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<font size="+1"><i>February 14, 2018</i></font><br>
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[infrastructure]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thebulletin.org/trumps-infrastructure-plan-may-ignore-climate-change-it-could-be-costly11503">Trump's
infrastructure plan may ignore climate change. It could be
costly.</a></b><br>
As Slate noted: "The first thing you need to know about Donald
Trump's $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan is that it is, in fact, a
$200 billion infrastructure plan. For those keeping score at home,
it's $200 billion from Washington and another $1.3 trillion dollars
of state, local, and private money to be determined at a later date.<br>
Or as the Huffington Post succinctly headlined its story on the
topic: "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-infrastructure-plan_us_5a81190ee4b08dfc930576fa">Trump's
new infrastructure plan is kind of underwhelming</a>."<br>
And there's another troublesome aspect: Engineers and researchers
worry that the plan has both discounted climate science and weakened
climate change regulations, which could lead to costly projects
vulnerable to damage - or rendered obsolete by rapidly changing
flood patterns and extremes of weather. "The impact of not
considering climate change when planning infrastructure means you
end up building the wrong thing in the wrong place to the wrong
standards," Michael Kuby, a professor of geographical sciences and
urban planning at Arizona State University and a contributor to the
federal government's National Climate Assessment, was quoted as
saying in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/climate/trump-infrastructure-climate-change.html">New
York Times</a>. "That's a whole lot of waste."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thebulletin.org/trumps-infrastructure-plan-may-ignore-climate-change-it-could-be-costly11503">https://thebulletin.org/trumps-infrastructure-plan-may-ignore-climate-change-it-could-be-costly11503</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Peter Sinclair]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/13/the-way-of-the-fool-ignoring-climate-in-infrastructure/">The
Way of the Fool: Ignoring Climate in Infrastructure</a></b><br>
February 13, 2018<br>
The greatest foreseeable near-term risks of climate change are not
giant swings in the earth system, but rather what will happen as
slow, incremental change - in things like sea level, and increasing
large precipitation events - suddenly reach the limits of legacy
infrastructure, and overwhelm longstanding defenses against natural
threats.<br>
Think Katrina/Levee. Sandy/Subway. Harvey/stormdrains.<br>
The question is, how can anyone prepare for a future while ignoring
the forces that shape it?<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/13/the-way-of-the-fool-ignoring-climate-in-infrastructure/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/13/the-way-of-the-fool-ignoring-climate-in-infrastructure/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[4.8 mm/year]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/sea-level-acceleration-2/">Sea
Level Acceleration</a></b><br>
Tamino February 13, 2018<br>
Sea level isn't just rising, it is accelerating. It did so during
the 20th century, and has done so even more quite recently. ABC news
reported the story, based on just-published research (Nerem et al.
2018), that the latest satellite data now show it plainly... <br>
The average rate (from satellite data) is 3.1 mm/y, but <b>the
present rate is closer to 4.8 mm/yr</b>. That's a substantial
increase - a 50% increase..<br>
Continued denial of sea level rise acceleration can cost more than
money and property, it can cost lives. When storms do come, when
hurricanes strike, flooding can be deadly, and every inch of sea
level rise makes whatever flooding happens much worse, makes the
death toll higher. Denial makes us less prepared to reduce the
future impact and less prepared to deal with what comes.<br>
<i>[4.8mm is slightly less than a fifth of an inch per year]</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/sea-level-acceleration-2/">https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/sea-level-acceleration-2/</a><br>
<b><br>
</b><br>
[new research area]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212115235.htm">First
scientific expedition to newly exposed Antarctic ecosystem</a></b><br>
Date: February 12, 2018<br>
Source: Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum<br>
Summary: A team of scientists heads to Antarctica this week (14
February) to investigate a mysterious marine ecosystem that's been
hidden beneath an Antarctic ice shelf for up to 120,000 years. <br>
A team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), heads
to Antarctica this week (14 February) to investigate a mysterious
marine ecosystem that's been hidden beneath an Antarctic ice shelf
for up to 120,000 years.<br>
The iceberg known as A68, which is four times of London, calved off
from the Larsen Ice Shelf in July 2017. The scientists will travel
by ship to collect samples from the newly exposed seabed, which
covers an area of around 5,818 km2. It is an urgent mission. The
ecosystem that's likely been hidden beneath the ice for thousands of
years may change as sunlight starts to alter the surface layers of
the sea.<br>
<blockquote> "The calving of A68 provides us with a unique
opportunity study marine life as it responds to a dramatic
environmental change. It's important we get there quickly before
the undersea environment changes as sunlight enters the water and
new species begin to colonise. We've put together a team with a
wide range of scientific skills so that we can collect as much
information as possible in a short time. It's very exciting."<br>
</blockquote>
The team will investigate the area previously under the ice shelf by
collecting seafloor animals, microbes, plankton, sediments and water
samples using a range of equipment including video cameras and a
special sledge pulled along the seafloor to collect tiny animals.
