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Worsening Drought Conditions Due To Global Warming Overestimated
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 18th, 2012
RedOrbit: Reports claiming that the climate change has caused global drought conditions to intensify over the past several decades are flawed and based on faulty calculations, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Nature.
According to Anna Salleh of ABC News Australia the researchers report in their study that the 2007 4th Assessment Report (AR4) by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "overestimated" reports of an increase of drought conditions throughout the world....
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Billions spent on flood barriers now might save New York later
Posted by Bloomberg: Ken Wells and Mark Drajem on November 18th, 2012
Bloomberg: Could a surge-protection barrier have saved New York City from much of the flood ravages of superstorm Sandy?
Malcolm Bowman and other hydrologists are convinced it could have.
Bowman, an oceanographer who has spent much of a 40-year career warily watching the tidal flows in and around New York Harbor, recalls being on the construction site of Manhattan's South Ferry subway station a few years ago.
"It was just a concrete box underground then," said Bowman,, then an observer filming a documentary....
Climate for fracking
Posted by New York Daily News: None Given on November 18th, 2012
New York Daily News: Good news on the climate-change front: A shift from coal to natural gas by U.S. power plants -- made possible by the drilling technology known as fracking -- has cut the nation’s planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions by 500 megatons a year.
According to Foreign Policy magazine, that’s roughly double the impact of all the climate-change agreements signed everywhere in the world over the past 20 years. Combined.
What’s more, complying with those treaties has added a whopping $250 billion to...
Ben Fogle: killing rhinos has to stop
Posted by Telegraph: Ben Fogle on November 18th, 2012
Telegraph: Max was just a few days old when he was orphaned. An endangered Southern White rhino, his mother had been killed by poachers, murdered for her horn.
Aged two weeks and alone in the world, he was rescued by a team headed by Ian Craig, a renowned conservationist who helped found the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya. Max was blindfolded and his ears plugged with cotton wool to keep him calm for the journey to his new home at the fenced reserve.
Max was then hand-reared by a dedicated...
Predicted US oil glut a boon to those who move it
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 18th, 2012
Reuters: Railroads, pipeline companies and refiners stand to do especially well from a U.S. drilling bonanza that is upending the energy trade balance for the world's largest economy.
An anticipated surge in U.S. oil output to the highest levels in the world would give a boost to those who move crude to where it can be turned into finished products and even shipped abroad.
Shares of pipeline companies Kinder Morgan, Williams Cos Inc and Energy Transfer Equity have slipped in recent weeks. But all three...