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<font size="+1"><i>December 26, 2017<br>
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[New Yorker & <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/Wk2jVPIO4SA">video</a>]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/as-winter-snows-disappear-dogsled-racers-are-trading-skis-for-wheels">As
Winter Snows Disappear, Dogsled Racers Are Trading Skis for
Wheels</a></b><br>
By Meera Subramanian<br>
Northern Wisconsin is still a frigid place come winter. But, as
climate change has warmed the state, the certainty of snow has
gradually vanished, leaving traditional dogsledding races frequently
cancelled for lack of good powder. Enthusiasts have responded by
adapting the sport itself. The Redpaws Dirty Dog Dryland Derby was
the first competition of its kind in the area, created in 2006 to
extend the racing season into the spring and fall. In lieu of sleds,
dogs pull three-wheeled rigs and modified bicycles; in some cases, a
musher simply lashes herself by bungee cord to a single dog and runs
behind him. (The event is called canicross.) Unlike the
long-distance sled races, such as the Iditarod, which covers a
thousand miles of Alaskan wilderness, dryland competitions tend to
be short sprints of a few miles...<br>
video: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/Wk2jVPIO4SA">Without Reliable Snow,
Dogsledders Turn to Dryland Racing</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/Wk2jVPIO4SA">https://youtu.be/Wk2jVPIO4SA</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/as-winter-snows-disappear-dogsled-racers-are-trading-skis-for-wheels">https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/as-winter-snows-disappear-dogsled-racers-are-trading-skis-for-wheels</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Iceland]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.trust.org/item/20171225200102-53e7c/?source=gep">Spades,
saplings and sheep: Iceland battles to restore long-lost forests</a></b><br>
by Marcello Rossi<br>
Planting trees is "among the least painful ways" to meet the
country's goal to slash carbon emissions, experts say<br>
REYKJAVIK, Dec 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An hour's hike
across a vast expanse of dried lava leads to the top of Mount
Blahnjukur, a nearly thousand-metre-high active volcano whose summit
allows, on clear days, a sweeping view of a landscape dotted with
vast glaciers and windswept moors.<br>
A striking feature of this austere beauty in Iceland's southern
highlands is that it features almost no trees. But that's not
because the country is too cold for forests.<br>
Archeological evidence indicates that over a quarter of the island's
countryside was covered with trees until the 9th century, when
Viking settlers arrived and began chopping them down for timber and
to clear space for farmland and grazing.<br>
Now the country's exotic, moonscape-like scenery is a lure for
tourists. But the lack of trees has also caused problems - and now
some Icelanders are committed to bringing them back.<br>
Today, especially in southern Iceland, reforested sites are popping
up with a variety of trees, from non-native spruce to native
birch...<br>
Iceland's effort to replant relatively slow-growing trees is
unlikely to have a significant impact on global climate emissions,
said Christopher Martius, a team leader for climate change, energy
and low-carbon development at Indonesia-based Center for
International Forestry Research.<br>
But "it would send a signal of solidarity with other countries and
the international community and one of commitment to the goals of
the Paris Agreement" on climate change, he said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://news.trust.org/item/20171225200102-53e7c/?source=gep">http://news.trust.org/item/20171225200102-53e7c/?source=gep</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Statistics]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171221122538.htm">Cutting-edge
statistics yield new insight into attributing, projecting
climate change</a></b><br>
Projecting the future of extreme weather events and their impact on
human life, the environment and vulnerable ecosystems locally and
across the globe remains a complex task in climate research -- and
one in which statisticians are increasingly playing key roles,
particularly through the development of new models. The December
issue of CHANCE examines complexities of intense, massive data
collection and statistical analysis techniques in climate research
and features new proposed statistical methodology that could be a
"game changer" in understanding our climate system and in the
attribution of extreme climatic events...<br>
Changes in events related to atmospheric circulation, such as
storms, cannot be characterized robustly due to their underlying
chaotic nature. In contrast, changes in thermodynamic state
variables, such as global temperature, can be relatively well
