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    <font size="+1"><i>April 1, 2017        Misinformation, alerts for
        teachers, march for Science</i></font><br>
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            style="font-weight: bold;">PA GOPer's<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>theory debunked:
            Nope, not getting closer to the sun</span></a></h2>
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    <blockquote>And human body warmth didn't cause global warming,
      either<br>
      "The earth moves closer to the sun every year - you know the
      rotation of the earth. We're moving closer to the sun."...<br>
      Republican Pa. Sen. Scott Wagner believes that climate change is
      probably happening. He also says he believes some of that change
      is "manmade," too.<br>
      "I haven't been in a science class in a long time, but the earth
      moves closer to the sun every year - you know the rotation of the
      earth," Wagner said, according to State Impact, an NPR affiliate.
      "We're moving closer to the sun."..<br>
      He added, "We have more people. You know, humans have warm bodies.
      So is heat coming off? Things are changing, but I think we are, as
      a society, doing the best we can."<br>
      The Earth technically does move closer to the sun every year as
      part of its revolution around the sun, but it then moves back.
      That revolution is not related to the rotation of the Earth, and
      as experts point out, the Earth isn't on average moving closer to
      the sun. That movement closer to the sun, scientists say, wouldn't
      have an impact on climate change, and one scientist even called
      the claim "ridiculous." Also, there's no evidence to suggest human
      body heat is at all related to global climate change...<br>
      We rate the claim False.<br>
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href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/03/31/punchlines-climate-change-trump-kushner-bee-colbert-corden-conan/99851362/">http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/03/31/punchlines-climate-change-trump-kushner-bee-colbert-corden-conan/99851362/</a></font><br>
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            Want to fix<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>? Just ban
            the phrase! The week in politics</span></a></h2>
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      255);">Well, the Trump administration has done it. They've found a
      way to fix<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
        style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>. They have
      simply banned it out of existence - well the words anyway.</div>
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    <font color="#666666" size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://newrepublic.com/minutes/141730/republicans-sneaky-plan-smother-future-environmental-regulations-just-passed-house">https://newrepublic.com/minutes/141730/republicans-sneaky-plan-smother-future-environmental-regulations-just-passed-house</a></font><br>
    <font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://newrepublic.com/minutes/141730/republicans-sneaky-plan-smother-future-environmental-regulations-just-passed-house">Republicans'
          sneaky plan to smother future environmental regulations just
          passed the House.</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote>The<a
href="https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/SMITTX_010_xml.pdf">
        Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment (HONEST) Act</a>,
      which passed on Wednesday by a 228-194 vote, is <a
href="https://newrepublic.com/article/141227/republicans-war-science-just-got-frighteningly-real">a
        pernicious attempt</a> to prevent the Environmental Protection
      Agency from creating rules to protect the environment and public
      health.<br>
      The bill, introduced by Texas Republican Lamar Smith, requires the
      EPA to only use scientific studies for which all data is publicly
      available and the results are easily reproducible. This is much
      harder to do than it sounds. Many public health studies use
      private medical data, while others contain trade secrets and
      industry data. Moreover, public health studies are impossible to
      reproduce when, say, they're based on one-time pollution events or
      on people who have died since the study was conducted.<br>
        -  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/SMITTX_010_xml.pdf">https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/SMITTX_010_xml.pdf</a><br>
        -  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://newrepublic.com/article/141227/republicans-war-science-just-got-frighteningly-real">https://newrepublic.com/article/141227/republicans-war-science-just-got-frighteningly-real</a><br>
        -  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1430">https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1430</a><br>
      "Almost everything that has been done in the last 10, 11, 12 years
      would not pass the standards."...<br>
      By mandating the EPA only use studies with public data that can be
      reproduced by outside researchers, it essentially prevents the
      agency from using any study it doesn't conduct itself. Because it
      would need to get permission to release private data, the EPA
      wouldn't be allowed to use studies that, for example, track cancer
      rates around polluted sites. On top of that, independent EPA
      studies would be hobbled too. Longitudinal studies that track
      people over the course of their lives obviously take decades, so
      reproducing them would mean stalling regulations for decades...<br>
      And of course by definition, a one-time environmental disaster
      can't be reproduced. So for the EPA to base future regulations off
      of information gathered in the aftermath of something like the
      Deepwater Horizon oil spill, it would have to cause another spill
      to replicate the study.<br>
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    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/31/trump-wages-war-science-energy-grows-worldwide-march-science">http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/31/trump-wages-war-science-energy-grows-worldwide-march-science</a></font><br>
    <a
href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/31/trump-wages-war-science-energy-grows-worldwide-march-science"><span
        style="font- size: medium;"><b>As Trump Wages War on Science,
          Energy Grows for Worldwide March for Science</b></span></a><br>
    <span style="font­size: small;">by Nika Knight<br>
      <em>Nearly 400 marches in 37 countries will take place on April
        22, demonstrating global resistance to Trump agenda</em></span><br>
    <br>
    <b><font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/03/31/teachers-be-on-the-alert-for-this-anti-science-mailing/">http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/03/31/teachers-be-on-the-alert-for-this-anti-science-mailing/</a></font></b><b><br>
    </b><b><a
href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/03/31/teachers-be-on-the-alert-for-this-anti-science-mailing/">(warning)
        Teachers: Be on the alert for this anti-science mailing!</a></b><br>
    <blockquote> A well known anti-science "think" tank has sent around,
      to teachers, a mailing including an antiscience book, a movie, and
      nice letter and, oddly, a pamphlet exposing the fact that the
      mailing is entirely politically motivated...<br>
      Most science teachers will ignore this. A few science teachers are
      science deniers, and they already had the material in the
      mailings. So, I think this was a huge waste of money and effort.
