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<font size="+1"><i>December 18, 2017<br>
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[KING-TV video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-now/beyond-a-perfect-storm-wind-driven-california-fire-nears-record/465-d094584c-de4d-4a21-ac44-bb33447e7e37">'Beyond
a perfect storm': Wind-driven California fire nears record</a></b><br>
"Critical fire weather combined with ... single-digit relative
humidities will continue to support fire growth," the California
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) ominously
warned.<br>
Firefighters furiously digging containment lines to protect exposed
communities drew a modest reprieve when early morning wind gusts
eased later in the day. <br>
Two people have died, including firefighter Cory Iverson, and 1,000
homes have been destroyed or damaged as the blaze sweeps through
more than 420 square miles. That's about 6 square miles less than
the largest California wildfire on record - the Cedar Fire, which
killed 15 people near San Diego 14 years ago....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-now/beyond-a-perfect-storm-wind-driven-california-fire-nears-record/465-d094584c-de4d-4a21-ac44-bb33447e7e37">http://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-now/beyond-a-perfect-storm-wind-driven-california-fire-nears-record/465-d094584c-de4d-4a21-ac44-bb33447e7e37</a></font><br>
-<br>
[LA Times]<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-thomas-fire-ledeall-20171217-story.html">Thomas
fire continues to grow as strong, shifting winds bring new
dangers</a></b><br>
The massive Thomas fire continued to grow Sunday even after an epic
battle to protect homes along the Santa Barbara County coast
Saturday proved successful despite intense winds.<br>
The third-largest wildfire in modern California history was burning
a massive swath from Santa Barbara to Ventura, fueled by intense
Santa Ana winds, with gusts topping 70 mph early Sunday in some
valley and mountain areas. The National Weather Service issued a
wind advisory in the region...<br>
"This is the worst fire condition I've seen in the last 32 years,"
said Capt. Dave Zaniboni, a spokesman for the Santa Barbara County
Fire Department. "It could have been a lot worse. We could have
easily lost firefighters or had more homes destroyed. It was a great
effort by firefighters."...<font size="-1"><br>
</font>The fire started less than two months after a series of
wildfires roared through Northern California's wine country, killing
more than 40 people and incinerating thousands of homes.<br>
California's fire season was until recently viewed as starting in
April and running through October. Now year-round fire issues have
become the "new normal," said state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson,
D-Santa Barbara.<br>
"These fires are very complicated and very dangerous, and Mother
Nature does not share her playbook with us," she said.<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-thomas-fire-ledeall-20171217-story.html">http://beta.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-thomas-fire-ledeall-20171217-story.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/germans-worried-climate-change-analysis-shows">Germans
most worried about climate change, analysis shows</a></b><br>
People living in Germany are the most worried about climate change,
according to new analysis of 18 countries published this week.<br>
The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) examined data
collected by the European Social Survey on public attitudes to
climate change of 16 European countries, Russia and Israel.<br>
Of these 18 countries, it found Germans are the most concerned, with
44% "very or "extremely" worried about climate change. At the other
end of the spectrum, just 15% of Poles say they are "very or
"extremely" worried.<br>
Meanwhile, 15% of Russians say that the world's climate is
definitely not changing, compared to an average of 3% across all
countries included.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/germans-worried-climate-change-analysis-shows">https://www.carbonbrief.org/germans-worried-climate-change-analysis-shows</a></font><br>
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<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/12021-life-planet-trump-should-we-be-worried-or-merely-terrified">
Life on Planet Trump: Should we be worried or merely terrified?</a></b><br>
Whatever your view on Trump's policies or behaviour, nothing is more
important than the mental health of one of the most powerful men in
the world, one who theoretically has his finger on the nuclear
button. Public concern goes back to the beginning of his presidency.
The respected liberal American independent magazine, the New
Republic, which for over 100 years has influenced political and
cultural thinking in Washington, carried an article on 17 February,
just four weeks after Trump's inauguration: "A Medical Theory for
Donald Trump's Bizarre Behaviour". In this piece, physicians noted
that many medical conditions exhibit their first symptoms in the
form of psychiatric issues and personality changes, quoting one in
particular, neurosyphilis, seen 10 to 30 years after the initial
infection. Commonly recognised symptoms include irritability,
delusional thinking and grandiosity. Dementia, squinting and patchy
hair loss can also be seen in the later stages. All this, of course,
was simply conjecture by the New Republic, but if Trump does indeed
have neurosyphilis, which is progressive but treatable, he would be
in good company. Al Capone had it; so did composers Frederick Delius
and Franz Schubert. Less exalted company would be Adolf Hitler,
Mussolini and Ivan the Terrible, all of whom were believed to have
the disease.<br>
Hot on the heels of this article, Psychology Today, a magazine
formerly owned and published by the American Psychological
Association, published a post "The Elephant in the Room: It's time
we talked openly about Donald Trump's mental health". This post
immediately went viral with close to a million reads. One was from
Dr John Gartner, whose earlier petition warning on Trump's mental
health was signed by more than 60,000 mental health professionals.
