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CLIMATE CHANGE

Largest all-female expedition braves Antarctica to fight
inequality, climate change. The largest all-female expedition to
Antarctica, comprising 76 scientists, is due to set sail from
Argentina on Friday in a quest to promote women in science and
highlight the impact of climate change on the planet. The
international team will brave sub-zero temperatures to undergo a
20-day bootcamp on the frozen continent…
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-antarctic-women-climatechange-idUSKBN13P0OL?feedType=RSS&virtualBrandChannel=11563


‘Prepared for the worst’: Bolivians face historic drought, and
global warming could intensify it. For weeks, hundreds of
thousands of Bolivians have been stricken with drought, with some
neighborhoods receiving water for only three hours every three
days. Armed forces drive tanks into affected communities, where
families form long lines to collect water.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/30/prepared-for-the-worst-bolivians-face-historic-drought-and-global-warming-could-intensify-it/?utm_term=.4d3b18f85972


Despite Climate Change Vow, China Pushes to Dig More Coal.
America’s uncertain stance toward global warming under the coming
administration of Donald J. Trump has given China a leading role
in the fight against climate change. It has called on the United
States to recognize established science and to work with other
countries to reduce dependence on dirty fuels like coal and oil.
But there is a problem: Even as it does so, China is scrambling
to mine and burn more coal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/business/energy-environment/china-coal-climate-change.html?_r=2&utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=caea0d10a3-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-caea0d10a3-327747457


Trump’s stance on climate change puts him in direct opposition to
the pope. Donald Trump’s denial of climate change has made him an
adversary of environmentalists — a group that includes the
world’s most revered religious leader. In an address to a group
of scientists at the Vatican this week, Pope Francis suggested
science has become more important than ever.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-climate-change-pope-francis-2016-11


How Obama's climate change legacy is weakened by US investment in
dirty fuel. 
Exclusive: an agency inside the Obama administration poured
billions into fossil fuel projects that will lead to global
carbon emissions on a damaging scale. President Barack Obama has
staked his legacy on the environment, positioning his
administration as the most progressive on climate change in US
history. However, an obscure agency within his own administration
has quietly spoiled his record by helping fund…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/30/us-fossil-fuel-investment-obama-climate-change-legacy


Dairy cow flatulence targeted in fight against global warming.
California is taking its fight against global warming to the
farm. The nation’s leading agricultural state is now targeting
greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.
Despite strong opposition from farmers, Gov. Jerry Brown signed
legislation in September that for the first time regulates
heat-trapping gases from livestock operations and landfills.
http://nypost.com/2016/11/30/dairy-cow-flatulence-targeted-in-fight-against-global-warming/


Serious Changes Possible for National Security Policies on
Climate Change.  New Trump appointments could de-emphasize
intelligence reports on climate as “threat multiplier” but
military investments may be hard to alter. The military and
intelligence communities may soon turn a blinder eye toward some
climate change-related threats, indicated by President-Elect
Donald Trump’s recent choices of climate-change skeptics for 
national security jobs, along with his own dismissive comments.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/serious-changes-possible-for-national-security-policies-on-climate-change/?wt.mc=SA_Twitter-Share


Canada Approves Two Pipelines, Axes One, Calls it a Climate
Victory. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his oil sands
decisions are compatible with Canada's pledges to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. The Canadian government announced
long-awaited decisions on three major oil sands pipelines in a
single sweep on Tuesday: Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain
expansion…
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30112016/canada-justin-trudeau-pipelines-climate-oil-sands-northern-gateway-trans-mountain?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=caea0d10a3-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-caea0d10a3-327747457
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DROUGHT

The southeastern US is suffering from its own devastating drought
— and wildfires are just one symptom. California is in the middle
of the worst drought the state has seen in 1,200 years. And
across the Southeast — from Alabama to Virginia — a similarly
devastating scenario is unfolding. Nearly 40% of the region is
currently plagued by moderate to exceptional drought, according
to the most recent analysis by the Southeast Regional Climate
Center.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-drought-photos-across-southeast-11


