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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming -
"Climate reality trumps Trump's alternate reality" Please
forward this email. February 2, 2017</i></font><font size="+1"><i>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://grist.org/briefly/a-massive-climate-march-is-coming-soon-to-washington/">http://grist.org/briefly/a-massive-climate-march-is-coming-soon-to-washington/</a></font><br>
<b><span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif"><a
href="http://grist.org/briefly/a-massive-climate-march-is-coming-soon-to-washington/">A
massive climate march is coming soon to Washington</a> (<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=70f300323a&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;">Grist</a>)</span></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">The People's Climate March will descend
on D.C. with an intersectional coalition of green and
environmental-justice groups, indigenous and civil-rights
organizations, students and labor unions. The march will take
place on Saturday, April 29, exactly 100 days into Trump's
presidency.</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi6RkdaEqgRVKi3AzidF4ow</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q48BvprCFr0">I'm just
one person, what can I do? Global Weirding with Katharine
Hayhoe</a></b><br>
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Texas Tech Public Media and distributed by PBS Digital Studios.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.shutitdown.today/press_release_february_1_2017">http://www.shutitdown.today/press_release_february_1_2017</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.shutitdown.today/press_release_february_1_2017">Skagit
Jury Refuses to Convict First "Valve-Turner", Vindicates Climate
Threat</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"> In a resounding recognition of the
threat of climate change, a Skagit County jury has refused to
convict Ken Ward of two felony counts stemming from an act of
civil disobedience in October of last year. After more than five
hours of deliberation, Ward's three-day trial ended in a hung
jury, with at least one juror refusing to convict.<br>
"In five hours, the jury was unable to decide that with all of
the evidence against me, including the video of me closing the
valve, that this was a crime. I didn't contest a single piece of
the evidence, only presented my story and evidence of
catastrophic climate change. This is a tremendous outcome.,"
said Ken Ward after the decision.</font><br>
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<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">Climate city' lines up to
advance climate change issues in Trump era (<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=18ab9c3fe2&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;">WCQS</a>)<br>
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</span><span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">Bills Across The Country
Could Increase Penalties For Protesters (<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=0e95df181b&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;">NPR</a>)<br>
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</span> <span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">Climate change denial is
not dead (<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=876a108ccf&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 Hill, Michael Mann op-ed</a>)<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/trump-copying-bush-censorship-playbook-scientists-arent-standing-for-it.html">https://www.skepticalscience.com/trump-copying-bush-censorship-playbook-scientists-arent-standing-for-it.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/trump-copying-bush-censorship-playbook-scientists-arent-standing-for-it.html">Trump
is copying the Bush censorship playbook. Scientists aren't
standing for it</a></b><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-2"><span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">By dana1981 </span><br>
<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">As President George
W. Bush said, "Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool
me ... You can't get fooled again!"... the Trump
Administration has copied the Bush scientific censorship
playbook. They issued de facto gag orders to government
science agencies like the EPA and USDA, ordered that the EPA
take down its climate webpage, and have mandated that any
studies or data from EPA scientists must undergo review by
political appointees before they can be released to the
public...</span><br>
<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">However, the Trump
Administration is quickly realizing that scientists learned
from the Bush scandal. This time around they're not trying to
appease the political appointees by staying quiet and allowing
the censorship to happen...But Trump has given scientists
every reason to feel threatened...</span><br>
<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">For example, he
appointed Myron Ebell to lead his EPA transition team - an oil
and coal-funded enemy of science who wants to gut the agency.
That team also included David Schnare and Chris Horner, who
have spent much of their careers harassing and intimidating
climate scientists. Here's what the transition team had to say
about how the EPA currently uses science:..</span><br>
<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif">EPA does not use
science to guide regulatory policy as much as it uses
regulatory policy to steer the science ... EPA has greatly
increased its science manipulation.</span></font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://grist.org/politics/trumps-first-week-was-remarkably-terrible-for-the-climate/">http://grist.org/politics/trumps-first-week-was-remarkably-terrible-for-the-climate/</a></font><br>
<a
href="http://grist.org/politics/trumps-first-week-was-remarkably-terrible-for-the-climate/">Zombie
pipelines, EPA under attack, and that's just Week One</a><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">PELLA, Iowa, Jan. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Is
CO2-driven<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>good for the planet? Dr.
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/dinograndoni/rex-tillerson-climate-change">https://www.buzzfeed.com/dinograndoni/rex-tillerson-climate-change</a></font><br>
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Tone On<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When The Cameras
Were Off</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>With cameras trained on him for more than six hours of
questioning, Rex Tillerson told Democratic senators on the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee many of the things they
wanted to hear when it came to<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>. "<b style="font-weight: normal;">Climate
change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>does
exist<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">...</b><br>
<b style="font-weight: normal;">In responses to written
questions from at least two senators, Tillerson questioned the
consensus among climate scientists about humanity<b>'</b>s
role in warming the planet — including some scientists who
work for ExxonMobil, the company Tillerson ran for a decade.
