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<font size="+1">May 28, 2017<br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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(video) Climate and Hurricane Season 2017</a></b></font><br>
Climate Change is slowly but surely having and impact on global
hurricane destructiveness<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/27/what-if-us-quits-climate-deal-doesnt-look-good-earth/102235234/">(USA
Today) What if U.S. quits climate deal? Doesn't look good for
Earth</a></b><br>
WASHINGTON - Earth is likely to reach more dangerous levels of
warming even sooner if the U.S. retreats from its pledge to cut
carbon dioxide pollution, scientists said. That's because America
contributes so much to rising temperatures.<br>
President Trump, who once proclaimed global warming a Chinese
hoax, said in a tweet Saturday that he would make his "final
decision" this coming week on whether the United States stays in
or leaves the 2015 Paris climate change accord in which nearly
every nation agreed to curb its greenhouse gas emissions.<br>
Leaders of seven wealthy democracies, at a summit in Sicily, urged
Trump to commit his administration to the agreement, but said in
their closing statement that the U.S., for now, "is not in a
position to join the consensus."<br>
</font><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/27/what-if-us-quits-climate-deal-doesnt-look-good-earth/102235234/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/27/what-if-us-quits-climate-deal-doesnt-look-good-earth/102235234/</a><br>
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<font size="+1" color="#000099"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/05/26/popes-climate-essay-wont-convince-trump-didnt-even-work-catholics/">Pope<font
color="#000099">'</font>s climate essay won<font
color="#000099">'</font>t convince Trump, it didn<font
color="#000099">'</font>t even work on Catholics</a></b></font><br>
By George Marshall Pope's encyclical on climate change appealed
to liberals, but conservative Catholics were driven away by the
values it invoked.<br>
Following their tense and grumpy meeting this week the Pope cheekily
presented Donald Trump with a parting gift: his 165-page Encyclical
on Care for our Common Home, better known as Laudato Si, in which he
outlines his commitment to action on climate change.<br>
Trump's face, shared widely on social media, hardly suggests any
great delight and we cannot expect that a dense theological text
will trigger his climate epiphany<br>
But then Trump was never the intended audience. The critical
question is whether, in the two years since it was released ahead of
the Paris climate conference, the papal encyclical has shifted
opinion among Catholics. And unfortunately the answer is "probably
not".<br>
What was more surprising, though, was that the encyclical actually
increased polarisation. Research by Yale University found that
following the publication of the encyclical the number of Catholics
who strongly trusted the Pope as a source of information about
global warming increased by a quarter. The number who strongly
distrusted him doubled.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/05/26/popes-climate-essay-wont-convince-trump-didnt-even-work-catholics/">http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/05/26/popes-climate-essay-wont-convince-trump-didnt-even-work-catholics/</a><br>
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bold;"><font size="+1"><a target="_blank" class="article
usg-AFQjCNFVyreI1z9-g2r8KgMGAAIb_lHVYQ
sig2-ZO7Mn1kVr7-_3xwPsw90Sg did-7592044329850764955"
href="http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/severe_weather_possible_in_par.html"
id="MAA4AkgBUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Severe weather possible in
parts of Alabama over the next three days</span></a></font></h2>
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<font size="+1">The chance for severe storms will hang around for
parts of Alabama for the next three days, according to
forecasters.<br>
NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has included Alabama in various
severe weather risks for Saturday, Sunday and Monday.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/severe_weather_possible_in_par.html">http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/severe_weather_possible_in_par.html</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.newson6.com/story/35531262/hail-and-tornadoes-possible-for-eastern-oklahoma">Hail
And Tornadoes Possible For Eastern Oklahoma</a></b><br>
TULSA, Oklahoma - The weather will play a big role in your
Saturday outdoor plans across eastern Oklahoma on two fronts.
