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<font size="+1"><i>January 21, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[Rap video - Baba Brinkman]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W68mLkxYWg">Destruction -
Trump vs Global Warming Music Video</a></b><br>
Links and Sources (PDF) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://goo.gl/qPW5BF">https://goo.gl/qPW5BF</a><br>
Donald Trump's legacy of climate change obstruction dissected. <br>
<br>
Sources: goo.gl/qPW5BF<br>
[lyrics]<br>
<blockquote>Tell me again and again and again <br>
You don't believe <br>
We're on the eve of destruction <br>
<br>
Mr. President I'm back again after a hell of year <br>
With a message you really don't wanna hear <br>
Climate change is real, and everything except for <br>
Your legacy will disappear, so lend me your ear <br>
<br>
And let me hit you with some info you don't get to ignore <br>
It's from a federal scientific advisory board <br>
Straightforward, it's got the NAS's support <br>
The National Climate Assessment Special Report <br>
<br>
It's real! Even secretary Mattis knows it <br>
Expanding ocean's putting military plans in motion <br>
With a risk enhancer the chances of disasters go up <br>
Look at the fires in California <br>
<br>
Let me spell it out for you: rising temperatures <br>
Without precipitation triggers drought conditions <br>
Liquid evaporates and vegetation's dry as tinder <br>
And that's why the state was on fire all winter <br>
<br>
So what's the message you're sending the American people <br>
Swearing to weasel out of the Paris Agreement? <br>
Did you notice the 2017 hurricane season? <br>
It was extreme, for the very same reason <br>
<br>
It's the same message you're sending to Puerto Ricans <br>
When they're storm-weakened and denied the support of FEMA <br>
Maria's intensity was the ocean catching a fever <br>
While you're tossin' paper towels at the crowd like a diva <br>
<br>
Attackin' Colin Kaepernick just to try to distract us from <br>
The fact of indictments landing on your campaign manager <br>
Or whatever the latest scandal plaguin' your cabinet <br>
Every department head appointed to dismantle it <br>
<br>
Rippin' us off, ridiculous Betsy DeVos <br>
Never seen a public school or even stepped in its halls <br>
The CDC is takin' "science" and "evidence" off <br>
The list of permitted words, which is medicine's loss <br>
<br>
And what about Harvey, not the sexual predator <br>
Your competitor for the credit of Molester In Chief <br>
I mean the one that gave Texas an enema <br>
Climate change took the regular chances and straight tripled them
<br>
<br>
Check the level of deluge in Houston <br>
Four feet of rain in as many days, boosted <br>
A foot or more by human carbon pollution <br>
You've been accused of fossil fuel collusion <br>
<br>
Of conspiracy with a Petro-State <br>
To make American energy policy retrograde <br>
Every renewable project, you said "no way" <br>
But the pipelines and the drilling gets okayed? <br>
<br>
So congratulations, you're the Neville Chamberlain <br>
Of temperature change, 'cause instead of facin' it <br>
You deliver craven misinformation <br>
With a straight face to the nation <br>
<br>
Tell me again and again and again <br>
You don't believe <br>
We're on the eve of destruction <br>
<br>
What's the deal? You keep tellin' me the threat isn't real <br>
But I'm beginnin' to feel you got something to conceal <br>
Credible people tell us emissions are lethal <br>
You're just tryin' to give investors in 'em a better yield <br>
<br>
So what do we do, with a do-nothin federal government? <br>
The electorate can get rid of republicans <br>
Up and down the ticket as a punishment for Trumpism <br>
The EPA's got a double agent runnin' it <br>
<br>
But we can skip the federal regulations and act <br>
A city can have a plan, a company and <br>
Even a whole industry can; emissions are getting capped <br>
By the C-40 mega-city initiative pact <br>
<br>
And remember, the Paris Agreement isn't rescinded <br>
Every country except for America's still in it <br>
Plus a lot of states are still ready to build with it <br>
America's Pledge, fifty percent still committed <br>
<br>
Mr. President, it's already too late <br>
To bring your descendants anything but the heaviest shame <br>
That's your legacy, mistake after mistake <br>
With climate change at the top of the list of messes you made <br>
<br>
But that's enough about you <br>
It's time for the next election cycle to rout you <br>
I know you're not gonna change, you don't know how to <br>
But we can still deal with the climate crisis without you <br>
<br>
Tell me again and again and again <br>
You don't believe <br>
We're on the eve of destruction<br>
<br>
credits<br>
releases January 23, 2018 <br>
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman <br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1">Song Credits:<br>
Lyrics by Baba Brinkman <br>
Video by Nicholas Castel<br>
Scientific Consultation by Dr. Gary Yohe<br>
Song Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Tom Caruana<br>
Chorus Vocals by Aaron Nazrul <br>
Guitar by John Ellis <br>
Piano and Organ by Simon Kendall <br>
Original Song "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W68mLkxYWg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W68mLkxYWg</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Tamino]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/is-co2-still-accelerating/">Is
CO2 Still Accelerating?</a></b><br>
Posted on January 20, 2018 <br>
Not only is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere on the rise, the
rise itself has been getting faster - so CO2 concentration has been
