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• *FOURTH NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States
  The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change and variability and its impacts across the United States, now and throughout this century.
• *PBS Frontline - Climate of Doubt
  Related Film: Climate of Doubt FRONTLINE explores the massive shift in public opinion on climate change.
• *Two New Books Dramatically Capture the Climate Change Crisis
  John Lanchester, NY Times, April 12, 2019
  THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells
  LOSING EARTH: A Climate History, by Nathaniel Rich
  Climate change is the greatest challenge humanity has collectively faced. That challenge is, to put it mildly, practical; but it also poses a problem to the imagination. Our politics, our societies, are arranged around individual and group interests. These interests have to do with class, or ethnicity, or gender, or economics — make your own list. By asserting these interests, we call out to each other so that as a collective we see and hear one another. ...
  The problem with climate change, as an existential challenge to humanity, is that the interest-based model of society and politics doesn’t work. Most of the people in whose interest we are demanding action aren’t here. They haven’t been born yet. And because the areas first and most affected by climate change are the poorest regions of earth, we are talking about the least seen, least represented group on our planet. We have to imagine these people into being, and then grant them rights, and then take unprecedented, society-wide action on that basis.
• Aaron McCright - Examining the Effectiveness of Climate Change Frames in the Face of a Climate Change Denial Counter-Frame
  Examining the Effectiveness of Climate Change Frames in the Face of a Climate Change Denial Counter-Frame Aaron M. McCright, Meghan Charters, Katherine Dentzman andThomas Dietz Topics in Cognitive Science, first published online: 30 Nov 2015 "... exposure to an ACC [anthropogenic climate change] denial counter-frame does significantly reduce respondents' belief in the reality of ACC, belief about the veracity of climate science, awareness of the consequences of ACC, and support for aggressively attempting to reduce our nation's GHG emissions in the near future."
• Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature
  Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature
  James Hansen et al.
  PLOS, Published: December 3, 2013
  DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081648
  
  See also "The Climate Democracy Project", The Nation, Feb 24, 2014
  
• Climate change and the Trump Administration
• Climate Discussion Echoes Tobacco Debate
  Letters. Science 18 Apr 2014;344:254
• Dave DeWitt - The Changing Carolina Coast: When Storms And Dreams Collide
  WUNC - The Changing Carolina Coast: When Storms And Dreams Collide By Dave DeWitt, 6/3/2015
• Here & Now - Everglades Health, Sea Level Rise Are Bipartisan Issues In South Florida (11 min)
  WBUR Here & Now, March 15, 2016 The environment is a big, complex issue in South Florida. The Everglades ecosystem relies on a supply of fresh water flowing south, but the development of Florida has hindered that flow. Closer to the coast, places like Miami Beach are dealing with the threat of rising seas. Policymakers in both places are coming up with ways to deal with these issues.
• In Florida, Officials Ban Term ‘Climate Change’
  In Florida, Officials Ban Term ‘Climate Change’
  March 8, 2015.
  By Tristram Korten
  Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
  
  "The state of Florida is the region most susceptible to the effects of global warming in this country, according to scientists. Sea-level rise alone threatens 30 percent of the state’s beaches over the next 85 years."
  
• IPCC communications narrative
  Climate change item starts at 11:50.
• Is The Latest Climate Report Too Much Of A Downer?
  Reading through the latest report from the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it's hard not to feel despondent about the state of the world.
  
  By Geoff Brumfiel. Originally published on Tue April 1, 2014 12:08 pm
• Making the Connection: Climate Changes Health
  APHA and ecoAmerica are proud to co-sponsor a four-part webinar series investigating the health impacts of climate change. The series explores the connection between climate change and key areas of our health: allergies and asthma; health risks in children; mental health; and transportation and healthy community design as a mitigation approach. May 26 – Making the Connection: Climate Changes Children’s Health June 7 – Making the Connection: Changing Climate through Healthy Community Design and Transportation June 29 – Making the Connection: Climate Changes Mental Health Recording available - Making the Connection: Climate Changes Allergies and Asthma
• Michael Taube: Al Gore’s latest outlandish outburst
  The Washington Times, February 25, 2014
• Paul Krugman: Cutting Back on Carbon
  NY Times, The Opinion Pages. May 29, 2014
  
  
• PBS Frontline: Climate of Doubt (54 min)
  October 23, 2012
  FRONTLINE explores the massive shift in public opinion on climate change.
  
