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<font size="+1"><i>February 22, 2017 EPA's Scott Pruitt's
court-ordered emails 7,500 pages </i></font><br>
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href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/Scott-Pruitt-Missing-Emails">http://www.exposedbycmd.org/Scott-Pruitt-Missing-Emails</a></font><br>
<a href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/Scott-Pruitt-Missing-Emails"><b>(Press
Release) OKLAHOMA AG RELEASES 7,564 PAGES IN RESPONSE TO CMD
REQUEST</b></a><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">Under court order, Oklahoma Attorney
General's office releases previously withheld emails and holds
back others; more emails expected on January 27<br>
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — As a result of an Open Records Act
request and lawsuit filed by the Center for Media and Democracy,
on Tuesday night the Oklahoma Attorney General's office released
a batch of more than 7,500 pages of emails and other records it
withheld prior to Scott Pruitt's nomination as EPA Administrator
last Friday...<br>
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<font size="-1">The AG's office withheld an undetermined number of
additional documents as exempted or privileged and submitted
them to the Judge Aletia Haynes Timmons for review. A number of
other documents were redacted, and CMD will be asking for the
court to review those as well. On February 27, the AG's office
has been ordered to deliver records related to five outstanding
requests by CMD....<br>
"Despite repeated attempts by Pruitt and the Oklahoma AG's
office to stonewall CMD and the public, we've won a major
breakthrough in obtaining access to public records that shine a
light on Pruitt's emails with polluters and their proxies," said
Nick Surgey, research director at the Center for Media and
Democracy. "The newly released emails reveal a close and
friendly relationship between Scott Pruitt's office and the
fossil fuel industry, with frequent meetings, calls, dinners and
other events. ...."There are hundreds of emails between the AG's
office, Devon Energy, and other polluters that Senators should
have been permitted to review prior to their vote to assess
Pruitt's ties to the fossil fuel industry."<br>
<b>Among the documents released late yesterday, CMD has found:</b><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1"> -- The oil and gas lobby group
American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM)
coordinated opposition in 2013 to both the Renewable Fuel
Standard Program and ozone limits with Pruitt's office. While
AFPM was making its own case against the RFS with the American
Petroleum Institute, it provided Pruitt with a template
language for an Oklahoma petition, noting "this argument is
more credible coming from a State." Later that year, Pruitt
did file opposition to both the RFS and ozone limits.<br>
-- In a groundbreaking New York Times Pulitzer winning
series in 2014, Eric Lipton exposed the close relationship
between Devon Energy and Scott Pruitt, and highlighted
examples where Devon Energy drafted letters that were sent by
Pruitt under his own name. These new emails reveal more of the
same close relationship with Devon Energy. In one email, Devon
Energy helped draft language that was later sent by Pruitt to
the EPA about the limiting of methane from oil and gas
fracking.<br>
-- In 2013, Devon Energy organized a meeting between Scott
Pruitt, Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society and coal
industry lawyer Paul Seby to plan the creation of a
"clearinghouse" that would "assist AGs in addressing
federalism issues." Melissa Houston, then Pruitt's chief of
staff emailed Devon Energy saying "this will be an amazing
resource for the AGs and for industry."<br>
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Last week, the Oklahoma County Court found Scott Pruitt in
violation of the state's Open Records Act for improperly
withholding responsive public records and ordered his office to
release thousands of emails in a matter of days. CMD's lawsuit
has driven unprecedented attention to Pruitt's failure to
disclose his deep ties to fossil industry corporations, with
Senators on the Environmental and Public Works Committee
declaring CMD's records requests a matter of "federal
importance."<br>
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<font size="-1">In her ruling, Judge Timmons slammed the Attorney
General's office for its "abject failure" to abide by the Oklahoma
Open Records Act.<br>
The judge gave Pruitt's office until Tuesday, February 21, to turn
over more than 2,500 emails it withheld from CMD's January 2015
records request, and ordered the office to turn over an
undetermined number of documents responsive to CMD's five
additional open records requests outstanding between November 2015
and August 2016 by February 27. No deadline has been yet set for a
further three outstanding open records requests.<br>
Full document set: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.exposedbycmd.org/Scott-Pruitt-Missing-Emails">http://www.exposedbycmd.org/Scott-Pruitt-Missing-Emails</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">The guilt of record warmth in
Chicago —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>?</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote> "It's scary, that's my first thing," Massey said.
