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<font size="+1"><i>March 2, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
[Democracy Now - Video]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/01Woj4OyIY0">"Freakishly
Warm" Arctic Weather Has Scientists Reconsidering Worst-Case
Scenarios on Climate Change</a></b><br>
Democracy Now! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://democracynow.org">https://democracynow.org</a><br>
Interviews Jason Box - Published on Mar 1, 2018<br>
<blockquote>Scientists are expressing dismay over unprecedented warm
temperatures in the Arctic. In recent days, temperatures at the
North Pole have surged above freezing - even though the sun set
last October and won't rise again until later this month. On the
northern tip of Greenland, a meteorological site has logged an
unprecedented 61 hours of temperatures above freezing so far in
2018. The record-breaking temperatures are connected to an unusual
retreat of sea ice in the sunless Arctic winter. Scientists
suggest warming temperatures are eroding the polar vortex, the
powerful winds that once cushioned the frozen north. The alarming
heat wave is causing scientists to reconsider even their bleakest
forecasts of climate change. According to a leaked draft of a
scientific report by a United Nations panel of scientists, "The
risk of an ice-free Arctic in summer is about 50 per cent or
higher," with warming of between 1.5 and 2.0 degrees Celsius. We
speak with Jason Box, professor in glaciology at the Geological
Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/01Woj4OyIY0">https://youtu.be/01Woj4OyIY0</a></font><br>
[data map]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/MilesGrant/status/968855217465946112">As
monster nor'easter brews, water temps off East Coast are
top-of-the-charts hot</a></b><br>
#Anthropocene<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/MilesGrant/status/968855217465946112">https://twitter.com/MilesGrant/status/968855217465946112</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[The Guardian]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/what-does-snow-mean-climate-change-beast-from-the-east-polar-vortex-freezing-temperature">Q&A:
What does all this snow mean for climate change?</a></b><br>
<b>Q: Snow in winter. That feels reassuringly normal. Does this mean
the climate has fixed itself?</b><br>
A: Unfortunately not. In fact, many scientists are concerned this is
a prelude to more extreme and less predictable weather.<br>
<b>Q: What are they worried about?</b><br>
A: In the past couple of weeks, there has been a heatwave in the
sunless Arctic even though the northern polar region has not had any
sunlight since October. At times it has been warmer than London,
Paris or New York.<br>
<b>Q: What is so unusual about that? We have known for some time
that the Arctic is warming.</b><br>
A: Yes, but even veteran climatologists have been shocked by the
recent temperature spike. Instead of the gradual year-by-year rise
that they were expecting, there has been jolt upwards that experts
have described as "crazy", "weird", "shocking" and "worrying".<br>
<b>Q: What are the numbers?</b><br>
A: From 17 to 25 February, there were 10 consecutive days where
temperatures were above freezing for at least part of the day at the
world's most northerly land weather station - Cape Morris Jesup at
the northern tip of Greenland. In total, the monitoring station has
recorded 61 hours above 0C. According to Robert Rohde, lead
scientist of the Berkeley Earth monitoring organisation, that is
more time above freezing than the combined total of January through
April for all previously observed years since the station opened in
1981. Plotted on a graph, this is so far outside of the historical
range that Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center
at Pennsylvania State University, said the numbers represent "an
anomaly of anomalies."<br>
<b>Q: So why worry? I feel sorry for the polar bears, but nobody
lives in the north pole.</b><br>
A: There is another theory about what is happening that could have
much wider implications. The biggest concern is that this might
indicate a weakening or collapse of the polar vortex.<br>
<b>Q: What is the polar vortex?</b><br>
A: It is the circle of strong winds, including the jet stream,
around the Arctic that act as a buffer or insulation, keeping the
cold air mass in and the warm out.<br>
<b>Q: Why would it weaken?</b><br>
A: The polar vortex gets its strength from the difference in
temperature between the normally freezing Arctic and warmer more
southerly mid-latitudes. But climate change is reducing the gap
because the north pole is warming much faster than the global
average.<br>
<b>Q: Is this a problem?</b><br>
A: The polar vortex is one of the world's climate regulators. Any
weakening would accelerate ice melt and add to instability and
uncertainty. It could also trigger the release of methane - a very
strong greenhouse gas - trapped in the tundra.<br>
<b>Q: Could it be connected to the blizzards that many people are
experiencing?</b><br>
A: In December, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration warned Arctic sea ice was declining at the fastest
rate in at least 1,500 years with an impact that would be felt far
outside the region and affect the lives of every single American.
