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Temperatures in the Arctic this year were the highest since records started more than a century ago, and are driving a decline in sea ice cover, snowpack melt, ocean acidification, and other environmental catastrophes that will accelerate the decline of the Arctic’s fragile ecosystem — with potentially dire consequences for the rest of the earth.

On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Arctic Research program released its annual Arctic Report Card — and it paints a bleak picture. “Rarely have we seen the Arctic show a clearer, stronger or more pronounced signal of persistent warming and its cascading effects on the environment than this year,” said Jeremy Mathis, director of NOAA’s Arctic Research Program.
On the Arctic’s overall health, “I would give it a F,” Mathis told Foreign Policy. “And I would give our response to the changes we’re seeing in the Arctic a D+.”
Unfortunately for the rest…

From the US EPA:

“Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas: Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle on Drinking Water Resources in the United States (Final Report)
Notice
EPA is announcing the availability of the final report, Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas: Impacts from the Hydraulic Fracturing Water Cycle on Drinking Water Resources in the United States.

Abstract
This final report provides a review and synthesis of available scientific information concerning the relationship between hydraulic fracturing activities and drinking water resources in the United States.

The report is organized around activities in the hydraulic fracturing water cycle and their potential to impact drinking water resources.  The stages include: (1) acquiring water to be used for hydraulic fracturing (Water Acquisition), (2) mixing the water with chemical additives to prepare hydraulic fracturing fluids (Chemical Mixing), (3) injecting the hydraulic fracturing fluids into the production well to create fractures in the…

By Esther YuHsiLee

At least 12 million people lived in ongoing displacement caused by conflict, violence, and other disasters across the African continent in 2015.

And in the future, climate change may be the lead driver of even greater displacement.
In the Africa Report on Internal Displacement — a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre that focused on internal displacement across the entire African continent — researchers found that “disasters triggered by rapid-onset natural hazards” forced 1.1 million people from their homes across 33 African countries last year. What’s more, disaster-induced displacement makes people more vulnerable from one year to the next and more susceptible to food insecurity since planting and harvesting become disrupted when farmers are absent.

“The figure of 12.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs) is more than double Africa’s 5.4 million refugee population across the continent, and is a reminder of the protracted nature of many conflicts in Africa,”…

As most people already know, US President Elect Donald Trump has proposed ExxonMobil’s CEO, Rex Tillerson, as Secretary of State.

May 12, 2011: Reading testimony out of the side of his mouth in a sleep-inducing Texas twang, US Secretary of State Nominee-Exxon CEO Tillerson. It takes talent to make a twang sleep-inducing. Is the hidden agenda to make enemies fall asleep or die of boredom? https://www.c-span.org/video/?299469-1/gas-prices-energy-policy&start=2866

In ExxonMobil’s Notice of 2016 Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement, April 13, 2016, as submitted to the US SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). Based on the example given below it seems that ExxonMobil may be using small subsidiaries for its fracking activities in order to reduce future liabilities. The subsidiary probably can easily go bankrupt and pass liability to the taxpayer.
“ITEM 14 – REPORT ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

This proposal was submitted by the Park Foundation, P.O. Box 550, Ithaca, NY 14851, the…

By at least yesterday non-Americans had figured out that the Trump administration was turning into a Bush Administration encore, but have Americans? The covert nastiness of the overtly nasty appointment of ExxonMobil CEO Tillerson is quickly unraveling – more quickly than we can keep up with. Our longer post on the topic is still to be posted.

Michael Boskin, Hoover Fellow with Condi Rice – a Bush MRE that many may have missed:

Michael Boskin, Feb. 28, 2013 https://www.c-span.org/video/?311239-1/state-us-economy&start=887

There is a list of morally repugnant elites (MREs) from the Bush I, II, and even Reagan administrations who support, and/or have been given credit by various sources for pushing forward, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson as candidate for Secretary of State. These include Condoleeza Rice, Bob Gates, and then Dick Cheney and James Baker. If you haven’t been overwhelmed by disgust yet, then either you are very young, have a…