"Because in all my life I've never seen a February this warm. It's
like, what's going on that we're not hearing about? The fear is
we're just going to get hit with some major snowstorms next. —
that this is just the calm before the storm — or that we're going
to have snow in June."...<br>
Whether the record-breaking warmth is a sign of climate change, or
of a harsh spring to come or just a burst of unseasonable weather
is difficult for experts to discern. The warm spell is too short a
time period to determine its true cause, climate scientists say.
And meteorologists point out that there are natural variances in
weather over time....<br>
"It's very extraordinary. I have to keep reminding myself this is
February and not March or April. It's kind of weird," said Jim
Angel, the Illinois state climatologist.<br>
Angel said it's hard to draw a direct connection between stretches
like the past few days and overall climate change because bursts
of extreme temperatures are too short to allow for deeper
conclusions. Illinois has always had great variability in its
weather, he said...<br>
A wider snapshot of the state's weather over the last century,
however, shows that Illinois winters have warmed 1.8 degrees,
Angel said. What's happening, he said, is harsh winters are being
replaced with milder ones. The polar vortex winter of 2014,
however, was a notable exception...<br>
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, a professor at Texas Tech
University, agrees it's impossible to know if the recent warm
spell is due to overall warming trends this past decade across the
country — which points to climate change — or a natural, periodic
shift in weather...<br>
Still, "the reality is any conditions we have these days are
different than they would've been 50 or 100 years ago because
we've changed background conditions," she said, pointing to data
that show there are now more than twice as many record-breaking
high temperatures compared to a decade ago...<br>
The unseasonably warm conditions may have ramifications for the
state's apple orchards and fields of winter wheat, he added. Apple
trees may begin to shake out of their dormancy earlier because of
the warm temperatures, then suffer when the cold returns, Angel
said. Winter wheat, planted in the fall to remain dormant until
spring, may also begin to green early only to be blasted when
temperatures plummet...<br>
"From a farming standpoint, this is not good news," Angel said...<br>
"If we don't go much below 20 or 25, we'll probably be OK; but if
we happen to pretty quickly drop down colder than that for any
length of time, it will probably cause some damage," he said...<br>
The consecutive days of warmth have caused buds to sprout on trees
and daffodil leaves to pop out of the dirt, Taylor said. Although
there has been that stimulation of growth, for the most part, she
said, plants should not be significantly affected...<br>
Gillespie wasn't worried about any negative ramifications of the
warm spell or concerning himself with what forecasters call the
inevitable return of typical winter cold...<br>
"I just take it one day at a time in Chicago; man, that's all you
can do," Gillespie said. "You never know what tomorrow can bring."<br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Replace the specter of the Dust Bowl with the growing
threat of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and FDR's sentiment is
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/bostons-sciencemarch-america-runs-on-science-the-climate-hawks-companion-podcast/">http://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/bostons-sciencemarch-america-runs-on-science-the-climate-hawks-companion-podcast/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://massclimateaction.podbean.com/e/bostons-sciencemarch-america-runs-on-science-the-climate-hawks-companion-podcast/">Boston's
Science March- "America runs on science!" The Climate Hawk's
Companion Podcast</a></b><br>
<blockquote> Listen in to some of the speakers at the February 19,
2017 #ScienceMarch in Boston.<br>
Speakers include Prof Naomi Oreskes, <br>
"It is not political to defend the integrity of the planet"<br>
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href="https://theconversation.com/red-state-rural-america-is-acting-on-climate-change-without-calling-it-climate-change-69866">https://theconversation.com/red-state-rural-america-is-acting-on-climate-change-without-calling-it-climate-change-69866</a></font><br>
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<blockquote> The last freak rainstorm turned the Central Valley into
a lake, and we're due for another one...<br>
The severe flooding may feel like a whiplash development in a
state that's been locked in drought for five years — and in an
"exceptional drought" for three of them. Still, California has
seen worse: massive floods have swept through the state about
every 200 years for the past 2,000 years or more, climate
scientists Michael Dettinger and Lynn Ingram recount in a 2013
article....<br>
The most recent was a series of storms that lasted for a
near-biblical 43 days between 1861 and 1862, creating a vast lake
where California's Central Valley had been. Floodwaters drowned
thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of cattle, and forced
the state's government to move from Sacramento to San Francisco...<br>
More than 150 years have passed since California's last, great
flood — and a team of researchers with the US Geological Survey
have predicted what kind of damage a similar flood would cause
