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<font size="+1"><i>August 22 , 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Trump dissolves climate change advisory panel</a></b><a
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</a>The National Climate Assessment, as the report on climate change
is known, is supposed to be issued every four years, and the next
one is expected next spring, according to the Post. <br>
In the meantime, the administration is reviewing a report that could
be key to the final assessment, which estimates that human
activities are to blame for an increase in global temperature from
1951 to 2010. Scientists from 13 different agencies produced the
report.<br>
That report, which was obtained by The New York Times earlier this
month, is awaiting final approval by the Trump administration. The
report indicates that temperatures in recent decades have been the
warmest of the past 1,500 years. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-trump-dissolves-climate-change-advisory-panel/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-trump-dissolves-climate-change-advisory-panel/</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/20/the-trump-administration-just-disbanded-a-federal-advisory-committee-on-climate-change/">The
Trump administration disbanded a federal advisory committee on
climate change</a></b><br>
The Trump administration has chosen to disband a federal advisory
panel aimed at guiding public and private-sector officials in
understanding the findings of the government's reports on the
climate.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/20/the-trump-administration-just-disbanded-a-federal-advisory-committee-on-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/20/the-trump-administration-just-disbanded-a-federal-advisory-committee-on-climate-change/</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/epa-climate-change-local-news.php">Why
isn't local media covering the Clean Power Plan?</a></b><em
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A DAILY NEWSPAPER IN TEXAS published an editorial about a month ago
arguing that any changes President Trump makes to Barack Obama's
climate-change plan shouldn't include propping up the coal industry
at the expense of other energy sources: "The EPA has no business in
picking winners and losers."<br>
"We're in the middle of oil country," says Roy Maynard, a senior
editor at the Tyler Morning Telegraph. "We're looking at that from a
free-market approach. The government doesn't need to be propping up
any of these industries."<br>
The Morning Telegraph has a staff of about 20, and "we write about
energy quite a bit," Maynard tells CJR. It's a rare exception for
local media, which has explained in detail how changes in US
healthcare policy may trickle down but rarely has delved into
policies related to climate change.<br>
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Coverage of the Clean
Power Plan has mostly come from national sources such as<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-28/clean-power-plan-suit-shelved-short-of-resolution-by-u-s-court"
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">,<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/science/what-to-know-about-trumps-order-to-dismantle-the-clean-power-plan.html"
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400;">The New York Times</span></i></a><span
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">, and the<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-pipeline-appalachian-trail-201707-htmlstory.html"
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border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight:
400;">Los Angeles Times</span></i></a><span style="box-sizing:
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0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">. The CPP was mentioned
once in<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Nuclear-power-as-we-know-it-is-finished-11727465.php"
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style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-weight: 400;">Houston Chronicle</span></i><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400;">piece</span></a><span
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span> </span>on the
halting of construction of two nuclear reactors,<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/articles/ideas-work/reviving-nuclear-dream"
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border-box; font-weight: 400;">which provide carbon-free power</span></a><span
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">. And<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/06/the-coal-mining-museum-in-harlan-county-ky-switches-to-solar-power/"
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border-box; font-weight: 400;">a popular<span> </span></span><i
style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-weight: 400;">Washington Post</span></i><span
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from April</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color:
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">, citing the original
work of two local TV stations, explained how an Eastern Kentucky
coal-mining museum was installing solar panels to save on energy
costs and feed power back into the town's grid.</span><br>
When it comes to reporting on the more local level, businesses have
had all kinds of responses to the Clean Power Plan and the larger
issue of responding to climate change."<br>
In both Colorado and Arizona, mining is a huge economic driver, and
the CPP could affect how much coal and oil and copper stays in the
ground, and how national treasures such as Grand Canyon National
Park are preserved.<br>
"There are a huge number of people interested in recreational
activities and the environment, so whether it's in Colorado with
natural-gas fracking, or coal plants, or uranium mining at the Grand
Canyon, all of that stuff coming together, it's important to readers
and viewers," Dale says. "I've never found that people weren't
interested in it."<br>
Whether his reporters, or any reporters, are covering an issue like
the CPP, or the Affordable Care Act, or any similarly enormous and
far-reaching national policy, Dale says he prefers to focus on local
impact.<br>
It may take years for the courts to sort out the CPP, and
journalists can't afford to wait, Leber says.<br>
"If you look at what the Trump administration has prioritized in its
rollback, <b>it's been climate and environmental policy that
they've made the biggest moves on," Leber says. "Just because the
Clean Power Plan itself was stalled in court, the larger issue of
what the government isn't doing now on climate change is a huge
story, where there's pretty much endless angles and investigative
stories to be done."[...]<br>
</b>Local reporters should ask politicians and business owners they
cover how sweeping changes in energy policy may affect where they
live and work. Resources are available online, Leber says, including
the 2014 National Climate Change Assessment, which breaks down
evidence of global warming into regions, so journalists can pinpoint
risks that most affect their audience. The 2016 assessment, just
released, concluded, among other findings, that some extreme weather
has been caused by climate change. Heat waves and floods and
hurricanes don’t discriminate. Power plants may open or close.
