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<font size="+1"><i>June 4, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a
href="http://fair.org/home/in-a-dozen-interviews-media-never-bothered-asking-president-trump-about-climate-change/">In
a Dozen Interviews, Media Never Bothered Asking President Trump
About Climate Change</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">BY ADAM JOHNSON</font><br>
President Donald Trump's disastrous withdrawal of the US from the
Paris Climate Change Accord understandably has the media in a
frenzy. "Unconscionable and fatuous," proclaimed The Economist
(6/1/17). Trump "shamefully abandons the fight against humanity's
greatest threat," wrote Bloomberg News (6/1/17). But when given the
opportunity over the past four months of his presidency to ask Trump
a question on climate change, no outlet has bothered to bring up the
topic at all.<br>
In their respective interviews with Trump since he became president,
AP News (4/23/17), CBS News (4/30/17), New York Times (4/5/17), The
Economist (5/11/17), NBC News (5/11/17), ABC News (1/25/17),
Bloomberg News (5/1/17), Fox News (2/5/17), Breitbart (2/27/17),
Reuters (2/24/17), Time Magazine (3/27/17) and the Financial Times
(4/2/17) all failed to ask Trump about his climate change views or
policies.<br>
The same Economist and Bloomberg who now lament, in almost
apocalyptic terms, Trump's withdraw from the Paris Accords, when
given the opportunity to press Trump on his climate change
policies-or even broach the subject at all-chose not to.<br>
FAIR could not find a single question about climate change in any
interview or press conference with Trump since he took office on
January 20, 2017.<br>
Liberal media watchdog Media Matters' annual study found that in
2016, evening newscasts and Sunday shows on ABC, CBS and NBC, as
well as Fox News Sunday,<br>
<blockquote>did not air a single segment informing viewers of what
to expect on climate change and climate-related policies or
issues-including the Paris agreement-under a Trump or Hillary
Clinton administration.<br>
</blockquote>
Despite the universal consensus on the science of climate change and
the urgent need to act, the tremendous stakes to the planet and
humankind, and the fact that the last three years were the three
hottest on record, the media seems fickle at best in prioritizing
the topic. They're mildly outraged when Trump pulls out of the only
meaningful global effort to curb climate change, but have next to
nothing to say in the lead up to him doing so.<br>
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href="http://fair.org/home/in-a-dozen-interviews-media-never-bothered-asking-president-trump-about-climate-change/">http://fair.org/home/in-a-dozen-interviews-media-never-bothered-asking-president-trump-about-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlcQPWmq3c4">(video)
Mitigate, Adapt, or Suffer. Connecting Global Change to Local
Impacts and Solutions </a></b><br>
<i>Dr Katharine Hayhoe's lecture get better and better. </i>
Mitigate, Adapt, or Suffer. Connecting Global Change to Local
Impacts and Solutions - Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist
whose research focuses on developing and applying high-resolution
climate projections to understand what climate change means for
people and the natural environment.<br>
Katharine spoke at the Climate Change Science Institute at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory. Her presentation touched on the science and
policy of climate change, the kind of impacts we may see globally
and locally, what options and information we have to be prepared for
these changes, and ways that non-scientists can effectively to
discuss these issues with the general public. For more info on
Katharine, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.katharinehayhoe.com">www.katharinehayhoe.com</a><br>
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">How GOP Leaders Came to View<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change </b>as Fake
Science</span></a></h2>
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The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat
human-caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a
story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years
and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the
Antarctic shelf, favoring extreme positions and uncompromising
rhetoric over cooperation and conciliation...<br>
"In some ways," he added, "it's become yet another of the long list
of litmus test issues that determine whether or not you're a good
Republican."<br>
Yet when Mr. Trump pulled the United States from the Paris accord,
the Senate majority leader, the speaker of the House and every
member of the elected Republican leadership were united in their
praise.<br>
Those divisions did not happen by themselves. Republican lawmakers
were moved along by a campaign carefully crafted by fossil fuel
industry players, most notably Charles D. and David H. Koch, the
Kansas-based billionaires who run a chain of refineries (which can
process 600,000 barrels of crude oil per day) as well as a
subsidiary that owns or operates 4,000 miles of pipelines that move
crude oil.<br>
Mr. Trump has staffed his White House and cabinet with officials who
have denied, or at least questioned, the existence of global
warming. And he has adopted the Koch language, almost to the word.