today. Their simulation, called the ARkStorm, anticipates that a
stretch of the Central Valley 300 miles long by 20 miles wide
would be underwater. Cities up and down the coast of California
would flood. Winds would howl 60 to 125 miles per hour, and
landslides would make roads impassable...<br>
This winter's heavy precipitation has already caused a slew of
problems; California's governor Jerry Brown called a state of
emergency after December and January's storms to ensure that 50
counties would be able to get funds to repair the damage. Last
week, the Oroville Dam's crumbling emergency spillway triggered
the emergency evacuation of more than 180,000 people..<br>
Now, the state's Department of Water Resources is turning its
attention to the Don Pedro Dam in Tuolumne County, California —
about two hours due west of Yosemite National Park. The dam
operators opened the spillway Monday afternoon, which will mean
higher water levels in the river system for a while, says Jon
Ericson with the California Department of Water Resources. People
who live along the Tuolumne River are being encouraged to move to
higher ground, the LA Times reported on Monday..<br>
In a typical year, around nine atmospheric rivers shower
California with precipitation. They're a critical source of about
a third to half of the annual water in a state where the summers
are usually bone-dry. But they also frequently go hand in hand
with devastating wind storms, which can cause billions of dollars
of damage, according to a study published Monday in the journal
Nature Geosciences....<br>
That's the situation we're in now, Ralph says, with about 30
atmospheric rivers since October 1st — and it's something we can
expect to see more of. As global temperatures continue to climb,
the air can hold more water vapor — which means calmer winds, but
warmer and wetter atmospheric rivers, more often. And that means
more flooding.<br>
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<blockquote>Projected global warming will likely decrease the extent
of temperate drylands by a third over the remainder of the 21st
century coupled with an increase in dry deep soil conditions
during agricultural growing season. These results have been
presented in Nature Communications by an international
collaboration led by the US Geological Survey and members from
seven countries, including Scott Wilson at the Climate Impacts
Research Centre (CIRC) at Umeå University in Sweden...<br>
"I was impressed by the scope of the computer model: with many
components of the water cycle calculated daily for 30 years, at
20,000 sites. All of this to simulate the current climate as well
as 16 possible future climates. The variety of possible future
climates gave pretty consistent outcomes, lending credibility to
the results," says Professor Scott Wilson, visiting researcher at
Umeå University and researcher within CIRC...<br>
"For example, with the expansion of subtropical drylands as
temperate drylands warm cool season crops such as wheat and potato
would no longer be economically viable," says Scott Wilson.
"Further, these subtropical drylands are home to aggressive
diseases such as dengue and schistosomiasis. Given the predicted
changes to dryland habitats globally, the outcome of this research
is essential for developing strategies for adaptation by policy
makers."<br>
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<blockquote>Over the weekend, Donald Trump's Palm Beach country
club, Mar-a-Lago, was the location where he interviewed two
candidates for National Security Advisor. The previous weekend,
the club's open dining room was where Trump and his advisors
discussed how to respond to a North Korean missile test. Trump's
insistence on conducting government business at his beach
club—after doubling membership rates—sits at the top of a rather
lengthy list of his conflict of interests...<br>
Mar-a-Lago is a national historic landmark. It is the former home
of Marjorie Merriweather Post, a leading socialite of the post-war
era who owned General Foods. The estate can also become the
primary motivating force for bringing a climate denier like Donald
Trump to finally accept scientific facts...<br>
In three decades, parts of Trump's beach club could be at least a
foot under the ocean's surface, according to an analysis
commissioned last year by the Guardian. But the immediate risk is
nothing to sneeze at—much of it could face a 3-6 feet storm surge
the next time a tropical storm or hurricane strikes. While the
main building should be just about safe from anything under a
category 2 hurricane through 2046, the ongoing surge of property
damage could compel just about anyone to reconsider whether
climate change is real or a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese...<br>
It's fairly obvious that Trump has not considered the
climate-change risk to his real estate holdings in Florida and
elsewhere, even though 13 of his 17 golf resorts and associated
real estate developments and four additional hotels are on or near
the ...Even though they may be worried about sea-level rise,
however, many developers will not change their business practices
until government regulations compel them to, according to one
developer I spoke with. The real estate industry, he told me, is
like any other sector in that it depends on the government to set
up a level playing field in which they compete...<br>
Trump is, of course, in the rare position of establishing
regulations that impact his businesses. He can certainly push for
weaker rules that allow more flood-prone developments to be built.
