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<font size="+1"><i>July 26, 2018</i></font><br>
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[Harsh reality today July 25]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jul/25/facebook-video-spreads-climate-denial-misinformation-to-5-million-users&ct=ga&cd=CAEYCyoUMTgwMTI5OTQ4ODk2ODc2ODQ1MTMyGmJiYWI3Y2QzMTRmMmE3Y2E6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNH3ohE6CCPsd0t9ENWb_y180IbRpw">Facebook
video spreads climate denial misinformation to 5 million users</a></b><br>
<b>Facebook is still struggling to contain its fake news problem</b><br>
Marc Morano is the real-world fossil fuel industry version of<span> </span><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FILhDuYWvO0"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Nick Naylor</a>.<span> </span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Morano#Career"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">His career</a><span> </span>began
working for Rush Limbaugh, followed by a job at Cybercast News
Service where he launched<span> </span><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftboating"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">the 'Swift Boat' attacks</a><span> </span>on
2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. In 2006, Morano
became the director of communications for Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK),
who is perhaps best known for<span> </span><a
href="http://time.com/3725994/inhofe-snowball-climate/"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">throwing a snowball on
the Senate floor</a><span> </span>and calling human-caused global
warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."<br>
Thus it's unsurprising that in 2009, Morano began directing<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/marc-morano" data-link-name="in
body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent;
touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor:
pointer; text-decoration: none !important; border-bottom:
0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s
ease-out;">fossil fuel-funded think tanks</a><span> </span>designed
to cast doubt on the reality of and dangers associated with
human-caused global warming. As he admitted in Merchants of Doubt,
Morano frequently embodies the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/22/opinions/cook-techniques-climate-change-denial/index.html"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">strategy of climate
denial</a><span> </span>known as 'fake experts':<br>
<span style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 17px; font-style:
normal; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !
important; float: none;">Most recently, Morano created<span> </span></span><a
href="https://www.facebook.com/LetFreedomSpeak/videos/854579488082979/UzpfSTE1MDk0NjUzODA6MTAyMTc0NjM2NDU4NTIyNzM/"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%;
touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor:
pointer; text-decoration: none ! important; border-bottom:
0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s
ease-out 0s; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align:
start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">a
short video</a><span style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size:
17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial; display: inline ! important; float: none;"><span> </span>that
centers on three common climate myths and has garnered over 5m
views on Facebook.</span><br>
Morano's climate fake news video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=60&v=j8ii9zGFDtc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=60&v=j8ii9zGFDtc</a><br>
Morano begins his video by denying the<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/16/climate-change-scienceofclimatechange"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(199, 0, 0); transition:
border-color 0.15s ease-out; outline: 0px; border-top-color:
rgb(0, 178, 255); border-right-color: rgb(0, 178, 255);
border-left-color: rgb(0, 178, 255);">97% expert consensus on
human-caused global warming</a>. Consensus denial is<span> </span><a
href="https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus-intermediate.htm"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">one of the most popular
climate myths</a>, and was the subject of<span> </span><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/11/29/revealed-most-popular-climate-story-social-media-told-half-million-people-science-was-hoax"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">the most widely-shared
climate story of 2016</a>.<br>
Morano's strategy is to critique two of the studies that found a 97%
expert consensus. One,<span> </span><a
href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2009EO030002"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">published in 2009</a><span> </span>by
Peter Doran and Maggie Zimmerman surveyed 3,146 Earth scientists,
but fewer than 80 of the participants were actively publishing
climate science research (and hence experts on the subject).
Basically, the critique is that the study sample size was too small
to make a conclusive determination about the level of expert
consensus.<br>
That's a valid point, except this was just one among many such
climate consensus studies. In fact, the authors of seven separate
consensus studies using a variety of approaches (some with very
large sample sizes) teamed up in 2016 to publish a paper concluding
that the expert consensus on human-caused global warming is<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/13/its-settled-90100-of-climate-experts-agree-on-human-caused-global-warming"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">between 90 and 100%</a>.
