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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>April</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 7, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ BBC reports ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Climate change: Norwegian seafloor
holds clue to Antarctic melting</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">By Jonathan Amos<br>
BBC Science Correspondent<br>
@BBCAmos<br>
Antarctica's melting ice sheet could retreat much faster than
previously thought, new research suggests.<br>
<br>
The evidence comes from markings on the seafloor off Norway that
record the pull-back of a melting European ice sheet thousands of
years ago.<br>
<br>
Today, the fastest withdrawing glaciers in Antarctica are seen to
retreat by up to 30m a day.<br>
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But if they sped up, the extra melt water would have big
implications for sea-level rises around the globe...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Ice losses from Antarctica caused by climate
change have already pushed up the surface of the world's oceans by
nearly 1cm since the 1990s.<br>
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The researchers found that with the Norwegian sheet, the maximum
retreat was more than 600m a day.<br>
<br>
"This is something we could see if we continue with the upper
estimates for temperature rise," explained Dr Christine Batchelor
from Newcastle University, UK.<br>
<br>
"Although, worryingly, when we did the equations to think about
what would be needed to instigate such retreat in Antarctica, we
actually found there are places where you could get similar pulses
of withdrawal even under the basal melt rates we know are
happening at the moment," she told BBC News.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- Scientists track iceberg the size of London<br>
- Antarctica sea-ice hits new record low<br>
- Vast glacier at mercy of sea warmth increase<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Dr Batchelor and colleagues report their
research in this week's edition of the journal Nature.<br>
<br>
The team has been looking at a great swathe of seafloor off the
central Norwegian coast. Twenty thousand years ago, this area was
witness to a massive Northern European ice sheet in the process of
withdrawal and break-up.<br>
<br>
The sheet's past existence is written into more than 7,600
parallel, ladder-like ridges that have been sculpted in the
seafloor's muddy sediments. These corrugations are less than 2.5m
high and are spaced between about 25m and 300m apart.<br>
<br>
The scientists interpret the ridges to be features that are
generated at an ice grounding zone.<br>
<br>
This is the zone where glacier ice flowing off the land into the
ocean becomes buoyant and starts to float. The corrugations are
created as the ice at this location repeatedly pats the sediments
as the daily tides rise and fall.<br>
<br>
For the pattern to have been produced and preserved, the ice must
have been in retreat (advancing ice would destroy the ridges); and
the tidal "clock" therefore gives a rate for this reversal...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">The team's results show the former European ice
sheet underwent pulses of rapid retreat at speeds of 55m to 610m
per day.<br>
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Importantly, the fastest rates were observed in places where the
seafloor was relatively flat. These are locations where the ice
above would tend to be more uniform in thickness and where less
melting is required to make the ice float to aid its retreat.<br>
<br>
Similar corrugations have been detected on the seafloor around
Antarctica but the examples are quite limited in extent. The
Norwegian study area is vastly greater and so gives a much clearer
impression of how quickly ice can go backwards in a warming
climate.<br>
<br>
Today, scientists use satellites to monitor the grounding zones of
Antarctica's ocean-terminating glaciers. The spacecraft can trace
where the ice is being lifted and lowered on the tides...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The fastest retreat has been observed at Pope
Glacier in the west of the continent, where an average rate of 33m
a day was measured over a period of 3.5 months in 2017.<br>
<br>
But Pope is not one of Antarctica's mightier glaciers. Scientists
are more interested in behemoths such as Thwaites. This body of
ice is the size of Britain and could raise global sea levels by
half a metre, were it all to melt.<br>
<br>
"Four kilometres inland of the current grounding line at Thwaites,
there is a conduit-like channel where the seabed is flat. It is
the perfect setting for this process of buoyancy-driven retreat,"
said co-author Dr Frazer Christie of the Scott Polar Research
Institute (SPRI), Cambridge University, UK.<br>
<br>
"We're talking about a small area compared with Thwaites' entire
drainage basin, but even a short-lived, very rapid retreat will
have implications for the future dynamics of the glacier."<br>
<br>
Drs Batchelor and Christie say their team's observations will
fine-tune the computer models that try to forecast Antarctica's
destiny in an ever-warming world. At the moment, these models are
missing important details of ice behaviour.<br>
<br>
"But this is why we look into the geological past to tell us
what's possible. Yes, we have satellites, but their records are
very short - only 40 years or so," commented co-author Prof Julian
Dowdeswell, also from SPRI.<br>
<br>
"Importantly, the geological record is something that has actually
happened. It's an 'observation' in the real world, not just in the