And he has already shown an eagerness to weaken regulations that
restrict greenhouse gas emissions...<br>
But what will happen when the 2017 hurricane season hits? And, if
2017 is a dud like 2015—which forecasters are starting to predict
already—what about 2018? Or 2019 or 2020? Can a major hurricane
cause major damage to Mar-a-Lago and then, amidst the resulting
media storm, finally turn on the switch that compels Trump to
protect his real estate holdings?<br>
If so, he would not be able to reinstate everything that he rolled
back, of course. And the majorities in Congress who welcome his
climate denial would balk if he tried to stem the tide of denial.
But really, what choice does he have? His business empire is
heavily tilted towards the coast. He can increase the federal
insurance programs that protect coastal residential areas from
flooding or build sea walls and other infrastructure to help his
properties weather the coming storms, but sooner or later he will
have to either address the problem at its root or divest from the
coast...<br>
It is in his long term interest to reduce the risk his investments
face from climate change. And his short-term interests would
benefit as well. Mar-a-Lago members, after all, are paying
$200,000 upfront plus $14,000 every year to watch foreign policy
in action. They're not paying to play tennis while wearing
floaties...<i>Dan Klotz is a veteran writer and advocate on
conservation efforts and the health and sustainability of our
food systems.</i><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060050316">Inside the
buried memo that could decide pipeline's fate</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> Ellen M. Gilmer, E&E News reporter Published:
Tuesday, February 21, 2017<br>
An overlooked memo from the Interior Department's top lawyer could
play a critical role in the fate of the Dakota Access pipeline,
and the Trump administration is considering erasing it.<br>
Obama-era Interior Solicitor Hilary Tompkins late last year issued
a formal legal opinion outlining reasons the government should
conduct further study before granting final approval for the
controversial oil project.<br>
<a href="https://solicitor.doi.gov/opinions/M-37038.pdf">The
35-page memo</a> says the existing environmental assessment for
Dakota Access suffers from fatal flaws, including inadequate
consideration of tribal treaty rights and uneven treatment of the
project's impacts on native and non-native populations.<br>
The Trump administration quietly suspended the opinion two weeks
ago as it prepared to approve the pipeline and halt deeper
environmental study.<br>
The document, known as an "M-opinion," is dated Dec. 4, 2016 — the
same day the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to do more review —
but it only recently surfaced in legal filings at a federal court
in Washington. It includes powerful ammunition for tribes that
have long pushed for additional review of the oil pipeline.<br>
"It's hugely significant," said Earthjustice lawyer Jan Hasselman,
representing the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. "It is potentially
determinative of the outcome in the case."<br>
Others have cast doubt on the memo's importance. Army Corps
officials dismissed it in a recent legal review, and some court
watchers have characterized it as an attempt by the Obama
administration to provide cover for its decision to delay pipeline
approval.<br>
'That's why we have courts'<br>
What's clear is that the Trump administration wants to take a
second look. Interior removed the memo from the solicitor's
website last week, along with three other opinions that could
affect Dakota Access.<br>
Links to the documents now connect to a letter from acting
Secretary Jack Haugrud noting that the opinions have been
temporarily withdrawn until political appointees can decide
whether they should be reinstated, modified or revoked.<br>
From the memo at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://solicitor.doi.gov/opinions/M-37038.pdf">https://solicitor.doi.gov/opinions/M-37038.pdf</a><br>
"In light of these considerations, I do not believe that the DAPL
is one of "those obvious<br>
circumstances where no effect on the environment is possible," 191
or that the Corps'<br>
determination that there are minimal threats to tribal rights is
"close to self-evident and would<br>
not require an extended document incorporating other studies." 192
Instead, there is ample legal<br>
justification for the Corps to exercise its discretion to suspend
or revoke the existing Section 408<br>
pennit and/or postpone a decision on the proposed easement
conditional on additional analysis<br>
and government-to-government consultation concerning the
tribal-specific issues discussed in<br>
this Memorandum, and to ultimately issue an EIS addressing these
topics. If the Corps<br>
ultimately does decide to authorize the easement, additional
tribal consultation is necessary to<br>
develop conditions for the authorization that will protect the
Tribes' rights and interests in and<br>
around Lake Oahe."<br>
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href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/arctic-sea-ice-extent-nasa-global-warming-climate-change">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/arctic-sea-ice-extent-nasa-global-warming-climate-change</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022017/arctic-sea-ice-extent-nasa-global-warming-climate-change">Researcher's
