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11 COVER STORY POLARIZING POLAR BEARS Unmasking a proxy war strategy by online climate change denialists

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Maybe you have already said it to visitors this winter, but I’ll say it again, “You shoulda been here last year”! By mid-January 2017 there was 26 inches of settled snow on the ground in the Town of Jackson. This year there is only about three inches, as of earlier this week. The average snow depth in town in mid-January is 8 inches. What was the deepest snow depth in town in the first half of January? That would be 29 inches in 1979.

Average low temperatures this week are still in the single digits. Last January, in the first half of the month we saw overnight low temperatures make 61-degree rise in just four days. On the morning of January 5th, 2017, the low temperature was 28-degrees below zero and by the morning of January 9th, the overnight low temperature was 33-degrees above zero. By the way, the record low this week is 49-degrees below zero from January 12th, 1979.

Average high temperatures this week are in the upper 20’s. Last January, we also had a big jump in high temperature readings, with a high of only 3-dgrees on January 4th, 2017 and a high on the afternoon of January 8th of 42-dgrees. That is a 39 degree increase in four days. The record high temperature during this week is 55-degrees. That high was achieved twice: on January 16th, 1974 and also on January 11th, 1953.

NORMAL HIGH 28 NORMAL LOW 5 RECORD HIGH IN 1974 55 RECORD LOW IN 1979 -49

THIS MONTH AVERAGE PRECIPITATION: 1.5 inches RECORD PRECIPITATION: 4.9 inches (1969) AVERAGE SNOWFALL: 19 inches RECORD SNOWFALL: 56 inches (1969)

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President Trump continues to believe Putin’s comments and questions the U.S. intelligence agencies’ analyses about Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Trump does not want the validity of his election as President to be questioned, but his criticism of out intelligence agencies and the FBI poses a risk to national security. The new FBI Director, Christopher Wray, is reassigning the top echelon in the FBI to purge it of agents who trump dislikes, and it is quite similar to the operations of past and current foreign despotic rulers. Trump, and the country, have to rely on our intelligence agencies and the FBI to provide information on our adversaries in the world. If the agencies do not trust the President, they might be adversely affected in doing their jobs. I heard that morale takes a hit at the agencies every time Trump criticizes them. Trump is disrupting our intelligence agencies and the FBI. Unfortunately, Russia, China, and other countries know that Trump likes to be flattered, which they are happy to do in order to receive favorable treatment by our insecure President. Our adversaries in the world are manipulating Trump to obtain concessions, and our national security is in jeopardy. Donald Moskowitz, Londonderry, NH. I was an Intelligence Officer on a Joint Naval Staff from 1965 to 1967.

Dear Planet JH Editor, Last week a letter was published as an editorial to your paper, written by me, that was NOT. What was NOT stated by the Planet was that the piece published was taken from a series of letters between me and Town, County & Pathway officials; while letters written to elected officials are entered into the public record, the source of such should always be noted (instead of falsely giving the impression it was a Letter to the Editor of the Planet, which, again, it was NOT). Also, this was only the most recent communication in a series of back and forth correspondence between several parties over two or three years, so lacked proper context/ explanation as an isolated “letter”. I have been told this was an oversight on the part of the Planet, which certainly should not be allowed to occur again . Thank you, Mary Bergeron

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This season, shallow snow depths and long periods of dry conditions have formed many surfaces and layers within the snowpack. Several inches of new snow help hide the sun crust that is found on solar aspects and deepens the soft powder found on shaded slopes. After more than a week of high pressure, the snowpack sat and began to gain strength. Adding weight to the snowpack will test how much stress it can withstand. In many places, a slab sits over weak-faceted grains. These persistent snow grains formed during the dry weather in December. When assessing the layers within the snowpack, ask if any of the five lemons are present. Is the weak layer within a meter in depth from the surface? Is the weak layer thinner than 10cm? Is there a hardness

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difference of more than one step? Is there a persistent grain type? And is the grain size difference more than 1mm? In our snowpack there are areas where a one to four foot slab sits over faceted snow grains on a hard crust. Here there are three lemons. The slab is a meter or less in depth, there is a three-step hardness difference between the soft facets to the hard crust and there is a persistent grain type. So check for lurking lemons within the snowpack. Continue to think about the snowpack while listening and discussing with others. On Wednesday, Jan. 17, experienced avalanche educator and backcountry skier Nancy Bockino will be speaking at Headwall Sports. The event begins at 6 p.m. with beer and tacos provided!

Ed. note: We ran a series of letters sent to Town Hall in the 1-3-18 issue of PJH, including Mary Bergeron’s letter. It is not unusual for the Planet to republish letters to Town Hall that we think are interesting or address valid concerns, but we are generally careful to clarify where the letters originated. This clarification was originally slated to be included with the letters section but was inadvertently cut during the editing process last issue. We apologize for any confusion.

THE NEW WEST Travels in The Greater Yellowstone Jack Turner’s power of insightful observation BY TODD WILKINSON @bigartnature

“Some artists so completely capture the essence of a place and make it their own that to imagine the place or hold it in the mind’s eye of memory is to see it distilled through their art. We are not free to do otherwise: it dominates our inner vision.” – Jackson Hole writer Jack Turner

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ow odd it is that millions of people in the world today would feel themselves extremely lucky to hear a wolf howl because of its rareness, and yet there are a garden variety of locals who, for no reason at all, consider it a high point in their lives to try and extinguish the sound. Why? Because they can. Jackson Hole resident Jack Turner, in his book Travels In The Greater Yellowstone, reminded us why we should awake every morning counting our blessings that we’re not navigating rush-hour traffic, working in boxy towers of tinted glass and eking out a humdrum existence like the suburban character in Sinclair Lewis’ novel, Babbitt. I can never get enough of Turner’s perspective. A legendary professional mountaineer and retired college professor, he over the years has escorted readers to the edges of many symbolic precipices in thinking about a home that many of us take for granted. Whereas 99 percent of civilized humanity is coping with severe natural sensorial depletion every day, ours is a constant stimulating aesthetic of abundance. In my humble opinion, one of the best American nature books of the last quarter century is Turner’s The Abstract Wild that really set the stage for a series of reflections by other writers on what the human relationship to the natural world is. He worries about Greater Yellowstone’s rapid industrialization— not by timber and mining interests, but

real estate and recreation, trying to monetize as much of the land, private and public, as possible. And his greatest worry is that developers, especially newcomers who fail to understand what makes Greater Yellowstone unique, will in their own haste to turn a buck, not realize they are transforming this ecosystem into a place that mirrors the characterless cities they fled. Turner’s prose is part John McPheeesque travelogue, Olaus Murie field g u ide, Edwa rd Abbeyan environmental essay, and, like all of his previous works, Jackson Hole author Jack Turner’s new book, Travels rich in metaphysical in Greater Yellowstone reflection about the essential stuff that Teton Pass — “Yonder lies Jackson Hole, should matter most in one’s average last of the Old West — he writes: lifespan of roughly 75 years. “Right! Land of the trophy log Many outsiders have been mere house, hivelike motel rooms for the voyeurs when coming to Yellowstone worker bees, the stretch Hummer, — writing guns for hire. The beauty the Gulfstream jet, miles of irrigation of Turner’s perspective is that he’s an ditches, roads, trails, and fences, a slew insider, and by making the Greater of golf courses, two ski areas, the largest Yellowstone feel exotic for people who building in Wyoming, thirty thousand have never graced it, he re-opens our people a day milling about town in eyes. summer, gridlock on the streets, the His lens is shaped by several distinct five dollar latte, the arnica oil masvantages visited with friends: Blacktail sage. And yet …. what an interesting Butte, which is part of Yellowstone’s collection of people! The reclusive bil“Serengeti” of wildlife; opening day lionaires and the ski bums, the traof fishing on the Firehole River; the ditional Republican ranchers and a airy climber’s lair in alpine tundra; the thriving Latino community, a slew of South Fork of the Shoshone River; the misfit writers and hundreds of nonprofnow embattled Wyoming Range; the it organizations.” inner Wind Rivers; the emerald surHe notes: “This is my favorite place face of Green River Lakes; Red Rock in the world” and then proceeds to Lakes; and Christmas at Old Faithful. journey across millions of acres with He adds wolves, grizzly bears, whitea narrative flair and appreciation for bark pine trees and cutthroat trout to the West that other gifted wordsmiths those stages. could only envy. PJH “What I sought in these travels was much more personal, my own reckonTodd Wilkinson, founder of Mountain ing of how this place where I’ve lived Journal (mountainjournal.org), is most of my life is doing, whether its author of “Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek” soul is indeed intact, as authorities and about famous Greater Yellowstone grizexperts would have it, or unraveling,” zly bear 399 featuring 150 photographs he writes. by Tom Mangelsen, available only He does not sit in judgment. In fact, at mangelsen.com/grizzly. following his reference to the famous sign that for decades adorned the top of

