A burning house being carried away by flood waters is as vivid a metaphor for global climate catastrophe as I’ve ever seen.
The sad fact about working class people who have supported right wing politics historically in the US, is that they are themselves so often victims of policies their political heroes advocate. This is certainly true in areas of environment and climate, and yet another of those increasingly common “one in a thousand year” events in West Virginia illustrates vividly. The storm dumped 9 inches of rain on parts of West Virginia.
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However, this is all a bit strange, because wholesale electricity prices have almost doubled over what they were at the equivalent stage of the last election cycle. Incredibly, they are 300% above what they were in the 2010 election…relevant here because carbon pricing was applied at the wholesale level…While we suspect the Prime Minister really does know this, we also know he is bound by a party room that is still a long way away from abandoning ideology for rationality, on this issue at least.
Thousands of cities from six continents united Wednesday to create the largest global coalition committed to battling human-caused climate change and pushing the world into a low-carbon economy…About 75% of global CO2 emissions come from cities, and most are attributed to transportation and buildings, according to 
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