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<font size="+1"><i>March 11, 2017 Angry calls to EPA - Scott </i></font><font
size="+1"><i> Pruitt's main line is 202-564-4700 </i></font><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/10/epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-call-your-office/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/10/epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-call-your-office/</a><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/10/epa-administrator-scott-pruitt-call-your-office/?utm_term=.fa7cd53c2d17">Scott
Pruitt's office deluged with angry callers after he questions
the science of global warming</a></b><br>
By Juliet Eilperin March 10 at 7:53 PM <br>
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's phones
have been ringing off the hook - literally - since he questioned the
link between human activity and climate change.<br>
The calls to Pruitt's main line, 202-564-4700, reached such a high
volume by Friday that agency officials created an impromptu call
center, according to three agency employees. The officials asked for
anonymity out of fear of retaliation.<br>
Interns were dispatched to answer some of the incoming calls,
according to one employee. At times, calls to that number ended up
going to voice mail.<br>
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<font color="#999999" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2017/03/business-military-faith-leaders.html">http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2017/03/business-military-faith-leaders.html</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2017/03/business-military-faith-leaders.html">Business,
Military, Faith Leaders & Electeds Slam Scott Pruitt's
Climate Denial on CNBC</a></b></font><br>
Posted by TENNEY NAUMER <b><br>
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<blockquote><b><font size="-1">Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney,
USMC (ret),</font></b><font size="-1"><b> CEO of the American
Security Project:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"Countries are going to pay for climate change one
way or another. The best way to pay for it is by tackling the
root causes of climate change and cutting greenhouse gas
emissions. If we do not, the national security impacts around
the world will be increasingly costly, and borne by our men and
women in the armed forces."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Andrew Holland, Director of Studies, American
Security Project:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"It is astonishing that EPA Director Pruitt said
that he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a primary
contributor to climate change. However, it does not actually
matter what he "believes" – by law (as decided by the Supreme
Court), he is required under the Clean Air Act to promulgate
policies that reduce carbon pollution. It is important that the
EPA continues to regulate carbon pollution in order to reduce
the risk of serious national security consequences of climate
change."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Mayor James Brainard of Carmel, Indiana:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"I am not a scientist but I believe we need to pay
attention to what people who have dedicated their lives to a
field of study have to say. I am disappointed by the risky and
extremely liberal approach taken by Administrator Pruitt when he
challenges the scientists conclusions that humans contribute to
global warming. A true conservative would cautiously take the
position carefully researched by the scientific community as
correct. A true conservative would hesitate to risk our future
on non-scientific opinions." </font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Mayor Dawn Zimmer of Hoboken, New Jersey:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"The EPA is supposed to protect Americans from
pollution and the impacts of climate change. Hoboken is a
coastal community on the front lines of climate change that was
devastated by Superstorm Sandy, which left our city underwater
for days. EPA Administrator Pruitt's denial of the basic cause
of climate change is dangerous and will put communities across
the country at greater risk."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>NASA Chief Major General Charles Frank Bolden,
Jr., (USMC-Ret.):</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"…2015's record temperatures are the result of the
gradual, yet accelerating, build up of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere. Scientists have been
warning about it for decades and now we are experiencing it."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Dr. Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director,
American Public Health Association:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"Pruitt is just wrong. Carbon dioxide emissions
pose an enormous risk to human health. Carbon pollution is the
leading contributor to greenhouse gases that cause climate
change. Climate change is causing more heatwaves and drought,
more intense extreme weather events, expanded range of
disease-carrying ticks and mosquitoes and a host of other
threats to health. In addition, carbon emissions contribute to
increased smog which triggers asthma attacks and aggravates
existing lung disease. The science is clear. We need immediate
action to reduce carbon emissions to protect public health."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Aron Cramer, President and CEO, Business for
Social Responsibility:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's statement today
questioning climate science is deeply troubling. Businesses in
the United States and elsewhere are keenly aware that human
activity is remaking the climate in ways that create disruption
and business risk. In addition to the obvious and substantial
human and environmental damage that will result, his approach
will undermine the conditions that businesspeople need to
innovate, create jobs, and compete in the global marketplace."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Pastor Leo Woodbury, Kingdom Living Temple,
Peoples Climate March Steering Committee Member:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"People can choose to believe anything including
that the earth is flat, however for the people who suffer the
impact of carbon emissions, weather-related disasters and
illness, climate change is real.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Aura Vasquez, Director of Climate Justice,
Center for Popular Democracy:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"It's an atrocity to hear EPA Chief Scott Pruitt
say that CO2 is not the primary driver of global warming.
Disregarding the science is going to impact millions of people
that are affected and struggling with the impacts of climate
change, especially those in the most vulnerable communities.
