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<font size="+1"><i>February 25, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[Way above normal]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/arctic_temperatures_soar_45_degrees_above_normal_flooded_by_extremely_mild_air_on_all_sides">ARCTIC
TEMPERATURES SOAR 45 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL, FLOODED BY EXTREMELY
MILD AIR ON ALL SIDES...</a></b><br>
DAVID PIKE<br>
While the Eastern United States simmers in some of its warmest
February weather ever recorded, the Arctic is also stewing in
temperatures more than 45 degrees above normal. This latest huge
temperature spike in the Arctic is another striking indicator of its
rapidly transforming climate...<br>
On Monday and Tuesday, the northernmost weather station in the
world, Cape Morris Jesup at the northern tip of Greenland,
experienced more than 24 hours of temperatures above freezing
according to the Danish Meteorological Institute. "How weird is
that?" tweeted Robert Rohde, a physicist and lead scientist at
Berkeley Earth, a non-profit organization that conducts analyses of
the Earth's temperature. "Well it's Arctic winter. The sun set in
October and won't be seen again until March. Perpetual night, but
still above freezing."<br>
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href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/arctic_temperatures_soar_45_degrees_above_normal_flooded_by_extremely_mild_air_on_all_sides?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+joboneforhumanity%2FrLsZ+%28Global+Warming+Blog+-+Job+One+for+Humanity%29">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/arctic_temperatures_soar_45_degrees_above_normal_flooded_by_extremely_mild_air_on_all_sides</a></font><br>
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<br>
[just "destabilized"]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180222133400.htm">Weather
should remain predictable despite climate change</a></b><br>
Simulations of jet stream behavior in a warming climate suggest
ranges of forecasts in the mid-century will be similar to those in
present day<br>
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
temperatures are expected to rise between 2.5 and 10 degrees
Fahrenheit over the next century. This warming is expected to
contribute to rising sea levels and the melting of glaciers and
permafrost, as well as other climate-related effects. Now, research
from the University of Missouri suggests that even as rising carbon
dioxide levels in the atmosphere drive the climate toward warmer
temperatures, the weather will remain predictable.<br>
"The jet stream changes character every 10 to 12 days, and we use
this pattern to predict the weather," said Anthony Lupo, professor
of atmospheric science in MU's School of Natural Resources, which is
located in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.
"We were curious about how this would change in a world with higher
carbon dioxide levels. We found that in that warmer world, the
variability of the jet stream remained the same."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180222133400.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180222133400.htm</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
["Not on track"]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-emissions-industry/dirty-industry-undermines-push-to-curb-global-warming-ex-un-climate-chief-idUSKCN1G726C">Dirty
industry undermines push to curb global warming - ex-UN climate
chief</a></b><br>
Sophie Hares<br>
TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Industry's dependence
on polluting fossil fuels is at odds with a "revolution" in
transport and renewable energy, and could stop the world doing a
crucial U-turn on rising emissions of climate-changing gases by
2020, a former U.N. climate chief warned.<br>
Christiana Figueres, who oversaw work on the 2015 Paris Agreement to
tackle global warming, now leads "Mission 2020", an international
initiative that seeks to put greenhouse gas emissions on a downward
path by 2020.<br>
"We're definitely not on track with everything to do with heavy
industry that continues to depend on intense, high-carbon
electricity, and we're not on track with land use," said Figueres,
former executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on
Climate Change.<br>
"So what happens if we don't get there is we increase our risk and
increase the exposure to extreme weather events," she told the
Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.<br>
The transport and energy sectors are expected to meet the 2020
deadline as a result of more efficient, cleaner transportation and a
plunge in the cost of generating renewable power, Figueres said.<br>
Putting a price on carbon and working out ways to pay for
environmental services could also yield benefits, alongside
incentives to improve land use by restoring degraded soils or
boosting reforestation, she said.<br>
The Paris Agreement set a goal of keeping the rise in average global
temperatures to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial
times, and ideally to 1.5 degrees...<br>
Despite the challenges to the Mission 2020 goal, Figueres cautioned
against relying on controversial "geoengineering" techniques to try
to cool the planet's temperature...<br>
At the individual level, more people could be spurred to take
climate action by highlighting the benefits clean technology can
bring, which are poised to be even more significant than with the
communications boom, she said.<br>
"People tend to think it's complex, it's unfixable, somebody else
should do it," said Figueres. "(But) this is the most exciting thing
that has happened to us in a long time."<br>
<font size="-1">Reporting by Sophie Hares; editing by Megan Rowling.
Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm
of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change,
resilience, women's rights, trafficking and property rights. Visit
news.trust.org/climate/<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-emissions-industry/dirty-industry-undermines-push-to-curb-global-warming-ex-un-climate-chief-idUSKCN1G726C">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-emissions-industry/dirty-industry-undermines-push-to-curb-global-warming-ex-un-climate-chief-idUSKCN1G726C</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Idaho Schools]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/climate/idaho-climate-change-education.html">After
Years of Fighting, Idaho Retains Climate Change in Its Education
Guidelines</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/climate/idaho-climate-change-education.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/climate/idaho-climate-change-education.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Got what? Milk?]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://qz.com/1215017/china-wants-to-lead-the-climate-change-fight-it-better-solve-its-milk-problem/">China
wants to lead the climate-change fight. It better solve its milk
problem.</a></b><br>
In its effort to lead the global push against climate change, the
world's second-largest economy has assigned soldiers to
tree-planting duty, spent billions of dollars on cleaner energy
(pdf), and has actively pushed some of its cities away from using
coal.<br>
Still, China has yet to figure out what to do about one of its
biggest environmental hurdles - its demand for milk.<br>
That's because the world's most populous country is expected to
almost triple its consumption of dairy across the next 30 years,
according to a study published this month in the journal, <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.14047/abstract">Global
Change Biology</a>. To figure out just how much the world would be
impacted by China's appetite for dairy by 2050, a team of
researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences set out to assess
what factors in the country would drive milk consumption and measure
the ultimate impact...<br>
(T)he rising demand for for dairy in China will increase the amount
of greenhouse-gas emissions coming from dairy herds by 35%, it'll
require 32% more land be dedicated to dairy, and it will boost
nitrogen pollution from production by 48%, according to the study.<br>
The bad news is there's no way to avoid the increases...<br>
The world's 270 million dairy cows live on farms that produce the
manure, ammonia, methane, and nitrous oxide that are negatively
impacting the climate. The agricultural sector accounts for about
14% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions, according to the
United Nations.<br>
"The consequences of sticking to a 'business-as-usual' scenario are
unthinkable," the lead author of the study, Zhaohai Bai, has said.<br>
Between 1961 and 2016, milk consumption in China increased more than
25 times to 31 kg (68 lb) per capita each year. (Milk is measured by
the weight of its milk-fat content.) It's now the world's largest
importer of milk and per-capita consumption is expect to increase to
82 kg per year by 2050, according to the study.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://qz.com/1215017/china-wants-to-lead-the-climate-change-fight-it-better-solve-its-milk-problem/">https://qz.com/1215017/china-wants-to-lead-the-climate-change-fight-it-better-solve-its-milk-problem/</a></font><br>
-<br>
[Global Change Biology]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.14047/abstract">Global
environmental costs of China's thirst for milk</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.14047/abstract">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.14047/abstract</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Legal review PDF paper]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2018/02/Adler-2018-02-U.S.-Climate-Change-Litigation-in-the-Age-of-Trump-Year-One.pdf">U.S.
