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UN climate change chief won’t apologise for glacier claim
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
Telegraph: Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said the assertion in its 2007 report had "cost us dear' in the fight against global warming and helped boost the efforts of sceptics. Despite the IPCC previously admitting it had made a mistake in its assessment on climate change, Dr Pachauri refused to personally apologise for the error because he was not responsible for that part of the report. In an interview published on Wednesday, the ...
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Jamaica: Wetland warning
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
Jamaica Gleaner: Global warming could lead to Palisadoes going under water if Jamaicans do not take care of the wetlands, an expert from the Port Royal Marine Laboratory has warned. The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) yesterday used Jamaica's observance of World Wetlands Day as an opportunity to increase the public's awareness of wetlands. The agency and lab officials provided attendees with insight into wetlands, also known as swamps, during a visit to the University of the ...
Climate scientists withheld Yamal data despite warnings from senior colleagues
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
Guardian: It seems hard to believe that a handful of tree trunks dragged from frozen bogs in Siberia could undermine the argument about man-made climate change. But that is the claim that has been made by sceptics in recent months. The claim is wide of the mark, but in the 1,073 emails stolen from the University of East Anglia last November the row over the trees and what they tell us about climate change is played out in detail. The scientists are shown clinging to their data to prevent it ...
Climate change effects on prairies studied
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
United Press International: Scientists say the loss of wetlands due to climate change across central North American prairies will negatively affect millions of waterfowl. The researchers said they've discovered the region is much more sensitive to climate warming than previously thought, posing a bleak future for waterfowl that depend on wetlands for food, shelter and the raising of their young. "The impact to the millions of wetlands that attract countless ducks to these breeding grounds in spring makes ...
United Arab Emirates: Protection of wetlands key to human survival
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
Khaleej Times: Protection of wetlands is key to human survival and UAE plays a central role in this endeavour, a panel of scientists observed at the World Wetlands Day seminar organised by Dubai Municipality (DM). Being a crucial stopover junction for thousands of migratory birds from across the world, wetlands in the UAE play a key role in the survival of hundreds of avian species as well as other forms of life, environmentalists stressed at the conference themed 'Caring for wetlands -- and answer ...
Eight out of 10 UK ponds in a ‘terrible state’, says study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
Guardian: Eight out of 10 ponds in Britain are in a "terrible state", according to the biggest ever survey of the country's nature-rich small water pools. England, Scotland and Wales are thought to have about half a million public "ponds", from tarns in the Lake District and wild mountain pools to patches of water on village greens. But mostly as a result of pollution from farmland, roads and villages, the study by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the charity Pond Conservation ...
Global warming good for trees, bad for ducks: studies
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
Agence France-Presse: Global warming is good news for trees, which are thriving in higher temperatures and longer growing seasons, but bad news for ducks and other waterfowl, whose wetland habitat may dry up and disappear, two studies show. A study by researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Maryland indicates that higher temperatures, longer growing seasons and increased levels of carbon dioxide brought by climate change are helping trees in temperate climates to grow ...
The Amazon Is Not Eternal
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
Inter Press Service: The Amazon jungle "is very close to a tipping point," and if destruction continues, it could shrink to one third of its original size in just 65 years, warns Thomas Lovejoy, world-renowned tropical biologist. Climate change, deforestation and fire are the drivers of this potential Amazonian apocalypse, according to Lovejoy, biodiversity chair at the Washington DC-based Heinz Centre for Science, Economics and the Environment, and chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World ...
The Amazongate fiasco
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
Mongabay: A claim published in the Sunday Times over the veracity of a statement published in an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report may land the British newspaper in hot water. On Sunday, Jonathan Leake, Science & Environment Editor of the Sunday Times, accused the IPCC of making a "bogus rainforest claim" when it cited a report warning that up to 40 percent of the Amazon could be "drastically" affected by climate change. Climate change skeptics immediately seized on ...
U.S. should not punish Canada’s oilsands: Envoy
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 3rd, 2010
Canwest News Service: Canadian ambassador Gary Doer on Wednesday cautioned United States policy-makers against imposing punitive climate-change measures against Alberta's oilsands, saying Ottawa's decision to adopt identical greenhouse-gas emissions targets has strengthened Canada's opposition to American states planning to target carbon-intensive fuels. The Harper government's decision to align its emissions target with the Obama administration's goal is "useful," Doer said, in Canada's ongoing battle ...