Factories that build solar panels may replace working coal mines.
News consumers need to know how the changing environment affects
them and their families....<br>
“I’m hesitant to say national reporters are much better at covering
this issue,” Leber says. “Plenty of outlets could improve their
coverage at the national level. At the local level, the challenge is
always resources and time. There could always be more climate
coverage.”<b><br>
</b><font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/epa-climate-change-local-news.php">https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/epa-climate-change-local-news.php</a></font><b><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-climate-change-cancelled-the-grizzly-salmon-run/537483/">How
Climate Change Canceled the Grizzly Salmon Run</a></b><br>
On an Alaskan island, one of nature's greatest spectacles is
shutting down, as brown bears abandon fish in favor of a surprising
alternative.<br>
In most years, red elderberries only ripen from late August to early
September, at the end of the salmon season. The two food sources
don't overlap, so the bears eat them in sequence, gorging on salmon
before bingeing on berries. But, by looking at historical data,
Deacy and Armstrong found that this natural timetable has changed.
In Alaska, spring temperatures have increased and elderberries have
been ripening earlier. In 2014, the berries ripened especially
early, bringing them in sync with the spawning salmon. And it seems
that whenever both items are on the menu simultaneously, the bears
always choose berries.<br>
Many scientists have shown that climate change is rescheduling
nature. Warming temperatures are forcing birds to migrate sooner,
insects to emerge earlier, and plants to bud and bloom before their
time. These changes are disrupting many of the dances between
species, forcing long-established partners to move to different
rhythms. Flowers, for example, might bloom too early to catch a wave
of pollinating insects.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-climate-change-cancelled-the-grizzly-salmon-run/537483/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-climate-change-cancelled-the-grizzly-salmon-run/537483/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/losing-a-war-against-climate-change_us_59928db9e4b0caa1687a6349">Losing
a War Against Climate Change</a></b><br>
...the ideological damage has already been dealt: a global plummet
of morale in the war against climate change.<br>
But on the other hand, one's decisions to be politically active and
to conserve, reduce, reuse, and recycle, when combined with the
efforts of millions, can make a significant difference for our
climate. For the millions of Americans who still believe in a green
future, the individual decision to be eco-friendly, together, may
very well save our world.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/losing-a-war-against-climate-change_us_59928db9e4b0caa1687a6349">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/losing-a-war-against-climate-change_us_59928db9e4b0caa1687a6349</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/uk-artists-call-for-rethink-on-climate-change-iconography/">UK
artists call for rethink on climate change iconography</a></b><br>
University of Hertfordshire show addresses move away from images of
melting ice caps<br>
The issue of climate change is insidious, warn eight UK-based
artists who highlight the encroaching threat of environmental
degradation in an exhibition opening later this year. Slow Violence,
which is due to open at the Art & Design Gallery at the UK's
University of Hertfordshire (29 November-20 January 2018), will
include new and recent works by Katie Paterson, Adam Chodzko and
Thomson & Craighead, among others.<br>
The exhibition title is taken from the 2011 publication, Slow
Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, by Rob Nixon, a
professor at Princeton University. "Slow Violence acknowledges that
the violence of climate change can often be unrecognised, even
invisible, incremental, localised, extended, durational," the
exhibition organisers say in a statement, adding that the
contributing artists "challenge us to rethink the prevailing climate
change iconography—of melting ice caps or desertification".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/uk-artists-call-for-rethink-on-climate-change-iconography/">http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/uk-artists-call-for-rethink-on-climate-change-iconography/</a><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://acadiaonmymind.bangordailynews.com/2017/08/21/home/climate-change-consequences-hot-topic-acadia-global-news/">Climate
change consequences hot topic in Acadia, global news</a></b><br>
August 21, 2017<br>
By Dolores Kong & Dan Ring<br>
Topography map of Acadia and Mount Desert Island at the Nature
Center shows the potential impact of climate change on shorefront,
roads, plants and wildlife.<br>
The topic is also sharply in focus at Acadia National Park, where an
exhibit at the Sieur de Monts Nature Center explores current and
future climate change consequences at the park including the
flooding of salt marshes, the survival of a parasite that is killing
hemlock forests and the threats of rising temperatures on summit
plants, trees like red spruce and balsam fir, and nesting sites of
Puffins, Arctic Terns and Loons.<br>
Lynne Dominy, chief of interpretation and education at Acadia, said
it is important that the exhibit helps people understand the
environmental changes that may occur over the next several decades
in the park.<br>
Dominy said the displays are based on science, but they allow people
to make their own decisions about climate change.<br>
"The main message is to be educated and to make responsible
choices," she said. "You have to understand we live on a complex
planet and that things change. It is important to be a part of that
