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As climate deniers move into White House – Guardian news focus on climate change

Global warning: ominous signs for climate in Trump administration – live https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2017/jan/19/global-warning-live-from-the-climate-change-frontline-as-trump-becomes-president With climate change deniers moving into the White House, the Guardian is spending 24 hours focusing on the issue. Right now we’re focusing on how warming temperatures will affect the Asia-Pacific region

• Our partner, Univision News, is hosting a parallel event in Spanish today. Follow it here
• The Tumblr community is joining us with personal posts about climate change. See them here

Mark Rice-Oxley in London, Oliver Milman and Alan Yuhas in New York (earlier), and Michael Slezak in Sydney (now) Friday 20 January 2017

• Here in Australia, there’s been a toxic debate about renewable energy. The fossil fuel industry, conservative media and the coalition government have been trying to link blackouts in South Australia, which have been caused by extreme weather, to the high proportion of renewables in that state.

  They’ve also been arguing that rising power bills around the country are a result of increases in renewable energy in the grid.

  But today, just as another extreme storm causes a large blackout in South Australia, we have polling from GetUp showing Australians have not been swayed by these arguments.

  Just over 17% of voters said they thought renewable energy was to blame for rising power prices.

   
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  First up, we’re starting in the low-lying island of Kiribati. My colleague Eleanor Ainge Royhas filed this from New Zealand:………

January 20, 2017 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general