They will also record any marine mammals and birds that might have
moved into the area. Their findings will provide a picture of what
life under the ice shelf was like so changes to the ecosystem can be
tracked.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212115235.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212115235.htm</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Climate Scientist's Blog]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://climatesight.org/">On
model development, and sanity</a></b><br>
February 8, 2018 by climatesight<br>
"When I was a brand-new PhD student, full of innocence and optimism,
I loved solving bugs. I loved the challenge of it and the rush I
felt when I succeeded. I knew that if I threw all of my energy at a
bug, I could solve it in two days, three days tops. I was full of
confidence and hope. I had absolutely no idea what I was in for."<br>
"Now I am in the final days of my PhD, slightly jaded and a bit
cynical, and I still love solving bugs. I love slowly untangling the
long chain of cause and effect that is making my model do something
weird. I love methodically ruling out possible sources of the
problem until I eventually have a breakthrough. I am still full of
confidence and hope. But it's been a long road for me to come around
full circle like this."<br>
"As part of my PhD, I took a long journey into the world of model
coupling. This basically consisted of taking an ocean model and a
sea ice model and bashing them together until they got along..."<br>
<font size="-1">Kaitlin Naughten is a PhD student in climate science
at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She
became interested in climate science as a teenager on the Canadian
Prairies, and increasingly began to notice the discrepancies
between scientific and public knowledge on climate change. She
started writing this blog at age sixteen to help address this gap
in public understanding, and it slowly evolved into a record of
her research as a young climate scientist<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatesight.org/">https://climatesight.org/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[techno-fake news]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-terrifying-future-of-fake-news?utm_term=.njm4Nk4n2&ref=mobile_share#.kjzP4ZPow">He
Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An
Information Apocalypse.</a></b><br>
"What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has
happened, regardless of whether or not it did?" technologist Aviv
Ovadya warns.<br>
Posted February 11, 2018, Charlie Warzel<br>
In mid-2016, Aviv Ovadya realized there was something fundamentally
wrong with the internet - so wrong that he abandoned his work and
sounded an alarm. A few weeks before the 2016 election, he presented
his concerns to technologists in San Francisco's Bay Area and warned
of an impending crisis of misinformation in a presentation he titled
"Infocalypse."<br>
The web and the information ecosystem that had developed around it
was wildly unhealthy, Ovadya argued. The incentives that governed
its biggest platforms were calibrated to reward information that was
often misleading and polarizing, or both. Platforms like Facebook,
Twitter, and Google prioritized clicks, shares, ads, and money over
quality of information, and Ovadya couldn't shake the feeling that
it was all building toward something bad - a kind of critical
threshold of addictive and toxic misinformation. The presentation
was largely ignored by employees from the Big Tech platforms -
