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<font size="+1"><i>December 21, 2017<br>
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[New Lawsuit]<br>
"The <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="www.sheredling.com/climate-change-pr/">City of Santa Cruz
and Santa Cruz County filed lawsuits today</a></b> (Dec 20,
2017) in California state court.While these cases are similar to the
San Mateo, Marin and Imperial Beach lawsuits that were filed in
July, there is an important difference. These complaints are the
first to assert climate change-related injuries - in addition to
those associated with sea level rise. In particular, they also
focus on disruptions to the hydrologic cycle caused by fossil fuel
pollution, including more frequent and severe wildfires, heat waves,
droughts, and extreme precipitation events.<br>
As with the earlier cases, these are aimed at recovering costs
associated with climate change-related damages that are affecting –
and will continue to affect - the City and County. " <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.sheredling.com/climate-change-pr/">www.sheredling.com/climate-change-pr/</a><b><br>
PRESS RELEASE (12/20/17):</b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Media-Santa-Cruz-Press-Release-FINAL-121917.pdf">More
Communities Seek to Protect Taxpayers from Increasing Costs of
Wildfire, Drought, Rising Seas and Extreme Precipitation</a></b><br>
MORE COMMUNITIES SEEK TO PROTECT TAXPAYERS FROM INCREASING COSTS OF
WILDFIRE, DROUGHT, RISING SEAS AND EXTREME PRECIPITATION<br>
City, County of Santa Cruz Go to Court to Hold Largest Fossil Fuel
Corporations Accountable for Contributions to Climate Change<br>
(Santa Cruz, CA) - The City of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz County
today joined a growing chorus of communities that are standing up
for their residents and businesses as they face mounting financial,
environmental, and public health costs tied to global warming. They
filed separate lawsuits in California Superior Court that for the
first time go beyond prior complaints for climate change-related
damages.<br>
Today's filings seek to hold accountable 29 oil, gas, and coal
companies not just for damages associated with sea level rise, but
also for changes to the hydrologic cycle caused by greenhouse gas
pollution from the companies' products, including more frequent and
severe wildfires, drought, and extreme precipitation events. Recent
reports from the American Meteorological Society and others confirm
that these kinds of serious climate-related changes result from
warming of the planet caused by increases in greenhouse gases.<br>
"With miles of coastlines and steep, forested mountains, Santa Cruz
County is particularly vulnerable to impacts from climate change,"
said County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty. "It's time for Big Oil, who
chose profit over people and the environment, to be held
responsible. It's time for oil companies to pay for the damage
they've caused, rather than ask local residents to pick up all the
costs associated with protecting us from sea level rise, increasing
fires, and severe weather."<br>
According to the complaints:<br>
<blockquote>Defendants have known for nearly 50 years that
greenhouse gas pollution from their fossil fuel products has a
significant impact on the Earth's climate and sea levels….Instead
of working to reduce the use and combustion of fossil fuel
products, lower the rate of greenhouse gas emissions, minimize the
damage associated with continued high use and combustion of such
products, and ease the transition to a lower carbon economy,
Defendants concealed the dangers, sought to undermine public
support for greenhouse gas regulation, and engaged in massive
campaigns to promote the ever-increasing use of their products at
ever greater volumes….Defendants are directly responsible for
215.9 gigatons of CO2 emissions between 1965 and 2015,
representing 17.5% of total emissions of that potent greenhouse
gas during that period.<br>
</blockquote>
Numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies show clearly that
pollution from oil, gas, and coal is causing the oceans and
atmosphere to warm, sea levels to rise, and wildfires, drought and
extreme precipitation events to skyrocket. The fossil fuel companies
have known for decades that the consequences of business-as-usual
combustion of their products could be catastrophic and that only a
narrow window of time existed to take action before the damage might
be irreversible.<br>
They were so certain of the threat that some even took steps to
protect their own assets from rising seas and more extreme storms,
and they developed new technologies to profit from drilling in a
soon-to-be ice-free Arctic...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Media-Santa-Cruz-Press-Release-FINAL-121917.pdf">https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Media-Santa-Cruz-Press-Release-FINAL-121917.pdf</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Backgrounder-Gen-Climate-One-Pager-FINAL-121917.pdf">BACKGROUNDER:
Hiding the Truth. Facing the Consequences.</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Backgrounder-Gen-Climate-One-Pager-FINAL-121917.pdf">https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Backgrounder-Gen-Climate-One-Pager-FINAL-121917.pdf</a></font><br>
twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/climatebrad/status/943599352496373760">https://twitter.com/climatebrad/status/943599352496373760</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Sea level rise]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/12/scientists-cant-tell-whether-sea-level-rise-will-be-bad-or-catastrophic/">Scientists
can't tell whether sea-level rise will be bad or catastrophic</a></b><br>
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Dec 19, 2017<br>
"The ice shelves are the key," says study team member Robert
DeConto, a climatologist at the University of Massachusetts in
Amherst. "They hold back the flow of Antarctic ice toward the ocean,
so we don't want to lose them. The problem is, they don't last very
long when they are sitting in warm water or if they are covered with
summer meltwater, so keeping global temperatures in check is
critical."...<br>
The new study, which appeared last week in the journal Earth's
Future, folds these insights about hydrofracturing and ice-cliff
instability into an established model of sea level rise. The
researchers, led by Robert Kopp of Rutgers University, calculated
how the retreat of Antarctic ice sheets might affect global sea
level rise through the year 2300 given different levels of carbon
emissions....<br>
Their calculations suggest that sea-level rise will be a lot worse
than past studies have estimated, especially in high- and
moderate-emissions scenarios. The difference is due largely to loss
of Antarctic ice sheets....<br>
"There's a lot of ambiguity in post-2050 projections of sea-level
rise and we may have to live with that for a while," says Kopp. "We
could end up with 8 feet of sea level-rise in 2100, but we're not
likely to have clear evidence for that by 2050."<br>
A few decades is close to instantaneous from the perspective of
human infrastructure: By the time we know how many feet of water are
coming, there may not be time enough for us to adapt.<br>
The researchers suggest ... a "flexible approach" to sea-level rise:
"building for the half foot to 1.3 feet of sea-level rise that are
likely by 2050, while plotting out options that will depend on what
we learn in the next few decades and how sea level rises beyond
that."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/12/scientists-cant-tell-whether-sea-level-rise-will-be-bad-or-catastrophic/">http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/12/scientists-cant-tell-whether-sea-level-rise-will-be-bad-or-catastrophic/</a></font><br>
Source: Kopp R.E. et al. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000663/full">"Evolving
Understanding of Antarctic Ice-Sheet Physics and Ambiguity in
Probabilistic Sea-Level Projections."</a> Earth's Future. 2017.<br>
<b>Plain Language Summary</b><br>
Recent ice-sheet modeling papers have introduced new physical
mechanisms - specifically the hydrofracturing of ice shelves and the
collapse of ice cliffs - that can rapidly increase ice-sheet mass
loss from a marine-based ice-sheet, as exists in much of Antarctica.
This paper links new Antarctic model results into a sea-level rise
projection framework to examine their influence on global and
regional sea-level rise projections and their associated
uncertainties, the potential impact of projected sea-level rise on
areas currently occupied by human populations, and the implications
of these projections for the ability to constrain future changes
from present observations. Under a high greenhouse gas emission
future, these new physical processes increase median projected 21st
century GMSL rise from (approximately) 80 to 150 cm. Revised median
RSL projections for a high-emissions future would, without
protective measures, by 2100 submerge land currently home to more
than 153 million people. The use of a physical model indicates that
emissions matter more for 21st century sea-level change than
previous projections showed. Moreover, there is little correlation
between the contribution of Antarctic to sea-level rise by 2050 and
its contribution in 2100 and beyond, so current sea-level
observations cannot exclude future extreme outcomes.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000663/full">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000663/full</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Regional]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ucsusa.org/press/2017/nine-states-embrace-clean-energy-collectively-capping-power-plant-emissions-through-203-0#.Wjp7-XlG1pg">Nine
States Embrace Clean Energy by Collectively Capping Power Plant
Emissions Through 2030</a></b><br>
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (December 19, 2017) - The nine states that make up
the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) - the nation's first
carbon cap-and-trade program - released an updated rule today that
commits the states to collectively cutting carbon dioxide emissions
from coal- and gas-fired power plants an additional 30 percent
between 2020 and 2030. <br>
<blockquote>Below is a statement by Ken Kimmell, president of the
Cambridge-based Union of Concerned Scientists. Kimmell is also the
former commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of
Environmental Protection and Board Chair of the Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative.<br>
"It's heartening to see these states demonstrating bipartisan
