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<font size="+1"><i>July 29, 2018</i></font><br>
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[CBS news reports]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/record-breaking-heat-and-fires-are-worsened-by-climate-change-scientists-say/">Record-breaking
heat and fires are worsened by climate change, scientists say</a></b><br>
Heat waves are setting <span class="link"><a
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-record-high-temperatures-temps-near-120-degrees-in-southwest-today-2018-07-24/"
data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="" target="_blank">all-time
temperature records</a></span> across the globe -- again. Europe
suffered<span class="link"><a
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fire-in-greece-officials-see-serious-indications-arson-led-to-forest-fire-relatives-head-to-athens-morgue-2018-07-26/"
data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="" target="_blank"> its
deadliest fire</a></span> in more than a century, and one of
nearly 90 large fires in the U.S. West <span class="link"><a
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carr-fire-redding-fire-evacuation-shasta-county-california-wildfire-destroys-homes-2018-07-28/"
data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="" target="_blank">burned dozens
of homes</a></span> and forced the evacuation of at least 37,000
people near Redding, California. <span class="link"><a
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dangerous-weather-eastern-united-states-flood-watches-latest-forecast-2018-07-25/"
data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="" target="_blank">Flood-inducing
downpours</a></span> have pounded the U.S. East this week. <br>
It's all part of summer - but it's all being made worse by
human-caused <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/climate-change/"
target="_blank" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="">climate change</a>,
scientists say. <br>
"Weirdness abounds," said Rutgers University climate scientist
Jennifer Francis. <br>
Japan hit 106 degrees on Monday, its hottest temperature ever.
Records fell in parts of Massachusetts, Maine, Wyoming, Colorado,
Oregon, New Mexico and Texas. And then there's crazy heat in Europe,
where normally chill Norway, Sweden and Finland all saw <span
class="link"><a
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fires-in-sweden-wildfires-rage-amid-intense-nordic-heat-wave-2018-07-18/"
data-invalid-url-rewritten-http="" target="_blank">temperatures
they have never seen before</a></span> on any date, pushing past
90 degrees. So far this month, at least 118 of these all-time heat
records have been set or tied across the globe, according to the <a
href="http://www.noaa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a>. <br>
The explanations should sound as familiar as the crash of broken
records. <br>
"We now have very strong evidence that global warming has already
put a thumb on the scales, upping the odds of extremes like severe
heat and heavy rainfall," Stanford University climate scientist Noah
Diffenbaugh said. "We find that global warming has increased the
odds of record-setting hot events over more than 80 percent of the
planet, and has increased the odds of record-setting wet events at
around half of the planet."... <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/record-breaking-heat-and-fires-are-worsened-by-climate-change-scientists-say/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/record-breaking-heat-and-fires-are-worsened-by-climate-change-scientists-say/</a></font><br>
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[Same news story]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/extreme-heat-wildfires-worsened-climate-change-say-scientists-n895496">Extreme
heat and wildfires made worse by climate change, say scientists</a></b><br>
Europe suffered its deadliest fire in more than a century, and
wildfires in the western United States forced thousands of people
from their homes.<br>
by Associated Press / Jul.28.2018 <br>
Heat waves are setting all-time temperature records across the
globe, again.<br>
Europe suffered its deadliest fire in more than a century, and one
of nearly 90 large fires in the U.S. West <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/smoke-california-s-huge-cranston-fire-creates-its-own-weather-n895081">burned
dozens of homes and forced the evacuation</a> of at least 37,000
people near Redding, California. Flood-inducing downpours have
pounded the U.S. East this week.<br>
It's all part of summer - but it's all being made worse by <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-government-websites-climate-change-survive-trump-era-n891806">human-caused
climate change</a>, scientists say.<br>
"Weirdness abounds," said Rutgers University climate scientist
Jennifer Francis.<br>
Japan hit 106 degrees on Monday, its hottest temperature ever.