Climate Change Litigation in the Age of Trump: Year One, Dena
Adler</a></b><br>
<span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2018/02/Adler-2018-02-U.S.-Climate-Change-Litigation-in-the-Age-of-Trump-Year-One.pdf">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2018/02/Adler-2018-02-U.S.-Climate-Change-Litigation-in-the-Age-of-Trump-Year-One.pdf</a></span><br>
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<br>
[Columbia Climate Law PDF ]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2018/02/Gundlach-Webb-2018-02-CC-Bulk-Power-System.pdf">CLIMATE
CHANGE IMPACTS ON THE BULK POWER SYSTEM:</a></b><br>
Assessing Vulnerabilities and Planning for Resilience<br>
Conditions are expected to worsen in coming years as temperatures
continue to increase, leading to significant and widespread adverse
impacts, including on the BPS and the systems, communities, and
individuals that rely on it.<br>
Numerous sources - including reports of national laboratories,20
federal agencies,21 state agencies,22 privately-sponsored
researchers,23 and international organizations,24 corporate filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,25 and utilities'
climate change vulnerability assessments and adaptation plans,26
have identified the effects of climate change as sources of material
physical risk for the generation and transmission segments of the
BPS. The nature and extent of risks to generation and transmission
will vary across regions because, though the global climate is
generally growing warmer and stormier, regional climates will
experience these and other phenomenon to varying degrees,27 and also
because different regions rely on different types of generation and
differently situated transmission facilities. However, according to
a 2015 Department of Energy (DOE) report, which mapped climate
impacts on different parts of the U.S. energy sector, no region will
go unscathed (see Figure 1).28 Thus, ISO/RTOs in all regions should
be planning for the effects of higher temperatures, heat waves, and
more intense storms, which will be felt nationwide, as well as for
regional effects, such as sea level rise along the coasts, wildfires
in the West, drought in the Southwest and California, and more
frequent and intense precipitation in the Northeast...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2018/02/Gundlach-Webb-2018-02-CC-Bulk-Power-System.pdf">http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/files/2018/02/Gundlach-Webb-2018-02-CC-Bulk-Power-System.pdf</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[The Hill]<br>
<b><font size="+1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/375036-the-white-houses-attack-on-scientists-could-manipulate-public">The
White House's attack on scientists could manipulate public
opinion</a></font></b><br>
<font size="-1">LAUREN KURTZ AND ROMANY WEBB, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS
- 02/22/18 </font><br>
<font size="-1"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">The
Trump administration's FY2019 budget, unveiled last Monday,
proposes cuts in essential funding for scientific research and
education. Unfortunately, this attack on science is not an
isolated incident. Barely a year into<span> </span><span
class="rollover-people" data-behavior="rolloverpeople"
style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;"><a class="rollover-people-link"
data-nid="261287"
href="http://thehill.com/people/donald-trump"
style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;
text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position:
relative;">President Trump</a></span>'s term, there have
already been<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
border-box; outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">111
attempts</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>by the federal government to
censor, misrepresent, or stifle science. Many appear intended to
gain support for the administration's efforts to prop up the
fossil fuel industry. Despite the administration's claims that
its actions put "America first," they will in fact undermine our
economic competitiveness and our position at the forefront of
scientific research.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"></span></font>
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<font size="-1"><span style="color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
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normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">The U.S. prides itself on being a
world leader in science and technology. And for good reason:
life-saving vaccines, MRIs, the Internet and many other
revolutionary technologies were invented here, often with the
help of<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.sciencecoalition.org/downloads/1390490336mitpetersingerfederallysupportedinnovationswhitepaperjan2014-21.pdf"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">government
funding</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">. But under President Trump, funding for scientific
research is facing cuts. The Trump administration is also
undermining science in other ways, like preventing scientists
from publicly communicating about their research and
misrepresenting scientific studies.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">We decided to tally all of
these anti-science actions in a<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">Silencing
Science Tracker</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;">, which shows that many of the
administration's actions involve attempts to<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/noaa-fails-to-link-greenhouse-gas-emissions-to-human-activity-in-news-release/"
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193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">downplay</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">,<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-removed-links-to-climate-change-resources-for-local-governments-from-website/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">obscure</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">, or<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/transition-team-sends-then-disavows-survey-asking-for-details-of-doe-staff-working-on-climate-change/"
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193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">outright
challenge</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>the scientific consensus on
climate change. This makes sense given Trump's focus on "</span><a
href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-what-did-trump-mean-by-beautiful-clean-1517371832-htmlstory.html"
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193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">beautiful</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">" coal and other
climate-damaging fossil fuels. The Trump administration is
effectively promoting the fossil fuel industry's interests over
public health and safety and appears to be using its control
over scientific information to manipulate public opinion in this
area.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">For instance, in the early
months of the Trump administration, numerous government websites