One of the research team, Jeremy Mathis, compared the Arctic to the
planet's refrigerator.<br>
"But the door to that refrigerator has been left open," he said.
"And the cold is spilling out, cascading throughout the northern
hemisphere."...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/what-does-snow-mean-climate-change-beast-from-the-east-polar-vortex-freezing-temperature">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/28/what-does-snow-mean-climate-change-beast-from-the-east-polar-vortex-freezing-temperature</a></font><br>
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<br>
[John Abraham, climate scientist]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/27/scientists-have-detected-an-acceleration-in-sea-level-rise"><b>Scientists
have detected an acceleration in sea level rise</b></a><br>
Faster melting of ice sheets is speeding up sea level rise<br>
As humans emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, the planet
warms, and over time consequences become more apparent. Some of the
consequences we are familiar with - for instance, rising
temperatures, melting ice, and rising sea levels. Scientists
certainly want to know how much the Earth has changed, but we also
want to know how fast the changes will be in the future to know what
the next generations will experience.<br>
One of the classic projections into the future is for sea level
rise. It is expected that by the year 2100, the ocean levels will
rise a few feet by the end of the century. This matters a lot
because globally, 150 million people live within three feet of
current ocean levels. We have built our modern infrastructure based
on current ocean levels. What happens to peoples' homes and
infrastructure when the waters rise?<br>
But projecting ocean levels into the future is not simple; we need
good data that extends back decades to understand how fast the
climate is changing...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/27/scientists-have-detected-an-acceleration-in-sea-level-rise">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/27/scientists-have-detected-an-acceleration-in-sea-level-rise</a></font><br>
[sea level rise history 2009]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffsux-ifKk">Video:
Climate Change and Sea Level Rise</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffsux-ifKk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kffsux-ifKk</a></font><br>
[Dr James Hansen on Sea Level Rise Nov 2017]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJ28r9MFaU">Hansen: Earth
is Back to Eemian Era w 6-9 METER Sea Level Rise #COP23</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJ28r9MFaU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJ28r9MFaU</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Pacific Standard]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://psmag.com/environment/the-most-climate-resilient-counties-in-america">As
Climate Change Intensifies, Here Are the Most - and Least -
Resilient Counties in America</a></b><br>
A recent EPA survey takes into account extreme weather, but also
social factors such as poverty, health, and governance.<br>
The results shed light on the vast inequalities in how different
parts of the U.S. will deal with such hazards. While places like
Kodiak Island are expected to fare well, residents of areas like
Appalachia, the southeast, and western Texas are on course to suffer
far worse than the average American. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://psmag.com/environment/the-most-climate-resilient-counties-in-america">https://psmag.com/environment/the-most-climate-resilient-counties-in-america</a></font><br>
[EPA findings report]<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P100SSN6.txt">Development
of a Climate Resilience Screening Index (CRSI): An Assessment of
Resilience to Acute Meteorological Events <br>
and Selected Natural Hazards</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P100SSN6.txt">https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P100SSN6.txt</a><br>
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[dashed]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180228134114.htm">Soil
cannot halt climate change</a></b><br>
Long-term field experiments, dating back as far as 1843, demonstrate
that modern carbon emissions cannot be locked in the ground to halt
global warming<br>
Unique soils data from long-term experiments, stretching back to the
middle of the nineteenth century, confirm the practical
implausibility of burying carbon in the ground to halt climate
change. The idea of using crops to collect more atmospheric carbon
and locking it into soil's organic matter to offset fossil fuel
emissions was launched at COP21, the 21st annual Conference of
Parties to review the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change in Paris in 2015....<br>
But there have been serious criticisms of the initiative. Many
scientists argue that this rate of soil carbon sequestration is
unrealistic over large areas of the planet, notes Powlson: "Also,
increases in soil carbon do not continue indefinitely: they move
towards a new equilibrium value and then cease."...<br>
They suggest that a more logical rationale for promoting practices
that increase soil organic carbon is the urgent need to preserve and
improve the functioning of soils, both for sustainable food security
and wider ecosystem services.<br>
For climate change mitigation through changes in agricultural
practices, they point out that measures to decrease emission of
nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas almost 300 times more powerful than
carbon dioxide, may be more effective. <font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180228134114.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180228134114.htm</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Koch Network]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/02/28/koch-seminar-network-dakota-access-keystone-xl-reins-act">Why
the Koch Network Took Credit for Dakota Access, Keystone XL, and
REINS Act</a></b><br>
By Steve Horn • Wednesday, February 28, 2018 - 00:34<br>
A<span> </span><a
href="https://theintercept.com/2018/02/25/koch-brothers-trump-administration/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">leaked memorandum published</a><span> </span>by<span> </span><a
