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<font size="+2"><i>June 23, 2018</i></font><br>
<br>
<font size="+1">[Weather Channel slick video report - passive info]<br>
USA NATIONAL FORECAST<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2018-06-20-temperature-precipitation-outlook-united-states-july-august">Here's
What You Can Expect For Temperatures and Precipitation the
Rest of Summer</a></b><br>
At a Glance<br>
Warmer-than-average conditions may give way to below-average
temperatures in parts of the nation's northern tier July-August.<br>
Many areas in the West will experience above-average temperatures
for the rest of summer.<br>
Rainfall could be above average in the Southwest and mid-Atlantic
through September.<br>
For the rest of the summer, temperatures in portions of the
central and eastern states may start out warmer-than-average but
then transition to below average, while much of the West is
expected to see above-average warmth, according to the latest
outlook from The Weather Company, an IBM Business.<br>
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In July, parts of the nation's northern tier and the West are the
most favored areas for above-average warmth, including a swath
from the Great Lakes westward to the northern Plains and the
northern Rockies, and then southward into Nevada and southern
California.<br>
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Many other areas in the eastern half of the nation are forecast to
see temperatures near or slightly above average for July. The
exceptions are parts of the Gulf Coast and Florida where it may be
slightly-cooler-than average, although typical summertime warmth
and humidity will still be in place.<br>
The expectation of warmer-than-average conditions across the
northern tier of the U.S. in July is because a positive North
Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern will be in place, which is
indicative of a strong polar vortex.<br>
"If we look at the temperature pattern during July in a positive
NAO pattern we can see a warm north, cool-south pattern. It is
difficult to go against this idea at this point," said Dr. Todd
Crawford, chief meteorologist with The Weather Company.<br>
As we transition to August, the potential emergence of El Nino and
its impact on tropical activity in the northwest Pacific Ocean may
influence the jet stream pattern downstream in the United States,
and therefore, temperatures as well.<br>
"We've cooled off August a bit in the East as we expect the
emerging El Niño forcing to continue to strengthen and enable an
active late-summer period in the northwest Pacific tropics,"
Crawford said.<br>
As a result, the Great Lakes and upper Midwest are expected to see
below-average temperatures in August, with near or slightly below
average temperatures in many other eastern locations. In the West,
the opposite is expected with widespread hotter-than-average
conditions forecast.<br>
Looking ahead to September, there are no major areas of above or
below-average temperatures forecast at this time. A large swath of
the nation is forecast to see near or slightly above-average
temperatures. South Georgia and Florida are the most likely
locations for above-average warmth, and parts of the Southwest may
be slightly cooler-than-average.<br>
<b>Rainfall Outlook Next Three Months</b><b><br>
</b><b>The mid-Atlantic, Southwest and the central Rockies are
forecast to see above-average precipitation the next three
months, according to an outlook from NOAA.</b><br>
In the Southwest and Rockies, monsoonal moisture and the remnants
of eastern Pacific tropical systems may increase rainfall chances
July-September, tipping the scale towards wetter-than-average
conditions.<br>
Drier-than-average conditions are most likely July-September from
the eastern half of Texas to the lower-Mississippi Valley. The
Pacific Northwest is also forecast to see below-average rainfall,
though summer is a typically dry time of year for that region.<br>
Keep in mind, these outlooks are overall trends. A cold front or
an upper ridge of high pressure can lead to a brief period of
colder or warmer weather, respectively. The same front or area of
high pressure can bring a brief period of enhanced precipitation
or dry spell that may or may not be indicative of the overall
trend we're anticipating. </font><br>
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<font size="+1">[NOAA - interactive government report site - same
info as above - just more clicks to find it]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/">Climate
Prediction Center - Monthly to Seasonal Climate Outlooks</a></b></font><br>
<font size="+1" color="#000000">The Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
is responsible for issuing seasonal climate outlook maps for one
to thirteen months in the future. In addition, the CPC issues
extended range outlook maps for 6-10 and 8-14 days as well as
several special outlooks, such as degree day, drought and soil
moisture, and a forecast for daily ultraviolet (UV) radiation
index. Many of the outlook maps have an accompanying technical
discussion. The CPC's outlook and forecast products complement the
short range weather forecasts issued by other components of the
National Weather Service (e.g. local Weather Forecast Offices, and
National Centers for Environmental Prediction). These weather and
climate products comprise the National Weather Service's Suite of
Forecast Products.</font>
<ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
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<li><font size="+1" color="#000000"><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/forecasts/month_to_season_outlooks.shtml"
title="Monthly and Seasonal Climate Outlooks including the
United States 30 & 90 day temperature and precipitation
