RSS Feed
Archive for December 17th, 2012
In Dominica, Diminished Rivers Among Climate Change’s Effects
Posted by Inter Press Service: Desmond Brown on December 17th, 2012
Inter Press Service: Eighty-year-old Rupert Lawrence has been living in the Dominica capital, Roseau, for nearly 60 years. Like visitors to the island, he too is fascinated by the fact that the town square has a river running right through its centre.
Sitting on his veranda on River Street overlooking the Roseau River, Lawrence recalled the words of many visitors who would remark that until then, they had never seen a river in the centre of town. But over the years, Lawrence has witnessed the transformation of the...
Posted in 
Another Study Predicts Extreme Eastern U.S. Climate – Climate Change
Posted by AccuWeather: None Given on December 17th, 2012
AccuWeather: A new study from the University of Tennessee indicates that the eastern United States will be hotter and much wetter by the middle of the century.
Heat waves will become more severe in most regions of the Northeast and Southeast U.S. with a sharp increase in precipitation, which would obviously lead to more widespread, severe flooding events.
Harnessing supercomputing power of UT's Kraken and Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Jaguar (now Titan, the fastest in the world), the researchers...
Fracking lobbyists prepare case against Matt Damon’s Promised Land
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 17th, 2012
Guardian: Hollywood's discovery of fracking has caused some unease in the oil and gas industry – even in the midst of America's energy boom.
A leading lobby group, Energy in Depth, has put out a "cheat sheet" of pro-fracking talking points to counter any bad publicity that may arise following the release of the new Matt Damon film, Promised Land. The film, directed by Gus Van Sant, stars Damon as a gas company salesman who travels the dying towns of the American heartland, buying up drilling rights from...
What leaked IPCC report really says on climate change
Posted by New Scientist: Michael Marshall and Fred Pearce on December 17th, 2012
New Scientist: A draft of a major report on climate change, due to be published next year, has been leaked online.
Climate sceptics immediately claimed it contains an admission that much of global warming is a result of the sun's variability, not greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, the report says nothing of the sort. It does, however, show that our understanding of the climate is shifting. And while some future threats now seem less likely, others loom larger.
The report is the latest from the Intergovernmental...
100 Leading Medical, Scientific Experts Urge Obama Administration to Halt Fracking for Exports
Posted by EcoWatch: Physicians, Scientists and Engineers For Healthy Energy on December 17th, 2012
EcoWatch: Moving ahead rapidly with plans to approve several new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals would require "a rapid increase in fracking in the United States without credible science" and "could potentially cause undue harm to many Americans," according to 107 experts who signed on to a petition sent last week to the White House.
Facilitated by Physicians, Scientists & Engineers for Healthy Energy (PSE), the petition is a response to the Obama Administration`s consideration of fast tracking...