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<font size="+1"><i>February 22, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[it's true]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/humans-are-responsible-for-nearly-all-modern-global-warming/">Humans
Are Responsible for Nearly All Modern Global Warming</a></b><br>
KEVIN DRUMFEB. 20, 2018 5:55 PM<br>
... in case anyone ever suggests to you that, sure, global warming
is real, but we don't know how much is caused by humans-well, yes we
do:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog_causes_radiative_forcing1.jpg">https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog_causes_radiative_forcing1.jpg</a><br>
This is from the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://science2017.globalchange.gov/">Fourth National
Climate Assessment</a>, which states with high confidence that
"the likely contributions of natural forcing and internal
variability to global temperature change over that period
[1951-2010] are minor." If you want to see all the human causes
broken down further, here you go: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog_time_evolution_radiative_forcing.jpg">https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/blog_time_evolution_radiative_forcing.jpg</a><br>
We humans have done things that both increase and decrease the
amount of solar heat being trapped on the earth. However, they don't
balance out: the increases are far greater than the decreases. The
result is global warming.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/humans-are-responsible-for-nearly-all-modern-global-warming/">https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/humans-are-responsible-for-nearly-all-modern-global-warming/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Attacks on Science]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/21/sick-marketing-war-on-science-has-been-a-big-contributor-to-todays-fake-news-cycle/">Sick
Marketing: War on Science has been a Big Contributor to Today's
Fake News Cycle</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/21/sick-marketing-war-on-science-has-been-a-big-contributor-to-todays-fake-news-cycle/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/21/sick-marketing-war-on-science-has-been-a-big-contributor-to-todays-fake-news-cycle/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[PBS NewsHour video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/some-states-are-trying-to-downplay-teaching-of-climate-change-teachers-see-educational-malpractice">Some
states are trying to downplay teaching of climate change.
Teachers see 'educational malpractice'</a></b><br>
Teaching climate change in schools is a hot-button issue in a number
of states, including Idaho and New Mexico, where lawmakers have
tried to weaken or dismantle science standards crafted by educators
and scientists. Amid a climate-change skeptical Trump
administration, legislators cite a concern about one-sided
arguments. Special correspondent Lisa Stark of Education Week
reports...<br>
Syme refused repeated requests for an interview, but told a
newspaper - quote - "I don't care if students come up with a
conclusion that the Earth is flat, as long as it's their conclusion,
... I don't generally think of, oh, yes, climate change and global
warming, like, yes, I could change that, I could do that.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/some-states-are-trying-to-downplay-teaching-of-climate-change-teachers-see-educational-malpractice#audio">Listen
to the Audio Clip</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/some-states-are-trying-to-downplay-teaching-of-climate-change-teachers-see-educational-malpractice">Read
the Full Transcript of video clip</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/some-states-are-trying-to-downplay-teaching-of-climate-change-teachers-see-educational-malpractice">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/some-states-are-trying-to-downplay-teaching-of-climate-change-teachers-see-educational-malpractice</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Litigation news]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/02/21/chevron-richmond-california-climate-lawsuit/">Richmond
Battles Chevron, Its Biggest Employer, in Two Important Lawsuits</a></b><br>
By Amy Westervelt<br>
When the city of Richmond, Calif. filed its lawsuit against the
country's top fossil fuel companies in an attempt to hold them
liable for the impacts of climate change and the cost of addressing
them, it joined eight other communities in a recent wave of such
lawsuits. But unlike the others, Richmond has been on the front
lines of fighting fossil fuel emissions for decades.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cpmlegal.com/media/cases/147_RICHMOND%20CHEVRON%20COMPLAINT.pdf">The
complaint</a> holds Chevron accountable for negligence, liability,
and public nuisance, and covers three areas of damage: economic
losses, environmental harm and interference with residents' rights
to the "comfort and enjoyment" of their community. The economic
losses encompass the amount the city spent providing emergency
response to the fire and monitoring air quality, as well as the cost