probability, Tropical Pacific Islands Precipitation and
Pacific Ocean Sea Surface Temperature outlooks"
style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);"><strong>Monthly to Seasonal
Climate Outlooks</strong></a><br>
The CPC issues maps showing the probabilities of temperature,
precipitation and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) deviation
from normal for the next month and three month periods. These
outlooks are issued from 2 weeks to 13 months in advance, for
the lower 48 states and Hawaii and other Pacific Islands. In
addition, seasonal climate outlooks show average temperature
(degrees Fahrenheit) and precipitation (inches) for the lower
48 states by climate regions, and<span> </span><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/poe_index.php?lead=1&var=t"
title="Probability of exceedance outlook. An experimental
outlook product that gives the probability that a
temperature or precipitation quantity will be exceeded at a
specific location." style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">probability
of exceedance outlook</a>.</font></li>
</ul>
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<li><font size="+1" color="#000000"><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/forecasts/extended_range_outlooks.shtml"
title="Extended range outlooks. Page contains the 6-10 &
8-14 day Temperature and Precipitation probability outlooks
and Excessive Heat Outlooks" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);"><strong>Extended
Range Outlooks</strong></a><br>
The CPC issues<span> </span><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/610day/"
style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);"><strong>6-10 Day</strong></a><span> </span>and<span> </span><strong><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/814day/"
style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);">8-14 Day</a></strong><span> </span>Outlook
maps showing probabilities of temperature and precipitation
departing from normal, with an accompanying technical
discussion. An<span> </span><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/short_range/heat/hi_610.php"
style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);"><strong>excessive Heat Index
Outlook</strong></a><span> </span>(April-September) and<span> </span><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/short_range/cold/wc_610.php"
style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);"><strong>Wind Chill Index
Outlook</strong></a><span> </span>(October-March) for 6-10
days are made every day.</font></li>
</ul>
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<li><font size="+1" color="#000000"><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/forecasts/special_outlooks_products.shtml"
title="Special outlook products. Page contains links to the
Daily UV Index forecast; Outlooks for Palmer Drought, soil
moisture, degree days and probability of exceedance"
style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);"><strong>Special Outlook
Products</strong></a><br>
The CPC also issues a Palmer Drought Outlook, Weekly Degree
Day Outlook, 14-day Calculated Soil Moisture Outlook,
Probability of Exceedance Outlook, daily UV Index Forecast,
and verification of seasonal outlooks.</font></li>
</ul>
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<li><font size="+1" color="#000000"><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/forecasts/NWS_forecasts.shtml"
title="National Weather Service (NWS)Forecast products
including active watches and warnings; 0-48 hour and 3-7 day
forecasts; computer generated 7-day site specific forecast
product" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);"><strong>National
Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Products</strong></a><br>
The National Weather Service and its 121 local forecast
offices issue local weather forecasts, and watches and
warnings to protect life and property from acute short-term
threats due to severe weather events. Another of the many
products available is the<span> </span><a
href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/forecast/text/mrfmex.txt"
title="GFS Based 8 day guidance a computer generated site
specific 7 day forecast product" style="color: rgb(0, 51,
153);"><strong>GFS-Based 8-Day Guidance</strong></a>.</font></li>
</ul>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1">[video report too]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/trump-is-out-of-touch-and-control-in-climate-fight-canada-says">U.S.
Is Out of Sync With World on Climate Change, Canada Says</a></b><br>
By Ewa Krukowska and Jonathan Stearns<br>
June 21, 2018,<br>
Canada has an environmental message for Donald Trump: you can't
stop the global campaign against climate change and you will hurt
the U.S. by abandoning the battle.<br>
Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna
said countries around the world are forging ahead with measures to
reduce greenhouse gases, unfazed by Trump's planned withdrawal
from a landmark United Nations deal to counter global warming.
Canada, the European Union and China are leading the charge, which
will bring businesses big rewards, she said.<br>
"I hate to say this, but I don't want to overestimate the
importance of the U.S.," McKenna said in an interview on Thursday
in Brussels, where she attended a gathering with her EU and
Chinese counterparts. "The world is moving forward because we need
to do that for our kids and there's a huge economic opportunity."<br>
The U.S. turn inward under Trump and his upending of American
foreign policies ranging from trade to security have left the rest
of the world rushing to fill a void and create new alliances.<br>
- - - - -<br>
"Every country is now stepping up and saying what they're going to
do, but you need the engine of the Paris Agreement," McKenna said.
