimate down, or worse, rejecting its
application altogether, suggests that there are little or no
benefits to us, our children or our grandchildren of avoiding
the worst impacts of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>. We know
definitively that this is not<span class="Apple-converted-space">
</span><b style="font-weight: normal;">..<br>
</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Specifically, we are
referring to what has become known as the social cost of
carbon (SCC). It is a measure of the dollar value of current
and future costs associated with climate change for every ton
of carbon pollution emitted. Agencies apply this concept in
decision making to estimate the benefit (or avoided cost) of
reducing one ton of carbon emissions.</span><b
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href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/11/healey-wins-showdown-with-exxon-mobil/HwActch6RI8WQVKdlfJJ9I/story.html">http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/11/healey-wins-showdown-with-exxon-mobil/HwActch6RI8WQVKdlfJJ9I/story.html</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/11/healey-wins-showdown-with-exxon-mobil/HwActch6RI8WQVKdlfJJ9I/story.html">Boston
Globe - Healey wins showdown with Exxon Mobil</a></font></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Massachusetts Attorney General Maura
Healey won a major legal showdown against Exxon Mobil on
Wednesday, when a judge ruled that the company must turn over 40
years of documents on climate change...</font><br>
<font size="-1">The ruling is a major victory for Healey, who,
along with the attorney general of New York, pursued probes into
Exxon Mobil after reports published in 2015 suggested the
company had encouraged climate-change confusion for years after
its own scientists established the risks...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Environmental groups were also trying to draw
attention to their issue with the spotlight on Tillerson, who
just stepped down from Exxon after working there for more than
40 years, the past 10 as CEO.</font><br>
<font size="-1">At Tillerson's confirmation hearing Wednesday,
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, who was Hillary Clinton's running
mate in the November election, questioned him about the
company's history on climate change.</font><br>
<font size="-1">"I'm asking you whether those allegations about
Exxon Mobil's knowledge of climate science and decision to fund
and promote a view contrary to its awareness of the science,
whether those allegations are true or false," Kaine said.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Tillerson demurred. "The question would have to be
put to Exxon Mobil."</font><br>
<font size="-1">That prompted Kaine to ask: "Do you lack knowledge
to answer my questions or are you refusing to answer my
question?"</font><br>
<font size="-1">Tillerson answered: "A little of both."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/11/healey-wins-showdown-with-exxon-mobil/HwActch6RI8WQVKdlfJJ9I/story.html">http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/11/healey-wins-showdown-with-exxon-mobil/HwActch6RI8WQVKdlfJJ9I/story.html</a></font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2016-historic-year-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters-us">https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2016-historic-year-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters-us</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2016-historic-year-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters-us">2016:
A historic year for billion-dollar weather and climate
disasters in U.S.</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"> Since 1980, the U.S. has sustained 203
weather and climate disasters where the overall damage costs
reached or exceeded $1 billion (including adjustments based on
the Consumer Price Index, as of January 2017). The cumulative
costs for these 203 events exceed $1.1 trillion.</font><br>
<font size="-1">...an unusual year, as there were 15 weather and
climate events with losses exceeding $1 billion each across the
United States....events included drought, wildfire, 4 inland
flood events, 8 severe storm events, and a tropical cyclone
event... Cumulatively, these 15 events led to 138 fatalities and
caused $46.0 billion in total, direct costs. The 2016 total was
the 2nd highest annual number of U.S. billion-dollar disasters,
behind the 16 events that occurred in 2011.</font><br>
<font size="-1">The changing frequency of billion-dollar disaster
events:</font><br>
<font size="-1">...From 1980–2016, the annual average number of
billion-dollar events is 5.5 (CPI-adjusted). For the most recent
5 years (2012–2016), the annual average is 10.6 events
(CPI-adjusted). The year 2005 was the most costly since 1980 due
to the combined impacts of Katrina, Rita, Wilma, and Dennis, as
shown in the following time-series. The year 2012 was the second
most costly due to the extreme U.S. drought ($30 billion) and
Sandy ($65 billion) driving the losses....</font><br>
<font size="-1">Other types of extreme weather events have also
shown a higher frequency including the semi-persistent Western
drought and wildfire seasons since the year 2000. ...wildfire
seasons are lengthening in the Western states and Alaska (NCA,
2014), while forestry management budgets are increasingly
diverted for wildfire suppression costs (USFS, 2015)...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Each disaster type has a distinct footprint of
impact over time. ... wildfire impacts largely west of the
Plains states,...Southeast impacts. The high-frequency inland
flooding events often occur in states adjacent to large rivers
or the Gulf of Mexico, which is a warm source of moisture to
fuel rainstorms. Drought impacts are most focused in the
Southern and Plains states where there are billions of dollars
in agriculture and livestock assets....</font><br>
<font size="-1">Severe local storm events are common in the Plains
and into the Ohio River Valley states. Winter storm impacts...in
the Northeast, not surprising given the propensity for
Nor'easters, while tropical cyclone impacts range from Texas to
New England, but also include many inland states.</font><br>
<font size="-1">In total, from 1980–2016, the U.S. South/Central
and Southeast regions experienced a higher frequency of
billion-dollar disaster events than any other region, as shown
in the red total disaster map. This map reflects the cumulative
diversity, frequency, & severity of weather & climate
events impacting these regions.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2016-historic-year-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters-us">https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/2016-historic-year-billion-dollar-weather-and-climate-disasters-us</a></font><br>
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255);"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Global warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is going to steal away
some of those postcard-perfect weather days in the future,
according to a first-of-its-kind projection of nice weather.<br>
On average, Earth will have 10 fewer days of mild and mostly dry
weather by the end of the century, the researchers estimate.
Some places will get more days perfect for picnics or outdoor
weddings, while other places will lose a lot. Rio de Janeiro,
Miami and much of Africa are big losers, while Europe and
Seattle will gain nicer weather..<br>
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