accelerating. A reader recently asked whether or not there's any
sign of its increase flattening out, or even stopping its
acceleration...<br>
Bottom line: CO2 is on the rise, the rise itself (velocity) has been
getting faster (acceleration), and there's no evidence at all that
has changed recently.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/is-co2-still-accelerating/">https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/is-co2-still-accelerating/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[NPR audio report]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/01/20/579330280/california-mudslide-cleanup-presents-new-problems">California
Mudslide Cleanup Presents New Problems</a></b><br>
Cleanup continues in Montecito, Calif., but it's not easy. An
emergency order will let Santa Barbara County deposit some of the
mud onto local beaches - even as they warn people to stay away.<br>
Audio <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/01/20/579330280/california-mudslide-cleanup-presents-new-problems">https://www.npr.org/2018/01/20/579330280/california-mudslide-cleanup-presents-new-problems</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Conversation]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/post-fire-mudslide-problems-arent-new-and-likely-to-get-worse-90048">Post-fire
mudslide problems aren't new and likely to get worse</a></b><br>
The far more important effect of high and moderate severity
wildfires is that they can burn off all the surface litter and
ground vegetation, leaving a layer of easily removed ash on top of
otherwise bare soil...<br>
When winds and the first rains arrive, they quickly wash the ash
away, and the impact of raindrops on the bare soil can detach and <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www2.nrel.colostate.edu/assets/nrel_files/labs/macdonald-lab/pubs/SSSAJ-sealing-2009.pdf">disperse
small soil particles to create a surface seal or crust</a>....<br>
(See b<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/post-fire-mudslide-problems-arent-new-and-likely-to-get-worse-90048">efore/after
satellite image</a> )<br>
The resulting mixture of water, eroded soil, and rocks can quickly
bulk up to a concentrated mix of water with 10 to 40 percent
sediment, or an even more concentrated and deadly debris flow moving
at up to 20 miles per hour. Once these flows reach flatter areas or
encounter obstacles, the velocity decreases and the rocks and mud
are deposited. The potential for such flows are exacerbated in much
of Southern California because the mountains are steeper than normal
due to rapid uplift along regional faults...<br>
In Montecito an exceptional storm cell developed over a severely
burned area, with nearly an inch of rain in just 15 minutes and over
half an inch of rain in just five minutes. Montecito is particularly
at risk as the hillslopes above town are oversteepened by faulting
and rapid uplift, and much of the town is built on deposits laid
down by previous floods...<br>
Looking to the future, it is very clear that the problem is only
going to get worse.<br>
First, climate change is increasing the length and severity of the
fire season by <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pnas.org/content/107/45/19167">reducing snowpacks
and increasing temperatures</a>. Warmer temperatures increase <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/wildfires-in-west-have-gotten-bigger-more-frequent-and-longer-since-the-1980s-42993">fire
risk</a> as well as the capacity of the atmosphere to hold water,
which is<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00502.1">
increasing rainfall intensities</a>.<br>
Second, a policy of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1240294">suppressing
wildfires</a> has increased the amount and density of vegetation
in some areas. This greater fuel load can result in higher severity
fires and more denuded hillslopes. Future wildfires are inevitable,
and when there are high temperatures, high winds, low humidity and
large fuel loads, it is not possible to safely fight or control a
large wildfire.<br>
Nor is it possible to stop the subsequent hillslope runoff and
erosion. Debris basins or diversion structures can be built to
reduce damage, but these are expensive and often do not have
sufficient capacity for extreme post-fire storm events...<br>
On the positive side, most burned areas generally revegetate within
two to four years. Once there is less than about 30-35 percent bare
soil, there is a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www2.nrel.colostate.edu/assets/nrel_files/labs/macdonald-lab/pubs/SSSAJ-sealing-2009.pdf">greatly
reduced risk</a> of high runoff and erosion rates.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/post-fire-mudslide-problems-arent-new-and-likely-to-get-worse-90048">https://theconversation.com/post-fire-mudslide-problems-arent-new-and-likely-to-get-worse-90048</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Living on Earth - audio report]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-01-20/temperature-affects-human-migration-new-research-shows">Temperature
affects human migration, new research shows</a></b><br>
January 20, 2018 <br>
Writer Adam Wernick<br>
If global warming gas emissions continue at the present pace, the
number of asylum-seekers to Europe could increase by nearly 200
percent, according to a new study.<br>
Unrest, war and terrorism have boosted the number of desperate
people fleeing parts of the Middle East and Africa, but new research
from Columbia University economist Wolfram Schlenker shows a warming
planet may also be a culprit.<br>