were changed to<span> </span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/climate-science-page-removed-from-epa-website/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration:
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solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">omit</a><span> </span>scientific
information about climate change and the fossil fuel industry's<span> </span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/doi-website-changed-to-downplay-impact-of-fossil-fuels/"
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none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px
solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">adverse</a> effects. Newly released
emails show that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Administrator<span> </span><span class="rollover-people"
data-behavior="rolloverpeople" style="box-sizing: border-box;
position: relative; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><a class="rollover-people-link"
data-nid="349604"
href="http://thehill.com/people/edward-scott-pruitt"
style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;
text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; position:
relative;">Scott Pruitt</a></span><span> </span>was<span> </span></span><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29012018/scott-pruitt-epa-climate-websites-erased-emails-reveal-close-involvement-clean-power-plan"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">eager
to scrub</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>the agency's climate change
pages. Given his "</span><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/us/politics/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency.html"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
border-box; outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">arm
in arm</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;">" past with the fossil fuel industry, and his
subsequent moves to undo or weaken regulations imposed on it,
this is no surprise.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">At the Department of the
Interior (DOI), a website discussing the environmental and other
risks of fossil fuel development was<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/doi-website-changed-to-downplay-impact-of-fossil-fuels/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">changed</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>to emphasize
economic benefits. A few months later, large swaths of land
previously protected from coal mining and oil and gas drilling
were<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/ethan-lane-trump-really-will-shrink-government-starting-national-monuments/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">opened</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>to
development. Shortly after this, DOI's Bureau of Land Management
changed the image on its homepage from a scenic park vista to a
pile of coal, presumably to reinforce the message that public
lands are for mining.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">This is, in some ways,
nothing new. Past administrations have used government
communications to advocate their policies. But President Trump
is going much further.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">Recent changes in federal
research funding suggest that the Trump administration is
deliberately silencing science that could call its policy
decisions into question. For example, in August 2017, shortly
before allowing more coal mining on federal land, DOI<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/coal-mining-study-paused-by-doi/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
border-box; outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">suspended</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>funding for a
study intended to identify its health risks. Four months later,
DOI<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/funding-for-offshore-drilling-safety-study-paused-by-doi/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">suspended</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>a study into
the safety of offshore oil and gas drilling, just days before<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/climate-deregulation-tracker/doi-proposes-expansion-of-offshore-oil-and-gas-drilling/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">proposing</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>a massive
expansion in the area available for drilling.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">This cannot possibly be a
coincidence. The administration is clearly out to pre-empt
possible opposition to its policies and is not at all interested
in verifying that they are scientifically sound. It seems intent
on limiting independent scientific research while propping-up
industry-backed science. This is particularly obvious at EPA,
where university scientists have been<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-scientific-advisory-board-members-dismissed/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">removed</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>from advisory
panels, to make space for industry representatives. EPA is also
considering<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-giving-preference-to-industry-backed-science/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">reducing
vehicle emissions standards</span></a><span style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>based on industry-sponsored
science and<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-adopts-new-chemical-rules-against-scientific-advice/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">pushed
through industry-backed chemical rules</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>against the
advice of agency scientists.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">We shouldn't be surprised.
President Trump, after all, has in the past ignored scientific
advice that contradicts his pro-industry agenda. He once<span> </span></span><a
href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/265895292191248385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
border-box; outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">famously
called climate change a hoax</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>perpetrated by
China to harm American businesses. More recently, he used a cold
snap on the East Coast<span> </span></span><a
href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/946531657229701120"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
border-box; outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">to
suggest that climate change isn't happening</span></a><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>and reiterate
his (false) talking point that<span> </span><a
href="https://www.factcheck.org/2017/06/factchecking-trumps-climate-speech/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
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Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;
color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration:
none; display: inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px
solid rgb(42, 83, 193);">remaining</a><span> </span>in the
Paris Agreement would have unnecessarily cost the U.S.