characterized. "Rather than trying to assess the probability of an
extreme event occurring, a group of researchers suggest viewing the
event as a given and assessing to which degree changes in the
thermodynamic state (which we know has been influenced by climate
change) altered the severity of the impact of the event," ...<br>
"Incorporating all of these uncertainties is daunting, largely
because of the computational challenges involved," and to an extent,
"whatever we say about the behavior of ice sheets in the future is
necessarily imperfect," note the authors. "However, through such
cutting-edge physics and multiple observation data sets that piece
the information together in a principled manner, we have made
progress."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171221122538.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171221122538.htm</a></font><br>
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[imagery]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/michel-comte">This
High-Fashion Photographer Gave Everything Up to Save the Planet</a></b><br>
Years after turning his back on fame and fortune, Swiss-born Michel
Comte is finally getting recognized for his ultimate mission<br>
For decades, photographer Michel Comte was a powerhouse in the
fashion world, best known for the intimacy and seductive magnetism
that his portraits exuded. His lifelong passion for nature, however,
was lesser known.<br>
"Concerns with the environment have been part of who I am for as
long as I can remember," says the Swiss-born photographer, who
traces his passion back to seeing his grandfather's 1914 photographs
of the Alps. For the avid climber, a chance meeting with a group of
scientists in the Tibetan Himalayas and their warning of global
warming triggered his awareness of climate change. During subsequent
climbs, his sense of urgency increased with the visible retreat of
glaciers' masses, and the absence of snow in certain areas of
British Columbia and Mount Kilimanjaro.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/michel-comte">https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/michel-comte</a></font><br>
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<br>
[from China]<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2017-12/24/content_50157583.htm">Climate
change destruction is the 'New Normal'</a></b><br>
Two years ago, then French President Francois Hollande hosted the
United Nations Conference of Parties on Climate Change (COP 21), at
which the Paris Accord came into effect with the full support of the
vast majority of nations forming Planet Earth...<br>
Many world leaders, including British Prime Minister Theresa May and
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, were there. Most glaring was the
absence of President Donald Trump, who has promised to pull his
country out of the Paris Accord...<br>
However, the climate change denier Trump has appointed like-minded
people to head every related American institution, and together they
have wasted no time making it clear that times have changed and
science has been forced to take a back seat.<br>
With Big Oil influencing U.S. environmental policy, now, more than
ever, America's environmentalists are sorrowfully singing the
Doomsday Blues. <br>
Less than one year after Trump took office, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has delivered on six of the eight demands
made by the American Petroleum Institute (API), rolling back or
delaying implementation of all the stronger measures introduced
during the eight years of the Obama administration relating to
environmental and public health protection.<br>
The American deniers, and their counterparts around the world,
continue to turn their backs on science and close their eyes to the
increasing evidence that it is humans who are responsible for the
whole grim saga of climate change, despite Mother Earth, year after
year, offers more proof to those still harboring doubts.<br>
While the One Planet conference participants talked, the worst fires
in the history of California - the largest American state - blazed
in six separate infernos that destroyed more land than the entire
state of New York or the island of Singapore, destroying almost
1,000 homes and displacing nearly 250,000 people. <br>
At the same time - and also during the Paris meeting - parts of
Europe experienced the worst blizzards in years, unusual snowfall
forcing closure of British airports (including the main London
facility, Heathrow), as well as highways, businesses and schools,
like never before. <br>
Just a couple months ago, two major earthquakes and three successive
hurricanes hit Mexico and the Caribbean island chain, causing
unforeseen deaths and damage in small countries already affected by
rising tides.<br>
Scientists in the U.S. and across the world are warning that such
negative climate change effects must now be seen as the "New
Normal." But Big Oil and Dirty Coal are again set to hasten and
deepen the damaging effects as the deniers keep shutting their eyes