"It's extremely important and business needs to see that."<br>
China, the EU and Canada together accounted for 40 percent of
global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, in
2017, according to the latest BP Plc statistical review. China,
the top polluter, had a 28 percent share of worldwide discharges,
followed by the U.S. with 15 percent.<br>
While Trump is depriving the U.S. of a climate leadership role at
the federal level, other American actors are helping to ensure the
country doesn't miss out altogether on the worldwide shift to
cleaner energy, according to McKenna.<br>
"When the president said he was pulling out of the Paris
Agreement, you saw U.S. business leaders step up, U.S. governors,
cities step up. And citizens," she said. "Is it sad and
unfortunate that the U.S. is not there? Sure, but we can still do
it. No one country can stop progress."</font><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/trump-is-out-of-touch-and-control-in-climate-fight-canada-says">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-21/trump-is-out-of-touch-and-control-in-climate-fight-canada-says</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[Republicans want a tax, with strings - rather with ropes attached]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/6/22/17487488/carbon-tax-dividend-trent-lott-john-breaux">Energy
lobbyists have a new PAC to push for a carbon tax. Wait, what?</a></b><br>
The oil and gas industry is trying to get ahead of the climate
policy curve.<br>
By David Roberts<br>
This policy is not bipartisan in any meaningful sense, it is not
likely to be political popular, it's not all that great as policy to
being with, and it is naive to see it as a gambit that arises
primarily, or even tangentially, from environmental concerns. It is
first and foremost a bid by oil and gas and nuclear to secure the
gentlest and most predictable possible energy transition...<br>
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This new PAC is a pure industry effort, a coalition of energy groups
from almost every big energy sector except coal, backed by
industry-friend lobbyists...<br>
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Overall, it makes for an extremely volatile and unpredictable policy
environment — or rather, dozens of disparate policy environments.
And oil and gas companies know that Trump won't be in power forever.
Democrats will return to federal power eventually, and when they do,
they will have an appetite for bold climate policy.<br>
Basically, oil and gas sees a big wave of climate policies building.
That is what [Trent] Lott meant when he told the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-conservative-political-group-to-push-for-u-s-carbon-tax-1529444820">Wall
Street Journal</a> that "the tide is turning on the realization
that something needs to be done in this area." He didn't mean "we've
been doing some reading and realized we were terribly wrong." He
meant "the jig is up."<br>
Thus the inclusion of two key provisions in the AFCD proposal.<br>
First, EPA regulations meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
like the Clean Power Plan, would be revoked, allegedly rendered
unnecessary. (It's unclear exactly which regulations are included.)
And second, energy companies would be given immunity to
climate-based lawsuits like several<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.vox.com/2018/5/25/17394468/climate-lawsuits-san-francisco-oakland-alsup-exxon-bp">
currently underway</a>, a provision climate activists are certain
to oppose...<br>
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Under any economy-wide carbon tax, it will be coal that's hit first
and hardest. And what's bad for coal is good for natural gas, at
least in the short-term. Especially absent further policy, a price
on carbon will leave oil quite healthy for quite some time. Oil and
gas don't have to be faster than the bear — they just have to be
faster than coal...<br>
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Making things tidy and predictable for giant energy companies is
just not a top-tier consideration, much less a starting point.<br>
Democrats don't often act like it, but they are right on climate
change. They're on the right side of history. That's why fossil fuel
companies are reaching out to, ahem, "end the impasse." It's what
you do when you're losing.<br>
Dems should have the courage of their convictions, support the
policies they believe most able to pass and most likely to work, and
begin negotiations there, not where fossil fuel lobbyists draw the
line.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/6/22/17487488/carbon-tax-dividend-trent-lott-john-breaux">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/6/22/17487488/carbon-tax-dividend-trent-lott-john-breaux</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Hansen is the wise grandfather]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/06/22/james-hansen-today-a-warning-on-antarctica/">James
Hansen Today: A Warning on Antarctica</a></b><br>
by greenman3610<br>
30 Years after prophetic predictions of global change unfolding
today, Jim Hansen is still sounding warnings - climate change may
not happen in a slow steady process. Recent studies showing
accelerating Antarctic melt seem to be supportive of his science.
