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Tue Oct 6, 2015, 11:14 AM Oct 2015

China undercuts a key denier TP

and other developments.

Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that China will start a national pollution-trading system to cut global-warming emissions for its most polluting industries. That's in addition to previous Chinese commitments to bring its emissions to a peak by 2030 and radically scale up solar and wind power. China even promised $3.1 billion to help poorer countries move away from fossil fuels.
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To Congress, to the U.S. clergy and laity, to the U.N., to 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide, even to non-believers, Pope Francis's message was clear: Climate change is a moral problem and everyone's responsibility. He called on world leaders to set aside partisan and ideological interests in the name of "a higher degree of wisdom."
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The Associated Press, which many news organizations look to for style guidance, is scrapping the terms climate skeptics and climate deniers. Their reason for the former is that it tarnishes the word skepticism, a trait that's valued in the scientific community, by lumping it in with people who simply deny the overwhelming scientific consensus around climate change. Their reason for dropping deniers is the association with the term holocaust deniers.
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Perhaps the biggest laggard in the ongoing UN climate talks has been India, one of the world's fastest-rising polluters. But news dribbled out this week that India may be about to make its own very aggressive commitment. Full details haven't been released, but it's reported to include a reduction in emissions intensity by 35 to 40 percent and a massive expansion in wind and solar power.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-25/china-just-took-away-our-biggest-excuse-on-climate-change
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