including a few from Facebook who would later go on to drive the
company's NewsFeed integrity effort.<br>
<blockquote>"At the time, it felt like we were in a car careening
out of control and it wasn't just that everyone was saying, 'we'll
be fine' - it's that they didn't even see the car," he said.<br>
</blockquote>
Ovadya saw early what many - including lawmakers, journalists, and
Big Tech CEOs - wouldn't grasp until months later: Our platformed
and algorithmically optimized world is vulnerable - to propaganda,
to misinformation, to dark targeted advertising from foreign
governments - so much so that it threatens to undermine a
cornerstone of human discourse: the credibility of fact.<br>
But it's what he sees coming next that will really scare the shit
out of you.<br>
"Alarmism can be good - you should be alarmist about this stuff,"
Ovadya said one January afternoon before calmly outlining a deeply
unsettling projection about the next two decades of fake news,
artificial intelligence-assisted misinformation campaigns, and
propaganda. "We are so screwed it's beyond what most of us can
imagine," he said. "We were utterly screwed a year and a half ago
and we're even more screwed now. And depending how far you look into
the future it just gets worse."... see also: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/metaviv?lang=en">https://twitter.com/metaviv?lang=en</a><br>
<blockquote>That future, according to Ovadya, will arrive with a
slew of slick, easy-to-use, and eventually seamless technological
tools for manipulating perception and falsifying reality, for
which terms have already been coined - "reality apathy,"
"automated laser phishing," and "human puppets."...<br>
"I realized if these systems were going to go out of control,
there'd be nothing to reign them in and it was going to get bad,
and quick," ...<br>
Today Ovadya and a cohort of loosely affiliated researchers and
academics are anxiously looking ahead - toward a future that is
alarmingly dystopian. They're running war game-style disaster
scenarios based on technologies that have begun to pop up and the
outcomes are typically disheartening....<br>
</blockquote>
Worse because of our ever-expanding computational prowess; worse
because of ongoing advancements in artificial intelligence and
machine learning that can blur the lines between fact and fiction;
worse because those things could usher in a future where, as Ovadya
observes, anyone could make it "appear as if anything has happened,
regardless of whether or not it did."...<br>
Worse because of our ever-expanding computational prowess; worse
because of ongoing advancements in artificial intelligence and
machine learning that can blur the lines between fact and fiction;
worse because those things could usher in a future where, as Ovadya
observes, anyone could make it "appear as if anything has happened,
regardless of whether or not it did."...<br>
<blockquote>Imagine, he suggests, phishing messages that aren't just
a confusing link you might click, but a personalized message with
context. "Not just an email, but an email from a friend that
you've been anxiously waiting for for a while," he said. "And
because it would be so easy to create things that are fake you'd
become overwhelmed. If every bit of spam you receive looked
identical to emails from real people you knew, each one with its
own motivation trying to convince you of something, you'd just end
up saying, 'okay, I'm going to ignore my inbox.'"<br>
</blockquote>
That can lead to something Ovadya calls "reality apathy": Beset by a
torrent of constant misinformation, people simply start to give up.
