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    <font size="+1"><i>April 29, 2017      </i></font><br>
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    <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="https://peoplesclimate.org/">https://peoplesclimate.org/</a></font><br>
    <font color="#000066"><b><a href="https://peoplesclimate.org/">Peoples
          Climate March: Tens of thousands will gather in Washington, DC
        </a></b></font><br>
    <a href="https://peoplesclimate.org/">WE RESIST.<br>
      WE BUILD.<br>
      WE RISE.</a><br>
     April 29th 2017<br>
     Washington DC<br>
     March for climate, jobs, and justice<br>
    <a href="https://peoplesclimate.org/">visit peoplesclimate.org for
      more details</a><br>
    <br>
    <font size="+1"><b><a
          href="https://peoplesclimate.org/sister-marches/">SISTER
          MARCHES:</a></b></font>   <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
      href="https://peoplesclimate.org/sister-marches/">https://peoplesclimate.org/sister-marches/</a><br>
     Can't make it to DC? Find a sister march that's happening near you.<br>
    Enter your zip/postal code to begin<br>
    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-what-do-the-scientists-really-say_us_59026a98e4b03b105b44b718">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-what-do-the-scientists-really-say_us_59026a98e4b03b105b44b718</a></font><br>
    <b><a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-what-do-the-scientists-really-say_us_59026a98e4b03b105b44b718">Climate
        Change: What Do The Scientists Really Say?</a></b><br>
    Future of Life Institute, Contributor<br>
    "You don't actually have to go a hundred years or a thousand years
    into the future before things can get quite disrupted relative to
    today."<br>
    I recently visited the National Center for Atmospheric Research in
    Boulder, CO and met with climate scientists Dr. Kevin Trenberth and
    CU Boulder’s Dr. Brian Toon to have a different discussion. I wanted
    better answers about what climate change is, what its effects could
    be, and how can we prepare for the future...<br>
    The discussion that follows has been edited for clarity and brevity,
    and I’ve added occasional comments for context. You can also listen
    to the <a
href="https://soundcloud.com/futureoflife/climate-change-with-brian-toon-and-kevin-trenberth">podcast
      here</a> or read the <a
href="https://futureoflife.org/2017/04/27/transcript-climate-change-scientists-really-say/">full
      transcript here</a> for more in-depth insight into these issues...<br>
    Our discussion began with a review of the scientific evidence behind
    climate change.<br>
    Audio:  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://soundcloud.com/futureoflife/climate-change-with-brian-toon-and-kevin-trenberth">https://soundcloud.com/futureoflife/climate-change-with-brian-toon-and-kevin-trenberth</a><br>
    Transcript:   <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://futureoflife.org/2017/04/27/transcript-climate-change-scientists-really-say/">https://futureoflife.org/2017/04/27/transcript-climate-change-scientists-really-say/</a><br>
    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/04/28/mystery-of-antarcticas-blood-falls-is-finally-solved/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/04/28/mystery-of-antarcticas-blood-falls-is-finally-solved/</a></font><br>
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            class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Mystery Of
            Antarctica's Blood Falls Is Finally Solved</span></a></h2>
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    <blockquote> The longstanding mystery surrounding Antarctica's Blood
      Falls has finally been solved. The deep red falls were first
      discovered in Antarctica in 1911 where scientists noticed a river
      had stained the surrounding cliff of ice with a dark red color.
      Previously, they had believed it was due to algae discoloring the
      water, however that hypothesis was never verified...<br>
      Now, thanks to research by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, we
      know the true origin of the Blood Falls flowing from the Taylor
      Glacier. The deep red coloring is due to oxidized iron in brine
      saltwater, the same process that gives iron a dark red color when
      it rusts. When the iron bearing saltwater comes into contact with
      oxygen the iron oxidizes and takes on a red coloring, in effect
      dying the water to a deep red color...<br>
      The research team transected the glacier in a grid using
      radio-echo sounding (RES) to map out the features below the
      glacier. Thankfully, the super saturated brine that makes up the
      river allows for a stark density contrast in RES compared to the
      non-saline (fresh) ice. The research team calculates that the
      brine water takes approximately 1.5 million years to finally reach
      the Blood Falls as it makes its way through fissures and channels
      in the glacier...<br>
      More at:
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/an-englacial-hydrologic-system-of-brine-within-a-cold-glacier-blood-falls-mcmurdo-dry-valleys-antarctica/B5C197906AD54619AEA26068AD92989A/core-reader">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/an-englacial-hydrologic-system-of-brine-within-a-cold-glacier-blood-falls-mcmurdo-dry-valleys-antarctica/B5C197906AD54619AEA26068AD92989A/core-reader</a><br>
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href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/04/28/antarctic-ice-sheet-draining-huge-quantities-water-sea/">https://cleantechnica.com/2017/04/28/antarctic-ice-sheet-draining-huge-quantities-water-sea/</a></font><br>
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          underline;"><span class="titletext" style="font-weight: bold;">The
            Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Draining Huge Quantities Of Water Out
            To Sea</span></a></h2>
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    <blockquote> When climate scientists look at Antarctica, they see a
      ticking time bomb. If the ice sheet melts, it will raise sea
      levels by tens of feet, flooding coastal cities around the globe..<br>
      ...Greenland has started melting from the middle. Pools of water
      are forming atop the ice sheet in the warmer months and then
      draining out to sea...<br>
      Scientists have now discovered the same thing is happening in
      Antarctica. Two new studies published in the journal Nature