California drought: Wealthy Hillsborough residents sue, saying
water rates are too high. In a case that could have statewide
ramifications, a group of multimillionaire Hillsborough
residents, including an early funder of Microsoft, has sued the
town claiming that its drought rules and penalties intended to
keep people from over-watering big lawns are illegal. The nine
residents who are taking the town to court say that by imposing
tiered water rates…
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/30/california-drought-wealthy-hillsborough-residents-sue-saying-water-rates-are-too-high/


FUELS

Consumer group alleges that California refiners are manipulating
gasoline prices. A consumer advocacy group contends that
California refiners are holding down gasoline production to
inflate prices at the pump. California gasoline prices remain at
least 50 cents a gallon higher than in other areas of the country
even though a major Southern California refinery that was mostly
shutdown throughout 2015 is back in operation…
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gasoline-prices-20161129-story.html


VEHICLES

GM’s Ready to Lose $9,000 a Pop and Chase the Electric Car Boom.
General Motors Co. stands to lose as much as $9,000 on every
Chevrolet Bolt that leaves a showroom once the all-electric
subcompact starts rolling out. Sounds crazy, but the damage makes
perfect business sense under the no pain, no gain policy driving
the electric-vehicle boom in the U.S. California crafted the
doctrine, with tough clean-air rules...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/gm-s-ready-to-lose-9-000-a-pop-and-chase-the-electric-car-boom


GREEN ENERGY

Vestas gaining in U.S. wind turbine capacity. Vestas Wind
Systems, the Danish wind turbine maker with a big manufacturing
presence in Colorado, accounted for 34 percent of the 8.2
gigawatts of wind power capacity installed in the country last
year, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy
Information Administration. That was second only to General
Electric, which accounted for 42 percent of installations and
ahead of Siemens at 16 percent.
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/28/vestas-gaining-in-u-s-wind-turbine-capacity/


EU targets energy waste and coal subsidies in new climate
package. Plan to cut energy use by 30% before 2030 forms
centrepiece of package to help EU meet its Paris climate
commitments. Europe will begin phasing out coal subsidies and cut
its energy use by 30% before the end of the next decade, under a
major clean energy package announced in Brussels on Wednesday.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/nov/30/eu-declares-war-on-energy-waste-and-coal-subsidies-in-new-climate-package?utm_source=Inside+Climate+News&utm_campaign=caea0d10a3-Today_s_Climate12_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-caea0d10a3-327747457


OPINIONS

How Donald Trump should handle climate policy. Despite earlier
threats to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and overturn
domestic emissions rules, President-elect Donald Trump last week
suggested he had an “open mind” on climate change policy. While
skepticism about his ultimate intentions is justified, Trump and
his team appear divided on how to approach the issue of climate
change…
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/11/how-donald-trump-should-handle-climate-policy-000246

The Places Climate Change Could Empty Out: Christopher Flavelle.
You could drive a shrimp boat 1,300 miles along the Gulf Coast
from Corpus Christi to Fort Myers and not pass a single county or
parish that voted against Donald Trump. The cities and towns
along that shoreline had better hope he remembers their support:
Without increasing levels of federal spending, climate change
could push parts of them out of existence.
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-OHELEA6KLVRJ01-32RTF59NP17F5Q4AI9IU89BRPR


Cities and States Lead on Climate Change. THE wind turbines that
rise out of the cornfields here reminded me on a recent drive of
one postelection truth, even in the red state of Iowa. As
President-elect Donald J. Trump considers whether to break the
United States commitment to the Paris climate accord, the rise of
clean energy across the heartland is already too well entrenched
to be reversed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/opinion/cities-and-states-lead-on-climate-change.html?_r=0


BLOGS

How to Talk About Climate Change So Anyone Will Listen. Here’s a
very 2016 dilemma: On the one hand, as so many of us have learned
over this past election cycle (and then re-learned in earnest
over Thanksgiving), having political conversations with friends
and family can be its own unique kind of painful. But on the
other hand, some issues are just too urgent to leave undiscussed.
Climate change is one of those issues: While we’re…
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/11/how-to-talk-about-climate-change-so-anyone-will-listen.html?mid=twitter_nymag




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