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<font size="+1"><i>May 3, 2017 </i></font><br>
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Storms, Heavy Rain to Sweep Through the South Midweek</a></b><br>
<blockquote>A vigorous storm system will sweep across the South on
Wednesday and Thursday bringing the risk of severe storms and
heavy rainfall.<br>
This weather system is being spawned by a strong southward dip in
the jet stream that will move into the Plains. <br>
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Flooding in Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and Oklahoma
Wednesday and Thursday</a></b>
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After flooding smashed records that had stood for over 100 years,
more heavy rain is headed toward the Ozarks and mid-Mississippi
Valley, bringing a threat of renewed flash flooding and adding to
already swollen rivers and reservoirs.<br>
Flash flood watches have been reissued from northeast Oklahoma and
southeast Kansas into parts of northern Arkansas and a swath of
central and southern Missouri and Illinois. <br>
A total of 267 reports of flooding or flash flooding were received
by the National Weather Service in a 36-hour period ending 6 a.m.
CDT Sunday, from Oklahoma to Ohio. The majority of those occurred
on April 29 and 30...Some locations saw as much as 11 inches of
rainfall.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wunderground.com/news/before-after-images-flooding-midwest">https://www.wunderground.com/news/before-after-images-flooding-midwest</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.wunderground.com/news/before-after-images-flooding-midwest">Before
and After Images of Major Flooding in the Midwest</a><br>
</b>Torrential rainfall has caused major to record flooding in
parts of southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma
and southern Illinois. The floodwaters have inundated homes,
businesses and a major interstate.<br>
Here's a look at some <a
href="https://www.wunderground.com/news/before-after-images-flooding-midwest">before
and after images</a> of the flooding.<br>
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initial;">Americans' views on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">global warming</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>provide something of a
twist on the classic NIMBY phenomenon. That's according to a
recent survey conducted by Yale University's Program on Climate
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ZQS6pAoIs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ZQS6pAoIs</a></font><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ZQS6pAoIs"><b>Why aren't
news outlets talking about climate change?</b></a> (short video
2:15)<br>
The future of the planet is at stake. Every news outlet should be
talking about that. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/859032442342166528">https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/859032442342166528</a><br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ZQS6pAoIs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ZQS6pAoIs</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/23/how-broadcast-networks-covered-climate-change-2016/215718">https://mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/23/how-broadcast-networks-covered-climate-change-2016/215718</a></font><a
href="https://mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/23/how-broadcast-networks-covered-climate-change-2016/215718"><br>
<b>MediaMatters Report: How Broadcast Networks Covered Climate
Change In 2016</b></a><br>
<blockquote>In 2016, evening newscasts and Sunday shows on ABC, CBS,
and NBC, as well as Fox Broadcast Co.'s Fox News Sunday,
collectively decreased their total coverage of climate change by
66 percent compared to 2015, even though there were a host of
important climate-related stories, including the announcement of
2015 as the hottest year on record, the signing of the Paris
climate agreement, and numerous climate-related extreme weather
events. There were also two presidential candidates to cover, and
they held diametrically opposed positions on the Clean Power Plan,
the Paris climate agreement, and even on whether climate change is
a real, human-caused phenomenon. Apart from PBS, the networks also
failed to devote significant coverage to climate-related policies,
but they still found the time to uncritically air climate denial
-- the majority of which came from now-President Donald Trump and
