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*Opinion- Washington Post:  The good and bad news on climate change* 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-good-and-bad-news-on-climate-change/2016/10/22/0b6e2204-90b0-11e6-9c52-0b10449e33c4_story.html>

      ..., at year's end, the country’s climate tab will be the smallest
    since 1992, continuing a downward trend since its peak during the
    George W. Bush administration, when carbon dioxide levels seemed
    destined to rise inexorably....Meanwhile, the government cannot
    enforce the country's centerpiece emissions-cutting policy, because
    the Supreme Court has stayed the Obama administration’s Clean Power
    Plan pending completion of a federal lawsuit, and Republican-led
    states are resisting it....


    New*Climate*-Friendlier Coolant Has a Catch: It's Flammable
    <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/business/energy-environment/auto-coolant-global-warming-at-what-cost.html>

New York Times 	 -‎1 hour ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    But it is one of the most important alternatives to
    hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which have long been used in
    air-conditioners and refrigerators and which contribute greatly
    to*climate change*. On Oct. 15, in Kigali, Rwanda, more than 170
    countries*...*


    Leaked Clinton emails reveal thorny politics of*climate*action
    <http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Inhabit/2016/1022/Leaked-Clinton-emails-reveal-thorny-politics-of-climate-action>

Christian Science Monitor 	 -‎3 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    Hillary Clinton's campaign developed a policy plan favoring a new
    tax on carbon emissions, but later called the idea politically
    'lethal,' according to documents made public by WikiLeaks....Mrs.
    Clinton's campaign did not respond to a request from the Monitor
    Friday to comment on the emails and her policies on*climate change*.
    Mr. Podesta has implied the legitimacy ... They floated a carbon tax
    in a December 2014 planning document titled*...Members of the
    Clinton team, too, apparently were calling early on for more
    substantial action. They floated a carbon tax in a December 2014
    planning document titled *"*Climate Change Framing Paper.*"* That
    paper, released by WikiLeaks this week, said that the Obama
    administration’s climate commitments were at the time *"*far from
    sufficient to meet the climate challenge*
    <http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/wikileaks-hillary-clinton-climate-230177>*Climate
    lessons from the Clinton campaign's hacked emails
    <http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/wikileaks-hillary-clinton-climate-230177>*
    The WikiLeaks emails reveal a Hillary Clinton campaign team fixated
    on*climate change*- yet reluctant to make overly sweeping promises
    about what they'd do about it. "Climate change" comes up in more
    than 1,200 of the emails released as of Friday, or more than
    Obamacare and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant combined —
    and almost as many as the 1,444 emails that mention the name
    "Sanders."..And Clinton’s team think it’s deeply unrealistic to call
    for a quick end to oil drilling, as some green groups and Sanders
    supporters demand — but it’s also fanciful to think that the current
    U.S. oil boom should continue indefinitely....The presidential
    front-runner’s private quip that anti-fossil fuel activists should
    "get a life," seen in context, reads like more of a rejoinder to
    remove their heads from the clouds than a personal slam.



    <http://www.seeker.com/africa-air-pollution-2058524641.html>


    *Air Pollution*in Africa Is More Deadly Than Malnutrition
    <http://www.seeker.com/africa-air-pollution-2058524641.html>

Seeker 	 -‎6 hours ago‎ 	

	
	
	

    The study connects the uninterrupted growth of Africa's urban
    population to the rising number of premature deaths from*air
    pollution*. The author, Rana Roy, notes that while*air pollution*is
    most severe in Asia, particularly in the densely populated*...*


*This day in Climate History * 
<https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-eviscerates-cdc-director-s-senate-testimony-on-global-warming-f7315a6cbf6c#.cwowj53jd>*October 
23, 2007 
<https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-eviscerates-cdc-director-s-senate-testimony-on-global-warming-f7315a6cbf6c#.cwowj53jd>  
:* *From D.R. Tucker * ---------------------------

      Dr. Julie Gerberding of the Centers for Disease Control and
    Prevention addresses a US Senate committee regarding the health
    risks of climate change.  Her testimony was extensively edited by
    the Bush White House to dramatically downplay the severity of the
    risks. ..."It was eviscerated," said a CDC official, familiar with
    both versions, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the
    sensitive nature of the review process....The official said that
    while it is customary for testimony to be changed in a White House
    review, these changes were particularly "heavy-handed," with the
    document cut from its original 14 pages to four. It was six pages as
    presented to the Senate committee....The White House’s deletions
    included "details on how many people might be adversely affected
    because of increased warming and the scientific basis for some of
    the CDC’s analysis on what kinds of diseases might be spread in a
    warmer climate and rising sea levels."....Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
    today put out a statement, stating, "The Administration should
    immediately release Dr. Gerberding’s full, uncut statement, because
    the public has a right to know all the facts about the serious
    threats posed by global warming."
    http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/10/23/17139/gerberding-global-warming/
    http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2007/10/24/the-censored-testimony-of-cdc-director-julie-gerberding/
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/24cnd-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
    http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/07/08/174078/burnett-cheney-boiling/
    http://www.c-span.org/video/?201698-1/HumanImp

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