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The State of Protest in 2018: A Case Study What the “People’s March on Washington” tells us about the state of the opposition BY BAYNARD WOODS @demoincrisis

onald Trump’s second year in office begins like every new Star Wars movie: with the Resistance in tatters, trying to rebuild. There is plenty of internet #Resistance, ranging from insane conspiracy theories to serious commentary and organizing—but this online profusion has resulted in IRL confusion. It’s certainly not anywhere near “Homage to Catalonia” levels, but dissension among the opposition to Trump is fierce. The divide is mirrored in the Bernie/ Hillary split—but it is also something deeper and something that moves further to the fringes. It, in many ways, mirrors the new divisions within the far right where the alt-light litigiously differentiates itself from the more openly racist alt-right. Last year, there was the Disrupt J20 protest on Inauguration Day, which led to the prosecution of nearly 200 individuals, identified by the police and the prosecution as anarchists. The next day, hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets for the women’s march. There is little sympathy or support between these groups, with many anarchists and hardcore organizers mocking the feel-good liberal desire to #Resist by supporting the FBI, intelligence agencies, and Robert Mueller. Liberals, on the other hand, attempt to distance themselves from anyone further to the left than they are for fear of being tainted by the the anarchist stench of hippies. As a result, liberals have been far more concerned about Putin’s abuse of reporters than they have about the prosecution of journalists who were covering the J20 protests. Though that case has been largely ignored by the mainstream press, it has

had an immeasurable effect on the state of protest—and created fear, distrust, and division on the left. Over the last couple weeks, some of these tensions have bubbled up in largely online debates about a real-life rally slated for Washington D.C. on Jan. 27. The “People’s March on Washington,” also called the “The Impeachment March,” has gained a lot of online support—25,000 are “interested” on Facebook and more than 2,000 say they are going—and it has gotten a lot of pushback. The rally was organized by a group called People Demand Action, which is headed up by a 24-year-old AfricanAmerican man named Lawrence Nathaniel, who is a big-thinking, marketing-minded millennial leftist who says that he worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign and, after he got over his disappointment following the primary loss, for Hillary Clinton. When Trump won, he began to think about what he can do. One of the things he set about organizing—he has a long list of sometimes improbable plans and goals, including opening a free, private school in Bamberg, S.C.—was this march calling for the impeachment of the president. But as interest in the march grew—and organizers began trying to raise money— so did the questions surrounding it. I first heard questions about the march when Dave Troy, a technologist and writer in Baltimore, wrote me about it. Troy is deeply concerned about Russian trolls and “active measures.” When he saw some of the confusion surrounding the event, he initially thought it might be the result of some Kremlin campaign. But when he started to look into it, he attributed the perceived failings of the organizers to inexperience rather than malfeasance. Nathaniel has set up a number of organizations to promote the march and his various other endeavors. People have been calling them “shell organizations” or “false fronts,” but that seems a little too harsh. The one organization that has filed official papers is called the Presidential House and proposes some sort of weird shadow government in Charleston, S.C. with Nathaniel as president. Troy called it “unhinged, fantastical nonsense.” “When I started the Presidential House I started volunteering for the Obama campaign,” Nathaniel said when I called him. He acknowledged that the original scheme was kind of goofy but said it came from his enthusiasm for Obama. “I was 16 or 17 and was very excited and so I started something called the Presidential House to get out in my community.”

DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS

“Many of us, especially young people, don’t really get our voices heard because it’s mostly a ‘who has more experience type thing...”

But for Nathaniel, inexperience is part of the point of protest. “Many of us, especially young people in the political realm, don’t really get our voices heard because it’s mostly a ‘who has more experience’ type thing versus a protest where we’re able to organize it, either locally or nationally and our voices can be heard much easier there than working with politics,” Nathaniel said. But he said he is still interested in electoral politics and local issues. “My goal was to run for United States congress this year but I decided not to because Annabelle Robertson, who is way more qualified than I am, decided to run [against Republic Joe “You Lie” Wilson]. So I decided to put my action behind her and get out and protest.” Critics point to the “Rally at the Border,” in San Ysidro, the only other rally Nathaniel has organized. It failed amid concerns of top-down organizing that didn’t take the needs of the community into consideration and and could have put a lot of people at risk. Once news of the border rally became public, people began demanding to see the permit for the march on Washington. Nathaniel says he has a permit and has met with D.C. police, Park Police, the Secret Service and the FBI. But for the local organizers in San Ysidro and in D.C., working with the authorities is precisely the problem. Washington D.C.’s police department threw more than 70 grenades and emptied hundreds of

canisters of pepper spray against protesters at the Disrupt J20 protest during the Inauguration. At a right-wing rally recently, Park Police claimed to be working with right-wing militias. “In D.C. we do not like interfacing with police,” Brendan Orsinger, an organizer in D.C., said on the phone. “We don’t like the idea of the state giving permission for us to march. And we don’t need it….It’s actually much safer not to have police involved in the planning of the march.” Orsinger has been vociferous in his criticism of the march. But like Troy, he doesn’t see a conspiracy. “There are good intentions here. But one of the things that I learned over the last year is that good intentions are not good enough to make change happen in this country,” he said. This raises the larger question: What are protests for? The prosecution of the nearly 200 people charged with rioting charges after the inauguration may have had a chilling effect, but it has also shown the effectiveness of protest—if the U.S. Attorney’s office works that hard to shut them down, then they must have some power. So, the question becomes: How can a larger movement bring Russiagaters like Troy, local grassroots organizers like Orsinger, and enthusiastic young people like Nathaniel together? If people really want to resist and not just #Resist, they need to answer this question while embracing a diversity of tactics and figuring out how to form coalitions. PJH

REDNECK PERSPECTIVE SATIRE

BY CLYDE THORNHILL

Westbank Redneck Shot in Closed Area

THINGS

A LOCAL LISTICLE

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THE 6 STRANGEST WYO NEWS HEADLINES

6. “$20,000 Reward Offered in Wyoming for Missing Dog” 5. “Here’s Why That Missing Wyoming Dog is Worth $20,000”

3. “The Washington Post Tries to Analyze Wyoming” (Ed. note: Why??)

“This Blue Sulfur Hellfire in Wyoming is Mesmerizing -and Toxic”

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2. “Did Lawmakers Accidentally Open the Flood Gates for Political Dark Money in Wyoming?”

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4. “Why People Really Want to Move to Idaho but are Fleeing Its Neighbor, Wyoming”

ocals and visitors alike responded with everything from outrage to support for the poacher of redneck 337, a 39-year-old male from the Teton Pines pack. Warden Jon Stephens got a call from a barista who witnessed a redneck slip across the road from the John Dodge Subdivision, an area that has not met its annual quota and where hunting is allowed, into the Pines which is closed to redneck hunting. Shortly after the crossing, the tipsters saw a Mercedes turn into the Pines with a big-breasted woman in the passenger’s seat. She was wearing a lowcut NASCAR top, drinking Jack Daniels chasing it with Bud Lite while eating bacon, the standard baits used by redneck hunters. According to Warden Stephens, the redneck was sporting a beer belly, beard and Carhart hat and had he not been harvested, would have been in good shape to survive the winter. While reintroduced rednecks can be hunted in some areas of the Westbank, the Teton Pines is a “free roam zone” and hunting is not allowed. Environmentalists insist rednecks are native to the Westbank and should be allowed to wander freely despite complaints from owners of sushi shops and latte dispensaries of creating a “white trailer trash image” inappropriate in the sophisticated Wilson ecosystem. Reintroduction opponents claim the rednecks transported from Hog Island are a different sub-species than the original rednecks that lived in the area before gentrification.

“They have larger guts, bigger trucks, more guns, and stronger aftershave,” claimed an exasperated Goldman Sachs executive. It was pressure from the ABTW (Association of Bored Trophy Wives) that secured the hunting prohibition in Teton Pines. It is rumored the barista who provided officials the tip, while not a card-carrying member of the ABTW, was one of many women in the valley who favored rednecks for cheap onenight flings over the more prevalent snowboarders whom it is alleged take up snowboarding to make up for physical short comings. “We assume the redneck was crossing the road for breeding purposes and the complaints we received from ABTW about the illegal kill confirm our suspicions.” Warden Stephens said. Not only was the redneck harvested on in a closed area, the bait was not approved by the Wyoming Game and Fish. According to Warden Stephens, hunters may use only one of the following: Bud Lite, big-breasted women, Jack Daniels or bacon, but not in combination. “ U s i n g all four baits together is so overpowering rednecks lose all sense of reality.” Warden Stephens stated passionately. “It shows a lack of respect for fair chase and true sportsmanship.” One local Teton Pines hunter had no sympathy for the poacher. “It’s hard enough to harvest a redneck without competition from poachers.” Bick Chiney told reporters. Mr. Chiney is hoping to add a redneck to his trophy room which already contains mounts of a hunting companion, a family of Sudanese refuges, a Mexican and a terrorist suspect. The terrorist suspect turned out to be an aid worker from France. “Same difference,” Mr. Chiney claimed. PJH

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THE BUZZ Wyo Say No Maggots, mold and infestations have activists speaking out against the proposed immigration jail in Uinta County BY F.W. BROSCHART @broschartfred

proposed Uinta county detention center for illegal immigrants taken into custody by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drawn the ire of many Wyoming groups who say the proposed center represents an unfair immigration system. A coalition of groups has banded together to organize against the proposed jail facility Saturday in Cheyenne, with other gatherings being held across the state and even in Colorado in solidarity with the Cheyenne event. Antonio Serrano of Cheyenne is the founder of Juntos, a nonprofit that helps immigrants in Wyoming and one of the organizers of #WyoSayNo, a grassroots coalition organizing Saturday’s events. Juntos says the company’s track record of running detention facilities is a source of worry for him and others. “The generations that are born here are needed to step up and make our voices heard,” Serrano said. “We’re part of Wyoming, and we’re intertwined into every single part of it. The proposed center would be built in Uinta County, near the town of Evanston. The facility is described as a 500-bed facility that would house non-dangerous inmates without criminal pasts besides their alleged immigration violations. The inmates at the facility would be housed there while they await their immigration hearings in Salt Lake City. The facility was described as something that looks like a high school or community college, only with tall fences surrounding it. According to Serrano, both women and men will be housed at the Uinta county facility if it is opened. Juntos and the other groups protesting the immigration facility are hopeful that won’t happen. While the detainees that would be held there are held for ICE, the facility

The campaign launch will be held 5:30-7 p.m. Saturday in Cheyenne at the Laramie County Library at 2200 Pioneer Avenue.

itself is not operated by that agency. Management & Training Corporation – or MTC, of Centerville, Utah – a private, for-profit corporation, would carry out the day-to-day operations at the facility instead. MTC runs immigration detention centers in California, New Mexico and Texas. It also operates prisons in eight states. The company also operates job centers under contract to the U.S. Department of Labor, including one in Riverton. On its website, MTC describes itself as a company that has “a mission to help improve people’s lives,” though rehabilitation programs at its correctional facilities, operating health facilities in prisons, and providing workforce training at job centers like the one in Riverton. The company’s website is replete with pictures of former “clients” who point out how the company has helped them in the course of their incarcerations, or by helping others develop job skills. But MTC’s record may not be so clean, and that is one of the issues activists are concerned about regarding the proposed immigration jail in Uinta County. An MTC-operated immigration detention center in Raymondville, Texas – known colloquially as “Ritmo” by some familiar with it – closed after years of alleged inmate abuse culminated in a riot that forced the closure of the facility. In the years leading up to the riot, inmates and staff complained of maggots in food, mold, backed up toilets, insect and rodent infestations. Other inmates alleged the facility was distributing uncleaned underwear and clothing to inmates.

A nurse at the facility testified before Congress about acute shortages of medical care at the facility, with 20 of the facility’s healthcare positions in the prison unfilled. In 2011, a guard at the facility pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a female inmate at the facility. A recent series of inspections of ICE detention facilities, including one owned by MCC in Otero County, New Mexico, found multiple violations of ICE’s own standards for inmate care. In a report released in December, the inspector general’s office said at some facilities inspectors found rotten food being served. At the Otero County facility, inspectors noted that inmates were often sent to solitary confinement in violation of ICE’s own guidelines regarding inmate treatment. Even MTC’s non-prison or detention facility businesses have not escaped allegations of poor management. The company is currently fighting a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming, alleging management at the company’s Green River jobs center discriminated against Native American workers, despite the fact the center was located close to the Wind River Reservation in part to provide services to that population. In Uinta County, the county commission and town council of Evanston acted quickly to approve construction of the facility, citing the economic impact the detention center would have on the area. The town’s mayor cited the addition of 100-150 job with a minimum salary of $21 per hour as a key economic reason to approve the project, according to reporting in the Uinta County Herald.

Given MTC’s problems, as well as a system that appears to be punishing people unfairly, Serrano is not convinced. “We don’t need jobs that bad,” he said. Serrano described himself as a first-generation American, and someone who feels a tremendous connection to the state of Wyoming as the place where he grew up. Those housed at the immigration facility are deeply connected to the state, and industries such as farming, ranching and ever-important tourism. That’s why Serrano and other organizers of the #WyoSayNo movement and the event to be held Saturday are so vocal about it. Not only will having a facility like the proposed immigration detention center hurt immigrants, it will be detrimental to everyone in Wyoming because it will tear at the sense of community so many have come to enjoy about living in the least populated state in the nation. For Latinos and Latinas in the state, it is time to stand up and fight for their families, he said, saying those who came here before them did so that their children may have a shot at a better life. “We’re a part of every single part of Wyoming, we’re going to lose a lot of people and we’re going to hurt Wyoming.” PJH

The campaign launch will be held 5:30-7 p.m. Saturday in Cheyenne at the Laramie County Library at 2200 Pioneer Avenue. The event will be streamed live on the Internet with viewing house parties in several cities and towns across the state. More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/ events/146261459427770/ or https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/wyosayno-campaign-launch-satellite-event-signup

Wyoming’s Donald Trump Serial candidate Rex Rammell goes after yet another political office in the Equality State BY F.W. BROSCHART @broschartfred

“In a way, I am Wyoming’s Donald Trump. I speak my mind.”

