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ARB Newsclips for November 23, 2015. 

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CLIMATE CHANGE

Heads of state confirm Paris climate talks attendance – source.
Heads of state invited to climate talks in Paris starting on Nov.
30 have confirmed they will attend even after the Nov. 13 attacks
by Islamic State militants that killed 130 people, a French
presidency source said.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/11/22/climatechange-summit-leaders-idINKCN0TB07O20151122


FEATURE-Climate change sends Chile's wine industry southward.
Well into their drive to make Chile's wines less about
bang-for-your-buck and more about premium vino, vintners in the
world's fourth largest wine exporter are watching some of their
promising vines wither with climate change. Nestled between the
Pacific Ocean to the west and the Andes mountain range on the
east…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/23/climatechange-summit-chile-wine-idUSL1N13038E20151123#Dt921aKPHxJyX2fc.97
 

The Climate Change Pledges Are In. Will They Fix Anything? Nearly
200 countries will meet in Paris in early December to work on the
global agreement addressing climate change. By 2025, the United
States has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent
from 2005 levels.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/23/world/carbon-pledges.html


More than 2,000 academics call on world heads to do more to limit
global warming. Linguist Noam Chomsky and historian Naomi Oreskes
among signatories of open letter urging leaders to limit warming
to 1.5C, rather than current 2C target, at Paris climate talks.
More than 2,000 academics from over 80 countries – including
linguist Noam Chomsky, climate scientist Michael E Mann…
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/nov/23/over-2000-academics-world-heads-do-more-limit-global-warming-noam-chomsky

Why do so many Americans doubt climate change? A Yale University
survey showed one-fifth of Americans do not think climate change
is real, even though there is a near-consensus among scientists
that the problem exists. Where does the split come in?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1123/Why-do-so-many-Americans-doubt-climate-change

Exposing a small part of a forest to the 'threatening' heat of
2100. Yellow cables marked "danger" carry 480 volts of
electricity through the rainforest. The cables reach into a
circular metal scaffold that holds six large space heaters. The
heaters, pointed at the forest floor, are not working. At the
control center building half a mile away…
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2015/11/23/stories/1060028419

DROUGHT

In California, Stingy Water Users Are Fined in Drought, While the
Rich Soak. Outside her two-story tract home in this working-class
town, Debbie Alberts, a part-time food service worker, has torn
out most of the lawn. She has given up daily showers and cut her
family’s water use nearly in half, to just 178 gallons per person
each day.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/us/stingy-water-users-in-fined-in-drought-while-the-rich-soak.html?_r=2


Councilman Pushes For Limits To Artificial Turf Installations. A
California law, which was passed to respond to the drought-
allows artificial turf on all residential property. But a
Sacramento city councilman says the law should allow cities to
restrict its use. The new law says a city may not prohibit or
impede installation of artificial turf for any reason.
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/11/23/councilman-pushes-for-limits-to-artificial-turf-installations/

 
FUELS

Natural gas leak that's sickening Valley residents could take
months to fix. Southern California Gas Co. is warning that it
might need several months to plug a natural gas leak that has
been sickening residents in the San Fernando Valley for weeks. A
leaking well in the Santa Susana Mountains, more than a mile from
the nearest homes in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Porter
Ranch, has elicited hundreds of complaints from residents…
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-1121-gas-leak-20151121-story.html


VEHICLES

Carpool-Lane Access: Very Important For Electric-Car Adoption, It
Turns Out. Depending on where they live, electric-car owners can
enjoy a variety of perks associated with the vehicle they drive.
That's especially true in California, which grants rebates for
new plug-in car purchases, as well as access to carpool lanes for
solo drivers in plug-in hybrids and electric cars.
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1101097_carpool-lane-access-very-important-for-electric-car-adoption-it-turns-out


VW RECALL

Volkswagen Chief Says Emissions Inquiry May Take Months.
Volkswagen is still several months away from being able to
clarify who was responsible for installing emissions-cheating
software in millions of diesel vehicles and plunging the company
into crisis, the automaker’s leader said on Monday. The statement
by the chief executive, Matthias Müller, is a further indication
that the company’s internal investigation is moving slowly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/business/international/volkswagen-chief-says-emissions-inquiry-may-take-months.html


Volkswagen Submits Recall Plan to California Air Regulators.
Volkswagen AG submitted its recall plan to regulators with the
California Air Resources Board and federal counterparts Friday, a
little more than two months after the company’s cheating on
diesel emissions tests was revealed by regulators from the state
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-21/volkswagen-submits-diesel-recall-plan-to-california-regulators


GREEN ENERGY

Gov. Cuomo to Order Large Increase in Renewable Energy in New
York by 2030. Frustrated by the pending shutdown of two nuclear
power plants on Lake Ontario, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo plans to order
state regulators to mandate that, by 2030, half of all power
consumed by New Yorkers be generated from renewable sources that
emit much less carbon dioxide, people briefed on the matter said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/23/nyregion/gov-cuomo-to-order-large-increase-in-renewable-energy-in-new-york-by-2030.html?_r=3

How Renewable Energy Could Make Climate Treaties Moot. Powering
the U.S. and 138 other countries exclusively with wind, water,
and solar would solve global warming—and is entirely doable. The
world is counting on an international climate agreement in Paris
next month to stop the rising fossil fuel and biofuel emissions
that are warming the planet.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-renewable-energy-could-make-climate-treaties-moot/


OPINIONS

Letters: Warming believers on thinner ice than they think. The
nonsense and misrepresentation from the Left concerning the
global warming scam is pervasive. On Nov. 14, one letter-writer
pretends to present facts but does nothing of the sort. Likewise,
another letter-writer smears global warming adversaries with
petty comments and falsehoods. No, “97 percent of scientists” do
not believe that “humans are causing global warming.”
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/warming-693155-care-global.html


Our Voice: Water agencies, spur water culture change. Coachella
Valley water agencies, for the most part, continue to miss the
mark when it comes to state-mandated water conservation. With the
summer long over and the best opportunity for significant
cutbacks now gone, it seems these agencies that manage this most
valuable resource could be facing harsh fines from Sacramento.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/editorials/2015/11/21/our-voice-water-agencies-culture-change/76115456/


BLOGS

The Small Steps That Will Lead to a Low-Carbon Economy.  As the
world heads toward the Paris Climate talks in a few weeks, we
will focus on the big ideas and large steps that will lead to a
renewable resource-based future. There is a time and place for
big ideas, and this year the COP21 talks in Paris are the time
and place for those discussions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-cohen/the-small-steps-that-will_b_8628076.html




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