Climate Changes Updates 24-25 July 2013

1)      Protesters Target Google’s Ties to James Inhofe, Senate’s Noted Climate-Change Denier

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/07/24/google-james-inhofe-climate-change-fundraiser

2)    The Price of Defame

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/07/24/antiscience_defamation_climate_scientist_michael_mann_lawsuit_to_move_forward.html

3)    Climate science: Vast costs of Arctic change

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7459/full/499401a.html

4)    White House Undercuts Coal Power Plant Water Pollution Rule

http://ens-newswire.com/2013/07/24/white-house-undercuts-coal-power-plant-water-pollution-rule/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ens-newswire%2FJZdj+%28ENS%29

5)    China to invest $277 billion to curb air pollution: state media

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/us-china-pollution-idUSBRE96O01Z20130725?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews

6)    World-Changing Technology Enables Crops to Take Nitrogen from the Air

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130725125024.htm

7)    Deciphering the Air-Sea Communication: Ocean Significantly Affects Long-Term Climate Fluctuations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130725104849.htm

8)    Tropical Ecosystems Boost Carbon Dioxide as Temperatures Rises

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130724154554.htm

9)    Shifting Patterns of Temperature Volatility in the Climate System

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130724134252.htm

10) US Republicans seek to stymie Obama on climate

http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/us-republicans-seek-to-stymie-obama-on-climate-20130723-2qff2.html#ixzz2a88Uvsdl

11)  NSW Forestry Corporation fined for damaging environment

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/nsw-forestry-corporation-fined-for-damaging-environment-20130724-2qj5w.html

12) Keystone oil sands to emit 1.2b tones of CO2: NRDC

http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/keystone-oil-sands-to-emit-12b-tonnes-of-co2-nrdc-20130724-2qi43.html#ixzz2a88gl9J6

13) EIB aligns lending criteria with EU energy and climate policy

http://www.edie.net/news/6/EIB-aligns-lending-criteria-with-EU-energy-and-climate-policy/

14) Climate Change Slowdown Is Due To Warming Of Deep Oceans, Say Scientists

http://www.enn.com/climate/article/46246

15) Marsh: Infrastructure investors overlooking climate threats

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2284414/marsh-infrastructure-investors-overlooking-climate-threats

16) Arctic thawing could cost the world $60tn, scientists say

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2284466/arctic-thawing-could-cost-the-world-usd60tn-scientists-say

17) How do we know more CO2 is causing warming?

http://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect-basic.html

18) World finances shift from coal to renewable energy

http://www.dailyplanetmedia.com/index.php/daily-news-archive/649-world-finances-shift-from-coal-to-renewable-energy.html#.UfIZa6yQDFw

19) Bee Decline Threatens Entire Ecosystems

http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/bee-decline-threatens-entire-ecosystems-130725.htm