Records fell in parts of Massachusetts, Maine, Wyoming, Colorado,
Oregon, New Mexico and Texas...<br>
And then there's crazy heat in Europe, where normally chill Norway,
Sweden and Finland all saw temperatures they have never seen before
on any date, pushing past 90 degrees.<br>
So far this month, at least 118 of these all-time heat records have
been set or tied across the globe, according to the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration.<br>
The explanations should sound as familiar as the crash of broken
records.<br>
- - - - -<br>
Climate scientists have long said they can't directly link single
weather events, like a heat wave, to human caused climate change
without extensive study. In the past decade they have used
observations, statistics and computer simulations to calculate if
global warming increases the chances of the events.<br>
<br>
A study by European scientists Friday found that the ongoing
European heat wave is twice as likely because of human-caused global
warming, though those conclusions have not yet been confirmed by
outside scientists...<br>
The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/">World Weather
Attribution</a> team said they compared three-day heat
measurements and forecasts for the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland
with historical records going back to the early 1900s.<br>
<blockquote>"The world is becoming warmer and so heat waves like
this are becoming more common," said Friederike Otto, a member of
the team and deputy director of the Environmental Change Institute
at the University of Oxford.<br>
</blockquote>
Erich Fischer, an expert on weather extremes at the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich who wasn't part of the analysis
said the authors used well-established methods to make their
conclusions.<br>
<br>
Georgia Tech climate scientist Kim Cobb said the link between
climate change and fires isn't as strong as it is with heat waves,
but it is becoming clearer...<br>
A devastating fire in Greece - with at least 83 fatalities - is the
deadliest fire in Europe since 1900, according to the International
Disaster Database run by the Centre for the Research on the
Epidemiology of Disasters in Brussels, Belgium.<br>
<blockquote>In the United States on Friday, there were 89 active
large fires, consuming nearly 900,000 acres, according to the
National Interagency Fire Center. So far this year, fires have
burned 4.15 million acres, which is nearly 14 percent higher than
average over the past 10 years.<br>
</blockquote>
The first major science study to connect greenhouse gases to
stronger and longer heat waves was in 2004. It was titled "More
intense, more frequent and longer lasting heat waves in the 21st
century."<br>
<br>
Study author Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric
Research said Friday that now it "reads like a prediction of what
has been happening and will continue to happen as long as average
temperatures continue to rise with ever-increasing emissions of
greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels. It's no mystery."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/extreme-heat-wildfires-worsened-climate-change-say-scientists-n895496">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/extreme-heat-wildfires-worsened-climate-change-say-scientists-n895496</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
[what BBC does:]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/10/why-california-fire-season-is-off-to-worst-start-in-10-years/">Carr
fire: California blaze kills children and great-grandmother</a></b><br>
Two children and their great-grandmother are among five people to
have died in a raging wildfire in northern California, reports say.<br>
Two firefighters died on Thursday, 17 people are missing and tens of
thousands have fled their homes.<br>
The fires in Shasta county are being sucked up by strong winds to
form "fire tornados" that are uprooting trees and overturning cars,
fire officials say.<br>
Firefighters are battling the blaze, which is only 5% contained so
far.<br>
The blazes, known as the Carr fire, have destroyed at least 500
structures and are threatening thousands of homes.<br>
The wildfire began on Monday after a car malfunctioned. It has
scorched over 48,000 acres (194 sq km) of land - an area larger than
the city of San Francisco.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44943143">The photos that
explain the world's wildfires</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="Reality%20Check:%20Mapping%20the%20global%20heatwave">Reality
Check: Mapping the global heatwave</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44941999">Why wildfires are
breaking out in the 'wrong' countries</a><br>
Sherry Bledsoe has confirmed that her grandmother Melody Bledsoe,
70, and her two children Emily Roberts, five, and James Roberts,
four, died in the fire, reports say.<br>
They were caught in the path of the fire as they were about to
