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Lack of int’l climate code lets Turkey off hook on emissions
Posted by Daily News: None Given on August 25th, 2014
Daily news: The absence of an international regime on climate change has enabled Turkey to enjoy a free ride on a development policy that is careless about emissions, according to an activist. ‘The collapse of the EU process is also the reason why Turkey gives less emphasis to climate change,’ says Ümit Sahin.
The major effect of climate change in Turkey is water stress and drought, says Ümit Sahin adding that all three phases of drought; meteorological, agricultural and hydrological, are seen in Turkey....
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Comments Off on Lack of int’l climate code lets Turkey off hook on emissionsGov Scott must acknowledge climate change threat
Posted by News-Press: Editorial on August 25th, 2014
News-Press: Gov. Rick Scott sat down with the scientists. We commend the governor for meeting with some of Florida's brightest minds on the threat of human-induced climate change and sea level rise. But we're disappointed to hear that the scientists left the meeting, well, disappointed.
As reported by the Miami Herald's Mary Ellen Klas, David Hastings, professor of marine science and chemistry at Eckerd College, said after the meeting, "There was no acknowledgment of the issue nor was there any reflection...
Unpacking unpaused global warming climate models got it right
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 25th, 2014
Guardian: Although the global climate has continued to build up heat at an incredibly rapid rate, there has been a keen focus among climate contrarians and in the media on the slowdown of the warming at the Earth’s surface. The slowdown is in fact a double cherry pick – it focuses only on the 2% of global warming that heats the atmosphere (over 90% heats the oceans), and it only considers the past 10–15 years. Nevertheless, because there was so much attention paid to the surface warming slowdown, the latest...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Unpacking unpaused global warming climate models got it rightSprinting Salmons Less Likely Survive Migration
Posted by Nature World: None Given on August 25th, 2014
Nature World: Sockeye salmon that are forced to use fast-moving waters to reach spawning grounds are at risk, a new study suggests.
Salmon often try to burst swim in rapid, turbulent waters. Burst swimming is comparable to sprinting in humans. These fish try to move upstream in fast-flowing waters, a behaviour that utilizes more oxygen than usual swimming methods.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia and colleagues conducted the study. The team tagged salmon with accelerometer transmitters....
Keystone XL Pipeline: EnbridgeTo Pump More Canadian Oil To US
Posted by Business Times: Maria Gallucci on August 25th, 2014
Business Times: Enbridge Inc. (NYSE:ENB) is steadily advancing plans to build a pipeline network akin to the Keystone XL. The Calgary company is progressing on at least two projects that will help it move more Canadian tar sands oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast, recently revealed documents and a federal ruling last week indicate.
In one project, Enbridge is proposing to switch crude oil from one pipeline to another before it crosses into the United States -- a move that enables the company to circumvent a lengthy federal...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Keystone XL Pipeline: EnbridgeTo Pump More Canadian Oil To USClimate change is real and happening in India
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 25th, 2014
Times of India: Ahead of the UN climate summit which is to be organized in New York on September 23 to give a political push to future negotiations, Indian scientists on Friday emphasized the need to take urgent steps to address the issue of climate change that has potential to adversely affect the country.
Taking stock of climate change and its implications for India, scientists from JNU, IIT Delhi, IARI and UCAS Bangalore highlighted country-specific points in the recent IPCC reports covering agriculture production,...
What the Anti-Fracking Movement Brings to the Climate Movement
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on August 24th, 2014
EcoWatch: These are my prepared remarks for a speech I gave at the Boston stop of the People’s Climate March tour, “Building a Movement of Movements: Towards the People’s Climate March in NYC.”
Hi, everyone. My name is Sandra Steingraber, and I inhabit the anti-fracking wing of the climate movement.
Only a few years ago, that sentence would have sounded strange, even to me, because the fight against fracking has its roots in another place.
Those who oppose natural gas extraction via fracking first...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on What the Anti-Fracking Movement Brings to the Climate MovementCuadrilla in legal bid to remove anti-fracking protesters
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 24th, 2014
BBC: An energy firm and 10 farmers have made a legal bid to remove an anti-fracking camp from a Lancashire site. About 20 protesters are believed to be on the Little Plumpton site near Blackpool, with the Reclaim the Power group recently using it as a base. Cuadrilla, which has applied to hydraulically fracture for shale gas at Preston New Road, served a "claim for possession against trespassers". It said the camp has had a "detrimental impact" on the landowner's business. A spokeswoman for the protest...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Cuadrilla in legal bid to remove anti-fracking protestersPolar ice sheets melting – in pictures
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 24th, 2014
Guardian: Ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica are melting three times faster today than they were in the 1990s, according to a 'definitive' study of satellite data. These pictures show the different ways that melting occurs
Up to 33 Bakken oil trains cross Arkansas weekly
Posted by Associated Press: Kelly P. Kissel on August 24th, 2014
Associated Press: Arkansas emergency officials' records show that as many as 33 trains carrying Bakken crude oil pass through the state in a given week, each one hauling more than the amount spilled in last year's Pegasus pipeline spill in Mayflower, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The oil trains do not use a Union Pacific rail line through Hoxie, where two freight trains collided head-on Aug. 17, killing two crew members. In June, the Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroads...