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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 29,
2017 </i></font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/wests-largest-coal-plant-may-close-21117">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/wests-largest-coal-plant-may-close-21117</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/wests-largest-coal-plant-may-close-21117">The
West's Largest Coal Plant May Close. It’s a Big Deal</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">The largest coal-fired power plant in
the West — one of the biggest climate polluters in the nation —
could close later this year, a major symbolic blow to the future
of coal as the backbone of America’s electric power grid...</font><br>
<font size="-1">The owners of Arizona's Navajo Generating Station
northeast of the Grand Canyon announced in early January that
low natural gas prices and the rising costs of generating
electricity using coal make it too expensive to operate the
plant. A decision on the plant’s fate is expected this
spring...</font><br>
<font size="-1">It is America's seventh-largest single source of
the carbon dioxide emissions driving climate change. Its closure
would relieve Arizona of a source of pollution long targeted by
federal regulators for contributing to regional haze and poor
air quality over the Grand Canyon...</font><br>
<font size="-1">"It's going to be difficult for Trump to be both
pro-natural gas and pro-coal at the same time, unless he intends
to directly subsidize coal plants or find other markets for U.S.
coal," Regan said.</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/251284279/eu-economy-suffering-the-worst-ever-impact-due-to-global-warming">http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/251284279/eu-economy-suffering-the-worst-ever-impact-due-to-global-warming</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/251284279/eu-economy-suffering-the-worst-ever-impact-due-to-global-warming"
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0, 153); font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer;">EU economy
suffering the worst ever impact due to<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="font-style:
normal;">global warming</em></a></b></h3>
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style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">Big News
Network.com</span><span class="_v5" style="color: rgb(102, 102,
102); padding: 0px 4px;">-</span><span class="f nsa _uQb"
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none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color:
rgb(255, 255, 255);">BRUSSELS, Belgium - The impact of extreme
weather on Europe's economy has risen sharply since the 1980s.
According to a new report, it is further set to worsen as the
impact of global warming comes to the fore.<br>
According to the European Environment Agency (EEA), the extreme
weather has caused 85,000 deaths, which nearly amounts to 393
billion euros between 1980 and 2016.<br>
The findings were revealed in a report titled ‘Climate Change,
impacts and vulnerability in Europe.’<br>
The report places annual damages at nearly 7.6 billion euros in
the 1980s - with the figure witnessing a steep rise of 80
percent, reaching 13.7 billion euros by the 2000s..</div>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/28/the-weekend-wonk-trump-war-on-science-sparks-backlash/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/28/the-weekend-wonk-trump-war-on-science-sparks-backlash/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/01/28/the-weekend-wonk-trump-war-on-science-sparks-backlash/">The
Weekend Wonk: Trump War on Science Sparks Backlash</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">The events of the past week have been
worrying to advocates of government action on climate change,
with the removal of climate priorities from the White House
website, the order to freeze all Environmental Protection Agency
contracts and the inauguration of a president who said he is
"not a big believer" in the fact that humans have played a role
in changing Earth's climate...</font><br>
<font size="-1">But these events have also been very good for
website traffic...</font><br>
<font size="-1">According to data from analytics.usa.gov, which
tracks Web traffic on all .gov websites, several pages related
to climate change have been extremely popular in the week since
President Trump's inauguration.</font><br>
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</font><a
href="http://www.libdemvoice.org/why-politicians-cant-solve-climate-change-53099.html"><font
color="#666666" size="-1">http://www.libdemvoice.org/why-politicians-cant-solve-climate-change-53099.html</font><br>
<font size="+1">(opinion)</font><b><font size="+1"> Why
politicians can't solve climate change</font></b></a><br>
<blockquote>.<font size="-1">..effective democracy does presume that
people understand the implications of the policies that their
governments pursue. A successful society needs an electorate
that is informed, critical and motivated to participate in the
political process....</font><br>
<font size="-1">The political process works less well when a
country is led by popularist politicians offering sound-bite
policies to an electorate that is poorly informed...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Do people believe that the current trajectory of
climate change could pass a tipping point within fifteen years,
beyond which, the impact of climate change could become
irreversible? Probably not, because if they did, then we would
expect them to be demanding governments do something about
it....</font><br>
<font size="-1">There are three more questions we should ask
ourselves: Could global warming cause the collapse of human
civilization? If yes, can it be avoided? And finally, the
tricky one, do we have confidence that our political leaders
will take the brave decisions needed to avert catastrophe? The
answers to these questions are: Yes. Maybe. Only if the
electorate understand the issues and demand that government take
action...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Climate change is a reality, the major causes are
man-made and preventing a global catastrophe is not simply a
technological problem but a social engagement problem.