evacuate their home in the town of Redding, NBC reported.<br>
Melody Bledsoe's husband, Ed, earlier described how she had called
him while he was out shopping and told him to return home because
the fire was getting close to the house.<br>
When he reached home he found it destroyed and surrounded by police
tape, he said.<br>
Another relative told NBC that Melody Bledsoe had called police to
say they were trapped inside the house but the line went dead during
the call.<br>
Two firefighters - fire inspector Jeremy Stoke, and a bulldozer
operator who has not yet been named, died trying contain the blaze.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2164">More
than 3,400 firefighters have been deployed</a> - but the local
fire department has warned that hot, dry weather is forecast for the
rest of the week, and could make the blaze worse.<br>
"We are seeing fire whirls - literally what can be described as a
tornado," California department of forestry and fire protection
(CalFire) chief Ken Pimlott told reporters.<br>
"This fire was whipped up into a whirlwind of activity" by
gale-force winds, he said, "uprooting trees, moving vehicles, moving
parts of roadways."<br>
"These are extreme conditions... we need to take heed and evacuate,
evacuate, evacuate."<br>
Fire whirls, also known as fire "tornadoes", are spinning
vortexes of air, ash and fire<br>
They form when rising hot air begins to rotate and forms a
vortex that picks up flammable gases and burning debris vegetation<br>
Fire whirls typically only last a few minutes but can be very
dangerous because they can move quickly<br>
They can reach dozens of metres in height, with core
temperatures as high as 1,090C.<br>
About 37,000 residents have been forced to leave the area.<br>
One local, Liz Williams, found herself and her two children stuck in
traffic as people rushed to evacuate. She eventually fled by foot.<br>
"I've never experienced something so terrifying in my life," she
told AP news agency. "I didn't know if the fire was just going to
jump out behind a bush and grab me and suck me in." <br>
The Carr fire is one of almost 90 active large fires in the US,
according to the National Interagency Fire Center.<br>
In California, the Ferguson fire has killed one firefighter and led
to the closure of much of Yosemite National Park, while the Cranston
fire in Riverside County in the south has burned 11,500 acres (46 sq
km) of land.<br>
Wildfires are a common occurrence in California during the state's
long, hot, dry summers.<br>
However, <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/10/why-california-fire-season-is-off-to-worst-start-in-10-years/">experts
say this has been the worst start to the fire season in 10 years</a></b>
- partly due to the 2012-2017 drought that killed off large amounts
of vegetation.<br>
In December,<b> </b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-42297370">Governor
Jerry Brown said devastating wildfires fuelled by climate change
had become "the new normal"</a></b>, and that large fires "could
happen every year or every few years". <br>
<br>
[visual of Calif wildfire data]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/1022903140721483776">https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/1022903140721483776</a><br>
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<br>
[Climate change science comeback strategies]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/07/climate-change-science-comeback-strategies-part-one/">Steering
conversations with people adamantly resistant to accepting
climate science. (Part I)</a></b><br>
The first lesson is this: have a conscious strategy, rather than a
knee-jerk response. Think about where you want to go and what your
goals are. And if your aim is to simply make the other person feel
bad or look bad, then maybe reconsider if that's helpful to either
of you....<br>
- - - <br>
Strategy #1 - Correct the science<br>
At its core, climate change is a scientific topic, although the
controversy around it is largely pinned to ideology, rather than to
scientific acumen. Nonetheless, a healthy dose of science is rarely
a bad idea, as long as it's delivered in a constructive manner.
Remember, climate contrarians who have changed their minds have
credited science more than any other factor...<br>
- - - -<br>
Strategy #2 - Expose the myth, misinformation, or fallacy<br>
Few may be surprised that most attempts to undermine climate science
hinge on some type of misinformation. Cherry-picked data, fake
experts, and conspiracy theories are well-worn hallmarks of
contrarian rhetoric...<br>
- - - -<br>
Strategy #3 - Engage in dialogue<br>
One of the hardest tasks when faced with someone whose opinions
clash with yours is to take a deep breath and do the unthinkable:
listen...<br>
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Strategy #4 - Be persuasive<br>
Scott Gruhn doesn't have formal training in climate science or
communications, but he demonstrates admirable skill in both arenas.
