[Peakoil] CAM Nov18

[Jenny Goldie]

Community projects lead to world stage - Bega climate change activist to speak at UN summit in Paris
Philippa Rowland was one of the founding members of a grassroots small-town response to climate change. That action will now take her to Paris to address the United Nations.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-17/bega-activist-to-address-un-climate-change-paris/6947248

'2020 carbon goal has been met'
Australia will reveal at the Paris climate change conference that it has met its 2020 emissions ­reduction target.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/greg-hunt-to-tell-climate-summit-2020-carbon-goal-has-been-met/story-e6frg6xf-1227612978015

Heat records smashed again as big El Nino rides on global warming
100 quadrillion kilojoules of heat in the central Pacific is helping to drive record world temperatures.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/heat-records-smashed-again-as-big-el-nino-rides-on-global-warming-20151116-gl0j1j.html

Why Al Gore won't endorse Hillary Clinton.
People close to the former vice president say it's not just to preserve his leverage on climate change. There's more to the story.
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/-5149342131469739741

Warming ups the emissions from lake 'chimneys.'
European scientists have just identified another great emitter of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide - and the guilty party is that standing body of water known as a lake
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/-5149342131469739732

Climate change putting UK wildlife 'increasingly at risk.'
Climate change is already affecting UK nature, from seabirds to plants, with wildlife "increasingly at risk" as temperatures rise, conservationists have warned
http://www.dailyclimate.org/t/-6721007226776381251

Countries on the rebound making significant climate adaptation progress
In the lead-up to 21st meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP 21), 10 countries have come from behind to make marked progress in their ability to withstand the shocks and stresses of climate change, while five are distinctly less resilient, according to data released Tuesday (Nov. 17) by the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN).
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uond-co111715.php

'Changing the rules of the game' on collaborative climate change research
To do effective climate change research, scientists need to collaborate with local participants.
And a new U of T study argues that those participants should be rewarded for the valuable input they provide.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uot-tr111715.php

Climate macroscope - software for finding tipping points and critical network structures
Researchers in Potsdam have developed a new open source Python-based software package for examining climate change and other data-heavy networks on a macroscopic level
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/aiop-cms111615.php

Malcolm Maiden: Paris - another reason to get off oil
The Paris attacks aren't a reason to call off the Paris climate conference. They are another reason to hold it.
http://www.theage.com.au/business/energy/paris-is-another-reason-for-the-world-to-kick-its-oil-addiction-20151117-gl14ge.html

Nicholas Stern and Dimitri Zenghelis: Climate change and cities - a prime source of problems, yet key to a solution.
The future of sustained growth, poverty reduction, the world's health and management of climate change, are tightly intertwined.
http://www.dailyclimate.org/t/-6721007226776381220

Peter Burdon: The state of emergency could thwart public demonstrations at the Paris climate talks
The Paris climate talks will now take place within a state of emergency that is threatening to limit public participation.
http://theconversation.com/the-state-of-emergency-could-thwart-public-demonstrations-at-the-paris-climate-talks-50841

Howard Bamsey and Frank Jotzo: Finance for developing countries will help Australia in climate talks
Australia's leadership on climate finance in developing nations could be an opportunity to improve climate diplomacy.
http://theconversation.com/finance-for-developing-countries-will-help-australia-in-climate-talks-50701
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