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<font size="+1"><i>January 11, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[BBC]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42642331">Climate
change: Trump says US 'could conceivably' rejoin Paris deal</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42642331">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42642331</a></font><br>
<br>
[Divestment]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/new-york-city-vs-big-oil/">New
York City vs. Big Oil</a></b><br>
Flanked by Nation contributors Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben, Bill
de Blasio announced that New York City would divest from and sue
fossil fuel companies.<br>
By Mark Hertsgaard<br>
The odds that the oil industry will have to pay billions of dollars
in legal damages soared today when New York City's mayor Bill
DeBlasio announced a one-two punch that positions the city at the
front of the global fight against climate change. The city is suing
five of the industry's biggest companies - ExxonMobil, BP, Shell,
Chevron and Conoco Phillips - both for past climate-change damages
and for the city's ongoing investments in climate resilience, said
DeBlasio, who estimated the total costs at well above $20 billion.
The city's pension funds will also divest all of their holdings in
oil and gas companies, estimated at $5.5 billion, DeBlasio told a
press conference at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center in
Tribeca, where flooding from Hurricane Sandy in 2012 put 20 feet of
salt water in the sub-basement, knocking the center out of
commission for months. ..<br>
[ <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/NYCMayor/videos/10155832687561166/">video
of press conference </a>] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/NYCMayor/videos/10155832687561166/">https://www.facebook.com/NYCMayor/videos/10155832687561166/</a><br>
"This is one of a handful of the most important moments in the
30-year fight against climate change," said Bill McKibben, the
350.org activist and Nation contributor, who joined de Blasio in
addressing the press conference. "Today, the mightiest city on our
planet takes on its richest, most powerful, and most irresponsible
industry. Science and economics and morality are on the side of the
city, and so eventually it will win. We hope it will win in
time."...<br>
New York City's lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York
federal court, makes the city by far the largest entity yet to sue
oil and gas companies for climate damages. The lawsuit includes an
exhibit of evidence - a letter sent on November 12, 1982 to Exxon's
management and personnel by M. B. Glaser, the company's manager of
environmental affairs programs, which projects average global
temperatures rising by as much as 3 degrees Celsius by the year
2100, a level climate scientists today say would be catastrophic...<br>
Such David versus Goliath bravery becomes easier now that an entity
as rich and powerful as New York City has joined the fight. "We
understand what climate change does, we've been victims of it," ...<br>
The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas company's trade
association, did not respond to The Nation's request for comment.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/new-york-city-vs-big-oil/">https://www.thenation.com/article/new-york-city-vs-big-oil/</a><br>
- <br>
[Climate Liability News]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/10/new-york-city-climate-lawsuit-liability-bill-de-blasio/">New
York City to Announce Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Companies</a></b><br>
New York City is suing five major oil companies, becoming the
latest in a growing number of municipalities attempting to hold the
industry accountable for damages caused by climate change...<br>
...de Blasio underscored the urgency of addressing climate change...<br>
"It's important that we feel that we are fighting this crisis like
our lives depend on it, because in fact they do. It's a life or
death matter," said de Blasio.<br>
"The next storm is out there - it's not a matter of if, but when."<br>
The initial reaction from industry backers was to criticize de
Blasio's "politicization" of climate change.<br>
"Mayor de Blasio is just the latest mayor to lead his city into
misguided litigation against America's energy manufacturers," Linda
Kelly of the National Association of Manufacturers said in a
statement. "The mayor's decision to play politics with underfunded
pension plans and sue U.S. energy manufacturers is the same divisive
approach we've seen fail time and again. Similar to recent lawsuits
in California, this headline-seeking stunt is an absurd attempt to
politicize natural disasters, rather than a good-faith effort at
securing meaningful change."<br>
Exxon and the American Petroleum Institute did not immediately
respond to requests for comment.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/10/new-york-city-climate-lawsuit-liability-bill-de-blasio/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/10/new-york-city-climate-lawsuit-liability-bill-de-blasio/</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Retaliation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/10/exxon-california-climate-lawsuits/">Exxon
Launches Legal Retaliation Against California Climate Suits</a></b><br>
ExxonMobil is <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/10/19/climate-liability-oil-industry-intimidation/">pushing
back</a> against a wave of climate liability lawsuits in
California seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for
climate change impacts. In a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scribd.com/document/368760851/Rule-202-Petition-Re-CA">petition
