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ARB Newsclips for September 22, 2014. This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. CAP AND TRADE California, Quebec to hold first joint carbon auction. In a significant milestone for “cap and trade” carbon markets, California and Quebec have announced that their first combined auction of greenhouse gas emission credits will be held Nov. 19. Officials said the joint auction will strengthen efforts in both jurisdictions to rein in carbon emissions. Credits purchased in the auction can be used by industrial firms in either California or Quebec. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/22/6726997/california-quebec-to-hold-first.html#storylink=cpy A hidden gas tax? Climate change regulations stir debate. You've probably seen the ads. Come Jan. 1, they warn, a new "hidden gasoline tax" will go into effect, one expected to increase the cost to fill up your car between 16 and 76 cents a gallon. "There's still time to stop it, but we must act now," says the ad, sponsored by a group called the California Drivers Alliance. Posted. http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26578978/hidden-gas-tax Climate Primer: Explaining the Global Carbon Budget and Why It Matters. Once the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere tops 3.2 trillion metric tons, chances dim to avoid climate disaster, according to new calculations. For as long as scientists and policymakers have been grappling with climate change, they've been up against two critical questions: How much extra carbon has mankind sent into the atmosphere? Posted. http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20140922/climate-primer-explaining-global-carbon-budget-and-why-it-matters UN SUMMIT U.N. climate summit is high-profile, but some of world’s most important leaders will skip it. This week, the United Nations will host a huge and well-publicized one-day summit on climate change. The public is likely to be watching it closely: It comes just days after thousands of people in New York and around the world took to the streets, demanding more political action to help fight global warming. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/09/22/u-n-climate-summit-is-high-profile-but-some-of-worlds-most-important-leaders-will-skip-it/ Companies to make climate pledges at U.N. summit. Touted as the world's largest gathering ever on climate change, this week's U.N. Climate Summit will be as much about business as politics. Major companies, including Big Oil, will make pledges to help fight global warming by cutting their heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, protecting the world's forests and reducing methane leakage from fossil fuel production. Posted. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/21/companies-make-pledges-un-climate-summit/15891791/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories Governor Brown to Speak at United Nations Climate Summit. Reaffirming California’s position as a global leader in the fight against climate change, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he will speak at the United Nations Climate Summit in New York on Tuesday and signed legislation to continue the state’s push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate pollutants, prepare for rising sea levels and increase solar energy use. Posted. http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/news/california-news/11213-governor-brown-to-speak-at-united-nations-climate-summit.html All Eyes On Obama, World Leaders At Climate Change Summit. The forecast calls for picture-perfect weather Tuesday in New York City as world leaders gather to discuss the challenge of a changing climate. More than 120 leaders, including President Obama, are expected to attend the one-day climate summit, sponsored by the United Nations. They've been instructed to arrive with "bold ideas" to slow the rise in global temperatures. Posted. http://www.npr.org/2014/09/22/350410496/all-eyes-on-obama-world-leaders-at-climate-change-summit UN Climate Summit Expected to Show Growing Momentum for Carbon Pricing. The growing global momentum for carbon pricing in both the public and private sectors will be on full display next week at a United Nations leaders summit on climate change. Many, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, are saying consensus on carbon pricing could be one of the key deliverables from the summit…Posted. http://www.bna.com/un-climate-summit-n17179895075/ AIR POLLUTION Smoke from wildfire cancels Ironman Tahoe events. Ironman races in Lake Tahoe were canceled on Sunday due to smoke and unhealthy air quality from a northern California wildfire. Ironman Lake Tahoe and Ironman 70.3 Lake Tahoe operations manager Keats McGonigal said the mood was "somber" when the decision was announced. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Smoke-from-wildfire-cancels-Ironman-Tahoe-events-5770826.php http://www.vcstar.com/news/state/smoke-from-wildfire-cancels-ironman-tahoe-events_07883756 CLIMATE CHANGE China, US, India push world carbon emissions up. Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday as world leaders gather to discuss how to reduce heat-trapping gases. The world pumped an estimated 39.8 billion tons (36.1 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide into the air last year by burning coal, oil and gas. Posted. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_CLIMATE_EMISSIONS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT OTHER RELATED STORIES http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/China-US-India-push-world-carbon-emissions-up-5771549.php http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/22/6725795/china-us-india-push-world-carbon.html# http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/21/ap-china-us-india-push-world-carbon-emissions-up/16009637/ http://www.modbee.com/2014/09/22/3551694_china-us-india-push-world-carbon.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy Protesters stage Wall Street climate crisis sit-in. Hundreds of activists protesting what they say is Wall Street's role in the climate crisis have gathered in lower Manhattan's financial district. Scores of environmental activists dressed in blue are marching, carrying signs, chanting and sitting down on Broadway and elsewhere as workers and tourists look on. Organizers say the protest is meant to highlight the role corporations play in stalling political action to combat global warming. Posted. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WALL_STREET_PROTEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT OTHER RELATED STORIES http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/22/us-usa-climatechange-wallstreet-idUSKCN0HH17220140922 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-22/climate-change-protest-promised-in-new-york-financial-district.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/nyregion/new-york-city-climate-change-march.html?_r=0 http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nn-climate-change-march-new-york-20140921-story.html http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Protests-plan-Wall-Street-sit-in-on-climate-crisis-5771840.php http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Global-warming-march-draws-thousands-5771171.php http://www.vcstar.com/news/environment/hundreds-march-in-ventura-to-protect-climate_68728327 Kiribati leader visits Arctic on climate mission. Fearing that his Pacific island nation could be swallowed by a rising ocean, the president of Kiribati says a visit to the melting Arctic has helped him appreciate the scale of the threat. Posted. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_ARCTIC_KIRIBATI_CLIMATE_CHANGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Money speaks louder than words in climate change fight. A growing movement of individuals and institutions selling off shares linked to fossil fuels has the power to galvanize global efforts to halt climate change, said the co-founder of a group that works with investors. The movement got a boost on Monday when the Rockefellers, who made their fortune from oil…Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/22/us-foundation-climatechange-divestment-i-idUSKCN0HH25K20140922 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/heirs-to-an-oil-fortune-join-the-divestment-drive.html Climate change to trigger longer, fiercer 'megadroughts': study. Climate change will unleash megadroughts in the coming decades worse than anything seen in the last 2,000 years, new research warns. In semi-arid regions such as the U.S. southwest, there is an 80 percent chance of a drought lasting more than a decade, according to a study published in the Journal of Climate. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/22/us-foundation-climatechange-drought-idUSKCN0HH28720140922 Stingy climate aid leaves poor nations digging deep: report. A lack of help for the poorest countries to adapt to climate change may be undermining their efforts to tackle poverty, researchers warned on Monday. A report from the London-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI) said some African states are having to divert a large share of their national budgets to tackle climate threats, due to a shortage of funding from donors. Posted. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/22/us-foundation-climatechange-aid-idUSKCN0HH1T620140922 Global Rise Reported in 2013 Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Global emissions of greenhouse gases jumped 2.3 percent in 2013 to record levels, scientists reported Sunday, in the latest indication that the world remains far off track in its efforts to control global warming. The emissions growth last year was a bit slower than the average growth rate of 2.5 percent over the past decade…Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/science/earth/scientists-report-global-rise-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0922/Global-carbon-emissions-to-reach-record-high-say-scientists http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29239194 For Polar Bears, a Climate Change Twist. La Pérouse Bay, Manitoba — The sea ice here on the western shore of Hudson Bay breaks up each summer and leaves the polar bears swimming for shore. The image of forlorn bears on small rafts of ice has become a symbol of the dangers of climate change. And for good reason. A warming planet means less ice coverage of the Arctic Sea, leaving the bears with less time and less ice for hunting seals. They depend on seals for their survival. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/for-polar-bears-a-climate-change-twist.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news Testing Future Conditions for the Food Chain. From afar, the three young men tramping through a corn field here looked like Midwestern farm boys checking their crop. And a fine crop it seemed to be, with plump ears hanging off vibrant green stalks. But as they edged deeper into the field, the men — actually young scientists, not farmers — pointed to streaked, yellowing leaves on some of the corn plants. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/testing-future-conditions-for-the-food-chain.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news Global Warming Concerns Grow. While few Americans regard the environment as the nation’s foremost challenge, most say it should be a priority, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. And more than half say global warming is caused by human behavior, the highest level ever recorded by the national poll. Economic issues continue to top the list of most important problems, and only 1 percent of those surveyed last week offered the environment as a top concern for the country. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/global-warming-concerns-grow.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHeadline&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news A Future as Clouded as Their Past. We won’t ever know what the Anasazi were thinking on the eve of the 13th century when they abandoned the cities they had worked so long to build on the Colorado Plateau. The reasons had something to do with climate — a great drought and, perhaps on top of that, a mini ice age. If that wasn’t enough to defeat a thriving culture, there was the turmoil that came from just not knowing. Why were the sky and earth behaving so strangely? Why wasn’t the old magic working anymore? Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/science/a-future-as-clouded-as-their-past.html L.A., Houston, Philadelphia mayors vow more action on climate change. Mayors of three of the nation’s largest cities are pledging to take more action against climate change by implementing new projects to curb greenhouse gas emissions and persuading other leaders to do the same. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Houston Mayor Annise Parker and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter will announce…Posted. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mayors-climate-agenda-20140921-story.html http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/blaz-pushes-plan-city-greenhouse-emissions-article-1.1947891 New Reports Offer Clearest Picture Yet of Rising Greenhouse Gas Emissions. As the UN prepares to convene its climate summit, disturbing new numbers. Factories around Shizuishan rely on coal-fired power plants. Coal-fired power plants—such as the one above in Shizuishan, China—are part of the reason for rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Posted. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140921-climate-change-carbon-budget-un-summit-environment-science/ 6 Ways Climate Change is Making Us Sick. Just a day after the People’s Climate March, one of the largest international environmental marches, a new analysis of 56 studies on climate change-related health problems shows that increasingly, global temperatures and severe weather events will continue to have a major impact on global health. Posted. http://time.com/3414449/6-ways-climate-change-is-making-us-sick/ DROUGHT Melted glacier sends miles of mud down Mt. Shasta. The largest mudslide on Northern California's Mt. Shasta in two decades may be related to California's prolonged drought, experts said Sunday. The mudslide began Saturday after a glacier holding pockets of water either shifted or melted, releasing water down the southeastern side of Mt. Shasta, said Andrea Capps, a spokeswoman for Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/21/6725501/melted-glacier-sends-miles-of.html##storylink=cpy Gov. Jerry Brown Orders Help for Dry Wells. Residents in drought-stricken California whose wells have gone dry will soon get help from key state agencies under an order Gov. Jerry Brown signed Friday. The executive order provides money to buy drinking water for residents, while also directing officials to work with counties and local agencies to find solutions for the shortages. California is in the grips of its third dry year. Posted. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california/California-Governor-Orders-Help-for-Dry-Wells-275845021.html California drought: Some wells running dry in Central Valley. Hundreds of domestic wells in California’s drought-parched Central Valley farming region have run dry, leaving many residents to rely on donated bottles of drinking water to get by. Girl Scouts have set up collection points while local charities are searching for money to install tanks next to homes. Posted. http://www.dailybulletin.com/general-news/20140921/california-drought-some-wells-running-dry-in-central-valley VEHICLE Gov. Brown signs clean-air vehicle legislation. Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law several bills designed to boost use of clean-air vehicles in California. One bill signed Sunday allows 15,000 additional electric and partial zero-emissions vehicles, or 70,000 total vehicles, to get green stickers that allow driving in carpool lanes even when solo. Another requires freeway high-occupancy toll lane operators to allow clean air vehicles to drive for free or reduced rates. Posted. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLEAN_AIR_VEHICLES_LAWS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT OTHER RELATED STORIES http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/us/brown-seeks-more-electric-cars-in-california.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-brown-electric-cars-20140922-story.html http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Brown-signs-several-clean-air-vehicle-bills-5771184.php http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/21/6725096/jerry-brown-heading-to-new-york.html http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/2014/09/22/stories/1060006224 GREEN ENERGY Calif. teachers fund to boost clean energy bets. The California State Teachers' Retirement System says it plans to increase its investments in clean energy and technology to $3.7 billion, from $1.4 billion, over the next five years. CalSTRS CEO Jack Ehnes says the pension fund is seeing more opportunities in low-carbon projects and technologies. The fund is hoping also to help push for stronger policies aimed at fighting climate change, Ehnes says. Posted. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_PENSION_FUND_CLEAN_ENERGY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT MISCELLANEOUS EarthTalk: Ethanol. Dear EarthTalk: I thought that putting ethanol in our gas tanks was going help fight climate change, but lately I've heard reports to the contrary. Can you enlighten? -- Bill B., Hershey, Pa. Ethanol and similar "biofuels" made from corn and other crops seem like a good idea given their potential for reducing our carbon outputs as well as our reliance on fossil fuels. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/EarthTalk-Ethanol-5772133.php OPINIONS Bottom-Up Climate Fix. World leaders are at the United Nations this week, at the invitation of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to “champion an ambitious vision anchored in action that will enable a meaningful global agreement” on climate change next year. But if history is any guide, the dialogue is unlikely to produce the ramped-up response we need to address the many threats we face from the unrelenting buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/opinion/bottom-up-climate-fix.html Robert Miller: Be grateful for the 'uneventful' summer. The word "uneventful" sounds so boring. Nothing's happening. With summer ending Monday evening and autumn kicking in, one can look at the past three months of weather and think the same. In Connecticut, no floods, no hurricanes, no blistering hot spells, no droughts. "It's been extremely quiet," said Bill Jacquemin, chief meteorologist at the Connecticut Weather Center in Danbury. Posted. http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Robert-Miller-Be-grateful-for-the-uneventful-5771093.php Ed Begley Jr.: People’s Climate March will speak loudly to world leaders. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a keen interest in science. My dad got me a chemistry set, and then an erector set, and they instantly became my most cherished possessions. And though I’ve never sought a career in the sciences, I long have been drawn to experts in various scientific disciplines and have come to the conclusion that I’m not alone. Most Americans love science. Posted. http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/21/6721124/ed-begley-jr-peoples-climate-march.html#storylink=cpy Water should be priority. Be it climate change or global warming, our oceans are rising. San Diego will put a desalinization plant on line next year at a cost of $1 billion. This is great. It's well spent. It will provide water to nearly 400,000 people. But our government wants us to build high-speed rail to the tune of $68 billion. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law the regulation of private groundwater. This destroys owners' property rights. Posted. http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/19/4134160_water-should-be-priority.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy Opinion: Why climate change is an 'everybody issue' now. Scientists are normally a pretty measured bunch. But in recent months, they've been resorting to some unusual language to get our attention. One top climatologist recently tweeted: "If even a small fraction of Arctic sea floor carbon is released to the atmosphere…Posted. http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/21/opinion/climate-change-march-avaaz/ The impact of climate change affects us all [Letter]. This weekend, international leaders and more than 100,000 concerned citizens will converge on New York City seeking solutions to the problem of climate change. I'll be there. I'm marching because I'm 22 years-old and it is my generation that will deal with the choices that are made today. The actions of this weekend must be translated into real action on climate change. Posted. