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Climate News is a regular review of and commentary on topical matters concerning the science, economics, and governance associated with climate change developments.
Alan Moran, who is a Director of AEF, prepares and distributes Climate News each month on behalf of the Foundation.
International policy developments
The Obama machine is pressing nations to ratify the Paris Agreement of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Under this, in December last year, developed countries are to cut their emissions by 25-28 per cent. Sixty countries have ratified. These account for 48 per cent of global emissions, hence we are well on the way to the 55 per cent needed for the treaty to come into effect ..... READ MORE
How is the science travelling?
According to a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Letters Greenland is poised to return to the temporate climate that was promoted by those canny real estate marketers, the 12th Century Vikings. Global warming on stilts but wait! According to a paper published in Nature earlier this year the warming in Greenland is localised due to “anomalously high geothermal flux” underneath its ice sheet ... READ MORE
Politics and economics
Donald Trump is unambiguous in his hostility to the “climate change hoax” and has promised to walk away from agreements that reduce US carbon dioxide emissions as well as getting rid of the economy-busting Environment Protection Agency. The EPA is undeterred by the prospect of a Trump presidency and is moving into a new carbon regulatory theatre, aviation. READ MORE
Political dimensions
The Paris Agreement in December is to establish an agreed international path to decarbonising economies. Two of the four biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, China and India, have been given leave to simply pay lip-service to the policy but the EU and the US have been the major proponents. Donald Trump has placed himself squarely in the skeptic camp on climate change, calling it a hoax and even joking that the whole issue is a Chinese plot but the Obama administration is trying to“Trump-proof” the Paris Agreement (and bi-pass Congress by not calling it a “treaty”) and to lock in emission reductions. READ MORE
The latest el Niño, which has created record temperatures and brought joy to the doomster warmistas, is finally subsiding. Ocean temperatures are back to normal ..... READ MORE
After a very high recorded temperature in March, the el nino effect is now subsiding but Roy Spencer thinks the 2016 average temperature could still end up a record warm year in the post 1989 satellite data. ..... READ MORE
February, having been billed as the hottest month on record, was followed by a cooler March as the el nino effect subsides. If temperatures have been rising since the eighteenth/early nineteenth century’s Little Ice Age, the data for the lower troposphere, uncontaminated by urban heat islands and the surface temperature casts doubt on the extent of the trend over recent years.
Read MoreUK government is suddenly beginning to realise that wind is costly and unreliable and is now focussing on gas, which by replacing coal says Minister Amber Rudd is "One of the greatest and most cost-effective contributions we can make to emission reductions in electricity”. But the government is also reviewing its coal plants’ reliability and will doubtless see a role for them once the Parisian carbon maelstrom passes. In any event carbon capture and storage plans in the UK have been abandoned in recognition that this is a very expensive way to sacrifice carbon to the greenhouse gods.
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