and to understand where we are going and make responsible choices."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://acadiaonmymind.bangordailynews.com/2017/08/21/home/climate-change-consequences-hot-topic-acadia-global-news/">http://acadiaonmymind.bangordailynews.com/2017/08/21/home/climate-change-consequences-hot-topic-acadia-global-news/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-sets-the-world-on-fire/a-40152365">Climate
change sets the world on fire</a></b><br>
Southern Europe and British Columbia have been devastated by
wildfires this summer. And they're not the only ones - it seems like
much of the world is ablaze right now, and this could be the new
normal.<br>
There have been many wildfires aound the world this summer. Canada
has seen the worst season for fires since records began, with
894,941 hectares burned, the British Columbia Wildfire Service has
confirmed. Large areas of the Western United States have also been
affected. <br>
Meanwhile in Portugal, 2,000 people were recently cut off by flames
and smoke encircling the town of Macao. And earlier this summer, 64
people were killed by a blaze in the country.<br>
... southern Europe has seen a record heatwave this year, creating
hot, dry conditions that saw Italy, France, Croatia, Spain and
Greece all swept by wildfires. As a result, Europe has reportedly
seen three times the average number of wildfires this summer...<br>
In Siberia, wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes, and around 700
hectares of Armenian forest have also been destroyed by fire.
Earlier this year, Chile saw wildfires that were unparalleled in the
country's history, according to the President.<br>
Even Greenland, not known for its hot dry conditions, suffered an
unprecedented blaze this summer.<br>
"A lot of these things are happening locally, but people don't
always connect them to climate change," said Kevin Trenberth, a
scientist at the Climate Analysis Section of the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in the US. "But there is a real climate change
component to this and the risk is going up because of climate
change."<br>
With global temperatures rising, scientists say wildfires are likely
to become increasingly frequent and widespread. "What's really
happening is that there is extra heat available," Trenberth told DW.
"That heat has to go somewhere and some of it goes into raising
temperatures. But the first thing that happens is that it goes into
drying - it dries out plants and increases the risk of wildfires."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-sets-the-world-on-fire/a-40152365">http://www.dw.com/en/climate-change-sets-the-world-on-fire/a-40152365</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/super-heatwaves-55-c-emerge-if-global-warming-continues">Super-heatwaves
of 55 degrees C to emerge if global warming continues</a></b><br>
<b>Millions to be exposed to extreme Humidity and heat globally
Millions to be exposed to extreme Humidity and heat globally</b> <br>
AUG 2017<br>
Heatwaves amplified by high humidity can reach above 40 degrees C
and may occur as often as every two years, leading to serious risks
for human health. If global temperatures rise with 4 degrees C, a
new super heatwave of 55 degrees C <i>(131 degrees F)</i> can hit
regularly many parts of the world, including Europe.<br>
A recently published <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07536-7">study by
the Joint Research Centre (JRC) </a>– the European Commission's
science and knowledge service – analyses the interaction between
humidity and heat. The novelty of this study is that it looks not
only at temperature but also relative humidity to estimate the
magnitude and impact of heat waves.<br>
It finds out that the combinations of the two, and the resulting
heatwaves, leave ever more people exposed to significant health
risks, especially in East Asia and America's East Coast.<br>
Warm air combined with high humidity can be very dangerous as it
prevents the human body from cooling down through sweating, leading
to hyperthermia. As a result, if global warming trends continue,
many more people are expected to suffer sun strokes, especially in
densely populated areas of India, <br>
The study analyses changes in yearly probability for a high humidity
heatwaves since 1979 under different global warming scenarios. If
global temperatures increase up to 2 C above pre-industrial levels
the combined effect of heat and humidity (known as apparent
temperature or Heat Index) will likely exceed 40 degrees C every
year in many parts of Asia, Australia, Northern Africa, South and
North America. Europe will be least affected with up to 30% chance
of having such strong heat wave annually.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/super-heatwaves-55-c-emerge-if-global-warming-continues">https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/super-heatwaves-55-c-emerge-if-global-warming-continues</a><br>
- see also:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07536-7">Humid
heat waves at different warming levels</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Abstract<br>
The co-occurrence of consecutive hot and humid days during a heat
wave can strongly affect human health. Here, we quantify humid
heat wave hazard in the recent past and at different levels of
global warming. We find that the magnitude and apparent
temperature peak of heat waves, such as the ones observed in
Chicago in 1995 and China in 2003, have been strongly amplified by
humidity. Climate model projections suggest that the percentage of
area where heat wave magnitude and peak are amplified by humidity
increases with increasing warming levels. Considering the effect
of humidity at 1.5 and 2 degrees global warming, highly populated
regions, such as the Eastern US and China, could experience heat
waves with magnitude greater than the one in Russia in 2010 (the
most severe of the present era). The apparent temperature peak
during such humid-heat waves can be greater than 55 degrees C <i>(131
F). </i>According to the US Weather Service, at this
temperature humans are very likely to suffer from heat strokes.
