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Climate change could have link with terrorism, UN chief Ban Ki-moon tells CBC
Posted by CBC: None Given on November 28th, 2015
CBC: The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the attacks in Paris can't overshadow efforts to reach a climate change agreement at next week's summit.
He also warns in an exclusive interview with CBC News of a possible link between climate change and terrorism.
"When we do not address climate change properly it may also affect many people who are frustrated and who are impacted, then there is some possibility that these young people who [are] jobless and frustrated may join these foreign terrorist...
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Comments Off on Climate change could have link with terrorism, UN chief Ban Ki-moon tells CBCAhead of climate summit, French use emergency laws to put activists under house arrest
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 28th, 2015
Reuters: France has put 24 green activists under house arrest ahead of the United Nations climate talks, using emergency laws put in place following the Paris shootings, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Saturday.
Cazeneuve said the activists were suspected of planning violent protests at the talks which kick off on Sunday, a day ahead of the opening ceremony, and run until Dec. 11.
The conference, also dubbed COP21, is seeking to agree a deal that signals a break with a rising reliance on...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Ahead of climate summit, French use emergency laws to put activists under house arrestGlobal warming: The great thaw
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 28th, 2015
Washington Post: The river of ice that hugs Mount Grinnell’s high ridges is neither big nor particularly beautiful, but it may be the most accessible glacier in all of North America. In as little as three hours, an average hiker can traverse the mountain’s well-groomed trail to plant a foot on a frozen relic of the Little Ice Age.
But if you want to see it, you’d better hurry. Grinnell Glacier is disappearing -- fast.
This crescent-shaped glacier in Montana’s northern Rockies had been contracting for decades...
UN chief warns climate change link with terrorism
Posted by CBC: None Given on November 28th, 2015
CBC: UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon says the attacks in Paris can't overshadow efforts to reach a climate change agreement at next week's summit.
He also warns in an exclusive interview with CBC News of a possible link between climate change and terrorism.
"When we do not address climate change properly it may also affect many people who are frustrated and who are impacted, then there is some possibility that these young people who [are] jobless and frustrated may join these foreign terrorist...
Central Valley is sinking: drought forces farmers to ponder abyss
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 28th, 2015
Guardian: On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads.
This is the hidden disaster of California’s drought. So much water has been pumped out of the ground that vast areas of the Central Valley are sinking, destroying millions of dollars in infrastructure in the gradual collapse.
Four years of...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Central Valley is sinking: drought forces farmers to ponder abyssRacing Extinction: “Half of all species will be gone in 100 years”
Posted by Telegraph: India Sturgis on November 28th, 2015
Telegraph: Thirty years ago, Louie Psihoyos watched in horror as two young children were killed a few steps in front of him. On a blue-sky day near a market in Perkiomen, Pennsylvania, he noticed a family walking hand-in-hand beside the road ahead of him.
A large van swept past and he saw that one of its giant wing mirrors was going to hit one of the children as it headed towards them. Psihoyos shouted, but it was too little too late. Both children were dragged beneath the van’s wheels and crushed.
“They...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Racing Extinction: “Half of all species will be gone in 100 years”California may be a leader on climate change, but it still has plenty of work to do
Posted by Grist: Kate Galbraith on November 28th, 2015
Grist: When Gov. Jerry Brown arrives in Paris next week for a major international conference on climate change, he will showcase one of the world’s most sweeping programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
California has perhaps the most comprehensive cap-and-trade program in the world, setting a limit and a price for pollution from factories, utilities, and transportation fuels. The state’s 2030 goals of getting half of its electricity from renewable sources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 40...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on California may be a leader on climate change, but it still has plenty of work to doFlorida counties fight fracking push
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 28th, 2015
Associated Press: Dozens of Florida cities and counties oppose a plan to give the state control over the oil and gas exploration process known as fracking. The Tallahassee Democrat (http://on.tdo.com/1Hv8W9C ) reported on Saturday that 20 counties and nearly 40 cities in Florida have passed regulations banning fracking. The cities and counties represent about 8 million people or 43 percent of the state's population. Two Republican legislators, Rep. Ray Rodrigues of Estero and Sen. Garrett Richter of Naples, have...
African Countries Feeling Exposed Extreme Weather Changes
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 28th, 2015
Inter Press Service: Extreme weather conditions, an impact of climate change faced by African countries despite contributing the least global emissions, is attracting the attention of many as the clock ticks towards the start of the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21).
Severe weather events are causing significant loss of life and livelihoods among communities in Africa. The situation is a major challenge to African governments given that the probability of occurrence of events is continuously...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on African Countries Feeling Exposed Extreme Weather ChangesEating less meat isn’t just good for you, it could save the planet
Posted by Guardian: Adam Briggs on November 28th, 2015
Guardian: National dietary guidelines are being reviewed on both sides of the Atlantic in the light of new evidence on food and health. The timing of the announcements presents a unique opportunity to also consider the impact of diet on climate change, coinciding, as they do, with the climate change summit in Paris.
Food and climate change are inextricably linked: global warming and changes in rainfall have a major impact on our food security, and our diets are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions....
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