</a>filed Monday in a Texas district court, the company claims the
suits amount to a conspiracy aimed to undermine the company's First
Amendment rights and coerce it into shifting its stance on climate
change.<br>
"It is clearly part of the larger strategy of pushing back against
climate litigation by attacking government officials and
environmental advocates in court," said Michael Burger, executive
director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia
University.<br>
Exxon's petition comes in response to a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/12/18/climate-lawsuits-liability-california/">batch
of suits filed in California</a> state court over the past six
months, but its fight is going to get a lot wider after <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/10/new-york-city-climate-lawsuit-liability-bill-de-blasio/">New
York City announced on Wednesday</a> it has also filed suit
against major oil companies to hold them accountable for climate
impacts....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/10/exxon-california-climate-lawsuits/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/01/10/exxon-california-climate-lawsuits/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[election opinion]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-voters-could-swing-congress-but-they-might_us_5a56720be4b024fa0543b650">Climate
Voters Could Swing Congress, But They Might Not Be Who You Think
They Are</a></b><br>
Racial Minorities, Lower Income Voters Prioritize Environmental
Issues Most<br>
Voters anxious about climate change could thus hold the key to both
the Senate and House this November, but only if campaigns can
properly target them. Right now, that's a big "if."..<br>
...young people do tend to care deeply about climate change and the
environment; here, the stereotype holds true. Yet a closer look
reveals a more interesting picture. Environmental Voter Project
research shows that 18-34 year olds are twice as likely to care
deeply about climate change/environment as older age groups. But
within the 18-34 year-old age group, those over 25 are twice as
likely to prioritize climate change/environment as their 18 to
24-year-old peers.<br>
We have also found surprisingly large populations of older Americans
focused on climate change and the environment. Parents with 13-15
year-old children are just as likely as 18 to 24-year-olds to care
about climate change, and grandmothers between the ages of 55-65
aren't too far behind.<br>
So what does all of this mean? Candidates who want to win in many
2018 battleground states should get real about who environmentalists
are, find them, and get them to the polls.<br>
Moreover, the environmental movement can no longer afford to treat
inclusivity and intersectional organizing as convenient tactics or
talking points. They are now absolutely necessary. Make no mistake:
the environmental voters who could decide the 2018 midterms are just
as likely to be Latina grandmothers as white college students.
Candidates ignore them at their peril.<br>
<font size="-1">Nathaniel Stinnett, Contributor<br>
Founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Voter Project<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-voters-could-swing-congress-but-they-might_us_5a56720be4b024fa0543b650">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-voters-could-swing-congress-but-they-might_us_5a56720be4b024fa0543b650</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[video]<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ncBckVD7pE"><b>Montecito
Mudslides after storms across #Montecit</b>o</a><br>
<i>16 minutes voice-over drone video</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ncBckVD7pE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ncBckVD7pE</a><br>
The deluge that washed over Santa Barbara County early Tuesday was
devastating for a community that was ravaged by the Thomas fire only
a few weeks earlier. In just a matter of minutes, pounding rain
overwhelmed the south-facing slopes above Montecito and flooded a
creek that leads to the ocean, sending mud and massive boulders
rolling into residential neighborhoods, according to Santa Barbara
County Fire Department spokesman Mike Eliason. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQuT_t5xlPc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQuT_t5xlPc</a></font><br>
-<br>
[landslides research - <i>thnx goes to Brad Johnson</i>]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X08005527">The
Increasing Wildfire and Post-Fire Debris-Flow Threat in Western
USA, and Implications for Consequences of Climate Change</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-69970-5_9">https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-69970-5_9</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X08005527">Landslides
in a changing climate</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825216302458">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825216302458</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X08005527">Climate
Change and Forest Disturbances</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1641/0006-3568%282001%29051%5B0723%3ACCAFD%5D2.0.CO%3B2?journalCode=bisi">http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1641/0006-3568%282001%29051%5B0723%3ACCAFD%5D2.0.CO%3B2?journalCode=bisi</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X08005527">Climate
change effects on landslides along the southwest coast of
British Columbia</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X08005527">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X08005527</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03058">Fire-induced
