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    <font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming -  Please
        forward this email.  February 8, 2017</i></font><br>
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            class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Was Data
            Manipulated in a Widely Cited 2015 Climate Study?</span></a></h2>
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and
        its chairman, led by Representative Lamar Smith, Republican of
        Texas, has demanded that NOAA researchers turn over emails
        related to work on climate change.</div>
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        class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/risk-megafires-increase-climate-warms">https://www.carbonbrief.org/risk-megafires-increase-climate-warms</a></font><br>
    <font size="+1"><b><a
          href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/risk-megafires-increase-climate-warms">Risk
          of 'megafires' to increase as climate warms</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote><font size="-1">The likelihood of extreme wildfires – or
        "megafires" – across the world is expected to increase as global
        temperatures rise, a new study says.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">The research, published in Nature Ecology &
        Evolution, uses satellite data to identify the 500 most extreme
        wildfires in recent years. Almost a third of these megafires
        caused deaths, burned down homes, or were declared a disaster by
        a national government.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">Using climate change projections for the middle of
        this century, the study suggests there will be a 35% increase in
        the days with high danger of fire across the world. But the some
        regions will see even larger increases, the researchers say,
        including western states of the US, southeastern Australia, the
        Mediterranean and southern Africa.</font><br>
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    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/federal-grid-watchdog-heads-into-limbo/article/2613864">http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/federal-grid-watchdog-heads-into-limbo/article/2613864</a></font><br>
    <font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/federal-grid-watchdog-heads-into-limbo/article/2613864">Federal
          grid watchdog heads into limbo</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote> <font size="-1">The federal electrical grid watchdog
        is suspending operations effective Saturday after the Obama
        nominee chosen to run the agency broke with protocol and
        resigned in the wake of President Trump's inauguration...</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> With only two members, the Federal Energy
        Regulatory Commission will lack a quorum by the close of
        business Friday, limiting its ability to act on any major or
        contested decisions...</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> The commission's acting chairwoman, Democrat
        Cheryl LaFleur, issued emergency procedures to handle the
        day-to-day load of electricity and energy market regulation
        until Trump nominates new members to fill the gap.</font><br>
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href="http://michiganradio.org/post/why-midwestern-wetlands-are-especially-important-combating-climate-change"
url="http://michiganradio.org/post/why-midwestern-wetlands-are-especially-important-combating-climate-change"
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">"Wetlands are really seen now as an ecosystem that can
        offer us resilience in the face of a<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
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          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>because of their ability
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        text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">The Climate Coalition is an alliance of more than 100
        U.K. charities and other organizations, including WWF UK,
        350.org, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace UK, all with an
        interest in combatting<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
          style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>. In a
        statement, the film's director<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">...</b></div>
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    <!--EndFragment--><font color="#666666" size="-1"><a
        class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/dapl-debate-is-there-really-a-need-for-so-many-new-oil-pipelines/">http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/dapl-debate-is-there-really-a-need-for-so-many-new-oil-pipelines/</a></font><br>
    <b><a
href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/dapl-debate-is-there-really-a-need-for-so-many-new-oil-pipelines/">Keystone
        debate: Is there really a need for so many new oil pipelines?</a></b><br>
    <blockquote><font size="-1"> (The Seattle Times, Lynda V. Mapes
        & Hal Bernton analysis)</font><br>
      <font size="-1"> Oil producers hailed President Trump's recent
        call for accelerating construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota
        Access pipelines. But is there a need for so many major pipeline
        projects?</font><br>
      <font size="-1">Tanker traffic would see a sevenfold expansion
        through the Salish Sea in Washington and British Columbia. The
        risks of oil spills have spurred tribal and environmental
        opposition in both Canada and the United States, and the
        pipeline permit faces legal challenges.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">Workers are already standing by in hotel rooms in
        North Dakota and equipment is on the site to complete the last
        bit of work.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">The work could be completed in just two weeks if
        crews work around the clock, a source close to the project said.</font><br>
    </blockquote>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/07/science/earth/antarctic-crack.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/07/science/earth/antarctic-crack.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0</a></font><br>
    <b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/07/science/earth/antarctic-crack.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0"> A
        Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two
        Months</a></b><br>
    <blockquote><font size="-1">A rapidly advancing crack in
        Antarctica's fourth-largest ice shelf has scientists concerned
        that it is getting close to a full break. The rift has
        accelerated this year in an area already vulnerable to warming
        temperatures. Since December, the crack has grown by the length
        of about five football fields each day.</font><br>
      <font size="-1">According to Dr. Rignot, the collapse of Larsen C
        would add only a tiny amount of water to the global sea level.
