Issues & Trends

	Report: Shipping emissions to rise in Arctic Climate change in the Arctic is not likely to spark an immediate boom in oil and gas exploration, according to a new study published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. But it will increase shipping there, and shipping-related emission of greenhouse gases will intensify in the region.
	Deployment of renewables increased: report Despite global financial challenges, deployment of renewable energy sources has increased rapidly in recent years, according to a report released Tuesday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
	Average U.S. temperature increases by 0.5 degrees F -- New 1981-2010 'normals' to be released this week According to the 1981-2010 normals to be released by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on July 1, temperatures across the United States were on average, approximately 0.5 degree F warmer than the 1971-2000 time period.
	The Good News About Coal
	Rinderpest officially eradicated -- and why it matters
	Storm Warnings: Extreme Weather Is a Product of Climate Change -- More violent and frequent storms, once merely a prediction of climate models, are now a matter of observation. Part 1 of a three-part series
	Population bomb: 9 billion march to WWIII -- Commentary: Can anyone halt this economic explosive? SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Sshh. Don’t tell anyone. But “while you are reading these words, four people will have died from starvation. Most of them children.” Seventeen words. Four deaths. That statistic is from a cover of Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 provocative “Population Bomb.”
	From King Coal to Carbon Tax: A Historical Perspective on the Energy and Climate-Change Debate
	State-of-the-Art Control Center -- High-tech Tools Integrate Renewables There is a new tool sharpening California's renewable vision. It is in the form of a state-of-the-art system control center that houses the first dedicated renewables dispatch facility in the nation.
	How the DRC’s Inga project could solve much of Africa’s power problems Companies in Africa are severely handicapped by poor power supply.