href="https://theintercept.com/" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">The
Intercept</a> and<span> </span><a
href="http://documentedinvestigations.org/" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Documented
Investigations</a><span> </span>shows that a <a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-industries-inc"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Koch Industries</a>' donors network, known as the <a
href="https://seminarnetwork.org/" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Seminar
Network</a>, has taken credit for <a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">Donald
Trump</a><span> </span>approving the permits for both the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/energy-transfer-partners-bakken-oil-pipeline-through-iowa"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Dakota Access</a> and <a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5857"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Keystone XL<span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;"></span></a><span> </span>pipelines
during the first months of his presidency. The memo also
applauded efforts by the Koch network's <a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/americans-for-prosperity"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Americans for Prosperity</a> (AFP) chapter in Wisconsin to
pass a deregulatory measure there known as the <a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/topics/reins-act" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);"><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">REINS</span><span> </span>Act</a>.
The Seminar Network, which meets secretly twice a year, is made up
of<a
href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/koch-brothers-network-planning-massive-spending-increase-for-2018-midterms"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"> donors who give at least $100,000 toward Koch-led
political and philanthropic efforts</a>.<br>
Koch Industries has a business interest in both pipelines, though
their approval has not been something its funded network has widely
discussed. Quietly, though, Koch has advocated for the pair of
pipelines in regulatory hearings in both Iowa for Dakota Access - as<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/04/08/koch-dakota-access-pipeline"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">previously reported by DeSmog</a> - as well as in Canada,
as<span> </span><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120510/koch-industries-brothers-tar-sands-bitumen-heavy-oil-flint-pipelines-refinery-alberta-canada"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">reported in 2012</a><span> </span>by InsideClimate News.<br>
The<span> </span><span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">REINS</span><span> </span>(Regulations
from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) Act, which<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">GOP</span><span> </span>officials
have been pushing in Congress since Obama's first term,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/07/10/koch-reins-act-wisconsin-governor-scott-walker"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">passed as state law</a> in Wisconsin in 2017. The law, long
considered crown jewel legislation by the Koch front group<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">AFP</span>, gives
legislative bodies full veto authority over regulations proposed by
executive agencies. Conservative groups in Wisconsin<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/07/bradley-foundation-koch-wisconsin-reins-act-lawsuit"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">already are using the law</a> to sue the top state public
education officer.<br>
"State legislatures, particularly in states with a strong Network
presence, have also made significant progress toward removing
harmful and unnecessary regulations. For example, Wisconsin this
year went so far as to enact the nation's first<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">REINS</span><span> </span>Act,
which will require legislative approval of any issued
regulation that has an impact above a certain cost threshold," <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4364737-Koch-Seminar-Network.html"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">reads the Koch Seminar Network document</a>.<br>
The<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/american-legislative-exchange-council"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">American Legislative Exchange Council</a>, a
corporate-funded group of mostly Republican Party state legislators,
has a<span> </span><a
href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/draft-resolution-calling-on-congress-to-pass-to-pass-the-regulations-from-the-executive-in-need-of-scrutiny-reins-act/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);"><span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">REINS</span><span> </span>Act
model resolution</a><span> </span>on the books, which supports the
federal version of this legislation. In 2017, six states introduced
pro-<span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">REINS</span><span> </span>Act
resolutions:<span> </span><a
href="http://kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/hcr5003/"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Kansas</a>,<span> </span><a
href="http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0210W$BSIV.ActionQuery?P_BILL_NO1=6&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=SJ&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SESS=20171"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Montana</a>,<span> </span><a
href="https://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HCR85&year=2018&code=R"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Missouri</a>,<span> </span><a
href="http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20172018/HR/1293"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Georgia</a>,<span> </span><a
href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA132-HCR-24"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Ohio</a>, and<span> </span><a