He also doubled back spoken testimony that said the United
States should remain in the Paris climate accord.</b><br>
<b style="font-weight: normal;">Tillerson<b>'</b>s responses to
these two senators, Ben Cardin of Maryland and Jeff Merkley of
Oregon, are not yet public but were obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The offices of both senators confirmed that the answers to
their questionnaires are real.</b><br>
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255);">Update (Feb. 1, 9:52am): This story has been updated with
a comment from a Trump-appointed US Department of Commerce
official, who claims Haapala never participated in transition
meetings, despite his ties to the transition team.</div>
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<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/how-to-stayoutraged-without-losing-your-mind-fc0c41aa68f3#.eye1b9xpe">https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/how-to-stayoutraged-without-losing-your-mind-fc0c41aa68f3#.eye1b9xpe</a></font><br>
<a
href="https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/how-to-stayoutraged-without-losing-your-mind-fc0c41aa68f3#.eye1b9xpe">How
to #StayOutraged Without Losing Your Mind</a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Self-Care Lessons for the Resistance</font><br>
<font size="-1">Stare Down the Abyss, then Build the Bridges to
Get Over It</font><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-bengal-depleted-fish-stocks-pollution-climate-change-migration">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-bengal-depleted-fish-stocks-pollution-climate-change-migration</a></font><br>
<font color="#000066"><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-bengal-depleted-fish-stocks-pollution-climate-change-migration">Bay
of Bengal: depleted fish stocks and huge dead zone signal
tipping point</a></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">What is unfolding in the bay is a
catastrophic convergence of flawed policy, economic
over-exploitation, unsustainable forms of waste management, and
climate change impacts that are intensifying in unpredictable
ways. The scientists who identified the bay's dead zone warn
that this stretch of ocean is approaching a tipping point that
will have serious consequences for the planet's oceans and the
global nitrogen cycle...<br>
Should the bay's fisheries collapse there will also be very
serious human consequences, including intensified conflict and
mass displacement. If millions of people lose their livelihoods
then we can be sure that the resultant churning of populations
will create huge new streams of migration, across the bay, the
Indian Ocean, and indeed, the planet. Recent refugee flows in
the region suggest that such a process may have already begun...<br>
For these issues to be addressed there needs to be a sea change
in governmental attitudes and policies. </font><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://grist.org/living/so-your-world-might-be-falling-apart-heres-how-to-build-it-up-again/">http://grist.org/living/so-your-world-might-be-falling-apart-heres-how-to-build-it-up-again/</a></font><br>
<a
href="http://grist.org/living/so-your-world-might-be-falling-apart-heres-how-to-build-it-up-again/">So,
your world is falling apart. Here's how to build it up again.</a><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">You'll find other guides on how to <a
href="https://www.indivisibleguide.com/">influence Congress</a>
and <a
href="https://www.resistancemanual.org/Resistance_Manual_Home">resist
different goals</a> of the Trump administration. This one
simply addresses how to be a better citizen of the Anthropocene
— a starter pack of ideas on how to begin to build a more
sustainable community and country. </font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/01/high-tech-war-on-science">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/01/high-tech-war-on-science</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/01/high-tech-war-on-science?CMP=share_btn_gp">The
hi-tech war on science fraud</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1"> The exposure of fraud directly
threatens the special claim science has on truth, which relies
on the belief that its methods are purely rational and
objective. As the congressmen warned scientists during the
hearings, "each and every case of fraud serves to undermine the
public's trust in the research enterprise of our nation".</font><br>
<font size="-1">But three decades later, scientists still have
only the most crude estimates of how much fraud actually exists.
The current accepted standard is a 2009 study by the Stanford
researcher Daniele Fanelli that collated the results of 21
previous surveys given to scientists in various fields about
research misconduct. The studies, which depended entirely on
scientists honestly reporting their own misconduct, concluded
that about 2% of scientists had falsified data at some point in
their career.</font><br>
<font size="-1">If Fanelli's estimate is correct, it seems likely
that thousands of scientists are getting away with misconduct
each year. Fraud – including outright fabrication, plagiarism
and self-plagiarism – accounts for the majority of retracted
scientific articles. ...</font><br>
<font size="-1">When scientists publish papers in journals, they
release only the data they wish to share. Critical evaluation of
the results by other scientists – peer review – takes place in
secret and the discussion is not released publicly. Once a paper
is published, all comments, concerns, and retractions must go
through the editors of the journal before they reach the public.
There are good, or at least defensible, arguments for all of
this. But Hartgerink is part of an increasingly vocal group that
believes that the closed nature of science, with authority
resting in the hands of specific gatekeepers – journals,
universities, and funders – is harmful, and that a more open
approach would better serve the scientific method.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/153913-1">This Day in
Climate History February 2, 1977 </a> - from D.R. Tucker<br>
</b></font>
<blockquote><font size="+1"><b> </b></font>In a (literal) fireside
chat, President Carter discusses his plans to establish a national
energy policy that emphasizes conservation.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7455">http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7455</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/153913-1">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/153913-1</a><br>
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