Government promises hands-off ‘technology neutral’ approach to electricity generation and transportation and will not attempt to engineer shift away from fossil fuels

via Climate change ignored in energy white paper that lets market rule future policy | Australia news | The Guardian.

‘As his state faces the worst drought in its history, with mandatory water rationing for residents and fears of destruction to the agricultural sector, California governor Jerry Brown had a message Sunday for climate-change deniers: wake up.’

via California drought: governor tells climate-change deniers to wake up | US news | The Guardian.

‘PINEHURST, Calif. — A massive die-off of pine trees in the southern Sierra Nevada caused by beetles attacking drought-stressed trees is turning forests brown and creating a fire tinderbox.’

via PINEHURST, Calif.: Sierra Nevada pine tree die-off worsens as beetles thrive in drought | MCT National News | McClatchy DC.

‘More U.S. adults believe Fox News is a reliable source of information about climate change than believe President Barack Obama is, according to a new poll from St. Leo University.’

via More Americans Trust Fox News Than Obama On Climate Change, Poll Finds.

‘The nonprofit launched by environmentalist Tom Steyer is shutting down its climate and energy program, in a likely signal that the billionaire is shifting resources to his organization’s political arm ahead of the presidential elections.’

via Tom Steyer’s group shutters climate policy arm as political efforts ramp up – Elana Schor and Andrew Restuccia – POLITICO.

‘Last September 40,000 people attended London’s largest ever climate march. This was a big achievement for an issue that struggles to catch people’s attention. After all, as psychologists point out, it is notoriously hard to mobilise people around issues that are invisible, uncertain, set in the future and require them to make sacrifices.’

via What the climate movement must learn from religion | George Marshall | Comment is free | The Guardian.

‘Two weeks before California Governor Jerry Brown’s announcement on Wednesday that residents and businesses in the Golden State — which is withering amid one of its worst droughts in modern history — would be subjected to unprecedented restrictions on water usage, he issued a blistering attack on those who continue to question fundamental climate science.’

via Drought, Climate Change and California’s Multibillion-Dollar Problem.