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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming, </i></font><font
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">President Trump on Tuesday moved two controversial
pipeline projects forward by signing a pair of executive actions
that could speed up approval of the Keystone XL and Dakota
Access projects.</div>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/24/trump-harold-hamm-keystone-xl-dakota-access-approval-order">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/24/trump-harold-hamm-keystone-xl-dakota-access-approval-order</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/24/trump-harold-hamm-keystone-xl-dakota-access-approval-order">Key
Trump Donor Stands to Profit from Order to Approve Keystone XL,
Dakota Access Pipelines</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">On January 24, President Donald Trump
signed two executive orders calling for the approval of the
Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, owned by Energy
Transfer Partners and TransCanada, respectively. He also signed
an order calling for expedited environmental reviews of domestic
infrastructure projects, such as pipelines...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Donald Trump's top presidential campaign energy
aide Harold Hamm stands to profit if both pipelines go
through... </font><br>
<font size="-1">Hamm, the founder and CEO of Continental Resources
who sat in the VIP box at Trump's inauguration and was a major
Trump campaign donor, would see his company's oil obtained from
hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") in the Bakken Shale flow
through both lines. Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer
Partners, was also a major Trump donor.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Rick Perry, Trump's nominee for U.S. Secretary of
Energy, served on the Board of Directors for Energy Transfer
Partners until he received the nomination from Trump.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Trump's U.S. Secretary of State nominee Rex
Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil, would presumably have some
say over the approval of the U.S.-Canada border-crossing
Keystone XL, which must receive a presidential permit by the
U.S. Department of State. Exxon, as reported by DeSmog, extracts
tar sands in Alberta which would flow through Keystone and also
has refining capacity in Texas.</font><br>
<font size="-1">The American Petroleum Institute (API) also
weighed in:</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2017/01/24/api-welcomes-president-trump-commitment">http://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2017/01/24/api-welcomes-president-trump-commitment</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.api.org/news-policy-and-issues/news/2017/01/24/api-welcomes-president-trump-commitment">API
WELCOMES PRESIDENT TRUMP'S COMMITMENT TO NATION'S ENERGY
INFRASTRUCTURE</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">"We are pleased to see the new direction
being taken by this administration to recognize the importance
of our nation's energy infrastructure by restoring the rule of
law in the permitting process that's critical to pipelines and
other infrastructure projects," said Jack Gerard, API's
President and CEO, in a press release. "Critical energy
infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL and the Dakota
Access Pipelines will help deliver energy to American consumers
and businesses safely and efficiently.</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Badlands-National-Park-goes-rogue-on-Trump-10880945.php">http://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Badlands-National-Park-goes-rogue-on-Trump-10880945.php</a></font><br>
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font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer;">Badlands National Park goes
rogue on Trump, tweets<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="font-style: normal;">global</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> warming data</span>..</a></b></h3>
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inline-block; font-size: 13px;">1 hour ago JOEL CONNELLY</span></div>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Actually, the act of
speaking truth to power consisted of quoting factual data from a
National Wildlife Federation guide on<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="font-weight:
bold; font-style: normal;">global warming</em>.<br>
The Twitter account for Badlands National Park let loose some
entirely factual but now politically fraught statements
regarding climate change on Tuesday afternoon.<br>
The act of defiance was brief. The tweets from Badlands
National Park soon came down, but not before going viral.<br>
Actually, the act of speaking truth to power consisted of
quoting factual data from a National Wildlife Federation guide
on global warming. Said the first tweet:<br>
"Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher
than at any time in the last 650,000 years. #climate."<br>
A second tweet followed: "The pre-industrial concentration of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was 280 parts per million
(ppm). As of December 2016, 404.93 ppm."<br>
And there was a third Tweet from just east of Rapid City:
"Flipside of the atmosphere; ocean acidity has increased 30%
since the Industrial Revolution. 'Ocean Acidification' #climate
#carboncycle."...<br>
Specifically, the Trump administration... told .. the U.S.
Department of the Interior -- which oversees the National Park
Service -- to "immediately cease use of government Twitter
accounts" to talk about global warming.<br>
And the National Park Service has already been in trouble.<br>
On Inauguration Day, it retweeted photos showing that Trump's
swearing-in crowd was much smaller than the throng that turned
out for President Obama in 2009. Interior immediately shut down
all Twitter accounts.<br>
Its Twitter service was restored a day later, after the National
Park Service deleted the crowd tweets and was made to eat crow.
