20/11/2018

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Here’s a selection of today’s environment related news from around the web. We do the hard work, so you don’t have to.

Government spending foreign aid money to promote fracking in China

Exclusive: ‘It is a flagrant misuse of the UK’s aid budget to fund the fossil fuel industry overseas when the priority must be shifting to low carbon energy and boosting climate resilience’

The Independent

Dead fish to power cruise ships

Norwegian company to use leftovers from fish processing to make biogas to fuel liners

the Guardian

Dozens arrested after climate protest blocks five London bridges

Thousands of protesters occupied bridges across the Thames over extinction crisis in huge act of peaceful civil disobedience

the Guardian

‘I want great climate,’ says Trump as he tours area devastated by California wildfires

'We’ve got to take care of the floors, you know the floors of the forest, very important'

The Independent

Editorials: Where UK newspapers stand on climate change and energy

Carbon Brief has isolated and summarised editorials on a variety of topics related to energy and climate change from the past five years.

Carbon Brief

Trump Says He’ll Nominate Andrew Wheeler to Head the E.P.A. (Published 2018)

The president made the announcement while leading a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony at the White House.

www.nytimes.com

Veteran Democrats wary of climate push by Ocasio-Cortez and her allies - POLITICO

www.politico.com

National Trust has £30m invested in fossil fuels

Exclusive: investments in oil, gas and mining companies held indirectly via portfolio fund

the Guardian

ScienceDirect

www.sciencedirect.com

How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet

From 2018: With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable, but the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts, Bill McKibben writes.

The New Yorker

Contributions of Climate Change, CO2, Land-Use Change, and Human Activities to Changes in River Flow across 10 Chinese Basins

Abstract As an essential source of freshwater river flow comprises ~80% of the water consumed in China. Per capita water resources in China are only a quarter of the global average, and its economy is demanding in water resources; this creates an urgent need to quantify the factors that contribute to changes in river flow.…

AMETSOC

3 things businesses can do to win the climate change fight | CNN Business

Renewable energy needs to replace traditional energy as quickly as possible, and electric vehicles need to replace the internal combustion engine in the next 10 to 15 years, writes Jeff Nesbit, executive director of Climate Nexus.

CNN

'We're getting our environmental priorities wrong – it's about calories, not climate change'

In short, will we be able to feed our kids properly as more extreme weather becomes the norm? 

The Independent

UK's richest man eyes North Sea oil and gas fields

Jim Ratcliffe's company Ineos is in talks to buy assets reportedly worth $3bn from ConocoPhillips.

BBC News

'We're getting our environmental priorities wrong – it's about calories, not climate change'

In short, will we be able to feed our kids properly as more extreme weather becomes the norm? 

The Independent

Ask a Scientist: How to Deal with a Climate-Change Skeptic

An event, co-hosted by the Climate Museum and Columbia University’s Earth Institute, stations scientists with “climate-communication tips” in prominent and iconic public spaces around the city.

The New Yorker

Gruesome discovery of Czech tiger farm exposes illegal trade in heart of Europe

A haul of fresh pelts and rotting remains marks the end of a five-year probe into an international crime ring. Authorities fear it points to a wider problem in Europe

the Guardian

Turbines may be turfing out peat's carbon-cutting benefits

Supersizing thousands of wind turbines across Scotland’s countryside may not be the most green way to cut global warming because the structures could be cancelling out the carbon-cutting contribution made by the ground underneath them, a government-funded report has warned.The majority of wind farms

www.thetimes.co.uk

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