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ARB Newsclips for September 29, 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 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 SUBSCRIPTION ONLY 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 BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY 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 SUBSCRIPTION ONLY 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 BY SUBSCRIPTION 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.