The research, which appears in the journal, Science, links higher
temperatures in agricultural regions with the flood of people
seeking asylum in the European Union. If current temperature trends
continue, the EU can expect an additional 600,000 or more refugees
begging to enter each year - nearly twice as many as those who
currently seek asylum...<br>
"Around 20 degrees Celsius, which is 68 degrees Fahrenheit, we see
that asylum applications seem to be lowest. If you're hotter or
colder, they tend to increase," Schlenker explains. "This implies
that if you're a country which currently has a temperature that is
higher than this optimal 20 degree Celsius level, you would see an
increase with warming. If you are in a country that currently has a
temperature that is lower than the 20 degrees Celsius optimum, you
would actually see a decrease from warming."<br>
The second part of the paper uses this statistical relationship to
predict what could happen to asylum applications by the end of this
century. Under a "business-as-usual" scenario - continued use of
fossil fuels and high population growth - asylum applications to the
EU are predicted to increase by 188 percent.<br>
While in scientific research there's a big difference between
correlation and causation, Schlenker feels confident that the first
part of the paper reveals a causal relationship. "Those weather
shocks, whether you're hotter than normal or colder than normal, are
random and exogenous," he explains. "So, that's not just a
correlation. I'm pretty sure this is a causal relationship."<br>
This article is based on an <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=18-P13-00001&segmentID=2">interview
</a>that aired on PRI's <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://loe.org/">Living on Earth</a> with Steve Curwood. <font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-01-20/temperature-affects-human-migration-new-research-shows">https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-01-20/temperature-affects-human-migration-new-research-shows</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><br>
</b><b> </b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/signaling-more-independence-from-the-us-the-world-bank-phases-out-its-support-for-fossil-fuels-89497">Signaling
more independence from the US, the World Bank phases out its
support for fossil fuels</a></b><br>
Jason Kirk, Elon University<br>
The World Bank, which provides developing countries about US$60
billion a year in financial assistance, is officially phasing out
its support for the oil and gas industries.<br>
This move brings its actions more in sync with its overarching
commitment to slowing the pace of climate change and keeping the
Paris agreement on track. Based on my research regarding
international relations, I see this move - which World Bank
President Jim Yong Kim announced in December - as significant for
two reasons.<br>
The bank has signaled that the international community is taking the
fight against global warming more seriously than ever. And it shows
that the bank intends to keep playing a leading role in that battle
at a time when its most powerful shareholder, the U.S., is turning
its back on global environmental leadership...<br>
The bank's climate efforts are wide-ranging. It lends money to build
solar and wind farms, requires its borrowers to take steps to shrink
their carbon footprints, and has a goal of "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/24451/K8860.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y">greening
the whole financial system.</a>"...<br>
But we expect developing countries to continue to exploit their oil
and gas deposits even without the World Bank's help, even if that
means they reap less revenue from these industries due to their
weaker bargaining power. For this reason, the bank will weigh
carefully whether to pull out of fossil fuels entirely in the very
poorest countries.<br>
The World Bank includes 188 member countries besides the U.S. Even
if the institution's bucking of fossil fuels proves somewhat less
than absolute, any progress in that direction shows how hard it
would be for the Trump administration to truly undermine the Paris
climate deal.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/signaling-more-independence-from-the-us-the-world-bank-phases-out-its-support-for-fossil-fuels-89497">https://theconversation.com/signaling-more-independence-from-the-us-the-world-bank-phases-out-its-support-for-fossil-fuels-89497</a></font><br>
<br>
[data]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/1PKcTrccx8o">Climate
Action Tracker?</a></b><br>
The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an independent scientific
analysis produced by three research organisations tracking climate
action since 2009. We track progress towards the globally agreed aim
of holding warming well below 2C, and pursuing efforts to limit
warming to 1.5C<br>
video <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/1PKcTrccx8o">Climate Action Tracker Data
Portal - How To Use Guide</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/1PKcTrccx8o">https://youtu.be/1PKcTrccx8o</a>
<br>
This video is an introduction to the functionality of the Climate
Action Tracker Data Portal in which you can explore all the CAT data
on decarbonisation indicators of key sectors for various countries.<br>
Visit the Data Portal here - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateactiontracker.org/decarbonisation/intro">http://climateactiontracker.org/decarbonisation/intro</a><br>
The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an independent scientific
analysis produced by three research organisations since 2009,
