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<font size="+1"><i>"The most important issue of all time" -</i></font>
<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming, Please
f</i></font><font size="+1"><i>orward this email. January 27,
2017</i></font><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/26/cdcs-canceled-climate-change-conference-is-back-on-thanks-to-al-gore/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/26/cdcs-canceled-climate-change-conference-is-back-on-thanks-to-al-gore/</a><br>
<a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/01/26/cdcs-canceled-climate-change-conference-is-back-on-thanks-to-al-gore/">CDC's
canceled climate change conference is back on — thanks to Al Gore</a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">It turns out there will be a conference
in Atlanta next month about climate change and its effects on
public health. It just won't have the federal government
behind it. The reason? Former vice president Al Gore.</font><br>
<font size="-1">News of a revived conference comes days after the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled its
long-planned Climate and Health Summit in the lead-up to the
change in White House administrations. Benjamin called the move
a "strategic retreat" given the climate skepticism of the
incoming administration.</font><br>
<font size="-1">The meeting now planned for Feb. 16 will take
place outside of any government circles. Rather than at CDC, it
will be held at the nonprofit Carter Center in Atlanta. It will
be a one-day event rather than the three days originally
planned. Its sponsors now include nongovernmental groups such as
the Harvard Global Health Institute, the Turner Foundation and
the Climate Reality Project, an education and advocacy group
founded by Gore. Organizers say they are aiming to attract as
many as 200 attendees from around the country to talk about the
mounting risks to human health posed by climate change....</font><br>
<font size="-1">... researchers writing in the Lancet last year
argued that addressing the problem of climate change could be
"the greatest global health opportunity of this century." Not
adequately addressing the problem, however, "threatens to
undermine the last half century of gains in development and
global health."</font><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-01-exxonmobil-climate-scientist-board.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-01-exxonmobil-climate-scientist-board.html</a><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Oil giant ExxonMobil, long criticized over its stance on
climate change and production of fossil fuels, has appointed a
leading climate scientist to its board of directors.<br>
Susan Avery, an atmospheric physicist and former president of
the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will join the
board of the petroleum giant on February 1, the company
announced late Wednesday.<br>
Avery's research priorities have included climate variability,
and she has said that "Clearly climate science is telling us
(to) get off fossil fuels as much as possible."<br>
She has a "keen interest in scientific literacy and the role of
science in public policy," according to the website for Woods
Hole, which is based in the northeastern state of Massachusetts.<br>
ExxonMobil remains a primary target of environmentalists for its
contribution to fossil fuel consumption. It was the subject of
2015 investigative reports by environmental news nonprofit
Inside Climate News and others, charging it "manufactured doubt"
about climate science even while contradicted by research by its
own climate scientists.<br>
...Earlier this month, a Massachusetts court ruled the oil giant
must turn over 40 years of documents on climate change, in a win
for Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who has
described the probe as a fraud investigation.<br>
(<a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/dp/1608193942/ref=sr_1_1ords=manufacturing+doubt">Naomi
Oreskes, author of "Merchants of Doubt"</a> notes that only
ExxonMobil - for decades, spent so much to influence public
opinion and persisted to manufacture doubt about global warming
-<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc"> Naomi
Oreskes in a video discussion in December</a>. <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/dp/1608193942/ref=sr_1_1ords=manufacturing+doubt">https://www.amazon.com/Merchants-Doubt-Handful-Scientists-Obscured/dp/1608193942/ref=sr_1_1ords=manufacturing+doubt</a>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc</a>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/symbolic-doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight/ar-AAmhcYy">http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/symbolic-doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight/ar-AAmhcYy</a></font><br>
<a
href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/symbolic-doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight/ar-AAmhcYy"><b><font
color="#000099">Doomsday Clock: Countdown to catastrophe? -
now </font></b></a><b><font color="#000099"><a
href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/symbolic-doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight/ar-AAmhcYy">23:57:30</a><font
color="#000099"> </font></font></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">26 January 2017 The minute hand on the
Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how vulnerable the world is to