his team.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/222-cpa-newsletter-may-2017-the-perfect-storm">http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/222-cpa-newsletter-may-2017-the-perfect-storm</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/222-cpa-newsletter-may-2017-the-perfect-storm">The
Perfect Storm</a> - </b><b><a
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/news/newsletters/222-cpa-newsletter-may-2017-the-perfect-storm">CPA
Newsletter May 2017</a></b><br>
<b>Just how bad are things looking and what can climate psychology
contribute to the current picture?</b><br>
<blockquote>Climate change was being defined as a super-wicked
problem years before an orange nightmare started casting its
shadow over 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The ingredients of 'super
wicked' can be summarised as severe time pressure that is
nevertheless discounted - thereby pushing responses further into
the future. This is compounded by the fact that those causing the
problem are required to provide a solution and that the
coordinated authority that is needed to address the situation is
weak or non-existent. To that can be added the
'boundary-crossing' nature of the problem - economic,
technological, cultural or ecological solutions cannot work on
their own - it must be addressed at all these levels....<br>
...<a
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/carbon-brief-interview-michael-gerrard">Carbon
Brief interview</a> with Professor Michael Gerrard, teacher of
environmental law at Columbia Law School. On the result of last
November’s presidential election he could not be more blunt: "In
short, it’s been catastrophic." ...His assessment implicitly
recognises the importance of both psychology and activism. ...<br>
The key, if not ground-breaking, psychological point in the
interview emerges in response to a question as to why so many
Republicans reject climate science. It has an unmistakeably Tea
Party flavour: ideology against government in general is
challenged by the fact that human activity is causing climate
change and poses a massive threat: "If you don't want government
action, then one psychological mechanism is to deny there's a
problem that requires government action." There can be no doubt
that this inverted logic is in force (along with corruption and
other factors) and what better confirmation could we have of the
need for scientists to mobilise and to involve themselves in
politics?...<br>
The psychological element here is that human casualties of more
directly toxic air pollutants are, by definition, more immediate
and measurable than the consequences of CO2 build up. But for the
fundamentalists, protection of air, water and land are seen as
unwelcome interferences with freedom and entitlement. For them,
the whole subject is a can of worms. Once you go there, where do
you stop? <a href="https://www.clientearth.org/"> Client Earth's
advocac</a>y has profound connections with Gerrard's hopeful
point about the wider impact of 'Our Children's Trust<font
size="-1">'</font>. The law, like our economics and our minds,
is still weighted heavily in favour of exploitation and
consumption. But Earth consciousness is a growing force and Earth
advocacy is not toothless.<br>
INTERVIEW 19 April 2017 <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/carbon-brief-interview-michael-gerrard">https://www.carbonbrief.org/carbon-brief-interview-michael-gerrard</a></font><br>
<a
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/carbon-brief-interview-michael-gerrard">The
Carbon Brief Interview: Michael Gerrard</a><br>
Michael Gerrard is the Andrew Sabin professor of professional
practice at Columbia Law School in New York, where he teaches
courses on environmental law, climate change law and energy
regulation. He is also the director of the Sabin Center for
Climate Change Law. His books include Global Climate Change and US
Law.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060053793">https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060053793</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060053793">SEA-LEVEL
RISE (Florida) Gentrification fears grow as high ground becomes
hot property</a></b><br>
Erika Bolstad, E&E News reporter Climatewire: Monday, May 1,
2017
<blockquote>... he thinks he may have coined the term "climate
gentrification." In Miami, it's the reverse of the process in many
other parts of the United States, or even in the developing world,
where the poorest people most vulnerable to flooding and sea-level
rise often live on low ground most vulnerable to flooding.<br>
"Oh, Miami Beach is going under, the sea level is coming up,"
Harewood said. "So now the rich people have to find a place to
live. My property is 15 feet above sea level, theirs is what?