computer model world," he told BBC News.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65192825">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65192825</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ from "Living on Earth" audio and
transcript ]</i></font><br>
<b>Dire Climate Warning From IPCC</b><br>
Air Date: Week of March 31, 2023<br>
The world has no more than a year or two to start bending the curve
of carbon emissions downward to avoid more drastic impacts of
climate change, according to the latest scientific consensus the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. UPenn climate scientist
Michael Mann joins Host Steve Curwood to discuss what’s at stake for
the planet and what’s necessary to keep warming below 1.5 degrees
Celsius...<br>
- - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://megaphone.link/LOE8205389045">https://megaphone.link/LOE8205389045</a><br>
CURWOOD: So to what extent is the bad news already baked in? And
what aspects Do we have a better chance to avoid? Do you think?<br>
<br>
MANN: Yeah, so you know, the extreme weather events, the heat waves,
the wildfires, the floods, the superstorms. To a large extent, those
are really related to the warming of Earth's surface, the warming of
the ocean surface, the warming of the planet surface. And we know
the science tells us that once we bring carbon emissions to zero,
the planet's surface stops warming up. So that's really important.
So we're sort of stuck with the worsening of those impacts that
we've already seen. In the best-case scenario, we've got to live
with that. But we can prevent them from getting worse. Now, where
things are a little more concerning, is with say, the behavior of
the ice sheets, and sea level rise, those sort of components of the
system are sort of more cumulative in nature, they are a consequence
of sort of the inertia of the climate system and the oceans, you
know, will continue to warm up for decades, the surface might start
warming up, but the sub surface of the oceans will continue to warm
as that heat from the surface sort of diffuses down and penetrates
into the deep ocean, and sea level will expand as the ocean
continues to heat up. And those ice sheets are very sluggish in
their response. So once you start to see the disintegration of those
ice shelves, and then parts of the ice sheet, it's very difficult to
stop that. And so some of those impacts could continue to get worse.
Even if we stop our carbon emissions. Even if we stop the surface of
the planet from warming up.<br>
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CURWOOD: For the years that you've been working on this. There's
been pretty robust discussion about this problem. But at the end of
the day, we still aren't headed in the right direction, we may be
slowing down, there may be some more awareness. But still, if we
continue with the present rate, this report says we're really in for
it. We are in the process of destroying our civilization. But what's
the bright side here? What's the opportunity here? What's thing that
we're missing?<br>
MANN: The reason for cautious optimism here is that we're not
heading headlong into the climate crisis in the way that we were,
say 10 or 20 years ago with our carbon emissions, they've stopped
going up carbon emissions were rising, and that was deeply
problematic. Now, they've sort of hit a plateau where they're no
longer rising globally. And we know that that is due in substantial
part to the decarbonization of the global economy. We are seeing
movement away from fossil fuel energy to renewable energy. The
obstacles at this point, aren't climate physics, and they're not
technology. The obstacles right now are entirely political, and
political obstacles can be overcome with enough sort of popular
support with an uprising with a global movement like we're seeing
now with climate, the Youth Climate movement has really sort of
recenter the conversation where it always needed to be on our
ethical obligation to act before it's too late. And I do think that
we're seeing a tipping point of the good kind, it gives me hope that
it's not too late for us to do this.<br>
<br>
CURWOOD: Michael Mann is the director of the Center for Science,
sustainability, and the Media at the University of Pennsylvania, and
author of the forthcoming book, Our Fragile Moment. Professor thanks
so much for taking the time with us today.<br>
<br>
MANN: Thank you Steve, always a pleasure.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=23-P13-00013&segmentID=1&mc_cid=c5cdb5498f&mc_eid=c0e3fd9032">https://loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=23-P13-00013&segmentID=1&mc_cid=c5cdb5498f&mc_eid=c0e3fd9032</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ does not grasp gasses ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Climate
experts hit back at Australian politician’s bizarre theory about
gravity’s role in global heating</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Gerard Rennick met with scorn, derision and
plenty of corrections over viral tweet and claim that scientists
are ‘cancelling gravity’</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Graham Readfearn</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> @readfearn</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Tue 4 Apr 2023</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">An Australian senator has attempted to
undermine the entire theory of the greenhouse effect with a
bizarre viral claim that scientists have been ignoring gravity’s
role in heating the planet.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> The tweet from the Queensland senator Gerard
