‘Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday’

via Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate | Environment | The Guardian.

‘It’s been seven bruising political years since farm organizations dared utter the “c word” when discussing extreme weather and drought, but farmer Alan Merrill says climate change can’t go unmentioned any longer.’

via Farmers Union publishes reports on climate change effects on agriculture.

‘Paris (AFP) – The widest global effort yet to gauge citizens’ views on climate change showed 79 percent to be “very concerned” about its effects, but less than half support a carbon tax to curb emissions, organisers said Sunday.’

via Global citizens ‘very concerned’ about climate: poll – Yahoo News.

‘With little negotiating time left ahead of the UN climate summit in Paris later this year, diplomats from nearly 200 countries meeting in Bonn have reportedly made little progress, raising the possibility of a last-minute diplomatic fiasco, as happened in Copenhagen in 2009.’

via Africa sounds the alarm over crucial climate summit | Global development | The Guardian.

‘German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for the Group of Seven industrial powers to throw their weight behind a long-standing pledge to seek $100 billion to help poor countries tackle climate change.’

via Merkel Urges G7 to Throw Weight Behind Climate Fund – ABC News.

‘…in an interview on NPR’s Marketplace yesterday (June 3), President Obama said that enforcing climate change regulations will indeed be part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Obamatrade pact that he is currently negotiating with Malaysia and 10 other countries.’

via Blog: Obama admits that climate change will be in Obamatrade.

‘…As Exxon Mobil’s Rex Tillerson — the highest-paid chief executive of the richest fossil fuel firm on the planet — gave his talk, the death toll from India’s heat wave mounted and pictures circulated on the Internet of Delhi’s pavement literally melting. Meanwhile, satellite images showed Antarctica’s Larsen B ice shelf on the edge of disintegration.’

via How mankind blew the fight against climate change – The Washington Post.

‘…The target, contained in an executive order and expected to be folded into pending legislation, seeks to reduce emissions in California 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.’

via Jerry Brown issues a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target | The Sacramento Bee.

‘Senate Republicans introduced a bill Wednesday that would overturn the Obama administration’s landmark climate regulations for power plants and make it nearly impossible to rewrite them.’

via Senate GOP launches attack on EPA climate rules | TheHill.

‘Republican New Jersey governor and presidential hopeful Chris Christie briefly made news last week when he said that global warming is real and that “human activity contributes to it.”

Yet as a whole, climate change has yet to emerge as a major issue in U.S. presidential elections, which is consistent with the recent history.’

via Will 2016’s Presidential Hopefuls Talk Climate Change? | The New Republic.