of the reputational damage done to the city over years of highly
publicized pollution and accidents at the refinery. Chevron's
continual attempts to get the case thrown out have failed and it
goes to trial on February 26...<br>
The negligence suit specifically holds Chevron-as opposed to the
entire fossil fuel industry-accountable for its direct impacts on
the community. The city is being represented by Cotchett, Pitre
& McCarthy, the same firm that took Pacific Gas & Electric
to court over its gas line explosion in San Bruno in 2010. It also
represents shareholders impacted by the company's negligence who
were awarded $90 million in 2017. "They've been pretty effective at
holding companies accountable for this kind of stuff, so I have a
lot more optimism for that case," said Andres De Soto, Richmond
community coordinator for the environment nonprofit Communities for
a Better California, who added the liability suit's longer time
frame means less hope for immediate relief...<br>
"The climate change lawsuit seems to be in court more for political
purposes, it's like the tobacco stuff where they knowingly covered
up fact that cigarettes were harmful. I think it's good to shine a
light on the duplicity and greed of the industry, but in terms of
really impacting the community at the ground level? We won't really
see that until and unless the case goes to court and the city wins
big money."..<br>
Filing not one, but two, lawsuits against one of its primary
employers is a bold move for the working-class city of Richmond. In
a 2014 report by Beacon Economics, commissioned by Chevron,
economists estimated that Chevron supports more than 2,200 full-time
equivalent jobs in Richmond, generating more than $370 million in
economic activity and more than $120 million in wages and earnings.
That money helps the city support a larger police force than it
could otherwise afford and has also been used to bolster code
enforcement and crime-intervention programs that some credit with
reducing the crime rate in the city. "One of the reasons we've had
success in reducing crime is we have a funding base that allows for
good staffing levels," police chief Chris Magnus told The Mercury
News when the Beacon report came out. "It's just a fact that Chevron
is a big part of that funding base."..<br>
The Richmond Chamber of Commerce has often expressed concern that
the suits will prompt Chevron to just leave the city. Henry Clark,
who has been pushing for Chevron to curb its emissions since the
1980s through his nonprofit, the West County Toxics Coalition, waves
that concern away. "Over the years they've made threats to leave
Richmond but that never materialized," he said...<br>
Chevron also made headlines in 2014 for its proposed $1 billion
modernization project, which would update the refinery's processing
equipment and limit its greenhouse gas emissions. The project was
initially proposed in 2006, but a consortium of environmental groups
sued the city and the refinery in 2008 to block it, claiming the
project would actually increase emissions. The company returned in
2014 with a scaled-back proposal and an agreement to cap emissions
to 2014 levels and reduce the amount of so-called "bunker fuel," the
high-sulfur fuel typically used by ships that is processed at the
refinery. That proposal was approved by the city and the project
broke ground in 2016...<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/02/21/chevron-richmond-california-climate-lawsuit/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/02/21/chevron-richmond-california-climate-lawsuit/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[NYTime$]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/21/climate/changed-minds-americans.html">How
Six Americans Changed Their Minds About Global Warming</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/21/climate/changed-minds-americans.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/21/climate/changed-minds-americans.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Medical warning]<br>
<b><a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1716846">Where
There's Wildfire, There's Smoke</a></b><br>
John R. Balmes, M.D.<br>
When catastrophic wildfires either come near or hit populated urban
areas, as has recently occurred in both northern and southern
California, large numbers of people are exposed to relatively high
levels of smoke (see images). Wildfire smoke contains carbon
dioxide, water vapor, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, complex
hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, trace minerals, and several thousand
other compounds. The actual composition of smoke depends on the fuel
type (e.g., deciduous vs. coniferous trees), the temperature of the
fire, and the wind conditions. Wood smoke contains many of the same
toxic and carcinogenic substances as cigarette smoke, including
benzene, benzo[a]pyrene, and dibenz[a,h]anthracene.<br>
<blockquote>Particulate matter (PM) - typically a mixture of solid
particles and liquid droplets - is the principal pollutant of
health concern from wildfire smoke for the relatively short-term
exposures (hours to weeks) typically experienced by the public.