catastrophe.</font><br>
<font size="-1">Amid concerns over climate change, the clock has
been close to midnight for the past few years.</font><font
size="-1"><br>
"Never before has the Bulletin decided to advance the clock
largely because of the statements of a single person," two
scientists at the Bulletin, Lawrence Krauss and David Titley,
said in an opinion piece published by The New York Times.</font><font
size="-1"> "But when that person is the new president of the
United States, his words matter....The minute-hand on the clock
was moved amid concerns about "a rise in strident nationalism
worldwide, President Donald Trump's comments on nuclear arms and
climate issues, a darkening global security landscape that is
colored by increasingly sophisticated technology, and a growing
disregard for scientific expertise," the group said in a
statement</font><br>
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<font size="-1"><br>
"</font>On pipelines, Donald Trump looks backward (<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=3c9ea1e7e6&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">New York Times, Bill McKibben
op-ed</a> $)<br>
<br>
Strangling nation's huge climate policy machine won't be easy for
Trump (<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=40634ec9b1&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">InsideClimate News, Johh
Cushman Jr, Lisa Song & Zahra Hirji analysis</a>)<br>
<br>
The Keystone pipeline will create just 35 permanent jobs. Don't
believe the lies (<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=3b579e4dd6&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">The Guardian, Raúl M Grijalva
op-ed</a>)<br>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/trump-wants-to-downplay-global-warming-louisiana-won-t-let-him">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/trump-wants-to-downplay-global-warming-louisiana-won-t-let-him</a></font><br>
<div class="_cnc"><a class="l _HId"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/trump-wants-to-downplay-global-warming-louisiana-won-t-let-him"
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Wants to Downplay <em>Global Warming</em>. Louisiana Won't Let
Him</a>
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<div class="st"><font size="-1"><span class="_tQb _IId">Bloomberg</span><span
class="_v5"> -</span> Trees stick out of a marsh in
Venice, La. Sea-level rise threatens the future of homes and
businesses in Plaquemines Parish and surrounding coastal
areas.</font></div>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/01/world-meteorological-organization-reiterates-global-warming-message.html">http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/01/world-meteorological-organization-reiterates-global-warming-message.html</a></font><br>
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<div class="_cnc"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/01/world-meteorological-organization-reiterates-global-warming-message.html"
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Meteorological Organization reiterates global warming
message</a></b>
<blockquote>
<div class="slp"><font size="-1"><span class="_tQb _IId">The
World Meteorological Organization is standing over the
data recently released, which is reinforcing the
message that man-made activities are contributing to
adverse global climate change.<br>
Clare Nullis, spokesperson for the WMO told Power
Engineering International her organisation was not in
agreement with dissent on the findings expressed by
former Innogy chief Dr Fritz Vahrenholt, who claimed
that El Nino was the true cause of temperature
changes.</span><span class="f nsa _uQb"></span></font></div>
<div class="st"><font size="-1">Last week Vahrenholt was
dismissive of the science propelling what he believes is
a disastrous energy policy, Energiewende, in his home
country, Germany. Data produced by the UK Met Office,
Nasa and Noaa confirmed the link between human activity
and global warming.<br>
Carbon dioxide and methane concentrations surged to new
records. Both contribute to climate change. The Arctic
is <em>warming</em> twice as fast as the <em>global</em>
average...</font></div>
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<strong>The Resistance Also Wears Lab Coats: </strong>Planned
resistance to President Trump's anti-climate agenda grew Wednesday,
<font size="-1">as social media accounts proposing a scientists'
march on Washington garnered significant media attention and
thousands of new followers. The People's Climate Movement also
announced Wednesday they will be hosting a multi-coalition march
on DC in late April, building off its 2014 march in New York City
that drew over 400,000 people. And high above DC, Greenpeace
activists climbed a crane downtown to hang a banner flying over
the White House reading "Resist." (Scientists march: <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=a2ebb4aee9&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Washington Post</a> $, <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=d7fdccb6e4&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">The Hill</a>, <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=2dbbe95dc2&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Climate Central</a>. Climate march: <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=4a12f09c4e&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Huffington Post</a>, <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=35fc740bbf&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Greenwire</a> $, <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=077874dedd&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">DCist</a>. Greenpeace: <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=64e65fe475&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">New York Times</a> $, <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b4f563eb73&e=95b355344d"