On Thursday, as Mr. Trump announced the United States' withdrawal,
he at once claimed that the Paris accord would cost the nation
millions of jobs and that it would do next to nothing for the
climate....<br>
Beyond the White House, Representative Lamar Smith of Texas,
chairman of the House Science Committee, held a hearing this spring
aimed at debunking climate science, calling the global scientific
consensus "exaggerations, personal agendas and questionable
predictions."<br>
Unshackled by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision and other
related rulings, which ended corporate campaign finance
restrictions, Koch Industries and Americans for Prosperity started
an all-fronts campaign with television advertising, social media and
cross-country events aimed at electing lawmakers who would ensure
that the fossil fuel industry would not have to worry about new
pollution regulations.<br>
Their first target: unseating Democratic lawmakers such as
Representatives Rick Boucher and Tom Perriello of Virginia, who had
voted for the House cap-and-trade bill, and replacing them with
Republicans who were seen as more in step with struggling
Appalachia, and who pledged never to push climate change measures.<br>
While the politics of climate change in the United States has grown
more divided since then, the scientific community has united: Global
warming is having an impact, scientists say, with sea levels rising
along with the extremity of weather events. Most of the debate is
about the extent of those impacts - how high the seas may rise, or
how intense and frequent heavy storms or heat waves may be...<br>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-to-teach-kids-about-climate-change-where-most-parents-are-skeptics/2017/06/03/1ad4b67a-47a0-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html?utm_term=.7f2f0c2692c9"><b>How
to teach kids about climate change where most parents are
skeptics</b></a><br>
By Sarah Kaplan June 3<br>
COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho - Jakob Namson peered up at the towering
ponderosa pine before him. He looked at his notebook, which was full
of calculations scribbled in pencil. Then he looked back at the
pine. If his math was right - and it nearly always is - he would
need to plant 36 trees just like this one to offset the 831 pounds
of carbon dioxide that his drive to school emits each year.<br>
"I think I'm beginning to understand the enormity of the problem,"
the teenager said ...<br>
The phrase "climate change" evokes deep skepticism in northern
Idaho. Fewer than half of adults in Kootenai County think that human
activities contribute to global warming, surveys show. In February,
the state legislature urged the state board of education to rewrite
the science curriculum to eliminate what one lawmaker called "an
over emphasis on human caused factors."<br>
"We could do this in the classroom," Esler said. "I could just give
them the numbers and show them a PowerPoint. But now I have kids
smelling the inside of a tree. That's a tangible connection. . . . I
hope it makes them think about what happens to that carbon when it
comes out of their tail pipe."<br>
The Outdoor Studies Program has 76 energetic students who are
conversant in subjects such as "eutrophication" and "water snow
equivalency" and will earnestly say that they "want to save the
world."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-to-teach-kids-about-climate-change-where-most-parents-are-skeptics/2017/06/03/1ad4b67a-47a0-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html?utm_term=.7f2f0c2692c9">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/how-to-teach-kids-about-climate-change-where-most-parents-are-skeptics/2017/06/03/1ad4b67a-47a0-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html?utm_term=.7f2f0c2692c9</a></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;">Oceanfloor Craters Hint Of
Potential Arctic Methane Explosions In The Future</span></a></h2>
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Researchers from the Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and
Climate at UiT The Arctic University of Norway discovered hundreds
more craters than they were searching for underneath the Barents
Sea, and found evidence that more methane explosions could happen in
the future.<br>
The study led by Professor Karin Andreassen of CAGE revealed at
least a hundred kilometer-wide (0.6 miles) craters and several
hundred smaller ones littering the Arctic sea floor. All the craters
were once methane domes that exploded about 12,000 years ago, but
research reveals that at least 600 areas within and outside the
craters continue to release methane gas, which poses potential
danger in the years to come.<br>
<blockquote>Methane takes the quick way out<br>
Accounting for all the sources and sinks of methane is important
for determining its concentration in the atmosphere. Andreassen et
al. found evidence of large craters embedded within
methane-leaking subglacial sediments in the Barents Sea, Norway.
They propose that the thinning of the ice sheet at the end of
recent glacial cycles decreased the pressure on pockets of
hydrates buried in the seafloor, resulting in explosive blow-outs.