        Of greater concern to scientists is how the collapse of ice
        shelves can affect the glaciers that flow behind them, because
        the melting of those glaciers can cause much higher levels of
        ocean rise. Scientists see the impending Larsen C collapse as a
        warning that much larger amounts of ice in West Antarctica could
        be vulnerable.</font><br>
    </blockquote>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/196064/20170206/this-is-how-the-ice-sheets-of-antarctica-formed-very-rapidly-about-34-million-years-ago.htm">http://www.techtimes.com/articles/196064/20170206/this-is-how-the-ice-sheets-of-antarctica-formed-very-rapidly-about-34-million-years-ago.htm</a></font><br>
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          usg-AFQjCNFbgbCNHIDoAAPD70JfkZHv0QMQ_Q
          did-4307792658836294518"
href="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/196064/20170206/this-is-how-the-ice-sheets-of-antarctica-formed-very-rapidly-about-34-million-years-ago.htm"
url="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/196064/20170206/this-is-how-the-ice-sheets-of-antarctica-formed-very-rapidly-about-34-million-years-ago.htm"
          ssid="snc" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration:
          underline;"><span class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">This
            Is How The Ice Sheets Of Antarctica Formed Very Rapidly
            About 34 Million Years Ago</span></a></h2>
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    <blockquote>
      <div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
        padding-left: 1px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,
        sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-style: normal;
        font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
        font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
        text-align: left; 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);">Scientists have linked two older theories to explain how
        the ice sheets of Antarctica formed very rapidly. The first
        theory focuses on climate change, while the second theory
        focuses on dramatic changes in ocean circulation patterns.</div>
    </blockquote>
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href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-denier-scott-pruitt-epa-appointment-unprecedented-assault-environment-protection-a7566946.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-denier-scott-pruitt-epa-appointment-unprecedented-assault-environment-protection-a7566946.html</a></font><br>
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          usg-AFQjCNFgCOtOS8iFYwyKXP05gXgpnQOovA
          sig2-U5ZjKUtmUaRWaCw5ckMnEg did--1455756522631789553"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-denier-scott-pruitt-epa-appointment-unprecedented-assault-environment-protection-a7566946.html"
url="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-denier-scott-pruitt-epa-appointment-unprecedented-assault-environment-protection-a7566946.html"
          id="MAA4DEgEUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
          text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
            style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
              change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>denier
            Scott Pruitt's appointment to run EPA would be
            'unprecedented assault' on its work</span></a></h2>
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    <blockquote>
      <div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
        padding-left: 1px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,
        sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-style: normal;
        font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
        font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President-elect
        Donald Trump's choice to head the Environmental Protection
        Agency, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the
        Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on Capitol
        Hill ...</div>
    </blockquote>
    <!--EndFragment--><font color="#666666" size="-1"><a
        class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sci-fi-writers-predict-future-of-climate-change_us_588f9e46e4b0c90efeff2b0e">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sci-fi-writers-predict-future-of-climate-change_us_588f9e46e4b0c90efeff2b0e</a></font><br>
    <font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sci-fi-writers-predict-future-of-climate-change_us_588f9e46e4b0c90efeff2b0e">We
          Asked Sci-Fi Writers About The Future Of Climate Change...</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote><font size="-1">...sci-fi writer Ursula K. Le Guin
        pointed out ... alternative facts are different from fiction. "A
        lie is a non-fact deliberately told as fact," she wrote. "Santa
        Claus is a fiction. He's harmless. Lies are seldom completely
        harmless, and often very dangerous...</font><br>
      <font size="-1">Fiction, on the other hand, can entertain, inform,
        and speculate. In the case of science fiction, it can provide
        human context for facts and data, supporting it rather than
        refuting it. Possible solutions to urgent issues such as climate
        change can be explored. Though speculative fiction authors —
        including Margaret Atwood, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Barbara
        Kingsolver — have flocked to the topic in recent years, climate
        change has been addressed in fiction for decades, dating back to
        J.G. Ballard's imagined natural disasters.... we asked a range
        of science fiction authors ... to discuss speculative or
        fictional solutions to how climate change is discussed... </font><br>
      <font size="-1">Jeff VanderMeer, author of <u>Borne and the
          Southern Reach</u> trilogy  - "...we know what we need to do
        and we know what the consequences are otherwise."</font><br>
      <font size="-1">Thoraiya Dyer, author of <u>Crossroads of Canopy</u>
        - "Four humans in one generation, two humans in the next, and a
        whole lot of pooled resources for getting them to adulthood."</font><br>
      <font size="-1">Lidia Yuknavitch, author of <u>The Book of Joan </u>-"
        We need to move away from colonization impulses and toward a
        radical intimacy with the planet and everything on it"</font><br>
      <font size="-1">Emmi Itäranta, author of <u>Memory of Water</u> -
        "You were there. You made your protest sign at home, a wall of a
        cardboard box on which you painted the words 'HANDS OFF THE
        ARCTIC.'"</font><br>
      <font size="-1">John Scalzi, author of <u>The Collapsing Empire</u>
        -- "The science fictional idea here is not the technology
        involved, but the idea there is a global will to make the switch
        in the face of (basically) greed and inertia. Let's see!"</font><br>
    </blockquote>
    <font size="-1">
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/bush-epa-recognized-global-warming-threat">http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/bush-epa-recognized-global-warming-threat</a><br>
    </font><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://m.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/02/bush-epa-recognized-global-warming-threat">This
          Day in Climate History  February 8, 2011 </a> -  from D.R.
        Tucker</b></font><br>
    <blockquote><font size="-1">Bush EPA Recognized Global Warming
        Threat  - by Kate Sheppard  Mother Jones<br>
        In recent months, the EPA's power to regulate greenhouse-gas
        emissions has become a prime target for Republicans (and some
        Democrats) in Congress who raise the specter of a government
        bureaucracy gone wild under the Obama administration. Foes of
        the regulations have gone so far as to propose throwing out the
        very scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human
        health. But a letter released Tuesday once again makes it clear
        that even the Bush administration knew it needed to act on
        global warming—it just chose not to....<br>
        Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) releases a January 31, 2008 letter from
        then-EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to President George W.
        Bush, urging Bush to finally take action on carbon pollution...
         
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