So, this critique is invalid when considering all the available
consensus research.<br>
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<span></span>Mark Zuckerberg made headlines last week when<span> </span><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/18/zuckerberg-facebook-holocaust-deniers-censorship"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">he defended fake news
from Holocaust deniers</a>, saying he didn't "think that they're
intentionally getting it wrong."<br>
It's virtually impossible to discern an individual's intent, but if
that person is spreading misinformation, intent is irrelevant. If
Facebook wants to stop misinforming millions of its users, it needs
to tackle the problem of fake news regardless of intent. So far,<span> </span><a
href="https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-conservative-bias-study-with-only-conservatives-03beb607e1f2/"
data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline"
style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color:
rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none
!important; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220);
transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">Facebook seems more
concerned about the appearance of 'bias'</a><span> </span>than
about making sure the content shared on its site is factually
correct.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jul/25/facebook-video-spreads-climate-denial-misinformation-to-5-million-users">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jul/25/facebook-video-spreads-climate-denial-misinformation-to-5-million-users</a></font><br>
- - - -<br>
[<b>Comic relief satire </b>about Zuckerberg]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCDvOsdL9Q">"INTERROGATING
ZUCKERBERG" - A Bad Lip Reading</a></b><br>
Bad Lip Reading <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCDvOsdL9Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCDvOsdL9Q</a><br>
Published on Apr 24, 2018<br>
Tension mounted during Mark Zuckerberg's congressional hearing...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCDvOsdL9Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zCDvOsdL9Q</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Democracy Now! tv]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDzLVG5ql8U">As Heat Wave
Sweeps the Globe, New Study Warns of Deadly Link Between Rising
Temps and Suicide</a></b><br>
Democracy Now! - Published on Jul 25, 2018<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDzLVG5ql8U">video</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDzLVG5ql8U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDzLVG5ql8U</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://democracynow.org">https://democracynow.org</a>
- As deadly fires and heat waves kill scores across the globe, a new
study published in the journal Nature Climate Change reports that
when there are abnormally hot temperatures, there also tend to be
higher suicide rates. The study warns up to 26,000 more people could
die by suicide in the United States by 2050 if humans don't reduce
emissions of greenhouse gas pollution. We speak to Dr. Sanjay Basu,
co-author of the new study and assistant professor of medicine at
Stanford University.<br>
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays
on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch
our livestream 8-9AM ET: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://democracynow.org">https://democracynow.org</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDzLVG5ql8U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDzLVG5ql8U</a><br>
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<br>
[Why it's hot at the top of Scandinavia]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/07/25/jet-stream-stalled-over-sweden-climate-weather-connection-explained/">Jet
Stream Stalled over Sweden Climate Weather Connection Explained</a></b><br>
This heatwave across much of the northern hemisphere could continue
for weeks, and possibly even months. And accelerated warming in the
Arctic compared to the rest of the planet could be a key
contributor. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2174889-warming-arctic-could-be-behind-heatwave-sweeping-northern-hemisphere/">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2174889-warming-arctic-could-be-behind-heatwave-sweeping-northern-hemisphere/</a><br>
Jennifer Francis (Rutgers University), speaks March 2018 about
weather changes. And how are those related to climate change? Full
talk <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2FxJelkAtI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2FxJelkAtI</a><br>
Kai Kornhuber (Climate Analytics) 2016, explains Rossby waves, full
release <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzW5Isbv2A0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzW5Isbv2A0</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climatestate.com/2018/07/25/jet-stream-stalled-over-sweden-climate-weather-connection-explained/">http://climatestate.com/2018/07/25/jet-stream-stalled-over-sweden-climate-weather-connection-explained/</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Study in Phys.Org from 2017]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-12-arctic-sea-ice-loss-california.html">Arctic
sea ice loss could dry out California</a></b><br>
The study identifies a new link between Arctic sea ice loss and the
development of an atmospheric ridging system in the North Pacific.
This atmospheric feature also played a central role in the 2012-2016
California drought and is known for steering precipitation-rich
storms northward, into Alaska and Canada, and away from California.
