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<font size="+1"><i>February 10, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[Sarcasm video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/6KbCgruX6yI">Global
Warming Is Now Not 'Necessarily A Bad Thing'</a></b><br>
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<br>
Published on Feb 9, 2018<br>
<blockquote>Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA, is taking a new
approach to global warming.<br>
He's now questioning whether warming is necessarily a bad thing.<br>
"So I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is
warming, that necessarily is a bad thing. Do we really know what
the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100?"<br>
"And now an editorial response from the year 2100:"<br>
"Scott Pruitt is right rising temperatures aren't necessarily bad.
In fact they've been great for me. I lead a lawless gang a
desperate psychotic bandits who now control the desert lands of
West Maine-Sylvania. Yeah floods pretty good. In the before times
I was an assistant manager at Dollar Tree. But look at me now, I
have a cadre of concubines, I sit on a throne of human skulls and
I have desperate prisoners battle each other for my amusement. So
layoff EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. He knows of what he
speaks. <br>
As Scott said, "Why should the government pick winners and
losers?"<br>
Those are picked in Thunderdome!<br>
[Music], [Applause]<br>
</blockquote>
Positive thinking is a great thing, unless you're the person in
charge of environmental policies and applying it to an impending
international crisis.<br>
<font size="-1">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is the premier
late night talk show on CBS, airing at 11:35pm EST, streaming
online via CBS All Access, and delivered to the International
Space Station on a USB drive taped to a weather balloon. Every
night, viewers can expect: Comedy, humor, funny moments, witty
interviews, celebrities, famous people, movie stars, bits,
humorous celebrities doing bits, funny celebs, big group photos of
every star from Hollywood, even the reclusive ones, plus also
jokes.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/6KbCgruX6yI">https://youtu.be/6KbCgruX6yI</a></font><br>
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<br>
[tax breaks]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09022018/congress-tax-breaks-carbon-capture-css-geothermal-solar-biodiesel">Congress
Extends Tax Breaks for Clean Energy - and Carbon Capture</a></b><br>
Environment groups worry the carbon capture credits will just boost
fossil fuels. The 'tax extenders', meanwhile, cut some nuclear,
solar and geothermal costs.<br>
Georgina Gustin<br>
The compromise federal spending bill that Congress passed early
Friday includes an array of tax credits for renewable energy, along
with a controversial tax break for carbon-capturing technologies
that will benefit the fossil fuel industries.<br>
Known as "tax extenders" because they expand or revive temporary
benefits that had lapsed, these provisions will provide significant
incentives for people and companies to invest in low-carbon forms of
energy, ranging from residential installations of solar water
heaters and geothermal heat pumps to nuclear power plants.<br>
In some cases, industry groups had lobbied for the provisions for
years with little gain while Congress extended solar and wind tax
credits during the Obama administration and enacted the Trump
administration's recent broad tax break for corporate profits and
personal incomes...<br>
In addition, the legislation extends tax credits to makers of
biodiesel and "renewable diesel," and pushes back the deadline for
nuclear facilities to qualify for credits. The nuclear provision
would benefit the only plant in the works, under construction by
Southern Company, in Georgia.<br>
But it disappointed some clean-energy advocates by omitting benefits
for battery storage, a growing and crucial element of the expansion
of wind and solar power...<br>
Bob Perciasepe, president of the Center for Climate and Energy
Solutions (C2ES), praised the tax cuts for promoting low-carbon
sources of energy, which he called "critically necessary to the goal
of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050."<br>
Supporters say the more generous tax credits could provide an
essential boost for the industry, much as solar and wind credits
did. The National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative (NEORI), a
coalition of oil, gas, ethanol and environmental groups that worked
on the legislation for more than six years, says the extended
credits will only apply to projects that demonstrate they can
successfully capture and store carbon dioxide.<br>
"This is a climate bill, really," said Stuart Ross of the Clean Air
Task Force. "It's really helping CCS, which the IPCC says we have to