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At the meeting, Rammell used the apocryphal prophecy as a means to draw attention to the political climate at the time. The controversy led the LDS church to issue a formal statement saying the White Horse Prophecy was not official church doctrine, and that there was no evidence it was a genuine prophecy of Smith. The church also disavowed the meetings, saying the institution was politically neutral. Rammell later apologized not making the meetings public. Planet Jackson Hole staff attempted to contact Rammell for comment about his announced run for governor, but the number listed on his campaign website went to a voicemail at a pet boarding business and no message was returned. PJH

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controversy when it was reported he said he would purchase a license to hunt Barack Obama, who was then only six months in to his first term as President. The incident took place at a town hall meeting about hunting when an attendee suggested “Obama tags.” Rammell reportedly said he would purchase such a tag. Rammell eventually apologized for the remark. In 2010, Rammell again stirred controversy after he held a meeting with fellow members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints where he discussed a purported prophecy of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church. Called the “White Horse Prophecy,” it claims Smith once predicted the constitution would “Hang by a thread,” and elders of the LDS church would be the only people capable of saving it.

ock Springs Republican and serial candidate for elected office, Rex Rammell, has once again announced he will be running for office in the Equality State – only this time, he has a political brand name to compare himself to. “In a way, I am Wyoming’s Donald Trump,” Rammell told the Casper StarTribune in a recent interview. “I speak my mind.” Rammell announced last week he would run to replace Wyoming Governor Matt Meade, who cannot run for that office again because of term limits. Ol’ Rex Rammell – a veterinarian and staunch supporter of “states’ rights,” – said if he becomes governor, he intends for Wyoming to take possession of lands belonging to the federal government. He would even do so by force if necessary, Rammell told the Casper Star-Tribune. “I would sign an executive order requiring the state police to arrest anybody that didn’t vacate their federal offices,” Rammell said. “We’re talking about the BLM, the Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the Park Service.” Rammell later clarified that that he did not think taking the land by force would be necessary, since he felt the Trump administration could be compelled to give up the lands without a fight. Western states like Wyoming taking possession of federal lands would allow the states to bypass many federal regulations, which Rammell sees as an impediment to economic development in the west. Rammell’s latest foray into the political fray is another run for a man used to being a candidate for…well…something. His gubernatorial run in Wyoming is not Rammell’s first attempt at becoming

the head executive of a state. Rammell ran for governor in Idaho in 2009 against five other republican candidates. In that race, Rammell took home about 26 percent of the vote in the six-candidate field, the second highest percentage of the six candidates. Butch Otter won the primary with 55 percent of votes cast, and eventually went on to win in the general election with 59 percent of the vote. In 2008, Rammell ran for the U.S. Senate vacated by Idaho Senator Larry Craig, who resigned after he was caught in a bathroom sex sting incident at an airport in Minneapolis. Rammell ran as an independent, taking 5.3 percent of the vote. The seat was won by Jim Risch, the former governor of Idaho. In 2002 and 2004, Rammell unsuccessfully ran in the primary for the Idaho legislature, losing both times. He tried going again for a seat in the Idaho legislature in 2012, with a second place finish in that primary with 30 percent of the vote. Most recently, Rammell ran in the Republican primary for Wyoming’s at-large representative to the U.S. House of Representatives. With eight others vying for the nomination, Rammell dropped out of the race in July 2016, endorsing Darin Smith because of his conservative and religious values. Despite dropping out, Rammell got about 1 percent of the vote. Liz Cheney, the eventual winner of the seat in the general election, got nearly 39 percent in the primary. Rammell’s move to embrace Trump is a bit controversial – even for conservatives – as many in the Republican party have worked to distance themselves from the President. Trump, who won in Wyoming with 68 percent of votes, just came off a weekend in which he was compelled to respond to questions about his mental fitness for the office of president. Saturday, Trump tweeted he was a “very stable genius” as proof of his fitness for office. And Trump’s record low approval ratings nationwide have trickled down to Wyoming. According to recent polls, Trump’s approval in Wyoming has dipped to around 40 percent at the end of 2017, a far cry from the president’s near 70 percent win margin in November 2016. Rammell’s identification with Trump’s waning brand identity might just be par-for-course for a controversial candidate known for a certain amount of color all his own. In 2009, Rammell was embroiled in

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When 5-year-old TyLon Pittman of Byram, Mississippi, saw the Grinch stealing Christmas on Dec. 16 on TV, he did what any civic-minded citizen would do. He called 911. TyLon told Byram police officer Lauren Develle, who answered the call, that he did not want the Grinch to come steal his Christmas, reported the Clarion Ledger. Develle made TyLon an honorary junior officer and had him come down to the station on Dec. 18 to help her lock away the Grinch, who hung his head as TyLon asked him, “Why are you stealing Christmas?” Although the green fiend apologized, TyLon wouldn’t release him from the holding cell. Police chief Luke Thompson told TyLon to come back when he’s 21, “and I’m going to give you a job application, OK?”

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Stephen Allen of Tukwila, Washington, moved in with his grandmother years ago to help care for her. When she died last year, he invited his brother, a convicted drug dealer, to move in, but along with him came drug activity, squatters, stolen property and debris. Allen eventually asked police to raid the home, but when they did on Dec. 15, they evicted Allen as well, leaving him homeless. “It’s all legal, but it’s wrong,” Allen told KIRO-7 News. “I can’t do anything about it.”

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In Gilgandra, New South Wales, Australia, on Nov. 29, sheep shearer Casey Barnes was tramping down wool, and her father and boyfriend were working nearby, when her long, curly hair became caught in a belt-driven motor. Horrifically, the motor ripped her scalp off from the back of her head to above her eyes and ears. Barnes was flown to Sydney, where doctors performed an emergency 20-hour surgery to save her scalp, but were ultimately unsuccessful. Barnes will have artificial skin attached to her head instead, reports The Sun. A GoFundMe page has been established to help with her medical bills.

Self-Absorbent

The Tea Terrace in London is offering a new way for customers to enjoy themselves—literally. On Dec. 16, the shop began selling the “Selfieccino,” an image of the customer’s face in the frothy topping of either a cappuccino or a hot chocolate. Patrons send an photo to the shop via an online messaging app, and the “Cino” machine takes it from there, reproducing the picture with flavorless food coloring in about four minutes. “Due to social media,” shop owner Ehab Salem Shouly told Reuters, “the dining experience has completely shifted. It’s not enough anymore to just deliver great food and great service—it’s got to be Instagram-worthy.”

An Engaged Citizenry

Pam Bisanti, a 31-year resident of Mount Dora, Florida, has approached the city council more than once about the speeding traffic along Clayton Street, where she lives. On Nov. 27, Bisanti made good on her threat to take matters into her own hands if the council didn’t by wielding a handmade sign reading “SLOW DOWN” as she stood next to the roadway during rush hour wearing her pajamas and robe. “The mothers up the street who send their kids down to the bus stop should have every expectation that those kids will be able to cross Clayton without being killed,” Bisanti told the Daily Commercial, saying she plans to continue her protest until the city takes action. “I am frustrated, angry and fed up. There needs to be a solution sooner than later. Remember that vision of me in my pajamas,” she added.

Unclear on the Concept

Melissa Allen, 32, was arrested on Dec. 19 after attempting to shoplift more than $1,000 in merchandise from a Framingham, Massachusetts, Target store, reported the Boston Globe. On hand to help in the arrest were more than 50 police officers who were at the store to participate in the annual “Shop With a Cop” holiday charity event.

The Call of Nature

Tracy Hollingsworth Stephens, 50, of Alachua, Florida, answered nature’s call on Nov. 25 by stopping her car in the middle of County Road 232 and stepping outside. An officer of the Florida Highway Patrol soon took notice as he had been searching for Stephens following her involvement in a two-car collision in the parking lot of a nearby T.J. Maxx store earlier that day. Stephens subsequently underperformed on a field sobriety test, according to The Independent Florida Alligator, and was arrested for driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.

The Sunshine State

Workers at Captain Hiram’s Sandbar in Sebastian, Florida, resorted to calling police on Nov. 17 when customer William Antonio Olivieri, 63, refused to leave the bar after a night of drinking. Olivieri told Sebastian police he had arrived by boat, but when a quick walk down a nearby dock failed to uncover the boat, he said perhaps he had driven himself to the bar in a black Hyundai. Throughout the interview with police, reported the Sebastian Daily, Olivieri also maintained that he was in downtown Melbourne, Florida, where he lives. Finally, he was arrested on a charge of disorderly intoxication and taken to the Indian River County Jail. n Sumter County, Florida, sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to The Villages on Nov. 19 where resident Lori Jo Matthews, 60, reportedly barked at her neighbor’s dogs, then entered her neighbor’s yard, yelling at the neighbor and finally slapping the neighbor after being told to leave. Deputies caught up with Matthews as she attempted to enter her own home, where she was handcuffed and arrested on charges of battery and resisting arrest. Alcohol, reported Villages-News.com, may have been involved.

