Snoopydawg got there first to cover the confab with the civil rights leaders, so here it's my turn to cover this promising letter by scientists:

A warning on climate and the risk of societal collapse

"Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!" --Karl Marx

In this pithy quote Marx, whose 199th birthday was yesterday, encapsulates the insane logic of the capitalist system. Its precise lettering is mentioned in the same paragraph, below:

Here it is, Obama's contribution to "legacy" -- he's got a paper now in Science magazine, the quintessential source for new scientific output:

The irreversible momentum of clean energy

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/06/science.aam6284

Check out the abstract:

Okay everyone, here it is; I'm no doubt repeating it from a comment I've made here earlier. Now it gets its own diary. Anyway:

1) The government starts a car company.

2) The car company makes only electric cars which will come with their own solar panels.

3) Everyone who owns a fossil-burning car gets an offer. You can trade in your fossil-burning car for an electric car at no charge.

4) At some point the gas pumps are shut off.