Gruhn is a tireless, effective defender and explainer of climate
science on Facebook. His persuasive posts routinely get people to
soften their stance and consider evidence, and he's even been able
to usher a half dozen people to do a complete turnabout in their
views...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/07/climate-change-science-comeback-strategies-part-one/">https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/07/climate-change-science-comeback-strategies-part-one/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[media: "much more serious issues being put aside" like global
warming]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/x6qk01yq-dY?t=3m13s">Noam Chomsky on Mass
Media Obsession with Russia & the Stories Not Being Covered
in the Trump Era</a></b><br>
Democracy Now!<br>
Published on Jul 27, 2018<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://democracynow.org">https://democracynow.org</a>
- The New York Times reports special counsel Robert Mueller is
scrutinizing President Trump's tweets as part of Mueller's expanding
probe into Trump's ties to Russia. This latest revelation in the
Mueller investigation is part of a nearly 24-hour stream of
headlines about Trump, Russia and the administration's various
scandals. But is the mainstream media missing the real stories amid
its obsession with “Russiagate”? For more, we speak with
world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and professor
Noam Chomsky on media manipulation in the Trump era.<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://youtu.be/x6qk01yq-dY?t=3m13s">https://youtu.be/x6qk01yq-dY?t=3m13s</a><br>
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<br>
[Letters to the Editor - Opinion]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-climate-change-cars-20180727-story.html">Californians
can ride in cars or fight climate change. They can't do both</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-climate-change-cars-20180727-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-climate-change-cars-20180727-story.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Sunday criticizing the NYTimes for blaming all humans] <br>
<b><a
href="https://medium.com/@huntercutting/looking-for-the-enemy-7b0813ff9b0c">Looking
for the Enemy </a><br>
<a
href="https://medium.com/@huntercutting/looking-for-the-enemy-7b0813ff9b0c">NYT
Magazine's Nathaniel Rich Goes Full Pogo</a></b><br>
By Hunter Cutting<br>
According to Jake Silverstein, the editor in chief of the New York
Times Magazine, "the August 5 issue of @NYTmag will be dedicated
entirely to a single story, a captivating, revelatory history about
the decade we almost stopped climate change, but didn't."<br>
And the breathless hype doesn't stop there, Silverstein lauds the
author, Nathaniel Rich, tweeting the piece as: <b>"a remarkable
piece of historical journalism that will change the way you think
about global warming."</b><br>
Unfortunately the early hints suggest that Rich's piece will do
anything but that.<br>
<blockquote>"I question whether partisanship is really our biggest
problem. And I question whether the industries' misinformation
campaign, as cynical and clownish as it is, is the problem."<br>
And a bit later, Rich doubles down, going on to say:<br>
"I question additionally whether a lack of public concern is our
biggest problem."<br>
<b>"What is our problem? The shortest, most simple answer, I
believe, is human nature.</b> We're a medium-term species. We
plan ahead, but only so far. We're willing to sacrifice comfort in
the present for security in the future, but within reason."<br>
It is at this point that Rich effectively throws out thirty years
of political history, and blames you and me for climate change.
He's gone full Pogo, declaring he has met the enemy and it is
us...<br>
So I question whether partisanship is really our biggest problem.
And <b>I question whether the industries' misinformation
campaign, as cynical and clownish as it is, is the problem."<br>
</b></blockquote>
Ironically Rich himself would appear to be exhibit A for his
argument about the limitations of human vision. However, I hope I'm
wrong about that, and I look forward to reading the NYT special
issue. Regardless, there is a huge range in the natural variability
of the human species. Better pundits with clearer vision are out
there.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@huntercutting/looking-for-the-enemy-7b0813ff9b0c">https://medium.com/@huntercutting/looking-for-the-enemy-7b0813ff9b0c</a></font><br>
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<br>
[DOE video visualization]<br>
<b><a href="https://youtu.be/8Df96rx3i9g">E3SM: DOE's New,
State-of-the-Science Earth System Model</a></b><br>
doescience Published on Apr 23, 2018<br>
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today unveiled a powerful, new
earth system model that uses the world's fastest computers so that
scientists can better understand how earth system processes interact
today and how they may evolve in the future. The Energy Exascale
Earth System model, or E3SM, is the product of four years of
development by top geophysical and computational scientists across
DOE's laboratory complex. This video highlights the capabilities and
goals of the E3SM project. For more information, visit <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.E3SM.org">www.E3SM.org</a>.
[comments have been disabled]<br>
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href="https://youtu.be/8Df96rx3i9g">https://youtu.be/8Df96rx3i9g</a></font><br>
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<br>
[One more thing from a Russian scientist]<br>
<b><a
href="http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/06/05/vladimir-vernadsky-and-the-disruption-of-the-biosphere/">Vladimir
Vernadsky and the Disruption of the Biosphere</a></b><br>
Posted on June 5, 2018<br>
Vladimir Vernadsky, 1863-1945<br>
Virtually unknown in the west, the great Russian geologist and
geochemist pioneered scientific study of life's impact on the Earth.
<br>
The first scientist to undertake a serious study of the dynamic
relationship between life and the Earth as a whole was the Russian
geochemist Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky. Born in 1863 and educated
in St. Petersburg, Munich and Paris, by 1900 he was well-known both
as a geologist and as a liberal opponent of Tsarist autocracy. A
founder of the Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party and member of
its central committee for many years, he represented the
universities' constituency in the Duma (Parliament) from 1906 to
1911, when he resigned to protest government attacks on academic
freedom. In 1915, he founded the Commission for the Study of the
Natural Productive Forces of Russia (KEPS), to identify sources of
strategic raw materials: its work continued under the Soviet
government until 1930. Although he opposed the Bolshevik revolution,
he resigned from the Kadets when the party supported military action
against the new government. After the Civil War, he returned to
Petrograd and resumed his position as head of the Academy of
Sciences.<br>
<br>
In the early 1930s, Vernadsky criticized the government's takeover
of scientific institutions, and objected to attempts to impose
dialectical materialism as an official and mandatory philosophy. He
frequently intervened privately to aid scholars who faced official
censorship or persecution. But for the most part he refrained from
publicly opposing Stalin's policies, to avoid endangering his
scientific work. He wasn't a Marxist, but he was a Russian patriot,
eager to contribute to the country's development, and that probably
saved him from the fate of many other scientists in the purges. As
his biographer notes, “it was not uncommon for Stalinists to worry
more about Marxists with whom they disagreed and whom they
distrusted, than they did about non-Marxists who worked loyally for
the regime, did not intrigue, and were no real threat to Stalin's
position.”[3]<br>
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The Biosphere<br>
In 1922, while studying and teaching in Paris, Vernadsky wrote “A
plea for the establishment of a biogeochemical laboratory,” and sent
it to scientific bodies in Europe and the United States, hoping to
get international funding, but only the Soviet government responded
positively.[4] He established his laboratory - really a small
research institute - in Leningrad in 1926.<br>
Vernadsky's focus on biogeochemistry - he created both the word and
the science -reflected his conviction that the composition and
principal characteristics of our planet could not be explained by
geology and chemistry alone. “I realized,” he later wrote, “that the
basis of geology lies in the chemical element - in the atom - and
that living organisms play a prominent role, perhaps the leading
one, in our natural environment - the biosphere.”<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/06/05/vladimir-vernadsky-and-the-disruption-of-the-biosphere/">http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/06/05/vladimir-vernadsky-and-the-disruption-of-the-biosphere/</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Classic video from April 2018]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/fikdONZ9a50">Changing
the Climate: How Public Health, Cities, and the Media Can
Advance Climate Solutions</a></b><br>
KEYNOTE<br>
Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, United States Environmental
Protection Agency and Professor of the Practice of Public Health,
Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/fikdONZ9a50">https://youtu.be/fikdONZ9a50</a></font><br>
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<br>