Three under?<br>
"So OK," he said, taking on the voice of a rich developer, "let's
knock down the projects, and we move in and push them out."...<br>
If there's anything more complicated than the global forces of
thermal expansion, ice sheet melt and ocean circulation that
contribute to worldwide sea-level rise, it might be the forces of
real estate speculation and the race-based historical housing
patterns that color present-day gentrification in Miami....<br>
One of the great ironies of those historic housing patterns in
Miami is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning
restricted black people to parts of the urban core, an older part
of the community that sits on relatively higher ground along a
limestone ridge that runs like a topographic stripe down the
eastern coast of South Florida. Now, many of those neighborhoods,
formerly redlined by lenders and in some places bound in by a
literal color wall, have an amenity not yet in the real estate
listings: They're on higher ground and are less likely to flood as
seas rise...<br>
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href="http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/the-fingerprints-of-global-warming-on-extreme-weather_partner/">http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/the-fingerprints-of-global-warming-on-extreme-weather_partner/</a></font><br>
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warming's</b> fingerprints are all over extreme weather</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>Given the findings of previous so-called attribution
studies as well as long-term warming trends, those results aren't
surprising, but they do show how much human-caused global warming
has affected weather extremes already, the study authors and ...<br>
Not surprisingly, our views on global warming as revealed by the
Yale survey largely fall along either side of predictable
political fault lines. In the West, for instance, Utah residents
are the most skeptical about humankind's contribution toward
rising temperatures. Most in the state aren't concerned about
global warming, with the exception of the Salt Lake City area.</blockquote>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/blog/Immigration%20Factsheet.pdf">https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/blog/Immigration%20Factsheet.pdf</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/blog/Immigration%20Factsheet.pdf">No
One Should Be Forced from Home</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Corporate Trade Deals, Climate Change, and Mass
Deportation<br>
In the debate over immigration, one critical question is often
missing: Why? Why do people decide to leave their family, friends,
and community; embark on a long and life-threatening journey; and
start over in a country that may treat them as second-class
citizens?<br>
Forced from Home by Climate Change<br>
Climate change is emerging as another factor that is pushing
people to migrate. Evidence suggests that droughts - which are
becoming more frequent with climate change - may have played a
role, alongside NAFTA, in pushing Mexico's family farmers to
migrate north during the 1990s. One study finds that states in
Mexico that endured drought-related declines in corn harvests
tended to see more migration to the U.S. than other states.22 A
multi-year drought, likely exacerbated by climate change,23 also
has contributed to the recent wave of immigration from El
Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.24 The drought has devastated
harvests in the region, causing more than 3 million people to need
humanitarian aid.25 In a United Nations survey of the three
countries, families repeatedly cited the drought as a reason that
their family members had decided to leave home and migrate
north.26<br>
While climate change is contributing to forced migration,
corporate trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA are contributing to
climate change. Such deals have empowered corporations to attack
climate protections in private tribunals, while encouraging
increased dependency on climate-polluting industrial agriculture
and fossil fuels.27 The struggles to transform trade, tackle
climate change, and achieve justice for immigrant workers cannot
be separated.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/warming-warning-1981-tv-documentary-warned-climate-change">https://www.carbonbrief.org/warming-warning-1981-tv-documentary-warned-climate-change</a></font><a
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<b>The 1981 TV documentary that warned about global warming</b></a><br>
<blockquote>Thames Televisions 'Warming Warning' First Shown:
08/12/198<br>
Once the film returns from the first commercial break, it
introduces two more US experts. Dr William Kellogg is captioned as
a "climatologist", but he played a key role researching climate
change in the 1970s, in particular, based at the US National
Center for Atmospheric Research. Earlier in the same year that
Warming Warning aired, Kellogg also co-authored one of the
earliest books on the topic, titled "Climate Change and Society:
Consequences of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide".<br>