      catalogue the melting and explain what it could mean for sea-level
      rise.<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/worry-it-does-body-and-mind-good">https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/worry-it-does-body-and-mind-good</a></font><br>
    <font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/worry-it-does-body-and-mind-good">Worry
          <font color="#000099">-</font> it does the body (and mind)
          good?</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote>Worry - it does a body good. And, the mind as well. A
      new paper by Kate Sweeny, psychology professor at the University
      of California, Riverside, argues there's an upside to worrying.<br>
      "Despite its negative reputation, not all worry is destructive or
      even futile," Sweeny said. "It has motivational benefits, and it
      acts as an emotional buffer."<br>
      In her latest article, "The Surprising Upsides of Worry,"
      published in Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Sweeny
      breaks down the role of worry in motivating preventive and
      protective behavior, and how it leads people to avoid unpleasant
      events. Sweeny finds worry is associated with recovery from
      traumatic events, adaptive preparation and planning, recovery from
      depression, and partaking in activities that promote health and
      prevent illness. Furthermore, people who report greater worry may
      perform better - in school or at the workplace - seek more
      information in response to stressful events, and engage in more
      successful problem solving.<br>
      Worry as a motivator<br>
      The motivational power of worry has been studied and linked to
      preventive health behavior, like seatbelt use. In a nationally
      representative sample of Americans, feelings of worry about skin
      cancer predicted sunscreen use. And participants who reported
      higher levels of cancer-related worries also conducted breast
      self-examinations, underwent regular mammograms, and sought
      clinical breast examinations.<br>
      "Interestingly enough, there are examples of a more nuanced
      relationship between worry and preventive behavior as well,"
      Sweeny said. "Women who reported moderate amounts of worry,
      compared to women reporting relatively low or high levels of
      worry, are more likely to get screened for cancer. It seems that
      both too much and too little worry can interfere with motivation,
      but the right amount of worry can motivate without paralyzing...<br>
      "Extreme levels of worry are harmful to one's health. I do not
      intend to advocate for excessive worrying. Instead, I hope to
      provide reassurance to the helpless worrier - planning and
      preventive action is not a bad thing," Sweeny said. "Worrying the
      right amount is far better than not worrying at all."<br>
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    <font color="#000099" size="+1"><b><a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.net/american-climate-refugees-flee-inland/">American
          climate refugees could flee inland</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote> The population of inland American cities will alter
      drastically if predictions of dramatic sea level rises by 2100 are
      correct, new report suggests.<br>
      By Tim Radford<br>
      LONDON, 27 April, 2017 – If humans go on burning ever greater
      volumes of fossil fuel, then <a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=605ba3c571&e=30dc80e2f6">dramatic
        rises in sea levels could turn 13 million US citizens into
        climate refugees</a> and send them fleeing inland – many of them
      to Atlanta, Houston and Phoenix.<br>
      This latest study, in <a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=2f012a4a3b&e=30dc80e2f6">Nature
        Climate Change</a>, builds on an <a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=7c25958bff&e=30dc80e2f6">earlier
        assessment of what could happen in 319 American coastal counties
        if sea levels rise 1.8 metres by 2100.</a><br>
      American refugees<br>
      The calculation at the time was that overall sea level rise could
      threaten the properties of 13.1 million people. This raised the
      question: where could they all go?<br>
      "We typically think about sea level rise as a coastal issue, but
      if people are forced to move because their houses become
      inundated, the migration could affect many landlocked communities
      as well," says the study's author, <a
href="http://climatenewsnetwork.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e13c74c17ec527c4be72d64f&id=a09f3b082e&e=30dc80e2f6">Mathew
        Hauer, a population scientist</a> in the Department of Geography
      at the University of Georgia. He also led the original
      county-by-county estimates of the numbers at risk.<br>
      The point of such research is to alert planners and civic
      authorities to what could happen. However, climate change and
      population growth will combine to amplify the risk from coastal
      windstorms and surges along the littoral, and cause very different
      problems inland.<br>
      "Some of the anticipated landlocked destinations, such as Las
      Vegas, Atlanta and Riverside, in California, already struggle with
      water management or growth management challenges," Dr Hauer says.<br>
      "Incorporating accommodation strategies in strategic long-range
      planning could help alleviate the potential future intensification
      of these challenges."<br>
      <font size="-1"><a
href="http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/widespread-impacts/graphics/katrina-diaspora">http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/widespread-impacts/graphics/katrina-diaspora</a></font><br>
      <b><a
href="http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/highlights/report-findings/widespread-impacts/graphics/katrina-diaspora">National
          Climate Assessment  Katrina Diaspora</a></b><br>
      <font size="-1">This map illustrates the national scope of the
        dispersion of displaced people from Hurricane Katrina. It shows
        the location by zip code of the 800,000 displaced Louisiana
        residents who requested federal emergency assistance. The
        evacuees ended up dispersed across the entire nation,
        illustrating the wide-ranging impacts that can flow from extreme
        weather events, such as those that are projected to increase in
        frequency and/or intensity as climate continues to change.