There is a real issue with the current administration - they
don't respect the sizable amount of research on climate change
attribution and that's an insult to the personal experience of
millions of Americans already feeling the effects of greenhouse
gas pollution. More than ever, we need to take to the streets on
April 29th for the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C. to
show that human-caused climate change is real and poses a
serious threat to our health, our families and our planet."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Leah Seligmann, director of The B Team's Net
Zero by 2050 Initiative:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"The statements by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt
questioning whether CO2 is a pollutant are deeply troubling, and
contrary to globally accepted, empirical, scientific evidence.
Furthermore, the business case for transitioning to clean,
renewable energy is clear and compelling. Enlightened companies
are already moving from an economy powered principally by
CO2-spewing fossil fuels to one driven by clean energy. We
encourage the US administration to stay the course with policies
which promote and accelerate this transition."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Nigel Topping, CEO, We Mean Business:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"This morning Scott Pruitt, the new EPA
Administrator spoke to CNBC and claimed that Carbon Dioxide
(CO2) is not "a primary contributor to global warming". With
this statement the Administrator finds himself at odds with
science. The scientific community is clear. Global warming is
real, accelerating and caused by human activity with CO2
responsible for between 75% and 80% of the greenhouse gas
emissions that cause global warming. This finding is backed by
97% of climate scientists and is the consistent result of peer
reviewed scientific investigations going back three decades. The
Administrator is also at odds with political leaders around the
world. 196 countries have signed the Paris Agreement on climate
change, including the world's largest producers of fossil fuels,
because they understand that CO2 is the primary cause of global
warming and needs to be reduced. And the administrator is at
odds with the business community, who are making record
commitments to reduce their CO2 emissions. More than five
hundred companies have made commitments to address CO2 emissions
through the We Mean Business platform because they see reducing
CO2 through clean energy as the new market opportunity of the
21st century. We urge Administrator Pruitt to recognize the
scientific, political, and business consensus, and lead the EPA
in its vital mission to safeguard people, planet and
prosperity."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Rear Admiral David W. Titley, United States
Navy (Ret.):</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"Within the science community, the link between
CO2 and climate change is as well known as the consequences of
stepping out of an airplane and the effect of gravity. In both
cases, if you ignore the science, someone is going to get hurt."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Patrick Carolan, Executive Director of the
Franciscan Action Network:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"Scott Pruitt's denial that CO2 is a contributor
of climate change confirms his disbelief of a century of fact
based science, which even Pope Francis supports. There should be
no discussion; protecting the climate is a matter of faith and
morality. We should be protecting God's creation, not destroying
it. Denying climate science goes against the teachings of Jesus
and St. Francis of Assisi."</font><br>
<font size="-1"><b>Nathaniel Smith, Founder and Chief Equity
Officer, Partnership for Southern Equity:</b></font><br>
<font size="-1">"It's disturbing to hear the person appointed as
our chief environmental steward has chosen to turn away from
years of scientific evidence. In vulnerable communities where
the byproducts of climate change are felt the hardest the
"inconvenient truth" has become a truth measured by life or
death."</font><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/epa-chief-denies-basic-climate-science">https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/epa-chief-denies-basic-climate-science</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/epa-chief-denies-basic-climate-science">Commentary:
Scott Pruitt a destructive choice for head of EPA</a></b><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">It's difficult to imagine a more
destructive choice for the health of Americans, the avoidance of
dangerous climate change, and the health of the American economy
than Scott Pruitt as head of EPA. Mr. Pruitt's denial of the
basic science behind climate change makes him as unfit for the
office of EPA administrator as an astrologer would be for head
of NASA. Decisions based on the best science are critical for
the success of any endeavor, as summed up well by Mindy Lubber,
president of Ceres, in a March 10 editorial at CNBC: "Businesses
thrive when they make smart decisions based on the best
available information. The reality is that climate change is
happening now and is having wide-ranging ripple effects on
businesses. Ignoring risks and long-term trends for short-term
benefits is how to drive a company—and the economy—into the
ground."..<br>
The EPA's mission is to "protect human health and the
environment -- air, water and land," and the regulations the EPA
issues should be guided by the best science we have. But in his
first speech as EPA administrator, Mr. Pruitt envisioned an EPA
that can be "pro-energy, pro-jobs and pro-environment." EPA's
mission statement has no requirement that the agency protect the
profits of industry, though, nor should it, since there are
plenty of pro-business and pro-job interests out there.
