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Louisville starts efforts to adapt to harsher climes
Posted by Courier-Journal: None Given on October 14th, 2012
Courier-Journal: Deadly tornadoes, freak windstorms, crippling ice, torrential downpours, unrelenting heatwaves and flash flooding that swallows streets and homes — Louisville’s recent weather has become a roller coaster of extremes. In the past four years, four weather-related disasters have been declared for Louisville, two for Southern Indiana and 11 total for Kentucky, costing the Federal Emergency Management Agency more than $700 million in damage reimbursements and mitigation grants. Whether it’s an example...
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Causes aside, many believe Louisville area is already feeling impact of global warming
Posted by Courier-Journal: None Given on October 14th, 2012
Courier-Journal: Until a relentless heat baked Louisville with 10 days over 100 degrees this summer, Bellarmine University wellness teacher Chris Catt was skeptical about global warming.
But now, “I’m a believer,” he says — so much so that he is organizing a tree-planting campaign for his Dundee Estates neighborhood because he noticed that it was so much hotter there than just three blocks away, where towering shade trees line the roads.
“The lack of shade became really obvious,” he said. “It became unbearable...
Give us a mandate for what America needs: a Green New Deal
Posted by Guardian: Jill Stein on October 14th, 2012
Guardian: President Obama and Governor Romney are talking a lot about how they're going to save the economy. But it doesn't take a genius to recognize that what they're saying is only talk. The debates are an opportunity for them to broadcast campaign promises, but where is the accountability, when past promises have already been left in the dust?
Romney's fairytale features tax breaks for the wealthy, deregulation and more dirty energy. He promises 12m new jobs, but has no plan to get us there. His track...
Lower lake levels could hurt region, industry
Posted by Medill News Service: Anthony Raap on October 14th, 2012
Medill News Service: Climate change is expected to drop water levels in the Great Lakes, affecting industry and the region.
Levels could drop anywhere from a few inches to several feet as water evaporates in the drought conditions, experts said Wednesday.
Extreme weather will become more commonplace. Heat waves will be more severe. Drought will be more frequent, said Don Wuebbles, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois.
Those are local impacts of climate change that are already occurring,...
A climate change call to arms
Posted by Boston Globe: David Sleeper and Pamela H. Templer on October 14th, 2012
Boston Globe: THE OFFICIAL START OF WINTER may still be more than two months away, but in New England, we should be watching the long-term forecasts. Despite predictions for a snowy winter, the season's temperatures have been rising over the long term. And the implications of climate change for this region's economy -- including how we play on and earn our livings from the snow -- are enormous.
For more than five decades, the changing face of winter has been studied by scientists...