have because the fossil fuel industry is going to be around for some
time."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09022018/congress-tax-breaks-carbon-capture-css-geothermal-solar-biodiesel">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09022018/congress-tax-breaks-carbon-capture-css-geothermal-solar-biodiesel</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[sport]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sport-climate-change-football-golf-cricket-become-part-of-the-solution-problem-leeds-university-a8201986.html">Sport
must prepare for irreversible changes due to climate change
unless it becomes part of the solution</a></b><br>
Virtually every coastal golf course in the world will be under
threat by the end of the century while nine of 21 Winter Olympics
host cities will not be able to host the Games again...<br>
They've been playing golf at Montrose Links, on the idyllic
windswept Angus coastline between Dundee and Aberdeen, for almost
500 years. It's the second oldest continually-used course in the
world, after the Old Course at St Andrew's: a piece of this
country's sporting heritage, and a damned nice spot to boot. And
it's slowly being nibbled to death.<br>
Piece by piece, the links is being swallowed up by rising tides and
coastal erosion. The North Sea is encroaching at a rate of a couple
of metres per year. The iconic third tee has already been
sacrificed. A big storm could be catastrophic. "As the sea rises,
and the coast falls away, we're left with nowhere to go," says the
club's financial director Chris Curnin. "Climate change is often
seen as tomorrow's problem, but it's already eating away at our
course."<br>
The case of Montrose features in a report issued this week based on
research by the Priestley Centre at Leeds University into the
potential impact of climate change on sport in this country. And
what becomes clear over its pages is that virtually no outdoor sport
is safe from the seismic and accelerating consequences of extreme
weather. Nobody can really say with any certainty what sport will
look like in 100, or 50, or even 20 years. But there's a fair chance
a lot of it will be happening indoors... <br>
Tackling climate change requires us to fear climate change, which in
turn requires us to delve deep into our imaginations and envisage
something that has never happened before, and for which we thus have
no previous frame of reference. It requires a long-term vision, and
in a sport where Sam Allardyce is never more than four months away
from his next job, that's always going to be a tall order... <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sport-climate-change-football-golf-cricket-become-part-of-the-solution-problem-leeds-university-a8201986.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sport-climate-change-football-golf-cricket-become-part-of-the-solution-problem-leeds-university-a8201986.html</a><br>
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<br>
POLITICS<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060073391">Zinke met
Israeli energy boss who called Arabs a 'cancer'</a></b><br>
Zack Colman, E&E News reporter<br>
Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke met with Effie Eitam, a far right former
Israeli lawmaker close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who also
happens to run an energy firm drilling in the Golan Heights - a
violation of U.S. policy and international law...<br>
The meeting has implications for foreign policy at a time when
Netanyahu is pushing the Trump administration to formally recognize
Israel's claim to the Golan, which it unilaterally annexed in 1981.<br>
Here's Ohio State University law professor John Quigley on the
broader implications:<br>
"You have someone who is engaged in action that is illegal and by
meeting with [Eitam] it seems to be giving some credibility to what
they're doing."...<br>
"There are no meeting notes or transcript available," Swift said in
an email. "I have no additional information on the meeting, nor can
I confirm that the person you have identified is the person the
Secretary met with."<br>
The United States does not recognize Israel's claim to the Golan.
That position "has not changed," said Noel Clay, a State Department
official, in an email. Israel maintains that it annexed the Golan
Heights in 1981, after capturing it during the Six-Day War in 1967.<br>
Eitam and Zinke have similar career arcs...<br>
The United States has defended similar activity by Israel and
Israeli companies during other administrations, said Noura Erakat,
an assistant professor who focuses on international law at George
Mason University. She noted that the United States has often used
its vote at the United Nations Security Council to shield Israel
from penalties for violating international law.<br>
"Nobody is going to punish Israel for that extraction," Erakat said.