Next comes (a very young looking) Stephen Schneider, a seminal
figure for alerting the world to the potential dangers of
human-caused climate change. At the time, Schneider was also based
at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, but he would
go on to be among the world's most prominent scientists warning
about climate change (and, in the process, was the target of a
campaign of abuse, intimidation and even death threats).<br>
The documentary intersperses the interviews with lots of stock
footage showing human dependence on fossil fuels - aircraft taking
off, coal mining, modern agriculture, etc.<br>
video clip #1 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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video clip #2 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<blockquote> The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica now
has a second branch, which is moving in the direction of the ice
front, Swansea University researchers revealed after studying the
latest satellite data.<br>
The main rift in Larsen C, which is likely to lead to one of the
largest icebergs ever recorded, is currently 180 km long. The new
branch of the rift is 15 km long.<br>
Last year, researchers from the UK's Project Midas, led by Swansea
University, reported that the rift was growing fast. Now, just
20km of ice is keeping the 5,000 sq km piece from floating
away....<br>
<a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/02/a-new-crack-in-one-of-antarcticas-biggest-ice-shelves-could-mean-a-major-break-is-near/">(WAPO)</a>
The biggest concern is not whether the chunk will break off — that
seems to be inevitable at this point — but what will happen after
it does. The break will sweep away about 10 percent of the ice
shelf's total area, and scientists have previously speculated that
the shelf will become increasingly unstable after this point.<br>
"We have previously shown that the new configuration will be less
stable than it was before the rift, and that Larsen C may
eventually follow the example of its neighbor Larsen B, which
disintegrated in 2002 following a similar rift-induced calving
event<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/02/a-new-crack-in-one-of-antarcticas-biggest-ice-shelves-could-mean-a-major-break-is-near/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/02/a-new-crack-in-one-of-antarcticas-biggest-ice-shelves-could-mean-a-major-break-is-near/</a><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/02/ukraine-and-germany-urge-un-security-council-to-address-climate-change-threat/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/02/ukraine-and-germany-urge-un-security-council-to-address-climate-change-threat/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/05/02/ukraine-and-germany-urge-un-security-council-to-address-climate-change-threat/">Ukraine,
Germany, Sweden Urge UN Security Council to Address Climate
Change Threat</a></b><br>
<blockquote> Last month, the United Nations Security Council held
the latest in what has become a series of Arria formula meetings
on climate change and security. These informal consultations allow
Security Council members to discuss issues threatening
international peace and security without putting the full
diplomatic weight of the Council behind a specific course of
action, or obligating individual member-states to endorse specific
statements issued by the Security Council on an issue which may be
sensitive to their national interests. Ukraine, with the
assistance of Germany, convened this particular meeting, with a
specific emphasis on sea-level rise as a threat to international
peace and security, a theme Janani Vivekananda and I explored in a
CCS briefer on climate change and megacities. <br>
...many of the remarks by UN member-states focused on the
responsibility inherent in the Security Council to act on the
threat of climate change. And for that action to be effective and
timely, Braun continued, the UN system as a whole needs a lot more
information, particularly "[how] climate policies account for
peace and security consequences and (2) [ensure] that peacemaking
and peacebuilding efforts do reflect climate consequences." <br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/climate-change-is-turning-dehydration-into-a-deadly-disease/">https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/climate-change-is-turning-dehydration-into-a-deadly-disease/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/climate-change-is-turning-dehydration-into-a-deadly-disease/">Climate
change is turning dehydration into a deadly disease</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Climate change makes a new chronic kidney disease worse,
"and it will grow and grow."<br>
A mysterious kidney disease is striking down labourers across the
world and climate change is making it worse. For Mosaic, Jane
Palmer meets the doctors who are trying to understand it and stop
it.<br>
The patients at the Hospital Nacional Rosales in San Salvador all
have the same story: until three months ago they were perfectly
fine. Most of them had never seen a doctor in their life before,
and had ignored any early signs of ill health this time as well.