erosion and millennial-scale climate change in northern
ponderosa pine forests</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03058">https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03058</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Stricken words]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/climate/climate-change-trump.html">How
Much Has 'Climate Change' Been Scrubbed From Federal Websites? A
Lot.</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/climate/climate-change-trump.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/climate/climate-change-trump.html</a></font><br>
-<br>
[official report - pdf]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://envirodatagov.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Part-3-Changing-the-Digital-Climate.pdf">Changing
the Digital Climate</a></b><br>
<b>How Climate Change Web Content is Being Censored Under the Trump
Administration</b><b><br>
</b>Although there is no evidence of any removals of climate data,
we have documented <br>
overhauls and removals of documents, webpages, and entire websites,
<br>
as well as significant language shifts.<br>
<b>Key Findings :</b><br>
- The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) removal and subsequent<br>
ongoing overhaul of its climate change website raises strong
concerns about<br>
loss of access to valuable information for state, local, and tribal
governments,<br>
and for educators, policymakers, and the general public.<br>
- Several agencies removed or significantly reduced the prominence
of climate<br>
change Web content, such as webpages, documents, and entire
websites,<br>
and the White House omitted climate change as an issue highlighted
on its<br>
website.<br>
- The Department of State, Department of Energy (DOE), and the EPA
removed<br>
information about the federal government's international obligations<br>
regarding climate change, downplaying U.S. involvement.<br>
- Descriptions of agency priorities shifted to emphasize job
creation and<br>
downplay renewable fuels as replacements for fossil fuels. At the
DOE,<br>
mentions of "clean energy" and explanations of harmful environmental<br>
impacts of fossil fuels were also removed .<br>
- Language about climate change has been systematically changed
across<br>
multiple agency and program websites. In many cases, explicit
mentions of<br>
"climate change" and "greenhouse gases" have been replaced by vaguer<br>
terms such as "sustainability" and "emissions".<br>
While we cannot determine the reasons for these changes from
monitoring<br>
websites alone, our work reveals shifts in stated priorities and
governance and an<br>
overall reduction in access to climate change information,
particularly at the EPA...<br>
<b>These documented changes matter because they:</b><br>
- Make it more difficult for the scientists, policymakers,
historians, and the<br>
public to access the results of years of scientific and policy
research funded<br>
by tax dollars.<br>
- Make it harder for state, local, and tribal governments to access
resources<br>
designed to help them adapt to and mitigate the harms of climate
change.<br>
For example, the EPA removed over 200 climate webpages for state,
local,<br>
and tribal governments .<br>
- Diminish our democratic institutions, such as notice-and-comment<br>
rulemaking, which depend on an informed public. The removal of the
EPA's<br>
Clean Power Plan website has broad implications.<br>
- Can confuse the public if significant changes are not sufficiently
justified.<br>
Alterations to the U.S. Geological Survey's search engine generated
public<br>
confusion.<br>
- Contribute to broader climate denialist efforts that obscure and
cast doubt<br>
on the scientific consensus on climate change, hampering critical
efforts to<br>
mitigate and adapt to climate change.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://envirodatagov.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Part-3-Changing-the-Digital-Climate.pdf">https://envirodatagov.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Part-3-Changing-the-Digital-Climate.pdf</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Speaking Notes #3]<b><br>
</b><b>OXFORD CHANGE AGENCY EVENT - REPORT</b><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/257-oxford-change-agency-event-report">Agency
in individual and collective change</a></b><br>
Climate Psychology Alliance with Living Witness<br>
Written by Laurie Michaelis<br>
A day for psychological and social practitioners to share our
experiences of enabling positive<br>
responses to climate change. We'll explore how our different
approaches connect and complement<br>
each other, hoping to form a stronger community of practitioners...<br>
<br>
<b>Systemic change and action inquiry, Anna Birney</b><br>
(edited transcript)<br>
<blockquote>I'm going to talk to you about the relationship between
systemic change and action inquiry. And I<br>
think I'm going back to what Nadine said, and the premise of this,
it's a Meadows quote: "the world is<br>
a complex, interconnected, finite, ecological, social
psychological, economic system, but we treat it as<br>
if it were not, as if it were divisible, separable, simple and
infinite. Our persistent, intractable global<br>
problems such as climate change arise directly from this
mismatch": the idea that we solve and try to<br>
look at these problems through linear thinking, through divisional
ideas and we do not take a systemic<br>
view in how we address changes.<br>
A lot of the work that I've been looking at is how you can take a
living systems view, because you can<br>
take a systemic view that still creates reduction in the world.