Given his track record, can we afford to ignore him again?<br>
Video <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/wdw37BeBi_4">Jim
Hansen on the Rate of Ice Sheet Melt</a><br>
James Hansen's predictions of global climate change in the 1980s
were uncannily accurate.<br>
Should we be taking his latest warnings of Antarctic melt with the
same seriousness? Most recent research confirms very sharp uptick
in Antarctic melt.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/wdw37BeBi_4">https://youtu.be/wdw37BeBi_4</a><br>
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Video <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/PgAcnbHINwk">Jim
Hansen: The Last Time Ice Sheets Melted..</a><br>
Published on Jun 15, 2018<br>
The record of past sea level rise shows us that ice sheets can melt
quickly - so quickly that we can't resolve the lag in the record.<br>
Reason for extreme concern as we change the atmosphere and warm the
planet.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2018/06/22/james-hansen-today-a-warning-on-antarctica/">https://climatecrocks.com/2018/06/22/james-hansen-today-a-warning-on-antarctica/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Submit, commit]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://solutionsearch.org/contest/climate-change-needs-behavior-change">Solutions
Search</a></b><br>
Are you using creative approaches to changing behaviors in order to
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Submit your efforts to Solution Search for the chance to win
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Visit:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://solutionsearch.org/contest/climate-change-needs-behavior-change">https://solutionsearch.org/contest/climate-change-needs-behavior-change</a><br>
<br>
What people eat, what they buy and what they use contributes
directly to climate change. In just eight months, humans consume
what the earth can sustainably produce in a single year. Nearly
two-thirds of global emissions are linked to both direct and
indirect forms of human consumption. Promoting sustainable behaviors
holds enormous potential for reducing global greenhouse gas
emissions and protecting the Earth on which we all depend.<br>
What could these solutions look like? Strategies and efforts that
apply behavior change insights to inspire and enable people to:<br>
-Increase plant-rich diets<br>
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By participating in Solution Search, you not only have the chance of
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We have categorized behavior adoption strategies into three core
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Social incentives: Change social norms to influence adoption<br>
Choice architecture: Utilize context and timing to support change<br>
</blockquote>
Help us demonstrate that just as people are the cause of
environmental challenges, they are also the solution.<br>
Submit an entry, or if you know of someone doing great work, you can
nominate them. Visit the link below today! <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://solutionsearch.org/contest/climate-change-needs-behavior-change">https://solutionsearch.org/contest/climate-change-needs-behavior-change</a>
</font><br>
<br>
<br>
[art has always exhibited]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-art-exhibit_us_5b28059ae4b0f0b9e9a3bef8">Taking
The Erratic Temperature Of A Climate Change Art Exhibit</a></b><br>
Storm King Art Center's new installations offer varying degrees of
insight into life on a radically changing planet.<br>
By Alexander C. Kaufman<br>
NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. - When the guilt and dread set in, I realized I'd
found the good stuff.<br>
The eyes hit me first. An array of 100 crimson, gold and azure bird
eyes - all representing species identified as threatened or
endangered by climate change in a 2014 Audubon Society study -
deliver their judgment on humankind.<br>
About a quarter-mile away came what looked like towers of skulls,
but were really stalagmites of bone-white tambourines rising from an
island on a pond. The title of that piece, "The peo-ple cried mer-cy
in the storm," with hyphens drawing out the words, struck me as
eerie. It was taken from a 1928 hymn by religious songwriter Judge
Jackson written two years after the Great Miami Hurricane, which
killed hundreds of black migrant workers.<br>
The two installations, haunting attempts to grapple with a manmade
cataclysm that looks increasingly inevitable, were the highlights of
"Indicators: Artists on Climate Change," the newest series at the
Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre sculpture park in New York's
Hudson Valley. The exhibition, which opened May 19, offers
meditations on a warming planet from more than a dozen artists.<br>
Unfortunately, much of the exhibit's work comes closer to the level
of contemplation achieved by downloading a mindfulness app.<br>
There's a "living sculpture" of 15 flower beds equipped with four
sets of solar panels that power an irrigation system. It's a nice
garden with a clever approach to maintenance. But as a commentary on
climate change, it feels about 15 years late and a bit sloppy. Its
flora is billed as native to New York but includes flowers that
originated in Asia and Europe. Solar panels are as tritely
synonymous with climate change as polar bears. Maybe a greenhouse
could have encased the garden, slowly simulating the effect of
rising temperatures in the region.<br>