Apparently, though, science and protection of people's health at
the EPA are increasingly going to take a back seat to protecting
the profits of industry. An early example of this came on
January 30, in a shift of the mission statement by the EPA's
Office of Science and Technology to stop issuing "science-based"
standards for water pollution, and instead develop "economically
and technologically achievable standards" ...<br>
Mr. Pruitt, the Attorney General of Oklahoma from 2010 - 2016,
is a self-described "leading advocate against the EPA's activist
agenda", and is apparently contemptuous of the law in pursuit
that goal. Three examples of this have surfaced:<br>
1) Mr. Pruitt illegally withheld emails from an open records
request in 2015, and was finally forced to turn them over last
week. Those emails revealed that he worked closed with the
fossil fuel industry to promote their interests, including such
groups such as the Koch Industries-funded Americans for
Prosperity. Additional emails are still being withheld, and are
scheduled to be released pending review by a judge...<br>
2) As reported by Fox News in Oklahoma City, Mr. Pruitt used a
private email account to perform government business, in direct
contradiction to his sworn testimony at his January 2017 Senate
confirmation hearing before Congress...<br>
3) As reported by businessinsider.com, Mr. Pruitt may have made
another false statement under oath to the Senate: he said he
filed briefs in support a case where 12 poultry companies had
allegedly dumped waste into the Illinois River. Investigators
found no evidence that he or his office had filed any such
briefs...<br>
Mr. Pruitt is packing EPA management with fellow fossil fuel
industry-friendly staffers. Two former staff members of Sen.
James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the most outspoken climate science
denier in Congress, have already been added. A third, Andrew
Wheeler, who now works as a lobbyist for the fossil fuel
industry, awaits Senate confirmation to be Pruitt's deputy EPA
chief. ...<br>
<a
href="http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2017/03/here_are_42_of_president_donal.html">Preliminary
plans</a> have been leaked on Trump's intention to cut EPA's
$8.1 billion budgetc by 26%, laying off about 3,000 of the
agency's 15,000 workers. This would be the biggest cut in EPA
since the 35% reduction that the agency endured in 1981, the
first year of the Reagan presidency. The EPA's <a
href="https://www.epa.gov/planandbudget/budget">budget peaked
in</a> 2010, at $10.3 billion. As with all of the Trump
administration's proposed budget, these major EPA cuts must get
through Congress before becoming law, and it is quite possible
that the scale of the cuts would be reduced in the
appropriations process....<br>
Take Action! These escalating assaults on our health and on
the air we all breathe must be protested, and I urge you to
write your Senators and Representatives on this issue:<br>
<a href="https://www.house.gov/">Contact your House
Representative</a><br>
<a href="https://www.senate.gov/">Contact your Senator</a></font><br>
</blockquote>
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255);">The world is getting warmer every year, thanks to<span
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255);">In 2009, he joined some 50 business leaders in signing a
full-page advertisement in The New York Times calling for
"meaningful and effective measures to combat<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>." More recently he has referred to<span
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detected by<a href="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/">
moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS)</a> on board
the Terra and Aqua satellites over a 10-day period. Each colored dot
indicates a location where MODIS detected at least one fire during
the compositing period. Color ranges from red where the fire count
is low to yellow where number of fires is large.<br>
The <a
href="http://lance.nasa.gov/imagery/rapid-response/about-imagery/">About
Rapid Response Imagery page</a> provides more information on usage
guidelines, product quality, and algorithms for the fire location
data.<br>
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href="http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/great-plains-wildfires-march-2017">http://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/events/great-plains-wildfires-march-2017</a><br>
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In his seventh week in office, President Trump decides we should
stop measuring things.<br>
Welcome to our weekly Trump v. Earth column, in which onEarth
reviews the environment-related shenanigans of President Trump and
his allies....<br>
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href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/03/many-tree-species-in-eastern-us-may-be-unable-to-adapt-to-changing-climate-study-finds/">Many
tree species in eastern US may be unable to adapt to changing
climate, study finds</a></b><br>
<blockquote>6 March 2017 / Justin Catanoso<br>
Climate change is expected to alter the distribution of the most
iconic trees in the eastern US because of environmental challenges
related to growth, mortality, reproduction, and disease.<br>
A Woods Hole Research Center study of 40 tree species finds balsam
fir, quaking aspen, black cherry, yellow birch, red maple, sugar
maple, and red spruce among the most vulnerable species to warming
temperatures.<br>
The study's outcomes are designed to assist managers of the United
States' national parks prioritize how best to use limited
resources to battle climate change in their forests, or actively
engage in assisting tree species migration.<br>
West Virginia forests, because of complex terrain and large,
intact tracts of land, were found to be more resilient to climate
change than other parts of the eastern US.<br>
Evidence continues to mount for the toll climate change is taking
on the ecosystems of the United States' national parks and forests
from coast to coast...<br>
The latest study, published in Global Change Biology by
researchers at Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts,
predicts that warming temperatures across the eastern United
States will alter the distribution of a range of tree species,
leaving many too vulnerable to adapt to changing conditions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13585/full">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13585/full</a><br>
<b><a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13585/full">Vulnerability
of eastern US tree species to climate change</a></b><br>
Abstract<br>
Climate change is expected to alter the distribution of tree
species because of critical environmental tolerances related to
growth, mortality, reproduction, disturbances, and biotic
interactions. How this is realized in 21st century remains
uncertain, in large part due to limitations on plant migration and
the impacts of landscape fragmentation. Understanding these
changes is of particular concern for forest management, which
requires information at an appropriately fine spatial resolution.