      But it happened and you should know about it, and you should warn
      anyone you know that is a teacher...<br>
      The real concern, in my opinion, is not this falling into the
      hands of science teachers. The science teachers will recognize
      this for what it is. The concern is this mailing in the hands of
      non-science teachers who are not inoculated against it, who may
      then wonder why their colleagues down the hall are not "teaching
      the controversy," as it were...<br>
      The Heartland Institute, famous for supporting research to prove
      that smoking is not bad for people, and more recently for
      promoting research that climate change is not real, has sent this
      mailing to many thousands of teachers. I've heard the number
      300,000, but that number is probably from Heartland, and they lie
      all the time, so I don't believe it.<br>
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    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/03/putin-signals-climate-change-might-not-be-human-made">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/03/putin-signals-climate-change-might-not-be-human-made</a></font><br>
    <font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/03/putin-signals-climate-change-might-not-be-human-made">Putin
          signals climate change might not be human made</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote>On my visit to Franz Josef Land yesterday, I saw photos
      which indicate that climate change is not necessarily triggered by
      human activity, the Russian President described in today's round
      table talk in Arkhangelsk.<br>
      By Atle Staalesen    March 30, 2017<br>
      According to the President, he was shown a photo of a local
      glacier taken by an Austrian scientist in the 1930s. Then, he was
      shown a photo of the same glacier twenty years later. A comparison
      of the photos revealed that the glacier had shrunk, despite the
      fact that this was before the time of climate change, Putin told
      the audience of Arctic experts, policy makers and diplomats....<br>
      This indicates that climate change in the area has its natural
      dynamics, the President argued. He also made clear that he does
      not necessarily disagree with the controversial new leader of the
      U.S. Environment Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who disputes
      that climate change is man-made...<br>
      At the same time, Putin underlined that the rapidly melting ice in
      the Arctic is opening new opportunities for Russia...<br>
      "What it all tells us is that with the changing climate come more
      favorable conditions for use of this region for economic
      purposes"...<br>
      At the same time, Putin underlined that Russia will meet its
      obligations made in the Paris climate treaty.<br>
      <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/03/putin-instructs-government-speed-arctic-development">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/03/putin-instructs-government-speed-arctic-development</a></font><br>
      <font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/03/putin-instructs-government-speed-arctic-development">Putin
            instructs Government to speed up Arctic development</a></b></font><br>
      The President says he wants to work with foreigners to implement
      projects in Russia's Arctic economic program.<br>
      Russia has huge plans for its Arctic regions, including boosting
      infrastructure along the Northern Sea Route, developing<a
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/life-and-public/2016/10/russian-arctic-growth-region">
        oil- and natural gas fields on the Yamal Peninsula</a>, placing
      a <a
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2016/10/russias-northernmost-town-prepares-nuclear-future">floating
        nuclear power plant in Pevek</a> and opening Arctic nature
      reserves for foreign tourist expedition vessels.<br>
      <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/russia-putin-climate-change-beneficial-economy-1.4048430">http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/russia-putin-climate-change-beneficial-economy-1.4048430</a></font><br>
      <b><a
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/russia-putin-climate-change-beneficial-economy-1.4048430">Russia's
          Putin says climate change in Arctic good for economy</a></b><br>
      Speaking at an Arctic forum Russian leader says ice melting and
      warming in the region are beneficial<br>
      Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that global
      warming and ice melting in the Arctic are beneficial for the use
      of the region for economic purposes.<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.seeker.com/health/the-mental-health-toll-of-climate-change-could-be-dire">https://www.seeker.com/health/the-mental-health-toll-of-climate-change-could-be-dire</a></font><br>
    <b><a
href="https://www.seeker.com/health/the-mental-health-toll-of-climate-change-could-be-dire">The
        Mental Health Toll of Climate Change Could Be Dire</a></b><br>
    <blockquote>Climate change isn't just causing extreme weather
      events, says a report co-authored by the American Psychological
      Association. It's also causing trauma and post-traumatic stress...<br>
      Climate change is making us mentally unhinged - and not because of
      the stress we might endure when squabbling with a family member or
      co-worker about its causes or possible solutions... <br>
      Global warming is already bringing about more extreme weather
      events, like powerful storms, which can cause devastating inland
      flooding or transform coastal communities into heaps of wreckage.