First, it is going to be hot and muggy, and second, there is the
threat of significant severe weather, including hail and tornadoes
later in the day.<br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.newson6.com/story/35531262/hail-and-tornadoes-possible-for-eastern-oklahoma">http://www.newson6.com/story/35531262/hail-and-tornadoes-possible-for-eastern-oklahoma</a></font><font
size="+1"><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/severe-storms-flooding-to-threaten-holiday-festivities-across-central-us-this-weekend/70001767">Tornadoes
among dangers as severe weather outbreak targets central US</a></b><br>
An outbreak of severe weather will continue to threaten lives and
property across the central United States into Saturday night.<br>
Numerous thunderstorms capable of producing widespread damaging
winds, destructive hail, flooding downpours and tornadoes will
continue to bear down on the central U.S. from eastern Kansas to
Arkansas and the lower Ohio River Valley.<br>
"A far-reaching swath of wind damage may lead to widespread tree
damage and power outages," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist
Kristina Pydynowski said. "Gusts could reach minimal
hurricane-force strength."<br>
"Clusters of violent thunderstorms are expected to race from
eastern Kansas and Missouri into Tennessee and Arkansas into
Saturday night," she said. "Western Arkansas and northeastern
Texas will also face the severe weather that first erupts in
eastern Oklahoma."<br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/severe-storms-flooding-to-threaten-holiday-festivities-across-central-us-this-weekend/70001767">http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/severe-storms-flooding-to-threaten-holiday-festivities-across-central-us-this-weekend/70001767</a></font><font
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bold;"><a target="_blank" class="article
usg-AFQjCNEkdSS714t7rHjvm9ZWSQQWADP9ig
sig2-YMAk0CGTa4Hk5ocrRqcISQ did-8933177062793508956"
href="http://thebulletin.org/nato-joins-pentagon-deeming-climate-change-threat-multiplier10790"
id="MAA4DEgFUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">NATO joins the Pentagon in
deeming<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a threat multiplier</span></a></h2>
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<font size="+1">A new NATO special report concludes that climate
change is the ultimate "threat multiplier"-meaning that it can
exacerbate political instability in the world's most unstable
regions-because by intensifying extreme weather events like
droughts ...<br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thebulletin.org/nato-joins-pentagon-deeming-climate-change-threat-multiplier10790">http://thebulletin.org/nato-joins-pentagon-deeming-climate-change-threat-multiplier10790</a></font><font
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/trump-paris-climate-deal-238883">Leaders
issue G7 declaration with U.S. a holdout on climate change</a></b><br>
Trump posted on Twitter that he'll make a final decision next
week, after he returns to Washington.<br>
TAORMINA, Sicily - Leaders of the G7, the world's most exclusive
geopolitical club, issued their 2017 declaration Saturday, with
U.S. President Donald Trump refusing to join his counterparts in
pledging commitment to the 195-nation Paris accord on climate
change...<br>
Trump, posting on Twitter, said he would make a decision on
whether the U.S. would remain in the climate change accord next
week, after he returns to Washington. The other six members of the
G7 - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K. -
reaffirmed "strong commitment" to the agreement, which Barack
Obama signed in 2015.<br>
While the declaration included remarkable language highlighting
that the U.S. stood apart, the other G7 members expressed some
relief that Trump had not outright rejected the accord and said
they remained hopeful he would come around<br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/trump-paris-climate-deal-238883">http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/27/trump-paris-climate-deal-238883</a></font><font
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<font color="#000099"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fPxJSoSEuY">(video)
Climate & Extreme Weather News #27 (May 19th to May 27th
2017)</a></b></font><br>
Understanding Climate Change -(<i>compilation of world news)</i><br>
Published on May 27, 2017<br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-could-slash-staple-crops-21460">http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-could-slash-staple-crops-21460</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41885-017-0005-2">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41885-017-0005-2</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-scientifically-wrong-a114a6492ed7">https://thinkprogress.org/pruitt-scientifically-wrong-a114a6492ed7</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02520-7">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02520-7</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fPxJSoSEuY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fPxJSoSEuY</a></font><font
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=505eiGSOkz4"><br>
<b><font color="#000099">(amusing) What if Baywatch were …
better? Baywatch - Rising Tides </font></b></a><br>
The Baywatch cinematic reboot, starring god-among-men Dwayne "The
Rock" Johnson, lesser deity Zac Efron, and Priyanka "Miss World
2000" Chopra, is out in theaters on Friday. We, the movie going
public, should be blessed by this release, but early reviews
suggest it's actually just too ridiculous.<br>
</font><font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=505eiGSOkz4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=505eiGSOkz4</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://grist.org/briefly/what-if-baywatch-were-better/">http://grist.org/briefly/what-if-baywatch-were-better/</a></font><font
size="+1"><i><br>
</i></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/business/exxon-backs-groups-that-question-global-warming.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">This Day in Climate History May 28,
2003</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">The New York Times reports on ExxonMobil's crucial
role in the climate-denial industry:<br>
</font>
<blockquote><font size="+1">Exxon Mobil has publicly softened its
stance toward global warming over the last year, with a pledge
of $10 million in annual donations for 10 years to Stanford
University for climate research.</font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1">At the same time, the company, the world's largest
oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington-based
policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role
in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to
limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming
are too heavy handed.</font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1">Exxon now gives more than $1 million a year to
such organizations, which include the Competitive Enterprise
Institute, Frontiers of Freedom, the George C. Marshall
Institute, the American Council for Capital Formation Center for
Policy Research and the American Legislative Exchange Council.</font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1">The organizations are modest in size but have been
outspoken in the global warming debate. Exxon has become the
single-largest corporate donor to some of the groups, accounting
for more than 10 percent of their annual budgets. While a few of
the groups say they also receive some money from other oil
companies, it is only a small fraction of what they receive from
Exxon Mobil.</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/business/exxon-backs-groups-that-question-global-warming.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/28/business/exxon-backs-groups-that-question-global-warming.html</a>
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