TheGreenFront presents: This Day in Climate History January 21, 1992: Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Senator Al Gore is released. Six days later, Gore discusses the book on C-SPANs Booknotes. c-span.org/video/?24448-1/Ecol January 21, 2009: Peter Sinclairs Climate Denial Crock of the Week video series debuts. youtu.be/l0JsdSDa_bM January 21, 2010: The US Supreme Court issues the highly controversial Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, earning a strong rebuke from MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-205.pdf youtu.be/PKZKETizybw January 21, 2011: • MSNBC cancels Countdown with Keith Olbermann, one of the very few cable news programs to feature strong criticism of climate-change deniers. youtu.be/pasaYEpw4Qg youtu.be/U7A8DOVqpQ0 • Filling in for MSNBCs Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes highlights West Virginia Senator Joe Manchins hostility to efforts to combat climate change, and the ability of local energy interests to block climate action. video.msnbc.msn/rachel-maddow/41202290 January 21, 2013: In his second inaugural address, President Obama declares: We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries – we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure – our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared. youtu.be/BzC135ql_wA January 21, 2014: • NOAA reports that 2013 was the fourth-hottest year on record. thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/01/21/3187581/noaa-nasa-2013-temperature/ ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2013/13 • In Mother Jones, Chris Mooney explains the connection between snow and human-caused climate change: To understand the relationship between climate change and intense snowfall, you first need to understand that global warming certainly doesnt do away with winter or the seasons. So itll still be plenty cold enough for snow much of the time. Meanwhile, global warming loads the dice in favor of more intense precipitation through changes in atmospheric moisture content. Warming things up means the atmosphere can and does hold more moisture, explains Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. So in winter, when there is still plenty of cold air theres a risk of bigger snows. With east coast storms, where the moisture comes from the ocean which is now warmer, this also applies. m.motherjones/blue-marble/2014/01/global-warming-janus-snow • In a Politico Magazine article, Bill McKibben and Mike Tidwell fault President Obamas fetish for fracking. politico/magazine/story/2014/01/fracking-natural-gas-exports-climate-change-102452.html#.Ut-jQaY8LCS January 21, 2015: • The New York Times reports: Work crews burrowed through thick ice and set up containment booms Tuesday in a struggle to vacuum up 50,000 gallons of oil that spilled into the Yellowstone River from a ruptured pipeline, contaminating drinking water. The 12-inch steel pipeline, which burst Saturday morning near Glendive, Mont., about 400 miles east of here, sent light crude oil flowing downstream as far as the confluence with the Missouri River, 60 miles away in North Dakota. Health officials warned people not to use tap water in Glendive and surrounding towns after traces of benzene from the leak were found in a water treatment plant. Gov. Steve Bullock visited the area on Monday and declared a state of emergency for Dawson and Richland Counties. The Bridger Pipeline Company, which operates the line, has shut it down, company officials said. The line is part of a system that passes across eastern Montana from the Canadian border. Federal officials have said short-term exposure to the water was not dangerous. But residents near the spill found the water undrinkable. nytimes/2015/01/21/us/traces-of-montana-oil-spill-are-found-in-drinking-water.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below • The Los Angeles Times reports: TransCanada Corp., the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, filed eminent domain proceedings against an estimated 90 Nebraska landowners Tuesday to secure the right to build the controversial project across their property... TransCanada’s legal filings are an effort to gain what is called an easement — the right to construct the pipeline on private land that others own. They are the latest step in a years-long fight over the project, which cannot go forward without President Obama’s approval. latimes/nation/la-na-keystone-land-2015-0120-story.html
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