target="_blank" style="word-wrap:
break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration:
underline;">Washington Post</a> $, <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=1751670de6&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #709ab9;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration: underline;">TIME</a>.)</font><br>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc</a></font><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMoa_dqBdc">(Video )A
Discussion with Naomi Oreskes & Steven Chu (December 2016)</a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Everyone will be affected. </font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>"It could be bad, it could be really bad, or it
could be catastrophic"</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">The high risks are to the collapse of agriculture,
producing of food, water supply, sea level rise (which is a
slower change) </font><br>
<font size="-1">Oreskes says there's "Three things we can do:
Stop building the fossil fuel infrastructure, eliminate subsides
for fossil fuels, put a price on carbon"</font> <br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/26/we-may-be-closer-than-we-thought-to-dangerous-climate-thresholds">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/26/we-may-be-closer-than-we-thought-to-dangerous-climate-thresholds</a></font><br>
<a class="l _HId"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jan/26/we-may-be-closer-than-we-thought-to-dangerous-climate-thresholds"
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may be closer than we thought to dangerous climate thresholds</a>
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<div class="slp"><font size="-1"><span class="_tQb _IId">The
Guardian</span><span class="_v5">-</span><span class="f
nsa _uQb">2 hours ago</span></font></div>
<div class="st"><font size="-1">We don't want the Earth to warm
more than 1.5–2°C (2.7-3.6°F) compared to the pre-industrial
climate. These targets are not magical; they are expert
judgements about what it takes to avoid some of the more
serious effects of climate change. We know the seas will
rise (they already are). We know droughts and flooding will
get more severe (they already are). We know there will be
more heat waves, more intense storms, and ocean
acidification (all happening now). We cannot stop some of
the changes. But if we keep climate change to these limits,
we think we can avoid the worst effects. First, they
attempted to select a period prior to significant <em>global
warming</em> – before many greenhouse gases and land
changes occurred. Second, it would be best ...</font></div>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><font size="-1">...the administration on Monday directed
the USDA to stop all "outward-facing" communications. But by
Tuesday night, the gag-order had been "rescinded." So what's
going on? And what could happen if scientists can't speak to
the public?<br>
It all started yesterday, when BuzzFeed obtained a memo
distributed on Monday within the USDA's Agricultural Research
Service (ARS). The memo was written by Sharon Drumm, chief of
staff for ARS, and it informed the more than 2,000 ARS
scientists—who study everything from methane emissions to the
economy of rural America and have a major focus on climate
change—to, essentially, keep quiet. Here's the text, provided
to Modern Farmer by the Christopher Bentley, director of the
office of communications at ARS:<br>
"Starting immediately and until further notice, ARS will not
release any public-facing documents. This includes, but is not
limited to, news releases, photos, fact sheets, news feeds,
and social media content."<br>
According to reports today, however, a second email went out
to ARS late Tuesday evening stating that Drumm's note should
have never been issued and has been "hereby rescinded."<br>
Wait, what?</font></div>
</blockquote>
<!--EndFragment--><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-global-perspective">https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-global-perspective</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/26/g7-workshop-on-climate-change-fragility-and-international-security-in-tokyo/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/01/26/g7-workshop-on-climate-change-fragility-and-international-security-in-tokyo/</a><br>
</font><font color="#000099" size="+1"><b><a
href="https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-global-perspective">Climate-Fragility
Risks - The Global Perspective</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Climate change is the ultimate threat
multiplier. It will aggravate fragility, contribute to social
upheaval and even violent conflicts. The problem is the seven
compound risks that emerge when the impacts of climate change
interact with problems that many weak states are already facing.
Single-sector interventions alone will not suffice to deal with
the systemic nature of compound climate-fragility risks.