href="http://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3401&session=122&summary=B"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">South Carolina</a>.<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">ALEC</span><span> </span>- which
brings corporate lobbyists and state legislators together at annual
meetings for networking, seminars, and voting on what it dubs "<a
href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">model
policies</a>" - maintains<span> </span><a
href="https://www.thenation.com/article/alec-exposed-koch-connection"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">close connections</a><span> </span>with the Koch network...<br>
Koch Industries also owns assets in a <a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/2632"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">tar sands</a><span> </span>reservoir located in Alberta,
Canada, both in the form of lease holdings for land and as a company
with a drilling interest. For the latter, Koch owns Koch Oil Sands
Operating, which has a drilling interest in both the<span> </span><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20120919/koch-brothers-industries-canadian-tar-sands-properties-keystone-xl-pipeline-alberta-dilbit-climate-skeptics"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Gemini and Muskwa</a><span> </span>tar sands fields
in Alberta.<br>
It also owns 1-2 million acres' worth of land (the<span> </span><a
href="http://ifg.org/koch-tar-sands-acreage/" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">exact
number</a><span> </span>is<span> </span><a
href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1059996591" target="_blank"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204);">contested</a>)
in the tar sands for prospective future leasing, according to a<span> </span><a
href="http://kochcash.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Embargo_Report.pdf"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">2013 report</a><span> </span>published by the International
Forum on Globalization. Keystone<span> </span><span class="caps"
style="font-size: 0.9em;">XL</span>, the pipeline owned by<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/5420"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">TransCanada</a><span> </span>and approved by Trump and his<span> </span><span
class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em;">U.S.</span><span> </span>Department
of State in March 2017, would bring around <a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18012018/keystone-xl-pipeline-status-tar-sands-oil-export-nebraska-map-transcanada"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">500,000 currently-booked barrels per day of tar sands oil</a><span> </span>from
Alberta to Cushing, Oklahoma, where the pipeline connects
with TransCanada's<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/14265"
target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153,
204);">Gulf Coast Pipeline</a>.<br>
Gulf Coast, which was approved by President Barack Obama in a 2012
election season Executive Order, sends the tar sands bitumen down to
Port Arthur, Texas, where the substance is refined into products and
then sent to market...<br>
"Whether it's heating or cooling your home or putting gas in your
car, the cheaper the energy, the more economically stable your
checkbook will be," wrote Martin. "The 60 Plus Association's 5.5
million members know this all too well. This is why as an
organization that champions free enterprise and who have championed
energy issues for seniors before, we strongly support the Dakota
Access pipeline."<br>
<b>'Whole New Level'</b><br>
In the 2018 election cycle, the Koch network plans to spend up to
$400 million to keep the Republican majority in Congress and GOP
control over statehouses nationwide. In his opening remarks made in
Indian Wells, Charles Koch, one of the billionaire Koch brothers,
compared the Seminar Network's plans for the future to that of
former slave and forefather of the modern civil rights movement,
Frederick Douglass.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/02/28/koch-seminar-network-dakota-access-keystone-xl-reins-act">https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/02/28/koch-seminar-network-dakota-access-keystone-xl-reins-act</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[muzzled]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://time.com/5075265/epa-website-climate-change-censorship/">Here's
What the EPA's Website Looks Like After a Year of Climate Change
Censorship</a></b><br>
The EPA's site is now riddled with missing links, redirecting pages
and buried information. Over the past year, terms like "fossil
fuels", "greenhouse gases" and "global warming" have been excised.
Even the term "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/03/epa-science-technology-office-removed-science/">science</a>"
is no longer safe....<br>
Christine Todd Whitman, the EPA Administrator under George W. Bush,
says the overhaul is "to such an extreme degree that [it] undermines
the credibility of the site".<br>
"The message they're sending, particularly to young people, is that
science doesn't matter," she tells TIME. "Don't get me wrong -
questioning is fine and good, but when you have overwhelming
consensus on something, you concede to that. Undermining science
means there is no basis on which to act based on fact, which is
dangerous."<br>
Scientists say the year-long overhaul has unraveled decades' worth
of research, while undermining the agency's mission, which promises
to source the "best available scientific information"....<br>
This shift in outlook is immediately apparent on the EPA's new
homepage. The previous homepage welcomed viewers with a pledge that
"cleaning up our communities and taking action on climate change are
among our priorities". That's been replaced with an appeal to "learn
how EPA is increasing transparency and public participation in
litigation against the agency".<br>
But the changes go beyond rhetoric. After the EPA announced its
website "update" last April, months after the alterations began, the
"Climate Change" section was taken down.<br>
This vast section had existed in various forms for over two decades.