"trillions."</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">Trump supporters speak
positively of the president's blunt style,<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/23/trump-supporter-interviews-phoenix-arizona-rally"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
border-box; outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">saying
they</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>"want a president who is not
politically correct." But the irony is that so much of what the
Trump administration has done involves manipulating science to
match political goals, like requiring EPA grants to be<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-climate-change-website-removed/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
border-box; outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">reviewed
by political appointee</span></a><span style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;">s</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;"><span> </span>and<span> </span></span><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/epa-removed-links-to-climate-change-resources-for-local-governments-from-website/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
border-box; outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">removing
agency websites</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;"> containing politically inconvenient
information.</span><br>
<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">In reality, Trump's claim to
"tell it like it is" is actually the greatest hoax of all.</span><br>
<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;">Lauren Kurtz is the Executive Director of
the<span> </span></span></em><a href="https://www.csldf.org/"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:
border-box; outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web",
Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43,
44, 48); font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display:
inline; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83,
193);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family:
"Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;
color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">Climate Science
Legal Defense Fund</span></em></a><em style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;">.</span></em><br>
<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color:
rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400;">Romany Webb is an Associate Research
Scholar at Columbia Law School and Climate Law Fellow at the<span> </span></span></em><a
href="http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/" target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box;
outline: none; font-family: "Graphik Web", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);
font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; display: inline;
position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(42, 83, 193);"><em
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;
color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;"><span
style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Graphik
Web", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;
color: rgb(43, 44, 48); font-weight: 400;">Sabin Center for
Climate Change Law.</span></em></a></font><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/375036-the-white-houses-attack-on-scientists-could-manipulate-public">http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/375036-the-white-houses-attack-on-scientists-could-manipulate-public</a><br>
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[Yikes!] <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://futurism.com/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-crisis-point/">Bad
News: The Amazon Might Be Past the Point of Saving</a></b><br>
Futurism<br>
The Amazon Rainforest isn't just dwindling - it's approaching a
crisis point. A new study has laid out how the combination of
deforestation, climate change, and other factors could push the
rainforest beyond the point of no return.<br>
Essentially, they wanted to know how far deforestation could
progress before the rainforest's water cycle would cease to support
the ecosystems within it. "If the climate changes – by deforestation
or global warming – there's a risk that more than 50% of the Amazon
forest becomes a degraded savannah," ...<br>
The world's forests are shrinking. For years, they've withstood a
multitude of human impact. But according to a new <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/2/eaat2340">study
published in the journal Science Advances</a>, they may be
reaching a crisis point. If deforestation goes beyond 20 percent of
its original spread, the Amazon Rainforest will have reached the "<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.euronews.com/2018/02/22/amazon-rainforest-heading-to-point-of-no-return-">point
of no return</a>".<br>
In the study, Thomas Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre set out to concretely
establish that tipping point, as well as concretely identify what
must take place for it to be reached. Essentially, they wanted to
know <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://futurism.com/illegal-logging-is-depleting-the-amazon-rainforest-29-faster-than-last-year/">how
far deforestation could progress</a> before the rainforest's water
cycle would cease to support the ecosystems within it.<br>
"If the climate changes – by deforestation or global warming –
there's a risk that more than 50% of the Amazon forest becomes a
degraded savannah," Nobre told Euronews, emphasizing that in the
last 50 years, deforestation has made its way to about 17 percent of
the Amazon's vegetation.<br>
By their estimates, it would take just an additional three percent
to render the rainforest unsalvagable...<br>
e right kind of human intervention could help steer the forest away
from imminent doom - but in light of the destruction that's
already been done, and the speed of its continuation, putting a stop
to it won't be easy.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://futurism.com/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-crisis-point/">https://futurism.com/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-crisis-point/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Book blurb - new and forthcoming titles]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.springer.com/series/8740">New Books on Climate