The team found that sea ice changes can lead to convection changes
over the tropical Pacific. These convection changes can in turn
drive the formation of an atmospheric ridge in the North Pacific,
resulting in significant drying over California...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-12-arctic-sea-ice-loss-california.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-12-arctic-sea-ice-loss-california.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<br>
[Six Degrees and Global Witness reports]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/25509/2017-the-deadliest-year-for-land-and-environmental-defenders-as-agri-business-most-linked-to-killings">2017,
the Deadliest Year for Land and Environmental Defenders as
Agri-Business Most Linked to Killings</a></b><br>
GLOBAL WITNESS REVEALS THAT AT LEAST 207 LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL
DEFENDERS WERE KILLED IN 2017- INDIGENOUS LEADERS, COMMUNITY
ACTIVISTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS MURDERED TRYING TO PROTECT THEIR
HOMES AND COMMUNITIES FROM MINING, AGRIBUSINESS AND OTHER
DESTRUCTIVE INDUSTRIES.<br>
<blockquote>Global Witness annual figures show at least 207 land and
environmental activists were killed in 2017 across 22 countries,
almost 4 a week, making it the worst year on record.<br>
The report shows a huge rise in killings linked to consumer
products. Brutal attacks on those defending their land from
destructive agriculture - such as land grabs for palm oil, used in
household goods like soap, and coffee - are on the rise. <br>
</blockquote>
It critically urges government and business to take action to end
the attacks and support defenders, with campaigners such as Yuri
Herrera, Margaret Atwood, Lily Cole, George Monbiot and Ben Fogle
speaking out against the killings.<br>
Severe limits on the data available mean the global total is
probably much higher. Murder is the most egregious example of a
range of tactics used to silence defenders, including death threats,
arrests, intimidation, cyber-attacks, sexual assault and lawsuits.<br>
These include the murder of Hernan Bedoya in Colombia, shot 14 times
by a paramilitary group for protesting against palm oil and banana
plantations on land stolen from his community; an army massacre of
eight villagers in the Philippines who opposed a coffee plantation
on their land; and violent attacks by Brazilian farmers, using
machetes and rifles, which left 22 members of the Gamela indigenous
people severely injured, some with their hands chopped off.<br>
<br>
The report links this violence with the products on our shelves:
large-scale agriculture, mining, poaching, logging all produce
components and ingredients for supermarket products such as palm oil
for shampoo, soy for beef and timber for furniture.<br>
<br>
The report also reveals that some governments and businesses are
complicit in the killings, with Global Witness calling for urgent
action if the trend is to be reversed. As well as being part of the
problem, governments and business can be part of the solution. They
must tackle the root causes of the attacks, for example ensuring
communities are allowed to say 'no' to projects, like mining, on
their land; support and protect defenders at risk and ensure justice
is served for those suffering from the violence.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/25509/2017-the-deadliest-year-for-land-and-environmental-defenders-as-agri-business-most-linked-to-killings">https://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/25509/2017-the-deadliest-year-for-land-and-environmental-defenders-as-agri-business-most-linked-to-killings</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Fire scientist tells of his fire - conversational]<br>
long format interviews with Nature's editor for climate science,
Michael White<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://forecastpod.org/index.php/2018/03/07/burning-questions-max-moritz/">Burning
questions with Max Moritz</a></b><br>
Forecast: a podcast about climate science and climate scientists<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://nature.berkeley.edu/moritzlab/">Max Moritz</a>
regales Mike with some of the many intricacies of modern fire
science. The dominant narrative in the Western US might be
"long-term fire suppression is leading to severe fire seasons".