[Satire relief Trevor Noah]<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ofx6b3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-world-is-on-fire">THE
WORLD IS ON FIRE</a></b><br>
Clip7/26/2018<br>
Climate scientists sound the alarm about record-breaking high
temperatures across the globe, and Trevor offers a few creative
solutions.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ofx6b3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-world-is-on-fire">http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ofx6b3/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-the-world-is-on-fire</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="July%2029,%202004:%20At%20the%20Democratic%20National%20Convention,%20Senator%20John%20Kerry%20of%20Massachusetts,%20the%20Democratic%20Presidential%20nominee,%20notes%20that%20if%20he%20is%20elected,%20he%20will%20%22have%20a%20vice%20president%20who%20will%20not%20conduct%20secret%20meetings%20with%20polluters%20to%20rewrite%20our%20environmental%20laws.%22,,He%20also%20observes:,,%E2%80%9CWe+value+an+America+that+controls+its+own+destiny+because+it%27s+finally+and+forever+independent+of+Mideast+oil.+What+does+it+mean+for+our+economy+and+our+national+security+when+we+have+only+3+percent+of+the+world%27s+oil+reserves,%20yet%20we%20rely%20on%20foreign%20countries%20for%2053%20percent%20of%20what%20we%20consume?,,%E2%80%9CI+want+an+America+that+relies+on+its+ingenuity+and+innovation,%20not%20the%20Saudi%20royal%20family.,,%E2%80%9CAnd+our+energy+plan+for+a+stronger+America+--+our+energy+plan+will+invest+in+new+technologies+and+alternative+fuels+and+the+cars+of+the+future,%20so%20that%20no%20young%20American%20in%20uniform%20will%20ever%20be%20held%20hostage%20to%20our%20dependence%20on%20oil%20from%20the%20Middle%20East.%22,,http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25678-2004Jul29.html,,http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Day4Ev"><br>
</a><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="July%2029,%202004:%20At%20the%20Democratic%20National%20Convention,%20Senator%20John%20Kerry%20of%20Massachusetts,%20the%20Democratic%20Presidential%20nominee,%20notes%20that%20if%20he%20is%20elected,%20he%20will%20%22have%20a%20vice%20president%20who%20will%20not%20conduct%20secret%20meetings%20with%20polluters%20to%20rewrite%20our%20environmental%20laws.%22,,He%20also%20observes:,,%E2%80%9CWe+value+an+America+that+controls+its+own+destiny+because+it%27s+finally+and+forever+independent+of+Mideast+oil.+What+does+it+mean+for+our+economy+and+our+national+security+when+we+have+only+3+percent+of+the+world%27s+oil+reserves,%20yet%20we%20rely%20on%20foreign%20countries%20for%2053%20percent%20of%20what%20we%20consume?,,%E2%80%9CI+want+an+America+that+relies+on+its+ingenuity+and+innovation,%20not%20the%20Saudi%20royal%20family.,,%E2%80%9CAnd+our+energy+plan+for+a+stronger+America+--+our+energy+plan+will+invest+in+new+technologies+and+alternative+fuels+and+the+cars+of+the+future,%20so%20that%20no%20young%20American%20in%20uniform%20will%20ever%20be%20held%20hostage%20to%20our%20dependence%20on%20oil%20from%20the%20Middle%20East.%22,,http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25678-2004Jul29.html,,http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Day4Ev">This
Day in Climate History - July 29, 2004</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
July 29, 2004: At the Democratic National Convention, Senator John
Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic Presidential nominee, notes
that if he is elected, he will "have a vice president who will not
conduct secret meetings with polluters to rewrite our environmental
laws."<br>
He also observes:<br>
<blockquote>“We value an America that controls its own destiny
because it's finally and forever independent of Mideast oil. What
does it mean for our economy and our national security when we
have only 3 percent of the world's oil reserves, yet we rely on
foreign countries for 53 percent of what we consume?<br>
<br>
“I want an America that relies on its ingenuity and innovation,
not the Saudi royal family.<br>
<br>
“And our energy plan for a stronger America -- our energy plan
will invest in new technologies and alternative fuels and the cars
of the future, so that no young American in uniform will ever be
held hostage to our dependence on oil from the Middle East."<br>
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