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Posted: 29 Sep 2014 14:14:20
ARB Newsclips for September 29, 2014. 

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CAP AND TRADE

How Cap-and-Trade Is Working in California. Carbon Program May
Hold Lesson for Other States. When it comes to tackling global
warming, "cap and trade" are words often heard but seldom put
into practice. That may be about to change. Experts thought the
U.S. might adopt its own cap-and-trade system for carbon-dioxide
emissions during President Barack Obama's first term…Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/how-cap-and-trade-is-working-in-california-1411937795?KEYWORDS=air+pollution


Chile becomes the first South American country to tax carbon.
President Michelle Bachelet of Chile enacted new environmental
tax legislation on Friday making the country the first in South
America to tax carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Part of a broad
tax reform, Chile's carbon tax will target the power sector,
particularly generators operating thermal plants with installed
capacity equal or larger than 50 megawatts (MW). Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/27/carbon-chile-tax-idUSL6N0RR4V720140927


AIR POLLUTION

Extensive harbor cleanup begins after Port of L.A. fire. Port of
Los Angeles authorities are beginning an extensive harbor cleanup
in the aftermath of a fire that burned through much of a wharf
and released toxic gases and smoke into surrounding communities.
Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-port-fire-20140928-story.html


Climate effects of 'black carbon' exaggerated, study says. The
impact of "black carbon," or soot, on warming the climate has
been significantly exaggerated because of assumptions over
altitudes in the atmosphere at which soot particles become
concentrated, according to a recent study. Billowing from
chimneys, stoves, wildfires and other sources, and causing health
problems as it emerges, black carbon was thought to be the
second-most potent climate change driver. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060006537/print BY
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CLIMATE CHANGE

Studies fault warming in much of 2013 wild weather. Scientists
looking at 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year
see the fingerprints of man-made global warming on more than half
of them. Researchers found that climate change increased the odds
of nine extremes: Heat waves in Australia, Europe, China, Japan
and Korea, intense rain in parts of the United States and India,
and severe droughts in California and New Zealand. Posted. 
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_WEATHER_EXTREMES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

OTHER RELATED STORIES
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Studies-fault-warming-in-much-of-2013-wild-weather-5787837.php

http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/29/6744743/studies-fault-warming-in-much.html

http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20140929/2013s-wild-weather-was-mostly-caused-by-man-made-global-warming-study-says


Human-Related Climate Change Led to Extreme Heat, Scientists Say.
The savage heat waves that struck Australia in 2013 were almost
certainly a direct consequence of the human release of greenhouse
gases, researchers said Monday. It is perhaps the most definitive
statement climate scientists have made that ties a specific
weather event to global warming. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/science/earth/human-related-climate-change-led-to-extreme-heat-scientists-say.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C{%221%22%3A%22RI%3A6%22}&_r=0


President’s Drive for Carbon Pricing Fails to Win at Home.
President Obama stood in the chamber of the United Nations
General Assembly last week and urged the world to follow his
example and fight global warming. But a major new declaration
calling for a global price on carbon — signed by 74 countries and
more than 1,000 businesses and investors — is missing a key
signatory: the United States. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/world/americas/presidents-drive-for-carbon-pricing-fails-to-win-at-home.html


The Impact of Climate Change on Your Investing Thesis. Climate
change is on many people's minds this week as the U.N. Climate
Summit took place in New York and the Rockefeller family, one of
the families that shaped the oil and gas industry, announced its
decision to divest its charitable trust from fossil fuels. While
there is no panacea for investing in today's energy space…Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/The-Impact-of-Climate-Change-on-Your-Investing-5786325.php
 

Fungus could be the help agriculture needs to adapt to climate
change. Imagine a world, just a few decades away, where
once-fertile cropland is baked and starved of rain by ongoing
climate change. Just add fungus. Scientists are discovering that
microscopic fungi can help make food crops more abundant, less
thirsty and more tolerant of rising temperatures. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/28/6742371/fungus-could-be-the-help-agriculture.html#storylink=cpy


Source of the sizzle: Climate change fueled heat waves. Climate
change influenced several of the world's most extreme weather
events of 2013, including heat waves in Australia, Europe, China,
Japan and Korea, says a series of studies out Monday in the
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Though links
between global warming and events such as droughts and heavy
rainfall were not obvious, connections were clearest with extreme
heat: Posted.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/09/29/climate-change-extreme-weather-heat-waves-drought/16421151/


