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Global food crisis will worsen as heatwaves damage crops, research finds
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 13th, 2013
Guardian: The world's food crisis, where 1 billion people are already going hungry and a further 2 billion people will be affected by 2050, is set to worsen as increasing heatwaves reverse the rising crop yields seen over the last 50 years, according to new research.
Severe heatwaves, such as those currently seen in Australia, are expected to become many times more likely in coming decades due to climate change. Extreme heat led to 2012 becoming the hottest year in the US on record and the worst corn crop...
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Australia wrestles with climate change
Posted by Financial Times: Kate Mackenzie on January 13th, 2013
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Climate Change Already Impacting US Citizens, Report Claims
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 13th, 2013
RedOrbit: A 1,000-plus page draft report compiled by US government scientists warns global warming is already having a notable impact on the day-to-day lives of Americans, disrupting their health and their homes, among other things, various media outlets reported on Saturday.
According to AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, the 1,146-page National Climate Assessment, which was commissioned by the federal government, “details in dozens of ways how climate change” is negatively impacting the lives of American...
Ecuador’s disappearing glaciers
Posted by Latinamerica Press.: None Given on January 13th, 2013
Latinamerica Press.: Ecuador has lost 30 percent of its snowcaps in the last three decades, and if global warming continues at this rate, in 70 years they will disappear completely. This is what points out the Project for Adaptation to the Impact of Receding Glaciers in the Tropical Andes, or PRAA, of the Andean Community. “Climate change is causing dramatic impact to glaciers at the global level,” affirmed the PRAA. “Temperature variations in the Andes will reduce ice coverage and alter glacial runoff, eventually...
Sea level rise a disaster many decades in the making
Posted by Adelaide Now: Editorial on January 13th, 2013
Adelaide Now: THE plight of the River Murray has shown how environmental disaster can be allowed to sneak up on us despite ample warning, and opportunity for those charged with planning the future, to take preventative action.
A prolonged drought threatened to be the straw that broke the river system's back, but the cause of the potential disaster was 100 years of over-extraction of water for human use.
Fortunately for the river system and all those who rely on it, at a minute to midnight governments were...
The clock on climate change
Posted by Toledo Blade: Editorial on January 13th, 2013
Toledo Blade: It is ironic that the 2012 race for the White House virtually ignored climate change while the United States endured its hottest year on record. Virtually every scientist in the world agrees the planet is heating up, with catastrophic results. The problem can be fixed but time is running out.
President Obama needs to show a lot more mettle. After the 2010 election, Democrats backed off their hopes for getting the first meaningful climate legislation through Congress because of the Tea Party's...
Too hot to handle: The danger of climate change is cause to sweat
Posted by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: None Given on January 13th, 2013
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Mother Nature is trying to tell us something and every passing year her message becomes more urgent. That is the takeaway from the news that 2012 was the hottest year in the history of the contiguous United States.
The politicized community of climate change deniers will always find a way to deny the obvious, but more and more the obvious just won't be pushed out of sight. The situation has become a grim variation of the punch line to the old joke: Who are you going to believe, the climate change...
Seattle calculates how climate change will redraw its shores
Posted by Seattle Times: None Given on January 13th, 2013
Seattle Times: Parts of Interbay, Georgetown, South Park, West Seattle, Harbor Island and Golden Gardens will be under water as the local shoreline creeps higher due to global climate change, Seattle Public Utilities predicts.
A recent map is just one of many such reckonings in the works as city agencies calculate the local effects of global climate change and how to respond and adapt to protect people and infrastructure.
From preparing for more intense heat to protecting the new downtown sea wall under construction...
United Kingdom: No wind farms, no food, warns Sir Ian Wilmut
Posted by Scotsman: Julia Horton on January 13th, 2013
Scotsman: A WORLD-famous scientist has warned that future generations of Scots could suffer serious food shortages unless people accept wind farms as a “necessary evil”.
Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, the creator of the world’s first cloned sheep, Dolly, said that turbines were vital to reducing the carbon emissions blamed for global warming and an increase in flooding which is destroying food crops.
Writing for Scotland on Sunday today, Wilmut says the connection must be made between the record rainfall...