It said in a followup tweet:<br>
"We regret the mistaken RT's from our account yesterday and look
forward to continuing to share the beauty and history of our
parks with you."<br>
White House press secretary, said of the Inauguration Day tweet:<br>
"My understanding is that because they had inappropriately
violated their own social media policies, there was guidance
that was put out to the department to act in compliance with the
rules that were set forth." <br>
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All the climate change-related tweets from @BadlandsNPS earlier
today have been deleted. Wayback Machine has them: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170124222015/https:/twitter.com/BadlandsNPS">https://web.archive.org/web/20170124222015/https:/twitter.com/BadlandsNPS</a>
[ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://t.co/6uVKhiEeY4">https://t.co/6uVKhiEeY4</a> ]<br>
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href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/federal-agencies-trump-information-lockdown-234122">http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/federal-agencies-trump-information-lockdown-234122</a></font><br>
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255);">Federal agencies are clamping down on public information
and social media in the early days of Donald Trump's presidency,
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/environmental-protection-grants-staff_us_5886825be4b0e3a7356b575f">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/environmental-protection-grants-staff_us_5886825be4b0e3a7356b575f</a><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/environmental-protection-grants-staff_us_5886825be4b0e3a7356b575f?pon75akll8ei5dn29">EPA
Freezes Grants, Tells Employees Not To Talk About It, Sources
Say</a></b></font><br>
Kate Sheppard - Enterprise editor/Senior reporter, The Huffington
Post<br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">WASHINGTON ― The Environmental
Protection Agency has frozen its grant programs, according to
sources there.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important;
float: none;">"I will say it's pretty unusual for us to get
these kinds of anonymous contacts from people at the agency,
which makes me think it's unusual," said the Hill source.</span></font><br>
<font size="-1"> The memo states that the agency is imposing tight
controls on external communication, including press releases,
blog posts, social media and content on the agency website.</font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"> Please review this material and share
with all appropriate individuals in your organization. If
anyone on your staff receives a press inquiry of any kind, it
must be referred to me so I can coordinate with the
appropriate individuals in OPA.<br>
</font> <font size="-1"><br>
No press releases will be going out to external audiences.<br>
No social media will be going out. A Digital Strategist will
be coming on board to oversee social media. Existing,
individually controlled, social media accounts may become more
centrally controlled.<br>
No blog messages.<br>
The Beach Team will review the list of upcoming webinars and
decide which ones will go forward.<br>
Please send me a list of any external speaking engagements
that are currently scheduled among any of your staff from
today through February.<br>
Incoming media requests will be carefully screened.<br>
No new content can be placed on any website. Only do clean up
where essential.<br>
List servers will be reviewed. Only send out critical
messages, as messages can be shared broadly and end up in the
press.<br>
I will provide updates to this information as soon as I
receive it.<br>
</font> </blockquote>
<font size="-1"> ("Beach team" refers to staffers for the new
administration working at the various agencies while new
leadership is put in place; "OPA" most likely refers to the
"Office of Public Affairs.")</font><br>
<font size="-1"> In a report later Monday night, ProPublica
confirmed the freeze in an interview and reported it also
includes EPA contracts. Ebell told ProPublica the freeze is to
"make sure nothing happens they don't want to have happen."</font><br>
<font size="-1"> "This may be a little wider than some previous
administrations, but it's very similar to what others have
done," he said.</font><br>
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href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/01/23/donald-trump-steps-office-record-number-americans-worried-global-warming/">https://cleantechnica.com/2017/01/23/donald-trump-steps-office-record-number-americans-worried-global-warming/</a></font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">"Americans also continue to support climate action, as
our recent report on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">Politics of Global Warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>found," added co-lead
investigator Edward Maibach, PhD.</div>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-november-2016/">http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-november-2016/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-november-2016/">Report
Summary Climate Change in the American Mind: November 2016 Yale
Study</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Our nationally representative survey
conducted shortly after the presidential election finds that the
number of Americans "very worried" about global warming has
reached a record high (19%), since first measured in 2008. A
majority of Americans (61%) say they are "very" or "somewhat"
worried about global warming – nearly equal to the highest level
recorded in 2008 (62%). Likewise, Americans increasingly view
global warming as a threat. Since Spring 2015, more Americans
think it will harm people in developing countries, people in the
U.S., future generations, their own family, and themselves
personally.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> By a three-to-one margin, Americans also say that
schools should teach children about the causes, consequences,
and potential solutions to global warming (76% agree vs. 24% who
disagree).</font><br>
</blockquote>
<b><a class="ehs-post-title"
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190035/0/"
style="color:#26a; text-decoration:none; font-size:1.5em"
target="_blank">Climate regulations under a watchful internet
eye.</a></b>
<p style="margin:0; color:#222; font-family:"Helvetica",
"Arial", sans-serif; font-weight:normal;
line-height:19px; padding:0; text-align:left; font-size:14px;
margin-bottom:10px" align="left"> <span class="ehs-post-lede">Bracing
for a rollback, website run by Columbia Law School alerts any
time President Trump or Congress change a rule involving climate
change or energy.</span> <a
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190035/0/"
style="color:#26a; text-decoration:none">InsideClimate News</a><span>. </span>
</p>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.globalchange.gov/notices#CSSR">http://www.globalchange.gov/notices#CSSR</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.globalchange.gov/notices#CSSR">Climate
