Climate Changes Updates 24 October 2013

1.  Fracking Fight Focuses on a New York Town’s Ban

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/nyregion/court-case-on-fracking-ban-in-dryden-ny-may-have-wide-implications.html?_r=0

2.  How to Waste A Billion: Use It To Fight Global Warming

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/102313-676388-world-spends-billion-a-day-to-fight-climate-change.htm#ixzz2ihdYPFnD

3. 
Year-Specific Predictions of Climate Change

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-chameides/year-specific-predictions_b_4158669.html

4.  Africa must seek int’l financial support to challenge climate change

http://english.cntv.cn/program/newsupdate/20131024/101386.shtml

5.  Climate Change Affects Australia’s Epic Wildfires — No Matter What Prime Minister Says

http://world.time.com/2013/10/23/australias-epic-wildfires-likely-affected-by-climate-change-no-matter-what-prime-minister-says/

6.  Climate change study moving forward but ‘cherry-picking’ data, senator says

http://journalstar.com/legislature/climate-change-study-moving-forward-but-cherry-picking-data-senator/article_635113f1-f28b-54a7-9c43-9e9050a15e2a.html

7.  Methane Complicates U.S. Greenhouse Emissions Outlook

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/u.s.-greenhouse-emissions-fall-but-methane-complicates-picture-16642

8.  More regulation, tempered expectations on shale’s global horizon

http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059989223

9.  Major Pension Funds Ask for Climate Change Study

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/major-pension-funds-climate-change-study-20668494

10.  Students from 720 campuses rally for energy, climate change

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/24/power-shift-720-campuses/3180005/

11.                   The Telltale Signs of Climate Change on 6 Continents

http://www.wunderground.com/news/see-what-climate-change-leaving-behind-6-continents-20131024

12.                   Informed discussion on climate change impacts can turn the table on denialist prime minister

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/oct/24/climate-change-tony-abbott-bushfires-denialism

13.                   Al Gore attacks Tony Abbott’s refusal to link bushfires with climate change

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/24/al-gore-attacks-tony-abbotts-refusal-to-link-bushfires-with-climate-change

14.                   Pacific nations ‘very disappointed’ by Tony Abbott’s climate scepticism

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/24/climate-change-australian-politics

15.                   Al Gore Reddit AMA: Former Vice President Talks Climate Change And Energy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/al-gore-reddit-ama_n_4156232.html

 

16.                   Comment: Let’s confront the reality of climate change

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/10/25/comment-lets-confront-reality-climate-change

17.                   Indonesia Forests Dwindle Despite Protection, Spurring Climate Change And Threatening Native Species

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/indonesia-forest-dwindle_n_4153980.html

18.                   Gina McCarthy, Obama’s Environmental Watchdog

http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/gina-mccarthy-obamas-environmental-watchdog-20131023

19.                   Greenhouse gas emissions from power plants declined from 2011 to 2012, EPA says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-power-plants-declined-from-2011-to-2012-epa-says/2013/10/23/4d8715a0-3c18-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html

20. UK warming faster than global average – report

http://www.rtcc.org/2013/10/24/uk-warming-faster-than-global-average-report/

21. Climate change linked to doubling of Stockholm heat-related deaths –

http://www.rtcc.org/2013/10/23/stockholm-heat-toll-doubled-in-30-years/

22.                   Increasing Toxicity of Algal Blooms Tied to Nutrient Enrichment and Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131024143309.htm

23.                   Optimism About Meeting ‘Grand Challenge’ of Global Prosperity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131024121806.htm

24.                   Climate Change and Coevolution: Scientists Have Done the Math

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131024102156.htm