by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week
Why is nuclear excluded from clean energy mandates & subsidies? Nice WSJ shout-out [link]
Coal’s Future Shifts To Developing World [link]
Air pollution and infant health in Mexico City [link] …
How can we reduce concrete’s hefty carbon footprint? [link]
Finding a United Front as Methane Becomes Key Climate Battle [link]
World Bank to spend 28% of investments on climate change [link]
Green energy dropping out of mix in developing world [link]
Alex Epstein’s recent Congressional Testimony in defense of fossil fuels [link]
The most important mystery about U.S. climate change policy: its whether increased oil and gas methane emissions are undermining cutbacks in coal [link]
People’s Fission: A supporter’s plea for Sanders to change his mind and embrace nuclear energy. [link]
10 Years of #Fracking: Its Impact on Our Water, Land & Climate [link]
UN’s Figueres: “It’s a simple relation: more carbon equals more poverty.” [link]
Why its time to dispel myths about nuclear power [link]
Political storm clouds outlook for Brazil’s climate change plan [link]
How Obama could leave a president Trump or Cruz stuck with the #ParisAgreement on climate [link]
US FUEL ECONOMY standard delivering smaller gains than expected due to cheap oil: [link]
Those ambitious global warming goals? The world may not know how to reach them [link]
Kenya’s dwindling Lake Turkana as Ethiopian dam begins operation [link]
The world’s biggest floating solar farm powers up outside London [link]
German Government ‘Plans To Stop And Reverse Wind Power’ – [link]
Eight Cities That Are Improbably Running out of Water [link]
Report: America’s Western Power Grid Is Totally Vulnerable To Attacks [link] …
This is very interesting: Ontario Society of Professional Engineers on why C02 emissions will double as we add wind and solar plants [link] …
Tiny Kosovo faces a big energy dilemma [link]
Chinese dams blamed for exacerbating Southeast Asian #drought: [link]
An empty table? Food-climate-conflict connections in Paris [link]
Climate change will wipe $2.5tn off global financial assets: study [link] — NatureClimate in the news
How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution – this is a very interesting read [link]
“Taxing food that is responsible for high greenhouse-gas emissions” – Nature [link]
China is responsible for 10% of human influence on climate change, study says [link]
“Efforts to curtail world temps will almost surely fail” – new paper in Energy Policy [link] …Filed under: Week in review