The turning point came only when they were too sick to work.<br>
Renting a car and equipment, he drove from Mexico to Nicaragua,
stopping by fields and taking urine samples from outdoor labourers
toiling under the sun. His study indicated that many of the
workers were already in the first stages of chronic kidney
disease.<br>
Far from being local, says García-Trabanino, "we realised the
problem was bigger than we thought, and it was all across Central
America and southern Mexico." <font color="#666666"> (thanks
Prof Lee Harrison)</font><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386%2815%2901156-7/abstract">http://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386(15)01156-7/abstract</a></font><br>
<a
href="http://www.ajkd.org/article/S0272-6386%2815%2901156-7/abstract">Heat
Stress Nephropathy From Exercise-Induced Uric Acid Crystalluria:
A Perspective on Mesoamerican Nephropathy</a><br>
Mesoamerican nephropathy (MeN), an epidemic in Central America, is
a chronic kidney disease of unknown cause. In this article, we
argue that MeN may be a uric acid disorder. Individuals at risk
for developing the disease are primarily male workers exposed to
heat stress and physical exertion that predisposes to recurrent
water and volume depletion, often accompanied by urinary
concentration and acidification. Uric acid is generated during
heat stress, in part consequent to nucleotide release from
muscles. We hypothesize that working in the sugarcane fields may
result in cyclic uricosuria in which uric acid concentrations
exceed solubility, leading to the formation of dihydrate urate
crystals and local injury. <font color="#666666"> (-- Prof Lee
Harrison)</font><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/climatechange/health_impacts/heat_related_morbidity/index.cfm">https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/climatechange/health_impacts/heat_related_morbidity/index.cfm</a></font><br>
<a
href="https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/programs/geh/climatechange/health_impacts/heat_related_morbidity/index.cfm">Heat-Related
Morbidity and Mortality</a><br>
Health Impacts of Climate Change<br>
Prolonged exposure to extreme heat can cause heat exhaustion, heat
cramps, heat stroke, and death, as well as exacerbate preexisting
chronic conditions, such as various respiratory, cerebral, and
cardiovascular diseases. These serious health consequences
usually affect more vulnerable populations such as the elderly,
children, and those with existing cardiovascular and respiratory
diseases. <font color="#666666"> (- Prof Lee Harrison)</font><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvCJi9Nhvik">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvCJi9Nhvik</a></font><br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvCJi9Nhvik">(video) State
of Denial (2017) An Al Jazeera Documentary</a> ( April 26,
2017 25 mins) <br>
<blockquote>"Science has become the target"<br>
Within the first few days of Donald Trump's presidency,
environmental activists and scientists watched with alarm as the
Obama administration's data on climate change simply vanished from
government websites.<br>
It was the first of many steps that made it clear that this
administration would be taking a vastly different approach to
confronting global warming than its predecessor.<br>
For Republicans, having a friend in the White House means they now
have an open door to strike down key regulations that will be a
boon to the energy industry. It's a path they had been building
well before Trump took office, with Republicans not only denying
that humans are increasing global warming - but accusing
scientists of lying to the public. <br>
As a new administration takes power in Washington, Phil Torres
explores what the Trump era will mean for the scientific community
- and the future of the planet.<br>
No one wants climate change, so everyone is motivated to receive
contrary evidence.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://vimeo.com/86030268">https://vimeo.com/86030268</a></font><br>
Food Security <b><a href="https://vimeo.com/86030268">Lecture:
David Battisti: "Global Food Production and Climate Change"</a></b><br>
David Battisti, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, and Tamaki
Endowed Chair, UW<br>
<blockquote> By the end of the century, the season averaged growing
temperature will very likely exceed the highest temperature ever
recorded throughout the tropics and subtropics. By 2050, the
increase in temperature alone will cause a 20% reduction in the
yield of all of the major grains (maize, rice, wheat and
soybeans). The breadbasket countries in the midlatitudes will
experience marked increases in year-to-year volatility in crop
production. Increasing stresses on the major crops due to climate
change, coupled with the increasing demand for food due to
increasing population and development, present significant
challenges to achieving global food security. (geo-engineering
1:06:30)<br>
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<br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml">http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml</a></font><font
size="+1"><font size="+1"><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml">This Day
in Climate History May 3, 1999 </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font>
(hat tip to Michael E. Mann)</font><i><font size="+1"><br>
</font></i></font>
<blockquote>May 3, 1999: Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler debunks an
April 15, 1999 column by right-wing Washington Times writer Ben
Wattenberg falsely suggesting that NASA scientist James Hansen
viewed Vice President Al Gore as an alarmist on climate change. In
addition, Somerby notes:<br>
"Of course, if spinners like Wattenberg get their way--and the
larger press corps never speaks up--those common sense steps [to
reduce carbon pollution] may never be taken. And reasoned debate,
in the coming campaign, could give way to a lot of hot air. So
that’s why we offer a global *warning*, against believing facile
spin from these types. There’s a whole lot of hoo-hah floating
around concerning Gore and [his views on] global warming. And we
hope that the press corps will get off its duffs, and bring some
clarity to the whole sorry mess."<br>
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