Governments urgently need to initiate a process of
'participative change', enabling the electorate to understand
the issues, support the transition to a low carbon future and
become advocates for change. Unfortunately, many governments are
either ignoring the issue – or actively promoting policies that
deny climate change. Neither of these two options are
sustainable political strategies....</font><br>
<font size="-1">So, here we are in 2017. The UN has overseen
twenty years of talks, prevarication and empty promises until
finally we are offered the "breakthrough" of a voluntary target
that is guaranteed to exceed the critical threshold.
Unfortunately, it is unlikely that even these inadequate targets
will be met, primarily because most governments are reluctant to
implement the necessary action to reduce carbon emissions as
this would risk upsetting various vested interests...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Preventing further increases in global
temperatures is not primarily a technical problem – we have the
capability to dramatically cut carbon emissions – it is a social
engagement problem. Our task now is to build the capability to
engage the electorate in a complex debate that touches on all
aspects of our society, our values and our relationship with the
natural environment.</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://portside.org/2017-01-28/war-and-warming-can-we-save-planet-without-taking-pentagon">http://portside.org/2017-01-28/war-and-warming-can-we-save-planet-without-taking-pentagon</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://portside.org/2017-01-28/war-and-warming-can-we-save-planet-without-taking-pentagon">(essay)
War and Warming: Can We Save the Planet Without Taking on the
Pentagon?</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"><b>Author: H Patricia Hynes</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">Oil is indispensable for war and militarism. Think
of it as the lifeblood coursing through our foreign policy, a
policy based on maintaining superpower status and confronting
those whom we perceive as challenging us.</font><br>
<font size="-1">....Climate change is inevitably an issue of peace
because the Pentagon is the single largest contributor of
climate change emissions in the world. And as the Pentagon goes,
so go the military budgets of other major powers. ..</font><br>
<font size="-1">War for oil has come home. Militarized North
Dakota police attacked non-violent water protectors protesting
the Dakota Access oil pipeline with rubber bullets, tear gas,
concussion grenades, and water cannons in sub-freezing
temperatures. One medic treating injuries described it as a "low
grade war."...</font><br>
<font size="-1">What's clear from US spending priorities is that
access to oil and military dominance has governed US policy in
the world. Add to this a thin-skinned bully as president
surrounding himself with generals and we will likely get into
deeper displays of male dominance. Foreign policy advisor to
both Presidents Bush, Philip Zelikow, put it bluntly. With
President Trump's "ambient prickliness, we could end up picking
a fight with three quarters of the world."...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Between 2003 and 2007, the Iraq war generated more
carbon dioxide equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions each year
of the war than 139 of the world's countries release annually.
Re-building Iraqi (and Syrian and Yemeni) schools, homes,
businesses, bridges, roads, and hospitals pulverized by the war
will require millions of tons of cement, the most fossil fuel
intensive of all manufacturing industries....</font><br>
<font size="-1">... assume that the rest of world's military
spending, weapons manufacturing, military exercises, and
conflict combine to bring military-related fossil fuel emissions
to near 15 percent of global climate change pollution?
