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UK Breakthrough: Landmark Ruling Gives Green Light To Fracking

El Niño Ends: Pacific Ocean Temps Dropping Fast



The strongest El Nino in nearly 20 years, which damaged crop production in Asia and caused food shortages, has ended, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday. Climate indicators associated with El Nino, which emerged in 2015, have now returned to neutral levels, the BOM said. The end of El Nino was not unexpected with climate indicators cooling in recent months, but Australia's BOM is the first major meteorology agency to declare the end of El Nino. --Colin Packham, Reuters, 24 May 2016

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The sea surface temperature anomalies of the NINO3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific are bordered by the coordinates of 5S-5N, 170W-120W. They are used by NOAA and other meteorological agencies to define when an El Niño event is taking place. According to the most-recent weekly satellite-enhanced data, the temperature anomalies for that region have dropped below the +0.5 deg C threshold between El Niño and ENSO-neutral phases, the latter of which is the “normal” phase of the tropical Pacific when neither El Niño or La Niña are taking place. --Bob Tisdale, Watts Up With That, 23 May 2016 Is the global warming pause over for good -- or will it continue once the current El Nino dies down? --Global Warming Policy Foundation, 3 March 2016 Scores of fracking projects across England were given a boost last night as councillors in Yorkshire approved the first scheme in five years. Third Energy is expected to become the first British company to frack legally since 2011 after it won the right to press ahead with extracting shale gas near the North York Moors national park despite protests from local residents and campaigners. The landmark decision is a victory for Britain’s shale gas industry, with a string of other planning decisions due to be considered in the months ahead. --Robin Pagnamenta and Ben Webster, The Times, 24 May 2016 The Global Warming Policy Forum welcomes the decision by North Yorkshire County Council to allow hydraulic fracturing to take place at Third Energy’s Kirby Misperton site. The decision will allow the development of shale gas exploration to take place for the first time since 2011, helping to kick-start an industry that can bring much needed jobs and investment to Yorkshire and the North of England. The GWPF hopes that the decision will set an example for other councils to follow. --Global Warming Policy Forum, 24 May 2016 Bidders for Tata Steel’s beleaguered UK business believe the Government is ready to change its much criticised carbon tax to cut energy costs, while Tata is expected to contribute to a clean-up bill of up to £1 billion in the event of closure. The Government has been criticised for failing to respond soon enough to the crisis caused by cheap Chinese imports and longstanding, high energy costs, with green taxes cited as a key reason for Tata’s decision to sell its UK division. --Jon Rees And Alex Hawkes, Mail On Sunday, 22 May 2016 Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude E. Walker has withdrawn his subpoena of the Competitive Enterprise Institute after a rash of criticism over his investigation into climate-change dissenters. Still, CEI general counsel Sam Kazman said Monday that the free-market think-tank would still push the court for sanctions against Mr. Walker, one of an 17-member coalition of attorneys general pursuing fraud allegations against climate skeptics. --Valerie Richardson, The Washington Times, 23 May 2016


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