Rennick, a member of the conservative Liberal National party of
Queensland which is part of the main opposition Coalition, has
gone viral this week and has been met with scorn, derision and
plenty of corrections from high-profile climate scientists.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> “Senator, you should be thankful you can’t be
impeached for ignorance,” wrote Prof Michael Mann, a leading
climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> In the tweet, made last month and viewed more
than 850,000 times, Rennick posted a video with the words
“scientists ignore the fact that gravity plays a role in heating
the earth … That’s why ‘Net Zero’ CO2 emissions won’t stop
‘Climate Change’.”</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> The video features Rennick appearing in a
session of parliament where he asked a bemused head of a
government science agency whether “gases [in the atmosphere] trap
convection”...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">{ twitter <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/SenatorRennick/status/1636230316921884672">https://twitter.com/SenatorRennick/status/1636230316921884672</a>
}</font><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Simple explanation from NASA Climate
Kids: climatekids.nasa.gov/carbon/ ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri">Dr Chris Colose, a climate scientist at Nasa,
replied on Twitter that Rennick’s question “do gases trap
convection”, “doesn’t even make sense as a statement. Nor does it
discount the importance of [greenhouse gases].”<br>
<br>
In an article linked from the tweet, Rennick, whose biography says
he has degrees in taxation, commerce and finance, wrote that
gravity was “overlooked by climate scientists who want to blame
CO2 for trapping heat in the atmosphere”.<br>
<br>
All of this, according to Rennick, meant CO2 was not responsible
for global heating. Climate change was “junk science”, he wrote.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Engaging on Twitter, Mann described Rennick’s
statement as “gibberish” and a “stringing together of scientific
terms reminiscent of monkeys typing on a typewriter”.<br>
<br>
When Rennick accused Mann of “cancelling gravity” in his
explanations of the greenhouse effect, Mann showed him a
mathematical explanation of how air temperatures change depending
on altitude...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Associate Prof Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a
climate scientist at the University of New South Wales Canberra,
pointed to Rennick’s areas of expertise, which don’t include
atmospheric physics or climate science.<br>
<br>
“He’s got no expertise whatsoever. It’s a bit like me going and
doing someone else’s taxes. I wouldn’t. There’s no point,” she
said.<br>
<br>
Rennick wrote that adding CO2 “doesn’t add to the overall heat in
the system” but Perkins-Kirkpatrick said it does trap more heat –
a property of CO2 established in the 19th century.<br>
<br>
Rennick tried to argue the “first law of Thermodynamics” meant
“energy can neither be created or destroyed, only transferred or
transformed”.<br>
<br>
He wrote any radiation absorbed or emitted by CO2 “doesn’t add to
the overall heat in the system”.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">But Perkins-Kirkpatrick said Rennick had again
misunderstood the basics because energy entered the Earth’s
atmosphere from the sun, and energy also left the atmosphere.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">“Yes, energy can’t be created or destroyed but
it does leave the Earth’s system. The Earth isn’t closed off. It’s
part of the universe,” she said.<br>
<br>
Scientists measure the Earth’s energy imbalance – that is, the
difference between how much energy from the sun is absorbed by the
Earth and how much radiation is emitted back out to space.<br>
<br>
A 2021 study found this imbalance – caused mostly by adding
greenhouse gases to the atmosphere – had doubled between 2005 and
2019, causing the Earth to gain more heat.<br>
<br>
Rennick, who once accused the country’s weather bureau of engaging
in a conspiracy to alter climate records, said it was
“categorically false” that CO2 trapped heat like a greenhouse,
because a greenhouse or blanket “traps convection because it a
solid object”.<br>
<br>
The common analogy that greenhouse gases act like a blanket around
the planet is not supposed to describe exactly how the atmosphere
works.<br>
<br>
Perkins-Kirkpatrick said the analogy “isn’t perfect” but it gave a
good example of how adding extra greenhouse gases to the
atmosphere trapped more heat near the Earth’s surface.<br>
<br>
Prof Steven Sherwood of the Climate Change Research Centre at the
University of NSW, said: “There’s a saying in science when you
really want to cut something down. ‘It’s not even wrong.’”<br>
<br>
He said the role of convection was well understood. “It’s
important and it is part of global warming. It is how heat gets to
upper parts of the atmosphere. But we know that. It doesn’t
falsify global warming. There’s just no logic [to Rennick’s
tweet].”<br>
<br>
Dr Andrew King, a climate scientist at the University of
Melbourne, said both gravity and convection were included in
climate modelling, and to suggest they were ignored was “complete
nonsense”.<br>
<br>
“It’s quite concerning that this is coming from an elected
official. I think often as scientists we think people are sick of
hearing about climate change and have quite a good grasp of the
greenhouse effect. But maybe not. There’s still a big knowledge