This created the giant craters and released large quantities of
methane into the water above.<br>
<br>
Abstract<br>
Widespread methane release from thawing Arctic gas hydrates is a
major concern, yet the processes, sources, and fluxes involved
remain unconstrained. We present geophysical data documenting a
cluster of kilometer-wide craters and mounds from the Barents Sea
floor associated with large-scale methane expulsion. Combined with
ice sheet/gas hydrate modeling, our results indicate that during
glaciation, natural gas migrated from underlying hydrocarbon
reservoirs and was sequestered extensively as subglacial gas
hydrates. Upon ice sheet retreat, methane from this hydrate
reservoir concentrated in massive mounds before being abruptly
released to form craters. We propose that these processes were
likely widespread across past glaciated petroleum provinces and
that they also provide an analog for the potential future
destabilization of subglacial gas hydrate reservoirs beneath
contemporary ice sheets. <font size="-1" color="#666666"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6341/948">http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6341/948</a></font><br>
</blockquote>
That is not saying methane explosions are just waiting to happen,
but the methane trapped underneath the ice could be released if the
Earth continues to warm.<br>
<b>Massive Methane Explosions In The Past</b><br>
As mentioned above, the great methane explosions happened thousands
of years ago. The methane gas were actually trapped underneath a
thick ice sheet during the last Ice Age and the research model
showed that the time of explosions matched the time when the ice
sheets began to melt as the climate warmed.<br>
Methane hydrates can withstand immense pressure and extreme cold
temperatures, and that is exactly what the situation was during the
Ice Age, but the sudden collapse of ice sheets created a way for the
methane to be released.<br>
"The principle is the same as in a pressure cooker: if you do not
control the release of the pressure, it will continue to build up
until there is a disaster in your kitchen," Professor Andreassen
said.<br>
<b>Danger For Future Explosions</b><br>
There is a bit of assurance from the researchers since they confirm
that sudden methane explosions like the ones they discovered in the
Arctic only happens in areas that have a huge underground gas
reservoirs.<br>
The good news is that the ones in the study are only seeping
moderate amounts of methane gas up to 200 meters above the sea
floor, which means that bacteria in the sea are still taking care of
disposing the gas. This, however, is not an assurance that it will
continue to be safe because the Arctic ice sheets are also
retreating in the present time, which means there may still be
undiscovered and under pressure methane mounds in the area.<br>
The bad news, however, is that there are more hydrocarbon reserves
under the West Antarctica and Arctic ice sheets, and methane gas
seeps have been discovered along the Atlantic Coast, and just off
the Oregon and Washington Coasts. This means continued global
warming could potentially set off explosions when the conditions
align.<br>
<b>The second condition - the glacial melt - is already happening.</b><br>
"The only way you can keep this hydrate that's in the ground is to
keep from warming the oceans. The only way you can keep them from
warming is to reduce the greenhouses gases in the atmosphere,"
University of Washington Oceanographer H. Paul Johnson said. Johnson
is not involved in the research but has studied methane hydrates
along the Pacific Northwest.<br>
If there is any wonder why methane in the atmosphere is bad, just
think of how effective the gas is in absorbing heat. More methane in
the atmosphere means more heat trapped in Earth, and it will just
keep getting hotter and hotter and it could severely affect the
ecosystem.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666">- See more at: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/208989/20170603/methane-domes-hint-of-potential-arctic-sea-floor-reveal-methane-explosions-in-the-future.htm#sthash.u8xJAczA.dpuf">http://www.techtimes.com/articles/208989/20170603/methane-domes-hint-of-potential-arctic-sea-floor-reveal-methane-explosions-in-the-future.htm#sthash.u8xJAczA.dpuf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6341/948">http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6341/948</a></font><br>
See also: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/05/7-facts-need-to-know-arctic-methane-time-bomb">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/05/7-facts-need-to-know-arctic-methane-time-bomb</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871174X16300488">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871174X16300488</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/trump-pittsburgh-wrong">Sorry,
Donald: Pittsburgh Thinks You Are Wrong About Climate Change</a></b><br>
The president says he represents Pittsburgh, not Paris. Pittsburgh's
mayor isn't happy.<br>
There's just one problem: The citizens of Pittsburgh are strongly
supportive of climate action. According to a recent study from the
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, 68 percent of adults
in the Pittsburgh metro area support strict limits on carbon
emissions from coal-fired power plants-a key element of the US
commitment under the Paris deal. For Allegheny County, which
includes Pittsburgh, that number is 74 percent. For Pennsylvania's
14th Congressional District, which also includes Pittsburgh, it's 78
percent.<br>
Roughly two-thirds of Pennsylvanians-and Americans as a
whole-believe the United States should remain in the Paris
agreement, according to the Yale research.<br>
There doesn't appear to be any data on the popularity of the Paris
agreement within Pittsburgh itself, but it's worth noting that the
city's mayor, Bill Peduto, actually traveled to Paris during the
2015 negotiations to help press for an agreement. "Pittsburgh and
other cities are on the front lines of the climate change crisis,
and it is our responsibility to address the deep challenges it is
creating for us, our children and our grandchildren," he said in a
statement at the time, according to the Pittsburg Post-Gazette.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/trump-pittsburgh-wrong">http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/trump-pittsburgh-wrong</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-climate-change-saved-steve-bannons-job">How
Climate Change Saved Steve Bannon's Job</a></b><br>
The decision on the Paris accord pitted Bannon against Jared and
Ivanka-and played to all of Bannon's strengths.<br>
By Ryan Lizza<br>
A White House official insisted that Jared and Ivanka's role in the
climate debate has been misunderstood and exaggerated. "Jared
believes that it's a bad deal and that the standards were too high
and could hurt the economy. But his preference would have been to
stay in," the White House official said. "Ivanka's preference was to
stay in, but she saw her role as setting up a process inside and
outside the government to get information to her father from all
sides of the issue."<br>
Bannonism always thrives in the Trump White House when it can serve
as a political accelerant for Trump, who, at the time of his
decision on Thursday, was confronting a continued erosion of support
from his own base, a widening Russia probe, and a stalled agenda in
Congress.<br>
On the climate accord, Kushner and Ivanka hardly had a chance.
