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**breezy** · 01-03-2017, 08:11 PM

Tied or a record. You fools would never report a decline(except if it was an icecap).

**Lenno** · 01-03-2017, 08:42 PM

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**Lenno** · 01-03-2017, 11:14 PM

Environmentalists Hand Out Condoms to Protest Feared Trump-Era Overpopulation

By Bridget Johnson January 2, 2017
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Environmentalists Hand Out Condoms to Protest Feared Trump-Era Overpopulation

Members of the Center for Biological Diversity and the So Cal Climate Action Coalition 350 protest the Keystone XL pipeline during a visit by President Obama to Los Angeles on May 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

An environmental group handed out 10,000 free "endangered species condoms" at New Year's Eve events and on college campuses nationwide to mark 2017 in a show of protest against President-elect Trump.
The Center for Biological Diversity said the condom giveaway was meant to highlight overpopulation amid fears of Trump policies on contraception along with fears of what could happen to protected wildlife species under his administration.
“Many women are already worrying about what life under President Trump is going to mean for access to affordable birth control. It’s a very real possibility that the Affordable Care Act will be gutted and contraception costs will skyrocket,” Leigh Moyer, the center’s population organizer, said in a statement. “Human population growth drives the majority of environmental problems, so making it harder to prevent unplanned pregnancy isn’t good news for women or for wildlife.”
The enviro-condoms project -- using vegan, fair-trade condoms free of animal by-products -- has been around since 2009, with contraceptives bearing phrases such as "wrap with care... save the polar bear" and "use a stopper… save the hopper."

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Michael Tavalin @michaeltavalin

Selected by Center for Biological Diversity to distribute #EndangeredSpecies #condoms at art festivals next year!
5:59 PM - 23 Dec 2015

**TonyM** · 01-04-2017, 08:36 AM

Story one: The chemist with a broken heart

The history of climate change science is, at least in part, a story
of side-projects – things people do when they probably should have been
working on something else.

Humans knew climate change was a thing
from roughly the start of the 19th century, but it was a while before
anyone bothered investing much energy properly investigating the topic.
It just wasn’t a big deal, there were other more pressing things to be
looking into. So, at least in the early days of unravelling this thing
we now call global warming, research was left to the enthusiasts, the
easily distracted, the bored or the eccentric.

Here’s a story of one such side-project. One that wasn't taken seriously at the time, but
is now considered central to the history of climate change science. It’s
also a story of a broken heart (or at least a broken relationship),
maths and volcanoes.

https://www.climatehistories.com/his...a-broken-heart

**breezy** · 01-04-2017, 08:41 AM

"The common enemy of humanity is man.
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,
water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these
dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through
changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome.
The real enemy then, is humanity itself."
- Club of Rome,
premier environmental think-tank,
consultants to the United Nations

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"We need to get some broad based support,
to capture the public's imagination...
So we have to offer up scary scenarios,
make simplified, dramatic statements
and make little mention of any doubts...
Each of us has to decide what the right balance
is between being effective and being honest."
- Prof. Stephen Schneider,
Stanford Professor of Climatology,
lead author of many IPCC reports

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"We've got to ride this global warming issue.
Even if the theory of global warming is wrong,
we will be doing the right thing in terms of
economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation

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"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...
climate change provides the greatest opportunity to
bring about justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment

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“The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations
on the data. We're basing them on the climate models.”
- Prof. Chris Folland,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

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“The models are convenient fictions
that provide something very useful.”
- Dr David Frame,
climate modeler, Oxford University

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"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts
on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."
- Al Gore,
Climate Change activist

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"It doesn't matter what is true,
it only matters what people believe is true."
- Paul Watson,
co-founder of Greenpeace