"Most of what Israel does, it is doing with the implicit or explicit
consent of the U.S. administration."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060073391">https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060073391</a><br>
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<br>
[the Nation - student activism]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-isnt-just-about-the-planet/">Climate
Change Isn't Just About the Planet</a></b><br>
It's about justice: racial, social, socioeconomic, reproductive, and
environmental. It's about immigration reform, LGBTQIA+ rights, and
religious freedom.<br>
By Leehi Yona<br>
We must build resilience, physical as well as social, and
spiritual...<br>
I would be lying if I said that I am very hopeful these days; after
all, there are many reasons to choose to despair. However, when I
hear about how - as we young climate organizers knew - young
generations are rising up to Donald Trump, to the deafness of
politicians, and to the climate crisis, I decide to be hopeful.<br>
I hope that you join us.<br>
Leehi YonaLeehi Yona is pursuing a Master's of Environmental Science
at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she
is researching climate change science and policy.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-isnt-just-about-the-planet/">https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-change-isnt-just-about-the-planet/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[reform]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-study-finds-cutting-oil-subsidies-will-not-stop-climate-change/">New
Study Finds Cutting Oil Subsidies Will Not Stop Climate Change</a></b><br>
The effect of removing fossil fuel subsidies would fall far short of
the reductions promised in the Paris Agreement...<br>
The findings help reaffirm the idea that effectively tackling
climate change "requires an incentive directly focused on the
problem, which is emissions," Victor said. More targeted approaches
to reducing greenhouse gases include carbon pricing - not just
removing financial incentives for fossil fuels, but actually taxing
them - or stringent emissions caps.<br>
Fiscal policy expert Ian Parry, of the International Monetary Fund,
made a similar point in a commentary on the new research, also
published yesterday in Nature.<br>
"I think that reform of fossil-fuel prices needs to go well beyond
aligning them with production costs," he wrote. "Fuel prices should
also reflect the consequences of their use for global warming and
other environmental considerations, such as the costs of deaths
resulting from air pollution and, in the case of road fuels, traffic
congestion and accidents."<br>
Jewell cautioned that the new research doesn't indicate that subsidy
reform should be abandoned, or that it makes no difference from a
climate perspective. Rather, the new study helps illuminate the
areas where its effects will be most helpful.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-study-finds-cutting-oil-subsidies-will-not-stop-climate-change/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-study-finds-cutting-oil-subsidies-will-not-stop-climate-change/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Sophie's Aerosols]<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-aerosols-are-a-deadly-climate-change-threat-w516504">Devil's
Bargain: Why Aerosols Pose a Deadly Climate Change Threat</a></b><br>
We already have planet-cooling technology – the problem is, it's
killing us</font><br>
Eric Holthaus<br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-style:
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none;">People have been aware of the influence
of aerosols for centuries. In the 1200s,<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.air-quality.org.uk/02.php" target="_blank"
style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;
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important; float: none;"><span> </span>about the clouds of coal
smoke.<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.enviropedia.org.uk/Air_Quality/UK_Air_Pollution.php"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration:
none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(200, 20,
41); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">In<span> </span></a><span
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important; float: none;">1783,<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-volcanoes-affect-w/"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration:
underline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(200,
20, 41); outline: 0px none; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;
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Franklin observed</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
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0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
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important; float: none;"><span> </span>that tiny particles from
volcanic eruptions tended to chill the weather. Throughout the
late 1800s and early 1900s, dense smoke from coal blocked out
daylight in<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/history/ct-dirty-air-pollution-environment-chicago-flashback-per-0607-jm-20150605-story.html"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Chicago</a><span style="color:
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important; float: none;">,<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.citylab.com/design/2012/06/what-pittsburgh-looked-when-it-decided-it-had-pollution-problem/2185/"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration:
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important; float: none;">,<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/look-back-the-day-coal-smoke-choked-st-louis-/article_eeed6f7c-19ba-5962-97bc-39dc72fc6d28.html"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration:
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important; float: none;">, and scores of other cities...</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-style:
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important; float: none;">There's documented evidence that
thunderstorms in China vary on a weekly cycle,<span> </span></span><a
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL070375/full"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration:
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-style:
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important; float: none;">What's clear is that they're cooling us
off. If we magically transformed the global economy overnight, and
air pollution fell to near zero, we'd get an immediate rise in
global temperatures of between 0.5 and 1.1 degrees Celsius,
according to the new study. </span><br>
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important; float: none;">This puts our increasingly
interdependent global civilization in a tough bind. Get rid of
carbon emissions to fight global warming and you get rid of
aerosols, pushing temperatures back up...</span></span> <br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-style:
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important; float: none;">Embarking on a planetary-scale aerosol
geoengineering project would produce "a wide range of unintended
regional consequences," Samset says. One of the biggest risks is
that the cooling would work<span> </span></span><i
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important; float: none;"><span> </span>well, producing shifts in
ecosystems at "unprecedented speeds," according to the<span> </span></span><i
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Nature Ecology and
Evolution</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none;"><span> </span>study. That could be a
fatal shock to animals and plants already stressed by decades of
warming...</span><br>
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none;">After 25 years of global negotiations,
greenhouse gas emissions are<span> </span></span><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/12112017/climate-change-carbon-co2-emissions-record-high-2017-cop23"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration:
none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(200, 20,
41); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">still rising</a><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start;
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none;">. Extreme weather is now considered<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/the-biggest-risks-in-2018-will-be-environmental-and-technological"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration:
none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(200, 20,
41); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">the biggest risk to the world
economy</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
freight-text-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:
0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">. And of course the leader of the
world's largest economy thinks<span> </span></span><a
href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/265895292191248385?lang=en"
target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration:
none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(200, 20,
41); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">the whole thing is a hoax</a><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none;">.</span><br style="box-sizing:
border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none;">Time is running short, but that doesn't
mean we should be reckless. We are fast entering a world in which
there are no good options remaining to tackle climate change.
