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Obama Cries Out for Climate-Change Solutions, but What Happens Now?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 13th, 2013
Atlantic: President Obama followed up his Inaugural Address with more strong words for climate protection in his State of the Union, delivering the lengthiest soliloquy on climate change in presidential history.
"The 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15," Obama said. "Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods -- all are now more frequent and intense," he said, echoing the data frequently cited by scientists and environmentalists. President Obama lays out his second-term vision for...
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Sierra Club leader to risk arrest in protest against Keystone XL oil pipeline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 13th, 2013
Associated Press: Prominent environmental leaders, including the head of the Sierra Club and the organizer of a public campaign to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, are planning to risk arrest Wednesday at a protest outside the White House.
Executive director Michael Brune would be the first Sierra Club leader to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club's board of directors approved civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year history as a way to oppose the pipeline, which would carry oil derived...
Extreme weather, climate change linked
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 13th, 2013
Washington Post: President Obama made an explicit link between extreme weather and climate change during his speech Tuesday night, the way he did in his second inaugural address and during his victory acceptance speech. Obama intends to use the bully pulpit to emphasize the threat global warming poses, aides and supporters say, in order to build public support for future efforts to cut greenhouse gases.
“We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires...
Understanding risk essential at time of climate change and rising tide of claims
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 13th, 2013
Irish Times: It is more than six years since Hugh McElvaney, leader of the Fine Gael group on Monaghan County Council, was told that land proposed for rezoning outside Ballybay was located in a floodplain, and he responded by suggesting that houses could be "built on stilts".
Now the policy is that development in areas with a high probability of flooding "should be avoided and/or only considered in exceptional circumstances, such as in city and town centres" or essential infrastructure that cannot be be located...