<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="js-headline headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: ProximaNova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><h1 class="headline__title" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: ProximaNovaCond-Extrabld, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 3.25rem; font-weight: normal; visibility: visible; overflow-wrap: break-word; max-width: 1024px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><font size="4" class="">Google, Facebook And Microsoft Sponsored A Conference That Promoted Climate Change Denial</font></h1><div class="headline__subtitle" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); line-height: 1.5rem; width: 720px; max-width: 720px;">The conference was backed by a group founded to spread the “good news” about carbon emissions.</div></div><div class="yr-byline byline" data-rapid-subsec="byline" data-rapid-parsed="subsec" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; list-style: none; font-family: ProximaNova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div class="byline__authors" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 630px; width: 630px; flex: 1 0 50%;"><div class="author-card author-card--external" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: flex; align-items: center; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1.125rem;"><div class="author-card__details" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex-flow: row wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;"><span class="author-card__name" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stephanie Mencimer</span> <span class="author-card__source" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Mother Jones</span></div><div class="author-card__details" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex-flow: row wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;"><span class="author-card__source" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="author-card__details" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex-flow: row wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;"><span class="author-card__source" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="author-card__details" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex-flow: row wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;"><span class="author-card__source" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="author-card__details" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex-flow: row wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;"><span class="author-card__source" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="author-card__details" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex-flow: row wrap; font-size: 0.875rem;"><span class="author-card__source" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-facebook-microsoft-climate-denial_us_5c48dfcbe4b083c46d650d9f" class="">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/google-facebook-microsoft-climate-denial_us_5c48dfcbe4b083c46d650d9f</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">2004</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">===================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting Heat Waves in the 21st Century<b class="">. </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Gerald A. Meehl and Claudia Tebaldi. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class="">Science</i>, 13 AUGUST 2004</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">2008</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"All organisms live within a limited range of body temperatures …. Direct effects of climatic warming can be understood through fatal decrements in an organism's performance in growth, reproduction, foraging, immune competence, behaviors and competitiveness."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Hans O. Pörtner and Anthony P. Farrell. Physiology and Climate Change. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class="">SCIENCE</i> 31 OCTOBER 2008 VOL 322</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">2009</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">==================================</span></div></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"Observed heat wave intensities in the current decade are larger than worst-case projections."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Auroop R. Gangulya, et al. Higher trends but larger uncertainty and geographic variability in 21<sup class="">st</sup> century temperature and heat waves. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class="">PNAS</i>, September 15, 2009.</span></div></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">2013</span><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">=================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“ … organisms have a physiological response to temperature, and these responses have important consequences …. biological rates and times (e.g., growth, reproduction, mortality and activity) vary with temperature.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Anthony I. Dell, Samraat Pawar and Van M. Savage, Temperature dependence of trophic interactions are driven by asymmetry of species responses and foraging strategy.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class="">Journal of Animal Ecology</i> 2013 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">1970 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">=========================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“What can be said with some assurance is that there is a unique and nearly ubiquitous compound, with the empirical formula<b class=""> H</b>(2960)<b class="">O</b>(1480)<b class="">C</b>(1480)<b class="">N</b>(16)<b class="">P</b>(1.8)<b class="">S</b>, called living matter. Its synthesis, on an oxidized and uncarboxylated earth, is the most intricate feat of chemical engineering ever performed - and the most delicate operation that people have ever tampered with.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Edward S. Deevey, Jr. Mineral Cycles. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class="">Scientific American</i>, September 1970.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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