There are three principles of that living<br>
systems perspective:<br>
- One, that we are embedded in nature and that we are subsystems,
including our<br>
consciousness, through to individual people, to our society, to
our environment. We are all<br>
part of the living world and we are nested systems.<br>
- The second is that we are self-organising and we are
ever-changing and moving.<br>
- And the third is that we are in dynamic relationships with each
other. That means that we<br>
need to work with people and work together.<br>
The underlying premise is that life is a continuum. It is
constantly changing. And if we are seeking to<br>
address challenges such as climate change we need to be
continually learning, innovating, adapting,<br>
and disrupting our environment until new systems emerge. That
emergence happens when you either<br>
create the conditions for change or start disrupting the system.
And a system change is the emergence<br>
of a new pattern of organisation or system structure. There are
multiple levels at which that can<br>
happen. It can happen in structural change: renewable energy,
community energy. It can change in<br>
organisations of flow of power. It can change in the
relationships. It also fundamentally changes in the<br>
mindsets or the paradigms of the system. And when we want to look
at shifting and changing those, I<br>
look at the processes of action inquiry as the way to start
addressing this systemic change,<br>
predominantly because it encourages us to look at multiple levels.
It encourages us to look at both the<br>
individual level, the inquiry we have with ourselves, it asks us
to look at inquiring together and to<br>
explore change as a process together, but it also encourages us to
look at the overall narrative and<br>
cultural structures that we live within but that also hold us.<br>
So agency in this conversation happens at these multiple levels.
At the individual, the social and<br>
collective as well as the cultural narrative level. Action inquiry
also on a second dimension encourages<br>
us to look not only at single loop learning, that is learning that
evaluates what we've done, but it also<br>
asks us to look at the strategies or the way in which we're
approaching change as double loop<br>
learning, but importantly it also asks us to question our
assumptions, our perspectives, our mindsets<br>
behind what we're doing at these different levels. So we can work
at different levels, first person,<br>
second person, social collective and then third person, alongside
the first loop and second loop and<br>
third loop learning. But the key I want to make here is systemic
change happens when we address all<br>
these different places. We spend a lot of time as change agents
either thinking its an individual issue,<br>
or thinking that we need to create collaborations together or we
look at advocacy and wider influence<br>
in the bigger system. We don't look at it as a whole. We don't
look at how these different actions start<br>
working together.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/257-oxford-change-agency-event-report">http://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/explorations/papers/257-oxford-change-agency-event-report</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[propaganda]<br>
<b><a
href="http://planetjh.com/2018/01/10/polarizing-polar-bears-unmasking-a-proxy-war-strategy-by-online-climate-change-denialists/">Polarizing
Polar Bears: Unmasking a proxy war strategy by online climate
change denialists</a></b><br>
Paul Rosenberg,<br>
In early December, a video of a dying, emaciated polar bear,
foraging for food on an iceless land, went viral on social media.
The video garnered millions of views on Facebook and YouTube. For
most, it was a vivid signal of the future in store for us all due to
human-caused (anthropogenic) global warming - rising temperatures
due to increased carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases.
<br>
"The problem is that an ever-warmer future means polar bears will
have less and less access to their seal prey, so the rate at which
bears die from malnutrition/starvation will increase," said Dr.
