Climate Changes Updates 17-18 November  2014

1.     Senate Defeats Bill on Keystone XL Pipeline in Narrow Vote

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/politics/keystone-xl-pipeline.html?_r=1

2.     The Hip-Hop Battle on Fracking and Climate Change

http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/the-hip-hop-battle-on-fracking-and-climate-change-20141118

3.     Hungry Planet: Can Big Data Help Feed 9 Billion Humans?

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/hungry-planet-can-big-data-help-feed-9-billion-humans-n243821

4.    A Forest Threatened by Keystone XL

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/opinion/a-forest-threatened-by-keystone-xl.html

5.     Politics, not oil, are pushing the Keystone XL Pipeline

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/Politics-not-oil-are-pushing-the-Keystone-XL-5899427.php

6.    Tie Keystone approval to bigger environmental goals

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/11/18/obama-should-tie-keystone-pipeline-approval-bigger-environmental-goals/87Nha5jDzdP4OULPU21a8N/story.html

7.     Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/world/coal-rush-in-india-could-tip-balance-on-climate-change.html

8.    Saving energy at 3 area churches

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20141118/FEAT/311189866/1011/FEAT

9. Canada and UK set to back Green Climate Fund

http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/17/canada-and-uk-promise-to-back-green-climate-fund/

10. Who’s to blame for climate change?

http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/17/whos-to-blame-for-climate-change/

• Geoengineering: Pumping iron into oceans could backfire – See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/17/geoengineering-pumping-iron-into-oceans-could-backfire/#sthash.UKiEYeRC.dpuf
• India must lead climate fight for developing countries at UN talks – See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/17/india-must-lead-climate-fight-for-developing-countries-at-un-talks/#sthash.ye3I42gx.dpuf
• Taiwan defies China to seek recognition at UN climate talks – See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/17/taiwan-defies-china-to-seek-observer-status-at-un-climate-talks/#sthash.THqpNL3h.dpuf

14. Climate change to increase US lightning strikes

http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/17/climate-change-to-increase-us-lightning-strikes/

• HFCs breakthrough possible at Montreal Protocol meeting – See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/17/hfcs-breakthrough-possible-at-montreal-protocol-meeting/#sthash.pJ00BJyk.dpuf

16. Germany nuclear phaseout puts 2020 climate target in peril – See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/18/germany-nuclear-phaseout-puts-2020-climate-target-in-peril/#sthash.41KXswdM.dpuf

• Why is the Green Climate Fund’s pledging meeting important? – See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/18/why-is-the-green-climate-funds-pledging-meeting-important/#sthash.OUEga6vP.dpuf

18. Officials confident Green Fund will top $10bn target at Berlin meeting – See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/18/officials-confident-green-fund-will-top-10bn-target-at-berlin-meeting/#sthash.cCaAP2WP.dpuf
19. India targets 500% increase in solar power generation – See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/18/india-targets-500-increase-in-solar-power-generation/#sthash.ziXH6NZu.dpuf
20. Keystone XL Senate vote too tight to call

http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/18/keystone-xl-senate-vote-too-tight-to-call/

• Activist murders raise doubts over Peru’s deforestation goals – See more at: http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/18/activist-murders-raise-doubts-over-perus-deforestation-goals/#sthash.egYVX3fB.dpuf
• Climategate five years on: who won the war?

http://www.rtcc.org/2014/11/18/climategate-five-years-on-who-won-the-war/

23.                        Coal Rush in India Could Tip Balance on Climate Change

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/world/coal-rush-in-india-could-tip-balance-on-climate-change.html

24.                        Media, Lefty Outlets Wrong about ‘Interstellar’ and Climate Change

• See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-johnson/2014/11/18/media-lefty-outlets-wrong-about-interstellar-and-climate-change#sthash.SihSQe0F.dpuf

25.                        Top Republican Finally Acknowledges Human-Caused Climate Change

http://www.businessinsider.com/john-thune-on-human-caused-climate-change-2014-11

26.                        Publishers remove confusion about climate change from Texas textbooks

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/11/publishers-remove-confusion-about-climate-change-from-texas-textbooks/

27.                        Obama stakes final 2 years on climate change

https://news.yahoo.com/obama-stakes-final-2-years-140839117.html

28.                       White House offers climate change help to U.S. cities

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/17/us-usa-climatechange-adaptation-idUSKCN0J110X20141117

29.                        Top Republican bows to scientists on climate change

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/11/17/top-republican-bows-to-scientists-on-climate-change/

30.                        Preventing the Sixth Mass Extinction Requires Dealing With Climate Change

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-d-barnosky/preventing-the-sixth-mass_b_6161284.html?utm_hp_ref=green

31.                        Coastal Policy Clinic to host Governor’s Climate Change Commission

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2014/wm-virginia-coastal-policy-clinic-to-host-governors-climate-change-commission123.php

• Obama Is Driving a Wedge Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Climate Change Deniers

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120301/obama-splits-australias-abbott-and-canadas-harper-climate-change

33.                        Over 1,400 Endangered Species Are Threatened By Climate Change, Says New ‘Red List’

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/18/3592914/endangered-species-list-climate/

34.                        Mayor de Blasio, Please Add Climate Change to Your Progressive Agenda

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-fox/de-blasio-climate-change_b_6180794.html?utm_hp_ref=style

35.                        What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change

36.                        Global climate change occurring right outside your window

http://jaybookman.blog.ajc.com/2014/11/18/global-climate-change-occurring-right-outside-your-window/

37.                        Bottom line on climate change: It’s costing you money

http://blogs.reuters.com/stories-id-like-to-see/2014/11/18/how-to-fix-the-climate-change-beat/

38.                       The U.S.-China Deal on Climate Change: Minilateralism at Work

http://theenergycollective.com/robertstowe/2156196/us-china-deal-climate-change-minilateralism-work