  Also on that page:
  5 Takeaways From the U.N. Climate Change Report
  April 14, 2014, 4:51 pm ET · by Jason M. Breslow
  
  UN Report: Climate Change Will Deepen Poverty, Hunger
  March 31, 2014, 3:06 pm ET · by Sarah Childress
  
  and other articles
• Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow - Endgame?
  An essay is presented on environmental literature as of 2014. The author discusses the extent to which various environmentalist writers have used crisis-oriented, apocalyptic language to describe environmental problems. Books discussed include "A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism" by Patrick Allitt, "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction" by Annalee Newitz and "Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist" by Bill McKibben.
  The Nation, July 21/28, 2014
• Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation
  Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Western Australia), John Cook (University of Western Australia and University of Queensland), Klaus Oberauer (University of Zurich and University of Western Australia), Michael Marriott-Hubble (Climate Realities Research, Melbourne) This article originally appeared on 18 March 2013 in Frontiers of Psychology 2013;4(73) and was retracted by the publisher over concerns of liability. More about the retraction and subsequent attempts to suppress the article are at http://www.shapingtomorrowsworld.org/rf1.html
• Reveal - Mighty Ike: A monster storm in the making
  From the Center for Investigative Reporting, March 5, 2016 Texas is home to the Houston Ship Channel, one of the world’s busiest maritime waterways. Also in Houston, and along the channel, are oil refineries and chemical plants that make up the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex. It’s a major economic hub. But what would happen to the area if a big hurricane hit? In 2008, Hurricane Ike swept through Texas and resulted in billions of dollars in damages. But it could have been much worse. The storm turned at the last minute and didn’t hit Houston head on. So imagine if Ike happened again, but with higher winds, and this time, the storm headed straight toward Houston. According to scientists, this is more of a question of “when” than “if.”
• Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States
  A Climate Risk Assessment for the United States
  Risky Business Project, June 2014
  "Right now, cities and businesses are scrambling to adapt to a changing climate without sufficient federal government support, resulting in a virtual “un-funded mandate by omission” to deal with climate at the local level.(ref 4)"
  
  June 2014
• Robert Eschelman - The Chairman of the Largest Private Company in America Just Told the 1 Percent to Worry About Climate Change
  The Chairman of the Largest Private Company in America Just Told the 1 Percent to Worry About Climate Change
  
  But will Greg Page’s call to arms influence business leaders? Or the Republicans his firm donates to?
  Robert S. Eshelman
  The Nation, June 25, 2014
  June 25, 2014
• State of Things - Why Natural Gas Might Not Be A 'Bridge Fuel' (11 min)
  Why Natural Gas Might Not Be A 'Bridge Fuel' Charlie Shelton & Frank Stasio, WUNC The State of Things, 3/23/2016 Natural gas is considered a "bridge fuel" between fossil fuels and renewable energy, but experts warn that it can actually be worse than coal for the environment.
• The American Denial of Global Warming - Perspectives on Ocean Science (59 min)
  Polls show that between one-third and one-half of Americans still believe that there is "no solid" evidence of global warming, or that if warming is happening it can be attributed to natural variability. Others believe that scientists are still debating the point. Join scientist and renowned historian Naomi Oreskes as she describes her investigation into the reasons for such widespread mistrust and misunderstanding of scientific consensus and probes the history of organized campaigns designed to create public doubt and confusion about science. Series: "Perspectives on Ocean Science" [12/2007] [Science] [Show ID: 13459]
• The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External
  The climate crisis has such bad timing, confronting it not only requires a new economy but a new way of thinking.
  Naomi Klein
  April 21, 2014 | This article appeared in the May 12, 2014 edition of The Nation. (See also Christopher Hayes' article, The New Abolitionism, in the same issue.)
• The climate deception dossiers
  Containing 85 internal memos totaling more than 330 pages, the seven dossiers reveal a range of deceptive tactics deployed by the fossil fuel industry, including forged letters to Congress, secret funding of a supposedly independent scientist, the creation of fake grassroots organizations, multiple efforts to deliberately manufacture uncertainty about climate science, and more. Fossil fuel companies have intentionally spread climate disinformation for decades. Fossil fuel company leaders knew that their products were harmful to people and the planet but still chose to actively deceive the public and deny this harm. The campaign of deception continues today.
• The World Needs to Quit Coal. Why Is It So Hard?
  Somini Sengupta, NY Times, Nov. 24, 2018 Cheap, plentiful and the most polluting of fossil fuels, coal remains the single largest source of energy to generate electricity worldwide.
• Think Again: Blame the News for the Public’s Ignorance About the Climate
  Eric Alterman | May 30, 2013. Center for American Progress
• Want to Stop Climate Change? Take the Fossil Fuel Industry to Court
  Want to Stop Climate Change? Take the Fossil Fuel Industry to Court
  Big Carbon is where Big Tobacco was, before it started losing.
  Dan Zegart
  April 21, 2014 | This article appeared in the May 12, 2014 edition of The Nation.