Pension funds feel heat on climate change issue. CalPERS signed a
United Nations pledge in Montreal last week to measure the
“carbon footprint” of its $296 billion investment portfolio, with
the goal of reporting the results before a UN climate change
conference in Paris late next year. Posted.
http://calpensions.com/2014/09/29/pension-funds-feel-heat-on-climate-change-issue/


DROUGHT

California's water agencies look to budget water. As California's
severe drought continues, state and local agencies are looking at
budgeting water use by creating a daily water allocation for each
household. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports
(http://bit.ly/1xsETsi ) that under such a scheme, a household
would be allotted a certain number of gallons for indoor water
use and another for outdoor water use. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/28/6742654/californias-water-agencies-look.html#storylink=cpy


Viewpoints: Groundwater legislation marks turning point to
achieve reliable water supply. California made history recently
when Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the Sustainable Groundwater
Management Act. Its passage marks a once-in-a-century
achievement, for it was 100 years ago that California enacted the
first comprehensive legal framework for managing surface water.
Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/28/6727810/viewpoints-groundwater-legislation.html#storylink=cpy


How the drought has changed water use in Southern California. The
once-shimmering emerald lawns across Southern California were
first starved of water, then left to wither to a tawny scruff.
But out of the ashes of a four-year drought has popped up a
Phoenix of native landscaping and conservation, with businesses
and homeowners laying down low-water textured gardens from Los
Angeles to San Bernardino — saving tens of millions of gallons of
precious water. Posted.
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140927/how-the-drought-has-changed-water-use-in-southern-california


California legislature takes historic measures to preserve water.
It’s one thing that Sacramento Republicans and Democrats can
agree upon: The state has to act to preserve California’s water
supply. This past legislative session was unusually productive as
lawmakers approved a $7.5 billion water bond for the November
ballot and created the state’s first plan to regulate groundwater
use. Posted.
http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20140928/california-legislature-takes-historic-measures-to-preserve-water


California's drought linked to greenhouse gases, climate change.
California's extraordinary drought is linked to the abundance of
greenhouse gases created by burning fossil fuels and clearing
forests, according to a major new paper Stanford scientists
released Monday morning. The new study used a combination of
computer simulations and statistical techniques to show that the
high pressure system parked over the Pacific Ocean…Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_26627640/californias-drought-linked-greenhouse-gases-climate-change


Daily water allocation could be the next California drought
strategy. You probably know your Social Security number, your
driver’s license number and perhaps the latest wrinkle in
mattress marketing, your sleep number. But do you know your
drought number? The latter represents the amount of water you are
allowed to use per day. If you don’t know it, you probably
should. Posted.
http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20140927/daily-water-allocation-could-be-the-next-california-drought-strategy


Another drought casualty: No chance to make key air standard.
California's freakishly dry 2013-14 winter dealt the San Joaquin
Valley more than a crippling blow to the farm economy. It set the
stage for a lung-scarring siege of soot that squashed any hope of
making a key federal air standard. In December and January, the
worst episode of stagnant air in 15 years settled over the
region…Posted.
http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/27/4147542_another-drought-casualty-no-chance.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy


FUELS

Leaking CO2 from offshore carbon capture not likely to harm
environment, researchers say. One of the common expressed worries
about carbon capture is that injected CO2 will eventually leak
from its resting spot, offsetting climate benefits or creating
health risks. With offshore CO2, there is speculation about the
effect of any potential leak on acidity, among other things.
Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2014/09/29/stories/1060006539
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GREEN ENERGY

Solar energy could dominate electricity by 2050: IEA. Solar
energy could be the top source of electricity by 2050, aided by
plummeting costs of the equipment to generate it, a report from
the International Energy Agency (IEA), the West's energy
watchdog, said on Monday. IEA Reports said solar photovoltaic
(PV) systems could generate up to 16 percent of the world's
electricity by 2050…Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/us-solar-iea-electricity-idUSKCN0HO11K20140929

MISCELLANEOUS

Explore the State of Wildfires in California with this 5 Part
Series from CapRadio.
California is burning. The state is now in the midst of one of
the worst droughts in its history with 1,000 more wildfires this
year than last. A year ago, the largest wildfire ever in the
Sierra Nevada was still burning. The 2013 Rim Fire scorched more
than 250,000 acres and took 69 days to fully contain. Posted.
http://www.californiaburning.org/capradio 

