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Report says warming is changing US daily life
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 12th, 2013
Associated Press: Global warming is already changing America from sea to rising sea and is affecting how Americans live, a massive new federally commissioned report says.
A special panel of scientists convened by the government issued Friday a 1,146-page draft report that details in dozens of ways how climate change is already disrupting the health, homes and other facets of daily American life. It warns that those disruptions will increase in the future.
"Climate change affects everything that you do," said...
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Experts Fear Collapse of Global Civilisation
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 12th, 2013
Inter Press Service: Experts on the health of our planet are terrified of the future. They can clearly see the coming collapse of global civilisation from an array of interconnected environmental problems. Poor communities are hit hardest by extreme weather events. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS "We`re all scared," said Paul Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. "But we must tell the truth about what`s happening and challenge people to do something to prevent it," Ehrlich told...
Geothermal takes a technological step forward
Posted by San Francisco Chronicle: Jeff Barnard on January 12th, 2013
San Francisco Chronicle: Geothermal energy developers working on the flanks of an ancient Oregon volcano say they have taken an important technological step toward expanding geothermal energy from a small niche into a potential major source of homegrown power, but more work needs to be done.
AltaRock Energy, Inc., of Seattle, says the data is still being analyzed, but they are confident they have created three geothermal reservoirs from a single well where none existed before. The breakthrough solves two problems holding...
Bushfires rage on in Australia ‘helped’ by climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 12th, 2013
BBC: Australian firefighters are continuing to tackle more than 100 bushfires, which have gutted houses and thousands of hectares of land.
Officials say temperatures are lower than feared, but gusty winds are making it hard to contain the blazes in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
Six people have been treated for heat exposure, but nobody has died.
A government commission says the heatwave and fires have been exacerbated by global warming.
"Climate change is increasing the risk of more...
Australia fights hundreds of fires, heat
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 12th, 2013
United Press International: Firefighters battled roaring blazes in extreme hot weather Saturday as hundreds of wildfires blackened parts of southeastern Australia, officials said.
The danger was said to be serious in Victoria and Tasmania but New South Wales has so far had the worst of the fires, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Firefighters worked through the night to combat more than 100 bush fires in that state as hot, gusty conditions are forecast for Sunday.
More than 100 firefighters were working a...
Nation already feeling backlash of unchecked climate change
Posted by News Journal: None Given on January 12th, 2013
News Journal: A new national report flatly declared Friday that global climate change “is already affecting the American people” – making seasons hotter and drier, whipping up more furious storms and floods and threatening global ecosystems and every aspect of human activity.
“Evidence for climate change abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans,” said the draft National Climate Assessment, which is issued every four years.
In an opening to the 1,146-page document, described as...