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Snow Sparks Climate Change Debate In US
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 12th, 2010
Voice of America: Unprecedented blizzards in the eastern United States have triggered renewed debate about climate change, with some critics using the record snow to attack the concept of global warming. Some experts have been quick to point out that the extreme weather is consistent with a pattern of climate change. Record-breaking snows in the U.S. capital have proponents and skeptics of climate change in a heated debate. Many critics of the theory of global warming say the recent blizzards in ...
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Panel aims to find ‘new and innovative’ ways to fund climate adaptation
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 12th, 2010
Reuters: A new high-level panel of world leaders, bankers and finance and development experts will have until December to find ways to quickly raise billions of dollars to help developing nations deal with the impact of climate change, the U.N. Secretary-General said on Friday. The panel, led by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, is tasked with rapidly finding "new and innovative" ways of raising money to meet pledges made under the Copenhagen ...
Is Ethanol from Corn Bad for the Climate?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 12th, 2010
Scientific American: The Obama administration last week gave the green light to corn ethanol as a low-carbon renewable fuel – in apparent contradiction to California's declaration last summer that the biofuel's carbon footprint was too big to help the state mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Regulators and policy experts insist there's no conflict: Both rules match the science; it's simply a matter of what year you start counting emissions. Indeed, timing is everything: California looked at current ...
Food crisis looms, warn scientists
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 12th, 2010
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A new report by Australian researchers claims far more needs to be done if we're to feed the estimated 9 billion people who will be living on the planet by 2050. The report, by Professor Mark Tester and Professor Peter Langridge of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics at the University of Adelaide, appears today in the journal Science. "The simple fact is while food production has increased by 32 million tonnes a year, an annual increase of 44 million tonnes a ...
Despite rain, California still fighting over water
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 12th, 2010
Reuters: California has been deluged with rain and snow this winter, but its epic tug-of-war over water rages on, this time in the form of a plan by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein to divert more water to the state's farmers. Feinstein has infuriated environmental activists, fishing groups and even fellow California Democrats by drafting federal legislation that would ease Endangered Species Act restrictions to allow more water to be pumped out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta for ...