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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming - Please
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255);">This visibly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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the natural poster child for the<span
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confronting the Defense Department—and seems as good a setting
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and the military in the new political era in ...</div>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">A group of Republican elder statesmen called on their
party's leadership to address<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by enacting a carbon tax
to replace much of the Obama-era environmental regulation.<br>
"Crazy as it may sound, this is the perfect time to enact a
sensible policy to address the dangerous threat of climate
change," Feldstein, Mankiw and Halstead in a New York Times
op-ed. "This would be pro-growth, pro-competitiveness and
pro-working class."<br>
The plan's backers propose a "sensible" carbon tax that begins
at $40 per ton and increases with time. They estimate that the
average family of four would receive $2,000 annually in dividend
payments. The plan—even with the elimination Obama-era
regulations—would allow the U.S. to meet its emissions reduction
commitment to the Paris Agreement without any other policies,
according to the report.<br>
"Theory suggests a nationwide price on carbon would lead to even
more economically efficient outcomes."Republicans in Congress
have largely balked at measures to address climate change,
though a small contingent continues to push the issue. The
backers of the new plan said they believe even current skeptics
will eventually have to face the reality of climate change.
"This will become the inevitable climate solution," said
Halstead. "We cannot tell you when, but we can tell you that
eventually, this country has to deal with this issue, and we
think that our solution will be front and center."<br>
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255);"><b style="font-weight: normal;">Global warming</b><span
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environmentalists. Nearly two-thirds of management accountants
think<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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<b><a
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-02-extreme-increasingly-global-landscape.html">Research
predicts extreme fires will increasingly be part of our global
landscape</a></b><br>
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<div class="news-box-text"> <font size="-1">Increasingly
dangerous fire weather is forecast as the global footprint of
extreme fires expands, according to the latest research...<br>
"The projections suggest an increase in the days conducive to
extreme wildfire events by 20 to 50 per cent in these
disaster-prone landscapes, with sharper increases in the
subtropical Southern Hemisphere, and the European
Mediterranean Basin," Professor Bowman said...<br>
"We can't stop big, intense fires from happening here, and
they are increasing under climate change. However, in the
western US, we can reduce the potential for fire disasters by
both reducing forest density and improving mitigation and
preparedness through the development of fire-resilient
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href="http://inhabitat.com/bill-gates-warns-against-climate-change-denial/">http://inhabitat.com/bill-gates-warns-against-climate-change-denial/</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Bill Gates warns against<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">change</b><span
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<blockquote>Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates recently spoke
out against denying climate change during a student
question-and-answer session at Columbia University in New York
City earlier this month. Joined by fellow monied person Warren
Buffett, the Microsoft founder also called for greater
innovation in clean energy. He said, “Certain topics are so
complicated like climate change that to really get a broad
understanding is a bit difficult and particularly when people
take that complexity and create uncertainty about it”.<br>
We need to find energy that’s “reliable, cheap, and clean,” he
said, before promising that “the innovations there will be
profound.”<br>
He added, “There are many paths to get to where we need to go”.
Perhaps another billionaire we know should pay attention?.<br>
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href="https://thinkprogress.org/no-bill-gates-we-dont-need-energy-miracles-to-solve-climate-change-60ac8fbb9e2e#.5j51tgt00">https://thinkprogress.org/no-bill-gates-we-dont-need-energy-miracles-to-solve-climate-change-60ac8fbb9e2e#.5j51tgt00</a>.</font></div>
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href="https://thinkprogress.org/no-bill-gates-we-dont-need-energy-miracles-to-solve-climate-change-60ac8fbb9e2e#.5j51tgt00">No
Bill Gates, We Don’t Need ‘Energy Miracles’ To Solve Climate
Change (2016)</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">For six years, Bill Gates has been
arguing that we need “energy miracles” to avoid catastrophic
climate change. For six years, he has been wrong.</font><br>
<font size="-1">In fact, Gates is more wrong now than he was in
2010. Why? Because in the last six years, we have seen that
aggressive deployment of clean energy technology driven by
government policies has — as was predicted — led to precisely
the kind of game-changing cost-slashing innovation that Gates
mistakenly thinks happens primarily from basic energy research
and development (R&D;).</font><br>
<font size="-1">For six years, Gates has claimed we were wildly
under-investing in basic energy R&D.; Yet, somehow the very
thing Gates says he wanted — huge price drops in key low-carbon
technologies (like renewables and efficiency) and key enabling
technologies (like batteries for storage) — kept happening. The
fact is that accelerated deployment policies around the world
created economies of scale and brought technologies rapidly down
the learning curve, as the DOE reported last November... </font><br>
<font size="-1">...What is particularly unfortunate about Gates’
mistaken rhetoric is that it can disempower people and
policymakers and pundits into thinking that individual or even