Here we provide a framework and application for tree species
vulnerability to climate change in the eastern United States that
accounts for influential drivers of future distributions. We used
species distribution models to project changes in habitat
suitability at 800 m for 40 tree species that vary in physiology,
range, and environmental niche. We then developed layers of
adaptive capacity based on migration potential, forest
fragmentation, and propagule pressure. These were combined into
metrics of vulnerability, including an overall index and spatially
explicit categories designed to inform management. Despite overall
favorable changes in suitability, the majority of species and the
landscape were considered vulnerable to climate change.
Vulnerability was significantly exacerbated by projections of
pests and pathogens for some species. Northern and high-elevation
species tended to be the most vulnerable. There were, however,
some notable areas of particular resilience, including most of
West Virginia. Our approach combines some of the most important
considerations for species vulnerability in a straightforward
framework, and can be used as a tool for managers to prioritize
species, areas, and actions.<br>
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255);">Peter Thiel's latest comments are unlikely to him on beef
or dairy farmer's Christmas card lists. The recently-revealed New
Zealand citizen and Trump advisor says our love of steak could be
behind<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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255);">James McClintock, a marine biologist, talks with David
Greene about how<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
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href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/03/unhealthy-environment-causes-1-in-4-child-deaths-who/">http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/03/unhealthy-environment-causes-1-in-4-child-deaths-who/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/03/unhealthy-environment-causes-1-in-4-child-deaths-who/">Unhealthy
Environment Causes 1 in 4 Child Deaths: WHO</a></b><br>
Unhealthy environments - both inside and outside the home - cause
the deaths of more than 1.7 million child under the age of five
every year, according to two<a href="http://www.who.int/ceh/en/">
new reports released by the World Health Organization (WHO) </a>Monday.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.who.int/ceh/en/">http://www.who.int/ceh/en/</a><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/10/trump-agency-staffers-koch-fossil-fuel-industry-employees">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/10/trump-agency-staffers-koch-fossil-fuel-industry-employees</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/03/10/trump-agency-staffers-koch-fossil-fuel-industry-employees">Former
Koch Agents, Fossil Fuel Industry Hired Guns Now Staffing
Trump's Federal Agencies</a></b><br>
<blockquote> On March 8, ProPublica obtained "beachhead team"
rosters with the names of hundreds of temporary staffers the Trump
administration has installed in federal agencies, including the
Department of Interior (DOI), Department of Energy (DOE), the
White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and others.. <br>
A DeSmog investigation shows that this list of staffers, largely
undisclosed before this week, includes former operatives allied
with Koch Industries, oil and coal industry employees, a former
employee of a prominent climate denial group, and an advocate for
a pro-trophy hunting organization funded by oil and gas. The
background and connections of these staffers may serve as a
preview to potential priorities these agencies may take on related
to energy, climate, and environment under Donald Trump...<br>
Koch and Coal Allies at Energy Department, Office of Management
and Budget<br>
ProPublica's reporting yielded many new, previously unreported
names of those filling the ranks and making the calls at the
Department of Energy.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-hundreds-of-officials-trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government">https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-hundreds-of-officials-trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="Meet%20the%20Hundreds%20of%20Officials%20Trump%20Has%20Quietly%20Installed%20Across%20the%20Government">Meet
the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across
the Government</a></b><br>
We have obtained a list of more than 400 Trump administration
hires, including dozens of lobbyists and some from far-right
media.<br>
A Trump campaign aide who argues that Democrats committed "ethnic
cleansing" in a plot to "liquidate" the white working class. A
former reality show contestant whose study of societal collapse
inspired him to invent a bow-and-arrow-cum-survivalist multi-tool.
A pair of healthcare industry lobbyists. A lobbyist for defense
contractors. An "evangelist" and lobbyist for Palantir, the
Silicon Valley company with close ties to intelligence agencies.
And a New Hampshire Trump supporter who has only recently
graduated from high school.<br>
These are some of the people the Trump administration has hired
for positions across the federal government, according to
documents received by ProPublica through public-records requests.<br>
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<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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size="+1"><b><br>
<a
href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/japans-nuclear-meltdown/">This
Day in Climate History March 11, 2011 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan takes place over many
days. Radiation leaking into the ocean continues to this day.<br>
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