Most PM in wood smoke is very small (0.4 to 0.7 μm), and particles
of this size can be inhaled into the alveoli. The 24-hour
air-quality standard set by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) for fine particles (PM2.5, particles smaller than 2.5
μm in mass median aerodynamic diameter) is 35 μg per cubic meter.
For comparison, during the Sonoma–Napa wildfires in October 2017,
the air quality in terms of PM2.5 was the worst that has ever been
recorded in the San Francisco Bay area, with 24-hour
concentrations exceeding 200 μg per cubic meter in Napa and 70 μg
per cubic meter in Oakland on October 13.1<br>
</blockquote>
Fine particles are regulated by the EPA because there is robust
epidemiologic evidence of associations between short-term exposures
to PM2.5 and cardiopulmonary mortality, as well as increased risk of
acute respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes, including
exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
acute lower respiratory tract infections, myocardial infarction,
stroke, and arrhythmias. In addition, adverse neurologic and
metabolic outcomes have also been associated with chronic exposure
to PM2.5. There is some controversy about whether wood-smoke PM2.5
is as toxic as that generated by combustion of fossil fuels in motor
vehicle engines and power plants. Recent reviews of the literature
on community health effects from wildfire smoke found strong support
for an association with respiratory morbidity, with less clear
evidence of a link to cardiovascular outcomes. Mental health can
also be affected.4 The groups most susceptible to the adverse health
effects of PM2.5 are the very young and people with preexisting
cardiovascular or respiratory disease, but older children and adults
are also at risk.<br>
<blockquote>Another pollutant of concern during smoke events is
carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide levels are highest during the
smoldering stages of a fire. With wildfires, the greatest danger
from exposure to carbon monoxide is to wildland firefighters,
because it is impractical for them to wear the self-contained
breathing apparatus gear that structural firefighters wear.
Community exposures to carbon monoxide can occur with rapidly
spreading wildfires, such as when the recent Tubbs fire burned the
Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa, California; a woman died
in her husband's arms in a swimming pool where the couple had
sheltered from the fire, presumably from carbon monoxide
intoxication.<br>
</blockquote>
Other toxic pollutants, such as acrolein, benzene, and formaldehyde,
are present in wildfire smoke, and though they occur in much lower
concentrations than PM2.5 and carbon monoxide, their presence is
still a concern. When many homes, other buildings, and motor
vehicles burn, as they did during the fall 2017 fires in northern
and southern California, fire emissions include more metal oxides
and combustion products of synthetic materials. By the time the
plume of a large wildfire has traveled many miles, however, most of
the smoke particles are from wood because that is the primary fuel
source.<br>
<blockquote>How should physicians advise their patients and the
public when they're facing poor air quality due to wildfire smoke?