leadership when it comes to addressing climate change, especially
as the Trump administration dismantles federal policies. The RGGI
states recognize that lowering the cap on these emissions will
mean cleaner air, a faster transition to renewable energy, job
growth and even lower electric bills as states use proceeds from
the program to invest in energy efficiency. The fact that the
states tightened the emissions cap and that the partnership of
states is growing, with New Jersey and Virginia both potentially
joining, shows that the Trump administration is out of step with
the wishes of the people.<br>
<br>
"While this initiative moves us closer to a clean energy economy,
more needs to be done. States should feel emboldened to adopt
additional complementary policies to further address heat-trapping
emissions in the power sector. And they should go beyond the power
sector. It's particularly encouraging to see Northeast and
mid-Atlantic states moving toward developing a regional plan to
cut transportation sector emissions - the largest source of global
warming pollution in the region.<br>
<br>
"As the region continues to address climate change, it's
imperative that communities on the frontlines of climate change
impacts and global warming pollution have a say in how funds -
from RGGI or other programs - get distributed, and fully enjoy the
program's benefits."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ucsusa.org/press/2017/nine-states-embrace-clean-energy-collectively-capping-power-plant-emissions-through-203-0#.Wjp7-XlG1pg">https://www.ucsusa.org/press/2017/nine-states-embrace-clean-energy-collectively-capping-power-plant-emissions-through-203-0#.Wjp7-XlG1pg</a><br>
</font><br>
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[local]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/20/79065/meet-the-weatherman-watching-the-thomas-fire/">Thomas
Fire: This weatherman tells firefighters what to expect</a></b><br>
Not every wildfire gets a weatherman – it has to be a large, complex
fire involving multiple agencies. But in the biggest wildfires,
which are largely driven by wind, getting accurate forecasts on wind
speed, humidity and temperature is essential. In these situations,
incident meteorologists can drive firefighting strategy, according
to Rudy Everson, a public information officer working the Thomas
Fire. "The operations section and the incident commander have to
decide what they are going to be able to accomplish before the next
big wind event."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/20/79065/meet-the-weatherman-watching-the-thomas-fire/">http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/12/20/79065/meet-the-weatherman-watching-the-thomas-fire/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[audio - new podcast with Tim DeChristopher]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://climateworkshop.org/">The
Climate Workshop Episode 001 "Can we talk climate change?"</a></b><br>
Tim DeChristopher and Peter Bowden discuss Peter's entry into
climate activism and what kind of conversations they feel have been
missing from the climate movement. They challenge some of the
conventional wisdom about communicating climate change and call for
a more authentic, diverse, and humble conversation. Also, don't miss
Peter's great Bill McKibben impression!<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateworkshop.org/">https://climateworkshop.org/</a></font><b><br>
<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/19/record-snow-alaska-mountain-linked-climate-change/">Global
warming? Record snow on Alaska mountain peak linked to climate
change</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/19/record-snow-alaska-mountain-linked-climate-change/">https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/19/record-snow-alaska-mountain-linked-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Opinion - Los Angeles Times]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trump-climate-change-national-security-cdc-20171219-story.html">Talking
about climate change in Orwellian doublespeak doesn't make it go
away</a></b><br>
Maybe our spotlight-addicted president will declare that he has made
winters warmer, but that the "lying media" refuses to give him
credit for it.<br>
The reality is that it is the burning of fossil fuels by humans,
spewing carbon and other greenhouse gases into the air, that has
increased the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. And
unless we take quick and radical steps to curtail emissions and to
remove some of the carbon (through reforestation and other
techniques), the world as we know it will change, with species
die-offs, coastline changes, more intense major storms and altered
drought and rain patterns. And it will happen whether Trump uses the
words "climate change" or not.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trump-climate-change-national-security-cdc-20171219-story.html">http://beta.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trump-climate-change-national-security-cdc-20171219-story.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<a
href="https://theconversation.com/climate-change-will-displace-millions-in-coming-decades-nations-should-prepare-now-to-help-them-89274">[theConversation]<br>
<b>Climate change will displace millions in coming decades.