<br>
Down the hill is a piece comprising more than a dozen banners,
staked in a circle, with embarrassingly cheesy wordplay and cheap
alliteration: "Salute the Superstorms," "Grieve the Grid," "Find a
Mole Model," "Fete the Fungus," "See the Sea Levels."<br>
<br>
If that isn't enough of a flashback to a freshman-year writing
class, a short walk brings you to a highway traffic sign, the kind
that cautions drivers about roadwork ahead. Flashing in the lights:
"Neanderthals 'R' Us," "Humankindness," "Warning: Hurricane Human,"
"We Are The Asteroid."<br>
<br>
At the end of the exhibit stands the globe of death - yes, a metal
stunt cage in which, and get ready to have your mind blown, a
fossil-fueled vehicle is driven at increasingly reckless speeds.<br>
<br>
These pieces felt like amateurish epiphanies - shallow,
#Resistance-type recognitions of a problem that was a global crisis
long before President Poorly-Trained Circus Organgutan pulled out of
the Paris Agreement or Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott
Pruitt began advancing pro-polluter policies. That was particularly
frustrating because I was looking for something more.<br>
<br>
After years of reporting on climate change, reading the increasingly
dire warnings from scientists and talking to policymakers whose
solutions remain blindly divorced from that reality, I've found
myself in the past year seeking the kind of spiritual perspective
that comes from creative reflection on this thing that's happening
to us.<br>
<br>
It started last year when I read Kim Stanley Robinson's New York
2140, a dystopian novel depicting life after climate catastrophe - a
reminder that life can flourish even in the Venice-like canals that
might overtake the Lower Manhattan neighborhood where part of my
family once lived. Earlier this month, I finished Claire Vaye
Watkins' Gold Fame Citrus, which lyrically envisions the rise of new
plant and animal species, alien in their adaptations to a changed
world. Now I'm reading Omar El-Akkad's American War, a bleak
depiction of an ecologically devastated nation in the throes of
civil war.<br>
The art world has produced some visual gut punches in the dozen or
so years since Bill McKibben, the renowned environmentalist and
350.org founder, implored artists to make more work focused on
climate change. Isaac Cordal's street art installation of tiny men
in suits debating global warming while neck deep in water should be
remembered as a masterpiece of political commentary. It's easy to
imagine the day when Lorenzo Quinn's "Support," two hands reaching
out of a Venice canal to hold up a building, will seem clairvoyant.
<br>
Back at Storm King, a few more scientifically literate pieces help
to redeem the exhibit. Hara Woltz, a New York-based artist and
conservation ecologist currently doing fieldwork in the Solomon
Islands, built a functioning weather station that collects climate
data and is encircled by cylinders arranged at slightly different
heights to represent predictions about sea level rise and Arctic sea
ice melt.<br>
Mark Dion's life-size replica of a disordered scientific lab in a
wooden cabin, dubbed "Field Station for the Melancholy Marine
Biologist," was originally shown at a gallery in New Orleans. Here
it has been recast with ecological specimens from the surrounding
area.<br>
A time of radical change requires art that asks radical questions:
"What does it mean to say goodbye? Whom do we grieve? How do we live
with ourselves?" Yet it feels like we're still hung up on "Why is
this happening?"<br>
The exhibit is open until Nov. 11.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-art-exhibit_us_5b28059ae4b0f0b9e9a3bef8">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-art-exhibit_us_5b28059ae4b0f0b9e9a3bef8</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/us/global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate.html">This
Day in Climate History - June 23, 1988</a>; <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twenty-years-later-tippin_b_108766">2008</a>
- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
June 23, 1988: NASA scientist James Hansen warns the US Senate about
the risks of human-caused climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/us/global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/us/global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate.html</a>
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<br>
June 23, 2008:<br>
<blockquote> In a Huffington Post piece marking the 20th anniversary
of his historic 1988 Senate testimony, NASA scientist James Hansen
notes:<br>
"Special interests have blocked transition to our renewable energy
future. Instead of moving heavily into renewable energies, fossil
companies choose to spread doubt about global warming, as tobacco
companies discredited the smoking-cancer link. Methods are
sophisticated, including disguised funding to shape school
textbook discussions.<br>
"CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are
aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In
my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against
humanity and nature. If their campaigns continue and 'succeed' in
confusing the public, I anticipate testifying against relevant
CEOs in future public trials."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twenty-years-later-tippin_b_108766">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twenty-years-later-tippin_b_108766</a>
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