      The death, displacement, and personal injury brought about
      disasters are traumatizing survivors in the immediate aftermath
      and leaving some with long-term post-traumatic stress disorder
      (PTSD), according to a report by the American Psychological
      Association and ecoAmerica, a nonprofit focused on climate
      change...<br>
      the report suggests, an individual's core sense of identity could
      be undermined due to climate change disasters, and the binds that
      hold societies together might be pushed to their breaking point.<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
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              style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Incited Wars Among
            the Classic Maya</span></a></h2>
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    <blockquote> Does a warming world beget more wars? A new study that
      investigates the relationship between climate change and clashes
      among the Classic Maya believes so, drawing an explicit link
      between temperature increases and growing conflicts...<br>
      The researchers cataloged inscriptions on monuments related to
      violent struggles and compiled temperature and rainfall records
      for the regions inhabited during the Classic period: the lowlands
      of the Yucatán Peninsula, which includes parts of southern Mexico,
      Guatemala, and Belize.<br>
      A total of 144 unique conflicts emerged from inscriptions on
      monuments from more than 30 major Maya centers. The research team
      then compared conflict records to palaeoclimate data, and the
      correspondence was impressive...<br>
      The other mechanism, which Collard and his colleagues find more
      likely and compelling, is economic, and involves the staple crop
      for the Classic Maya: maize...<br>
      Throughout the Classic period, average temperature fluctuated
      between 82.4 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius) and 84.2°F
      (29°C). During periods when the temperature was around 82.4°F
      (28°C) or less, maize yields were reasonably stable, with little
      or no food shortage and little conflict....<br>
      "Instead, it's probably better to consider the increase in warfare
      in a way that we often think about warfare today - namely as a
      tool for the elite to maintain support," Collard said.<br>
      With declining maize yields, a ruler could not have relied on
      opulent festivals or fed large labor forces needed to build
      impressive monuments. Consequently, going to war more often would
      have been an effective tactic to maintain status, prestige, and
      power.<br>
      "I think of it as being similar to the way that some modern
      political leaders seem to use conflict with neighbors to distract
      from problems within their country," Collard said.<br>
      <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379116304292">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379116304292</a></font><br>
      <b><a
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379116304292">Increasing
          temperature exacerbated Classic Maya conflict over the long
          term</a></b><br>
      Abstract<br>
      The impact of climate change on conflict is an important but
      controversial topic. One issue that needs to be resolved is
      whether or not climate change exacerbates conflict over the long
      term. With this in mind, we investigated the relationship between
      climate change and conflict among Classic Maya polities over a
      period of several hundred years (363–888 CE). We compiled a list
      of conflicts recorded on dated monuments, and then located
      published temperature and rainfall records for the region.
