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Florida counties band together to ready for warming’s effects
Posted by Yale Environment 360: Michael D. Lemonick on January 12th, 2012
Yale Environment 360: If you worry about the looming risk posed by climate change, it’s easy to start feeling hopeless. Last month, the UN’s COP-17 climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, ended with little more than a commitment to keep working toward a new agreement to limit emissions, which might or might not eventually be ratified. In the U.S., at the national level, many politicians won’t even talk about climate change. Many of those who do it claim they’re not convinced -- even though the vast majority of climate...
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Urban population boom threatens Lake Titicaca
Posted by Guardian: Sara Shahriari on January 12th, 2012
Guardian: South America's most famous lake is being polluted by increasing levels of waste from fast-growing cities, according to locals, environmentalists and politicians.
Lake Titicaca, which sits on the border of Bolivia and Peru, has sustained agricultural societies on the dry, high-altitude Andean plains for thousands of years, but is now threatened by a population boom from nearby cities and towns.
El Alto has grown at 4% a year for two decades as rural peasants seek a better life, and is now the...
Threat of new deadline cranks up pressure on Obama over Keystone XL
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 12th, 2012
Business Green: The scale of the political challenge facing President Obama as he weighs up whether or not to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline was hammered home yesterday, after it emerged that Congressional Republicans were working on plans that look set to ensure the issue remains in the spotlight right up to November's election.
The controversial payroll tax bill passed by Congress late last year has set the President a deadline of 21 February to approve the proposed pipeline linking carbon intensive...
Warmer summers cause colder winters, scientists say
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 12th, 2012
Reuters: Warmer summers in the far Northern Hemisphere are disrupting weather patterns and triggering more severe winter weather in the United States and Europe, a team of scientists say, in a finding that could improve long-range weather forecasts.
Blizzards and extreme cold temperatures in the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11 caused widespread travel chaos in parts of Europe and the United States, leading some to question whether global warming was real.
Judah Cohen, lead author of a study published...