tracking climate action and global efforts towards the globally
agreed aim of holding warming well below 2 C and to pursue efforts
to limit temperature increases to 1.5 C. <br>
The CAT tracks 32 countries covering around 80% of global emissions
and calculates global warming consequence and emissions gaps based
on these countries (I)NDCs, pledges and current policies.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climateactiontracker.org/countries.html">View country
analysis here</a> - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateactiontracker.org/countries.html">http://climateactiontracker.org/countries.html</a><br>
The CAT Consortium consists of <br>
Climate Analytics - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateanalytics.org/">http://climateanalytics.org/</a><br>
Ecofys - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ecofys.com/en/home/">http://www.ecofys.com/en/home/</a><br>
NewClimate Institute - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://newclimate.org/">http://newclimate.org/</a><br>
Climate Action Tracker - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateactiontracker.org/">http://climateactiontracker.org/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="+1">[change]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/willpower-isnt-the-best-way-to-get-things-done/550766/">Better
Than Willpower</a></b><br>
A new book argues that reason and perseverance aren't enough.
Instead, three emotions are the secret to getting things done.<br>
According to <a
href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780544703100">Emotional
Success</a>, a new book by the Northeastern University
psychology professor David DeSteno, it's because we're going
about pursuing our goals in the wrong way.<br>
Instead of putting our noses ever closer to the grindstone, he
advocates relying on so-called social emotions - <b>gratitude,
compassion, and pride</b> - to get things done. These
emotions, he says, naturally encourage self-control and
patience...<br>
I recently spoke with DeSteno about his book and research. An
edited transcript of our conversation follows.<br>
</font></font>
<blockquote><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
size="+1"><b>DeSteno:</b> We have a problem in American
society of being too present-focused, right? We're building up
huge levels of debt, we're having crumbling infrastructure,
we're doing all of these things because people want what they
want in the moment.</font></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="+1">The
problem with motivating people to solve these problems is
twofold. One is, each individual has to value the future more
than the present.<b> If I'm worried about climate change,</b>
and the way to do that is to have cleaner energy or lower my
carbon footprint, I have to be willing to expect certain
discomforts. Sacrifices in the moment ensure that we'll have a
better world down the line.</font></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="+1">When
we're talking about things of scale, there's a second problem.
I can do all I want, but if Joe, my neighbor, and his friends
aren't sacrificing as well, then I'm a sucker, because climate
change is still coming.</font></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="+1">The
important thing about these emotions is they not only make us
willing to sacrifice to help other people, but they alter our
views to see other people as more trustworthy. You may say,
well, doesn't that make us more gullible, or more likely to be
taken advantage of? It can, if we're the only ones doing this.</font></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="+1">If we
start to feel these emotions more widely within a culture, it
solves that problem of thinking that other people are cheating
and being free riders. It makes us more willing to invest,
because we don't feel like our investment is going to be
co-opted or exploited by someone else. We all have to be
willing to do it.</font></font><br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/willpower-isnt-the-best-way-to-get-things-done/550766/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/willpower-isnt-the-best-way-to-get-things-done/550766/</a><br>
<font size="+1"><b><br>
</b></font><font size="+1"><b><br>
[Book announcement]<br>
<b><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Unprecedented-Crime-Climate-Changers-Survival/dp/0998694738">Unprecedented
Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival
</a></b><br>
</b></font><b>by Dr. Peter Carter (Author), Elizabeth Woodworth
(Author), Dr. James E. Hansen (Foreword)</b><font size="+1"><b><br>
</b></font>
<blockquote>In 2017, the heat waves, extreme wild fires, and
flooding around the world confirmed beyond doubt that climate
disruption is now a full-blown emergency.<br>
We have entered Churchill's "period of consequences", yet
governments have simply watched the disasters magnify, while
rushing ahead with new pipelines and annual trillions in fossil
fuel subsidies.<br>
Governments simply cannot say they did not know. The events we are
seeing today have been consistently forecast ever since the First
Assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which
was signed by all governments back in 1990, and which has been
described as the best evaluation project ever designed.<br>
Unprecedented Crime first lays out the culpability of
corporations, governmental, political and religious bodies, and
especially the media through their failure to report or act on the
climate emergency. No emergency response has even been
contemplated by wealthy high-emitting national governments.