Patients who are at greatest risk for symptoms due to smoke
inhalation - those with preexisting respiratory or cardiovascular
disease - should be advised to stay indoors and, if they have to
go outdoors, to avoid prolonged activity. Healthy young children
and older adults should follow the same advice. Because even
healthy adults can have symptoms such as eye, nose, and throat
irritation, the public should take some basic precautions to
reduce exposure to wildfire smoke, including minimizing or
stopping outdoor activities, especially those involving vigorous
exercise; staying indoors with windows and doors closed as much as
possible; not running ventilation devices that bring smoky outdoor
air inside (e.g., evaporative coolers, whole-house fans, fresh-air
ventilation systems, and some air-conditioning systems); changing
ventilation-system filters to a high-efficiency particulate air
(HEPA) grade; using the "recirculate" or "recycle" setting on the
ventilation-system control; and avoiding smoking, frying food, or
other activities that will create indoor air pollution.<br>
</blockquote>
Patients with respiratory or cardiovascular disease in whom
wheezing, chest tightness, excessive coughing, shortness of breath,
chest pain, palpitations, or other acute symptoms develop should
consider evacuating to an area with better air quality. If
evacuation is not possible, wearing an N95 or N100 particulate
respirator provides some protection. These designations mean that
the masks have been certified by the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health to filter out at least 95% or 100%,
respectively, of very small (0.3 μm) test particles. The N95 mask
should be familiar to U.S. hospital–based health care providers
because the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires
that they be worn in rooms where patients have been isolated to
prevent transmission of tuberculosis. N95 and N100 masks provide
protection from inhalation of fine particles but not hazardous gases
(such as carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and acrolein). These types
of masks can be found at many hardware stores, home-repair stores,
and pharmacies. Care should be taken to ensure that the adjustable
mask fits over the nose and mouth properly, so as to minimize
leakage.<br>
The practice of public health involves analysis of threats to a
population's health followed by recommendations for efforts that
communities can make to address the threats. Catastrophic wildfires
are indeed an increasingly important threat to public health. In
addition to global warming and drought, a risk factor for large
wildfires in the western United States is a legacy of fire
suppression that has allowed overgrowth of underbrush and small
trees in forests where periodic lightning-sparked wildfires are part
of the natural ecosystem. Worldwide, as populations grow, housing
development has created greater urban–wildland interface, straining
fire-suppression resources...<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1716846">http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1716846</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[BBC UK report]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43141467">Government
loses clean air court case</a></b><br>
Campaigners have won a third High Court victory over the UK
government's plans to tackle air pollution.<br>
The judge in the case said the government plan was "unlawful" and
that more action was needed in 45 English local authority areas.<br>
He said ministers had to ensure that in each of the areas, steps
were taken to comply with the law as soon as possible.<br>
The case was brought by ClientEarth, a group of activist lawyers.<br>
Mr Justice Garnham said: "Because the obligation is zone-specific,
the fact that each of the 45 local authority areas will achieve
compliance in any event by 2021 is of no immediate significance.<br>
"The Environment Secretary must ensure that, in each of the 45
areas, steps are taken to achieve compliance as soon as possible, by
the quickest route possible and by a means that makes that outcome
likely."<br>
He added: "In effect, these local authorities are being urged and
encouraged to come up with proposals to improve air quality over the
next three years, but are not being required to do so. In my
judgment, that sort of exhortation is not sufficient."<br>
As a result of previous rulings, the government drew up new plans
for reducing nitrogen dioxide pollution, much of which comes from
vehicles, to within legal limits...<br>
A raft of recent studies and reports have linked air pollution to
heart disease and lung problems, including asthma.<br>
The Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Paediatrics and Child Health
say that outdoor air pollution is contributing to some 40,000 early
deaths a year in the UK<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43141467">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43141467</a></font><br>
- <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43141467">Five
ways to avoid pollution</a></b><br>
<b>Keep away from the busiest roads </b>- pollution concentrates
around the heaviest traffic<br>
<b>Use side roads</b> - these are cleaner because there is so much
less traffic<br>
<b>Watch out for hotspots of dirty air</b> - engines are often left
running in stationary traffic. This can create "urban canyons" of
pollution, particularly around traffic lights, so stand back after
pushing the button before crossing the road<br>
<b>When walking up a hill always stick to the side where traffic is
flowing down the hill, away from the brunt of the fumes.</b> This
will always be the cleaner alternative<br>
<b>Basic face-masks are not worth the hassle</b> - these trap dust
but little else, while heavy-duty versions are cumbersome.