gap there in the office of Senator Rennick.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/05/climate-experts-hit-back-at-australian-politicians-bizarre-theory-about-gravitys-role-in-global-heating">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/05/climate-experts-hit-back-at-australian-politicians-bizarre-theory-about-gravitys-role-in-global-heating</a></font><font
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ some humor to follow this ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/richardabetts/status/1642560324212518912/photo/1">https://twitter.com/richardabetts/status/1642560324212518912/photo/1</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ </i></font><font face="Calibri"><i><font
face="Calibri"><i>" that's not right, that's not even wrong" </i></font>
] </i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Pauli and Not Even Wrong</b><br>
Posted on October 1, 2005 by woit<br>
When I first started thinking about using “Not Even Wrong” as the
title of a book, I did some research to try and find out where the
supposed Pauli quote came from. No one seemed to have any
information about this, other than the attribution to Pauli, and
various different stories existed about the context in which he
had used the phrase. I started to worry that these stories, like
many of the best ones about Pauli, might be apocryphal, so I
contacted a few physicists who had some connection to Pauli to ask
them about this. Prof. Karl von Meyenn, the editor of Pauli’s
correspondence, wrote back to tell me that the phrase doesn’t
occur in his correspondence. He pointed me to a biographical
notice about Pauli written soon after his death by Rudolf Peierls
as the best source for the story of Pauli using the phrase.<br>
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Peierls writes<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">No account of Pauli and his
attitude to people would be complete without mention of his
critical remarks, for which he was known and sometimes feared
throughout the world of physics…</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">No doubt many of the stories of this kind
circulated about him are apocryphal, but the examples below come
from reliable sources or from conversations at which the writer
was present…</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">Quite recently, a friend showed him the paper
of a young physicist which he suspected was not of great value
but on which he wanted Pauli’s views. Pauli remarked sadly ‘It
is not even wrong.’</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri">The Peierls article is in<br>
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 5 (Feb.
1960), 174-192.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=271">https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=271</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[ Wolfgang Pauli is not a related
ancestor to Richard Pauli ]</i><br>
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<i> </i><i><font face="Calibri">[The news archive - looking back</font></i><i><font
face="Calibri"> at a few important news stories over past years
show how we are pushed to forget.</font></i><font face="Calibri"><i>]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><font size="+2"><b>April
7 </b></font></font>- <b> April 7th has been a big day for
forgetting -</b><font face="Calibri"><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri">April 7, 2009:
In a story entitled "New Data Show Rapid Arctic Ice Decline,"
the Washington Post observes: <br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">"The new evidence -- including satellite
data showing that the average multiyear wintertime sea ice
cover in the Arctic in 2005 and 2006 was nine feet thick, a
significant decline from the 1980s -- contradicts data cited
in widely circulated reports by Washington Post columnist
George F. Will that sea ice in the Arctic has not
significantly declined since 1979."</font></p>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/06/AR2009040601634.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/06/AR2009040601634.html</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">April 7, 2011: In a Huffington Post piece,
former fundamentalist Christian activist Frank Schaeffer explains
religiously motivated climate-change denial:</font><font
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"The religious right/far right Tea
Party et al. favor private 'facts,' too. They claimed that
global warming wasn't real. They asserted this because
scientists (those same agents of Satan who insisted that
evolution was real) were the ones who said human actions were
changing the climate. Worse, the government said so, too!"</font></blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/republicans-vomiting-on-t_b_845948.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/republicans-vomiting-on-t_b_845948.html</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">April 7, 2012: On MSNBC's "Up," Chris Hayes
discusses the prosecution and imprisonment of climate activist Tim
DeChristopher</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIFzAgFMeSE&sns=em">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIFzAgFMeSE&sns=em</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> April 7, 2014: </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> • Showtime schedules a free online broadcast
of the first part of its documentary series "Years of Living
Dangerously."</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ&sns=em">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvhCnYvxQQ&sns=em</a></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/showtime-series-aims-to-engage-sleepy-public-on-climate-change-with-celebrity-guides/">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/showtime-series-aims-to-engage-sleepy-public-on-climate-change-with-celebrity-guides/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">- --<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> • The Union of Concerned Scientists releases a