        (Figure source: Kent 2006).</font><br>
      see also <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_diaspora">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_diaspora</a>
      <br>
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/webdis">https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/webdis</a><br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
        href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=20398">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=20398</a></font><br>
    <b><a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=20398">RealClimate  
        Snow Water Ice and Water and Adaptive Actions for a Changing
        Arctic</a></b><br>
    <blockquote>The Arctic is changing fast, and the Arctic Council
      recently commissioned the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment
      Programme (AMAP) to write two new reports on the state of the
      Arctic cryosphere (snow, water, and ice) and how the people and
      the ecosystems in the Arctic can live with these changes...<br>
      The two reports have now just been published and are called Snow
      Water Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic Update (SWIPA-update) and
      Adaptive Actions for a Changing Arctic (AACA)....<br>
      The message from these reports is that the Arctic temperatures
      increase rapidly, in line with the notion of 'polar
      amplification'...<br>
      The increased temperatures have been accompanied with changes in
      snow, sea-ice, precipitation, permafrost, icebergs, landice, river
      runoff, polar lows, synoptic storms, cloudiness, avalanches, ocean
      circulation, and ocean acidification...<br>
      For some of these aspects, there have been clear evidence for
      changes, such as precipitation, snow, ice, and permafrost. For
      others, such as polar lows, synoptic storms, and cloudiness, the
      evidence is more ambiguous.<br>
      The number of polar lows and the frequency of fog over the Barents
      sea, however are believed to diminish as the sea ice cover
      retreats..<br>
      The changing conditions in the Arctic have an impact on both the
      ecosystems and the people living there.<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/04/arctic-ocean-track-be-ice-free-summer-2040-say-scientists">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/04/arctic-ocean-track-be-ice-free-summer-2040-say-scientists</a></font><br>
    <b><a
href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arctic/2017/04/arctic-ocean-track-be-ice-free-summer-2040-say-scientists">Arctic
        Ocean on track to be ice-free in summer by 2040, say scientists</a></b><br>
    <blockquote> The Arctic Ocean is now on track to become ice-free in
      summers as soon as two decades from now, while autumn and winter
      temperatures in the Arctic, if carbon emissions are not
      controlled, will be about 22 degrees higher in 2100 than they were
      at the end of the 20th century.<br>
      Yereth Rosen /Alaska Dispatch   April 26, 2017<br>
      The new forecasts of accelerated warming mark the condition of the
      Arctic at the end of the two-year U.S. chairmanship of the
      eight-nation Arctic Council, according to reports released by the
      organization's Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program...<br>
      Scientists are warning the pace of climate change demands a quick
      response against its causes...<br>
      The reports come two weeks ahead of the council's ministerial
      meeting in Fairbanks, an event that will cap U.S.' two-year tenure
      and pass leadership to Finland. The reports were released at a
      four-day Arctic science conference in Reston, Virginia, and
      outlined in a pair of teleconferences held Tuesday...<br>
      With Arctic warming outpacing climate change in the rest of the
      world, the reports show why immediate action is needed to reduce
      global carbon emissions, said one of the scientists involved...<br>
      "The changes are cumulative, and so what we do in the next five
      years is really important on slowing down the changes that will
      happen in the next 30 or 40 years," said Jim Overland, a National
      Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration oceanographer and a
      co-author of the Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic
      report, or SWIPA. "The emphasis on action and immediacy is one of
      the key findings" of the report, he said.<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/firefighters-make-progress-on-the-sawmill-fire-in-arizona/">http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/firefighters-make-progress-on-the-sawmill-fire-in-arizona/</a></font><br>
    <font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/firefighters-make-progress-on-the-sawmill-fire-in-arizona/">Firefighters
          make progress on the Sawmill Fire in Arizona</a></b></font><br>
    <blockquote> Firefighters battling the 46,954-acre Sawmill Fire 23
      miles southeast of Tucson have been able to slow the spread over
      the last two days in spite of strong winds. Satellite imagery from
      early Friday morning did not show any large concentrations of heat
      over the previous 24 hours. This does not mean the fire is out,
      and there is no doubt a lot of line building and mopup work still
      has to be accomplished.<br>