Alarming Animal

North Fort Myers, Florida, homeowner Joanie Mathews was terrorized for hours on Nov. 14 by a large pig that wandered into her yard overnight and spent the day destroying the lawn and biting Mathews three times before trapping her in the cab of her truck. “She would circle the truck ... and I would jump in the back seat and I was like ‘Go away, pig!” Mathews told NBC-2 TV. Mathews finally called law enforcement, and it took three Lee County sheriff’s officers to wrangle the testy porker. “It was just hilarious because the pig fought them every which way,” Mathews said. No one, at press time, had stepped forward to claim the pig. Send tips to weirdnewstips@amuniversal.com.

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to focus on topics that are showy and in which it is therefore easy to generate public interest. These topics are used as “proxies” for [anthropogenic global warming] in general; in other words, they represent keystone dominoes that are strategically placed in front of many hund reds of others, each representing a separate line of evidence for anthropogenic global warming. By appearing to knock over the keystone domino, audiences targeted by the communication may assume all other dominoes are toppled in a form of “dismissal by association.” The paper, Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and ClimateChange Denial by Proxy, by Jeffrey Harvey, a senior scientist at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, and 13 co-authors, looked at 90 blogs and 92 peer

reviewed papers. They analyzed them in terms of what they said about sea ice (declining rapidly or not, or varying unpredictably over the long run) and polar bears (threatened with extinction or not, or capable of adapting to threats). Another co-author, Bart Verheggen, a climate scientists at Amsterdam University College, starkly described their findings: “There is a clear separation amongst blogs, where approximately half of the 90 blogs investigated agree with the majority of the scientific literature, whereas other blogs took a position that is diametrically opposed to the scientific conclusions. Most of the blogs in the latter group [about 80%] based their opinions on one and the same source: Susan Crockford.”

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“The problem is that an ever-warmer future means polar bears will have less and less access to their seal prey, so the rate at which bears die from malnutrition/starvation will increase,” said Dr. Steven Amstrup, chief scientist for the nonprofit Polar Bears International. “So, regardless of the proximate cause of this bear’s condition, this heart-wrenching footage provides us with a warning about the future.” Just days before the video went viral, a paper Amstrup co-authored presented the polar bear as something else as well: a “keystone domino,” a proxy used to attack global warming. The paper stated that: “Because this evidence [for global warming] is so overwhelming, it would be virtually impossible to debunk; the main strategy of denier blogs is therefore

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Unmasking a proxy war strategy by online climate change denialists

n early December, a video of a dying, emaciated polar bear, foraging for food on an iceless land, went viral on social media. The video garnered millions of views on Facebook and YouTube. For most, it was a vivid signal of the future in store for us all due to human-caused (anthropogenic) global warming rising temperatures due to increased carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. For those who deny or minimize the existence of anthropogenic global warming it wasn’t a polar bear, but a red herring (“Propaganda,” one YouTube viewer called it) — no one knows why it was dying, much less if it can be connected to global warming. That’s true, but also a bit beside the point.

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Crockford is an unpaid adjunct professor at the Un iversit y of Victoria in British Columbia. There were a few contested papers — ones that drew critical comments after publication — that fell outside the consensus, but they all fell between the two groups of blogs. “Our paper was clearly a direct hit because the response from the denial blogs was immediate,” Harvey told Random Lengths. “As is their modus operandi, they studiously avoid the core messages, which are that they use a tiny set of topics (proxies) to dismiss anthropogenic global warming... in attacking the evidence that [anthropogenic global warming] is driving a rapid reduction in seasonal arctic ice extent, [which] threatens polar bears, they almost completely avoid the published scientific literature.” It’s worth noting that two of Harvey’s co-authors, Amstrup and Ian Stirling, both co-authored more than 20 of the 92 papers in that literature, an indication of their depth of knowledge that denialists actually held against them. The paper also concluded with an unusual call to action: “We believe that it is imperative for more scientists to venture beyond the confines of their labs and lecture halls to directly engage with the public and policymakers, as well as more strongly confronting and resisting the well-funded and organized network of [anthropogenic global warming] denial.” But global warming denialism is so pervasive it can now be considered a contributing factor to global warming itself — something to be studied and mitigated. This paper is just the latest in the growing field of scientific studies of global warming science and denialist response that’s increasingly causing denialists to squirm.

the consensus gap between scientists and the public in terms of a combination of individual psychology and socio-political inf luence, with a strong financial component. Harvey’s paper provides a much sharper focus for that broad explanation, leaving little wiggle room for a denialist response short of throwing up their hands in surrender. “They clearly did not want to respond through the peer reviewed literature, but instead resorted to three main tactics,” Harvey said. “The first was to accuse us of ganging up on Susan Crockford, even though she does not appear until page three of the article and is not the primary focus.” Indeed, Crockford is not even indirectly mentioned in the paper’s abstract. “They also launched all out attacks on the two most prominent authors, Mike Mann and Stephan Lewandowsky, finally coming around to me after some days,” Harvey said. Mann was principally responsible for “hockey stick” graph, the first widely-accepted reconstruction of the past 1,000 years of northern hemisphere temperatures, showing dramatic temperature increases in the past few decades, which has made him a prime target for denialist attacks. “Recursive Fury” in particular made Lewandowsky a prime target. Finally, “They have tried to discredit the paper by criticizing the statistical analyses,” Harvey concluded. This was an effort spearheaded by economist Richard Tol, who floundered badly in a similar 2014 attempt to discredit the existence of the 97 percent consensus on global warming. On the last point, Lewandowsky, highlighted what he called, The “Monty-Pythonesque” angle of them trying frantically to invalidate their data. “The only way to achieve that would be if their blogs didn’t make the claims they clearly insist on making — namely that the Arctic isn’t melting and polar bears are just fine,” Lewandowsky said.

This emaciated polar bear was spotted by National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen on Somerset Island. The video of the starving bear foraging for food went viral this past December.

Studying Climate Denialism: A Growing Subfield This began in 2004, when science historian Naomi Oreskes, a professor of the history of science and affiliated professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard, produced the first of several studies establishing the existence of a solid 97 percent consensus of scientists that humans are responsible for ongoing global warming. It’s also been shown that increasing awareness of this consensus increases public acceptance. In 2015, Norwegian climate scientist Rasmus

Benestad pioneered the study of patterns of mistakes across dissenting papers in the remaining 3 percent. These were discovered by trying to replicate their results. In 2012, Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom UK, another of Harvey’s co-authors, initiated another line of research. He explored patterns of reasoning in the public at large. He first discovered that belief in a cluster of conspiracy theories was associated with global warming denial. Then he studied the online response of denialists to that study in a paper called “Recursive Fury,” in which he reported that many denialists exhibited at least one of six previously identified characteristics of conspiracist ideation. The denialists reacted furiously again and the journal that published the paper withdrew it, not because there was anything scientifically wrong with it, but for fear of being sued. This was widely condemned for encouraging scientifically unfounded attacks. Crockford also tried to get Harvey’s paper withdrawn and others tried to get Harvey condemned by his employer, but both were firmly rebuffed. Finally, in 2016, Yale sociologist Justin Farrell initiated another line of research, using network science and text analysis to investigate the overall structure and organizational power of the contrarian network, including the role of elite corporate benefactors. Thus, the first two lines of research establish why there’s no credible scientific support for rejecting global warming, while the second two broadly explain

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But what they lacked in substance, they made up for in sound and fury, with Crockford herself leading the way. After pointing out the denier blogs’ heavy reliance on her, the paper read: “Notably, as of this writing, Crockford has neither

Ian Stirling, co-author of 32 papers in the 92-paper database, removing satellite radio from female with cub.

Competing Conspiracy Theories

A clique around Bart Verheggen and Amsterdam Academia got others to join them in their crusade against “skeptics,” (the Dutch deniosphere at climategate.nl) WUWT — What’s Up With That? — is the most viewed denialist website worldwide. It actually promoted both of the first two conspiracies. Conspiracy theorists often embrace multiple, different and even contradictory conspiracy narratives. This is one of the six characteristics of conspiracist thought mentioned above, known as “must be wrong,” a pervasive belief that a conspiracy exists despite specific disproofs. Another corollary of this conspiracy thought characteristic is the belief in mutually-contradictory theories. The conspiracies listed above aren’t mutually exclusive, but they do illustrate another characteristic of conspiracist thought, “persecution-victimization,” the tendency to see themselves as persecuted victims of the conspiracy, as well as potential heroes. Thus, Crockford and her fans prefer the conspiracy theory revolving around her and the Dutch denialists prefer the conspiracy centered on Dutch soil.