Intensifying military tensions will drive it higher and could
vitiate country commitments to the Paris climate agreement.</font><br>
<font size="-1">...The Syrian scholar Suzanne Saleeby notes that
"escalating pressures on urban areas due to internal migration,
increasing food insecurity, and resultant high rates of
unemployment have spurred many Syrians to make their political
grievances publicly known. in popular uprisings..." </font><br>
<font size="-1">..... The entire Middle East inexorably faces a
hotter, drier climate from climate change that will further
stress water resources, agriculture, food prices and existing
conflicts. Thus, the seeds of future conflicts in authoritarian
and unequal societies may also include scarce water resources as
farmers and thirsty people, opportunistic politicians and
powerful corporations contend for that diminishing resource....</font><br>
<font size="-1">The US habit and competence for war, with its
origins in the past annihilation of Native Americans, may be our
society's nemesis unless we do critical soul-searching about our
cultural and personal values and actively engage in transforming
them. ...</font><br>
<font size="-1">[This piece originated in talks given to 350.org
CT and Promoting Enduring Peace, New Haven; Women's
International League for Peace and Justice, Boston branch; and
the Women's Pentagon Action 2016 Forum.]</font><br>
</blockquote>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/index.php?section=234">https://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/index.php?section=234</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/index.php?section=234">Current
State of the Sea Ice Cover -- NASA Cryosphere</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">The sea ice cover is one of the key
components of the polar climate system. It has been a focus of
attention in recent years, largely because of a strong decrease
in the Arctic sea ice cover and modeling results that indicate
that global warming could be amplified in the Arctic on account
of ice-albedo feedback. This results from the high reflectivity
(albedo) of the sea ice compared to ice-free waters. <a
href="https://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/index.php?section=234">(see
the)...The plots and color-coded maps </a><br>
Sea ice extent is the integral sum of the areas of all grid
cells with at least 15% ice concentration, while sea ice area is
the integral sum of the product of ice concentration and area of
all grid cells with at least 15% ice concentration.</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cnet.com/how-to/go-bag-prepare-natural-disaster-apocalypse/">https://www.cnet.com/how-to/go-bag-prepare-natural-disaster-apocalypse/</a></font><br>
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target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102,
0, 153); font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer;">Be ready for a
natural disaster (or the apocalypse) with a go bag</a></b></h3>
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<blockquote><em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">Global
warming</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has
made weather patterns unpredictable and dangerous. Mix that with
the current civil unrest around the world and you could have all
the...reasons why you may need to flee your home to find new
shelter at a moment's notice:<br>
Earthquake<br>
Tornado or hurricane<br>
Flash flood<br>
Wild fire<br>
Mud slide<br>
Ice storm<br>
Zombie apocalypse (just kidding... maybe)<br>
What kind of bag is best?<br>
The City of Chicago recommends that each member of your
household have their own go bag. If you're the parent of small
children, however, you can use one big bag to hold everything
you and your children need.<br>
Remember, the best kind of bag is the kind you can carry. Don't
get a huge duffle bag unless you're very strong and can heft it.
Also, you want a bag that will fit easily in your transport. You
don't want one that's so big you'll have to leave one of the
kids behind to take it with you....<br>
<br>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/business/energy-environment/navigating-climate-change-in-americas-heartland.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/28/business/energy-environment/navigating-climate-change-in-americas-heartland.html</a></font><br>
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target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102,
0, 153); font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer;">In America's
Heartland, Discussing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="font-style: normal;">Climate Change</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Without Saying Climate
Change</a></b></h3>
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style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">New York Times</span><span
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<blockquote>In short, he is a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">climate change</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>realist. Just don't
expect him to utter the words "<em style="font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;">climate change</em>." "If politicians
want to exhaust themselves debating the climate,...<br>
Carl Priesendorf, a science teacher at Metropolitan Community
College in Kansas City, Mo., has learned strategies to talk
about climate change without completely alienating climate
skeptics. He teaches geology and meteorology. Those subjects
would usually be innocuous, but not here....<br>
“I’d show the CO2 data — how we’d had the hottest year on
record,” Mr. Priesendorf said. “But I get students who basically
say what I’m teaching is nonsense. My car’s been keyed. I get
notes from students saying they’re praying for my soul.” One
such note that he shared reads, “Know that God’s love surpasses
knowledge.”<br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- The conservative Koch
network plans to spend between $300 million and $400 million to
influence politics and public policy over the next two years,
intensifying its nationwide efforts in the initial years of
Donald Trump's ...</div>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/01/28/no-one-size-fits-all-solution-food-security-looks-very-different-depending-on-where-you-are-sitting_partner/">http://www.salon.com/2017/01/28/no-one-size-fits-all-solution-food-security-looks-very-different-depending-on-where-you-are-sitting_partner/</a></font><br>
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255);"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/01/28/no-one-size-fits-all-solution-food-security-looks-very-different-depending-on-where-you-are-sitting_partner/"
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style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(221, 75, 57);
font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer;">No one-size-fits-all
solution: Food security looks very different depending on
where you are sitting.</a></b></h3>
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rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="_tQb _IId"