This petition also contained a request that Trump be removed from
office according to the 25th amendment.<br>
More recently, psychiatrist Dr Bandy Lee of Yale University wrote to
Congress, warning that Donald Trump poses a "clear and present
danger to the world". In a follow-up letter to the New York Times on
30 September, Dr Lee referred to a recently published book, of which
she is the editor: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27
Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/12021-life-planet-trump-should-we-be-worried-or-merely-terrified">http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/12021-life-planet-trump-should-we-be-worried-or-merely-terrified</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Seattle Times]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/uws-robotic-fleet-will-probe-under-antarctic-ice-shelves-for-clues-to-future-sea-level-rise/">UW's
robotic fleet will probe under Antarctic ice shelves for clues
to future sea-level rise</a></b><br>
By Sandi Doughton <br>
Seattle Times science reporter<br>
Later this month, a University of Washington researcher will heave a
half-million dollars' worth of robotic sensors into the frigid
waters off Antarctica - and hope for the best.<br>
If all goes well, the drones could gather some of the most extensive
measurements ever from beneath the continent's vast and vulnerable
Western ice shelf. If things go wrong, the bots could vanish into
the labyrinth of cavities and crevasses under the ice, never to be
heard from again...<br>
The glaciers that cover Antarctica are buttressed by floating ice
shelves up to a third of a mile thick. If global warming causes the
shelves to collapse or melt, the glaciers could flow more rapidly
into the ocean and accelerate sea-level rise....<br>
The UW team tested the instruments in Puget Sound before crating
them up for shipment to New Zealand, where they'll be loaded onto
the South Korean icebreaker R.V. Araon. UW oceanographer Jason Gobat
and Pierre Dutrieux of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia
University will deploy the drones from the ship during its 50-day
polar science mission.<br>
The four Argo floats will be swept under the ice and won't be able
to communicate with the scientists in Seattle until - and if -
currents flush them back into open water. The three Seagliders are
programmed to initially venture short distances under the edge of
the ice, then back out to transmit data and receive instructions.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/uws-robotic-fleet-will-probe-under-antarctic-ice-shelves-for-clues-to-future-sea-level-rise/">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/science/uws-robotic-fleet-will-probe-under-antarctic-ice-shelves-for-clues-to-future-sea-level-rise/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[DeSmogBlog]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/14/pew-charitable-trusts-funding-climate-denial-texas-public-policy-foundation-hartnett-white">Why
Has One of the World's Biggest Funders of Environmental
Conservation Also Given $4 Million to a Climate Denial Group?</a></b><br>
The Pew Charitable Trusts, one of the world's biggest funders of
environmental conservation groups, has given almost $5 million since
2011 to an organization that rejects the overwhelming evidence that
human-caused climate change is dangerous, DeSmog has found.<br>
Between 2011 and 2015, financial returns show the Pew Charitable
Trusts gave $4.7 million to the Texas Public Policy Foundation
(TPPF), while giving millions more to dozens of worthy conservation
causes.<br>
Kathleen Hartnett White, who is President Donald Trump's nominee to
lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, heads TPPF's
Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment.<br>
Hartnett White, who hopes to chair the influential federal council,
also rejects the science linking fossil fuel burning to dangerous
climate change.<br>
Some of the groups that have received major grants from Pew have
been outspoken in their criticisms of Hartnett White, describing her
as a "climate change denier" who was unfit for the role. The Pew
Charitable Trusts confirmed the grants, but said they were unrelated
to work on climate change.<br>
Senate Democrats are accusing Hartnett White of plagiarizing her
responses to questions from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works. Hartnett White was unable to answer basic questions about
climate change during her nomination hearing...<br>
DeSmog asked the Pew Charitable Trusts why it would give more than
$4 million to a group whose work was in contradiction to the many
other organizations it generously supported. <br>
Pew did not answer this question, but in an email response,
spokesperson Felisa Neuringer Klubes said: "I can confirm that Pew
made grants to the Texas Public Policy Foundation totaling
approximately $4.74 million between 2011 and 2015. Those grants were
in support of the foundation's work to advance state-level policy
reforms of juvenile justice and adult sentencing and corrections
reform, as well as efforts to expand access to dental care by
encouraging states to license dental therapists. The foundation is
one of several hundred organizations that Pew partners with on a
wide variety of issues."<br>
She added that the Pew Charitable Trusts is "an independent,
nonprofit organization, committed to developing effective,
evidence-based, nonpartisan policy solutions to solve today's most
challenging problems."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/14/pew-charitable-trusts-funding-climate-denial-texas-public-policy-foundation-hartnett-white">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/14/pew-charitable-trusts-funding-climate-denial-texas-public-policy-foundation-hartnett-white</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Unintentional Irony]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/we-must-stop-the-leaks">The
EPA Headquarters Reportedly Got Hit With A Sewage Leak And
People Pounced On The Irony</a></b><br>
These metaphors are getting rather heavy-handed, no?<br>