study on cable-news climate coverage, noting that CNN and Fox News
have abandoned scientific accuracy on the topic.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cable-news-climate-change_n_5093099">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cable-news-climate-change_n_5093099</a>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/07/3423224/cable-news-accuracy-climate-science/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/07/3423224/cable-news-accuracy-climate-science/</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cable-news-fox-climate-science-accuracy/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cable-news-fox-climate-science-accuracy/</a>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/07/new-report-finds-cnn-and-fox-news-weaken-public/198775">https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/07/new-report-finds-cnn-and-fox-news-weaken-public/198775</a>
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<font face="Calibri"> April 7, 2015:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> • The New York Times reports on Harvard Law
School Professor Laurence Tribe's war on the EPA's efforts to
fight carbon pollution.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/us/laurence-tribe-fights-climate-case-against-star-pupil-from-harvard-president-obama.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/07/us/laurence-tribe-fights-climate-case-against-star-pupil-from-harvard-president-obama.html</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> - -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> • Washington Post op-ed columnist Dana Milbank
observes:</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> "There is no denying it: Climate-change
deniers are in retreat.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> "What began as a subtle shift away from the
claim that man-made global warming is not a threat to the planet
has lately turned into a stampede. The latest attempt to deny
denial comes from the conservative American Legislative Exchange
Council, a powerful group that pushes for states to pass laws that
are often drafted by industry. As my Post colleagues Tom
Hamburger, Joby Warrick and Chris Mooney report, ALEC is not only
insisting that it doesn’t deny climate change — it’s threatening
to sue those who suggest otherwise...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> "The turnabout at ALEC follows an about-face
at the Heartland Institute, a libertarian outfit that embraces a
description of it as 'the world’s most prominent think tank
promoting skepticism about man-made climate change.'</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> "But on Christmas Eve, Justin Haskins, a
blogger and editor at Heartland, penned an article for the
conservative journal Human Events declaring: 'The real debate is
not whether man is, in some way, contributing to climate change;
it’s true that the science is settled on that point in favor of
the alarmists.' </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> "Haskins called it 'a rather extreme position
to say that we ought to allow dangerous pollutants to destroy the
only planet we know of that can completely sustain human life,'
and he suggested work on “technologies that can reduce CO2
emissions without destroying whole economies.'"</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> (Milbank failed to acknowledge in his column
that his Washington Post colleagues George Will and Charles
Krauthammer continue, against all reason and logic, to reject the
overwhelming scientific evidence of a major threat to human life
from carbon pollution.)</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-deniers-are-in-retreat/2015/04/06/942eb980-dc9f-11e4-be40-566e2653afe5_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-deniers-are-in-retreat/2015/04/06/942eb980-dc9f-11e4-be40-566e2653afe5_story.html</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> - -</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">• MSNBC's Ed Schultz discusses the GOP's
obsession with denying human-caused climate change.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/fighting-the-gops-climate-denying-policy-424488515724">http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/fighting-the-gops-climate-denying-policy-424488515724</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font face="Calibri">April 7, 2018:<br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
</font>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri"> “As ethical questions threaten the
Environmental Protection Administrator, Scott Pruitt, President
Trump has defended him with a persuasive conservative argument:
Mr. Pruitt is doing a great job at what he was hired to do, roll
back regulations.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> “But legal experts and White House officials
say that in Mr. Pruitt’s haste to undo government rules and in
his eagerness to hold high-profile political events promoting
his agenda, he has often been less than rigorous in following
important procedures, leading to poorly crafted legal efforts
that risk being struck down in court.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> “The result, they say, is that the
rollbacks, intended to fulfill one of the president’s central
campaign pledges, may ultimately be undercut or reversed.”</font><br>
</blockquote>
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