Extreme weather reporting never even hints at the need to address
climate change ― even though it is producing wars and migrations
among the world's poorest, those who have contributed the least to
global warming.<br>
Yet, independently of governments, scores of proven zero-carbon
game changers have been coming online all over the world. These
exciting technologies, described in the book, are now able to
power both household electricity and energy-dense heavy industry.<br>
We already have the technical solutions to the CO2 problem. With
these solutions we can act in time to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions to near-zero within 20 years.<br>
These willful crimes against life itself by negligent governments,
the oblivious media and an insouciant civil society are crimes
that everyday citizens can readily grasp ― and then take to the
streets and to the courts to protest on behalf of their children
and grand-children. <br>
This thoroughly researched and highly-documented book will show
them how.<br>
Co-author Dr. Peter Carter is an expert reviewer for the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<br>
<br>
<b>TABLE OF CONTENTS</b><br>
Foreword by Dr. James E. Hansen<br>
Introduction<br>
<b>PART I: CRIMES AGAINST LIFE AND HUMANITY </b> <br>
Chapter 1: Extreme Weather Events Long Predicted <br>
Chapter 2: Science Betrayed: The Crime of Denial<br>
Chapter 3: State Crime Against the Global Public
Trust <br>
Chapter 4: Media Collusion <br>
Chapter 5: Corporate and Bank Crime <br>
Chapter 6: Moral Collapse and Religious Apathy<br>
<b>PART II: GAME CHANGERS FOR SURVIVAL</b><br>
Chapter 7: Energy Subsidies and Tax Reform<br>
Chapter 8: Human Rights Based Legal Challenges<br>
Chapter 9: Game Changers in Technology & Innovation<br>
Chapter 10: Market Leadership<br>
Chapter 11: Civil Resistance Strategies<br>
Chapter 12: Mission Impossible<br>
<b>SCIENCE APPENDIX: Evidence of the Climate Emergency</b><br>
INDEX<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Unprecedented-Crime-Climate-Changers-Survival/dp/0998694738">https://www.amazon.com/Unprecedented-Crime-Climate-Changers-Survival/dp/0998694738</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Opinion from 2005]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=8714&method=full">The
Climate Movement and the Liabilities of Hope</a></b><br>
Ross Gelbspan <br>
The inner fire of hope propels perseverance and, occasionally in the
face of overwhelming odds, breathtaking resolve.<br>
In all those contexts, hope was the seed of collective heroism.<br>
Sometimes it is only when we relinquish hope that we can fully
understand our situation and accurately pursue the course of action
it requires....<br>
The climate crisis offers is an opportunity to begin to reshape
civilization based on our highest common aspirations and powered by
our unprecedented technological capabilities. But it requires a
strong dose of intellectual honesty.<br>
Unfortunately activists today continue to funnel virtually all their
time and energy into defeating the carbon lobby.<br>
The longer they cling to that misleading hope, the less likely we
are to prepare to manage -- as effectively and humanely as possible
- the period of coming chaos. <br>
Honest hope comes from looking a hard reality in the eye. <br>
Ross Gelbspan c 2015 <br>
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href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/global-warming-janus-snow/">This
Day in Climate History January 21, 2014</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><font size="+1"><i><br>
</i>In Mother Jones, Chris Mooney explains the connection
between snow<br>
and human-caused climate change:<br>
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<blockquote><font size="+1">"To understand the relationship
between climate change and intense</font><br>
<font size="+1">snowfall, you first need to understand that
global warming certainly</font><br>
<font size="+1">doesn't do away with winter or the seasons. So
it'll still be plenty</font><br>
<font size="+1">cold enough for snow much of the time.
Meanwhile, global warming loads</font><br>
<font size="+1">the dice in favor of more intense precipitation
through changes in</font><br>
<font size="+1">atmospheric moisture content. 'Warming things up
means the atmosphere</font><br>
<font size="+1">can and does hold more moisture,' explains Kevin
Trenberth, a climate</font><br>
<font size="+1">scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder,</font><br>
<font size="+1">Colo. 'So in winter, when there is still plenty
of cold air there's a</font><br>
<font size="+1">risk of bigger snows. With east coast storms,
where the moisture comes</font><br>
<font size="+1">from the ocean which is now warmer, this also
applies.'"</font><br>
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