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Indonesia’s fires blamed potent greenhouse gases
Posted by Climate Central: John Upton on January 23rd, 2016
Climate Central: Indonesian fires that are expected to flare up again in the coming months may affect temperatures far away from the nation's watery borders.
Carbon dioxide and methane from the fires is already known to be accelerating global warming, and new research is linking high levels of another potent greenhouse gas with forest and peat fires in Indonesia and elsewhere.
Analysis of tropospheric data gathered using specially-modified jets during Guam-based missions has linked elevated levels of ozone...
Snow blankets Washington D.C. in potentially record-setting storm
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 23rd, 2016
Reuters: Thick snow covered the Washington D.C. area on Saturday as a potentially record-breaking blizzard paralyzed road, rail and airline travel on the U.S. East Coast from North Carolina to New York. More than 85 million people in at least 20 states were covered by a winter weather warning, watch or advisory, the Weather Channel said, and many stores were left with bare shelves as residents stocked up on food, water and wine, preparing to spend the weekend indoors. At least six people were killed in...
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Comments Off on Snow blankets Washington D.C. in potentially record-setting stormDawn of the Climate-Killing Megaproject
Posted by Tyee: Bill McKibben on January 23rd, 2016
Tyee: When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school, that your hair and your fingernails kept growing after you died. The lesson seemed to be that it was hard to kill something off -- if it wanted to keep going.
Something similar is happening right now with the fossil fuel industry. Even as the global warming crisis makes it clear that coal, natural gas, and oil are yesterday's energy, the momentum of two centuries of fossil fuel development means new...
Millions prepare potentially ‘paralyzing’ east coast winter storm
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 22nd, 2016
Guardian: Millions of people across a dozen states are bracing for a weekend of travel disruption, possible power outages and white-out conditions as a potentially “paralyzing winter storm” begins to bear down on the eastern US on Friday.
Washington DC is at the center of the blizzard’s aim. Forecasters have warned residents of the nation’s capital to brace for more than 30in of snow and wind gusts up to 50mph in some places. If predictions are accurate, snow totals in the District could shatter records...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Millions prepare potentially ‘paralyzing’ east coast winter stormLake Poopo: Bolivia’s second largest lake dries up due to climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 22nd, 2016
Independent: Bolivia’s second largest lake has disappeared, displacing hundreds if not thousands of people who depend on it for their livelihoods.
Lake Poopo was officially declared “evaporated” last month in what scientists have said serves as a warning about climate change.
The lake - which is situated more than 12,000 feet above sea level on the country’s Andean plains - has all but dried up before due to El Nino, but had rebounded to twice the size of Los Angeles.
But scientists say this time recovery...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Lake Poopo: Bolivia’s second largest lake dries up due to climate changeZona Politics: How Will Climate Change Affect Us in the Years To Come?
Posted by Tucson Weekly: Jim Nintzel on January 22nd, 2016
Tucson Weekly: On this week's episode of Zona Politics: UA College of Science Dean Joaquin Ruiz talks about climate change and previews the UA's Spring Lecture Series, Earth Transformed, Then Kacey Ernst, a UA associate professor of public health, joins me to talk about how climate change will impact human health, particularly when it comes to us here in the Southwestern United States. The Spring Lecture Series kicks off Monday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. at UA Centennial Hall, with UA geosciences professor talking about...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Zona Politics: How Will Climate Change Affect Us in the Years To Come?Melting Greenland ice sheet may affect global ocean circulation, future climate
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 22nd, 2016
ScienceDaily: Scientists from the University of South Florida, along with colleagues in Canada and the Netherlands, have determined that the influx of fresh water from the Greenland ice sheet is "freshening" the North Atlantic Ocean and could disrupt the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an important component of global ocean circulation that could have a global effect. Researchers say it could impact the future climate in places such as portions of Europe and North America. Their study on the...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Melting Greenland ice sheet may affect global ocean circulation, future climateThe Future of ‘Epic Blizzards’ in a Warming World
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 22nd, 2016
Climate Central: In case you haven't heard, Washington, D.C., and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region, are about to get walloped by a major storm that could bury the city in a record-breaking amount of snow.
The storm is expected to bring snows that could top 2 feet in the D.C. area and has already resulted in thousands of cancelled flights. While snows may not be quite as impressive further north, the storm's fierce winds could whip up significant coastal flooding.
Part of the reason this Snowzilla storm...
Map shows how Michigan’s lead problem extends far beyond the Flint water crisis
Posted by Grist: None Given on January 22nd, 2016
Grist: Flint is Michigan’s poster child for environmental disaster - a crisis that could have been avoided. As my colleague Raven Rakia has pointed out, lead exposure, which causes an array of health problems and is especially bad for children, is completely preventable. But that doesn’t mean that those responsible for public health do their jobs. In Flint, a city that’s nearly 60 percent black and where more than 42 percent of residents live below the poverty line, officials switched to a cheaper water...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Map shows how Michigan’s lead problem extends far beyond the Flint water crisisSorry! Winter Storm Jonas doesn’t make climate change a liberal hoax
Posted by Grist: None Given on January 22nd, 2016
Grist: Good news, folks! It turns out that climate change is a big ol` liberal hoax after all. Need proof? Just look out your window: If you`re anywhere east of Tupelo, you`re probably seeing a bunch of white stuff falling from the sky, compliments of Winter Storm Jonas. We call that "snow," and it proves once and for all that "global warming" is a conspiracy dreamed up by known communist Al Gore to bring down the world economy. Guess we can just pack up our desks and go home.
At least, that`s what America`s...
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