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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">1. Following a two-year delay, the Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled in the Children’s Trust case that—essentially, with the understanding that I am no lawyer and may oversimplify—the state
has no public trust preserving a livable environment. The children plan to appeal.
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By Karen Savage. An Oregon court has ruled that the state is not required to protect public trust resources from the effects of climate change, a defeat for two young plaintiffs who had sued the state under the common law public trust doctrine.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">2. Recent studies, particularly one in Nature last November which had to be revised to allow for more uncertainty, have found that more heat is being added to the oceans than we had supposed.
A new study in Science reports that based on four different measures the ocean is indeed heating 40% faster than the UN had estimated five years ago. The finding adds urgency to both our mitigation and our adaptation efforts.
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Angela Fritz Angela Fritz is an atmospheric scientist and The Washington Post's deputy weather editor. Before joining The Post, Fritz worked as a meteorologist at CNN in Atlanta and Weather ...</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">3. The fossil fuel industry has been remarkably successful in using US media to perpetuate the idea that climate science is debatable.
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Amy Westervelt is an audio and print reporter who covers climate and gender, and sometimes the intersection of the two. Her podcast Drilled is about the creation and spread of climate denial and ...</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">4. The support for a green new deal may indicate that the fossil fuel industry’s usual propaganda is losing its grip on our attitudes.
<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-2020-democrats-climate-change_us_5c378db0e4b0c469d76c3538" id="LPlnk189941" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-2020-democrats-climate-change_us_5c378db0e4b0c469d76c3538</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%">5. Chris Hayes interviewed Rep. Ro Khanna (D, CA) Jan. 11 on All In, MSNBC, in a six-minute segment on the legislative support for a green new deal. The segment is “Republicans ignore looming
climate catastrophe.” <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-ignore-looming-climate-catastrophe-1424589891726" id="LPlnk200711" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/republicans-ignore-looming-climate-catastrophe-1424589891726</a></span></p>
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"This is a far bigger crisis than anything happening at the border," says Chris Hayes.</div>
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