government action is not the central weapon needed to win the
climate fight and that our only hope is some long-term deus ex
machina strategy to avoid catastrophic warming. Nothing could be
worse than leaving people with the impression that humanity’s
only hope is future miracles — especially since a
quarter-century of largely ignoring the warnings of climate
scientists has left us with quite literally no time left to
dawdle in exponentially ramping up deployment....</font><br>
<font size="-1">...The world needs about 100 times as much money
for deployment of carbon-free energy as it does for R&D;
right now;</font><br>
<font size="-1">Key developing countries like India are making
decisions about building coal vs. carbon-free power right now
that could lock in carbon pollution for decades; and</font><br>
<font size="-1">Genuine technology breakthroughs are exceedingly
rare in the energy arena and generally take decades and vast
resources to deploy once they do make it to market.. - Joe Romm</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-02-major-global-defended.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-02-major-global-defended.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-02-major-global-defended.html">Major
global warming study again questioned, again defended</a></b><br>
<blockquote>
<div class="news-box-text"> <font size="-1">Another round of
bickering is boiling over about temperature readings used in a
2015 study to show how the planet is warming. The issue is
about how readings gathered decades ago were adjusted to try
to get a clearer picture of how the Earth's<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">...</b></font></div>
<font size="-1"> ...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Here's our piece on the Daily Mail story --
rounds up several of the rebuttals and shows the spread to
Breitbart and other right-wing media outlets:</font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2017/02/07/bogus-daily-mail-story-spearheads-latest-right-wing-assault-climate-change-science/215257">http://mediamatters.org/research/2017/02/07/bogus-daily-mail-story-spearheads-latest-right-wing-assault-climate-change-science/215257</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/aseifter/status/828992596869517312">https://twitter.com/aseifter/status/828992596869517312</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"> The <a
href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060049630">Bates
semi-retraction</a> is important given the likelihood that
this will be used in the Make EPA Great Again hearing today:</font><br>
<font size="-1"> </font>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font
size="-1">He specified that he did not believe that they
manipulated the data upon which the research relied in any
way.<br>
"The issue here is not an issue of tampering with data, but
rather really of timing of a release of a paper that had not
properly disclosed everything it was," he said.</font><br>
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<blockquote> <font size="-1">A federal judge on Tuesday told
lawyers for a group of youths who are suing the federal
government over climate policy to consider simplifying their
case, if they want to keep it on track for trial later this year
in Eugene.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> During a pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court,
Magistrate Judge Tom Coffin urged the plaintiffs to “see to what
extent you can narrow” aspects of the potential landmark case,
which seeks a court order that requires the government to
drastically and quickly reduce carbon dioxide emissions that
many scientists say drive global warming.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Coffin has said the case could be headed for
trial later this year, which is what the plaintiffs want.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> But attorneys for the government and trade groups
representing many of the world’s largest energy companies say
that schedule wouldn’t give them enough time to prepare. They
say a request from the plaintiffs to retain all climate
change-related documents in their possession is particularly
onerous.</font><br>
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<b><a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-02-coal-hastens-arctic.html">Coal
mine dust hastens Arctic snow melt</a></b><br>
<blockquote>
<div class="news-box-text"> <font size="-1">Dust released by an
active coal mine in Svalbard, Norway, reduced the spectral
reflectance of nearby snow and ice by up to 84 percent,
according to new University of Colorado Boulder-led research.</font></div>
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<!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><b><a
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lakes drain below West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Thwaites Glacier on the edge of West
Antarctica is one of the planet's fastest-moving glaciers.
Research shows that it is sliding unstoppably into the ocean,
mainly due to warmer seawater lapping at its underside....</font><br>
<font size="-1">The new study supports previous UW research from
2014 showing that <b>Thwaites Glacier will likely collapse
within 200 to 900 years to cause seas to rise by 2 feet.</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">Read more at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-02-hidden-lakes-west-antarctica-thwaites.html#jCp">https://phys.org/news/2017-02-hidden-lakes-west-antarctica-thwaites.html#jCp</a></font><br>
<font size="-1">Researchers at the University of Washington and
the University of Edinburgh used data from the European Space
Agency's CryoSat-2 to identify a sudden drainage of large pools
below Thwaites Glacier, one of two fast-moving glaciers at the
edge of the ice sheet. The study published Feb. 8 in The
Cryosphere finds four interconnected lakes drained in the eight
months from June 2013 and January 2014. The glacier sped up by
about 10 percent during that time, showing that the glacier's
long-term movement is fairly oblivious to trickles at its
underside.</font><br>
<font size="-1">For the new study, the authors use a new technique
to discover drops at the glacier's surface of up to 70 feet (20
meters) over a 20 kilometer by 40 kilometer area. Calculations
show it was likely due to the emptying of four interconnected
lakes, the largest about the size of Lake Washington, far below.