style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">Salon</span><span
class="_v5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); padding: 0px 4px;">-</span><span
class="f nsa _uQb" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display:
inline-block; font-size: 13px;">7 hours ago</span></div>
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<blockquote>The only definite is that the West needs to learn to
consume — and waste — less<br>
<b>Climate change</b>: Our ability to provide food for this
growing population will be seriously affected by the changing
climate. Current predictions for<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="font-weight:
bold; font-style: normal;">global</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="font-weight:
bold; font-style: normal;">warming</em> are for an increase in
temperature ranging from 0.6℃ to 4℃ use sy by 2099. The Paris
climate agreement sets out a global action plan to limit global
warming this century to 2℃. This will be a difficult target to
achieve ...<br>
Population growth: The current global population is 7.4 billion
and it is growing rapidly. We are expected to reach 8.5 billion
by 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100.<br>
Malnutrition: Today the world faces a double burden of
malnutrition that includes both under-nutrition and obesity. In
2015, more than 1.9 billion adults worldwide were overweight
while 462m were underweight. <br>
Solutions..Given these issues, different countries will need
different solutions....One technological solution is to develop
drought-resistant crops, although the efficacy of this is
debated. The issue here is not the technology but how to
distribute it...<br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.westernmassnews.com/story/34370619/activists-gather-for-climate-change-meeting-in-northampton"
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target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102,
0, 153); font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer;">Activists gather
for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="font-style: normal;">climate change</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>meeting in Northampton</a></b></h3>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="_tQb _IId"
style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">WESTERNMASSNEWS.com</span><span
class="_v5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); padding: 0px 4px;">-</span><span
class="f nsa _uQb" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display:
inline-block; font-size: 13px;">36 minutes ago</span></div>
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widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Activists in Northampton
gathered at the First Churches to voice their concerns over the
future of our planet. "We're getting moving, and we're getting
active," said ...<br>
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255);"><font size="+1"><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.uniindia.com/ancient-indus-civilization-s-adaptation-to-climate-change/science-technology/news/763638.html"
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target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102,
0, 153); font-size: 15px; cursor: pointer;">Ancient Indus
civilization's adaptation to<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em
style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">climate
change</em></a></font></h3>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="_tQb _IId"
style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">United News of
India</span><span class="_v5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);
padding: 0px 4px;">-</span><span class="f nsa _uQb"
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font-size: 13px;">7 hours ago</span></div>
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color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;
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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);">With<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="font-weight:
bold; font-style: normal;">climate change</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in our own era becoming
increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors
may have dealt with similar environmental ...<br>
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Could Make a Deadly Flesh-Eating Bacteria Spread<font
color="#666666">, Again (video)</font></a></h3>
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rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="_tQb _IId"
style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 102, 33);">AlterNet</span><span
class="_v5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); padding: 0px 4px;">-</span><span
class="f nsa _uQb" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); display:
inline-block; font-size: 13px;">Jan 27, 2017</span></div>
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<blockquote>For starters, the goal to keep a global temperature
rise this century well below 2° ... in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="font-style:
normal;">global warming</em><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>refugees, and more
droughts, wildfires and heatwaves...<br>
...it's frighteningly real—and thanks to climate change, the
occurrence of the menacing microbe, Vibrio vulnificus, is
expected to rise.<br>
Climate change isn't the only culprit in the expected rise in
cases of deadly bacterial infections. Raw oysters also play a
role. The editorial board of the Salisbury, Maryland Daily Times
(the newspaper that reported on the Funk case) offered readers a
simple warning: "Avoid brackish, stagnant water and don't eat
raw oysters."<br>
For centuries humans have known that climatic conditions affect
epidemic infections—since well before the basic notion of
infectious agents was under- stood late in the nineteenth
century. The Roman aristocracy took refuge in their hill resorts
each summer to avoid ...More recently, scientists at the World
Health Organization suggest that climate change aided the spread
of the Zika virus.<br>
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<!--EndFragment--><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html">This
Day in Climate History January 29, 2006 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">The New York Times reports on the
extensive effort by the George W. Bush administration to muzzle
NASA scientist James Hansen. (The controversy would also be
covered by Air America's "EcoTalk with Betsy Rosenberg" and the
CBS program "60 Minutes.")</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/02/ecotalk_82.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/02/ecotalk_82.html</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/x0i4Sx1edJE">http://youtu.be/x0i4Sx1edJE</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/nasa-scientist-muzzled/">http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/nasa-scientist-muzzled/</a></font><br>
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