Stakes high for agencies as justices weigh key rulemaking tool.
There are no challenges to President Obama's greenhouse gas
program for addressing climate change, nor is there anything on
U.S. EPA's effort to clamp down on air pollution that drifts
across state lines. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/greenwire/stories/1060006570/print BY
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OPINIONS

COLUMN-Time for a good sweating in the oil market: Kemp. U.S.
demand for petroleum products has experienced an unprecedented
and broad-based decline over the last eight years as soaring oil
prices have forced consumers to become more efficient and seek
cheaper alternatives. Consumption of oil-based products has
fallen in every major category - from gasoline, diesel and jet
kerosene to heating oil, fuel oil, petrochemical
feedstock…Posted.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/29/oil-prices-kemp-idUSL6N0RU38520140929


Climate Science and Interpreting Very Complex Systems. It is only
when climate models are more accurate that we will be able to
have fact-based discussions to distinguish between human and
natural changes in our climate. "Climate Science Is Not Settled"
(Review, Sept. 20) discusses the current shortfalls in
scientists' ability to computationally model the climate and
therefore be able to accurately predict the impact of human
influence on climate change. Posted.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/climate-science-and-interpreting-very-complex-systems-letters-to-the-editor-1411766297#printMode


A Group Shout on Climate Change. The marchers and mayors, the
ministers and presidents, have come and gone. So what is the
verdict on Climate Week, the summit meeting on global warming
convened by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, in
New York? The meeting was not intended to reach a global
agreement or to extract tangible commitments from individual
nations to reduce the greenhouse gases…Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/opinion/sunday/a-group-shout-on-climate-change.html


A Treaty on Global Warming May Not Be Needed, But U.N Leadership
Is. When industrialized countries agreed in Kyoto in 1997 to
produce 5 percent fewer greenhouse gases in 2008 to 2012 than
they did in 1990, it was clear that would never lead to a
stabilization of global warming, which nearly all countries had
pledged to seek in the 1992 Rio summit. But coming out of the
Kyoto’s magnificent conference hall, I consoled myself that this
small step would lead to a giant step later. That giant step
never came, though. After 17 years, emissions are about 60
percent greater, not 5 percent less. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/09/28/is-a-global-climate-treaty-only-a-pipe-dream/a-treaty-on-global-warming-may-not-be-needed-but-un-leadership-is


International Cooperation on Global Warming Is Vital to Climate
Justice. We need to secure an international legally binding
climate agreement because climate change cannot be solved at the
national level alone. Committed climate action by the Marshall
Islands or Ethiopia, for example, no matter how ambitious, will
not be enough to mitigate the emissions of big nations like the
United States. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/09/28/is-a-global-climate-treaty-only-a-pipe-dream/international-cooperation-on-global-warming-is-vital-to-climate-justice


Real Progress on Emissions Can Lead to a Global Pact. Don’t give
up on a global climate treaty, but don’t count on it any time
soon. I have seen these negotiations up close. Every country
trots out its list of reasons why it needs more time to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, and the negotiations become a race to
the bottom. A treaty will happen only when nations see they can
meet targets without compromising growth. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/09/28/is-a-global-climate-treaty-only-a-pipe-dream/real-progress-on-emissions-can-lead-to-a-global-pact


Readers React: The fight against non-carbon dioxide greenhouse
gasses. To the editor: The Times highlights the need to reduce
short-lived climate pollutants to fully tackle global warming.
California has a long history of leadership in this area. ("What
about those other greenhouse gases?," Editorial, Sept. 22). For
decades, California has been cutting emissions of particulate
matter and black carbon from cars, trucks and agricultural
burning. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-le-0927-saturday-climate-change-20140927-story.html


Op-Ed: Innovations used in 12 cities around the world may help
others. What makes a city work? And are there innovations that
can make a city work better? We went looking for good ideas that
are being tested in cities around the world, asking urban leaders
who will be attending the CityLab conference in Los Angeles this
week to tell us about one good idea that has worked well back
home. Here is a collection of the ideas we liked best. Posted.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-good-ideas-20140928-story.html#page=1


