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Climate change ‘most existential crisis civilisation has known’, says DiCaprio
Posted by Guardian: Nigel M Smith on February 29th, 2016
Guardian: Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar on Sunday, after being nominated four times previously. The actor was expected to win after dominating the best actor race all season, winning a number of precursor awards including a Bafta. Still, he said the industry-wide support he’s received over the past few months “feels incredibly surreal”.
“This year in particular I was overwhelmed by the support from fans and people in the industry,” he said backstage at the ceremony, shortly after winning his best...
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Comments Off on Climate change ‘most existential crisis civilisation has known’, says DiCaprioOn Native Ground OIL Drilling in the Arctic: Ecological Disaster Waiting to Happen
Posted by American Reporter: Randolph T. Holhut on February 29th, 2016
American Reporter: Are we so desperate for one last big fix of oil, that we're willing to destroy one of the world's last pristine and unspoiled regions?
The answer seems to be yes.
The U.S. Geological Survey released a report last week stating that the region inside the Arctic Circle contains about one-fifth of the world's undiscovered, recoverable oil.
The USGS report, the most comprehensive survey ever of energy resources in the Arctic, found that there is an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil - or about...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on On Native Ground OIL Drilling in the Arctic: Ecological Disaster Waiting to HappenFor normally stoic farmers, stress of climate change can be too much to bear
Posted by Toronto Star: None Given on February 28th, 2016
Toronto Star: The wind was unusually strong, and it swept across Saskatchewan farmland without warning or mercy to canola farmers who had just cut and laid out their crops to dry. Kim Keller, 31, remembers the mid-September day clearly. It was 2012, her first year working back on the family’s 4,900-hectare grain farm in Gronlid, a hamlet about 200 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon. An auto insurance adjuster for the previous six years, Keller realized after a decade away that the farm is where she yearned to...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on For normally stoic farmers, stress of climate change can be too much to bearClimate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, experts
Posted by Toronto Star: None Given on February 28th, 2016
Toronto Star: As a provincial coroner and past palliative care physician, Dr. David Ouchterlony has seen suffering and death up close, experiences that have occasionally led to brief moments of sadness. But Ouchterlony describes such emotions as “trivial” compared to the dread he feels when thoughts about climate change linger, as they often do. He worries almost obsessively about a future he won’t see. How will younger generations be affected? Why are we failing to act on the threat?
“I was completely blind...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Climate change is wreaking havoc on our mental health, expertsEmissions Could Make Earth Uninhabitable
Posted by Climate News Network: Tim Radford on February 28th, 2016
Climate News Network: Greenhouse gases could tip the Earth-or at least a planet like Earth, orbiting a star very like the Sun-into a runaway greenhouse effect, according to new research.
The new hothouse planet would become increasingly steamy, and then start to lose its oceans to interplanetary space. Over time, it would become completely dry, stay at a temperature at least 60°C hotter than it is now, and remain completely uninhabitable, even if greenhouse gas levels could be reduced.
Max Popp, postdoctoral researcher...
Climate change map shows regions to be hit hardest
Posted by Comment: Faith Castro on February 27th, 2016
Comment: By developing this method, the global team of researchers has been able to map which areas are most sensitive to climate variability across the world. In a new study, a team of scientists developed a map that reveals which regions on Earth are more sensitive to climate variability.
He further mentions that over the last 14 years these areas have shown great sensitivity to climate variability, with amplified responses over time. Called the Vegetation Sensitivity Index (SV), the metric allows a...
The many signs of climate change in the far north
Posted by News-Miner: Ned Rozell on February 27th, 2016
News-Miner: In anticipation of an arctic science conference happening next month in Fairbanks, an editor asked me to write a column on climate change in the North.
I told her climate stability would be the bigger story, since basswood trees used to grow in Fairbanks and redwoods once dropped their cones into the Porcupine River. Climate is always changing.
But we have gotten much better at measuring those changes. We people and our scientific instruments have now occupied the top of the globe for long...
Scientists warn of the dangers of salt pollution of freshwaters if preventive measures are not taken
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 27th, 2016
ScienceDaily: An article published today in the journal Science warns of the dangers of increasing water salinity for human health and freshwater ecosystems (rivers, lakes, etc.) and the economic cost arising from a lack of public policies to tackle this problem. The study, prepared by an international team of scientists coordinated by the researcher Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, of the BETA research group of the University of Vic -- Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) and the FEM research group of the University...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Scientists warn of the dangers of salt pollution of freshwaters if preventive measures are not takenWilliam Mulholland Gave Water to LA and Inspired ‘Chinatown’
Posted by Daily Beast: None Given on February 27th, 2016
Daily Beast: Irish immigrant William Mulholland brought LA the water it needed to grow, even when he was accused of stealing it, and even when it cost the lives of almost 500 innocent people.
Mulholland? Sure, you say. I know that name. Isn’t it a twisty street somewhere in Los Angeles, and wasn’t Mulholland Drive the title of an eerie film by David Lynch? And didn’t Roman Polanski and Robert Towne’s movie Chinatown have a character with the sound-alike name of Hollis Mulwray, the L.A. city water engineer...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on William Mulholland Gave Water to LA and Inspired ‘Chinatown’TMT case returns to Land Board
Posted by Hawaii Tribune: Tom Callis on February 27th, 2016
Hawaii Tribune: A Hilo Circuit Court judge officially remanded the Thirty Meter Telescope’s land use permit this week, setting the stage for another review by the state Land Board and a new contested case hearing for the proposed project on Mauna Kea.
But first, a new hearings officer will need to be selected.
Dan Dennison, Department of Land and Natural Resources spokesman, said 11 people have applied for the job, and a screening committee selected by Chair Suzanne Case will review them for qualifications...