Science Special Report - Public Comment Period</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">The CSSR Public Comment Period runs
from 15 December 2016 - 3 February 2017 (revised). </font><br>
<font size="-1"> The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
seeks public comment on the third-order draft of its Climate
Science Special Report (CSSR). This special report provides an
update to the physical climate science presented in the Third
National Climate Assessment (NCA3) released in 2014,
specifically Chapter 2 and Appendices 3 and 4. The draft CSSR
provides updated climate science findings and projections, and
is an important input to the authors of the next quadrennial NCA
(NCA4), expected in 2018.</font><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.globalchange.gov/nca3-downloads-materials">http://www.globalchange.gov/nca3-downloads-materials</a><br>
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<b>Appeal to help save data. </b>Via the anti-fracking group SAFE
in southern Illinois I was made aware of this appear from Houston on
facebook (link: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/37527174/videos/10103697022484476/">https://www.facebook.com/37527174/videos/10103697022484476/</a>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190049/0/">http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190049/0/</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><b><a class="ehs-post-title"
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190049/0/"
style="color:#26a; text-decoration:none; font-size:1.5em"
target="_blank">Doomsday prep for the super-rich</a></b></font>
<p style="margin:0; color:#222; font-family:"Helvetica",
"Arial", sans-serif; font-weight:normal;
line-height:19px; padding:0; text-align:left; font-size:14px;
margin-bottom:10px" align="left"> <span class="ehs-post-lede">Some
of the wealthiest people in America—in Silicon Valley, New York,
and beyond—are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.</span>
<a
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/248784/142179/190049/0/"
style="color:#26a; text-decoration:none">New Yorker</a><span>. </span>
</p>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">In private Facebook groups, wealthy
survivalists swap tips on gas masks, bunkers, and locations safe
from the effects of climate change. One member, the head of an
investment firm, told me, "I keep a helicopter gassed up all the
time, and I have an underground bunker with an air-filtration
system." He said that his preparations probably put him at the
"extreme" end among his peers. But he added, "A lot of my
friends do the guns and the motorcycles and the gold coins.
That's not too rare anymore." </font><br>
<font size="-1"> Over the years, Huffman has become increasingly
concerned about basic American political stability and the risk
of large-scale unrest. He said, "Some sort of institutional
collapse, then you just lose shipping—that sort of stuff."
(Prepper blogs call such a scenario W.R.O.L., "without rule of
law.") Huffman has come to believe that contemporary life rests
on a fragile consensus. "I think, to some degree, we all
collectively take it on faith that our country works, that our
currency is valuable, the peaceful transfer of power—that all of
these things that we hold dear work because we believe they
work. While I do believe they're quite resilient, and we've been
through a lot, certainly we're going to go through a lot more."</font><br>
<font size="-1"> "Anyone who's in this community knows people who
are worried that America is heading toward something like the
Russian Revolution," he told me recently. </font><br>
<font size="-1"> As public institutions deteriorate, élite anxiety
has emerged as a gauge of our national predicament. "Why do
people who are envied for being so powerful appear to be so
afraid?" Johnson asked. "What does that really tell us about our
system?" He added, "It's a very odd thing. You're basically
seeing that the people who've been the best at reading the tea
leaves—the ones with the most resources, because that's how they
made their money—are now the ones most preparing to pull the rip
cord and jump out of the plane."</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Why do our dystopian urges emerge at certain
moments and not others? Doomsday—as a prophecy, a literary
genre, and a business opportunity—is never static; it evolves
with our anxieties. ..</font><br>
<font size="-1"> "I think, in the back of people's minds, frankly,
is that, if the world really goes to shit, New Zealand is a
First World country, completely self-sufficient, if
necessary—energy, water, food. Life would deteriorate, but it
would not collapse." ..." American clients have also sought
strategic advice. "They're asking, 'Where in New Zealand is not
going to be long-term affected by rising sea levels?' "</font><font
size="-1">...<br>
"If I had a billion dollars, I wouldn't buy a bunker," Elli
Kaplan, the C.E.O. of the digital health startup Neurotrack,
told me. "I would reinvest in civil society and civil
innovation. My view is you figure out even smarter ways to make
sure that something terrible doesn't happen." Kaplan, who worked
in the White House under Bill Clinton, was appalled by Trump's
victory, but said that it galvanized her in a different way:
"Even in my deepest fear, I say, 'Our union is stronger than
this.' "</font><font size="-1">...<br>
That view is, in the end, an article of faith—a conviction that
even degraded political institutions are the best instruments of
common will, the tools for fashioning and sustaining our fragile
consensus. Believing that is a choice. ...</font><font size="-1"><br>
"The easy question is, How do I protect me and mine? The more
interesting question is, What if civilization actually manages
continuity as well as it has managed it for the past few
centuries? What do we do if it just keeps on chugging?"</font></blockquote>
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<!--EndFragment--><a
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</a><font color="#666666"><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/climate-change-cause-effect/"><a
href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40205">This
Day in Climate History January 2<font color="#666666">5</font></a>,
1984 </a> - from D.R. Tucker<br>
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<blockquote><font color="#666666"><font size="+1"><b> </b></font><font
color="#000000" size="-1">In his State of the Union Address,
President Ronald Reagan says something that would be
considered highly controversial by the right wing today:</font></font><br>
<font color="#666666"><font color="#000000" size="-1">"...[L]et us
remember our responsibility to preserve our older resources
here on Earth. Preservation of our environment is not a
liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense."</font></font><br>
<font color="#666666"><font color="#000000" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4?t=21m52s">https://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4?t=21m52s</a></font></font><br>
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