Editorial: Brown’s U.N. speech on climate change rallied
Californians, too. Gov. Jerry Brown had encouraging words for
world leaders at the United Nations climate summit. They were no
doubt a comfort, given the decades of international dithering on
climate change. Embedded in the governor’s two sets of remarks,
however, was also a message to Californians in the thick of their
own war on global warming. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/28/6739381/editorial-browns-un-speech-on.html#storylink=cpy


Viewpoints: Urgent action needed to save Sierra forests. As
firefighters continue their valiant efforts battling the King
fire – the latest large fire in the Sierra Nevada – an important
new report makes a compelling and sobering case for bold and
urgent action.
“The State of the Sierra Nevada’s Forests,” issued by the Sierra
Nevada Conservancy, details the dire conditions of many of the
region’s forests…Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/28/6737076/viewpoints-urgent-action-needed.html#storylink=cpy


Mark Landsbaum: Climate activists ignore facts, pursue Utopia.
Let’s give the benefit of the doubt to climate activists who
crowded New York streets this past week. Maybe they meant well.
They yearn for Utopia, where the lion and lamb not only lie down
together, but eat grass not cut by gasoline-powered lawn mowers.
Posted.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/climate-636414-fossil-consequences.html


Leaf blowers are polluters, not cleaner-uppers. You are
completely missing the issue about leaf blowers! ("Leaf blowers
are helping keep our neighborhoods tidy during drought," Sept.
12) They are not keeping our neighborhoods tidy, they are
polluting the air we breathe with dust! They are blowing dust
that is accumulating in our gutters, streets and gardens all over
the place filling the air with clouds of dust. Posted.
http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26600465/Letters-from-Resident-readers
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BLOGS

How Much of World’s Greenhouse-Gas Emissions Come From
Agriculture? Agriculture might seem green by definition, but
farming accounts for a lot of greenhouse-gas emissions when the
entire food production system is taken into account. Typically,
estimates of greenhouse-gas emissions from agriculture are around
11%-15% of global emissions. Posted.
http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/how-much-of-worlds-greenhouse-gas-emissions-come-from-agriculture-1782/?KEYWORDS=climate+change


Let’s Attack Waste, Not Global Warming. JOHN HOFMEISTER:
Supporters and opponents in the climate debate miserably fail to
answer honestly the global-warming question and its impact on
climate, because they can’t. No one can possibly know the future
of this dynamic and not very well known planet to provide the
definitive and absolute answer to the question that cannot be
known for decades, even centuries, when anything can happen.
Posted.
http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2014/09/29/lets-attack-waste-not-global-warming/?KEYWORDS=climate+change


What’s the Economic Risk From Climate Change? KATE GORDON: Too
often in the U.S., the climate conversation falls down one of two
partisan rabbit holes—ending up either focused on the question of
whether the science is “real” or whether one particular policy
solution is a job killer or creator. In falling into these
familiar debates, both supporters and opponents miss a basic
question…Posted.
http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2014/09/29/whats-the-economic-risk-from-climate-change/?KEYWORDS=climate+change


Let’s Act Before the Oil Bubble Bursts. BILL RITTER: There is at
least one issue that had been overlooked until recently and that
deserves discussion between advocates for climate action and the
leaders of the world’s big oil companies. It is the finding that
the world has a “carbon budget” and we have already spent most of
it. Posted.
http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2014/09/29/lets-act-before-the-oil-bubble-bursts/?KEYWORDS=climate+change


The fingerprint of climate change on the California drought,
extreme weather in 2013. Researchers studying the fingerprint of
human-caused climate change on extreme weather events in 2013
have found that it played a role in half of the events that they
looked at, including the California drought and extreme heat
events. Climate change attribution — figuring out what role
climate change is playing in our weather events…Posted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/09/29/the-fingerprint-of-climate-change-on-the-california-drought-extreme-weather-in-2013/


In The California Drought, These Animals Are The Silent
Sufferers.  With no end in sight and hopes pinned on a wet
winter, the California drought has left an entire community
dependent on bottled water provisions, threatened farmers’
livelihoods and prompted a $7.5 billion water bond measure. Amid
those challenges, it’s easy to forget that the drought is not
just a human issue.
Posted.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/26/california-drought-threat_n_5890296.html?ir=Los+Angeles&utm_hp_ref=los-angeles




California is in a drought emergency.
Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips.

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