Ovadya is quick to remind us that this is common in areas where
information is poor and thus assumed to be incorrect. The big
difference, Ovadya notes, is the adoption of apathy to a developed
society like ours. The outcome, he fears, is not good. "People stop
paying attention to news and that fundamental level of informedness
required for functional democracy becomes unstable."<br>
Ovadya (and other researchers) see laser phishing as an
inevitability. "It's a threat for sure, but even worse - I don't
think there's a solution right now," he said. "There's internet
scale infrastructure stuff that needs to be built to stop this if it
starts."<br>
Beyond all this, there are other long-range nightmare scenarios that
Ovadya describes as "far-fetched," but they're not so far-fetched
that he's willing to rule them out. And they are frightening. "Human
puppets," for example - a black market version of a social media
marketplace with people instead of bots. "It's essentially a mature
future cross border market for manipulatable humans," he said....<br>
Ovadya's premonitions are particularly terrifying given the ease
with which our democracy has already been manipulated by the most
rudimentary, blunt-force misinformation techniques. The scamming,
deception, and obfuscation that's coming is nothing new; it's just
more sophisticated, much harder to detect, and working in tandem
with other technological forces that are not only currently unknown
but likely unpredictable...<br>
<blockquote>For those paying close attention to developments in
artificial intelligence and machine learning, none of this feels
like much of a stretch. Software currently in development at the
chip manufacturer Nvidia can already convincingly generate
hyperrealistic photos of objects, people, and even some landscapes
by scouring tens of thousands of images. Adobe also recently
piloted two projects - Voco and Cloak - the first a "Photoshop
for audio," the second a tool that can seamlessly remove objects
(and people!) from video in a matter of clicks...<br>
</blockquote>
In some cases, the technology is so good that it's startled even its
creators. Ian Goodfellow, a Google Brain research scientist who
helped code the first "generative adversarial network" (GAN), which
is a neural network capable of learning without human supervision,
cautioned that AI could set news consumption back roughly 100 years.
At an MIT Technology Review conference in November last year, he
told an audience that GANs have both "imagination and introspection"
and "can tell how well the generator is doing without relying on
human feedback." And that, while the creative possibilities for the
machines is boundless, the innovation, when applied to the way we
consume information, would likely "clos[e] some of the doors that
our generation has been used to having open...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-terrifying-future-of-fake-news">https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/the-terrifying-future-of-fake-news</a><br>
<br>
</font> <br>
[media battleground - Washington Post - opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://getenergysmartnow.com/2018/02/13/seriously-what-is-the-washingtonpost-doing/">Seriously,
what is the @WashingtonPost doing?</a></b><br>
February 13th, 2018<br>
Evidently enraptured by the glowing reviews that the New York Times
hiring of (climate) science dissembler (amid other problems)
columnist Bret Stephens generated, The Washington Post opinion
section just added 'both sides' specialist Meghan McArdle to their
pages. McArdle often reads as if emergent from Koch Industries
public relations.<br>
<br>
First, when it comes to Grenfell,<span> </span><a
href="http://getenergysmartnow.com/2017/06/19/grenfell-tower-and-climate-change/"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
text-decoration: underline;">McArdle's piece did read like it came
from the Koch PR office</a>. But, more broadly, the Koch-McArdle
ties are real:
<blockquote style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px 30px
1.5em; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, "Times New
Roman", Times, serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-left:
1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 14px;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; 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;">McArdle's views are
probably never going to differ from those of the Koch brothers,
for a number of reasons. While she''s been a columnist for a while
at respectable outlets like Bloomberg and even the left-leaning
Atlantic, her Koch-nections run deep.<br>
For one, she's <a title=""
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/fashion/weddings/13mcardle.html"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/fashion/weddings/13mcardle.html&source=gmail&ust=1498062685157000&usg=AFQjCNGtEZFdjecK5KkldagyL2tBAsyFww"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
text-decoration: underline;"><u style="padding: 0px; margin:
0px;">married</u></a> to Peter Suderman, who, before becoming <a
href="http://reason.com/people/peter-suderman/all"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://reason.com/people/peter-suderman/all&source=gmail&ust=1498062685157000&usg=AFQjCNHDbYEdwH9jSMpiRPpGWx3jd-cFxg"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
text-decoration: underline;"><u style="padding: 0px; margin:
0px;">features editor</u></a> at Koch-funded Reason Magazine,
worked for the Koch's Freedomworks and CEI. We'll give McArdle the
benefit of the doubt that her husband's paycheck has nothing to do
with her opinions and is only an unusual coincidence.</blockquote>
This 'benefit of the doubt' does matter. While one might scratch
one's head, one should not damn someone due to what a member of
their family does without other supporting details.
