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Today's climate and energy headlines:
- Coalition backs coal-based energy revolution
- Government urged to cut cash to green energy in order to reduce bills
- Faux Pause 2: Warmest November On Record, Reports NASA, As New Studies Confirm Warming Trend
- Gavin Schmidt Speaking up and speaking out
- MPs, Lords and lobbyists who advise Ministers on eco policies... then cash in
- Video: Hinkley Point C: Britain's nuclear future
- Fracking hell: what it's really like to live next to a shale gas well
- 'Frack Master' says UK shale gas market threatened by scaremongering
- Manmade global warming: a stormy meeting between sceptics and believers
- Six Degrees: Giant Wind Farms, Megadroughts & Sea Level
- On the long-term stability of Gulf Stream transport based on 20?years of direct measurements
- Diverse Coral Communities in Naturally Acidified Waters of a Western Pacific Reef
- Genetic diversity in caribou linked to past and future climate change
Climate and energy news:.
Energy minister Michael Fallon has set up a working group to
investigate the feasibility of a new mining technique, coal
gasification. The Telegraph says – if approved – it could satisfy
Britain’s energy needs for 200 years.
Thinktank Policy Exchange says renewable energy subsidies
should be cut if the industry fails to bring down costs by the end
of the decade.
NASA data shows last month’s global surface temperatures
were the hottest on record for November, Climate Progress
reports.
Climate and energy comment:.
Climate scientist Gavin Schmidt reflects on scientists’
advocacy role.
David Rose takes aim at public policymakers who advocate for
‘green’ policies, while having a vested interest in seeing them
enshrined in law.
Richard Gray visits the new nuclear plant being built at
Hinkley Point – and videos his trip.
Suzanne Goldenberg visits residents of Ponder, Texas – a
town next to a shale gas well – and reports on their experiences:
from nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, to invasive chemical smells,
constant drilling, and slumping property prices.
Chris Faulkner, a US executive known as the “Frack Master”,
says the Balcombe protests earlier this year have polarised the
shale gas debate.
Damian Carrington reports on a meeting between Lord Lawson,
his associates and Royal Society scientists. It was “not a meeting
of minds”, he says.
Climate Central imagines what a six degrees world could look
like, via a picture slideshow.
New climate science:.
Recently, scientists have proposed the Gulf Stream may be slowing
down in response to climate change. But two decades of direct
measurements show no evidence of a decrease, according to new
research.
Scientists have discovered thriving coral reef communities in a
small part of the tropical Pacific Ocean where acidification levels
are about as high as predicted for the whole ocean by
2100.
A team of researchers have mapped caribou responses to past and
future climate change. Geographic regions that have been
climatically stable over the past 21,000 years have retained the
highest genetic diversity, the research shows.