A Peek Into Peer Review Confusions “Amstrup is pissed off because I criticized his work,” Crockford wrote in a comment at WUWT. “He and Stirling are not used to being challenged.” She touted her theory of the paper’s origins and purpose, based on a paper she published online a PeerJ, which is not in a peer-reviewed journal. Ignoring that fact, she wrote, “Colleagues have read my paper and found it to be fully acceptable as a piece of academic scientific work,” adding, “If that were not true, this desperately ridiculous Bioscience paper would never have been published.”

Back to the Science If the point of such proxy controversies is to distract, it’s good to refocus on what it’s being distracted from. “In addition to the badgering and nitpicking, we’ve been getting more conflation of the present and the future, more about how it has been warm in the past,

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There’s a second element in Crockford’s persecution narrative: Her entry into the half-baked conspiracy theories about the origins of Harvey’s story. “It’s interesting to see the different conspiracy theories being touted about our paper [on different denialist blogs],” Verheggen said. Verheggen said that all of them are wildly wrong. The following are a few of the claims he refutes: • Mann and Lewandowsky are behind it all, and they dragged others in with them (WUWT [a blog], others) • Amstrup and Stirling wanted to get back at Crockford who criticized them and got others to help them (Tom Fuller at cliscep and elsewhere)

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But that’s not how science works. A paper generally has to be peer reviewed and published, before other scientists feel a need to respond. “It was peer-reviewed by several well-qualified colleagues before publication (and revised accordingly) [which is not what ‘peer-reviewed’ means] but was not peer-reviewed again by the PeerJ organization, as is their policy,” Crockford wrote elsewhere. So, she knows full well it wasn’t peer reviewed, but wants to confuse her non-scientist readers. That was from blog post containing her “letter to the editors of the journal Bioscience requesting retraction of the shoddy and malicious paper by Harvey, et al.” The editors surely saw through this amateurish deception. Just like Donald Trump, she was playing to her base. That’s hardly her only deception. Elsewhere on her blog, Crockford let her real feelings about Bioscience show—feelings so strong they seemed to impair her basic math“BioScience is an interesting choice for this ‘Forum’ paper: I counted only 4 polar bear research papers in this journal since 2004 but 11 papers on “climate change denial” since 2010 (not including this one). In other words, few polar bear scientists would usually read this journal but many people interested in the “problem” of “climate change denial” would seek it out.” Yet, it only takes a moment, clicking on the links Crockford provides in the text, to discover she’s totally wrong. There are actually 88 journal articles listed on polar bears, 72 classified as research articles. For ‘climate change denial’ the numbers are 19 and 16, respectively. So, she’s wrong both about the journal’s content, as well as what people read it for. It is not, as she pretends, a comfy conspiratorial den for her enemies, but a well-respected journal of bioscience! “This kind of harassment, intimidation and threats are typical in my opinion of climate change deniers when they are criticized,” Harvey concluded. “They rarely pursue the normal professional response of writing a rebuttal to a journal until all other options have been exhausted.”

conducted any original research nor published any articles in the peer-reviewed literature on polar bears.” Crockford, a zoologist who’s been secretly paid by the denialist Heartland Institute, seemingly proved their point by responding with a series of heated blog posts, rather than a comment letter to the journal. One post claimed the paper was a conspiratorial response getting back at her for a non-peer-reviewed paper she’d published on the web. On one of the blog post, she stated that: “Bioscience article is academic rape: an assertion of power and intimidation.... Characterizing a professional, respected scientist as an unqualified vengeful opinion writer is the same kind of power attack as rape. It’s meant to humiliate and intimidate.” Other denialist blogs echoed her theme, characterizing the paper’s authors as “climate bullies” and harassers. “Crockford’s claim of academic rape is, in my opinion, really appalling,” Harvey said. “Four of my co-authors are women, including two in their 20s.” So, was Crockford accusing them of rape, too? Or simply erasing their existence? “Our team has no agenda against a specific blogger,” said Meena Balgopal, associate professor of biology at Colorado State University another co-author. “We simply found that the majority (80 percent) of the blogs that were identified as ‘climate denying’ referenced Crockford’s blog. Our goal was to use objective methods to better understand how blogs that describe climate change and polar bears present and frame information. Discussions of ‘#MeToo’ or ‘rape’ are, therefore, irrelevant to our study.”

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and more suggestion polar bears will be fine on land,” Amstrup said. These are all topics well-settled in the scientific literature that are ripe for confusion in the context of a heated proxy fight. The paper explains these confusions, but denier blogs don’t pay attention to scientific literature. That’s the study’s main finding, remember? So Amstrup ticked off what was being obscured. “Deniers have criticized polar bear scientists because things we projected for later this century have not yet happened,” he said. That’s the main point of Crockford’s non-peer-reviewed paper. So, “there are no future threats.” This ignores the known long-term trends and the point Amstrup made about the dying bear video. “Lowered polar bear survival means more bears are starving to death, so regardless of what happened to cause this particular bear’s problems, we know a future with less ice means higher rates of this kind of event in the future — a future we can avoid by mitigating greenhouse gas rise,” Amstrup said. He also commented on past warm periods. “The best evidence suggests we will be far warmer by mid-century than any time in the polar bear’s evolutionary history,” Amstrup said. “The current warming is occurring over the top of gradually declining insolation is caused by humans and is not at all analogous to past warming events.” As for polar bears surviving on land, studies show there just isn’t enough nutritious food for them to survive on without access to sea ice where they can hunt seals. Sure, bears have been known to catch geese, for example, but, “there simply are not enough geese to feed all the polar bears if we ultimately let the ice disappear,” Amstrup said. Of course, the point of the paper is that all the above is well-known to scientists and is deliberately obscured on the denier blogs. The response to the paper helps to prove its point.

and people that do not,” added Peter Roessingh, another co-author, an ecologist at the University of Amsterdam. “We show that all scientist are in one camp, with half of the blogs, and all other blogs are in the other camp. It is not a random mixture. By omitting the science position he distorts our conclusion.” Tol also complained that some of the paper’s co-authors had co-authored a good number of the papers on sea ice and polar bears, which made them biased. He layered multiple misleading arguments to make it seem quite underhanded and nefarious — questioning why only a small subset of papers on polar bears (in the Scopus database) were used, for example. “There may well be 278 papers on polar bears in Scopus,” Lewandowsky responded. “In fact, there are probably 10,000 papers in Scopus on bears. And a million on mammals. Holy cow, does this mean we ignored nearly a million relevant papers? Of course not! ... He’d get the same number of papers [we did] if he actually used our search terms..... Tol is complaining that the Bioscience paper is co-authored by scientists with a high level of relevant expertise. I would call that a strong asset of our paper!” In short, Tol’s response comes off as the final flourish in a flood of responses, all of which add up to a resounding underscoring of Harvey’s results. As Lewandowsky said, it’s Monty-Python-esque. “Our paper is hardly surprising, but deniers are angry simply because they have been formally exposed,” Harvey summed up. “It is patently obvious that denier blogs are master cherry pickers of quite dubious sources. They know it too, but they just don’t want to admit it.” Which is why the paper’s call for scientists to become more engaged on social media is so crucial. The more of them there are, the harder it will be for the cherry pickers to win when the next viral video comes around. PJH

Steven Amstrup, co-author of 21 papers in the 92-paper database, with three ridiculously cute polar bear cubs (are there any other kind?).

A Last Hurrah — Or Harrumph One last response deserves special attention: that of economist Richard Tol, who has made slipshod scientific-sounding arguments before. In a 2014 paper he criticized one of several studies showing a 97 percent consensus on global warming, arguing it was “only” 91 percent instead.

