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    For Republicans, clean energy boom, shifting ties test*climate
    change*stance
    <http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/For-Republicans-clean-energy-boom-shifting-8383421.php>

Houston Chronicle 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

WASHINGTON - Texas Congressman Lamar Smith has made a name for himself 
as one of the country's leading *climate change*deniers...As Republicans 
maintain their party's long-standing blockade against action to reduce 
carbon emissions, they also are embracing a renewable energy industry 
that is driving investment and jobs in GOP strongholds like Texas.... 
The balancing act comes as the battle lines around climate change are 
being redrawn. Exxon Mobil, the country's largest oil company, is 
supporting a tax on carbon emissions, falling in line with European 
competitors like BP and Royal Dutch Shell. Prominent Republican donors 
are putting millions into the congressional campaigns of candidates 
willing to offer their support for the renewable energy industry   
..."There is something happening (among Republicans), and it's always 
difficult when things are changing to get a real clear understanding of 
where it's going to end up," said Charles McConnell, former assistant 
secretary of energy under President Barack Obama and now executive 
director of Rice University's Energy and Environment Initiative. "The 
issue is not whether the climate is changing and how (carbon dioxide) 
contributes but how do we address it most effectively. Where Republicans 
are struggling is the way of life fossil fuels provide us is now under 
direct attack."


    Green Party invites voters focused on*climate change*to cross over,
    after corporate parties fail to take the crisis*...*
    <http://www.gp.org/green_party_invites_voters_focused_on_climate_change_to_cross_over>

Green Party US (press release) 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Green Party is calling on voters concerned about 
the environment and the dire threat posed by*climate change*to "Go Green 
in 2016." The invitation is published in an open letter written by 
Margaret ... Greens said that the need*...*


    The politics of*climate change*in the United States
    <http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/techknow/2016/07/politics-climate-change-united-states-160714105644450.html>

Aljazeera.com 	 -‎12 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

Receding glaciers, volatile weather, and rapid*greenhouse 
gas*accumulation all point towards human-induced*climate change*. In 
fact, 97 percent of published reports agree that*climate change*is 
fuelled by manmade greenhouse gases. But while there is ...


    Changing cloud pattern worsens*global warming*, study says
    <http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/insight/2016/07/17/01-changing-cloud-pattern-worsens-global-warming-study-says.html>

Columbus Dispatch 	 -‎21 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

In a new study published in Nature, scientists say they have for the 
first time thoroughly documented one of the most profound planetary 
changes yet to be caused by a warming*climate*: The distribution of 
clouds all around the Earth has shifted, they say.


    'Shocking,' 'Plain Stupid': Theresa May Shuts*Climate Change*Office
    <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/15/shocking-plain-stupid-theresa-may-shuts-climate-change-office>

Common Dreams (press release) 	 -‎Jul 15, 2016‎ 	

	
	
	

Less than a day after becoming the U.K.'s unelected leader, Prime 
Minister Theresa May closed the government's*climate change*office, a 
move instantly condemned as "shocking" and "plain stupid." May shuttered 
the Department for Energy and*Climate* ...

New Book publication due in Sept 2016:
*The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable 
<https://www.amazon.com/Great-Derangement-Climate-Unthinkable-Lectures/dp/022632303X/ref=sr_1_1>*(Berlin 
Family Lectures) 
<https://www.amazon.com/Great-Derangement-Climate-Unthinkable-Lectures/dp/022632303X/ref=sr_1_1>
by Amitav Ghosh (Author) Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist 
Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else 
to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his 
first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines 
our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp 
the scale and violence of climate change... The extreme nature of 
today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to 
contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true 
of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes 
simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically 
consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate 
crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the 
history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many 
contradictory and counterintuitive elements...Ghosh ends by suggesting 
that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal 
moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit 
fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great 
cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human 
existence—a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of 
all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer’s summons to 
confront the most urgent task



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