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World is on collision course with fossil fuels, Gov. Jerry Brown says
Posted by LA Times: Chris Megerian on July 9th, 2015
LA Times: After two days of rubbing shoulders with an international collection of politicians, Gov. Jerry Brown emerged from a climate-change conference here with new partnerships in the fight against global warming.
In a speech Wednesday to government officials and environmental advocates that capped his trip, the governor took aim at "troglodytes" who deny the threat of climate change, and insisted that all aspects of modern life must be scrutinized to save the planet.
"We have to redesign our cities,...
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Comments Off on World is on collision course with fossil fuels, Gov. Jerry Brown saysColombia coffee zones drier as El Niño conditions kicks in
Posted by Reuters: Peter Murphy on July 9th, 2015
Reuters: Colombia's coffee regions have been drier than usual for weeks as an El Nino weather anomaly takes effect and the crop will see less rainfall from now until harvest time, potentially limiting its size in a few areas, agronomists say.
The National Coffee Federation's top agronomist, Carlos Armando Uribe, said Wednesday the entity's estimate of a 12.5-13 million 60-kg bag crop was still realistic though the drier conditions would increase the threat of crop damage from pests.
"It's likely it...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Colombia coffee zones drier as El Niño conditions kicks inTom Selleck cast as villain of California drought in lawsuit alleging water theft
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 9th, 2015
Guardian: He possesses Hollywood’s lushest moustache – a thick, luxuriant growth which seems to enhance the virtue of the characters he plays on screen. The heroic private detective of Magnum PI, the honest police commissioner of Blue Bloods, the doting father of Three Men and a Baby, all bolstered by Tom Selleck’s facial foliage. But now the actor has been cast as a villain of Hollywood – for stealing truckloads of water to try and maintain a verdant ranch amid California’s drought. He allegedly looted...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Tom Selleck cast as villain of California drought in lawsuit alleging water theftCanada: B.C. watersheds at risk, according World Wildlife Fund report
Posted by Vancouver Sun: Stephen Hume on July 9th, 2015
Vancouver Sun: Three of British Columbia’s four major watersheds are at high or moderate risk from the threats posed by climate change and fragmenting wildlife habitat, according to a new national report from the well-regarded World Wildlife Fund.
It says the Fraser, B.C.’s largest and longest river, draining an area which by itself is larger than 38 of Europe’s countries, is at high risk overall because of pollution, habitat fragmentation and the presence of invasive species in the watershed. These risks are...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Canada: B.C. watersheds at risk, according World Wildlife Fund reportRecord warmth continues to bake US West
Posted by Climate Central: Andrea Thompson on July 9th, 2015
Climate Central: The U.S. West is still baking. The temperatures for June are in and five Western states saw their warmest June ever (helping to make the month the second warmest June for the contiguous U.S.), and four continue to see their warmest year-to-date, just as 2015 hits the halfway mark.
In drought-plagued California, "we're beating the record set just last year' and "not by a razor thin margin,' Daniel Swain, a PhD student at Stanford University, said.
The huge area of considerable warmth in the...
Internal Documents Expose Fossil Fuel Industry’s Decades of Deception on Climate Change
Posted by EcoWatch: None Given on July 9th, 2015
EcoWatch: Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse created a stir recently when he speculated that fossil fuel companies may be violating federal racketeering law by colluding to defraud the public about the threat posed by carbon pollution. Whitehouse likened their actions to those of the tobacco companies that conspired to manufacture doubt about the link between smoking and disease when they were all too aware of it. In 2006, a federal district court ruled that the tobacco industry’s deceptive campaign to...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 9th, 2015
National Geographic: As Saddam Hussein drained Iraq's famed marshes to punish the rebellious tribesmen who lived in them, Amjad Mohamed packed his few possessions, grabbed his fishing rod, and fled south to Basra with his extended family.
For 12 years, they lived in one of the poor, neglected neighborhoods on the outskirts of Iraq's second largest city. He worked as a laborer in the oil fields and tried his hand at catching fish in nearby streams.
All the while, though, Mohamed dreamed of returning home, and when...
Governor of drought-parched Oregon to order water usage review
Posted by Reuters: Shelby Sebens on July 8th, 2015
Reuters: Oregon's governor plans to order state agencies to review their water usage and to draft strategies to conserve water in the parched state, following similar moves in neighboring drought-stricken California, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Governor Kate Brown plans to issue the directive later this month and asked residents of the West Coast state on Wednesday to conserve water and for state agencies to help raise awareness of drought conditions, her office said. "Drought is a slow moving disaster,"...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Governor of drought-parched Oregon to order water usage reviewWhy This Tea Party Congressman Wants Stop Debating Whether Climate Change Is Real Or Not
Posted by ThinkProgress: None Given on July 8th, 2015
ThinkProgress: For a Republican from Florida, Rep. Curt Clawson does not sound like a Republican from Florida - at least when it comes to human-caused climate change.
At a Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, the freshman Tea Party Congressman seemed to part ways with his colleagues on the polarizing issue. Instead of denying the science behind climate change, Clawson said he`d rather not have that debate, and instead talk about solutions.
"All the chatter about is climate change real or not,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Why This Tea Party Congressman Wants Stop Debating Whether Climate Change Is Real Or NotWild fish ecosystems resist impact of biodiversity loss
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 8th, 2015
ScienceDaily: New mathematics model shows that as the fish diversity of complex marine food webs declines, fish production resists the change, masking ultimate rapid loss Fish are a main protein source for over a billion people worldwide and is one of the most traded food commodities. However, many commercial fisheries have become unsustainable due to practices such as overfishing and habitat destruction. A study conducted by the National University of Singapore (NUS), Queen's University Belfast (UK), the Marine...
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