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No Dash for Gas continues stand-off against police
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 31st, 2012
Guardian: The stand-off between climate change protesters perched high on two power station chimneys and police encircling the plant below is continuing in spite of high winds.
Clinging to metal railings near the top of the 91m (300ft) water cooling tower at EDF's new gas-fired power station at West Burton in Nottingamshire, the group said that they were concentrating on stopping their tarpaulin shelter from blowing away.
After tweeting a dawn picture of the second occupied chimney with the River Trent...
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Climate Change And Natural Disasters Related, Most Americans Say: Poll
Posted by Huffington Post: Emily Swanson on October 31st, 2012
Huffington Post: Climate scientists have warned that more frequent hurricanes may be related to climate change, and a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds that half of Americans think that climate change is indeed related to more frequent and severe natural disasters, although they are more divided on whether Hurricane Sandy specifically was related to global warming.
According to the new survey, conducted Oct. 29-30, 51 percent of Americans say climate change is related to more frequent and severe natural disasters,...
Climate Change and Historic Superstorm Sandy
Posted by Democracy Now!: Amy Goodman on October 31st, 2012
Democracy Now!: Superstorm Sandy has pounded the East Coast, bringing massive flooding and damage that’s left at least 16 people dead in the United States, killed more than 60 in the Carribean, and left more than seven million without power from North Carolina to Massachusetts. Parts of New York City were submerged under water as high as 13 feet, flooding a number of subway stations and causing blackouts. Sandy made landfall in New Jersey Monday night near Atlantic City after being downgraded to a post-tropical...
Green Party Presidential Candidate Detained After Helping Keystone XL Tree Sitters
Posted by EcoWatch: Tar Sands Blockade on October 31st, 2012
EcoWatch: Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein has been detained while resupplying Keystone XL tree sitters.
As Hurricane Sandy pushes further inland to devastate Appalachia and Canada, three women from New England, including Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein, are risking arrest to highlight the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline`s connection to extreme weather events and climate change. Dr. Stein, a Massachusetts resident, is resupplying tree sitters in Winnsboro, Texas as two...
Use ‘hydro-diplomacy’ to avert future water conflict – experts
Posted by AlertNet: Thin Lei Win on October 31st, 2012
AlertNet: Population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation and climate change are putting pressure on the world's river basins, and "hydro-diplomacy' is essential if water-related conflicts are to be avoided, experts said on Wednesday. Cooperation between countries and between different groups within countries, as well as improved political will and the larger participation of societies could help defuse tensions over water and improve governance of water resources, the experts said at a conference in Chiang...
Bananas may grow important as food source amid global warming
Posted by Voice of Russia: None Given on October 31st, 2012
Voice of Russia: Bananas are likely to become an important food source for millions of people amid global warming, experts of the UN Committee on World Food Security point out in a report.
According to their forecast, the production of staple foods, such as maize, rice and wheat, is likely to go down in many developing countries.
Other crops may also replace the foodstuffs that we are used to, for example those making their home in South Asia may substitute cassava for wheat.
Three ways climate change made Hurricane Sandy worse
Posted by National Public Radio: Terrence Henry on October 31st, 2012
National Public Radio: It’s tempting to look at a colossal storm like Sandy - the lives lost, the millions without power - and lay the blame completely on climate change. But Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, says it`s not that simple.
“We can never say one specific event is because of climate change, but what we can say is that climate change has altered the background conditions over which these events occur," Hayhoe tells us. A hurricane at this time of year, for...
Al Gore calls Sandy a ‘disturbing sign of things to come,’ urges climate action
Posted by The Hill: Ben Geman on October 31st, 2012
The Hill: Al Gore said Tuesday that Hurricane Sandy is a “disturbing sign of things to come” in a warming world and should prompt action to curb greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
“We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather,” the former vice president said in a statement on his website.
Gore cited Sandy, which slammed ashore late Monday, and smaller-scale flooding in his hometown of Nashville two years ago, noting “both storms were...
United States: Environmental impact statement needed for coal terminal, opponents say
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 31st, 2012
Bloomberg: A proposed Puget Sound terminal that would ship millions of tons of coal to Asia drew opposition from most speakers Oct. 27, with many opponents at a public meeting calling for a broader environmental impact statement analyzing impacts stretching from Montana strip mines to Chinese smoke stacks. Some 1,800 people attended the first of a series of seven scoping meetings on the Gateway Pacific Terminal, which would be located about 12 miles south of the Canadian border. The site is just north of Bellingham,...
Asia’s mega-cities badly exposed to superstorms
Posted by Agence France-Presse: Richard Ingham and Mariette Le Roux on October 31st, 2012
Agence France-Presse: The hammer blow dealt to New York by superstorm Sandy should raise the alarm for coastal mega-cities in Asia which are more exposed but less equipped to deal with such threats, experts said on Tuesday.
New York was able to draw on top-level civil engineering, good governance and the world's richest economy as it faced a once-in-a-century event.
But that is not the case for many cities that have risen, often anarchically, on a coastal arc from China to the Arabian Sea, luring millions in search...