Integrating policies and programmes in three key sectors—climate
change adaptation, development and humanitarian aid, and
peacebuilding—are crucial to help strengthen resilience to
climate-fragility risks and achieve significant co-benefits.</font><br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size:
14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
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text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The papers are
available in English as well as Japanese (<span xml:lang="ja"
lang="ja">日本語</span>) and can be accessed here:</p>
<ul style="margin: 0px 0px 14px 36px; padding: 0px; color:
rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma,
sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;
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255, 255);">
<li style="list-style-type: square;"><a
href="https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-global-perspective"
style="color: rgb(12, 83, 144); text-decoration: none;">Climate-Fragility
Risks – The Global Perspective</a></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square;"><a
href="https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-japan"
style="color: rgb(12, 83, 144); text-decoration: none;">Climate
Fragility Risks in Japan</a></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square;"><a
href="https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-fragility-risks-asia-development-nexus"
style="outline: 0px; outline-offset: -2px; color: rgb(249,
151, 52); text-decoration: none;">Climate-Fragility Risks
in Asia – The Development Nexus</a></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square;"><a
href="https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/foreign-policy-implications-climate-fragility-risks-japan"
style="color: rgb(12, 83, 144); text-decoration: none;">Foreign
Policy Implications of Climate-Fragility Risks for Japan</a></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square;"><a
href="https://library.ecc-platform.org/publications/climate-and-fragility-risks-japanese-development-cooperation-implications-adaptation"
style="color: rgb(12, 83, 144); text-decoration: none;">Climate
and Fragility-Risks in Japanese Development Cooperation:
Implications of Adaptation and Peacebuilding Experiences</a></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square;"><a
href="https://www.climate-diplomacy.org/publications/workshop-documentation-climate-fragility-risks-japan-and-asia-pacific-region"
target="_blank" style="color: rgb(12, 83, 144);
text-decoration: none;">Workshop Documentation:
Climate-Fragility Risks in Japan and the Asia-Pacific
Region</a></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">Responding to the global strategic threat posed by
climate change is too great a task for any single</font><br>
<font size="-1">government. The G7 have started by committing to
respond to one of the great challenges of our time</font><br>
<font size="-1">and taken first steps by deepening cooperation
amongst themselves and the national level.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<a class="l _HId"
href="http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/25/powerful-images-show-impact-of-global-warming-on-greenlands-ice-sheet-6405627/"
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color="#666666" size="-1">http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/25/powerful-images-show-impact-of-global-warming-on-greenlands-ice-sheet-6405627/</font><br>
</a><!--StartFragment-->
<div class="_cnc"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/25/powerful-images-show-impact-of-global-warming-on-greenlands-ice-sheet-6405627/"
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images show impact of <em>global warming</em> on Greenland's
ice sheet</a></b>
<div class="st">
<blockquote><font size="-1"><span class="_tQb _IId">Metro</span><span
class="_v5">-</span>The overwhelming impact of <em>global
warming</em> on Greenland's enormous ice sheet has been
documented in a series of powerful images. Photographer Timo
Lieber took the pictures while flying over the 695,000
square mile expanse and has now put them on display in
London.</font><br>
<font size="-1">'I visited the scientists in the camp on the
ice cap and was overwhelmed by the scale of the landscape
and the enormity of associated problems.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/01/25/white-house-fires-back-amid-claims-it-told-epa-to-erase-climate-change.html">http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/01/25/white-house-fires-back-amid-claims-it-told-epa-to-erase-climate-change.html</a></font><br>
</div>
</div>
<!--EndFragment--> <span style="padding:0px 6px 0px 0px"> <a
href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/01/25/white-house-fires-back-amid-claims-it-told-epa-to-erase-climate-change.html"
itemprop="url"
style="color:#427fed;display:inline;text-decoration:none;font-size:16px;line-height:20px">
<b><span itemprop="name">White House Fires Back Amid Claims it
Told EPA to Erase Climate Change</span></b> </a> </span>
<div style="padding:2px 0px 8px 0px">
<div itemprop="publisher" itemscope=""
itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"
style="color:#737373;font-size:12px"> <a
style="text-decoration:none;color:#737373"> <span
itemprop="name">Fox Business</span> </a> </div>
<div itemprop="description" style="color:#252525;padding:2px 0px
0px 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">
<blockquote>Reuters was the first to report that Trump's team
instructed EPA's communications team to remove links
containing scientific <b>global warming</b> research, ...<br>
</blockquote>
</div>
</div>
<span style="padding:0px 6px 0px 0px"><font color="#666666"