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-climate-change-20140922,0,778402.story#ixzz3E4DgaNcW BLOGS Does it even matter what the public thinks about climate change? Over 300,000 protesters marched through Manhattan Sunday, calling for serious action to mitigate global warming ahead of a meeting of world leaders at the United Nations Tuesday. The demonstration will not affect public opinion, predicted Stanford University's Jon Krosnick, who has been conducting and analyzing surveys on climate change for 20 years. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/09/22/does-it-even-matter-what-the-public-thinks-about-climate-change/ Q. and A.: Glen Peters on China and Climate Change. Government leaders from across the world will gather at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday for a summit meeting on global warming, and China is at the heart of contentious negotiations on how to cut the greenhouse gas emissions behind that warming. Posted. http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/q-and-a-glen-peters-on-china-and-climate-change/ How Should Nations and Individuals Address Climate Change? You have probably heard or read about, or perhaps participated in, one of the 2,700 climate change-related events that took place around the world on Sunday. To what degree did these events raise your awareness about climate change? Do you worry about this or other environmental issues? Posted. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/how-should-nations-and-individuals-address-climate-change/ The day the Earth mattered. Hundreds of thousands of marchers in NYC, Paris and London let their concern for the earth be known on Sunday. It is clear that decades after the first Earth Day celebrations that a huge percentage of the Earth’s population is anxious to change directions. However the question remains; will our greed win-out or will our survival? Posted. http://blog.timesunion.com/lawrencewhite/the-day-the-earth-mattered/2235/ CEO At Climate March Calls For Carbon Tax. The Peoples Climate March made for quite a weekend. Saturday evening I was at a rooftop party, where somebody from he Union of Concerned Scientists was chiding me about the amount of climate change denial on forbes.com. Who knew? Once again my influence is vastly overrated. Sleeping on an air mattress in my son’s dorm was a real throwback experience. Posted. http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2014/09/21/ceo-at-climate-march-calls-for-carbon-tax/ The World Spewed More Carbon Pollution Into The Air Last Year Than Ever Before. Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday as world leaders gather to discuss how to reduce heat-trapping gases. The world pumped an estimated 39.8 billion tons (36.1 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide into the air last year by burning coal, oil and gas. Posted. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/21/carbon-pollution_n_5857526.html Climate Change You Can Believe In. Just as Sunday's big People's Climate March and next week's UN global summit on climate converge here in New York City, the nation and world are experiencing weather of an intensity that should rattle the stubborn false convictions of even the most fervent climate change denier. Terrible flooding in India and Pakistan, the worst in more than a century, with heavy monsoon rains...Posted. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/climate-change-you-can-be_b_5850018.html?ir=Politics&utm_hp_ref=politics The Climate March Will Break Records But Will It Encourage More Environmental Media Coverage? As someone who has spent too many years trying to break through what I call "The Green Ceiling" in mainstream media -- a steadfast wall of refusal on the part of programming executives to dedicate regular airtime to the then-emerging (and now fully arrived) environmental crises…Posted. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/betsy-rosenberg/the-upcoming-climate-marc_b_5846044.html?utm_hp_ref=climate-change The ugly economics of green vehicles. It's fair to say that most consumers would prefer a green vehicle, one that has a lower impact on the environment and goes easy on costly fuel (in all senses of the term). The problem is that most people can't – or won't – pay the price premium or put up with the compromises today's green cars demand. We're not all "cashed-up greenies." Posted. http://green.autoblog.com/2014/09/19/ugly-economics-of-green-vehicles/ New world record set with 507 EVs in parade. Let's be honest, with more and more electric vehicles out in the world, it's getting easier to bring more and more of them together in one spot. Still, the work that goes into convincing over 500 EV owners to show up at one place at one time should be rewarded. Posted. http://green.autoblog.com/2014/09/21/plug-in-america-sets-new-world-record-with-507-evs-in-parade/ California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.