A plumbing problem at the headquarters of the Environmental
Protection Agency caused water fountains to overflow with smelly
black sewage Friday morning, according to <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/12/14/stories/1060069063">E&E
News</a>.<br>
[disgusting photograph <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/941715143150526465/photo/1">https://twitter.com/RobertMaguire_/status/941715143150526465/photo/1</a>]<br>
"There is a water line back up in the William Jefferson Clinton
North Building that is causing the hallway water fountains to leak
throughout the building in the 400 and 500 Corridors," the email
reportedly said. "GSA is working this issue right now. There is no
estimated time for resolution."<br>
An EPA employee reportedly said it has since been cleaned up.<br>
Plumbing problems are apparently a common occurrence at the EPA
headquarters. One former employee told E&E News there would
sometimes be "very odd smells coming out of those drinking
fountains."<br>
"I can't imagine that anyone would actually drink out of those
drinking water fountains," <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/we-must-stop-the-leaks">https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/we-must-stop-the-leaks</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/12/14/stories/1060069063">https://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2017/12/14/stories/1060069063</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/permanent-lie-deadliest-threat/">The
Permanent Lie, Our Deadliest Threat</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/permanent-lie-deadliest-threat/">https://www.truthdig.com/articles/permanent-lie-deadliest-threat/</a><br>
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</font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/more-studies-examine-role-of-climate-change-in-hurricane-harvey/">Hurricane
Harvey studies: Yesterday's 100-year storm is today's 30-year
storm</a></b><br>
...Although a 1,000-year storm is bound to happen somewhere in the
world fairly regularly, it's still ultimately "bad luck" when it
happens to you. A number of chance events had to line up to make
Hurricane Harvey as extreme as it was. But on the list of things
humans did that made Harvey and its effects worse than it otherwise
would have been, climate change cannot be ignored.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/more-studies-examine-role-of-climate-change-in-hurricane-harvey/">https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/more-studies-examine-role-of-climate-change-in-hurricane-harvey/</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/australia_s_greenhouse_gas_emissions_highest_on_record"><br>
AUSTRALIA'S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS HIGHEST ON RECORD...</a></b><br>
Australia's emissions over the past year were the highest on record,
when relatively unreliable emissions from land use are excluded,
according to estimates by the carbon consultancy NDEVR
Environmental...<br>
The government's official public release of data on emissions is now
six months behind and NDEVR Environmental's estimations attempt to
mirror that methodology. Released in partnership with Guardian
Australia, the results have proven very accurate when compared with
data eventually released by the federal government.<br>
The ever-increasing emissions are taking Australia further from both
its carbon-reduction commitments made in Paris and the much bigger
reductions demanded by the science-based targets, recommended by the
government's Climate Change Authority.<br>
In both 2015 and 2016, the government quietly released data showing
rising emissions on the days before Christmas, with this year's data
still not released just two weeks out from Christmas.<br>
And, for the past two years, documents released under freedom of
information laws have shown the government has had the data for
months before releasing it...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/australia_s_greenhouse_gas_emissions_highest_on_record">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/australia_s_greenhouse_gas_emissions_highest_on_record</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[news video compilation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/gKM2WexQfvs">Climate
& Extreme Weather News #86 (December 8th to 16th 2017)</a></b><br>
00:13 The USA: Thomas Fire & Snow Storms<br>
10:57 Italy: Emilia Romagna floods<br>
15:56 The UK: Winter storm<br>
17:38 The Philippines: Tropical Storm Urduja<br>
19:51 Indonesia: Jakarta flood<br>
22:21 South Africa: Vaal tornado<br>
25:12 Australia: Queensland thunderstorms<br>
32:13 December temp anomalies, Arctic update & Greenland study<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/gKM2WexQfvs">https://youtu.be/gKM2WexQfvs</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[AGU video Humor (part wake) - "not for the general public per se"
]<br>
<a
href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24607">2017
Fall Meeting - U54A: The Use of Humor in the Communication of
Geophysical Science</a><br>
American Geophysical Union (AGU)<br>
Published on Dec 16, 2017<br>
U54A: The Use of Humor in the Communication of Geophysical Science <br>
Friday, 15 December 2017 16:00 - 18:00 <br>
Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA Physical Sciences Division, Earth System
Research Laboratory<br>
U54A-01 Time to quit my day job? My not-so-quiet crusade to become
the funniest climate scientist at NASA <br>
Josh K Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory<br>
Cecile Penland, NOAA Boulder<br>
Gavin A Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies<br>
Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona<br>
Richard B Alley, Pennsylvania State University<br>
Session ID#: 24607<br>
Session Description:<br>
The use of humor has been shown to be an effective mechanism for
communicating science. Exemplars of this approach have successfully
used humor to engage audiences across the geophysical sciences in
understanding and appreciating of the intricacies of their science.