Humid-heat waves with these conditions were never exceeded in the
present climate, but are expected to occur every other year at 4
degrees global warming. This calls for respective adaptation
measures in some key regions of the world along with international
climate change mitigation efforts.<br>
</blockquote>
To take into account the effect of relative humidity during
consecutive hot days, we introduce the new Apparent Heat Wave Index
(AHWI), which is calculated analogously to the Heat Wave Magnitude
Index daily HWMId15, but with daily maximum temperature replaced by
AT for those heat wave days with AT <br>
… The occurrence of heat waves with AT55C, never recorded in our
data records in the recent past, is likely to cause heat strokes by
limiting the human thermoregulation. The exceedance of this apparent
temperature across these regions is in agreement with other measures
accounting for the combined effect of temperature and relative
humidity. As an example, the wet-bulb temperature peak during a heat
wave is expected to exceed the value of 35 degrees C (see
Supplementary Fig. S9), a threshold likely to induce hyperthermia in
humans and other mammals as dissipation of metabolic heat becomes
impossible25, 31 While this never happens in the present climate,
and it is unlikely at 1.5 degrees C and 2 degrees C, it would occur
on a regular basis in many highly populated regions with global-mean
warming of about 4 degrees C, questioning the habitability of some
of these regions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07536-7">http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07536-7</a><br>
<br>
<a
href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv4w8b/christian-fundamentalists-are-fueling-climate-change-denialism"><br>
(opinion?) <b>The Fundamentalists Holding Us Back from a Climate
Change Solution</b></a><br>
"Man's relation to the soil was profoundly changed," legendary
medieval scholar Lynn White wrote in 1967 about this moment in human
history. "Formerly man was part of nature; now he was the exploiter
of nature."<br>
According to White, this innovation could only have happened after
what he calls the "greatest physic revolution in the history of
culture"—the transition from paganism to Christianity. Basically,
that's when much of the world went from thinking that we needed to
get permission from a tree's guardian spirt if we wanted to cut it
down to the belief that everything on earth was there for humans to
use as they saw fit. To this day, White's seminal thesis undergirds
almost all modern scholarship on why the Judeo-Christian tradition
in the West is seemingly at odds with the ecology movement, which
was just coming into being in White's era...<br>
There's a chicken-or-egg argument about whether the oil and gas
lobby pushed the GOP to adopt anti-environment positions and the
evangelicals moved in that direction with the rest of the party, or
whether Christian fundamentalists were already primed to endorse
those views. Schwadel's research suggests that the latter
explanation can't be dismissed...<br>
"I still believe many people in our community are confused about the
solutions," Lamb said. "People are more understanding that climate
change is real, but it still gets caught up in partisan politics of
being a liberal versus a conservative. It's been portrayed as a
liberal issue. It's not about Al Gore, it's about following Jesus."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv4w8b/christian-fundamentalists-are-fueling-climate-change-denialism">https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv4w8b/christian-fundamentalists-are-fueling-climate-change-denialism</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History August 22, 1981 -
from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
August 22, 1981: The New York Times reports on a groundbreaking
study<br>
by Dr. James Hansen on the risks of escalating carbon emissions.<br>
A team of Federal scientists says it has detected an overall warming
trend in the earth's atmosphere extending back to the year 1880.
They regard this as evidence of the validity of the ''greenhouse''
effect, in which increasing amounts of carbon dioxide cause steady
temperature increases.<br>
The seven atmospheric scientists predict a global warming of
''almost unprecedented magnitude'' in the next century. It might
even be sufficient to melt and dislodge the ice cover of West
Antarctica, they say, eventually leading to a worldwide rise of 15
to 20 feet in the sea level. In that case, they say, it would
''flood 25 percent of Louisiana and Florida, 10 percent of New
Jersey and many other lowlands throughout the world'' within a
century or less.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html</a></font><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/D6Un69RMNSw"><b>This
Year's Model (video)</b></a><br>
Climate science is not completely dependent on climate models. There
are many threads of supporting evidence. Still, it is clear that
climate models are telling us something important that we cannot
afford to ignore. Includes references to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/1978/Hansen_etal.html">http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/1978/Hansen_etal.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/1981/Hansen_etal.html">http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/1981/Hansen_etal.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/1988/Hansen_etal.html">http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/1988/Hansen_etal.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/D6Un69RMNSw">http://youtu.be/D6Un69RMNSw</a> video<br>
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