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Nearly $300 Billion: The 7 most expensive regs in Obama’s climate plan

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-7-most-expensive-regs-in-obamas-climate-plan/article/2598653 By JOHN SICILIANO • 8/8/16 12:01 AM It has been just over three years since President Obama announced his extensive climate change agenda, called the Climate Action Plan. The plan was his answer to Congress’ failure to pass comprehensive climate legislation, after action stalled in the Senate during his first term. Instead of relying […]

Climate Retreat? California Legislature May Ditch Plan to Radically Reduce Emissions

By Laurel Rosenhall CALmatters AUGUST 4, 2016 Gov. Jerry Brown has taken the national stage to tout California’s fight against global warming, telling cheering throngs at the Democratic National Convention that the state has “the toughest climate laws in the country.” Yet inside the state Capitol, the fate of the policy’s centerpiece—legislation to drastically reduce […]

Scientists: Tropical Pacific Islands Are Not Being Drowned By Rising Seas

  By Paul Homewood   http://www.cato.org/blog/sixty-six-years-island-shoreline-dynamics-jaluit-atoll-marshall-islands   From Cato: According to a conventional narrative, tropical islands are eroding away due to rising seas and increasingly devastating storms. Not really, according to the recent work of Ford and Kench (2016). Writing as background for their study, the two researchers state that low-lying reef islands are “considered […]

Democrat AGs signed secrecy pact to hide details of probe into climate-change dissent

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/4/dem-ags-signed-secrecy-pact-climate-change-probe/ Democratic attorneys general signed a secrecy agreement aimed at keeping hidden the details of their investigation into climate change dissenters, according to documents released Thursday. The Common Interest Agreement was signed in April and May by representatives for 17 attorneys general as part of their collaborative pursuit of fossil fuel companies, academics and think […]

From now on, every government agency will have to consider climate change 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/02/from-now-on-every-government-agency-will-have-to-consider-climate-change/?utm_term=.7e4f132c7219 In the past several weeks alone, the Obama administration has made multiple new moves to fight climate change. The administration announced new steps to help fill U.S. roadways with electric vehicles. It ruled that greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft endanger human health and welfare. And on the international stage, it moved the world closer to a deal to phase out super-polluting […]

Paris climate agreement likely to go into effect this year

Paris climate agreement likely to go into effect this year http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/08/paris_climate_agreement_likely_to_go_into_effect_this_year.html Will it be too late for a President Trump to pull the US out of it? — gReader Pro

NSIDC on Arctic Sea Ice: ‘A new record low September ice extent now appears to be unlikely.”

NSIDC on Arctic Sea Ice: ‘A new record low September ice extent now appears to be unlikely.” http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/07/nsidc-on-arctic-sea-ice-a-new-record-low-september-ice-extent-now-appears-to-be-unlikely From the National Snow and Ice Data Center. A cool and stormy Arctic in July An extensive area of lower than average temperatures in the Central Arctic and the Siberian coast, attended by persistent low pressure systems […]