Scientists recommend avoiding busy roads instead<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43141467">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43141467</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[dealing with denial]<br>
<b>Climate Denial Crock of the Week with Peter Sinclair</b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/21/jerry-taylor-how-i-talk-to-fellow-conservatives-about-climate/">Jerry
Taylor: How I Talk to Fellow Conservatives about Climate</a></b><br>
If you missed the new video interview with Jerry Taylor, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/20/how-is-that-conservative-former-climate-denier-now-backs-action/">go
there now</a>. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/1cbey_bxI2U">https://youtu.be/1cbey_bxI2U</a><br>
<blockquote>Yale Climate Connections:<br>
Climate change policy analyst* Jerry Taylor spent more than 25
years earning his well-deserved reputation as the skunk at the
picnic of American climate scientists.<br>
Taylor – the focus of this month's "This is Not Cool" video – cut
his teeth as an energy and environment savant with the very
conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where
he worked from 1988 to 1991. Then, from 1991 to 2014, he was with
the free-market Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., where he
eventually became a vice president. Through many of those years,
Taylor was a frequent spokesperson for those scientists who
regularly challenged whether climate change is real, human-caused,
or, in either event, worth worrying about or doing anything to
address.<br>
</blockquote>
You're back? Ok, here's more from former Cato Institute "climate
skeptic" spokesman Jerry Taylor, on how he now engages fellow
conservatives on climate.<br>
Below, how to bust Republicans out of Climate Denial prison.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/fCR0RLfuLT4">https://youtu.be/fCR0RLfuLT4</a>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/fCR0RLfuLT4">Jerry
Taylor: Busting Republicans out of Climate Denial Prison</a><br>
<blockquote>They are sort of like people who are locked down in a
political penitentiary,<br>
the guards are the political gendarmes of Club for Growth and the
coal sector<br>
the various groups and operations just marshaled by the Koch op,
the Koch political operations<br>
And so these are the guards of the political penitentiary they
find themselves in.<br>
They want a jailbreak but for a jailbreak to work first of all you
need<br>
to move in numbers so there needs to be some sort of degree of
organization.<br>
The guards have to be distracted somehow so you can make a run for
the fence...<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/21/jerry-taylor-how-i-talk-to-fellow-conservatives-about-climate/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/02/21/jerry-taylor-how-i-talk-to-fellow-conservatives-about-climate/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[thermometer news]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/20/boston-ties-warmth-record-degrees/sCdHTNwtCe0VS3Elxc7xNP/story.html">Boston
breaks record, reaches 70 degrees</a></b><br>
By Laney Ruckstuhl FEBRUARY 20, 2018<br>
Boston reached a record-breaking high of 69 degrees before rising
further to 70 degrees Tuesday - mere days after seeing several
inches of snow, according to the National Weather Service...<br>
Boston will probably see a mostly sunny day Wednesday with a high of
71 degrees and a low of 51. Although the skies will be partly
cloudy, the sun will still be shining...<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/20/boston-ties-warmth-record-degrees/sCdHTNwtCe0VS3Elxc7xNP/story.html">https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/20/boston-ties-warmth-record-degrees/sCdHTNwtCe0VS3Elxc7xNP/story.html</a></font><br>
-<br>
[why is that so?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bluemassgroup.com/2018/02/as-112-year-old-heat-record-melts-boston-media-wont-say-global-warming/">As
112-Year-Old Heat Record Melts, Boston Media Won't Say Global
Warming</a></b><br>
February 21, 2018 By thegreenmiles<br>
Boston has been keeping temperature records for the last 146 years.
It never once hit 70 in February in its first 113 years of record
keeping. But if forecasters are right about today, we'll have done
it twice this week and three times in the last two years alone.