His paper was was rejected twice by one journal for flawed methodology, before it was published by another, still with some of the problems reviewers had flagged. A debunking of his claims, 24 Critical Errors in Tol (2014), written by 10 co-authors was published at skepticalscience.com, which noted that in his most glaring mistake: “Tol effectively conjured approximately 300 papers rejecting or minimizing human-caused global warming out of thin air, with no evidence that those papers exist in reality.” This time outlooks strikingly similar. The data issues, once again, are illusory. “Simply put, there are no issues with the data and Tol doesn’t report any,” Lewandowsky said. “What Tol is doing instead is to throw various innuendos at our particular form of the data and listing the limitations of it. This is a never-ending game of ‘gotcha’ because every type of data has specific limitations, which are taken into account by the appropriate statistical analysis.” His conclusions are chimeral, too. “Harvey et al. (2017) thus really show that there are people who worry about sea-ice and polar bears, and those who do not and cite Dr Crockford,” Tol wrote. “Tol’s description of ‘what we really show’ is a bit tricky,” Varteban said. “It’s written in a way that attempts to ridicule and downplay what we did, without being outright wrong.” “We do not only show there are people who worry

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role in people’s lives. For instance, an owl might eat the gophers that make mounds in your yard, or eagles scavenge carrions, which reduces diseases. But nothing really connects people to birds better than actually seeing birds. “For some of us, to see an eagle so close — our human perception of an eagle in a tree 100 yards away is so different than seeing an eagle 10-feet away sitting on someone’s hand,” Poole said. “It’s like seeing the super moon rise over the mountain you look at every day. It’s so different than seeing it when its way up in the sky with no scale. That perspective of closeness allows us to see things we don’t normally see.” That’s why the education birds are so important, Poole said. They change how people think about birds. The exhibit is meant to celebrate those birds and also continue helping people follow the Teton Raptor Center’s motto to “see more birds,” everyday, everywhere, even when getting coffee and a bagel. PJH Teton Raptor Center art exhibition at Pearl Street Bagels, hangs Jan. 15 through Feb. 15 Artists in the show: Shannon Marie Schacht, Alissa Hartmann, Lisa Laurie, Andy Taylor, Conrad Hunt, Nicole Gaitan, David Watson, Emily Poole, Jordan Walker, Jocelyn Slack, Annaliese Mayor, Shane Cranston

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This show celebrates those birds, he said. The raptor center put a call out to local artists who have worked with, or visited the raptor center before. Artists ranging from professionals to high school students submitted work for the show, which goes up Jan. 15. There are oil paintings, water colors, drawings and even a linocut block print on paper, Poole said. Most of the art is small, from about 3 x 5 up to 24 x 24, to allow as many pieces as possible to hang, Poole said. The raptor center asked the artists to use the education birds as inspiration. Some came and observed them at the center. Some used photographs. Others created work representing the species instead of a specific bird. Several organizations, including National Geographic and the Audubon Society, have named 2018 the “Year of the Bird,” Poole said. It’s about highlighting the importance of the birds in our life and thinking about the conservations issues that arise from human interactions with birds, Poole said. The Year of the Bird is about reminding people of their connection to the natural world even in modern times. It’s similar to the raptor center’s goal. “[If] we can help people understand our place in nature and the value of conserving nature, then we’ve achieved our mission,” Poole said. The Teton Raptor Center aims to raise awareness about the importance of birds in the world by teaching people about different species and their

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he Teton Raptor Center has a simple motto: “See more birds.” It’s about encouraging people to think about, look around and notice birds wherever they are, said Steve Poole, a volunteer and board member at the Teton Raptor Center. The Teton Raptor Center is making that task even easier this winter. Its exhibit at Pearl Street Bagels features work from about 15 local artists inspired by the raptor’s center education birds. The center has 14 birds that can’t be released back into the wild, Poole said. Some of the birds have been with the center for years, while others have joined the ranks in just the last few months. They are different ages and species. There are big birds like golden eagles and tiny ones like Eastern screech owls that can fit in the palm of your hand. They might be deaf, or blind, or unable to fly. But at the raptor center they have an important role. “They are our public face,” Poole said. “They represent the raptor center. People come to the raptor center to see birds.”

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10

n Dance & Fitness Classes 8 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Toddler Gym 10 a.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Story Time 10 a.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Baby Time - Youth Auditorium 10:05 a.m. Teton County Library, n Open Hockey - Weekday Morning 10:15 a.m. Snow King Sports & Event Center, $10.00, (307) 201-1633 n Public Skating - Weekday 12 p.m. Snow King Sports & Event Center, $5.00 - $8.00, (307) 201-1633 n Insta-Chat with Rose! (Free Session!) 12 p.m. Teton County Library, Free, 5163026362 n Chanman - SOLO 3 p.m. Alpenhof Bistro, Free, 307 733 3242 n Art Association of JH Youth Auditorium 3:30 p.m. Teton County Library, n Winter Wonderland Ice Skating on Town Square 4 p.m. n Warm Après Flow and Chill Yoga Series 4:15 p.m. Teton Yoga Shala, $14.00 - $19.00, 307-690-3054 n Moonshots 5x5 5 p.m. SpringHills Suites by Marriott, Free, 3074131726 n Beginning Ballet Workshop 6:15 p.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $20.00 - $55.00, 3077336398 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n CHAS COLLINS BAND Million Dollar Cowboy Bar,

THURSDAY, JANUARY 11

n Start the New Year with the Business Over Breakfast Legislative Edition 7:30 a.m. Grandview Lodge, $16.00 - $25.00, 307-733-3316 n Dance & Fitness Classes 8 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $10.00 - $16.00, 307-733-6398 n Books & Babies Story Time 10 a.m. Valley of the Tetons Library,

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n Storytime - Youth Auditorium 10:30 a.m. Teton County Library, n Story Time, Victor 10:30 a.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Public Skating - Weekday 12 p.m. Snow King Sports & Event Center, $5.00 - $8.00, (307) 201-1633 n Open Gym - Adult Basketball 12 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n App Time - Study Room 4 2 p.m. Teton County Library, n Prenatal Yoga Series 3 p.m. Teton Yoga Shala, $14.00 - $19.00, n Eli Williams, The Cougar Fund - Youth Auditorium 3:30 p.m. Teton County Library, n Winter Wonderland Ice Skating on Town Square 4 p.m. n Pizzeria Caldera Chamber Mixer 5 p.m. Pizzeria Caldera, Free, 307-733-3316 n REFIT® 5:15 p.m. First Baptist Church, Free, 307-690-6539 n Papa Chan and Johnny C Note 6 p.m. Teton Pines Country Club, Free, 307 733 1005 n Armchair Adventures: Trekking, Scenery & Geology in New Zealand 6:30 p.m. Jackson Parks and Recreation, n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Armchair Adventures: Trekking, Scenery and Geology in New Zealand 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, 307-739-9025 n Pat Chadwick Trio 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n CHAS COLLINS BAND Million Dollar Cowboy Bar,

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Compiled by Cory Garcia n All Ages Story Time 11 a.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Public Skating - Weekday 12 p.m. Snow King Sports & Event Center, $5.00 - $8.00, (307) 201-1633 n Fun Friday - Youth Auditorium 3:30 p.m. Teton County Library, n Film Friday Victor 3:30 p.m. Valley of the Tetons Library, n Winter Wonderland Ice Skating on Town Square 4 p.m. n The Maw Band 4:30 p.m. Mangy Moose, n I AM 5:30 p.m. Center for the Arts, $15.00, 307-733-4900 n Open Gym - Adult Soccer 6:30 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n Moose Hockey Game 7 p.m. Snow King Sports & Event Center, $5.00 - $10.00, (307) 201-1633 n FREE Public Stargazing 7:30 p.m. Center for the Arts, n Solidarity Service 7:30 p.m. Silver Dollar Showroom, Free, 307-732-3939 n CHAS COLLINS BAND Million Dollar Cowboy Bar,

SATURDAY, JANUARY 13

n MELT® NeuroStrength Workshop 9 a.m. Dancers’ Workshop, $30.00, 307-733-6398 n Library Saturdays - Youth Auditorium 10:15 a.m. Teton County Library, n Winter Wonderland Ice Skating on the Town Square 12 p.m. n In Search of a Prophet: Kahlil Gibran – An Unparalleled Guide for Our Times 12 p.m. Teton County Library, Free, 307-733-2164 n Stage Combat with Michael J. Johnson 12 p.m. Dancers’ Workshop Studio 1, $50.00, n App Time - Study Room 4 2 p.m. Teton County Library, n Apres Ski Music 3 p.m. Alpenhof Bistro, Free, n Après Soirée 3:30 p.m. Hotel Terra Ballroom, $25.00, 307.203.2223 n Chanman - SOLO