Geoengineering is dangerous, but so are aerosols, and so is
accelerating climate change. Absent a real-life Hollywood miracle,
we'll likely need to try some interventions that would have been
better left to the movies.</span><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-aerosols-are-a-deadly-climate-change-threat-w516504">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/why-aerosols-are-a-deadly-climate-change-threat-w516504</a><br>
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<br>
[Letter]<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/08/stanford-professor-mccarthyism-antifa?CMP=share_btn_link">I'm
a Stanford professor accused of being a terrorist. McCarthyism
is back</a></b></font><br>
David Palumbo-Liu<br>
I am used to receiving abusive messages and being publicly maligned.
Now, however, attacks on me have reached troubling new heights..<br>
In recent years, there have been well-publicized cases of academics
who have had their syllabuses or social media cherry-picked for
allegedly inflammatory statements, and then found themselves on the
receiving end of orchestrated harassment campaigns.<br>
CNN ran a story on the increasing numbers of professors like myself
who have <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/21/us/university-professors-free-speech-online-hate-threats/index.html">faced
death threats for their political statements and activism</a>. But
it's not just political progressives and radicals who are being hit.
Scientists are under attack, too. Michael Mann, a professor of
atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center
at Penn State University, has received death threats for <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-the-coming-attack-on-climate-science-could-look-like/2016/12/16/e015cc24-bd8c-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.0b8a59401937">his
work on climate change.</a><br>
Despite this new and alarming phenomenon on campus, university
administrators seem loth to aggressively protect their faculty...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/08/stanford-professor-mccarthyism-antifa?CMP=share_btn_link">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/08/stanford-professor-mccarthyism-antifa?CMP=share_btn_link</a></font><br>
[Michael Mann 2016]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-the-coming-attack-on-climate-science-could-look-like/2016/12/16/e015cc24-bd8c-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.225749bce660">I'm
a scientist who has gotten death threats. I fear what may happen
under Trump.</a></b><br>
"Add to all this the Trump transition team's alarming request that
the Energy Department identify employees and contractors who have
been involved in climate meetings during the Obama administration."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-the-coming-attack-on-climate-science-could-look-like/2016/12/16/e015cc24-bd8c-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.225749bce660">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-what-the-coming-attack-on-climate-science-could-look-like/2016/12/16/e015cc24-bd8c-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.225749bce660</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Under sea forest]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584116280/scientists-long-buried-ice-age-forest-offers-climate-change-clues">Scientists:
Long-Buried Ice Age Forest Offers Climate Change Clues</a></b><br>
February 9, 20185:01 AM ET<br>
Debbie Elliot <br>
A preserved Ice Age forest<br>
Scientists say it's a remarkable discovery.<br>
"The underwater forest is like the Garden of Eden underwater," says
Christine DeLong, a paleo-climatologist at Louisiana State
University. She says tests date the forest to be between 50,000 and
70,000 years old.<br>
"It's a huge deal," DeLong says."Because here we have this like
perfectly preserved time capsule of an Ice Age forest."...<br>
"You can see the grain in the wood, and it's hard as a rock," he
says, rapping his knuckles on the piece of cypress, and pointing out
holes in the tree trunk, likely tunneled by ancient beetles or
worms. "It's like you just cut it down in the forest."...<br>
"It's like any of our national treasures," says Raines. You know you
can go to the Grand Canyon or whatever. That's what this is. This is
a natural wonder. And it really ought to get to stay here rather
than be turned into coffee tables and electric guitars."<br>
Raines says salvage companies have already been calling trying to
get the GPS coordinates for the site, hoping to harvest the bald
cypress wood.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584116280/scientists-long-buried-ice-age-forest-offers-climate-change-clues">https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584116280/scientists-long-buried-ice-age-forest-offers-climate-change-clues</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History February 10, 2015
- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 9, 2015: MSNBC's Ed Schultz discusses the mainstream media's chronically poor climate coverage.
President Obama stressed the importance of focusing the media's attention on climate change in light of record snow falls and the hottest year on record. Ed Schultz, Dr. Reese Halter, Tiernan Sittenfeld and Mike Papantonio discuss.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/cold-hard-truth-about-climate-change-396460099933">http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/cold-hard-truth-about-climate-change-396460099933</a> </span></span><b
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