October 23 News: More Than 1,000 Chinese Protesters Clash With Police Over Coal Plant

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First published on ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, which was recently named one of Time magazine’s Top 25 blogs of 2010.

Protesters clashed with police in Haimen last December during a protest against coal pollution.

People protesting against the building of a coal-fired power plant in a southern Chinese town threw bricks at police who fired volleys of teargas and detained dozens in the country’s latest environmental dispute, residents say. [Guardian]

A few computer models have conjured up a storm of epic proportions for the mid-Atlantic and/or Northeast next week. But before anyone presses the panic button, other models keep the storm out to sea. [Weather Gang]

Circumstantial evidence suggests that something new is underway. A variation of El Niño has been detected in the central Pacific, well away from the ocean’s eastern edge where it is normally born. This phenomenon, known as El Niño Modoki (Japanese for “looks like, but slightly different from”), causes unusual effects—including a lowering of tide heights, a strengthening of waves, and a tendency to make storms move south. [Economist]

Climate change never emerged as a topic in the three presidential debates, disappointing greens who say President Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney have avoided discussing the issue. [The Hill]

Given the absence of the topic at the two preceding meetings between Obama and Romney, the close of Monday night’s event marked the first time in roughly a generation that climate change has failed to receive an airing at any of the presidential debates. [Huffington Post]

Nebraska agriculture faces serious consequences going into the 2013 growing season if drought conditions persist through the winter. [The Independent]

Across the nation’s Corn Belt, even as the worst drought in more than 50 years has destroyed what was expected to be a record corn crop and reduced yields to their lowest level in 17 years, farmland prices have continued to rise. [New York Times]

A study relating climate to conflict in East African nations finds that increased rainfall dampens conflict while unusually hot periods can cause a flare-up, reinforcing the theory that climate change will cause increased scarcity in the region. [Los Angeles Times]

More than two-thirds of UK citizens would rather have a wind turbine than a shale gas well near their home, according to a new opinion poll published on Tuesday. [Guardian]

Ikea Group, the biggest home- furnishings retailer, more than doubled planned spending on wind farms and solar parks to as much as $2 billion as increased use of renewable power protects it from volatile fossil-fuel prices. [Businessweek]

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