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Released May 13, 2016.   Press release Five PDFs, 190 pages Pages 1- 59 Pages 60-102 Pages 103-133 Pages 134-178 Pages 179-190 Related post on Watts Up With That Click on this Twitter thread for some excepts. I plan to post more excerpts on Twitter using the #RICO20 hashtag.

From this December 2014 LCV speech  (17 min mark). President Obama and I went to the global climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. We ran into a solid wall of opposition from countries like China, India, and Brazil .   The president and I literally had to crash a secret meeting between them to force real negotiations.  We marched right by startled Chinese security officials. I had to duck under their outstretched arms. We got into the room--you should have seen the looks on the leaders' faces because they'd been dodging us all day and the president said wow, we've been looking for you.  Persistence paid off..we did hammer out an agreement..

'Global warming going from bad to worse' Randers, co-author of the seminal 1972 report "Limits to Growth," which highlighted the devastating impacts of economic and population growth on the Earth, argues that capitalism and democracy will continue to hamper climate action. ...And capitalism and democracy will remain strong for a very long time because people have trust in that system as it delivered impressive improvements in many people's quality of life over the past century, he said. Note that "The Limits to Growth" was commissioned by the Club of Rome .

Obama emphasizes threat to public health as part of climate change push | US news | The Guardian Murthy said the issue was “personal” for him, since he once lost an uncle to a severe asthma attack. “We have more people exposed to triggers that can cause asthma attacks, and more asthma attacks mean more days of school missed. They mean more days of work missed. They mean more costly trips to the doctor,” Murthy said. “And they most importantly mean more scary moments for parents and for children.” In a background call with reporters ahead of the event, administration officials identified the elderly, children, minorities, the sick and low-income individuals as being at particularly high risk levels for injuries caused by extreme weather.

Historian Reveals Climate Change Lessons from 17th Century In his book “Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century,” Parker surveys the broad impact that long, harsh winters and cool, wet summers have had on human populations across the globe. Parker uses firsthand accounts and scientific evidence to examine how changing weather patterns caused famines, wars and political upheaval during that time . The book won the Society of Military History’s Distinguished Book Prize and a medal in 2014 from the British Academy for “a landmark academic achievement … which has transformed understanding of a particular subject.”

Draft APS Statement on Climate Change | Climate Etc. JC reflections Well, their paragraph on Climate Science is a rather astonishing take on the APS Workshop.  T heir paragraph on Climate Change seems to come from the Guardian .  Their statement on Climate Action reiterates their rather crazy statement in 2007 Apart from the issue that no one on the POPA seems to understand any of these issues beyond a superficial level (after Koonins and Rossner departed from the POPA), and that their statements are naive and unprofessional , here is my real problem with this.  This is an egregious misuse of the expertise of the APS .  Their alleged understanding of issues like spectroscopy and fluid dynamics are not of any direct relevance to the issues they write about in this statement.   The statement is an embarrassment to the APS. ...JC message to APS POPA:   no one cares about your political preferences in the climate change debate.  You have demonstrated that you bring nothing intellectually ...

Check out what much-decorated scientist  Freeman Dyson says about carbon dioxide and climate change: 3:20: "First of all there is man-made climate change ...it's a question of how much and is it good or bad..we don't understand the details.  It's probably much less than is generally claimed. The most important thing is that there are huge non-climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that's the main issue--the Earth is actually growing greener..it's increasingly agricultural yields, it's increasing forests, it's increasing all kinds of growth... That's more important and more certain than the effects on climate . 5:20: CO2 is "enormously beneficial both to food production and also to biodiversity, preservation of species and everything else that's good .  The remarkable thing is that these effects which have nothing to do with climate...are so much easier to measure than t...