We propose to bring together in a single session, a cross-section of
talented communicators of researcher who can display how they
incorporate humor in the effective communication of their science.
Our session will bring together a cross-section of speakers from
AGU's sections/focus groups to feature their use of humor in the
presentation of their science followed by a discussion by a panel of
experts critiquing examples of the best and worst use of humor in
the presentation. We will ask each of the AGU section/focus group
presidents to nominate the scientist from their community who is
most notorious for, and effective in, their use of humor in
communicating their research.<br>
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields <br>
The imperative of humor in the portfolio of communication strategies
(Invited) (255675)<br>
James W C White, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United
States and Richard B Alley, Pennsylvania State Univ, University
Park, PA, United States<br>
The Once and Future Battles of Thor and the Midgard Serpent (or the
Southern Ocean's Role in Climate) (Invited) (292433)<br>
Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States<br>
Abstracts: <br>
<div class="papertitle" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,
"Helvetica Neue", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a
href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper218672.html"
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;
color: rgb(41, 96, 173); text-decoration: underline;">Time to
quit my day job? My not-so-quiet crusade to become the funniest
climate scientist at NASA<span> </span><i style="border: 0px;
margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;">(Invited)</i></a>(218672)</div>
<div class="papertitle" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,
"Helvetica Neue", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="border: 0px;
margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Josh
K Willis</b>, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United
States<br>
<a
href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper237685.html"
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;
color: rgb(41, 96, 173); text-decoration: underline;">Science Is
A Laughing Matter<span> </span><i style="border: 0px; margin:
0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;">(Invited)</i></a><span> </span>(237685)</div>
<div class="papertitle" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,
"Helvetica Neue", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="border: 0px;
margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Paul
R Weissman</b>, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United
States<br>
<a
href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper255404.html"
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;
color: rgb(41, 96, 173); text-decoration: underline;">A Spoonful
of Humor Makes the Math Go Down.<span> </span><i style="border:
0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;">(Invited)</i></a><span> </span>(255404)</div>
<div class="papertitle" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial,
"Helvetica Neue", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="border: 0px;
margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Cecile
Penland</b>, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States<br>
<a
href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper255675.html"
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;
color: rgb(62, 171, 185); text-decoration: underline;">The
imperative of humor in the portfolio of communication strategies<span> </span><i
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size:
14px;">(Invited)</i></a><span> </span>(255675)<b
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;"><br>
James W C White</b>, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder,
CO, United States and Richard B Alley, Pennsylvania State Univ,
University Park, PA, United States<br>
<a
href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Paper292433.html"
style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;
color: rgb(41, 96, 173); text-decoration: underline;">The Once
and Future Battles of Thor and the Midgard Serpent (or the
Southern Ocean's Role in Climate)<span> </span><i style="border:
0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;">(Invited)</i></a><span> </span>(292433)</div>
<div class="paperauthors" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px 0px 1.5em; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-weight:
400; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, "Helvetica
Neue", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Joellen L Russell</b>,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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</b></font><font size="+1"><b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/opinion/gov-cuomo-makes-sense-on-fracking.html">This
Day in Climate History December 18, 2014</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
• The New York Times editorial page observes:<br>
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"Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced a statewide ban on the<br>
extraction of natural gas using a controversial drilling process<br>
called hydraulic fracturing. This was not an easy decision, but it
was<br>
the right one. Many geologists and industry leaders believe that the<br>
deep shale formations underneath the state’s southern tier, known as<br>
the Marcellus Shale, contain bountiful supplies of natural gas. But<br>
extracting the gas, the governor concluded, carried — at least for
now<br>
— unacceptable risks to the environment and human health.<br>
<br>
"In making what amounted to his first major decision since his<br>
re-election last month, Mr. Cuomo embraced the conclusion of state<br>
health officials that important health issues remain unresolved and<br>
that it was impossible to declare that hydraulic fracturing is safe<br>
for the environment or human health...<br>
<br>
"Though he did not intend it as such, Mr. Cuomo’s decision sends an<br>
important message to both the industry and the Obama administration,<br>
which is drawing up new rules aimed at ensuring that wells are<br>
carefully drilled, that fugitive methane gases are captured and that<br>
wastewater is disposed of safely. The message from New York is that<br>
not only ordinary citizens but health officials and state leaders
like<br>
Mr. Cuomo have serious doubts about all of these issues — doubts
that<br>
a strong regulatory regime might help answer."<br>
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