| As talks for aviation climate deal begin, India holds out
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| Fast-growing aviation powerhouse India is not ready to join the world's first climate deal to curb pollution from commercial flights because it fears that talks beginning on Tuesday may not lead to a fair agreement, its civil aviation minister said.
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An aircraft files near the setting sun in New Delhi November 30, 2013. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
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| Twitter fell for a hoax that Trump's camp deleted his Chinese hoax tweet.
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| Early in Monday evening's debate, Hillary Clinton called out Donald Trump on his claims that "climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese." Trump claimed that he didn't claim that, but the Twitter trail remained. The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012 Very quickly, though, some big-time media folks fell into a hoax vortex of their own, tweeting claims that the Trump campaign was deleting his tweets in real time. (Then later, the tweeter who claimed that Trump was deleting tweets deleted his claim about the deleted tweets. Does your head hurt?) Trump social media team deleted the tweet. The Internet never forgets you morons. pic.twitter.com/hXy10P5Asb — Redeye (@PaulChaloner) September 27, 2016 Trump team deleting all those climate change tweets in real time is just too too perfect. — Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 27, 2016 Yet as of an hour or so later, ...
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| Clinton didn't wait for a moderator's question to attack Trump on climate.
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| In a discussion over how to bring industry jobs back to the United States during their first debate Monday night, Hillary Clinton found an opportunity to go after Donald Trump's remarks on climate change — a departure from 2012 when candidates preferred to avoid the issue entirely. "Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century," Clinton said. "Donald thinks that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. I think it's real." Trump intervened: "I did not. I do not say that." (He did; Twitter never forgets.) The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012 Clinton continued: "Scientists say it's real, and I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it both at home and abroad. And here's what we can do: We can deploy half a billion more solar panels. We can have enough clean energy to power every home. We can build a new, modern electric ...
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| Exclusive: Poland will only agree EU approval of Paris climate deal on its terms - minister
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| Poland will only sign off on accelerated EU approval of the Paris climate deal on its own terms, its environment minister said in a letter to EU counterparts, casting doubt on a push by the bloc for adoption ahead of U.N. climate talks in November.
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The sun shines through trees in a protected area of Bialowieza forest, the last primeval forest in Europe, near Bialowieza village, Poland, May 30, 2016. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo
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| Fear of polar vortex repeat lifts U.S. natgas from doldrums
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| Fears that the coming winter will be as brutal as the polar vortex of two years ago has started a scramble in markets for natural gas, driving the primary U.S. heating fuel's price to 16-month highs.
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A man is silhouetted against the arctic sea smoke rising off Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois January 6, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young
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| India will jump on the bandwagon for global climate action.
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| On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will ratify the Paris agreement on Oct. 2. This inches the deal closer to enforcement, which requires 55 countries producing 55 percent of worldwide emissions to sign on. India is the fourth largest emitter of GHGs in the world, behind the United States, China, and the entire European Union. India's ratification brings the climate agreement within spitting distance of the required totals. (1) w/ India joining #ParisAgreement we would be very, very close to entry-into-force pic.twitter.com/iJGV4H40gT — Jake Schmidt – NRDC (@jschmidtnrdc) September 26, 2016 If the Paris deal comes into effect before November's talks in Marrakesh, countries will be able to turn their focus to raising the $100 billion per year needed for adaption to climate change and programs to cut emissions — rather than pushing each other to sign on the dotted line. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline India will jump on the bandwagon for global climate ...
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| Cedar Rapids, Iowa, braces for second biggest river flood on record
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 Over the past week, thunderstorms have repeatedly dumped heavy rain in southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa and west central Wisconsin. Widespread rainfall amounts of 5 to 10 inches have drenched the region. As these torrents flow downriver through the eastern half of Iowa, the region is bracing for a flood event nearing historic levels. The area […]
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