I AM New art exhibit showcases the brilliant work of contemporary Middle Eastern women

I AM, an art exhibition organized by CARAVAN featuring 31 contemporary Middle Eastern women artists from 12 countries, opens Friday, show hangs in the Theater Gallery at the Center for the Arts through Feb. 25. Opening program 5:30 to 8 p.m. with speakers and performance at 6:15 p.m. Friday, $15, Center for the Arts.

n Winter Wonderland Ice Skating on the Town Square 12 p.m. n The Hof band plays POLKA! with polka dancers Ralph and Casey 3 p.m. Alpenhof Bistro, Free, 307 733 3242 n Open Gym - Adult Volleyball 4 p.m. Teton Recreation Center, n MLK Day free film “Rosenwald” 4:30 p.m. Teton County LIbrary, Free, 307-734-1999

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here are so many misconceptions people who have never been there have about the Middle East and what it’s like to live there, said Emy diGrappa of the Wyoming Humanities Council. There are even more when it comes to what it’s like to be a woman in the area. On Friday, people have a chance to gain a deeper insight into life in the Middle East from people who actually live there thanks to “I AM,” an exhibit featuring work from 31 contemporary Middle Eastern artists. The artists are all women and represent 12 different countries. Art is one of the most effective mediums to enhance understanding, bring

about respect and deepen relationships between people of cultures, said PaulGordon Chandler, founding president of CARAVAN, the organization bringing the exhibition to Jackson. CARAVAN wanted to highlight the role Middle Eastern women play in the region and globally, Chandler said in an email interview. The exhibit offers a chance to address common stereotypes and change the narrative surrounding Middle Eastern women who are often misrepresented or unacknowledged. “At the same time, this exhibition is a response to the many challenges facing women around the world today,” he said. The exhibition, which will hang in the Center Theater Gallery through Feb. 25, opens Friday with a special program featuring multimedia artist Alia Ali from Yemen. She’ll speak about her experience as an artist and woman and how art can offer a bridge between cultures. Mahmoud “Mood” Chouki, a guitarist and composer from Morocco, and Chandler, the founder of CARAVAN, will also present at the Friday opening. Janet Rady, a specialist in Middle Eastern contemporary art, curated the exhibition. It features a variety of mediums

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Artist Maitha Demithan’s “Mother”

including oil paint, collage, photography, calligraphy and scenography. The majority of artists in the show are well-established, but a few emerging-artists were also invited to participate, Chandler said. The works are varied in style, but also in the experiences and insights the artists share and convey. The collective exhibit is meant to be thought-provoking, Chandler said. Chandler said he hopes people gain a better understanding of the Middle East and Middle Eastern women as they balance their culture and religion in a rapidly changing world. “This exhibition celebrates the unique voice of women in shaping a harmonious world and aims to remind us all of our similarities and the need for peaceful coexistence,” Chandler said. The Wyoming Humanities Council is co-presenting the exhibition, which has already shown in Jordan, Washington D.C. and London. The goal is to build bridges between the Middle East and the West, diGrappa said. The art allows the women to share their own narratives and experiences directly with the viewer. “Every woman’s life is full of stories,” diGrappa said. The Wyoming Humanities Council is using the exhibition as a catalyst for local conversations specifically on gender-based violence, diGrappa said. “Gender-based violence, especially violence against women, knows no political, socioeconomic or cultural boundaries,” she said. “It’s an issue all over the world, whether you live in the United States, or the Middle East.” The Wyoming Humanities Council is sponsoring an even Jan. 21 with speakers presenting on how to move forward after traumatic experiences. On Feb. 11, it is bringing a speaker from the Faith Trust Institute to offer workshops for those with jobs that deal with domestic violence such as police officers and counselors. “We are trying to address local issues,” diGrappa said. “This is one of those things that is really hard to talk about and ‘I AM ‘is a catalyst for having some of those critical conversations.” PJH

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ith just days to go until we celebrate surviving year one of the Donald Trump experience, I think we can all acknowledge that we were sold a bill of goods. No, I’m not talking about saving the coal industry or the building of a wall, but something much more important: where is all the good music we were promised during a Trump presidency? Not that we should have gotten our hopes up. Really, anyone who survived George W.’s time in office knew that the ‘80s are long gone and a “bad” presidency does not equal better music. Remember when NoFX were good? I still haven’t forgiven Bush for what he did to them. It’s not that 2017 didn’t have protest music worth discussing, it’s just that

with the exception of an Eminem freestyle very little of it created a blip on the pop culture radar. There were people out there doing work, and I’ll give all credit in the world to rappers and indie artists putting their feelings down on wax, even if the individual songs didn’t set the world on fire. At least we got one real jam: Pussy Riot’s “Make America Great Again,” which will never get its proper due for obvious reasons. Recently, Bono complained in Rolling Stone that rock music had become too “girly” and that “hip-hop is the only place for young male anger at the moment – and that’s not good.” It’s a pretty bad hot take, and a weird one considering that the guy lamenting the rise of hip-hop cut a record with Kendrick Lamar. Even assuming that hip-hop is the only place for young male anger, what excuse do every rocker above the age of 25 – including Bono and his mates in US – have for their weak response to the political landscape of 2017? You can count the number of really great rock protest songs on two hands. Personally speaking, I can’t get past three: Radar State’s “Double Speak,” which I know none of you have heard; Nine Inch Nail’s “Less Than,” in which Trent Reznor finally wrote a good version of what he was trying to do with “The Hand That Feeds” way back in

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Jackson Hole Jewish Community presents MLK Day Free Film:

Rosenwald is a 2015 documentary film directed by Aviva Kempner about the career of Jewish American businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and his partnership with African American communities. Free. for more information, email info@jhjewishcommunity.org

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“Rosenwald” Sunday, Jan. 14 4:30 p.m. / Free Teton County Library

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some new rock protest anthems. We need to bring back rap-rock. Oh, you laugh, but if angry young dudes are really embracing hiphop anyway, and if rappers are more inclined to speak the truth about the world we live in, then maybe it’s time for a new generation of numetal bands to rise up. You laugh, but would a new wave of rap-rock be any worse than the legion of butt rock bands that currently make up so many modern rock playlists these days? I think not. I mean, it was that fusion of massive riffs and intelligent rhymes that made Rage Against The Machine such a force in the first place. Those songs are just as powerful now as they were when they were originally released. Yes, the bands that came along after them choose to write about themselves rather than the world, but is that any surprise? Complaining about your love life will always be more satisfying than trying to save the world, which is a concept so simple it’s amazing that rock messiah Bono doesn’t get it. So yes, we need to get these new bands some turntables and a stack of Public Enemy records. It won’t be easy, but maybe this time next year we’ll have some fist pumping rock songs to be proud of. PJH

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2005; and Roger Waters’ “Is This The Life You Really Want?,” less because of the quality of the song and more because the man put on a giant touring production this year that spends a large chunk of its second act insulting Trump and that counts for something. And after that… I got nothing. I had high hopes that this would be Rise Against’s time to shine, and while “The Miracle” was one of the best songs of the year, the rest of the record and their supporting tour for it just left me feeling kind of flat. Truth be told, it’s always struck me as kind of odd that no one wanted to pick up the mantle of “mainstream political rock juggernaut” after Rage Against The Machine stopped recording. Even as rock’s share of mainstream interest has declined, you’d think there’d still be good money in waving the flag of political rock; doing so for a couple of albums saved Green Day’s career and got them in the Rock Hall of Fame, after all. But alas, no great political rock band has come along to fill that void; even members of Rage Against The Machine themselves are having trouble finding their footing as Prophet’s of Rage proves. So, if you’ll allow me to think way outside the box on this one, I have a solution that will put the rage back into rock music AND gives us a better shot at

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