size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-climate-change-president-tells-epa-scrap-global-warming-page-website-bans-2480891">http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-climate-change-president-tells-epa-scrap-global-warming-page-website-bans-2480891</a></font><br>
<b><font color="#000099"><a
href="http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-climate-change-president-tells-epa-scrap-global-warming-page-website-bans-2480891">Trump
On Climate Change: President Tells EPA To Scrap Global
Warming Page From Website, Bans Agency From Tweeting,
Speaking To Press</a></font></b> </span>
<div style="padding:2px 0px 8px 0px">
<blockquote>
<div itemprop="publisher" itemscope=""
itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"
style="color:#737373;font-size:12px"> <a
style="text-decoration:none;color:#737373"> <span
itemprop="name">International Business Times </span></a> </div>
<div itemprop="description" style="color:#252525;padding:2px 0px
0px 0px;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">Myron Ebell, who was
in charge of the EPA transition for the Trump administration,
confirmed the <b>news</b> to ProPublica. ... to scientific
studies proving the existence of human-induced <b>global
warming</b> and data on carbon emissions.</div>
</blockquote>
</div>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/01/25/510571835/if-these-trees-dont-get-time-to-chill-farmers-will-be-out-on-a-limb">http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/01/25/510571835/if-these-trees-dont-get-time-to-chill-farmers-will-be-out-on-a-limb</a></font><br>
<div class="_cnc"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/01/25/510571835/if-these-trees-dont-get-time-to-chill-farmers-will-be-out-on-a-limb"
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These Trees Don't Get Time To Chill, Farmers Will Be Out On A
Limb</a></b>
<div class="slp"><span class="_tQb _IId">NPR</span><span
class="_v5">-</span><span class="f nsa _uQb">17 hours ago</span></div>
<blockquote>
<div class="st"><font size="-1">Crops have failed because of
warming temperatures. ... "I know that there are people that
think that <em>global warming</em> is not man made, but
regardless we have to .</font></div>
</blockquote>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/01/26/can-just-adapt-our-way-free-global-warming-impact/grLSh9buJIbqfs8gMJghDM/story.html">https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/01/26/can-just-adapt-our-way-free-global-warming-impact/grLSh9buJIbqfs8gMJghDM/story.html</a></font><!--StartFragment--><br>
<b><a class="l _HId"
href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2017/01/26/can-just-adapt-our-way-free-global-warming-impact/grLSh9buJIbqfs8gMJghDM/story.html"
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We can't just adapt our way free of global warming's impact</a></b>
<blockquote>
<div class="slp"><font size="-1"><span class="_tQb _IId">The
Boston Globe</span><span class="_v5">-</span><span class="f
nsa _uQb">5 hours ago</span></font></div>
<div class="st"><font size="-1">David Abel's article on the rising
sea level in Palm Beach, Fla., highlights the tension between
adaptation to the present-day effects of climate change and ..<br>
But the crucial thing to acknowledge here is that we can't
allow urgent adaptation demands to distract us from the need
to redouble our efforts at mitigation. The case of Mar-a-Lago,
Donald Trump's Florida estate, signals that a failure to
drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions today may
result in the consequences of climate change overwhelming our
ability to adapt to it successfully in the future.</font><br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<!--EndFragment--><font color="#666666"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/x70eamuF8EA">http://youtu.be/x70eamuF8EA</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://youtu.be/vg_qI3yzCLk">http://youtu.be/vg_qI3yzCLk</a></font><font
size="+1"><b><br>
<a href="http://youtu.be/x70eamuF8EA">This Day in Climate
History January 27, 1998, 2000 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">January 27, 1998: In his State of the
Union address, President Clinton declares, "Our overriding
environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of
climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that
requires worldwide action. The vast majority of scientists have
concluded unequivocally that if we don’t reduce the emission of
greenhouse gases, at some point in the next century, we’ll
disrupt our climate and put our children and grandchildren at
risk." <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://youtu.be/x70eamuF8EA">http://youtu.be/x70eamuF8EA</a></font><br>
<font size="-1">...</font><br>
<font size="-1">January 27, 2000: In his State of the Union
address, President Clinton declares, "The greatest environmental
challenge of the new century is global warming. The scientists
tell us the 1990′s were the hottest decade of the entire
millennium. If we fail to reduce the emission of greenhouse
gases, deadly heat waves and droughts will become more frequent,
coastal areas will flood, and economies will be disrupted. That
is going to happen, unless we act. Many people in the United
States, some people in this Chamber, and lots of folks around
the world still believe you cannot cut greenhouse gas emissions
without slowing economic growth. In the industrial age, that may
well have been true. But in this digital economy, it is not true
anymore." <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://youtu.be/vg_qI3yzCLk">http://youtu.be/vg_qI3yzCLk</a></font><br>
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