While there is some truth here, the individual fire stories are,
inevitably, local. Local land use practices, building codes,
vegetation stress, and climate change all conspire to make any one
explanation…less than convincing. As Max tells it, we need to accept
fire as part of our human system, and move towards a more active
role in planning our future co-existence.<br>
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[The gift of listening from 2015]<br>
<b><a
href="http://www.klimatpodden.se/uncategorized/8-renee-lertzman-we-need-to-create-space-to-share-our-stories/">#8
Renee Lertzman - We need to create space to share our stories</a></b><br>
Renee Lertzman is an environmental engagement, research and strategy
advisor, living in Berkeley in California.<br>
I met Renee in October and had a very inspiring conversation about
the psychology of climate change, how climate anxiety is affecting
us , why it is crucial that we create space for conversations were
we can express our feelings about climate change and why blaming and
shaming people for their behavior is not a very effective way to
create action and engagement.<br>
To be able to create a more sustainable world Renee says that we
need people who understand psychology working in partnership with
people who understand the global environmental situation and people
who understand how organizations operate.<br>
For more information about Renee, visit her <a
href="http://reneelertzman.com/">web site</a>.<br>
Renee's book: <b><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZITTVF8/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_7aVHvb15SXZFD">Environmental
Melancholia: Psychoanalytic dimensions of engagement</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.klimatpodden.se/uncategorized/8-renee-lertzman-we-need-to-create-space-to-share-our-stories/">http://www.klimatpodden.se/uncategorized/8-renee-lertzman-we-need-to-create-space-to-share-our-stories/</a></font><br>
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[Humor]<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-seneca-glass-half-full-or-half-empty.html"> The
Seneca Glass: Half Full or Half Empty?</a></b><br>
Optimist: the glass is half full.<br>
Pessimist: the glass is half empty.<br>
Catastrophist. It will not be half full for long.<br>
Cornucopian: We are running into water rather than out of it.<br>
Oil executive: The more we drink, the more the water level grows.<br>
Conspiracy Theorist: Water? What water? THEY want us to believe that
there is water in the glass.<br>
Chemtrail believer: Don't look at the water! Look up at the sky!
Don't you see THEY are poisoning us?<br>
Climate Science Denier: Scientists cannot predict the weather one
week in advance, how can they say if the glass is full or empty?<br>
Bad Pun Lover: A fish was swimming in the glass. It swam into the
wall and said, "Damn!"<br>
Thomas Malthus: You can only fill the glass at a linear rate, but
people will drink from it at exponentially rising rates.<br>
Harold Hotelling: When there will be no more water in it, we'll use
beer as a backstop resource.<br>
Robert Solow: the amount of water in the glass will keep growing
exponentially.<br>
Neoclassical Economist: when the water level will be low enough,
market forces will create more.<br>
Julian Simon: there is enough water in the glass to last for six
billion years.<br>
Colin Campbell: After you drink the water in the glass, there will
be none left.<br>
Charles Hall: the water return on energy invested (WROEI) declines
as you drink it.<br>
Gail Tverberg: Water is not really a renewable resource: you will
always need fossil fuels to pump it into the glass.<br>
Guy McPherson: All the water will have disappeared from planet Earth
by 2030.<br>
Donald Trump: We need to build a wall to keep the Mexicans from
drinking our water.<br>
Matsuo Basho: The old glass. A frog jumps into it. The noise of
water.<br>
William Shakespeare: The empty part of the glass is filled with the
stuff dreams are made of.<br>
Erwin Schroedinger: The glass is neither half full nor half empty -
until you drink from it.<br>
Jesus Christ: Have faith and walk on the stones, just like I do.<br>
Lao Zi: A glass of a thousand gallons is filled starting with just
one drop.<br>
Buddha: The water is an illusion, just like the glass. And the
drinker, too.<br>
Lucius Annaeus Seneca: It takes a long time to fill the glass, but
emptying it is rapid.<br>
<font size="-1">Ugo Bardi's blog<br>
This blog deals with the decline of natural resources, climate
change, ecosystem disruption, and more. The future may not look
bright, but it is still possible to face it if we don't ignore the
warnings of modern Cassandras. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-seneca-glass-half-full-or-half-empty.html">https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-seneca-glass-half-full-or-half-empty.html</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2011/07/27/tim-dechristopher-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-for-creative-nonviolent-disruption-of-oil-lease-auction/">This
Day in Climate History - July 26, 2011</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 26, 2011: Climate activist Tim DeChristopher, prosecuted by the
Obama administration for an act of civil disobedience during an
(illegal) oil and gas lease auction held in Utah during the final
days of the Bush administration, is sentenced to two years in
prison. He would ultimately be released in April 2013.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2011/07/27/tim-dechristopher-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-for-creative-nonviolent-disruption-of-oil-lease-auction/">http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2011/07/27/tim-dechristopher-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-for-creative-nonviolent-disruption-of-oil-lease-auction/</a>
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