Bannon's nationalism, especially when it comes to trade and
immigration, is still not widely supported in the Republican
establishment and conservative donor class. But when Bannon's views
line up with those of Republican leaders and donors-not to mention
those of Trump-he almost always prevails. If Trump had taken the
less extreme course on climate advised by his daughter and
son-in-law, he would have been breaking a campaign promise and going
against the wishes of the entire G.O.P. leadership. In addition,
Trump, who knows little about policy, is famously narcissistic, and,
easily influenced by personal slights, reportedly was perturbed by a
remark from Emmanuel Macron, the French President, who said he
intentionally made a show of forcefully shaking Trump's hand at the
recent G7 summit. Trump also reportedly believed that angering
Europe was a "secondary benefit" of pulling out of the accord.<br>
Given these circumstances, Bannon could not have had a stronger hand
to play in this fight. Still, the climate decision is ultimately the
responsibility of Trump himself, not of any single adviser. Trump
generally makes decisions that align with Bannon's views not because
he is being manipulated by him but because he agrees with him.<br>
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href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-climate-change-saved-steve-bannons-job">http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-climate-change-saved-steve-bannons-job</a><br>
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In the tradition of the Clintonometer and the Trump Apocalypse
Watch, the Impeach-O-Meter is a wildly subjective and speculative
daily estimate of the likelihood that Donald Trump leaves office
before his term ends, whether by being impeached (and convicted) or
by resigning under threat of same. (40%)<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/06/03/weather-report-trumps-voters-killed-the-paris-climate-agreement/">Trump's
Voters Are Responsible for Killing the Paris Climate Agreement</a></b><br>
by D.R. Tucker June 3, 2017<br>
...It was those who voted for Trump who abandoned the Paris climate
agreement. Trump is merely the tool they used to say "Screw you!" to
science, facts, reality, reason and the health and safety of their
own children and grandchildren. Any Republican who won the 2016 GOP
primary and the presidency–Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, John
Kasich–would have pulled out of Paris too, at the behest of the
base....<br>
With all the chatter about the alleged need for the Democratic Party
to abandon so-called "identity politics," perhaps we should examine
the role "identity politics" may have played in the Trump
electorate's decision to reject efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
It has long been recognized that climate change will have a
disproportionate impact on communities of color; just recall the
images from post-Katrina New Orleans a dozen years ago for proof....<br>
... a political party can't please everybody. The Democratic Party
cannot simultaneously claim to stand for strong action on climate
change, which will disproportionately impact key members of the
party's base, and chase after the votes of those who don't care
about this issue. Attempting to please both voters focused on the
climate crisis and those who don't give a damn could well damn the
Democrats. ...<br>
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href="http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/06/03/weather-report-trumps-voters-killed-the-paris-climate-agreement/">http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/06/03/weather-report-trumps-voters-killed-the-paris-climate-agreement/</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19058588/#.UruVhvvAakA">This
Day in Climate History June 4, 2007</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">NASA Administrator Michael Griffin apologizes for
his May 31, 2007 remarks on NPR questioning the importance of
addressing carbon pollution.<br>
Griffin made headlines last week when he told a National Public
Radio interviewer he wasn’t sure global warming was a problem .<br>
“I have no doubt that ... a trend of global warming exists,”
Griffin said on NPR. “I am not sure that it is fair to say that it
is a problem we must wrestle with.”<br>
The radio interview angered some climate scientists, who called
his remarks ignorant.<br>
An international panel this year predicted that uncontrolled
greenhouse gas emissions could drive up global temperatures and
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