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Damage done to our climate can’t be changed, but we can adapt and mitigate
Posted by Delmarva Now: Editorial on September 22nd, 2013
Delmarva Now: “Better late than never” is a phrase that might be applied to our dawning understanding and acceptance of sea-level rise and its effects on our Delmarva Peninsula. For at least 20 years now warnings have periodically been raised about global warming.
These warnings have been met with mocking and disbelief for many years, and still are viewed in this light by many. Indeed, the phenomenon that is now also referred to as climate change is still met with skepticism by many.
It’s understandable...
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Comments Off on Damage done to our climate can’t be changed, but we can adapt and mitigateRutgers fish surveys show effects of climate change
Posted by Philadelphia Inquirer: Sandy Bauers on September 22nd, 2013
Philadelphia Inquirer: On a dark night in the middle of a wide marsh near Tuckerton, N.J., a team of Rutgers University researchers lowered a net over the railing of an old wooden bridge.
Then they turned off their flashlights and waited. Below, in Little Sheepshead Creek, the incoming tide was washing hundreds of tiny fish larvae into the net.
By now - 24 years after these weekly surveys began - Rutgers ichthyologist Ken Able is seeing the unmistakable effects of warming oceans and climate change.
Especially...
As China’s Largest Typhoon Strikes, Evidence Of Human-Caused Climate Change Mounts
Posted by Forbes: None Given on September 22nd, 2013
Forbes: In the South China Sea, the biggest typhoon in 30 years is bearing down on Hong Kong and southeast China’s most populous regions. Waves of 45 feet were reported with wind gusts up to 140 miles per hour. Guangdong province, home to 109 million inhabitants, most of them along the coast, will see around 10 inches of rain between Sunday evening and Monday afternoon.
And although the typhoon has lost its “super storm” status since touching ground in Taiwan Saturday, it will go down as the strongest...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on As China’s Largest Typhoon Strikes, Evidence Of Human-Caused Climate Change MountsWith Lakes Drying Up, Businesses Are Parched
Posted by New York Times: Jeff Beckham on September 22nd, 2013
New York Times: A late-summer day on the lake is as much a part of Austin’s culture as live music and breakfast tacos. But that part of this area’s identity suffered a blow on Labor Day when the lingering drought forced a longtime waterfront favorite to close its doors. Carlos’n Charlie’s, a Mexican restaurant and bar on the shores of Lake Travis that was open for nearly 20 years, shut down Sept. 2. The owners blamed a third consecutive year of dry weather. Central Texas lakes are at their lowest levels in more...
New ad challenges economic benefits of Keystone pipeline
Posted by USA Today: Fredreka Schouten on September 21st, 2013
USA Today: In a television commercial set to air today, billionaire climate-change activist Tom Steyer is launching a fresh line of attack against the Keystone XL pipeline by questioning its economic benefits.
The 90-second ad, provided to USA TODAY in advance of its first airing, is the third in a series of four commercials Steyer has funded as part of his effort to kill the pipeline. The 1,700-mile pipeline, which would carry heavy crude oil from the tar sands in Canada to Texas refineries, awaits approval...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on New ad challenges economic benefits of Keystone pipelineHorizontal drilling, fracking begins in old, shallow oil and gas fields
Posted by Post-Gazette: Anya Litvak on September 21st, 2013
Post-Gazette: If we could take a tiny glass elevator down the trajectory of a Marcellus Shale well, we would see slabs of coal, sandstone, shale and siltstone alternating and colliding with one another for thousands of feet until we finally reach the target rock.
Today, half a dozen local oil and gas companies are forgoing the full ride. They're getting off the elevator halfway down, before the Elk Sandstone formation that separates the conventional oil and gas reservoirs from the deeper, unconventional plays...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Horizontal drilling, fracking begins in old, shallow oil and gas fieldsClimate change: IPCC issues stark warning over global warming
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 21st, 2013
Guardian: Scientists will this week issue their starkest warning yet about the mounting dangers of global warming. In a report to be handed to political leaders in Stockholm on Monday, they will say that the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation have now led to a warming of the entire globe, including land surfaces, oceans and the atmosphere. Extreme weather events, including heatwaves and storms, have increased in many regions while ice sheets are dwindling at an alarming rate. In addition, sea levels...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Climate change: IPCC issues stark warning over global warmingHundreds Events “Draw the Line” Against Keystone XL & Tar Sands
Posted by Huffington Post: Jamie Henn on September 21st, 2013
Huffington Post: At over 200 events today -- from Alaska to Nebraska -- people are "Drawing the Line" against the Keystone XL pipeline, tar sands and other dirty energy projects. The day's events are being coordinated by the climate campaign 350.org with help from scores of partners. The demonstrations are a sign that while President Obama considers Keystone XL's fate, opposition to the pipeline has continued to grow. Over 1,500 people have already been arrested to stop Keystone XL, and on February 17 over 40,000...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Hundreds Events “Draw the Line” Against Keystone XL & Tar SandsWorsening Water Scarcity to Affect 2 Billion Globally
Posted by Climate News Network: Kieran Cooke on September 21st, 2013
Climate News Network: Water scarcity is a fact of life in many parts of the world, particularly in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. A new study says the situation could get a lot worse, with climate change resulting in less rain and more evaporation in many areas.
Warming will expose 668 million people worldwide to new or aggravated water scarcity -- that's in addition to the 1.3 billion people already at present living in water-scarce regions. Credit: Nourishing the Planet
The study, led by researchers at the...
Climate change ‘hiatus’: scientists seek to qualify evidence of apparent global warming slowdown
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 21st, 2013
Independent: Authors of a landmark UN report on climate change remain adamant that humans are heating up the planet by burning fossil fuels and cutting down CO2-absorbing forests, despite data from the report suggesting a purported slowdown in global warming over the past 15 years.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) full 127-page document - due for release in Stockholm next week - is expected to suggest the link between human activity and global warming is clearer than ever, regardless...
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