      Subsequently, we used a recently developed time-series method to
      investigate the impact of the climatic variables on the frequency
      of conflict while controlling for trends in monument number. We
      found that there was a substantial increase in conflict in the
      approximately 500 years covered by the dataset. This increase
      could not be explained by change in the amount of rainfall. In
      contrast, the increase was strongly associated with an increase in
      summer temperature. These finding have implications not only for
      Classic Maya history but also for the debate about the likely
      effects of contemporary climate change.<br>
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href="http://trib.com/business/energy/majority-in-wyoming-believe-in-climate-change-fewer-think-humans/article_11667d39-b002-5a45-a17b-a358f0d059de.html"
url="http://trib.com/business/energy/majority-in-wyoming-believe-in-climate-change-fewer-think-humans/article_11667d39-b002-5a45-a17b-a358f0d059de.html"
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            style="font-weight: bold;">Majority in Wyoming believe in<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b>, fewer think
            humans are cause</span></a></h2>
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      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
      255);">A majority of Wyomingites believe<span
        class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
        normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is
      occurring, but residents are split over whether human activities
      are causing the phenomenon, according to a new Yale University
      study.</div>
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href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/could-global-warming-cause-extinction-of-plants-and_us_58d9ae7fe4b04f2f0792725b">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/could-global-warming-cause-extinction-of-plants-and_us_58d9ae7fe4b04f2f0792725b</a></font><br>
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href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/could-global-warming-cause-extinction-of-plants-and_us_58d9ae7fe4b04f2f0792725b"
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            class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Could<span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
              style="font-weight: bold;">Global Warming</b><span
              class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cause Extinction of
            Plants and Animals?</span></a></h2>
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      <div class="esc-lead-snippet-wrapper" style="line-height: 1.2em;
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        sans-serif; font-size: 13.44px; font-style: normal;
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        -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
        255);">Hence, for instance, we are seeing the mosquitoes that
        carry malaria and dengue spreading further from the equator
        (Mosquito-borne diseases on the uptick thanks to<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
          normal;">global warming</b>) and we are seeing fish moving
        further from their original geographic ...</div>
      Answer by Barbara Robson, Ph.D. in Oceanography, on Quora:<br>
      Yes, global warming could cause the extinction of plans and
      animals. All animals and plants have a temperature range within
      which they thrive, and outside of which they suffer...<br>
      To some extent, animals and plants can move polewards to stay in a
      comfortable temperature zone as temperatures rise globally. Hence,
      for instance, we are seeing the mosquitoes that carry malaria and
      dengue spreading further from the equator (Mosquito-borne diseases
      on the uptick thanks to global warming) and we are seeing fish
      moving further from their original geographic ranges (Climate
      change forcing fish migration)....<br>
      Global climate change is not just warming, either. It is also
      causing changes in rainfall and evaporation, changes in ocean
      acidity, changes in storm frequency and fire weather, and sea
      level rise. All of these will also change environments, in some
      cases beyond the tolerable ranges of many species...<br>
      Over time, many species will gradually adapt and evolve to the new
      conditions or combine in new ways to create new functioning
      ecosystems, but many others will not be able to adapt or move fast
      enough. One of the reasons that climate change is such a problem
      is that it is happening so much faster than past temperature
      changes in the Earth's history....<br>
      Most of my examples have been aquatic, because that is my focus,
      but I am sure it will not be hard for someone else to chime in
      with more terrestrial examples.<br>
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href="http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=bd033f03db&e=30dc80e2f6">http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=bd033f03db&e=30dc80e2f6</a></font><br>
    <font color="#000099" size="+1"><b><a
href="http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=bd033f03db&e=30dc80e2f6">A
          new era dawns and it won<font color="#000099">'</font>t be
          human-friendly</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote> Human mistreatment of the planet is ushering in another
      era and it is not going to be pleasant, according to Clive
      Hamilton's latest book.<br>
      By Kieran Cooke<br>
      LONDON, 31 March, 2017 - Clive Hamilton's book Defiant Earth – the
      fate of humans in the Anthropocene is not for the faint-hearted.
      Basically, its thesis is that the Earth - and us along with it -
      is going down the tubes.<br>
      Our rampant, irrational use of the planet and its resources,
      including our exploitation of climate-changing fossil fuels, means
      we are interfering and upsetting the functioning of the Earth
      system that sustains us.<br>
      "This bizarre situation, in which we have become potent enough to
      change the course of the Earth yet seem unable to regulate
      ourselves contradicts every modern belief about the kind of
      creature a human being is," says Clive Hamilton,<br>
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    <br>
    <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-age-of-warming/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-age-of-warming/</a></font><br>
    <font size="+1"><i><font size="+1"><b><a
              href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-age-of-warming/">This
              Day in Climate History April 1, 2007 </a> -  from D.R.
            Tucker</b></font> <br>
      </i></font>April 1, 2007: "60 Minutes" reports on the toll
    human-caused climate change is taking on Antarctica.<br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
      href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/global-warming/">www.cbsnews.com/videos/global-warming/</a><br>
    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-age-of-warming/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-age-of-warming/</a><font
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