Climate Letter #409

How the war on coal is being waged in the U.S. Here is the inside story, a fairly long and detailed account, written by Michael Grunwald for POLITICO. It is absolutely remarkable how much is being accomplished, not by government but by an assortment of private interests, led by the Sierra Club and financed in large part by Michael Bloomberg. It has the support of many big businesses, largely for economic reasons. Most of the fighting occurs in courtrooms, where the coal industry is often the loser. Very upbeat as far as the U.S. is concerned.

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In India the story about coal is quite different, and more troubling. Another long report, this time from the Guardian. India has ambitions and is well on its way to becoming another China, with an even larger population.  It plans to use coal as its main source of energy supporting rapid growth for many years to come. Doing so could create local pollution problems and other environmental burdens on top of those already grievous, of a sort that most of us would say are simply unthinkable. There are forces in place that could turn this around, but it all seems unpredictable at this point.
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An up-to-date explanation of the hiatus in global surface temperature warming, clearly summarized by a prominent scientist. There is a short video lecture plus a more detailed commentary.
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Book review—“On the Edge” by noted conservationist Claude Martin. Martin has spent much of his life studying changes in the life cycle of tropical rainforests. He warns that with a global temperature rise greater than 2C, “It will be too late then to avoid a dangerous tipping point of self-reinforcing climate change.”
Carl

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