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ALERT! Demand California’s Carbon Market Not Fund REDD+ Old-Growth Forest Logging
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on July 28th, 2013
By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal and ClimateArk
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Next week California is to decide whether REDD+ [search] forest carbon offsets which include funding for first time industrial logging of old-growth forests is worthy of inclusion as a carbon credit under the states carbon markets. Logging old-growth forests is an ecological disaster that threatens local livelihoods, biodiversity, ecosystems, climate, and the biosphere; and must not be funded by carbon markets. Members of the forest carbon industry supporting REDD+ must be compelled to stop their old forest logging greenwash - or face ridicule, protest, and an end to public support, until they do.
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Heatwaves will make crops produce smaller grains
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 28th, 2013
Guardian: "The wheat is usually green at this time, but its already gone brown," says Laurence Matthews, overlooking a bone-dry and dusty field on his 3,000-acre farm near Dorking in Surrey. "It's like a tinderbox: there's a real risk of fire." The summer heatwave is having a dramatic effect on his crops. "Without water, the plants just shut down," he says. But it is the twists and turns of increasingly erratic weather that is making farming more difficult, Matthews says. "In spring 2012, it was unbelievably...
Louisiana coastal erosion lawsuit: Attorneys explain its chances and potential pitfalls
Posted by Nola: Benjamin Alexander-Bloch on July 28th, 2013
Nola: The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East’s jaw-dropping lawsuit this week against a host of oil, gas and pipeline companies is creative and ambitious, some local attorneys with knowledge of coastal issues said. But because the suit is so broad and unique, and so lacks precedent, they said, its outcome remains far from certain. “This is such an unprecedented lawsuit,” said Blaine LeCesne, a tort law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans. “There has never been a claim of this...
OSU researchers warn climate change will impact Eugene’s drinking water
Posted by Register-Guard: Samuel Stites on July 28th, 2013
Register-Guard: The average temperature on Earth could increase by 3.6 degrees by the middle of this century, according to data from climate change researchers in nearly 20 countries. And that increase is enough to potentially affect the main source of Eugene-Springfield's drinking water, according to a study by Oregon State University scientists. The McKenzie River is the major source of drinking water in the Eugene-Springfeld area. The single-digit increase in temperatures predicted worldwide means the snowpacks...
Barack Obama expresses reservations about Keystone XL pipeline project
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 28th, 2013
Guardian: Barack Obama has given the strongest indication to date that he holds reservations about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, saying the project would not create many jobs and could raise gasoline prices. In an interview with the New York Times, the president disputed a main justification for the pipeline – its economic benefits – and reaffirmed he would reject the project if it expanded carbon pollution. The comments were seen by campaigners as evidence that Obama, in the wake of last month's landmark...