Nations should prepare now to help them</b></a><br>
Wildfires tearing across Southern California have forced thousands
of residents to evacuate from their homes. Even more people fled
ahead of the hurricanes that slammed into Texas and Florida earlier
this year, jamming highways and filling hotels. A <a
href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/irma-flights-florida.html">viral
social media post</a> showed a flight-radar picture of people
trying to escape Florida and posed a provocative question: What if
the adjoining states were countries and didn't grant escaping
migrants refuge?...<br>
By the middle of this century, experts estimate that climate change
is likely to displace between 150 and 300 million people. If this
group formed a country, it would be the fourth-largest in the world,
with a population nearly as large as that of the United States. ...<br>
Today the global community has not universally acknowledged the
existence of climate migrants, much less agreed on how to define
them. According to international refugee law, climate migrants are <a
href="https://ehs.unu.edu/blog/5-facts/5-facts-on-climate-migrants.html">not
legally considered refugees</a>. Therefore, they have none of the
protections officially accorded to refugees, who are technically
defined as people fleeing persecution. No global agreements exist to
help millions of people who are displaced by natural disasters every
year....<br>
The scale of this challenge is unlike anything humanity has ever
faced. By midcentury, climate change is likely to uproot far more
people than World War II, which displaced some <a
href="http://graphics.wsj.com/migrant-crisis-a-history-of-displacement/">60
million across Europe</a>, or the Partition of India, which
affected approximately <a
href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/29/the-great-divide-books-dalrymple">15
million</a>. The migration crisis that has gripped Europe since
2015 has involved something <a
href="http://publications.europa.eu/webpub/com/factsheets/migration-crisis/en/">over
one million refugees and migrants</a>. It is daunting to envision
much larger flows of people, but that is why the global community
should start doing so now.<br>
<a
href="https://theconversation.com/climate-change-will-displace-millions-in-coming-decades-nations-should-prepare-now-to-help-them-89274">https://theconversation.com/climate-change-will-displace-millions-in-coming-decades-nations-should-prepare-now-to-help-them-89274</a><br>
-<br>
<b><a
href="https://theconversation.com/a-record-65-3-million-people-were-displaced-last-year-what-does-that-number-actually-mean-61952">A
record 65.3 million people were displaced last year: What does
that number actually mean?</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/a-record-65-3-million-people-were-displaced-last-year-what-does-that-number-actually-mean-61952">https://theconversation.com/a-record-65-3-million-people-were-displaced-last-year-what-does-that-number-actually-mean-61952</a><br>
-<br>
[United Nations University]<br>
<a
href="https://ehs.unu.edu/blog/5-facts/5-facts-on-climate-migrants.html"><b>5
facts on climate migrants</b></a><br>
<blockquote><b>Fact 1: Climate migrants [note] are not legally
considered refugees according to international refugee law</b><br>
The media and advocacy groups often refer to climate migrants,
people on the move in relation to drought, floods, storms, as
"climate refugees". However, these people are not legally
considered refugees. 'Refugee' is a legal term which has a very
specific meaning centering on a "well-founded fear of being
persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership
of a particular social group or political opinion...According to
this convention, people leaving their countries for reasons
related to climate stressors may not be considered refugees
because the Convention does not recognize the environment as a
persecuting agent.<br>
<br>
<b>Fact 2: Climate migrants are people who leave their homes
because of climate stressors</b><br>
Climate stressors, such as changing rainfall, heavy flooding, and
sea level rise, put pressure on people to leave their homes and
livelihoods behind. It makes their homes uninhabitable. These
people could live anywhere in the world ranging from the Pacific
island states such as Kiribati and Tuvalu that are dealing with
sea-level rise, to farmers in countries in West Africa who cannot
cultivate their crops or raise livestock anymore because of
drought and flooding.<br>
<br>
<b>Fact 3: The vulnerable are most likely to feel pressure to
migrate</b><br>
Countries with a combination of low adaptive capacities,
vulnerable geographies and fragile ecosystems (such as small
island states, the Sahel Belt and low-lying mega deltas) will face
the question: Do I stay or do I go? At the same time, it is often
the poorest and most vulnerable who do not have the resources or
capacity to leave their homes. The majority of
environmentally-induced migrants are likely to come from rural
areas, as their livelihoods often depend on climate sensitive
sectors, such as agriculture and fishing. However, climate
migration out of urban areas is also possible as sea level rise
affects the densely populated coastal areas.<br>
<br>
<b>Fact 4: No one knows how many climate migrants will exist</b><br>
There are no reliable estimates of the number of people on the
move today or in the future as a result of environmental factors.