Steven Amstrup, chief scientist for the nonprofit Polar Bears
International. "So, regardless of the proximate cause of this bear's
condition, this heart-wrenching footage provides us with a warning
about the future."<br>
These topics are used as "proxies" for [anthropogenic global
warming] in general; in other words, they represent keystone
dominoes that are strategically placed in front of many hundreds of
others, each representing a separate line of evidence for
anthropogenic global warming. By appearing to knock over the
keystone domino, audiences targeted by the communication may assume
all other dominoes are toppled in a form of "dismissal by
association."<br>
The paper, Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by
Proxy, by Jeffrey Harvey, a senior scientist at the Netherlands
Institute of Ecology, and 13 co-authors, looked at 90 blogs and 92
peer reviewed papers. They analyzed them in terms of what they said
about sea ice (declining rapidly or not, or varying unpredictably
over the long run) and polar bears (threatened with extinction or
not, or capable of adapting to threats).<br>
Another co-author, Bart Verheggen, a climate scientists at Amsterdam
University College, starkly described their findings:<br>
"There is a clear separation amongst blogs, where approximately half
of the 90 blogs investigated agree with the majority of the
scientific literature, whereas other blogs took a position that is
diametrically opposed to the scientific conclusions. Most of the
blogs in the latter group [about 80%] based their opinions on one
and the same source: Susan Crockford."<br>
Crockford is an unpaid adjunct professor at the University of
Victoria in British Columbia....<br>
<b>Studying Climate Denialism: A Growing Subfield</b><br>
This began in 2004, when science historian Naomi Oreskes, a
professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of
earth and planetary sciences at Harvard, produced the first of
several studies establishing the existence of a solid 97 percent
consensus of scientists that humans are responsible for ongoing
global warming. It's also been shown that increasing awareness of
this consensus increases public acceptance. In 2015, Norwegian
climate scientist Rasmus Benestad pioneered the study of patterns of
mistakes across dissenting papers in the remaining 3 percent. These
were discovered by trying to replicate their results.<br>
In 2012, Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist at the
University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom UK, another of Harvey's
co-authors, initiated another line of research. He explored patterns
of reasoning in the public at large. He first discovered that belief
in a cluster of conspiracy theories was associated with global
warming denial. Then he studied the online response of denialists to
that study in a paper called "Recursive Fury," in which he reported
that many denialists exhibited at least one of six previously
identified characteristics of conspiracist ideation.<br>
The denialists reacted furiously again and the journal that
published the paper withdrew it, not because there was anything
scientifically wrong with it, but for fear of being sued. This was
widely condemned for encouraging scientifically unfounded attacks.
Crockford also tried to get Harvey's paper withdrawn and others
tried to get Harvey condemned by his employer, but both were firmly
rebuffed...<br>
Finally, in 2016, Yale sociologist Justin Farrell initiated another
line of research, using network science and text analysis to
investigate the overall structure and organizational power of the
contrarian network, including the role of elite corporate
benefactors....<br>
"Our paper is hardly surprising, but deniers are angry simply
because they have been formally exposed," Harvey summed up. "It is
patently obvious that denier blogs are master cherry pickers of
quite dubious sources. They know it too, but they just don't want to
admit it."<br>
Which is why the paper's call for scientists to become more engaged
on social media is so crucial. The more of them there are, the
harder it will be for the cherry pickers to win when the next viral
video comes around.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://planetjh.com/2018/01/10/polarizing-polar-bears-unmasking-a-proxy-war-strategy-by-online-climate-change-denialists/">http://planetjh.com/2018/01/10/polarizing-polar-bears-unmasking-a-proxy-war-strategy-by-online-climate-change-denialists/</a></font><br>
-<br>
[background 2012]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-payments-university-victoria-professor-susan-crockford-probed">Heartland
Payments to University of Victoria Professor Susan Crockford
Probed</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-payments-university-victoria-professor-susan-crockford-probed">https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-payments-university-victoria-professor-susan-crockford-probed</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-want-to-fight-climate-change-but-fossil-fuel-bullies-wont-let-them/2017/01/10/177dbd4e-cc82-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html">This
Day in Climate History January 11, 2017</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
In a Washington Post op-ed, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says: <br>
<b>Republicans want to fight climate change, but fossil-fuel bullies
won’t let them</b><br>
..the only obstacles to bipartisan action on climate in Congress is
<br>
a) thefossil-fuel industry's intimidation of Republicans and <br>
b) the refusal of companies that profess support for climate action
to push back<br>
against the fossil-fuel industry.<br>
Republican friend approached me on the Senate floor and said: “What
the hell are you complaining about? They’re spending more against us
than they are against you!” I suspect they were at the time. The
fossil-fuel industry knew that if it could bring a political party
to heel, it could use that party to block progress.<br>
A climate solution will require safe passage for Republicans through
the political kill zone. Democrats can’t help with that.
Environmental groups can’t help with that. Scientists can’t help
either. <br>
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