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Segment on today’s @MeetThePress about climate change lays out a few of its many consequences: @WCraigFugate on insurance markets & disaster planning, Michele Flournoy on national security, @RepCurbelo on Florida, & more. Surprised this subject finally getting attention here.
Also on @MeetThePress this morning to talk about #ClimateChange was California’s @JerryBrownGov — “what we’ve done isn’t enough, not even close.”
Last @MeetThePress panel segment discusses how to break “paralysis,” which is an unfortunate way to describe inaction enforced by interests strongly committed to doing nothing about #ClimateChange
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Let’s do a thread this morning about impeachment, since that subject has been in the news over the past week. I feel we need to talk about Mike Pence.
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3. Gerald Ford had been a Republican Congressman from Michigan during Richard Nixon’s first term, supportive of Nixon but having no role in either administration policy or the 1972 re-election campaign. The “long national nightmare” of Watergate would end,...
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I mean no disrespect to other Democratic candidates, and admit freely I know of @GovInslee only what I’ve read. I still think it’s a good thing he’s running for President. This @IsaacDovere piece explains why. 1/3 theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
2/3. Long experience observing Presidential campaigns has taught me: no name ID + no organization = no chance. But if anyone is going to base a campaign on facing the climate change emergency, Inslee seems like the guy. One caution: it’s tempting,...
3/3. ...when talking about climate change, to make a fetish of optimism. But meeting this threat will inevitably involve costs accepted now to avoid much higher costs later. That may not be inspirational, but it’s the truth. Inslee (& others) should keep this in mind.
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OK, about this, by Romney. There are Republicans who believe deeply in rewarding their Party’s largest donors by cutting their taxes. They are all for packing the courts with judicial legislators able to impose conservative policy preferences by fiat. washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-…
2. They are willing to support Trump when he does things they never supported before, like starting trade wars with no plan to end them — Trump is just “cracking down,” “getting tough,” etc. But they don’t like his tweeting, and his language makes them uncomfortable.
3. This is the Republican alternative to Trump. This is @MittRomney. Let’s be fair here: Romney doesn’t list corruption among the things about Trump he supports. He doesn’t say he approves of Trump getting campaign help from the Russian government.
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I was in my last year of high school in '97 and the Howard Government was campaigning and lobbying world leaders against an emerging climate change deal, as revealed by the 96/97 cabinet papers naa.gov.au/collection/exp…
Cabinet submissions and decisions on #climate change in the first 18 months of the Howard Govt are notable for not mentioning the impacts or consequences of climate change at all....
The motivation that kept Oz reluctantly involved in the Berlin Mandate negotiations that led to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol was international ostracism and the fear of trade sanctions if it was recalcitrant
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Thank you to @MeetThePress for doing a Sunday show on climate change — at last.

Usually these Sunday shows are televised gossip columns, and climate change and other key issues are never discussed.
Good for you, @chucktodd.

At this stage, #climate denial is fraud, and it has been for a long time — particularly as practiced by the fossil fuel industry and its armada of phony front groups. thehill.com/homenews/sunda…
Precisely... axios.com/climate-change…
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#National Security & The #BokoHaram Insurgency: On The Most Pressing Challenges Currently Facing The @HQNigerianArmy's Operations
@HQNigerianArmy 1. None to the exclusion of the other, the operations are as intensely dogged by issues which stem from the human factor ( MANPOWER) as they are majorly constrained by issues of logistics and ewuipment (MATERIEL)
@HQNigerianArmy We shall xray the storied human factor subsequently but let us begin from the area of materiel where we shall be making some revelations that are as in-depth as they are unprecedented...never been broached with such specificty
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Just returned from Bangkok, where nations made little progress towards finalising the Paris agreement on climate change that aims to limit global temperature rises over the next 80 years.

It was my first @UN #climate change rodeo and there were a few things I wasn't aware of
Under Paris, countries agreed to a fairly detailed set of promises to keep global temperature rises under 2C by 2100.

It was the first time all nations - both developed and developing economies - signed up to the same set of climate rules. But they weren't binding
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1. The arguments in this @newrepublic article by @emorwee that #climate is siloed in the press, that the press should tie every extreme weather/disaster event to #climate simply don't match up to the data. #envcomm #scicomm newrepublic.com/article/150124…
2. Staffers working at @mediamatters + @climateprogress (where @emorwee got her start) have long manufactured this claim + driving a self-serving narrative on the Left that the news media is failing in its coverage of climate change.
3. But this narrative & its embrace by those on the Left reflects a classic hostile media effect. As @lfeldman17 reviews the most partisan on an issue see news coverage as biased to their position even when it may actually be favorable. oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/o… #scicomm #envcomm
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