The reason for this is twofold: a difficulty untangling the
reasons for migration and a lack of official figures on within
country movement. Oftentimes places that experience climate
stressors are also affected by conflict situations, political
instability, low levels of economic development and human rights
abuses. This makes it difficult to establish a direct causal link
between the movement of people and the environment. The
environment, including climate change impacts, is usually one of
multiple factors involved in a person's decision to leave their
home. Furthermore, a lot of movement more directly attributable to
climate stressors is within a country (e.g. from rural to urban
areas) and not across international borders. This movement is
often not officially documented.<br>
<br>
<b>Fact 5: However, climate migration is a reality faced by people
the world over.</b><br>
People are already moving because of climate stressors and
changing weather patterns. Whether salinity intrusion in
Bangladesh is making it difficult for farmers to continue
cultivating rice or flooding in Kenya is killing livestock and
destroying crops, people's livelihoods are being threatened by
climate stressors. In many cases, people will adapt to these
stressors by migrating.<br>
</blockquote>
[note] For the purpose of brevity, in this article we will refer to
those whose decision to migrate is related to environmental
stressors such as drought, floods, storms, as climate migrants.
Though this is not an official term used in policy or academia. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ehs.unu.edu/blog/5-facts/5-facts-on-climate-migrants.html">https://ehs.unu.edu/blog/5-facts/5-facts-on-climate-migrants.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Mother Jones]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/12/donald-trump-has-decided-global-warming-is-no-longer-a-threat-to-national-security/">Donald
Trump Has Decided Global Warming Is No Longer a Threat to
National Security</a></b><br>
Since Ronald Reagan, Congress has mandated presidents to present
this broad policy document. Former President Barack Obama called
climate change "an urgent and growing threat to our national
security" <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/obama-thinks-climate-change-urgent-and-growing-threat-national-security/2/#">in
his final national security strategy</a>, unveiled in 2015. That
document listed the accelerating effects of warming - such as
natural disasters, refugee flows and conflicts over resources such
as food and water - alongside weapons of mass destruction and
infectious disease.<br>
By contrast, the only mention of climate in Trump's strategy appears
under a section on embracing "energy dominance," which says that
while "climate policies will continue to shape the global energy
system," American leadership is "indispensable to countering an
anti-growth energy agenda that is detrimental to U.S. economic and
energy security interests." <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/12/donald-trump-has-decided-global-warming-is-no-longer-a-threat-to-national-security/">http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/12/donald-trump-has-decided-global-warming-is-no-longer-a-threat-to-national-security/</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Source document PDF]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905.pdf">National
Security Strategy of the United States of America</a></b><br>
Whitehouse December 2017<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905.pdf">https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905.pdf</a><br>
-<br>
[USA Today- video]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/19/politically-inconvenient-guide-trumps-national-security-strategy-speech-aaron-miller-column/962139001/">A
politically inconvenient guide to Trump's national security
strategy speech</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/19/politically-inconvenient-guide-trumps-national-security-strategy-speech-aaron-miller-column/962139001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/19/politically-inconvenient-guide-trumps-national-security-strategy-speech-aaron-miller-column/962139001/</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Opinion- The Hill (blog)]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/365544-trumps-plan-is-national-security-in-name-only">Trump's
plan is national security in name only</a></b><font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/365544-trumps-plan-is-national-security-in-name-only">http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/365544-trumps-plan-is-national-security-in-name-only</a></font><br>
-<br>
[The Atlantic]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/nss-trump-principled-realism/548741/">Trump
Doesn't Seem to Buy His Own National Security Strategy</a></b><font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/nss-trump-principled-realism/548741/">https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/nss-trump-principled-realism/548741/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Coal]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2017/dec/19/international-energy-agency-report-coal-power-generation-in-india-likely-to-rise-1730885.html">International
Energy Agency report: Coal power generation in India likely to
rise</a></b><br>
International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report today....<br>
Coal-fired power generation in India may increase at nearly 4
percent per year through 2022, the Paris based Agency said adding
that import of thermal coal is likely to reduce in the light of the