We're forecast to break today's 112-year-old record high by an
incredible seven degrees.<br>
And not a single journalist in Boston is connecting the dots to
global warming, according to my Google News search.<br>
Many journalists still falsely cling to a now-disproven line that no
one extreme weather event can be connected to climate change. First,
scientists are now <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-can-now-blame-individual-natural-disasters-on-climate-change/">directly
connecting weather disasters to global warming</a>. Second,
there's plenty we can say right now about today's weather:<br>
<blockquote>Global warming is dramatically increasing our odds of
record-breaking heat. Over the last year in America, 2.22 high
temperature records were broken for every 1 cold record, according
to ClimateSignals.org. As recently as the 1950s, it was still
close to even at 1.09/1.<br>
Global warming is loading the dice for extreme weather, worsening
heat waves, strengthening storms, deepening droughts, and adding
fuel to wildfires.<br>
So what should these stories say? Here's a line that's true &
relevant for any extreme weather story, any time of year:
"Scientists say this kind of record-breaking extreme weather is
exactly what we can expect more of as manmade carbon pollution
warms our climate." That's it! Easy!<br>
</blockquote>
One of the problems is that journalists only go to local government
scientists as their sources, as <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/20/boston-ties-warmth-record-degrees/sCdHTNwtCe0VS3Elxc7xNP/story.html">the
Boston Globe's climate-silent story shows</a>. Local government
scientists have strong <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thegreenmiles.blogspot.com/2014/08/how-tv-news-balance-slants-towards.html">incentives
to not say anything interesting</a>, never mind controversial. So
you get this:Temperatures in February normally average around 29
degrees, [National Weather Service meteorologist Lenore] Correia
said, "but it's really just the wind patterns."<br>
Oh! Just the wind patterns! Around the entire planet, endlessly
getting warmer! Nothing to see here! Please don't fire me, Trump
administration!<br>
hen there's the head in sand approach. Here's a list of ways Boston
Magazine finds to talk about the record heat while never mentioning
climate change or global warming:<br>
<blockquote>"unseasonable warmth"<br>
"lovely"<br>
"mild weather"<br>
"incredibly rare"<br>
</blockquote>
If you're a reporter with national ambitions, why would you talk
about global warming? As Media Matters has documented, national TV
networks <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2018/02/12/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2017/219277">ignore
climate science almost completely</a>.<br>
Even when the "cold" returns tomorrow, we'll still be 10 degrees
above our 20th-century normal. As humans, we can enjoy the brief
warmth and when the frost returns Thursday night, we'll barely even
notice. But the flowers sprouting too soon won't be so lucky – as
Mike Campbell writes at WBUR, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/02/21/magnolia-blossoms-mike-campbell">magnolias
getting fooled into opening early</a> and then getting immediately
killed by frost is becoming an annual tradition. There are also
countless <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bfb9burBwvn/?taken-by=thegreenmilesgrant">tiny
critters</a> that have emerged from their winter hiding spots –
but if their food hasn't emerged too, the wasted energy may leave
them struggling to make it to spring...<br>
We need to act faster on clean energy, both to curb global warming
and to take advantage of the growing clean energy economy as states
like <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blog.nwf.org/2018/02/a-reason-for-hope-in-2018-the-us-offshore-wind-power-race-is-on/">New
York and New Jersey get more ambitious.</a> Ask <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator">your
legislator</a> to pass an <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/02/senate_committee_advances_ambi.html">ambitious
clean energy bill</a>, S.2302, from the MA Senate Committee on
Global Warming and Climate Change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bluemassgroup.com/2018/02/as-112-year-old-heat-record-melts-boston-media-wont-say-global-warming/">http://bluemassgroup.com/2018/02/as-112-year-old-heat-record-melts-boston-media-wont-say-global-warming/</a><br>
-<br>
[Boston COMMENTARY]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/02/21/magnolia-blossoms-mike-campbell">In
The Age Of Climate Change, It's The Magnolia Blossoms I'll Miss</a></b><br>
It's strange to live through a slowly unfolding catastrophe like
climate change.<br>
Maybe the prospect of these little losses can persuade people
unmoved by the overwhelming scale of the greater impending disaster.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/02/21/magnolia-blossoms-mike-campbell">http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/02/21/magnolia-blossoms-mike-campbell</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/sH9gDPwwA3Q">This Day in Climate History
February 22, 2012</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
February 22, 2012: On Current TV, "Young Turks" host Cenk Uygur<br>
discusses GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum's climate-change<br>
denial, and the right's bizarre attack on the film "The Lorax."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/sH9gDPwwA3Q">http://youtu.be/sH9gDPwwA3Q</a></font><br>
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