Change Adaptation</a></b><br>
The International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP)<br>
founded in 2008, is a key player on information, communication and
training on matters related to<br>
climate change. Apart from organising a variety of climate change
event round the world,<br>
ICCIP also runs the Climate Change Management Series, the leading
peer-reviewed book<br>
series on the topic. Over 1.000 authors from 119 countries have
contributed to the<br>
books to date.<br>
The latest publication of the series, the "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319745473">Handbook of
Climate Change Communication</a>" <i>[$449.99]</i>, has just been
launched. This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of
the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change
communication from around the world. It fosters the exchange of
information, ideas and experience gained in the execution of
successful projects and initiatives, and discusses novel
methodological approaches aimed at promoting a better understanding
of climate change adaptation. It consists of 3 volumes:<br>
<blockquote>Vol 1- Theory of Climate Change Communication: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319698373">http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319698373</a><br>
Vol 2- Practice of Climate Change Communication: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319700656">http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319700656</a><br>
Vol 3- Case Studies in Climate Change Communication: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319704784">https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319704784</a><br>
</blockquote>
In addition, some recent (2018) volumes are:<br>
<blockquote>Climate Change and Its Impacts<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319775432">http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319775432</a><br>
Climate Change-Resilient Agriculture and Agroforestry<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319750033">http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319750033</a><br>
Climate Literacy and Innovations in Climate Change
Education <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319701981">http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319701981</a><br>
</blockquote>
Further publications of the series can be seen at: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.springer.com/series/8740">http://www.springer.com/series/8740</a>.
Details on<br>
ICCIP and the various information and training events it is
organising round the world can be seen at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iccip/">https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iccip/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.springer.com/series/8740">http://www.springer.com/series/8740</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Real satire becomes sarcasm, then reality, then back]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theonion.com/sighing-resigned-climate-scientists-say-to-just-enjoy-1823265249"><b>Sighing,
Resigned Climate Scientists Say To Just Enjoy Next 20 Years As
Much As You Can</b></a><br>
GENEVA - Attending a conference to discuss alarming new data on
rising sea levels, a weary group of top climatologists suddenly
halted their presentation Friday, let out a long sigh, and stated
that the best thing anyone can do at this point is just try to enjoy
the next couple decades as much as possible. "You know what, guys?
Just go out there and have a good time - don't worry about any of
this," said climate scientist Annalisa Feldt who tore in half the
report she had compiled and suggested everyone consider traveling to
a place they've never been before, or taking up a pastime they've
always imagined might be fun. "Go see a show. Join an intramural
sports league. Learn a musical instrument. Have more sex. Try
skiing, if you never have, although that's one you'd better do
within the next five years or so." Reiterating the need for people
to live it up while they still can, the climatologists announced
that if anyone was interested in joining them, they would be
skipping the remainder of the conference to get completely
shit-faced at the nearest bar.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theonion.com/sighing-resigned-climate-scientists-say-to-just-enjoy-1823265249">https://www.theonion.com/sighing-resigned-climate-scientists-say-to-just-enjoy-1823265249</a><br>
<i>[scientists switching to recreational research]</i><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050315235150/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/04495072.asp">This
Day in Climate History February 25, 2005</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
February 25, 2005: In a piece on state-level efforts to address
carbon pollution, the Boston Phoenix's Deirdre Fulton notes:<br>
<blockquote>"Though the United States accounts for almost 25 percent
— more than any other single country — of the world’s
global-warming emissions, advocates say there’s been little
federal action on this issue since at least 2001. That’s when
George W. Bush, echoing concerns that had also been voiced by his
predecessor Bill Clinton, opted out of Kyoto, citing national
economic concerns and calling on developing nations to commit to
greater sacrifices than they do under the current agreement. No
wonder China, India, Mexico, and Brazil signed on, say US and
Australian leaders. They have much less to lose as more stringent
emissions regulations go into effect for other nations worldwide.<br>
<br>
"The US position may or may not be fair, but we do know this much:
it doesn’t move us very far toward addressing the looming problem
of global warming. And that makes regional and state-level efforts
all the more important."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050315235150/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/04495072.asp">http://web.archive.org/web/20050315235150/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/04495072.asp</a></font><br>
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