<blockquote style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; margin: 0px 30px
1.5em; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, "Times New
Roman", Times, serif; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); border-left:
1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 14px;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
left; 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;">However, a look at
McArdle's professional history shows <a title=""
href="https://thinkprogress.org/media-stunner-atlantic-editor-megan-mcardle-admits-shes-outsourced-her-thinking-to-cato-s-pat-36fdaeaa9be7"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://thinkprogress.org/media-stunner-atlantic-editor-megan-mcardle-admits-shes-outsourced-her-thinking-to-cato-s-pat-36fdaeaa9be7&source=gmail&ust=1498062685157000&usg=AFQjCNHrqfwqSuHRpDj3GururYpCEUfPLA"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
text-decoration: underline;"><u style="padding: 0px; margin:
0px;">significant Koch influence</u></a>. … <a title=""
href="http://shameproject.com/profile/megan-mcardle/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://shameproject.com/profile/megan-mcardle/&source=gmail&ust=1498062685157000&usg=AFQjCNHQr70lHxho-3hGbj_6eQVd4Vzn1w"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
text-decoration: underline;"><u style="padding: 0px; margin:
0px;">impressively in-depth list</u></a> of McArdle's
conflicts of interest … begin with her <a
href="https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/e296bf62-1473-40c4-947d-64d0c3e2cbaa/7d246bfedafdb5da9f7875bec7872728"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/e296bf62-1473-40c4-947d-64d0c3e2cbaa/7d246bfedafdb5da9f7875bec7872728&source=gmail&ust=1498062685157000&usg=AFQjCNEYjrM5CbR90cEvKHuKASl_dztSMQ"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
text-decoration: underline;"><u style="padding: 0px; margin:
0px;">training</u></a> at the Koch's Institute for Humane
Studies journalism program, to which she returned in 2011 as a
guest lecturer and instructor. … McArdle is also a frequent
attendee and moderator of Koch-network events, including her
duties <a
href="https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/08221e97-feac-494c-bcf1-74a87183c82b/a57a49928e5f215160ae0f30f0e53258"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/sh/08221e97-feac-494c-bcf1-74a87183c82b/a57a49928e5f215160ae0f30f0e53258&source=gmail&ust=1498062685157000&usg=AFQjCNGY-5k3y_l2sHCiDhQtWfueIJacgQ"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
text-decoration: underline;"><u style="padding: 0px; margin:
0px;">MCing the 50th anniversary</u></a> of the Institute for
Humane Studies, and was praised by them for her <a title=""
href="https://archive.org/details/MeganMcardleOutliningGopComebackStrategyFor2010MidtermElections-"
target="_blank" rel="noopener"
data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://archive.org/details/MeganMcardleOutliningGopComebackStrategyFor2010MidtermElections-&source=gmail&ust=1498062685157000&usg=AFQjCNHIrmw-NpVJqaz1WQadmwk4dDENNA"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);
text-decoration: underline;"><u style="padding: 0px; margin:
0px;">work</u></a> "re-branding the Republican party.</blockquote>
Seriously, Washington Post, what are you doing? Do you really think
that your readership wants a(nother) Koch-Brothers mouthpiece
gracing the pages? You already have Krauthammer, Will, Samuelson,
and too many other fossil fools eating up column inches. Or, is the
issue that they are PMS (pale, male, and stale) fossil fuel shills
and you are seeking to change the demographics in that
climate-denial, anti-government, deceiving pool of authors?<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://getenergysmartnow.com/2018/02/13/seriously-what-is-the-washingtonpost-doing/">http://getenergysmartnow.com/2018/02/13/seriously-what-is-the-washingtonpost-doing/</a></font><br>
-<br>
[2012 Joe Romm post ThinkProgress]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/media-stunner-atlantic-editor-megan-mcardle-admits-shes-outsourced-her-thinking-to-cato-s-pat-36fdaeaa9be7/">Media
Stunner: Atlantic Editor Megan McArdle Admits She's Outsourced
Her Thinking to Cato's Pat Michaels</a></b><br>
Megan McArdle, senior editor for The Atlantic, has made the most
jaw-dropping admission on climate I've seen in years from a