      A Red Flag Warning for strong winds is still in place for the fire
      area as well as most of southern Arizona and southwest New Mexico.<br>
      <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://tucson.com/news/local/photos-of-sawmill-fire-south-of-tucson/collection_2f85f920-2938-11e7-a3c4-6f0d93449130.html">http://tucson.com/news/local/photos-of-sawmill-fire-south-of-tucson/collection_2f85f920-2938-11e7-a3c4-6f0d93449130.html</a></font><br>
      <a
href="http://tucson.com/news/local/photos-of-sawmill-fire-south-of-tucson/collection_2f85f920-2938-11e7-a3c4-6f0d93449130.html">60
        photos of Sawmill Fire south of Tucson</a><br>
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://tucson.com/news/local/photos-of-sawmill-fire-south-of-tucson/collection_2f85f920-2938-11e7-a3c4-6f0d93449130.html">http://tucson.com/news/local/photos-of-sawmill-fire-south-of-tucson/collection_2f85f920-2938-11e7-a3c4-6f0d93449130.html</a><br>
      <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
          href="https://www.ready.gov/wildfires">https://www.ready.gov/wildfires</a></font><br>
      <a href="https://www.ready.gov/wildfires">Ready.GOV  Wildfires</a><br>
      This page explains what actions to take if you receive a fire
      weather watch alert from the National Weather Service for your
      local area and what to do before, during, and after a wildfire.<br>
      <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/new-satellite-aided-firefighters-during-fire-siege-in-kansas-and-oklahoma/">http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/new-satellite-aided-firefighters-during-fire-siege-in-kansas-and-oklahoma/</a></font><br>
      <a
href="http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/04/28/new-satellite-aided-firefighters-during-fire-siege-in-kansas-and-oklahoma/">New
        satellite aided firefighters during fire siege in Kansas and
        Oklahoma</a><br>
      ...While this was going on a few meteorologists with access to the
      new, still being tested GOES-16 satellite were monitoring the
      emerging wildfire situation. This game-changing satellite orbiting
      hundreds of miles overhead has a baseline imager that will view
      the Earth with 16 different spectral bands (compared to five on
      current GOES satellites) and it will provide three times more
      spectral information, four times the spatial resolution, and more
      than five times faster temporal coverage than the current system.
      It also has the first satellite sensor dedicated to detecting real
      time lightning.<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/bret-stephens-climate-flip-flop-c05c6230e36c">https://thinkprogress.org/bret-stephens-climate-flip-flop-c05c6230e36c</a></font><br>
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            columnist: Global warming can't be serious if activists have
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    <blockquote>The New York Times' indefensible hire of a climate
      denier keeps getting worse.<br>
      The ...effort to stem the growing criticism they have received for
      hiring extreme climate science denier Bret Stephens is going about
      as well as United Airlines initial attempts to defend dragging a
      customer off one of their planes. ..<br>
      Stephens was most recently deputy editorial page editor for Rupert
      Murdoch's deeply conservative, climate-denying Wall Street
      Journal. In 2015, he wrote that climate change - along with hunger
      in America, campus rape statistics, and institutionalized
      racism - are "imaginary enemies." They aren't.<br>
      When Vox interviewed Stephens this week, and asked him to defend
      his extreme denial of climate science, he replied with this
      jaw-dropper:<br>
      A guy I know just had a baby and he's a big global warming,
      climate change activist. If he thinks in 20 years we'll be heading
      toward unsustainable climates and there will be tens of millions
      of people being displaced, presumably including himself, at the
      most apocalyptic level, then presumably he wouldn't be having
      children.<br>
      It contradicts the belief that we are heading ineluctably for an
      apocalyptic environmental future.<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <font size="+1"><i><font size="+1"><b><a
              href="http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost">This
              Day in Climate History April 29,1999 </a> -  from D.R.
            Tucker</b></font> <br>
      </i>BetsyRosenberg.com presents:<br>
    </font>
    <blockquote><font size="+1">The ExxonMobil-funded Competitive
        Enterprise Institute names former Rep. Jack Kemp (R-NY) its
        first "Distinguished Fellow." Two years later, in a Washington
        Times op-ed, Kemp asserts that the scientific evidence pointing
        to human-caused climate change is inconclusive.</font><br>
      <font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cei.org/news-releases/jack-kemp-named-distinguished-fellow-competitive-enterprise-institute">http://cei.org/news-releases/jack-kemp-named-distinguished-fellow-competitive-enterprise-institute</a></font><br>
      <font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost">http://cei.org/op-eds-and-articles/warming-diplomacyat-what-cost</a></font><br>
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