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style="font-weight: bold;">China ratifies Paris<span
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style="font-weight: bold;">climate</b><span
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255);">Announcement comes as Xi Jinping and Barack Obama are
expected to meet ahead of the start of the G20 to make a joint
statement on climate change...China's top legislature has
ratified the Paris global<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>agreement, state news
agency Xinhua reports. The country is the world's largest
emitter of harmful CO2 emissions, which cause<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b>. China and the US together account
for about 38% of global emissions. So if they ratify the
agreement it will bring the Paris agreement entering into force
much closer to reality,...<br>
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<b> </b><b> </b><b><a
href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/08/31/americans-now-more-politically-polarized-climate-change-ever-analysis-finds">Americans
Now More Politically Polarized On Climate Change Than Ever
Before, Analysis Finds</a></b><br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1"> American voters and politicians are
now more polarized than ever before across all aspects of
climate change — from the cause, to the science and the impacts
— a major new analysis has found...Campaigns funded by vested
fossil fuel interests and pushed by a network of ideological
think tanks, many linked to the oil billionaire Koch brothers,
have helped to widen the gap, pushing Republican politicians,
elites and voters away from action on greenhouse gas
emissions....The researchers found the widest gaps between
Democrats and Republicans come when they are asked about the
causes of climate change and if the media exaggerates the
seriousness of the issue...While virtually all climate
scientists and the world's leading scientific academies have
long agreed that the burning of fossil fuels is causing climate
change, only about half Republicans accept the science....The
result is that global warming has joined God, guns, gays, and
abortion as core elements of Republican identity, and this will
be hard to change.”</font></blockquote>
<b><a
href="%E2%80%9CWe%20expect%20population%20gains%20to%20remain%20strong%20enough%20to%20take%20us%20toward%20a%20global%20population%20of%2010%20billion%E2%80%9D"><font
size="+1">Soaring population raises climate concerns</font></a><br>
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<blockquote><b> </b><font size="-1">PRB Projects World Population
Rising 33 Percent by 2050 to Nearly 10 Billion<b> </b><a
href="http://www.prb.org/Publications/DataSheets/2016/2016-world-population-data-sheet.aspx">2016
World Population Data Sheet</a> from the Population Reference
Bureau. ) The world population will reach 9.9 billion in 2050,
up 33 percent from an estimated 7.4 billion now, according to
projections included in the 2016 World Population Data Sheet
from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB)....Significant
regional differences remain, though. For example very low birth
rates in Europe will mean population declines there while
Africa’s population is expected to double...Renewable sources,
including hydroelectricity, now provide 18% of the world’s
energy, and the average number of people per square kilometre of
arable land worldwide is 526.</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/02/among-the-pipeline-fighters-in-central-iowa/">Among
the Pipeline Fighters in Central Iowa</a></b></font> <br>
<blockquote> <font size="-1">... two corporations recently put up
$2 billion ($1.5 billion from Enbridge and $500,000 from
Marathon to purchase 49 percent of the Bakken Pipeline... That
oil is one of the most carbon-rich, planet-cooking fossil fuels
on Earth...</font><br>
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_uQb">Aug 31, 2016</span> If watching <em>climate</em>-<em>change</em>
deniers on TV is enough to drive you nuts, imagine living
with one. Australia's Collective Noun sketch comedy
group ... YouTube video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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