various initiatives being taken by the government to reduce coal
imports.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2017/dec/19/international-energy-agency-report-coal-power-generation-in-india-likely-to-rise-1730885.html">http://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2017/dec/19/international-energy-agency-report-coal-power-generation-in-india-likely-to-rise-1730885.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Nature]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02082-2">Increased
ionization supports growth of aerosols into cloud condensation
nuclei</a></b><br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote>Ions produced by cosmic rays have been thought to
influence aerosols and clouds. In this study, the effect of
ionization on the growth of aerosols into cloud condensation
nuclei is investigated theoretically and experimentally. We show
that the mass-flux of small ions can constitute an important
addition to the growth caused by condensation of neutral
molecules. Under atmospheric conditions the growth from ions can
constitute several percent of the neutral growth. We performed
experimental studies which quantify the effect of ions on the
growth of aerosols between nucleation and sizes >20 nm and find
good agreement with theory. Ion-induced condensation should be of
importance not just in Earth's present day atmosphere for the
growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei under pristine
marine conditions, but also under elevated atmospheric ionization
caused by increased supernova activity.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02082-2">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02082-2</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Parody music]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96EXliItloU">SINGLE CELLS
(Parody of Jingle Bells)</a></b><br>
Parody Project<br>
Published on Dec 19, 2017<br>
LYRICS by Don Caron<br>
inspired by the high volume of recurring insults (specifically
libtard, snowflake, moron, and butt-hurt) in the comments section of
the Parody Project Facebook page. <br>
<blockquote>They called us all snowflakes!<br>
We thought that was quite nice.<br>
All snowflakes are unique.<br>
You'll never see one twice,<br>
and when they are combined<br>
their unity is strong,<br>
go stand beneath a calving glacier<br>
If you think I'm wrong.<br>
<br>
Oh the things they will make up<br>
and sheeple call us sheep<br>
then tell us to wake up<br>
while they are fast asleep.<br>
They'll tell you what you think<br>
so they can shoot it down<br>
Then finish up with cogent points<br>
like moron libtard clown<br>
<br>
Single cells, shallow wells<br>
calling people names<br>
when there is no argument<br>
then only that remains<br>
single cells, shallow wells<br>
going all the way<br>
Fake news is their first response<br>
to everything we say<br>
<br>
They tell us we're butthurt<br>
But I don't think it's true<br>
I think I'd notice if<br>
my anus were askew<br>
But that part feels just fine<br>
no reason for concern<br>
and I'm sure that isn't what we meant<br>
when we said "Feel the Bern."<br>
<br>
Single cells, shallow wells<br>
calling people names<br>
when there is no argument<br>
then only that remains<br>
single cells, shallow wells<br>
going all the way<br>
Fake news is their first response<br>
to everything we say<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96EXliItloU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96EXliItloU</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/opinion/the-donald-and-the-decider.html?ref=opinion">This
Day in Climate History December 21, 2015</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
December 21, 2015:<br>
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discusses the political and<br>
cultural dynamics that fueled the rise of climate-change denier and<br>
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump:<br>
<blockquote>"Why don’t Republican voters seem to care?<br>
<br>
"Well, part of the answer has to be that the party taught them not
to<br>
care. Bluster and belligerence as substitutes for analysis,
disdain<br>
for any kind of measured response, dismissal of inconvenient facts<br>
reported by the 'liberal media' didn’t suddenly arrive on the<br>
Republican scene last summer. On the contrary, they have long been
key<br>
elements of the party brand. So how are voters supposed to know
where<br>
to draw the line?<br>
<br>
"Let’s talk first about the legacy of He Who Must Not Be Named.<br>
<br>
"I don’t know how many readers remember the 2000 election, but
during<br>
the campaign Republicans tried — largely successfully — to make
the<br>
election about likability, not policy. George W. Bush was supposed
to<br>
get your vote because he was someone you’d enjoy having a beer
with,<br>
unlike that stiff, boring guy Al Gore with all his facts and
figures.<br>
<br>
"And when Mr. Gore tried to talk about policy differences, Mr.
Bush<br>
responded not on the substance but by mocking his opponent’s
'fuzzy<br>
math' — a phrase gleefully picked up by his supporters. The press<br>
corps played right along with this deliberate dumbing-down: Mr.
Gore<br>
was deemed to have lost debates, not because he was wrong, but
because<br>
he was, reporters declared, snooty and superior, unlike the
affably<br>
dishonest W."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/opinion/the-donald-and-the-decider.html?ref=opinion">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/21/opinion/the-donald-and-the-decider.html?ref=opinion</a><br>
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