Initially launched as a section on "Global Warming", it served as a
hub for basic scientific background on what climate changes is and
how human are contributing. "What can we do about this change?" it
asked, and provided tools like a carbon footprint calculator and
resources for teachers.<br>
"Humans are largely responsible for recent climate change," one page
read, adding, "The choices we make today will affect the amount of
greenhouse gases we put in the atmosphere in the near future and for
years to come."<br>
Previously, the climate change section was accessible via the EPA
homepage. Now, its URL - <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.epa.gov/climatechange">www.epa.gov/climatechange</a>
- prompts the message, "This page is being updated."<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://time.com/5075265/epa-website-climate-change-censorship/">http://time.com/5075265/epa-website-climate-change-censorship/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Dark sarcasm from TheOnion]<br>
NEWS IN BRIEF<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theonion.com/great-barrier-reef-offers-scuba-divers-chance-to-see-be-1823390993">Great
Barrier Reef Offers Scuba Divers Chance To See Beautiful
Diversity Of Ocean Death</a></b><br>
<blockquote>CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA - Adapting to the climatic changes
that have irrevocably altered the world's largest once-living
thing, tour guides on Australia's Great Barrier Reef are now
offering divers a chance to see the breathtaking diversity of
ocean death. "Whether you want to see thousands of colorful crabs
that died as a result of increasing ocean acidification or check
out the abandoned, algae-covered remnants of what used to be a
thriving parrotfish colony, the Great Barrier Reef presents
visitors with a unique opportunity to take in a whole spectrum of
dead and dying marine life," said Charlie Mande of Great Barrier
Reef Dive Expeditions, a company offering divers a close-up look
at dead organisms from clouds of lifeless starfish no bigger than
dimes all the way up to full-on whale shark carcasses. "The Great
Barrier Reef is actually the world's largest coral reef system,
and since it's all completely dead now, we have the unique
opportunity to see mile after mile of bleached, stark-white coral
hosting the remains of an entire ecosystem - dead mollusks,
decaying worms, husks of sponges, all drifting across the barren
ocean floor thanks to rising sea temperatures and high
concentrations of nitrates. You might also catch a glimpse of a
turtle slowly suffocating to death after accidentally ingesting a
plastic bag." Mande added that within the next five to 10 years,
the massive die-off of oceanic food sources would allow Great
Barrier Reef Dive Expeditions to offer the sight of huge rafts of
dead humans.<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theonion.com/great-barrier-reef-offers-scuba-divers-chance-to-see-be-1823390993">https://www.theonion.com/great-barrier-reef-offers-scuba-divers-chance-to-see-be-1823390993</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - March 2, - from
D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
March 2, 2016: <br>
New York Times columnist Eduardo Porter observes:<br>
<blockquote>"Ted Cruz says climate change is not happening. Donald
Trump says he doesn’t believe in it. Marco Rubio, whose hometown,
Miami, is projected to be largely underwater within the not too
distant future as ice caps shrink and the sea level rises, argues
that government efforts to combat it will 'destroy our economy.'<br>
<br>
"But those views are not widely shared by conservatives elsewhere
around the world. Indeed, not that long ago in a not too distant
country, a right-leaning party that shares many of the antitax,
pro-business beliefs of Republicans in the United States did
exactly what its unbelieving candidates so fear.<br>
<br>
"In 2008, the British Columbia Liberal Party, which confoundingly
leans right, introduced a tax on the carbon emissions of
businesses and families, cars and trucks, factories and homes
across the province. The party stuck to the tax even as the
left-leaning New Democratic Party challenged it in provincial
elections the next year under the slogan Axe the Tax. The
conservatives won soundly at the polls.<br>
<br>
"Their experience shows that cutting carbon emissions enough to
make a difference in preventing global warming remains a difficult
challenge. But the most important takeaway for American skeptics
is that the policy basically worked as advertised.<br>
<br>
"British Columbia’s economy did not collapse. In fact, the
provincial economy grew faster than its neighbors’ even as its
greenhouse gas emissions declined."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/business/does-a-carbon-tax-work-ask-british-columbia.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/business/does-a-carbon-tax-work-ask-british-columbia.html?_r=0</a></font><br>
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