journalist. It deserves attention because it unintentionally
illuminates why the "status quo" establishment media's coverage of
global warming is so fatally useless.<br>
In explaining why she (supposedly) doesn't post a lot on the problem
of global warming, McArdle writes:<br>
The first reason I don't post a lot is that I'm not an expert, and
I'm not planning to become one. I've basically outsourced my opinion
on the science to people like Jonathan Adler, Ron Bailey, and Pat
Michaels of Cato - all of whom concede that anthropogenic global
warming is real, though they may contest the likely extent, or
desired remedies.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/media-stunner-atlantic-editor-megan-mcardle-admits-shes-outsourced-her-thinking-to-cato-s-pat-36fdaeaa9be7/">https://thinkprogress.org/media-stunner-atlantic-editor-megan-mcardle-admits-shes-outsourced-her-thinking-to-cato-s-pat-36fdaeaa9be7/</a></font><br>
-<br>
See also <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/why-we-should-act-to-stop-global-warming-and-why-we-wont/253752/">Why
We Should Act to Stop Global Warming - and Why We Won't</a><br>
by MEGAN MCARDLE <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/why-we-should-act-to-stop-global-warming-and-why-we-wont/253752/">https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/why-we-should-act-to-stop-global-warming-and-why-we-wont/253752/</a><br>
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Wait, there's more from 2014:<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://grist.org/article/washington-post-hires-volokh-conspiracy-turns-out-actually-conspiracy-theorists/">Washington
Post acquires climate-conspiracy blog</a></b><br>
Brad Johnson<br>
The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog of climate conspiracy theorists, is
now part of the Washington Post.<br>
When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took over the Post, some climate
activists hoped he would close down the Post's editorial support for
climate-science deniers such as George Will and strengthen the
influential paper's focus on the climate threat.<br>
But it was not to be.<br>
In the first major move since the acquisition, Bezos' Post has
simultaneously dropped liberal "wunderkind" blogger Ezra Klein and
added the corporate-right lawyer blog Volokh Conspiracy, founded by
Eugene Volokh in 2002.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://grist.org/article/washington-post-hires-volokh-conspiracy-turns-out-actually-conspiracy-theorists/">https://grist.org/article/washington-post-hires-volokh-conspiracy-turns-out-actually-conspiracy-theorists/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://reason.com/volokh">http://reason.com/volokh</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/12/16992910/john-scalzi-the-consuming-fire-collapsing-empire-cover-reveal-q-and-a">John
Scalzi's The Consuming Fire is a space opera about climate
change denialism</a></b><br>
The sequel to last year's The Collapsing Empire hits stores on
October 16th<br>
By Andrew Liptak<br>
The fact of the matter is that there really is no debate: there is
the overwhelming scientific evidence and then there are people who
are desperately trying to deny the facts so that they can get as
much as they can out of the system before the change has to happen.
What we're seeing with climate change is just another example of
really kind of a well-known rhetorical and political trope.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/12/16992910/john-scalzi-the-consuming-fire-collapsing-empire-cover-reveal-q-and-a">https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/12/16992910/john-scalzi-the-consuming-fire-collapsing-empire-cover-reveal-q-and-a</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60716FD3A5D12728DDDAD0994DA405B898BF1D3">This
Day in Climate History February 14, 1979</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
February 14, 1979: The New York Times reports: "There is a real
possibility that some people now in their infancy will live to a
time when the ice at the North Pole will have melted, a change that
would cause swift and perhaps catastrophic changes in climate."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60716FD3A5D12728DDDAD0994DA405B898BF1D3">http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60716FD3A5D12728DDDAD0994DA405B898BF1D3</a></font><br>
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