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Climate Panel Sees Global Warming Impacts on All Continents, Worse to Come
Posted by New York Times: Andrew C. Revkin on March 30th, 2014
New York Times: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest report on the impacts of global warming, projected changes under various scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions and options for limiting related risks. Justin Gillis, reporting from the meeting in Yokohama, Japan, where government officials from around the world signed off on the summary document over the weekend, has summarized the prime conclusions and statements of panel leaders. You can watch video of officials’ and authors’...
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Comments Off on Climate Panel Sees Global Warming Impacts on All Continents, Worse to ComeWashington community grieves growing toll US mudslide
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 30th, 2014
Reuters: Churches planned services on Sunday to offer prayers for the victims of last week's devastating mudslide in Washington state as the death toll from the disaster kept rising but the number of missing fell sharply.
The presumed body count rose to 28 on Saturday from the March 22 catastrophe northeast of Seattle, with the official tally of those killed now 18 based on bodies extricated and identified by medical examiners.
But despite the grim toll, news also came that the number of missing fell...
Scientists struggle complete climate impacts report
Posted by BBC: Matt McGrath on March 30th, 2014
BBC: Negotiators worked through the night here in Yokohama in an effort to complete their review of a key report on the impacts of climate change.
At stake is a dense 29-page summary detailing the effects of climate change on the planet over the next 100 years.
Several hundred members of the UN's climate panel have been deep in deliberations since Tuesday, with many sessions running very late.
The report is the first such assessment since 2007.
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Review Of West Virginia Water Finds More Work To Be Done
Posted by National Public Radio: Dave Mistich on March 29th, 2014
National Public Radio: This week, an independent team testing water quality at homes in West Virginia released some results, and met with residents. They found that small amounts of coal-cleaning chemical are still present in residents' water.
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Review Of West Virginia Water Finds More Work To Be DoneOfficials not keeping track of oil trains
Posted by CIN: James Pilcher on March 29th, 2014
CIN: Domestic oil production, including that in Ohio, keeps growing. And with oil being produced in new areas that don’t have pipelines, more crude is heading to refineries in rail cars. Yet neither federal nor state regulators track the shipments that are increasingly crisscrossing the country – potentially cutting through neighborhoods and business districts nationwide and in Greater Cincinnati.
Much of the oil apparently is more volatile than traditional crude, with some experts saying it is as...
Public Recruited to Research Australia’s Record Heat
Posted by Guardian: Oliver Milman on March 29th, 2014
Guardian: An international team of climate scientists is looking to recruit 10,000 members of the public to help find out the exact role greenhouse gases played in Australia's record temperatures last year.
The Weather@home ANZ project will use people's home computers to run a series of simulations based on the weather experienced in 2013, which has been confirmed as Australia's hottest year on record.
The summer of 2013 was Australia's hottest. Now scientists are enlisting citizens' extra computing...
The rich West is ruining our planet
Posted by Telegraph: Rowan Williams on March 29th, 2014
Telegraph: The storms that have battered parts of the UK this year and left hundreds of people facing the misery of flooded homes and ruined land have again brought questions about the impact of climate change to the forefront of the public consciousness. And this week the whole question has been put into still sharper focus, as the world's leading climate scientists publish a report on the subject putting our local problems into a deeply disturbing global context.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
What the Frack: The Latest Earthquake Swarms in Los Angeles
Posted by Examiner: None Given on March 29th, 2014
Examiner: Alone in the house last night at around 9pm, with 3 cats and deep into working on the computer, that queasy odd sudden dizzy feeling that often hits before an earthquake rattled my nerves seconds before the sound of rattling cabinets and sloshing water from the attic fire sprinkler system had me heading for the nearest door jam.
Largest in a series of latest Southern California earthquake swarms, last night’s 5.1 magnitude tremblor was centered between the cities of La Habra and Brea in Orange...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on What the Frack: The Latest Earthquake Swarms in Los AngelesWashington mudslide: 90 missing & 27 presumed dead as search continues
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 29th, 2014
Reuters: Families and friends of the 90 people still missing in the Washington state mudslide are bracing for a rise in the official death toll, as searchers ready for another day of slogging through mud-caked debris and the governor called for a statewide moment of silence.
"The number is so big and it's so negative. It's hard to grasp," said 66-year-old Bob Michajla, a volunteer who has been helping search part of the square-mile debris field. "These are all friends and neighbors and family. Everybody...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Washington mudslide: 90 missing & 27 presumed dead as search continuesWhite House unveils plans to cut methane emissions
Posted by New York Times: Coral Davenport on March 29th, 2014
New York Times: The Obama administration on Friday announced a strategy to start slashing emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas released by landfills, cattle, and leaks from oil and natural gas production.
The methane strategy is the latest step in a series of White House actions aimed at addressing climate change without legislation from Congress. Individually, most of the steps will not be enough to drastically reduce the United States' contribution to global warming. But the Obama administration...