to what everyone else clearly sees and feels.<br>
U.S. scientists have just reported that Arctic ice is melting at the
fastest rate in the last 1,500 years, and is partly responsible for
the unusual weather behind both the California fires and the sharper
cold snap hitting the American south and east. <br>
They have confirmed that global warming made Hurricane Harvey,
hitting Texas last August, 15 percent more intense and the costliest
of all, more than the previous superstorms Sandy and Katrina
combined.<br>
The One Planet conference did feature some interesting sidelines,
including the French president's claim that its overall objective
was to "Make Our Planet Great Again" and his offer of jobs in Paris
to 13 American Climate Change scientists - both seen as clearly
intended jabs at his American counterpart.<br>
And the "New Normal" will continue to feature across the USA - and
everywhere else - for as long as people in poor countries most
vulnerable to climate change continue to be short-changed by rich
countries.<font size="-1"><br>
Earl Bousquet is a contributor to china.org.cn, editor-at-large of
The Diplomatic Courier and author of an online regional newspaper
column entitled Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler.<br>
Opinion articles reflect the views of their authors, not
necessarily those of China.org.cn.</font><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2017-12/24/content_50157583.htm">http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2017-12/24/content_50157583.htm</a></font><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/23/conspiracy-theory-psychology/815121001/"><br>
</a><br>
[USA Today]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/23/conspiracy-theory-psychology/815121001/">
<b>Conspiracy theories: Here's what drives people to them, no
matter how wacky</b></a><br>
Trump has also said climate change is a Chinese-manufactured hoax
meant to hurt U.S. industry. His characterization of Russian
election meddling as a "made-up story" designed to discredit his
election victory was deemed 2017's lie of the year by fact-checker
Politifact last week. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/23/conspiracy-theory-psychology/815121001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/23/conspiracy-theory-psychology/815121001/</a></font><b><br>
</b><br>
<br>
[Samantha Bee on Zinke]<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/12/25/who-is-this-a-hole-sam-bee-on-ryan-zinke/">Who
is this A-Hole? Sam Bee on Ryan Zinke</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/-ocql0O5SAU">https://youtu.be/-ocql0O5SAU</a>
video <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/-ocql0O5SAU">Sure
Ryan Zinke believes in climate change, he just doesn't care
about stopping it whatsoever.</a></b><br>
Get A Load of This A-hole: Zinke | December 13, 2017 Act 2 | Full
Frontal on TBS<br>
and<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/-EpNtcI_kf0https://youtu.be/-EpNtcI_kf0">Apocalypse
Soon | December 20, 2017 Act 2 | Full Frontal on TBS</a></b><br>
Trump has finally done something and surprise! It may trigger the
End of Days.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/-EpNtcI_kf0">https://youtu.be/-EpNtcI_kf0</a>
video<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/12/25/who-is-this-a-hole-sam-bee-on-ryan-zinke/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/12/25/who-is-this-a-hole-sam-bee-on-ryan-zinke/</a><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/opinion/states-will-lead-on-climate-change-in-the-trump-era.html?ref=opinion&_r=0">This
Day in Climate History December 26, 2016</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
December 26, 2016:<br>
The New York Times editorial page observes:<br>
<blockquote>"State governments will serve as an important bulwark
against any<br>
attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to roll back the progress
the<br>
United States has made in addressing climate change. And that's
good<br>
news for the planet.<br>
"Over the last decade or so, most states have reduced their
greenhouse<br>
gas emissions by promoting energy efficiency and renewable fuels.<br>
These trends should continue as clean energy costs continue to
decline<br>
and, in some parts of the country, fall below the cost of dirtier<br>
fuels like coal.<br>
"The Brookings Institution reported this month that between 2000
and<br>
2014, 33 states and the District of Columbia cut carbon emissions<br>
while expanding their economies. That list includes red states run
by<br>
Republican legislatures, like Alaska, Georgia, Tennessee and West<br>
Virginia."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/opinion/states-will-lead-on-climate-change-in-the-trump-era.html?ref=opinion&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/opinion/states-will-lead-on-climate-change-in-the-trump-era.html?ref=opinion&_r=0</a></font><br>
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