The peak drainage rate was about 8,500 cubic feet (240 cubic
meters) per second, about half the flow of the Hudson River—the
largest meltwater outflow yet reported for subglacial lakes in
this region.</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-02-climate.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-02-climate.html</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-02-climate.html">Study
rehabilitates climate models</a></b><br>
<blockquote>
<div class="news-box-text"> <font size="-1">With new methods of
reconstruction, climate researchers in Bern have been able to
demonstrate that some 9,000 to 5,000 years ago, the
Mediterranean climate was considerably warmer than previous
studies had suggested. Among ...</font></div>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">But in those towers, a rare and contentious process is
underway, spewing an alarming amount of carbon dioxide, the main
greenhouse gas accelerating<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>. The plant and
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<font size="+1"><b><a
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climate change created humans</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">Have you ever wondered if humans will
give birth to a more evolved species? Or would we rather destroy
the planet before that happens? </font><br>
<font size="-1"> In this post I explore the climatic change that
gave place to the transition Autralopithecus --> Homo
habilis. </font><br>
<font size="-1">Several hundreds of thousands of years passed
until the Earth rotation axis changed sufficiently to decrease
the temperatures in the summer and prevented the high latitude
snow from melting. Giving origin to ice sheets formation in the
north and to a completely new era in which the Earth would be
shifting for glacial to interglacial periods, starting 2.5
million years ago. This new global climate dramatically reduced
the moisture of Africa and converted it into an arid region...</font><br>
<font size="-1">In summary, a change in oceanic circulation
generated high latitude snow precipitation that with the right
conditions formed the ice sheets and resulted in a great step on
the history of human evolution. This case study reflects the
great implications that climate change could have on ecosystems
and species, as well as the key roles of different components of
the climate, such as insolation and ocean circulation.</font><br>
<font size="-1">So do you think current climate change will give
place to a more evolved species than humans? Or we would rather
destroy the world before that happens?</font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bit.ly/climateandevolution">http://bit.ly/climateandevolution</a>
Best regards, Bernardo Bastien</font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">A group of Republican senior statesmen is pushing for a
carbon tax to combat the effects of<span
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</b><b><a
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models may underestimate future warming on tropical mountains</a></b><br>
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<div class="news-box-text"> <font size="-1">In few places are the
effects of climate change more pronounced than on tropical
peaks like Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, where
centuries-old glaciers have all but melted completely away.
Now, new research suggests that ...</font><br>
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<b><a
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pollutants raise some cancer risks four times higher than
predicted</a></b><br>
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<div class="news-box-text"> <font size="-1">A new way of looking
at how pollutants ride through the atmosphere has quadrupled
the estimate of global lung cancer risk from a pollutant
caused by combustion, to a level that is now double the
allowable limit recommended ...</font></div>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/issues/kerr020903spenv.html">http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/issues/kerr020903spenv.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocraticPolicy">http://c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocraticPolicy</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eaction/2004/issues/kerr020903spenv.html">This
Day in Climate History February 9, 2003 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">In a speech at Harvard University,
Democratic presidential candidate and Massachusetts Senator John
Kerry declares:</font><br>
<font size="-1">"We should be the world's environmental leader.
Our global environmental policy should be driven by our
convictions, not our constraints. America has not led but fled
on the issue of global warming. The first President Bush was
willing to lead on this issue. But the second President Bush's
declaration that the Kyoto Protocol was simply Dead on Arrival
spoke for itself - and it spoke in dozens of languages as his
words whipped instantly around the globe. What the
Administration failed to see was that Kyoto was not just an
agreement; it represented the resolve of 160 nations working
together over 10 years. It was a good faith effort - and the
United States just dismissed it. We didn't aim to mend it. We
didn't aim to sit down with our allies and find a compromise. We
didn't aim for a new dialogue. The Administration was simply
ready to aim and fire, and the target they hit was our
international reputation. This country can and should aim higher
than preserving its place as the world's largest unfettered
polluter. We should assert, not abandon our leadership in
addressing global economic degradation and the warming of the
atmosphere that if left unchecked, will do untold damage to our
coastline and our Great Plains, our cities and our economy."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/issues/kerr020903spenv.html">http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/issues/kerr020903spenv.html</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocraticPolicy">http://c-spanvideo.org/program/DemocraticPolicy</a></font><br>
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