1979 Arctic Model Predicted Current Sea Ice Demise, Holds
Lessons for Future</a></b><br>
<blockquote> Study from decades ago proved remarkably accurate in
showing how global warming would affect the Arctic's sea ice,
currently in steep decline.<br>
By Sabrina Shankman..<br>
Claire Parkinson, now a senior climate change scientist at NASA,
first began studying global warming's impact on Arctic sea ice in
1978, when she was a promising new researcher at the National
Center for Atmospheric Research. Back then, what she and a
colleague found was not only groundbreaking, it pretty accurately
predicted what is happening now in the Arctic, as sea ice levels
break record low after record low...<br>
Parkinson's study, which was published in 1979, found that a
doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide from preindustrial levels
would cause the Arctic to become ice-free in late summer months,
probably by the middle of the 21st century. It hasn't been
ice-free in more than 100,000 years..<br>
Although carbon dioxide levels have not yet doubled, the ice is
rapidly disappearing. This record melt confirms the outlook from
Parkinson's 1979 model...<br>
"It was one of these landmark papers," said Mark Serreze, director
of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. "She was the first to
put together the thermodynamic sea ice model."<br>
What's more, collection of better data on sea ice over recent
years has strengthened the models, making their predictions even
more reliable—and disturbing.<br>
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<b><a
href="https://skepticalscience.com/expect-to-see-more-emergencies-like-oroville-dam.html">Expect
to see more emergencies like Oroville Dam in a hotter world</a></b><br>
<blockquote>The evacuation of nearly 200,000 people near Oroville
Dam is the kind of event that makes climate change personal. A
co-worker of mine was forced out of his home for several days by
the emergency evacuation, and another friend was visiting Lake
Oroville and happened to leave 15 minutes before the evacuation
order was issued...<br>
Like many extreme events, the Oroville emergency is a combination
of natural weather likely intensified by climate change.
California regularly sees "atmospheric rivers" that deluge the
state with rainfall, but in a hotter world, scientists anticipate
that they'll be amplified by an increase in the amount of water
vapor in the atmosphere...<br>
Northern California is in the midst of its wettest rainy season on
record – twice as wet as the 20th century average, and 35% wetter
than the previous record year. It proved to be almost too much for
America's tallest dam to handle. Water managers were forced to use
Oroville Dam's emergency spillway for the first time ever, which
then began to erode, posing the threat of a failure and
catastrophic flooding of nearby towns.<br>
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<a href="https://peoplesclimate.org/">Peoples Climate Movement April
29, 2017</a><br>
<blockquote> WE RESIST. WE BUILD. WE RISE.<br>
Washington DC March for jobs, justice and the climate<br>
Join the People's Climate Movement this April 29th in Washington,
D.C. and across the country to stand up for our communities and
climate.<br>
Throughout the first 100 days in office, the People's Climate
Movement is organizing a country-wide arc of action, culminating
on April 29th in Washington DC in a powerful mobilization to unite
all of our movements. To change everything, we need everyone.<br>
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<blockquote> Even as we shake our heads over the changing weather,
or moan about the fumes belched from the vehicles in our cities,
climate change still feels a distant problem...<br>
That's partly because the solution seems to lie with governments
and industries, and partly because journalists struggle to engage
with the public on the issues...<br>
It's a tricky story to tell. The most extreme effects of global
warming will occur in the future; fear-based reporting tends to
backfire; and journalists need a decent understanding of the
science to hold the authorities to account...<br>
The obscure and impenetrable language of climate change does not
help. So, as part of a project with the Open Society Foundations
to help the media better report on (and for all of us to better
understand) global warming, IRIN has produced this glossary of
terms...<br>
If you want to know the difference between adaptation and
zoonoses, you'll find it here – and a lot more besides...<br>
The glossary is the first in a series of fact files that will be
released in the coming weeks...<br>
PDF document <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/irinfactfileclimatechangeterminology.pdf">https://assets.irinnews.org/s3fs-public/irinfactfileclimatechangeterminology.pdf</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/02/climategate_distortions">This
Day in Climate History February 22, 2010 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker<br>
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<blockquote>The Economist calls out the Daily Mail for promoting the
notion that climate change "stopped" in 1995.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/02/climategate_distortions">http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/02/climategate_distortions</a><br>
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